City dreams are more related to strangers than dreams in general. They are less related to insects and less related to family.

City dreams are less related to happiness, less related to grief and sorrow, and less related to fear.

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

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

City dreams 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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