Can anyone please offer me some insight as to the meaning of elevators in dreams? My dreams are usually pretty vivid, but here lately I've been having these extra-weird dreams (probably due to being pregnant). Last night I had TWO weird dreams, both involving elevators and both involving some kind of danger. I'll share the abridged versions... Dream #1.) BF and I go to see the local minor league baseball team play. In the dream the lower part of the stadium had been turned into a multiplex, and we had to work our way through this maze of theatres in order to get to our outdoor seats for the baseball game. He saw an elevator and went ahead to call it. I was waddling along to catch up with him (very pregnant and very slowly) when the elevator came and a crowd of people shoved him into the elevator, and they were gone before I could get there. By the time I got to that elevator it was out of order, so I wandered around trying to find another one. In the meantime, one of the theatre workers tells me that a group of prisoners was on an outing to the baseball game and that one of them had escaped and was threatening to kill 10 people if we didn't give him what he wanted (whatever that was). So, I find a freight elevator, and took it to every floor trying to find my bf, to no avail. Finally, I took the elevator to the top floor, where it started travelling laterally once it got there. It landed in one of the skyboxes, and all the baseball players were there hiding from the escaped prisoner, but none of them had seen my bf. That's when I woke up. Dream #2.) I'm on an elevator at my work, talking to Dr. John (yes, Mr. gumbo rock himself) and telling him all about the previous dream. Suddenly, I'm in this pickup truck going up this long dirt road to the top of a hill where there's a trailer (the mobile home type). I go inside, and there are these people there. One's on the phone saying that the people across the street are gonna start shooting at us if we're seen in the windows. I get on the floor and crawl all the way to the back room of the trailer where I find another elevator. I get on the elevator and ride it all the way down as far as it will go. I find a button that turns the elevator off, so I hit it to keep the elevator down there. Then one of the walls of the elevator opens up to a room where there is a bed and some clothes. I take a pillow and blanket off of the bed, and go back into the elevator and go to sleep. I wake up in my dream, still in the elevator, only to find that the "off" button was on some sort of timer that had worn off, and the elevator was moving. The doors opened in the lobby of my work! That's when I awkoe from that dream. Any thoughts? Or am I just having crazy pregnant dreams? Any input would be appreciated!
Hi Venus_on_a_Clam ... loved to read your dreams. Ok let me share what came in my mind, but also remember you are the one to open the door to understanding yourself ... whereas any insight you get to hear is but to help you find the door knob. In the end you are the one who knows better always. In my understanding the elevators are about the birth channel that you both are preparing to pass through, facing what from here still seems major changes, wondering how to deal with it and if there will be help. So the maze is about the drama potential wrapped around some fears of change, not always leaving you sure if it is still a game or not. The prisoner again is about change, and stepping in and out of the cycles and seasons of our own becoming, to grow beyond. The elevator is a channel of personal change, and passage to tap deeper into your own strength and vulnerability laid open yet hidden inside, waiting to bloom and blossom in your own time frame. It takes you down to your own healing grounds. And this is what you have been seeking for, and in the end you know there is no dead end and always some wonderful new challenges to work on ... I guess all the mazes of life are just about that. And as you change on you might find that your own growth much like ripples on a sea affects those you are living and sharing with as spiritual beings, even as they affect you from all levels of their being. But in the center of change you are whole, and are free. The dream asks you to focus on your intuition and greater awareness, and walk in the wonder of your own being, and not be distracted by the fears but fully embrace life even as it comes to fully embrace you. It is about the natural faith and love growing still more inside of you in the close and intimate sharing with your child. Yeah, wonderful crazy pregnant dreams ... maybe keeping a diary sounds like a good idea. Wishing you well
