Castle

Dreaming a castle is somehow also somewhere else

What does it mean when a building is two places at once?

Reported, and it is the ordinary category-crossing dreams do without objection.

A castle that is also a house, or that turns into one partway. Dreamers accept it entirely at the time and find it strange only on waking.

The place-that-is-two-places entry describes this properly and finds the same thing everywhere: identity is asserted rather than derived, for buildings as much as for people, and two assertions can be held at once because nothing checks them against each other.

Where the identity changes partway, the new one is frequently applied backwards over the earlier part of the dream, which is the detail dreamers find hardest to convey.

Where this reads well

A good instance of a well-described pattern in a setting people remember clearly.

Where it is harder

None. Reported as interesting rather than troubling.

Worth asking yourself

What else was it? Did it change partway? Did the earlier part change too?

Dream interpretation is subjective. Nothing here is a diagnosis, a prediction, or medical advice.

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