skyscraper

Universal Landscape: Expansion to higher levels of conscious awareness.

Dreaming Lens: How tall was the skyscraper in your dream? What was the building made of? Were you inside or outside of the skyscraper? What floor were you on? Were you on the roof? How far could you see?

Personal Focus: Any building is a reflection of the consciousness of human beings. If a house in a dream symbolizes your sense of personal self, each successively larger building can be thought of as expansions of this consciousness. In this way, a skyscraper is the ultimate expression of human consciousness reaching from the ground to the heavens.

The skyscraper is also a very American icon and is directly connected to the explosion of urbanization that marked the movement into the current modern era. When steel began to be mass-produced, it paved the way for the bustling city environment to push upwards. This ascension, then, is symbolic for the consciousness of mankind erupting toward higher levels of awareness and intellectual functioning.

There is an interesting linguistic nuance in the meaning of the skyscraper as a symbol. A tall building is understood in terms of just how tall it is. And every floor is also commonly known as a “story.” The taller a building is, the more “stories” it has: the higher into consciousness one gets, the more life-stories are required to unfold in order to gain the wisdom reflected in the high vantage point that a skyscraper has to offer.

Consider your relationship to the skyscraper in your dream. If you are inside the building, then your dream is reflecting a deeper rumination of thoughts. Being outside and looking up at the building is to be contemplating thoughts you have yet to grapple with. If you are enjoying the view from someplace high in the building, then the dream is connected to the awareness that results from higher levels of thought. If the height is frightening or menacing, then the dream may be expressing fears and overwhelm around too much thinking.

This image indicates expansion to higher levels of conscious awareness. Any building is a reflection of the consciousness of human beings.

If a house in a dream symbolizes your personal sense of self, each successively larger building can be thought of as an expansion of this consciousness. In this way, a skyscraper is the ultimate expression of human consciousness, reaching from the ground to the heavens.

The skyscraper is also a very American icon and is directly connected to the explosion of urbanization that marked the movement into the current modern era. When steel began to be mass-produced, it paved the way for the bustling city environment to push upward. This ascension then is symbolic of the consciousness of humankind erupting toward higher levels of awareness and intellectual functioning.

Vision: A skyscraper is a symbol of emotional frustration; the building itself is a phallic symbol and related to sexual desires. Do you feel isolated? Do you feel you are walking through life as a nameless person? If a woman dreams about a skyscraper without windows: her partner is emotionally unavailable.

Depth Psychology: Living in a skyscraper: you are in the wrong place, because the atmosphere is detrimental to your emotional health. In all other cases, the dream is a reminder: limit your expectations—you have set your hopes too high.

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