I just went over the dream with Ralph again and I had a few facts wrong, but it's similar.

 

The small house was one he remembered we owned but we werent' there, we were in our own home here.

The small house had been vandalized, and it was locked up after being so. (this is saying that we had been hurt, and it was still hurting......just as punctures in a wall would be hurtful to the construction of the wall itself) We hadn't yet repaired it, we simply "closed it up" as it was.

 

The house we were in, in the dream is the present day consciousness, and the little smaller house (closed up as is)damaged; is still us as well, the past that had been damaged (in our consciousness)

 

The house in the dream with the remote control and gadgets I asked him about, mentioning the kids, was something I'd do anyway, always thinking of my girls, and would they like something (is something I always do)

 

The vacuum cleaner against the door.

 

(PUN: vacuum cleaners are for cleaning out debri, and it was showing that by the cleaner being against the inside, (you must CLEAN from the inside out, the hurt, the debri, the upset you suffer in life), and not from the OUTSIDE - IN ......(meaning that Ralph noted that had he been on the outside of that door,which was the basement door, we couldn't have opened the door to the inside)

 

This is a subtle understanding of what I just said, that hurt, upset and pain must be worked, "from the inside out" and not the other way around or not from the subconcious (basement door) to the conscious.

 

Going down to the basement, was as I noted earlier, .........and by not acknowledging the man with the  gun, Ralph was essentially saying in the dream that "not acknowledging the hurt, pain each day in one's subconscious mind, is fine, just "let it(him) GO"......

Walk away clean! is what he said to me,

 

but this means of course, "don't hold onto the hurt" don't revist it everyday (which I do) and don't acknowledge (relive it)