Vault

If it is a crypt, the bodies represent parts of your personality that are no longer active or matters that have been relegated to rest.

If the vault is a safe, it symbolizes happiness and opportunities for spiritual unfolding. Treasures contained are your spiritual potential: the reward for having explored the unconscious. Depending on its shape, the vault is also associated with the womb. Its appearance in dreams, in this case, points to the need for feeling protected. You must pay attention to the condition of the vault in the oneiric image because it represents the environment around the dreamer in real life.

If it is high and illuminated it indicates wellbeing; if it is dark and low, confinement; if it is in ruins, material or spiritual poverty.

An old book on dreams says that if a man dreams of walking under a vault of black color, he will marry a widow, and will become the slave of her cruelty.

To be going down into a vault represents our need to explore those areas of ourselves that have become hidden. We may also need to explore our attitude to death.

2- Collective wisdom (or the Collective Unconscious information available to all of us) often remains hidden until a real effort is made to uncover the knowledge available. While a vault can represent a tomb, it also represents the ‘archives’ or records to which we all have access.

3- A vault represents the meeting place of the spiritual and physical. Consequently a vault can also symbolise death.

To be going down into a vault represents our need to explore those areas of ourselves that have become hidden. We may also need to explore our attitude to death. You might also like to consult the entries for catacomb / crypt, death and tomb.