Cellar
A cold underground room beneath the house — the place where preserves, old things, and the unspoken are kept.
A cellar in a dream is the dream's image of the cold room under the house — the place where preserves, old furniture, and the things the household does not want upstairs are stored. The cellar is part of the home and is also separated from it; you have to descend, and the temperature changes. The dream brings the cellar when something in your life has been put away below the level of daily living — a memory, a family fact, a held grudge, a stored resource — and is now asking to be visited. A cellar entered with a light and inventoried is the dream telling you the descent is being done well, and what is down there can be sorted. A cellar avoided, with the door at the top of the steps kept locked, is the dream noting that the contents are still alive underneath the ordinary house and continue to shape what happens upstairs without being looked at.