Dreaming Lens: Were you waiting for the elevator or already riding it? Were you reaching your intended destination? Were you frightened or in danger? Were you going sideways? Were you stuck in an elevator? Were you moving faster than what felt safe? Who were you with? Were you pushing the buttons or was someone else?
Personal Focus: Elevators carry us from one floor to another at the push of a button. The different levels they transport us to connect to various perspectives of our awareness. We decide our destination on an elevator, aligning this symbol with the choices we make about what areas of our consciousness we are willing to investigate. What happens in the elevator of our dreams may reveal how well this process is going in our daily lives.
The floors involved in a dream can hold significance. In a general way, moving upward connects with higher, more sophisticated levels of thinking, while moving downward indicates investigation of lower levels, past issues, and behavior patterns. Moving downward can also align with visiting hidden or Shadow material.
The actual floor number or numbers, if remembered, can be examined through the concepts of numerology for additional meaning (See also: Numbers). If there are specific associations with the floors you visit or the building where the elevator is located, this should be factored strongly into your interpretation.
To go up when down is desired may indicate a pressing need to operate with higher insight than that with which you are currently engaged. Going down when up is anticipated may point to the need to uncover additional material hidden in the lower depths of your consciousness or your past. Being stuck on an elevator is to be midway through a process or shift. Your response to the lack of movement may reveal levels of impatience with your progress in some area of growth.
An elevator out of control is similar to a falling dream, but the added component of transition and choice must be considered. While you may be falling, you have chosen to take the elevator in search of new information. Going sideways is to be confused about the direction in which a current transformational shift may be taking you. If the elevator is out of service, you may be stuck in some issue in your life. Another possibility with a broken elevator is a need to stay where you are and not try and escape your current situation by rising above it or sinking to a lower level. [1]
A rising elevator also represents anxiety, but signifies that the trouble is almost over.
A dream of being stuck in an elevator symbolizes that your emotions have gotten out of control.
The same is true if you dream about an elevator that is out of order.
To dream of being in an elevator crash is a common dream, which symbolizes some basic fear in the dreamer’s life, such as fear of a moral lapse, social inadequacy, loss of status, etc.
The prophetic meaning of this dream depends on what happened.
If you dreamed of being killed in the crash, you will experience some major and lastings setbacks in your life. However, if you escaped safely or landed without being hurt, your troubles will be upsetting but only temporary. [2]
Shifting between the areas within your consciousness (such as subconscious, conscious, emotional, or mental), as represented by the various floors.
Switching between areas of your life (such as work, relationships, or hobbies).
Consider also the context and what the elevator is doing.
Moving upward might represent moving forward or making progress somehow in your life.
Moving downward might represent a perceived loss of progress, or an ending (represented by exiting the building).
Getting stuck might represent feeling stuck, held back, or delayed somehow in your life.
See also: Floor, Building, Climbing, Descending, High, Low, Basement, Upstairs, Main Floor, Stairs, Levitating [3]
If you are ascending then you may perceive your current situation as optimistic and moving upward.
If you are descending you may be experiencing some negativity and helplessness.
If the elevator continues to go up and down with out letting you off, it means you have let your emotions, or your situation, get out of control and must do something to stop it. [4]
Depth Psychology: Riding in an elevator means you are looking for help with a specific problem; or you want to reach your goals in life in a hurry without putting much effort into it (that won’t work!). [6]
If you are moving down, then you know what to do to switch directions to elevate your position. Also, if you are moving down, this can either symbolize your interest in understanding the foundation of the situation you are in, or that you are allowing fear and negativity to take you down. [7]
2. Elevated Symbolic of victory;
3. Jesus being lifted up on the cross;
4. Wisdom that comes from above;
5. Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount.
6. If going up moving up into the realm where God dwells;
7. Prophetic church of great revelation moving upward; high places of the Lord or of the flesh;
2 Cor. 12:18; Ps. 37:31; Acts 1:13-14; 20:7-8; Ps. 103:11; 1 Sam. 9:12-14; Matt 5
• Going Down
- Demotion or trail; backsliding. [8]
If the elevator continues to go up and down with out letting you off means you have let your emotions, or your situation, get out of control and must do something to stop it. [9]
If you see one go down and think you are left, you will narrowly escape disappointment in some undertaking.
To see one standing, foretells threatened danger. [10]
To be in a falling elevator is a premonition of financial loss.
Riding in an elevator is propitious if the car is going up; otherwise if it is going down.
To dream of operating an elevator is a sign that you will make money. [11]
2. Life’s challenges and opportunities, which are controlled by which floor the dreamer presses.
3. If elevator is stopped, it indicates one is interfering with one’s own success.
4. If elevator is descending, then so is the dreamer.
5. Uplifting experience. [12]
To see an elevator in your dream is showing you a way up or out of your current surroundings [15]
Up is good, down is discouraging, but other factors should be considered.
2. Moving in the Spirit;
Isa. 40 31; John 3:8; [18]
ascending in an: increase in wealth and advancement in position.
descending: overwhelming misfortune through unsettling investment climate.
being out of order: warning of troubles in the face of fortune.
changing shafts: alternate energy or status.
dropping to the ground floor: are losing altitude in a rising career.
which is full of water: submerging into the depths of the subconscious.
family, being in an, with the: need their support to proceed with life.
others, with: defy your rivals and appear where you were purposely uninvited.
clinging to you: are being engorged by parasitic weaklings.
in your house: wish for too much, too quickly with little effort.
moving sideways: are indecisive as to which goals to pursue.
riding in an: feel secure in accessing various levels of your psyche.
stuck between floors in an elevator, being: wil have emotional sorrow. [21]