I realize this is really long, but this is a dream that really bothered me. Please help, thanks in advance.


It first started when my Grandfather had just got married to the woman who is currently his fiance. We were trying to find a place for us to live, because my grandpa's wife didn't want to live in her old house. I remember that there was a long while spent making a big deal over the garage and the cars, but I don't remember specifically what was said or done. But finally we pick a place that is very run down. At first I was going to be put in the room behind the garage, while the wife's daughters had the upstairs rooms. But then I realized that there was another room upstairs, and I asked for that one, because the one my grandpa had told me to be in was the smallest, and the most rundown. He agreed to let me have this room that for some reason no one else wanted anything to do with. We spent time fixing up the house, but the room I now had was the one that needed the least amount of work. To my delight, the large room had many bookshelves filled with books. I noticed that on the floor near the bed there was a thing that looked like a shelf taken out from a book shelf. I needed help to move the bed anyhow, so I called my Grandpa in. He lifted it and moved it out of the way, but one of the other two girls, his stepdaughters, needed help with something else, so he went to help them, and I went to see how the rest of the house was coming along. I noticed that on the bed was and article with the picture of a 7 or 8 year old boy. I read the article and all I remember of it is the words "suicide mother" though, I don't know what that means. When I look up from it I see that the shelf on the floor that my grandpa had moved was back in the same exact place it was before he'd moved it. Somehow I know that must mean that this room was haunted, which was why no one else wanted it. I felt really sad because I knew it must be the ghost of the little boy in the picture. And as I think that he is there, and somehow I knew the call him Sham. Or Cham, or something that sounded like that. And he told me that he'd been abandoned my his mother, who'd killed herself after he was born. He'd lived in this house, and the room I'd picked was him room. I was the only one who could see him. And when my grandpa came in Sham said something about a fire, and I asked where and followed, and he pulled a light out of an ornament on the front porch, nothing to do with a real ornament. I spent what must have been a couple months with Sham, and I felt really protective of him. The books were his, and I was the only one allowed to touch them. I read to him sometimes. And one day some one came into the room we didn't know and took Sham and I went after them, wanting to protect Sham, but as a ghost nothing could hurt him. But when I found him he was really hurt, bleeding and everything, so I carried him back to the room, and that's when I woke up.

I can't remember if you ever said your age or gender, but what I get from the dream is that the little boy is your former self. A "ghost" from the past.

Do you get along with your mother in reality? And does the run-down house remind you of a real place? When and where?

I'm 16, and a girl, if that helps any. I live with my grandpa and he doesn't allow me to have a strong relationship with my mom, only email and IM. And the rundown house does remind me of someplace, but I don't remember where or when. It might be a cabin I went to 2 or 3 years ago, but the cabin was a lot nicer. The house was basically a ruined cabin, there were rotting boards sticking out everywhere, it smelled bad, and there were tons of spiders. But I can't think of where I've seen that before.

The rotting boards could be a fear of a crumbling "foundation." Foundation being a strong or steady homelife. Do you sense trouble up ahead when your grampa extends the family to include two daughters from another mother? You mention "suicide mother." Could that apply to self-destructive patterns of either your mother or step-mother to be?

Perhaps the ghost Sham represents a childhood friend you shared secrets with and confided in. Do you have such a friend now?

There were two childhood friends that could match that. There was Kelly, who I knew for a very short time, and also a boy named Nick. His fiance only has one daughter, and she is in her 20s or 30s. Also there is the fact that my mother was a drug addict for a long time, she's getting better now. I don't know about the fiance though.