a nightmare about family, a creepy old white house, a murder and a devil

"My mother had started seeing a new man, they moved into a house together, although it felt like only my mothers house.
I walked inside, the house was very old fashioned.
The whole house was white, but it was an old cracked white colour.
Every room i walked into, had 20 or so windows. But i remember thinking people could break into these windows very easily.

I walked back outside and walked through an old gate.
I saw my dad urinating against the wall and yelled at him to stop because it was wrong.
He stopped, but when i looked where he was urinating, there was blood. But he couldn't see it.
(As far as i know, my dad is OK)

I then had a flash that someone had been killed in this house.
I saw someone had been rolled up in a red/blue persian rug, and there body was at the bottom of a hill.

I walked back up to the fence, there was a list of names on a peice of paper stuck to the fence.
Each name had a symbol beside it (no bigger than a pinky nail). I cant remember what the symbols were.

I walked back inside the house to find my sister.
I walked into a massive empty hall. It was dark, there were no windows in this room.
There was a door at the back of the empty room, so i walked toward it.

I opened the door, and was horrified.
There was a massive pool of fire, and at the back of this black room, there was the devil's face, it was in flames and he was laughing (evil laugh).
I saw my sister near him, she didnt seem to notice him, but she was walking toward another door beside the devils face.
She needed to get to the room behind this door.

I started screaming for her, and then i woke up.

I have also had numerious dreams about being driven (usually in a bus) down a steep rocky mountain.
The edge of the mountain drops down a cliff, and it is always night time.


Any help of understanding of these dreams would be fantastic.
I know it sounds really creepy... it really scared me and i wont forget this dream, it was horrible but i know it has meaning."

Thank you so much for sending in this great dream, I agree, it certainly has meaning.

First of all, I think that is interesting that the dream opens up on this strange house that feels as though it belongs to your mother, even though your mother is absent from the action of the dream itself. As I have written before, houses are often reflections of our emotional state, so dreaming about your mother's house, and having it be in this seemingly dilapidated condition, points to some things you may be thinking or feeling about the way your mother has influenced your outlook on life.

Mothers are the people who are intended to guide us through life, and through their example we learn how to move about the world. Mothers are the ones who remind us to wash our hands, mind our manners and wear our mittens, and their influence on our perception of the world can integrate itself so completely that we cannot distinguish between their attitudes and our own, at times. So to dream about your mother's house may be an indication of some trouble with the way your mother has taught you to think about the world around you.

The fact that the house is white suggests that the things that your mother has taught you have come from a place of love, or that her intentions are pure and innocent. The fact that the finish on this white-washed house is cracked and old is what tells me that these ideas are perhaps a little outdated or behind the times. And all those windows? Well, it means you feel like you're on display, that people (perhaps even your mother) are watching you. The combination of these images seems to make you anxious from the start of this dream, even before the blood and gore begins, and that indicates that you are experiencing some anxiety, or some turmoil, over both the ideas your mother has ingrained in you, and the way that the outside world looks on them.

Similarly, the act of watching another person bleed can be seen as an emotional plea from your psyche, a sort of red alert to pay attention to yourself. In this portion of the dream, you've passed though a gate to find your father apparently peeing blood onto a wall. The fact that you've passed through a gate here may represent some division between your father's mode of thinking, and that of your mother.

Your father urinating out in the open is another reference to a lack of privacy in your life. What he is releasing all over that wall, well, to you it's blood, an emotional cry of distress, but for him, it's just a little pee. I think that this is significant, and I suspect that the anxiety you've developed is over a situation in which the gap between your parents generation and your generation equates to a very different value system. You may or may not agree with your parents over the issue that is troubling you, and at this point, I would be hard pressed to say exactly what that issue is, but whatever it is, I suspect your parents are both poisonously against you on it. That being said, they aren't trying to hurt you, and they don't think that what they're doing is wrong.

At this point, where your father fails to see the blood he's left on the wall, you get a mental picture of a murder in the old house. In this case, what you remember best is a body concealed in a rug. Murders in dreams are often centers of unresolved anger, and in this instance, I can't help but wonder if your parents attitudes aren't "killing" some aspect of your self, or your life; it also seems possible that the center of the anxiety that produced this dream has to do with those attitudes destroying a relationship that is important to you. The fact that the body has been wrapped in a red and blue rug suggests that they are concealing their attitudes, prejudices or opinions under the guise of wisdom, qualifying these attitudes as coming from a higher authority than themselves, perhaps?

The list of names on the fence, well, it seems likely that this is a list of people being affected or judged by the ideas in question. It is also possible, because these names are "on the fence" that the individuals listed there have not yet been judged. The symbols just add to the mystery of the whole thing, indicating a sort of secret language only understood by the person who wrote them in.

So you walk back into the house to find your sister, and you end up in a dark, massive, windowless room. I suspect that this room is indicative of your own opinions surrounding this group of issues. Without your parents, would you be left in the dark regarding this subject? Maybe not. The door leads you to somewhere even more sinister than the white house, a version of hell that Dante couldn't have dreamt up.

The funny thing is, again, you're apparently the only one affected by the swirling fire, and the face of the devil. What resonates with me throughout this dream is that you seem very isolated from your family, as they repeatedly are not able to see the things you see, and that you are the only one who is afraid. This suggests to me that the crisis that you've been facing is one in which you have to trust your own value system, regardless of the things that you've been taught to believe. Behave with integrity, be cautious with your health and your emotional needs, and you have nothing to be afraid of.

The last thing I'd like to address is the dream about riding a bus down a mountain. Dreaming about driving around is generally a straight line metaphor from our waking lives to our inner thoughts. This means that if you're dreaming about driving a car yourself, and it's going well, you're doing well in your life. In this case, you're being driven around, presumably against your will, as virtually no one is excited about getting onto a school bus, and you're being driven through dangerous places. You're anxious because you may not feel you have the measure of control over your life that you'd like to have.

Thank you again for sending these dreams in for a free dream reading. I hope that you've found my thoughts on your dream helpful.