A house
The standard reading treats the house as the psyche: the basement as what is buried, the attic as what is stored, unfamiliar rooms as capacities you have not used.
Dreams about places
School or an exam
A standard performance-anxiety dream. It tends to recur before real evaluations regardless of how well prepared you are.
Stairs
Climbing suggests effort toward something; descending suggests going into what is buried. Stairs that never end are a common anxiety image.
Other categories
18 subjects · 55,520 searches a month
Every places dream people ask about
Ordered by how often each is actually searched. We publish the demand figure because it answers a question no dream dictionary does: is your dream unusual, or is it one of the most common ones there is.
| # | Dream about | Searches / month | Share of category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hospital | 19,800 | 35.7% |
| 2 | Road | 12,100 | 21.8% |
| 3 | Home | 7,200 | 13% |
| 4 | Going to jail | 2,600 | 4.7% |
| 5 | Home invasion | 2,360 | 4.3% |
| 6 | Church | 1,180 | 2.1% |
| 7 | Mushrooms | 1,180 | 2.1% |
| 8 | Graveyard | 1,000 | 1.8% |
| 9 | In jail | 1,000 | 1.8% |
| 10 | In prison | 1,000 | 1.8% |
| 11 | Elevator | 1,000 | 1.8% |
| 12 | Apartments | 880 | 1.6% |
| 13 | Apartment | 880 | 1.6% |
| 14 | Jail | 720 | 1.3% |
| 15 | Prison | 720 | 1.3% |
| 16 | Classroom | 720 | 1.3% |
| 17 | Doors | 590 | 1.1% |
| 18 | Airport | 590 | 1.1% |
The most-asked places dream is Hospital at 19,800 searches a month — 36% of everything in this category. Just 2 of the 18 subjects account for half the demand, which is the usual shape: a handful of dreams everybody has, and a long tail almost nobody asks about.