If it is a crypt, the bodies represent parts of your personality that are no longer active or matters that have been relegated to rest.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. [1]
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. [2]
The resources that you keep hidden and locked away cannot do you any good unless they are flowing and moving in the world. [4]
To dream of a safe type vault holding valuables is a warning to guard your own wealth against those who would steal from you, or cheat you in some manner.
A vault hanging open with valuables inside warns you not to expose your wealth to everyone. [5]
A vault is also often a sign of emotional anxiety and depression.
Depth Psychology: A vault can also be a symbol of emotional anxiety and depression. Did you wander aimlessly inside the vault or did you find your way out? [6]
To see an open vault forewarns that you should not flaunt your wealth to everyone. [7]
To see a vault for valuables, signifies your fortune will surprise many, as your circumstances will appear to be meagre.
To see the doors of a vault open, implies loss and treachery of people whom you trust. [9]
(2) If in your dream you are in the vaults of a bank, it may symbolize the rich potential for happiness, fulfilment, creativity and love in the not yet (fully) explored levels of your psyche. [10]
A bank vault with an open door is a sign that you are giving away too many secrets; talking too much. [11]
2. A need to be cautious with valuables.
3. Use caution regarding appearances of wealth; they can be misinterpreted. [13]
This could be an indication of prosperity, the fulfillment of one’s creative urges, or a future of great happiness. [14]
If eventually you escape, all will be well once more. But be careful of undertaking new ventures. [15]
Otherwise» see Tomb(s). [17]
Folklore: Difficulty. [19]
being at a sarcophagi: your search for meaning, and not finding it, has caused depression.
empty, an: put a different slant on your rejection of the past.
full, a: are docking your abilities for fear of premature exposure.
of a: make a clean break with past dangers before undertaking new ventures.
opening a: difficulty in persuading others your conduct was an attempt to make them think. [20]