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What are elevator dreams about?

Elevators are really small rooms that ascend and descend. There is an element of powerlessness in elevators. One simply presses a button and waits for the elevator to work. 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 elevator dreams.

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

The circular bar chart above shows how elevators in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that elevator is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that elevator is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, elevator dreams have more human-made places than 91.6% of dream symbols, more recurring dreams than 88.7% of dream symbols, and more strangers than 85.0% of dream symbols. On the other hand, elevator dreams have less animals than 77.4% of dream symbols, less love than 77.0% of dream symbols, and less insects than 75.1% 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 elevators is different than dreams of elevators in general.

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How common are elevator dreams?

1.1% of dreams have the elevators symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 90 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is relatively uncommon.

Identification

How are elevator dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like elevator. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols places and parts of buildings.

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What is most related to dreams of elevators?

Elevators dreams are notable because they have substantially more Bilbo Baggins, pressing buttons, lobbies, chakras, floors, Malaysia, ascending, skyscrapers, movement, hotels, casinos than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of elevators?

Elevators dreams are notable because they have substantially less antelopes, Aquaman, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, C-3PO, Legolas, Gollum, Gimli, Frodo, Ron Weasley than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into elevator dreams

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

Who is in dreams of elevators?

Who is in dreams of elevators?

Elevator dreams are more related to strangers than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to family.

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What are the emotions in dreams of elevators?

What are the emotions in dreams of elevators?

Elevator dreams are more related to fun than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness, less related to grief and sorrow, and less related to pain.

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Where do dreams of elevators take place?

Where do dreams of elevators take place?

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

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What happens in dreams of elevators?

What happens in dreams of elevators?

Dreams of elevators are less related to health events.

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

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

Elevator dreams are more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to weird dreams, less related to vivid dreams, and less related to good dreams.

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How do dreams of elevators related the senses?

How do dreams of elevators related the senses?

Elevator dreams are less related to hearing.

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How can you make sense of elevators in dreams?

Elevator dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things elevator dreams are Do you think this is true for your dream of elevators? How might your dream of elevators 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 elevators 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 elevators in dreams. See how you feel about elevators now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of elevator dreams

An interpretation of elevator 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. The main way elevators are used as symbolism is through their function of going up and down. That movement can describe the ups and downs of life and anything that ascends or descends, rises or falls: blood pressure, fortune, opinion, reputation, desire, age. The movement is a physical representation. Going up is associated with a rise in status, similar to the idea of “climbing the ladder,” on your way up, successful. The people with you in the elevator could represent the parts of yourself primarily responsible for your success: your work ethic, ambition, skill, intelligence. Or they could represent people in your life who are rising with you. See: Ascending, Climbing Rising up is associated with personal development. The floors passed as you rise are stages of personal development—as a professional or student, as a parent, as a leader. It can symbolize elevated mood, thought, or feeling, or rise in skill, ability, or knowledge. It can symbolize aging or maturing. Upper floors and the roof of a building can represent the head of the body. So rising in an elevator can visually represent raising your intellect or going up into your thoughts. See: Attics Going down in an elevator can visually represent descending into your emotions, or movement into the depths of your being, especially if you end up in a basement. Those depths might include forgotten or avoided memories, receded aspects of yourself, or your heritage or family roots. See: Basements It can symbolize depression or sinking hope. See: Depression Going down in an elevator can mean loss of status or decline in health. This dream theme is particularly common in people who have peaked mentally or physically and are starting a slow decline, shown in the movement of the elevator slowly descending. Descending in an elevator can mean that your status, thoughts, feelings, opinions, or expectations are lowered. See: Descending Descending suddenly and crashing can symbolize feelings related to a sudden loss or trauma. It captures the sensation of a weightless stomach, that sick feeling you get when something goes horribly wrong or is really shocking. While descent can symbolize misfortune or setback, it can also mean grounded or down to earth. Use your feelings to tell the difference. Up-and-down movement can represent changes in mood. Fast movements in an elevator can symbolize mood swings. It can symbolize the rush of taking a drug, or the crash that happens as you “come down.” Dreams that feature elevators going to different floors of a building and the doors opening on various scenes can be like a survey of what various parts of you think about something. Down in the basement is where you might see your emotions. In the middle, you might see your gut feelings or instincts. And in the upper floors you might see your thoughts. The same imagery of stopping at floors in an elevator can symbolize times of your life, and the specific floor is an age of your life. Floor nine is age nine, and so forth. See: Numbers Another possibility is that the symbolism of the floors visited in a dream elevator are more important for the numbers used. For example, ten is how many cousins you have, or the number of days till an important event, or the number of people you are competing against. Dreaming about avoiding floor five can symbolize avoiding thinking about how early you have to wake up—5 a.m. If the elevator won’t open, it might symbolize an opportunity that won’t open for you, or you are unable to access a particular area of yourself. For example, if you ride an elevator to a basement and the doors won’t open, it might mean that you are closed off to your emotions or instincts. An elevator that doesn’t arrive at your floor can symbolize an opportunity that doesn’t materialize, or an event canceled. An elevator door closing as someone tries to get on can symbolize cutting off a person, or ending a situation or relationship. For example, you decide to fire a contractor who has been repairing your house, and in a dream you shut elevator doors on a construction worker trying to enter it. See also: Ascending, Attics, Basements, Buildings, Climbing, Descending, Numbers, Skyscrapers

Examples of dreams of elevators

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 elevator 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 elevator dreams. Read at your own risk.

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