Places

Open library

A library open to the public — a quiet room of available knowledge, free to be used.

An open library in a dream is the dream's image of a quiet room of available knowledge, free to be used. The books are there; the silence is a working silence; nothing is being sold. The dream brings the open library when something in your life — a research project, a piece of self-education, a careful reading — is being done in a register that does not require performance. An open library studied in with attention is the dream affirming the use. An open library passed by because the books would have answered the question and you preferred not to know, is the dream noting that the available knowledge was offered and declined.

Related symbols

Airport terminal

A large transit building for long journeys — anonymous, controlled space between two distant lives.

Altar

A raised place where offerings are made — a small, deliberate centre for ritual.

Amphitheatre

An open round space for performance — a structure shaped so the small voice carries to the back row.

Ashram

A spiritual community gathered around a teacher — a household organised by shared practice rather than by family.

Asylum

An institution for the housing of the mentally ill — a building dedicated to holding minds the household could no longer hold.

Attic

The room above the rooms — where the household keeps what is no longer in daily use but has not been thrown away.

Disclaimer: For entertainment and self-reflection only. Not a substitute for professional advice.