Solitude
Chosen aloneness — being by oneself as a condition the self has agreed to rather than been left in.
Solitude in a dream is the dream's image of being alone as a chosen condition. Unlike loneliness, the door of solitude is open from the inside; the company would be available, and the self has decided, for now, against it. The dream brings solitude when something in your life — a piece of work, a recovery, a question that will not answer in a crowd — requires that the noise of other people be put down for a stretch so the interior can be heard. A solitude entered deliberately and used is the dream affirming that the chosen aloneness is doing the work it was chosen for. A solitude held past the point where it was useful, the door staying closed out of habit, is the dream noting that the condition has slid from chosen aloneness into the loneliness it was supposed to be distinct from.