Joan Ganz Cooney | 10/16/2009 12:00 am
Joan Ganz Cooney’s Dream Mansion
Several nights a month, I dream we have bought a mansion on the North Shore that was owned in the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s by a prominent older couple related to my roommate. All kinds of famous people gathered there on weekends and the owners were very hospitable to me, asking me for many weekends. In the dream, I am always concerned about the condition of the place. I’m always trying to get up to the third floor where the help used to sleep to see if it can be used for overflow guests. And I’m always trying to figure out how much work is needed to modernize the bathrooms and other parts of the house. I have no idea why I keep buying that mansion and walking through it. In its glory days, it had 12 servants running it. Just what I’ve always wanted … a lot of houseguests and many in help.
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Could be if you made it to the third floor and found it empty of the space provided for assistance in maintaining the mansion, the dream would end which is not where you want to find yourself. Your life or "home" is full or overflowing but characteristically without mystery, the dream takes you from a party of many, to a party of one in climbing those stairs alone, something you have contemplated in life, but you are not at a point in life you are ready to view, and if that time came - your hopes are the "home" part of who you are could be recreated. Any stairs being shown in a dream are kind of like the Jacob’s ladder part from within coming forward.
A house represents yourself. The upstairs represents potential, goals, or even things you feel are keeping you from reaching your goals. The house being in your past means you are still trying to resolve issues from that time in your life.