Inner courtyard
An open court inside a building's walls — a private outside, contained by the same household that surrounds it.
An inner courtyard in a dream is the dream's image of a private outside, kept open to the sky but surrounded by the household's own walls. The courtyard is not the street and is not a room; it is the household's inner weather. The dream brings the inner courtyard when something in your life — a family's private culture, a marriage's shared life, a household's intimate ritual — has a small open space inside it that is genuinely outside the daily duties but not exposed to the public. A courtyard tended with a small tree and a bench is the dream affirming the careful inner space. A courtyard piled with the household's discarded things is the dream noting that the inner outside has become a place to dump what the rooms could not contain, and the private breathing room is no longer available for breathing.