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What are city dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like downtown, metropolis, city, etc.

Cities in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 4.1% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 25 dreams.

What are the major highlights of city dreams?

Cities is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having cities in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.

How does the dream symbol of cities affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of cities

Who is in cities dreams?

Overall, dreams with cities are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cities are more related to distant people than dreams in general.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

more than usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

the same as usual
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What are the emotions in cities dreams?

Overall, dreams with cities are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cities are less related to happiness, less related to confusion, and less related to pain.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in cities dreams?

Overall, dreams with cities are much more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cities are more related to home, more related to work, and much more related to human places than dreams in general.

Home

more than usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

much more than usual

Transportation

much more than usual

Natural places

more than usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in cities dreams?

Overall, dreams with cities are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cities are more related to disasters than dreams in general. They are less related to sex.

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

more than usual
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How do cities in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with cities are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cities are less related to nightmares, less related to sleep paralysis, and less related to sleeping.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do cities in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with cities are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cities are more related to vision than dreams in general. They are less related to taste and less related to touch.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

more than usual

Touch

less than usual
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How can you make sense of cities in dreams?

City dreams are relatively common. Among other things city dreams are very postively interconnected.

Do you think this is true for your dream of cities? How might your dream of cities be different?

All dreams have meaning

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

Look for the differences

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience cities in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Return to the feelings

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about cities in dreams. See how you feel about cities now, in your waking life.

What are possible meanings for dreams of cities?

Cities in dreams can symbolize your public life, identity, sense of community, or place in society. Cities are where people go to see, be seen, and interact with the public, to make their mark on the world and a name for themselves.

They go to cities to find work, and cities can symbolize anything related to work: employment, job-hunting, advancement, wealth, recognition.

For example, a musician who lives in Omaha and dreams about Austin might be dreaming about a career step, because Austin has a thriving music scene and it’s where bands go to make a name in that part of the country. The symbolism is based on the city’s reputation.

The city is a sign of success—you “make it” in the big city. For example, an author who dreams about flying to New York City might be dreaming about the desire to make a splash in the publishing world, because NYC is where some of the biggest publishing companies are located.

For others, a city is a symbol for hustle, overcrowding, or loss of personal identity—just a face in the crowd. Other common associations are struggle, poverty, and pollution.

Dreams love to string together ideas to create symbolism and meaning. For example, a city can symbolize your mind, and a polluted city can symbolize dirty thoughts.

The symbolism can take on new dimensions for people who live in a city and dream about it. It’s a versatile symbol for anything and everything connected with their everyday life. Dreaming about their city can be “day residue” processed by their mind via dreams, lacking symbolic meaning. You know the difference because meaningless dreams make little impression on you, and tend just to be a progression of imagery rather than a story.

A city can symbolize your psyche or your life. Your psyche has structures like buildings and neighborhoods that fit together to form a whole. The psyche has many interconnections, too, like roads or subway lines connecting parts of town. Your life is “built up” and can be busy like a city. Buildings can symbolize people you know, areas of your life, or your body. For example, a bank can symbolize your finances. In this sense, a city is a great symbol for capturing the dynamics of your life—your outer life or inner life.

See also: Buildings, Buses, Emptiness, Jobs, New york, Psyches, Skyscrapers, Stages

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet.

Examples of dreams of cities

Read some real dream reports of city dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.

A dream I think Symbolised the (spiritual) Death of my Wife.

Long story short my wife and I decided to explore polyamory. Collectively dated the same woman for a short time before the dynamic shifted (the gf and I had a much stronger bond) the night the gf revealed this to us she mentioned a dream she had:

She was in an underwater city where both androgynous men and women lived.
Her and another woman left the city and ended up on the land but the land dwelling people ended up capturing and killing the woman in front of her.

Originally I assumed it had to do with the gf and her lack of connection with my wife but fast forward a fee months on my return to the area I had a gut awful feeling this weekend my marriage was going to be destroyed (one thing lead to another) and by an ironic turn of events ended up in my wife saying she was done.

Long story short my wife and I decided to explore polyamory. Collectively dated the same woman for a short time before the dynamic shifted (the gf and I had a...

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Can anyone tell me what my dream is about??

I have a dream about myself in a gta V type of place but I'm not in a game because it's a real experience as i would call it. I've made a crime of some sort and police chases after me. Later that time i found myself in the sky in a motorcycle with wings (it really looks like the ones from gta V) and i would fly around the city to not get caught, after a while i landed myself outside the map (maybe it's the game I'm in). You really can tell if it's outside the map if there's border (steel fence with barbed wire) and you can't go there unless you force or find a way to get there, the bike really did the job and as if like I can go there anytime without force. I met a girl there which i think is also lost and amazed in the place and after we met she was kinda shy and long after that i saw that we hugged each other and float slowly like we were meditating, i hugged her and it feels special like i wanted that so bad that I don't want it to end like this is the thing i've been finding for so long. She then turned her back against me while hugging her and we dolphin kick (swimming technique) at the same time floating up a bit until i woke up (the end really is a wierd twist that's why i need your help maybe there's something about it like a meaning about me). The outside map looks like a barb wired steel fence like i said with an unfinished hollow block walls parallel to it some sort of an unfinished building maybe.

I have a dream about myself in a gta V type of place but I'm not in a game because it's a real experience as i would call it. I've made a crime of some sort and...

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Dream about visiting to another planet, relating my own height and insecurities

I'm 22 years old male, one thing that those last days bother me off is my own height. I am only like 1.65 in meters height, and I feel very insecure about it. My insecurity steems from the fact that it affects my self-image. Somehow, I just realised how I was compensating too hard for my own insecurities about myself and generaly how it made others view me.

Despite people told me that I am fine and look masculine with my appearance, height still bothers the hell out of me. My insecurity started from watching videos of generaly how shorter people are treated, especialy in the dating side of life.

I myself as a person had a pretty regular life, I have been mostly a Video game and Anime lover most of the time.

This dream happened during middle of the time when my stress and insecurity about my height started to take a serious turn, to the point where it left me a feeling of hopelessness.

The dream started off with me arriving with 3 other people to a planet in a different star system (not our sun) in a ship, the planet was similar to earth, it had blue skies, oceans and cities just like on earth.

We started off in some big mall trading centre, I dont remember much of the dream, but 2 of our crew guys (Which seemed to be guys), went on outside by going up the mall to look at the star, instantly this moment when those guys looked at the star shinning, they started to experience something pretty terrible, It in this point I realised in fear, that the Star that shines on this planet is an evil entity of sort that either corrupts you or does something terrible for you if you glance into it.

I got mental images of the star, the star seemed to be a blue giant, unlike our sun, and when I pictured the 2 crew members looking at it, the star would turn entirely black (Like black sphere in the sky) and basicaly corrupts their mind and it does something to them that I cant explain, eitherway, they die somehow.

I started to experience uneasiness with the presence of this star, I feared looking into it even though I felt wanting to look at it, but tried my best not to.

What only remains is me and a woman, we both decided to return back to our spaceship and avoid looking at the star. Still, when I was outside going for the ship I felt fear and uneasiness by feeling the heat coming out of the star, but I moved in and tried not to look at it, and went into the ship with the woman. The dream ended here.

TL;DR: Landing on a planet on a trading centre, the star is a sentient evil diety god, do not glance into it, 2 crew members died, me and a woman escaping back into the ship, the dream ends here.

I'm 22 years old male, one thing that those last days bother me off is my own height. I am only like 1.65 in meters height, and I feel very insecure about it....

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A short confusing dream. What’s the hidden meaning?

I(F20) was in the central bus station in my city.
It was completely empty, just me, my parents and siblings.

My parents are divorced. I have a 16yo brother and 8yo half sister on my father side.

I stand there and my dad is behind me braiding my hair. My hair is black if it matters.
My mom and siblings stand together in a 10 feet distance from us, not too far and not too close.
Just quietly standing and looking.

I tell my dad that my mom can do my hair and I try to walk to her but he keeps doing my hair anyways.
I ask him why doesn’t he braid my young sister hair and he’s quiet and keeps braiding mine.

That’s pretty much it. Seems like we’re waiting outside of the hair extensions store too but I couldn’t say for sure since that’s all I remember.

The point was my dad was braiding my hair in thick braids standing up in the empty central bus station.

I feel like it has a very deep meaning since it’s a really strange dream

I(F20) was in the central bus station in my city.
It was completely empty, just me, my parents and siblings.

My parents are divorced. I have a 16yo brother and...

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What Does A Recurring Nightmare Mean?

For the last 8 years of my life I have had the exact same nightmare once every year. Doesn't matter what time of the year but only once in that year and it's really creepy. The nightmare goes like this and every time there's a slight change. I'll mention the most notable ones but they always start and end the same way: the in between is also extremely similar with maybe one or two changes.

1. It always starts off with me opening my eyes in a black room and then it shifts into third person in a black and white city and I'm on a roof
2. I start jumping from roof to roof and I'm always screaming to see *someone*. I don't know who.
3. I get in some sort of vehicle with a faceless person (the person I was looking for) and we just kinda teleport to some stall selling coloured oranges because everything else is black and white and the person with me begins to develop the face of someone from my family. Then they pick up an orange and get poisoned by it and die
4. I wake up in a coloured city this time and then I get teleported into the same black room I was in before but this time there's floating numbers. I reach the number 100 and then I just die. Flat out die just like that.

Then I always wake up and I always instinctively walk out of my bedroom. Always the same. The only difference is the person who gets 'poisoned'. What the hell does this mean? I'm not scared of the dream anymore since I've become aware of it but it just creeps me out.

For the last 8 years of my life I have had the exact same nightmare once every year. Doesn't matter what time of the year but only once in that year and it's...

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