"Missed the final" dream

midwesterner
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:42:37 +0000

I have been painting the upstairs rooms in my home, and have twice had this dream. In it, my house has expanded into a mansion. Huge foyer, a barrel-vaulted music room, a formal ballroom, etc. Despite the elegant architecture, every room has peeling pain, 1970’s carpet, crumbling plaster and dirt. And some realtor has announced an Open House on the internet and hundreds of people are walking through saying, “What a shame, needs a lot of work…”

I think it’s the middle-aged equivalent to missing the final. Our deepest fears of inadequacy come out in dreams.