Dreaming of a Secret Room with Many Drawers: The Hidden Soul
What does it mean to dream of a secret room with many drawers?
What does it mean to be dreaming of a secret room with many drawers?This question, asked by millions of people across the world, became the heaviest guest at the table that evening.
My friend, the architect Esra, had invited me to dinner with Soline. She had a request.
She wanted me to interpret the dreams of her architect friend Aylin and the site technician Erol.
Aylin’s dream had already been interpreted. It was now Erol’s turn.
Erol began to describe his dream with an anxious voice. It was a profound dream.
In his dream, he had seen a secret room with many drawers. But full details were needed.
He began to explain in great detail:
”I was in the house where I’ve lived for years, knowing every single corner.
At the end of the hallway, behind an old cabinet that had always been there but I had acted as if it were invisible, I noticed a door.
When I pushed the door open, I entered a secret room where a hazy sunlight filtered through; it smelled of dust but gave a strange sense of peace.
The wall of the room was entirely covered with a massive wooden cabinet consisting of small square drawers.
There were perhaps hundreds, maybe thousands of drawers.
With trembling hands, I randomly opened one; out came a blue marble from my childhood that I had never seen before.
I opened another; inside was a dried daisy and beneath it, a yellowed note that read, ‘Not ready yet.’
As I kept opening the drawers, the sadness inside me grew. Every drawer seemed to hide a piece that had been torn away from me.
I tried to open one and saw it was locked; as I forced it, I felt my fingernails bleed, but I couldn’t open it.
At that moment, in that room, standing by those drawers, I woke up weeping. When I woke up, I felt as if I could still smell that old scent of wood.”
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”Erol, could you tell me your date of birth—day, month, and year? And your mother’s name, please.
Also, turn your face to me for a few minutes; look into my eyes. Just focus on me.
Stay in this position for about five minutes; I need to examine your face and eyes.”
Erol gave me a look that was part confused, part skeptical.
”Don’t be surprised; I just looked at Aylin’s sister’s dream through a photo a moment ago because she wasn’t here,” I said.
Aylin nodded in agreement and said, “Mm-hmm.”
”Erol, what kind of person are you in real life? Compassionate, self-sacrificing, meticulous, and helpful, aren’t you?
When you are hurt by someone, even if you don’t hold a grudge, does that resentment stay within you for years?
You are extremely organized, meticulous, and planned, and you don’t like surprises, do you?
You constantly help people around you and postpone your own needs, don’t you?
You feel like you don’t belong anywhere, do you?
You avoid facing problems, don’t you?
You constantly project a strong profile to the outside world, but inside, you are like a sorrowful child, aren’t you?
You can’t say ‘no’ to people, can you?
You are in a search regarding faith. Knowing is not enough; you want to understand, don’t you?”
Esra, Aylin, and Soline were watching with their mouths open in shock. Erol had listened with full attention, but his eyes had filled with tears.
Erol began to speak: “Ali, everything you said is true. But what does it have to do with dreaming of a secret room with many drawers?” he asked.
At that moment, he couldn’t hold back; tears flowed silently from his eyes.
”No one has ever described me in such detail until today; I am stunned. Please, explain the meaning of this dream of seeing a secret room with many drawers,” he repeated.
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”Erol, that corridor is your life. The years you have lived until today. Ever since your childhood…
The door opens to the dreams you suppressed and your only happy reality: your childhood years. The door opens there.
The drawers are the places where you hide the innocent and happy memories of your childhood.
The blue marble coming out of the drawer represents the dreams you failed to achieve,” I said.
Erol’s eyes were still full of tears; he was pressing the nails of his right hand into his left hand, almost making them bleed…
”But Ali, what about that dried daisy and the ‘Not ready yet’ note?” he asked.
”Erol, there are some secrets in your dream, but you don’t need to know them right now. You need to live and see them…
Your soul knows the whole secret, but it hides it from you because your mind is not ready. It is waiting for you to be ready.
I won’t tell you the secret part, but let me explain these:
The dried daisy is your neglected, pure inner world.
You used to perform compassion and kindness through the virtue of your creation—in other words, through the love of the Divine.
Every human being is born with the love of the Divine. If you don’t nourish it, it withers.
You have neglected the garden of your heart too much. Kindness, compassion, and being helpful have now become just a habit.
Meaning, their essence has been emptied. When you neglected your heart, your soul weakened and withdrew.
Call it the ‘self’ or the ‘ego’—whatever you call it; the control has passed to it. The ‘nafs’ (ego) must be disciplined and weakened.
Only then does the heart grow stronger and work together with the mind. The soul also revives, takes over the management, and reveals the secrets. You have let your heart wither.”
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”Your soul is warning you: ‘Wake up, the years have been wasted!’
It says you realized the dreams of others, not your own; it says you neglected your own world.
Your soul says ‘wake up.’ Nourish your heart, reach the secret. That is what the ‘Not ready yet’ note is, Erol.”
Erol became sorrowful. “I always neglected myself. I did the things that were my parents’ dreams.
I was a ‘good boy,’ but I couldn’t fully live my childhood.
I constantly struggled so that people would love me. I thought the more I helped them, the more they would love me.”
He continued speaking with a lump in his throat:
”I constantly focused on the outside world. But on the other hand, knowing about religious matters was not enough; I wanted to understand everything,” he said.
Cutting him off, I said: “You kept throwing fertilizer into the garden but never gave it any water. Does a flower ever live in a garden with plenty of fertilizer but no water?”
He went silent; he couldn’t answer for a while.
”Then I understood what you meant, Ali. I now understand what my soul wants and the meaning of that dried daisy and the ‘Not ready yet’ note.”
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”Erol, give water to the dried daisy. Revive it. In other words, nourish your heart. Strengthen your soul.
The ‘Not ready yet’ note will leave its place for an explanation.
You be ready; your soul will tell you the secret in your dream. Don’t forget this:
The soul is nourished by faith and the love of the Divine. The body is nourished by worldly food. Balance this.”
I turned my head and asked the architect Esra:
”Esra, why did you leave your soul starving? Why are you torturing your spirit? When death knocks on your door?”