The house I grew up in has always featured heavily in my dreams. In my teens, those dreams tended to involve me trying to escape from the house. Often the dream would end with me jumping out of a window.

In my twenties, having moved out I would dream that I was back in the house. I wouldn't be able to remember where I now lived, or how to get there. I might escape the house, but then I would just be running, sometimes chased. At that point in my life my dreaming had reduced to a handful of anxiety nightmares. I wasn't living in a good situation and it took me a long time to admit that, and to get out.

There weren't so many house dreams in my thirties, and my dreaming became much more diverse and involved. I became as likely to dream about my grandmother's house as I was about the parental home. The level of menace reduced.

I'm now seeing a new pattern. I am back in my childhood home. I leave of my own free will - not through windows or to run away. I go out through the back garden and into the field beyond. What exactly is beyond the field, varies. In real life there is woodland. Mostly in my dreams there are people, and otherworlds and adventures that have no connection to my childhood or my lived experiences. 

Those house dreams have always had a lot to tell me about myself. I didn't always want to listen to what they had to say. The dream dictionary I had as a child said that when you dream about houses you are dreaming about yourself. I detest dream dictionaries. That house isn't me. That house is about my past, my childhood, my sense of belonging. I haven't found a house that could be me, although sometimes in dreams I go house hunting, and that feels like a really hopeful thing to be doing.

Some years ago I wrote a whole book about dreams and dream interpretation - you can find that over here - https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/moon-books/our-books/pagan-dreaming