I'm keeping a dream journal for a friend's psychology project, and I've started to notice a sort of unsettling trend. In every single one of these dreams-- and I mean every single one, there is some sort of abandoned house that plays a key role in the dream story. More often than not these houses are large-- definitely well over the line the mansion category, and extremely run-down. They're either so decrepit and full of fallen beams, floors, etc. that you can't enter them at all, or when you can enter, they're full of antiques that are interesting, yet so incredibly filthy that I have no initiative whatsoever to pick them up and examine them. I never want to even accidentally brush any objects, let alone consciously pick anything up. And curiously enough, last night's dream involved a house that appeared to be well-kept on the outside, yet was poorly finished and completely empty when I entered. Does anyone have any idea as to what these houses really mean???