Garden

Dreaming about a garden that has been let go

What does it mean to dream your garden is overgrown?

Unusually consistent, and the emotion is specific: a low, particular guilt rather than fear or sadness.

The reports share their details. Waist-high grass, something underneath that used to be visible, and a strong sense that this happened while the dreamer was not paying attention. That last part is what dreamers name unprompted.

It sits with the neglected-house material, where the building is standing and has not been looked after, and the two produce the same quality of feeling.

The obvious reading is the one dreamers reach themselves, and it holds as a personal association rather than a rule: something not attended to while attention was elsewhere. What the dream cannot tell you is what.

Where this reads well

Where dreamers begin clearing it, the reports lift immediately, which is consistent enough to be worth noting.

Where it is harder

The guilt is mild and durable, and it attaches to nothing specific, which makes it hard to discharge.

Worth asking yourself

What was underneath? Whose garden? What have I not been looking at?

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