DREAM DICTIONARY

Dream Dictionary - Buildings - Building

Hall / Passages: Any passage can stand for the passages within the body, for instance the vagina or the anus. Equally, on the psychological level, it signifies how we allow our personal space to be penetrated .

Passages also represent the transitions between the various stages of our lives.

Lift: A lift usually indicates how we deal with information. For instance, a lift going down would suggest going down into the subconscious, while a lift going up would be moving towards the spiritual. It is believed that in the sleep state we leave our bodies.

Thus descending in a lift and getting stuck represents the entrapment of the spiritual by the physical body.

Rooms:In a dream can describe various parts of our personalities or levels of understanding, but often signify either the womb or the mother figure.

Kitchen:Thus the kitchen would be the home making part of us whereas the sitting room would be the more relaxed, comfortable side.

A small room with only one door or a basement with water in it is a direct representation of the womb, or may indicate a return to the womb-like state.

A series of rooms: This refers to the various aspects of femininity and often to the whole soul.

Anything in an upstairs room: an upstairs room usually signifies mental or spiritual attributes, so any object will represent an idea or concept.

The basement or Cellar: This meaning can be ambivalent, since a cellar can represent the parts of ourselves that we have chosen to supress. It can also represent family beliefs and habits, particularly if the basement is that of the parents.

Leaving one room and going into another: If this is a deliberate action in the dream, then it represents a change of state and of leaving something behind.

Empty Rooms:Something such as comfort or support, is lacking in our lives.

Stairs:Stairs are often an indication of the steps we must take in order to achieve a goal.

Climbing the Stairs:is indicative of the effort that we must make in order to have access to the more mystical, spiritual side of our being. It can more simply be the exertion we practise in our everyday life.

Going Downstairs:Conversely, in order to have access to the hidden unconscious side of ouselves, we need to 'go down' into the unconscious.

A Golden Staircase:This is such a basic image, with so many interpretations, that particular attention needs to be paid both to other aspects of the dream, and also the dreamers spiritual state at that specific time.

Largely it represents a 'death', but not necessarily a physical death. It is more the realisation that we no longer need to be trapped within the physical, but can move towards a more fulfilling life. It is a way out of the mundane.

Walls :A wall siginifies a block to progress - a difficulty we have or will come up against. Often the nature of the wall will give some clue as to what the block is. For instance, a wall which looks old will signify an old problem, whereas a glass wall would indicate some difficulties with perception.

Walls Closing In:Could describe the remembered feelings of birth, but is more likely to represent a feeling of being trapped by the lifestyle we have,

A brick wall, rampart or dividing wall:all signify the difference between two states of reality, often the inner psychological state and the exterior everyday world.

Windows:Windows will describe the means by which we appreciate the world we live in, the way we percieve reality.

Dreaming that we are looking outwards through a window can suggest that we have a mpore extrovert view of ourselves and will tend to look at external circumstances.

Looking inwards through a window:Indicates we are looking inwards at our own personality, and perhaps at our own motivation.

Opening a window:The interpretation depends on whether we are opening the window fromthe inside or the outside. If the former, we are dealing with our inner feelings which we may need to escape; the latter shows our attitude to outside opinion..

Breaking through a Window:(or glass door) This can suggest the first sexual experience.

Stained glass windows:Because of the connection with churches, stained glass can be accepted as religious belief.

Building:To dream you build or arrange for a house to be built signifies molestation, loss, sickness or death. Some venture dear to your heart will fall through.

To dream of a very tall building denotes a long life and happiness.

To dream of being among buildings denotes that you will change your present place of residence, and that you will make many friends in life.

Reference:10,000 Dreams Interpreted: Pamela Ball: The Complete Book of Dreams: Edwin Raphael