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For over a year I have had dreams where I am back in my mother's house. I was miserably unhapy there and would never go there intentionally in my dreams. I haven't been there for almost 11 years.

I am reviewing a book about dreams in which the author states
that there are places in our past which can hold a part of our soul captive. We dream about the place because we need to get that part of the soul back.

Has anyone ever heard of this? Any advice on this is very welcome.

It could mean that you have unfinished business to attend to. If you dealt with the situations which made you so unhappy you may began to feel more free

Hi Kristen,
That's a pretty powerful suggestion and one that makes sense from a psychological perspective I guess... as Lindamunchkin suggests unfinished business does indeed hold part of us hostage for as long as it remains unresolved. I have particular places from my childhood that I dream about often... mostly from the time when I was just moving from childhood to adolescence- around 12.
I wouldn't be surprised if we return to those places when we are asleep because they were the sites of big emotions, or transition times in our lives. Having said that, I don't think any place or person can steal a part of us unless we allow it.

You might try resolving some of your childhood unhappiness by controlling your dream when you visit that place again. Rather than be sentenced to repeating our unhappiness long after we have left that time, your soul/spirit/ deepest self may be telling you it is time to work it out on your own. You may be able to do this in a light sleep when you can control the direction of your dream best, or you may be able to instruct yourself before you go to sleep that if you visit there, you will say in the dream what you always wished you could say. Dream that those words have the desired effect and result. If you can, recreate the location as sunny and healthy in the next dream visit. Let us know how it works out. Hugs, T

Many thanks to you both. I don't believe that a place can hold your soul, but I do believe that there are situations that can have a hold on your emotions.

I have dealt with the emotions and unhappiness from that time. A good friend of mine from India thinks that someone's spirit from that time and place is trying to hold on to me. She feels that I must say, in a dream, or light sleep, that I wish them well but that they have to leave.

Comments?

Dreams are part of things were not able to work with when we are awake.
Some dreams are psychic, while other are telepathic.
I feel that in dreams you can recover what is lost.
It is done with the uncounsciouness instead.