Background

What are city dreams about?

The DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon insights from 1,200 dream symbols in over 200,000 dreams. Let’s see what the data has to say about city dreams.

The word cloud above shows the words that are specifically associated with city dreams. These are the words that make city dreams unique compared to all other dream symbols. Just examining the graph and reading the words of city dreams can be illuminating about show cities affect our dreams. Be sure to check out the example city dreams at the bottom of the page.

The circular bar chart above shows how cities in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that city is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that city is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, city dreams have more human-made places than 99.5% of dream symbols, more transportation than 94.4% of dream symbols, and more disasters than 89.8% of dream symbols. On the other hand, city dreams have less pain than 80.0% of dream symbols, less sleep paralysis than 76.9% of dream symbols, and less bad dreams than 69.7% of dream symbols. Every dream is unique. These are general patterns observed in an analysis of over 200,000 dreams. This analysis is a tool to help you make sense of your dreams. It is best to look at the differences. See how your dream of cities is different than dreams of cities in general.

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of dreams have cities

How common are city dreams?

4.7% of dreams have the cities symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 20 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is relatively common.

Identification

How are city dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like downtown, metropolis, city, etc. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols places and human-made places.

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What is most related to dreams of cities?

Cities dreams are notable because they have substantially more skyscrapers, New York, El Salvador, Somalia, real locations, Venezuela, Nepal, detours, Croatia, Lebanon, verbs than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of cities?

Cities dreams are notable because they have substantially less Kuwait, Cameroon, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Guatemala, Serbia, Uranus, emaciation, Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into city dreams

Get an overview of characters, emotions, places, events, dream events, and senses in city dreams.

Who is in dreams of cities?

Who is in dreams of cities?

Dreams of cities are more related to strangers than dreams in general. They are less related to insects and less related to family.

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What are the emotions in dreams of cities?

What are the emotions in dreams of cities?

Dreams of cities are less related to happiness, less related to grief and sorrow, and less related to fear.

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Where do dreams of cities take place?

Where do dreams of cities take place?

City dreams are more related to home, more related to work, and much more related to human-made places than dreams in general.

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What happens in dreams of cities?

What happens in dreams of cities?

Dreams of cities are more related to disasters than dreams in general. They are less related to sex and less related to health events.

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How do dreams of cities related to the type of dream it is?

How do dreams of cities related to the type of dream it is?

Dreams of cities are more related to lucid dreams and more related to vivid dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to nightmares, less related to sleep paralysis, and less related to bad dreams.

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How do dreams of cities related the senses?

How do dreams of cities related the senses?

Dreams of cities are less related to taste and less related to touch.

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How can you make sense of cities in dreams?

City dreams are relatively common. Among other things city dreams are Do you think this is true for your dream of cities? How might your dream of cities be different?

All dreams have meaning

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

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

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.

An interpretation of city dreams

An interpretation of city dreams

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. 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

Examples of dreams of cities

Reading dreams is one of the best ways to understand dream symbols. Even though the DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon data, it is grounded in the experience of reading thousands upon thousands of dreams. We invite you to read examples of city dreams for yourself. These dreams are actual dreams people have had. As result, they may contain racist, sexist, violent, or otherwise offense language and imagery. This can be true even for city dreams. Read at your own risk.

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