Attic
What you have stored above daily awareness — ideals, ambitions, sometimes ghosts.
An attic in a dream is the dictionary's image of what you have stored above daily awareness. The attic in folk imagination is where the older, more idealistic things are kept — and sometimes where the ghosts are. The dream often appears when an older self of yours is asking to be looked at.
Where you often see it. Climbing into an attic in a familiar house. An attic with old photos. An attic with a figure already in it. The dream uses the attic for what you have stored above daily awareness — ideals, ambitions, sometimes ghosts.
What it is not. An attic is not always frightening. The dictionary reads it as the storage room for the higher floor of you.
Related in the dictionary. Read attic with house, basement (its lower partner), and any scene of stored material.