City Dream Meanings

City Dream Meaning: From 25 Different Sources


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To see a city in your dream, whether you recognize it or not, signifies all the aspects of your social environment. The dream can also refer to your spiritual community, since a city was originally given its status because it had a cathedral. Dreaming of a city or town that is known to you refers to your sense of community or belonging to a group. In dreams, we often give clues as to what we require emotionally from our environment and streets that are totally empty or crowded with expressionless hurried people may emphasize a need for more intimacy. Dreams in which you are lost in a crowd can suggest the desire to blend in so attention is taken away from you. It can also indicate that you do not have a sense of your own identity at present or that you long to join a group of likeminded people.

If you have a dream set in an urban landscape, this is your dreaming mind’s way of exploring your social feelings and beliefs. It can also be an expression of your work and career aspirations. Alternatively, such dreams can also represent you as a person; as Jung pointed out, cities can be a symbol of the self. In particular, he noticed that in dreams the structure of a city is often symmetrical in the shape of a mandala. Jung interpreted mandalas as an expression of the fullness of the self and wholeness. According to Jung, every town and city that is mapped to a mandala format is an expression of the human desire for wholeness; in dreams, the pattern can remind dreamers that the path to happiness is not to be found in the city but within yourself.

To dream that you are in a deserted city or that you feel alienated from the activity of the city suggests that you feel rejected by those around you. To see a city in ruins denotes that you are neglecting your social relationships and allowing them to deteriorate. This dream image can also stand for the destruction or ideals and goals.

If the ruins are ancient, you may be yearning for an idealized past. A walled city may signify resistance to change and the refusal to accept or listen to new ideas. Alternatively, it may indicate a desire for seclusion so you can recharge your emotional or spiritual batteries. In contrast to the city, a dream set in a village may evoke a longing for simple and traditional values in waking life. It may be an attractive ideal for dreamers disillusioned with the rushed and impersonal nature of city life.

Dream Source: The Element Encyclopedia
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The city symbolizes the human psyche. Depending on how it is represented in the dream it indicates how things are in your mind.

If the city offers a beautiful spectacle it means that harmony reigns inside you. In case it is noisy and polluted, it is a clear indication that your ideas are altered by the internal chaos you are experiencing. On the other hand, the city can represent everything around you, including family and friends.

If you feel alone as you enter it in the dream, you can feel that way with your social role in reality.

If you dream that it is fortified with walls it will express your need for self- defense against outside threats; and a ruined city warns against neglected relationships. Finally, to get lost in the city shows your own existential loss.

Mythological cities usually have eight gates, one of which is sealed. Each door represents a change in your life; the eighth is the end of the trip, in other words, death.

Dream Source: The Big Dictionary of Dreams
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(1) A city may be a symbol of your self.

See also Mandala) Entering a city’ may symbolize an intention - or need - to explore vour unconscious and acquaint vourself with what is going on there.

(3) A buried city, or a city at the bottom of the sea, may symbolize a neglected self. This would indicate a need to dip into your unconscious (for self).

(4) If it is the busy-ness of the city that is emphasized in your dream, ask yourself what this means in terms of your feelings about everyday life, or about people. Alternatively, what is going on in the city (confused, chaotic movement in opposing directions, for instance) may be symbolic of what is going on in yourself.

(5) Are you lost in the city? This probably represents a loss of direction in your life.

Dream Source: A Dictionary of Dream Symbols
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See Palace, Fort. On one hand, and as far back as the Middle Ages, the city has been a well-known symbol for Mother, since cities provide protection and resources and are usually surrounded by a wall (uterus). On the other hand, it may also stand for Father and “father state.” It is a symbol of progress on the road to self-development, as well as a symbol of the emotional environment of the dreamer.

A large city represents a source of contact, a hectic lifestyle, and stress. According to Freud, a symbol of woman.

Dream Source: Little Giant Encyclopedia
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The meaning of a dream about a city very much depends on one’s perspective and personal associations. In earlier cultural times the city was the place of action and excitement, with very positive connotations, the place to market wares and to buy food, goods, and services. Entertainment and songs glorified particular cities (e.g., New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London, and Paris). More recently, the city has become associated with crime, gangs, drug wars, and police brutality.
Dream Source: Dream Symbols in The Dream Encyclopedia
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Vision: Seeing a small city: if your expectations are not too high, the outlook for your career is promising. Seeing a large city: life will become hectic and stressful. Seeing a city with many towers: you will have your own business in the near future.

Depth Psychology: The city often represents a desire for diversion. Are you looking for more companionship, contact with other people? Has your life become boring? Is there too little stimulation from the outside?

Dream Source: Dreamers Dictionary
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Material aspects: Dreaming of a city, particularly one known to us, is to be trying to understand our sense of community; of belonging to groups. We will often, through dreams, give ourselves clues as to what we require in the mental and emotional environment in which we live, and a bustling city may show our need for social interaction.

A deserted city may portray our feelings of having been neglected by others.

Dream Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile
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An organization or group of people sharing something in common (such as location, goals, beliefs, culture, or background).

The actual city or place, or people who live there.

An event or memory that happened there, or that brings the city to mind.

A characteristic, mood, event, or something else you associate with this city or some other city.

See also: Region; Location

Dream Source: The Curious Dreamer’s Dream Dictionary
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To see a city in your dream, signifies a sense of community and your social environment.

To dream that you are in a deserted city, or that you feel alienated from the activity of the city, then it means that you feel rejected by those around you.

To see a city in ruins, suggests that you are neglecting your social relationships and allowing them to deteriorate.

Dream Source: My Dream Interpretation
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To dream about a city suggests a feeling of closeness, community, or your surroundings.

If you dream about a deserted city, you may be experiencing a sense of loss or a spurning by those close to you.

To dream about a city in ruins indicates that you are not paying attention to your social networks and they are now beginning to fall apart.

Dream Source: Dream Symbols and Analysis
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Being in a big city in a dream may represent feeling that you are among the masses.

A city may represent a hub of concerns ranging from success in your career to your ability to get along with others, or it may reflect the concerns you have about choosing the nght livelihood.

Dream Source: Ariadne's Book of Dream
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Symbolic of a busy and bustling life.

If the city is filled with happy people it symbolizes righteousness.

If the city is on a high hill it symbolizes blessing.

If the city is being torn down or in ruins it symbolizes wickedness, Prov. 11:10-11

Dream Source: Christian Dream Symbols
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Intense networking of people or parts of self; you are being forced to communicate and cooperate.

A need for community and working together, reaching out to others. Intense energy, need for balance and taking time to smell the roses.

Dream Source: The Dream Books Symbols
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Dreams of a city symbolize productivity, high energy, and perhaps that you are feeling out of touch with nature and caught up in a high-tech, low-touch world. This dream will also reflect your attitudes about community.
Dream Source: Strangest Dream Explanations
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1. The world;

2. Densely populated;

3. Preaching place;

4. Pride;

5. Each city to be judged;

6. Place of persecution;

7. Spiritual authorities and strongholds;

Dream Source: Dream Dictionary The Biblical Model
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Psychological / emotional perspective: A city usually has a core community, and we sometimes represent the place of work or opportunity in this way.
Dream Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile
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A spiritual community to which we belong can be represented in dreams by a city, since a city was originally given status because it had a cathedral.
Dream Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile
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A busy city, riches; a deserted city, plague (Gypsy). Maternal symbol of woman who fosters the inhabitants as children (Jung).
Dream Source: The Fabric of Dream
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To dream that you are in a strange city, denotes you will have sorrowful occasion to change your abode or mode of living.
Dream Source: Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation
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1. Complex dilemma that one can figure out the solution to.

2. Situation where things are moving too quickly.

Dream Source: New American Dream Dictionary
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A large City denotes ambition, if in the distance, successfully attained should you enter it in your dream.
Dream Source: Mystic Dream Book
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(dark) symbolizes Satan’s influence over a person or an area in which they live, Ps. 74:20
Dream Source: Christian Dream Symbols
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(Knowledge; Town; Village) Entering a city in a dream means appeasement than leaving it.

A city in a dream also represents a learned person, a wise man and a scholar.

If one enters a city and finds it in ruins in his dream, it means that the learned people of that city no longer live there.

It is said that seeing a city in a dream means the death of its ruler or an unjust governor from that place. Seeing a city being built in a dream signifies the growing number of its learned people and represents children who will continue the path of their fathers. Seeing a city with no governor in a dream means rising prices.

An unknown city in a dream represents the hereafter, while a known city represents the world. Seeing oneself in an unknown city in a dream is also a sign of righteousness.

The best of cities in a dream are the large ones. One’s home town in a dream represents his father, while one’s homeland in a dream represents his mother. Seeing oneself in a northern city in a dream mean increase of one’s cash flow. Seeing oneself in a southern city means increase in one’s trickery and deception. Seeing oneself in a low plateau in a dream means difficulties and trouble, while seeing oneself in a high plateau means trustworthiness and truthfulness. Seeing oneself in Egypt in a dream means longevity and a comfortable living. Seeing oneself in a farmland in a dream means pursuing innovation. Seeing oneself in a bower in a dream signifies the coming of a prosperous year. Seeing oneself in Jerusalem or at the feet of Mount Sinai in a dream also means prosperity. Seeing oneself in Bethlehem in a dream means increased religious devotion. Seeing oneself in Damascus in a dream means blessings, prosperity and wealth, or it could mean corruption.

A cold city in a dream represents adversities. Seeing oneself in a shore city in a dream means winning people’s acceptance. Standing on a sulfuric soil or a salinized soil in a dream means an illness. Seeing oneself in a large and populated city in a dream means prosperity and wealth. Entering a city in a dream also means making peace between people. Driving through an unknown section of a city in a dream means losses. Entering an old city that is rebuilt and restored in a dream means that a great and a pious person will be born in that city and he will grow to guide its people on the path of righteousness.

A city in a dream also signifies an oath, meeting with one’s beloveds, peace, tranquility and safety. Meeting with Godfearing people in a dream means attaining one’s goals and receiving glad tidings. Seeing the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in a dream means adversities, earthquake, fear and corruption. Seeing a city in a dream also could mean repentance from sin. Aprovince in a dream represents its governor or renowned scholars. Governing a city in a dream means rising to a suitable position, getting married, recovering from an illness, repenting from sin, or receiving guidance at the hand of a learned shaikh. Seeing a deceased person walking alive in a city in a dream perhaps means that he is in paradise enjoying its blessings. Seeing a deceased person in a village in a dream means that he might be in hell laboring with its people.

A city in a dream also represents the entertainment it provides for its dwellers.

The name of a city one sees in a dream should reflect some of the meanings of one’s dream.

(See Introduction).

The industry of a city also has a share in the dream interpretation. Known cities in the world in a dream represent their rulers. Entering a city one already knows in a dream means that one will not die until he enters it again, or it could mean that he will receive news from that city.

The walls of a city represent a strong ruler.

A demolished wall of a city in a dream signifies the death of its ruler or his removal from office.

If one sees a flourishing city with its urban construction, factories and farms, his dream will reflect the spiritual awareness and religious devotion of its people.

(Also see Village)

Dream Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation
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lucky numbers: 01-04-23-27-30-43

beautiful, a: slow recovery of business losses.

burning, a: poverty if you remain in present abode.

councilman, with a: insurmountable obstacles ahead if you speculate on real estate.

dealing with a: wil improve your estate.

friends at a meeting of: new interests and surroundings.

others with: beware of friends whose al egiance can be bought.

ghetto, living in a: loss of home through mortgage foreclosure.

going through a strange: a friend wil move in with you.

inhabited: with each soul comes the overcrowding of emotional baggage.

large, being in a: conclusion of hopes for diversion, not fruition.

small: business ideals wil be shortly realized for what, and al , they can be.

lost in the, being: feeling isolated by your outmoded social attitudes.

an unfamiliar: the confusion wil clear through cooperation with others.

familiar, now strange, a: something that usual y works no longer does.

fog, in the: look even if you do not want to see.

foreign, a: feeling out of place in society.

in a dangerous area: proceed with caution in your risky ventures.

ruins, in: wil have il ness in the family.

seeing a, in the distance: a complex maze through which you must pass.

small: your expectations are below your capabilities.

with many towers: your life is too hectic to accomplish anything.

well situated, a: business plans wil come to fruition.

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Dream Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation

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Dream Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation

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Dream Source: Little Giant Encyclopedia

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Dream Source: The Element Encyclopedia


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