Nightclub
To dream of a nightclub represent preoccupation with excitement and winning. It may also be a sign that you are very concerned with having a non-stop good time or always being noticed by others as a happy winner.
Negatively, a nightclub may be a sign that you are too concerned with being liked, belonging, or being attractive. Showing off and feeling good come before other people's problems. The dream may also be a sign that you need to slow down your lifestyle or try being a little more serious.
Nursing Home
To dream of an old age nursing home represents feelings about a situation almost being over. Sensitivity about about losing time, having to settle down, or having to get realistic about getting older. Feeling that an eventual ending is inevitable, but that there is still lots of time.
Negatively, a nursing home may reflect feelings of being too old to do something anymore. Stress or frustration with having to care about someone who is too old or impotent to care for themselves anymore. Feelings about death or failure being inevitable while you try to be enjoy anything else at all.
Nursing homes in dreams are common to people who have elderly parents that they don't expect to live for much longer.
Example: A woman dreamed of trees being cut down in front of a nursing home. In waking life her father died and she felt bad about having lost the remaining time she felt she had left with his father.
Office
To see an office in your dream represents seriousness about something you are thinking. You may be spending a lot of time studying something or improving yourself in some way. Being very focused on figuring out problems, and working towards a future goal. A time of self-improvement, or personal growth.
To dream of your father in an office may reflect your serious decisions you are considering. A serious focus on studying what is right or wrong. Your conscience is "at work." Focusing on a problem or finding things about yourself that you can improve. It may also reflect conflict with serious decisions you are making. Feeling that a previous choices are overshadowing your current focus.
Example: A woman dreamed of her office being closed. In waking life she was in the process of changing careers, but felt she had to come to her job to please her clients.
Example 2: A young man dreamed of being in his home office with his father. In waking life he was studying hard in religious school about what is considered oral and what isn't.
Old Age Home
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Opera
To dream of being at the opera represents situations where you and others are expected to perfectly adhere to higher standards of maturity or more respectable codes of conduct. Having to blend in with rich people, snobs, weddings, good schools, or upscale events.
A concerted effort to behave perfectly intelligent, responsible, or sophisticated around other people. A situation that motivates you to behave or be more mature than usual. "Putting your best face on" for a special occasion. A area of your life where you feel the need to act perfect. Feeling good acting perfectly respectable or adult.
Negatively, dreaming about an opera may reflect peer pressure you feel in social situations that are dominated by rich people. It may also reflect your dislike of rich people or having to conform during special occasions like weddings.
Example: A young girl dreamed of having a knife fight at the opera. In waking life she dressed like a Goth and attended a school with a lot of students she described at "rich preppies." The opera reflected her school having lots of rich people with high standards for mature behavior that she was expected to conform to.
Example 2: A woman dreamed of her fiancee not wearing pants while attending an opera. In waking life she was about to get married and was having wedding rehearsals which she felt her fiancee was not giving a lot of effort towards.
Ottoman
To dream of an ottoman represents a higher degree of comfort in choosing to do nothing about a situation or problem. Noticing yourself being lazy or purposely not taking action.
Negatively, an ottoman may reflect avoidance or making excuses. It may also reflect an excessive preference for procrastination.
Alternatively, an ottoman may reflect your preoccupation with relaxing or taking time off. Choosing to slow down.
Example: A young man dreamed of hiding under an ottoman. In waking life he had pretended he was asleep to avoid confronting an angry parent over an important issue.
Oven
To dream of an oven represents a wish to slowly and perfectly prepare for something in your life. Taking the time to make sure something you want to experience is just right. Preparation that takes time or care.
To dream of a broken oven may reflect feelings of being unable to be as careful or thoughtful about doing something as you'd like.
An oven may appear in the dream when you are experiencing a pregnancy.
Example: A woman dreamed that an oven that was in her living room was labelled as a "medium for terrorization." In waking life she was living in Nazi Germany under the police state restrictions. The oven in this case may have reflected her feelings about her attempts to enjoy her life by preparing special things to enjoy in her family be viewed as suspicious by the government.
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Palace
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Pantry
To dream of a pantry represents feelings about your reserves, resources, or readiness to deal with life's demands with a sense of never being embarrassed running out of whatever you need. Feelings about being resourceful or prepared enough to not have to ask for help or deal with anyone else's problems in order to do things yourself or deal with problems on your own. Your ability to safely prolong avoiding being jealous of "running out" ideas, options, or excuses that sustain a current situation. Resourcefulness that temporarily allows you to avoid jealousy or being desperate of being unable to keep a situation comfortably sustained.
Negatively, dreaming about a pantry may represent relying on lies to comfortably sustain a facade or lie without anyone being aware of it for a little bit longer while being aware that you can't continue forever. Awareness of nobody else being aware of you comfortably sustaining a lie or running out of excuses yet.
To dream of hiding in the pantry may represent thoughts about hiding or avoiding a problem using your resources or solutions you've stored up. Prolonging avoiding the jealousy of telling the truth with every lie or excuse available because it's easier.
Example: A woman dreamed of seeing a little boy who had a boyfriend talking and eating with each other inside a pantry. In waking life, she was keeping a very negative part of her life hidden from her boyfriend and it was just getting worse and worse. In this case, the pantry may have reflected her feelings about temporarily avoiding jealousy of needing to tell the truth by using every available lie or resource for as long as she could comfortably sustain keeping the lie hidden.
Parking Lot
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Patio
To dream of a patio represents your openness about yourself. An attitude of not thinking that anything really matters. Feeling you can freely say whatever you want.
Negatively, a patio may be a sign that you are too comfortable or interested in talking about yourself.
To dream of patio doors being open represents a willingness to be open about yourself. Closed doors may be a sign that you or someone else is not quite ready to be open about themselves.
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Pawnshop
To dream of selling to a pawnshop represents desperation or willingness to make a big compromise. It may be a sign that you are throwing away your power to get anything at all. Spreading yourself too thin or depleting your resources to get by.
To dream of buying from a pawn represents your attempt to use or exploit someone else's weakness to get something for yourself.
Penitentiary
To dream of a penitentiary may represent. long term confinement or restrictions. You may also feel that your whole life is about being limited or not allowed to do what you want. Alternatively, a penitentiary may reflect confinement or restrictions that feels terrible or totally controlling.
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Penthouse
To dream of a penthouse unit in a apartment building or condo represents a perspective on a situation being the highest status, most successful, or as advanced as possible while sharing concerns. A perspective on situation that is comfortable to the highest degree possible while sharing problems. Feeling perfectly successful, but not perfectly independent. Feeling that you are at the pinnacle of some area of your life with responsibilities or problems left to deal with. A perspective on a situation that is as high or advanced as you are going to get while still having to deal with other people's problems or lingering responsibilities. Enjoying feeling that nothing can stop you, while still caring about lingering issues.
Negatively, dreaming about a penthouse unit in an apartment building or condo represents feelings of being annoyed that you'd have to think of someone else's problems ever again while being unable to perfectly avoid it. Annoying yourself that you'd have to stop enjoying yourself being the most successful or independent you'd ever been to notice someone else's problems. A situation that should feel perfect, but isn't.
Example: A young girl dreamed of killing the CEO of a company and then being in a penthouse apartment. In waking life she had just broken up with an abusive narcissistic boyfriend and was trying to move on. The penthouse symbolism in this case may have have reflected her mindset being comfortably over her ex-boyfriend to the highest degree while still feeling forced to think of him or deal with issues related him. She felt perfectly happy to be independent and was annoyed to have to think of her ex-boyfriend at all.
Example 2: A woman dreamed of seeing her mother in a beautiful New York penthouse apartment. In waking life she was considering taking a Ph.D program in another country while currently taking care of her mother. In this case the penthouse apartment may have reflected her feelings about being as successful as she ever could be in her current life while being ready to move on with her education and simultaneously having to feel the need to take care of her mother.
Pharmacy
To dream of a pharmacy reflects a situation with a requirement of proof of good advice and necessity in order to receive help with a serious problem. Feelings about expert advice that gives you permission to fulfill a 'prescription' for a course of action in your life to remedy a particular situation. It may be a sign that you feel embarrassed, under pressure, or untrusted. Feeling that people will help you solve a serious problem if your problem is legit, you already have a plan to resolve it, and talked to someone experienced about it. The need to find a reliable 'prescription' or plan to improve challenging real-life circumstances.
Example: A woman dreamed of driving around looking for a pharmacy to fulfill a prescription for pills, but finding that they were all closed. She then called her mother to tell her that she thought that the world was ending. In waking life, she was having serious financial problems. She wanted a new job and a change in her life. In this case, looking for a pharmacy to get prescription pills and being unable to find one may have reflected her feelings of desperation and the perceived unavailability of immediate solutions or expert advice for her financial problems.
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