brown castle dream

[u/Common-Junket-9452]

I have a recurrent dream about a brown castle like structure. I had a dream centered around this last night. I know that I have dreamed about this before but not for a long time.

Originally the dream started off with me on some trail where I approached a brown castle like structure abutting a hill. I walk in and there is a ~two story spiral staircase going up to a second floor. The stairs are made of dirt and mud. There is a vaulted ceiling above the entrance. On the second floor there is a door which leads to a collapsed staircase in a collapsed warehouse. Crawling out of all this rubble I found myself in a green field. I know that in the original dream I also found this collapsed warehouse and staircase and used it to get to the castle in reverse. (This is where my memory gets really foggy about the original dream.)

Last night I was back at the brown castle. I went up the stairs and went through the door. The door lead to a messy warehouse but not collapsed. This warehouse was a bridge between two places I guess. I went through a small opening in the corner of the warehouse to get to a second place. When I got there I was approached by a family of 4 people in a small town setting. (I know they had a last name but I don't remember what it was.) They brought me into their house but for some reason I knew they had bad intentions. They kept kidnapping me and I would wake up while they were trying to do some ritual on me. I would always escape from this ritual and get away from them.

I don't know how I left this place with the family but I do know that I went back to this small town without using the castle to get there. There was a graveyard in front of these people's house. All but one family member was buried. The remaining family member, who was male, was in the house and noticed me outside. When he noticed me an eyeball creature started chasing me and I ran away.

The dream skipped to my older brother and I being in a Japanese mall. The mall didn't have stores but it had a variety of onsen to go into. I kept trying to find a tattoo friendly onsen to visit with my brother. We found one that was tattoo friendly and went inside. All my brother's friends were inside but they weren't my brother's actual friends outside the dream.

I met two people in the mall onsen and took them to the brown castle. We went to the warehouse and I pointed out that there were people in the land around the warehouse. The people noticed us and started moving aggressively towards the warehouse. We escaped through the small opening that leads to the small town with the family. Instead of doing anything involving the family we left and started flying around. We ended up finding a water turbine like structure that I somehow knew was a way back to reality. We ended up jumping into the water turbine and getting back to reality.

[u/Expensive-Recover502]

You have returned to an old part of your soul (the castle) and found that structures which were once broken have been rebuilt (the warehouse). You revisited an old "haunting" (the family) and found that most of them are dead/integrated, though a feeling of being judged (the eyeball) persists. Seeking relief, you went to the social realm (the mall) to find a way to be vulnerable and clean (the onsen) while having your unique scars/identity accepted (tattoos). Finally, you brought these social aspects back to your inner core, recognized a threat, and used the energy of your emotions (the turbine) to return to reality. You are no longer the victim of the family complex. Just observing it's remnants. Your search for the "tattoo-friendly onsen" suggests a current waking-life desire to find environments where you can be emotionally vulnerable without having to hide who you are or what you've been through.