Places

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If the basement is the unconscious—the dark, damp, subterranean region of the psyche where what has ...

The basement is the dream's most honest room. Down the stairs, beneath the main living space, past t...

The bathroom is one of the most psychologically loaded rooms in the human home, and when it appears ...

The beach is the edge of two worlds. Behind you, the solid ground of the known: the familiar structu...

The church is the built embodiment of the sacred—stone and glass and soaring height shaped into an a...

No location in the landscape of the dreaming mind is more emotionally charged than the childhood hom...

To dream of a garden is to dream of the cultivated meeting place between the human and the natural w...

The hotel is the dream's most precise symbol of transience. Unlike the home—which is the dream's sym...

School is one of the most universally recurring dream settings in the adult world. Long after gradua...

The swimming pool is one of the most telling environments the dreaming mind can construct. Unlike th...