where the dream is set
Dreaming of basement
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of To descend into a sound cellar with full stores foretells reserves greater than you reckoned, savings, allies, provisions. What is drawn up from below the house denotes profit from an unregarded source.
Drawn down, it warns of A dark, foul, or flooded cellar warns of rot at the base of the household, or matters hidden by others under your own roof. Look beneath the surface of an affair that seems to stand well.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Drawn up, it speaks of The basement is the personal unconscious, the room under the house of you where everything unlooked-at was carried down. Going in with a light means the shadow work is underway, and what you find, old furniture, a person, a live animal, is a part of yourself awaiting the stairs.
Drawn down, it warns of A basement door you nail shut is repression by hand, and the dream will keep sending noises up through the floor until you open it. Water rising below means what was buried has gone from stored to rising.
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