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Building / Construction Dream Meaning

interpreted upon 3 sides: validity of labours / works that pertain to the world, good, usefulness, acquiring [something] wanted, capacity / abundance in acquisition. [1]

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  1. Islamic Dream - Cafer-i Sadik by Cafer-i Sadik [Back to dream]

What does Building / Construction mean in a dream?


Building a house may signify construction of a new project in your business or building a totally new life. Building with Legos or building blocks may comment on needing to...

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To dream of a construction site, or a building under construction, symbolizes that your mind is busy trying to understand or process a situation or idea. This dream can also...

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It involves construction and progress.If in the dream you are dedicated to building a house it means that you are rebuilding your life, so you have new projects. Buildings and...

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interpreted upon 3 sides: validity of labours / works that pertain to the world, good, usefulness, acquiring [something] wanted, capacity / abundance in acquisition.

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The building of one’s own house or another’s suggest pursuit of worldly gains proportionate to the construction.

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A construction site is the ground on which you as the dreamer build your hopes and dreams for fulfillment. Depending on how far along the construction is, it will reveal...

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A staple in building and construction, the nail is the ultimate tool for keeping the separate pieces of any structure together.A nail is the element that is introduced into an...

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Dreams about exploring a building are encouraging you to explore your own personality or resolve an ongoing conflict. In other words, the dream is encouraging you to make more of...

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A carpenter in a dream represents a teacher or an educator. Seeing a carpenter in a dream also means curbing off the intentions of hypocrites and obliging them to comply...

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1. Strength and virility.2. Construction and building.3. Fertility and growth.4. A need or desire to be listened to or understood.

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A building, like a House, almost always symbolizes the human body and personal identity. Pay attention to the type of building you see in the dream.The process of building usually...

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A house under construction may suggest the construction of a project that has been framed in your mind but has not yet been completed. It may represent the ideas that...

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A process, activity, or project in which something is created (such as art, music, construction, or building a relationship).The idea of making something out of nothing (or out of very...

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Building a partition is usually a good sign, which shows the arrival of positive changes in the life of the protagonist. However, if the construction is a response to the...

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A house nearly always refers to oneself, depicting one’s body and attributes of personality. Thus if we take a large house with its many functional rooms, the library would represent...

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The foundation may represent the cornerstone of your thinking and patterns of belief that may have been formed very early in your life. Foundational beliers may be personal statements you...

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(Carpenter, Mason, Woodworker, Workman) Seeing a construction worker in a dream means both poverty or richness, or he could denote travels or uncertainty about what profession one should get into...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: A tower in a dream usually represents the construction of our lives – our inner attitude, outer life or both.The tower or tall building is such...

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An intermediate means of construction in one’s life, i.E.A fallen scaffold is an ineffective means, destined to fail; see “construction”

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The lobby of any structure is the ante-chamber that precedes your entrance into the main room of that building. In this way, it has some symbolic meaning that indicates a...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: Where in real life we can learn a lot about a person from his personal environment, so in dreams a building can also reflect the dreamer’s...

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(see Games)Toys may be a reflection of the inner child who wishes to come out and playThese can be memorable toys from your own youth, or those for which you...

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An old house signifies a reunion or renewal of an old association.A new house predicts financial security.Building a house or seeing one under construction forecasts unexpected gain, possibly through a...

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Protection from the world or from “the elements” (harsh conditions, challenging situations, etc.).A finishing touch or last step in a process (since a roof might be the last part of...

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(Money, Sun-dried bricks) Seeing blocks of adobes in a dream signify money. Each adobe represents a denomination often, thousand or one hundred thousand units of money, depending on the type...

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Entcnng an office building in your dreams may represent concerns about work and your career. What floor you arrive on may represent the degree of success and recognition you expect...

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Here again, it is the outside of the building that is fortunate.To dream that you are inside a sacred building is a warning of coming trouble.

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A brick, block, stone, or other building component can represent: Strength, solidness, reliability, or rigidity.A resource used to create or build.The process of establishing or building something.An input to a...

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Symbol: This symbol stands for building and expanding your life.Vision + Depth Psychology: Building something—no matter how big or tall— using a lot of materials, is a good sign, because...

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To see a beaver industriously building a dam shows that much hard work is to be expected before you eventually realize your goals.If the beaver is in distress, or has...

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Creating or making things, especially combining basic building blocks to make something “greater than the sum of its parts.” Productivity.Organization.Automation.Your work, job, career, or income.See Business, Processing, Making or Building,...

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(Cutting stones, Stone carving, Sculpturing) Building a structure in a dream from masonry rather than baked brick represents elevation of one’s status, success, or stretching one’s hopes. It also could...

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To build is to create something new; expanding or enhancing a part of your life.A large building is a tremendous energy source; suggests you have great opportunities, tremendous potential and...

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Demolition in the construction of one’s life

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Construction in one’s life, i.E. Paperwork, etc.; See “wood”

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Construction, i.E. Paperwork for devising new plans, etc.

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The building of a house in an unknown locality suggest that the beholder will accomplish good deeds and that he will secure for himself a favourable position in the hereafter.

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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...

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Some believe that the spider is symbolic of an unkind and sneaky individual. Are you the spider building a web, or are you being dragged into one? A spider’s web...

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Any religious building suggests a refuge where you can gather your thoughts and consider your beliefs. Even if you are not religious, in dreams religious buildings highlight your spiritual, peace-loving...

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If you dream of being in a treehouse, you are in a positive phase of self-development and becoming the person you are meant to be. You are concentrating on your...

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1. Difficulties on the path to goals.2. Major emotional healing is accomplished from the ground up, like a careful construction project.

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Trouble ahead is signaled in a dream featuring the girders of a construction; someone is waiting to catch you in a mistake.Be diligent.

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A tomb is a building that houses the dead.A building in a dream represents some construct of your thought process or your consciousness.A tomb, therefore, is elements of your consciousness...

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Vision: Watching someone splitting logs: bad news or even a death. Looking for wood: you may experience sorrow and sad conditions. Cutting wood: hard work must come before a reward....

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A pillar, beam, or other architectural support can represent: Physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual support (or a desire for it or dependence on it).Resources, or sources of support (people, information,...

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If you rebuild the house you live in with your own hands, it means you need to undergo a deep reconstruction. This dream is revealing the need for a change...

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(Cupola, Minaret, Observatory) In a dream, a watchtower represents a notable person. Seeing a watchtower from a distance in a dream means victory over one’s adversary, attainment of one’s goals,...

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To fall to the ground, humiliation and disgrace (Gypsy). Freud places an erotic construction upon this dream.

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Plans are diagrams designed to help in certain tasks, whether that is construction or in the sense of a map. They are of assistance in spiritual development in that they...

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Constructive improvement; research name of tool; see “construction”

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The elements often have important roles in disaster dreams. In a dream, fire can be a purifying influence, it can relate to anger, or it might be suggestive of destruction....

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(see Copper, Gold, Iron Ore, Silver) Strength and resiliency.How is the metal used in the dream? Are you building with it, and if so, what? For example, building a wall...

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A backhoe is a heavy piece of construction equipment that digs a deep hole. It may stand for needing to unearth something from within the subconscious, perhaps a deeply embedded...

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1. Strength, power and protection.2. Tool, construction; ability to complete tasks.3. Blessings, healing.4. Creating debts (cut).5. To lend aid (as in “helping hand”).6. Communi­cation.

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If you dream of scaffolding, then you are under construction. You are tearing down the old ways of being and creating new structures that are large enough and strong enough...

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A laborer in a dream represents an honorable worker who possesses dignity, integrity, and whose earnings are blessed.(Also see Construction worker)

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Material aspects: In mundane terms the igloo can represent our own construction, the way in which we fashion our environment in order to work, or rather operate, most effectively.

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Anything tied into a knot is reflecting disparate elements that are bound together. Sometimes this is a positive construction, but it can also relate to the resulting chaos and confusion.The...

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A new kitchen is under construction: your family fortune will increase; • You witness clear water flowing in your kitchen: you’ll have an unexpected financial gain; • You see a...

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lucky numbers: 08-15-18-34-43-50being an: surround yourself with visual pleasures and shelter. of an: much pleasure in life wil be yours. talking with an, about construction: everyone is a frustrated architect....

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(see Bride, Engagement, Groom, Marriage, Parents)These dreams frequently relate to real-life scenarios in which the relationships in the dream mirror those from waking hours. If, however, the relationship takes on...

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A dream that emphasizes scissors can have a variety of different meanings. Scissors can be used in construction or in destruction. We could be cutting the umbilical cord (asserting our...

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Wading through sawdust may point to the debris that needs to be cleaned up from some project recently under construction. Sawdust may point to having witnessed something dirty.

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Sewing, embroidery, or construction patterns in a dream are a suggestion from your subconscious mind to refrain from straying into unknown paths.For a dream featuring changing patterns see, Kaleidoscope, Colors,...

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