Home Sweet Home and Mudrooms in Dream Interpretation

If your house is prominent in a dream, an important life issue is possibly being highlighted for you to examine.  Specific rooms in your house help to narrow down particular issues being addressed, according to function in dream interpretation. (Read more about house dreams, specific rooms, and their possible meanings). 

 

A new one snuck up on me today.  I have not encountered it in dreams before.  A mudroom!  Supposedly a room that everyone should have in their house, but I don’t actually know of anyone that does. 

 

In one of my Better Home magazines I discovered featured mudrooms.  The author says, “When you’re an outdoorsy family, messes naturally creep inside.  A well-organized mudroom can be the saving grace of muddy shoes, drippy swimsuits, a mountain of jackets, hats, and sports gear.” The article describes how a family can make the room match their routine, so that members don’t have to slow down their progress of getting out the door. 

 

Supposedly, the mudroom should function as a ‘buffer’ between inner home life and the world, a place to check messiness at the door, and gain quick access to equipment stuff before going in or out. 

 

Of course, the photo showed a nice clean room with none of these things actually in sight except for neat rows of colorful shoes, but with lots of storage space, hooks, and organization hints. 

 

Metaphorically, what would a mudroom represent in my life?  Somewhere to park life’s untidy chaos and not have to encounter it except in one neatly contained area?  How would that work?  Is that practical or even realistic? Who cleans the clutter and dirt in the mudroom?

 

I daydreamed a bit about a mudroom, which would seem handy, especially right now as we try to shift the yard dirt back into place after a recent sewer line upheaval.  A good amount of that dirt has gotten tracked through our house, along with the neighbors’ unsettled fleas that discovered the grass is greener in our yard and on our dogs. 

 

This morning I voiced my mudroom ponderings to my husband, who winked and replied, “I thought every room was a mudroom.”  Yes, indeed.

 

For our home--and our life--truth is spoken.  A mudroom for us would be another room for me to clean.  Probably that is why we don't see many mudrooms actually in dreams--or in real houses.