Did you dream about elevators? An elevator or a mechanical lift inside the dream typically represents a level of status and wealth. It can also depict a state of your consciousness. For example, if you are riding a glass elevator where you can see the floors below you, you will be observing the world from an elevated viewpoint. Below are the most common situations of an elevator dream. And how they can relate to your subconscious and waking life.
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Depends on the dream event with the elevator, it can represent and interpret in several contexts. Like all dream interpretations, always consider where you are riding an elevator. Take note of the people who are on the elevator with you and what happens inside the elevator. Also, think about your emotions when riding an elevator in the dream.
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Please note that a proper elevator dream with meanings should depict elevators you normally do not ride in. When the dream is about your daily life, it can simply be your mind refreshing a day’s work. These types of dreams might not have any real hidden symbols.
Dream About Elevator Movements
In general, the elevator’s normally up and down action represents the ups and downs of your life. When you ascend in an elevator to an upper floor, it suggests your rise to power and wealth. The opposite is true when you are descending in an elevator. You are staying true to facts and coming back to reality. The descending elevator event signifies setbacks and misfortunes.
The normal function of an elevator can also represent the different “levels” of your mind. Perhaps you have several layers of memories buried deep inside. You access those parts of your mind by riding an elevator.
If you have a choice of going up in the elevator instead of the stairs in the dream, it could suggest that you are picking an easier way out of your situation. Or that there might outside help to get you where you want to in life. Perhaps you are getting in touch with mentors that can assist with your business decisions.
To dream about an elevator moving sideways suggests that your career or relationship is not moving the way you intended. For example, you may have gotten a job promotion, only to find the new position boring and unsatisfactory after the move. Or the sideway elevator can suggest that your relationship with a loved one is growing more stale or boring.
Dream About Where and Condition of the Elevator
The place where the elevator is located can suggest a particular area of your life. For example, an elevator in a shopping mall can reflect your perspective on commercial spending habits. An elevator in an office building can represent your career, title, and work status. And finally, an elevator within a residential skyscraper or hotel can represent your family’s atmosphere and social status.
Note the cleanliness of the elevator and the people around you. It can offer you subtle clues on how you rise and fall in status. And who are the people that are riding with you? For example, if your elevator-related dream depicts riding a bright and clean elevator up with coworkers in a brand new office building. It suggests that your entire team will have huge success with the project you are working on. Expect good profit, fortunes, and success for your entire team.
A crowded elevator with strangers in the dream can signify competition; perhaps you are searching or applying for a job position with many applicants. Or maybe you are trying to apply to attend a prestigious school.
Dream About Broken Elevator
Elevator Crashing
When the dream elevator accident is dropping out of control with you inside it, it suggests that you are now in a crisis of your life. The crisis is indicating your fear of losing job security or a romantic relationship. Your entire life’s perspective will shatter and change forever. The anxious and nerve-wracking experience reflects how you would feel when a major crisis occurs.
If the dream depicts the elevator crashing into the bottom floor, you get seriously injured or even death from the elevator crash. It suggests that the crashing elevator loss of control can have the potential to do real damage. Perhaps you are doing self-destructive behaviors in the waking life.
If the elevator dream moves upward and crashes through the roof, it indicates that you are being catapulted to a position of power. You are moving too fast in which you do not yet know how to deal with new-found status. The new responsibilities are crashing you.
Malfunction Elevator
To walk through a broken elevator door without the elevator being inside, and you fall through the elevator shaft suggests that you need to be more mindful of your surroundings. It is a warning that you are living your life in automation without your brain. Look around you for apparent dangers lurking.
Dreaming about a broken elevator with a not working sign suggests you follow different paths. Find a different elevator or even walk the stairs. The paths that you thought were good were actually not doable.
Stuck Elevator
Dream About Elevator Stuck or Malfunctioned
To dream that the elevator is out of order where the doors stay shut. You are either trapped outside or inside where you cannot exit or enter the elevator. The situation signifies that your emotions have gotten out of control. You have lost the ability to access the different layers of your mind.
When you first got in, dreaming about a stuck elevator is a reflection of your life, or your career is stuck. You are on the path, but you cannot move up or down. This represents that you are currently in a dead-end job or relationship status. It is time to rethink how you approach your life to get where you want to go.
To dream that the elevator is moving between two fixed floors means that your efforts are counterproductive. You do a lot of work for little to no result. You are going nowhere in your work, relationship, or other situation.
When the elevator stops at the wrong floor suggests little slowdowns that you may experience. However, if you actually stepped out of the wrong elevator into the wrong floor in the dream, it suggests a misstep or decision that you have made. You will have to be patient to wait for the next opportunity.
Shaky and Unstable Elevator
An unstable elevator or ones that need maintenance suggest a bumpy and dangerous ride. Your path to your destinations will not be smooth, and you should expect sudden and frequent stops. Your emotions or reactions at this point may be your intuitions showing you potential paths. You can either ride it out or seek other possibilities.
Dream About Different Types of Elevators
Fast and Operational Elevator
Dreams with a fast elevator that functions faster than the normal ones represent a fast path to reach your destinations and achievements.
Glass Elevator
Dreaming about riding in an elevator where you can observe an open space depicts your perspective and state of mind during your transcend or descend in life’s courses.
Medical Elevator
The medical elevator located in a hospital depicts your state of health. It could also be related to your digestive system.
Lift or Service Elevator
A service lift or elevator not commonly accessible to the public suggest that you have inside information or personnel to your endeavors and projects. Perhaps you know people at the company that you are applying to. They can assist you in getting that one job or contract without you having to compete with others.
Spinning Elevator or Elevator with Different Doors
This type of elevator in the dream represents different or shifting perspectives. You will go in thinking one way and coming out thinking another. Sometimes the shift in thoughts can make you feel confused and dizzy. Especially if you do not know you were riding a spinning elevator.
I dreamt of an elevator that had 3 levels within the elevator itself, a middle, upper and lower level linked by (what I thought were) stairs.
When the middle level of the elevator stopped at a floor, the upper and lower levels of the elevator would be at one floor above and one floor below the current floor.
The elevator was very long in width rather than a regular square elevator. It had very ornate 1950s styling.
When I tried to climb the stairs within the elevator itself, I found the stairs were just a decoration feature and I couldn’t use them.
That should keep a psycho-analyst occupied for years!
Last night I dreamt about my co workers getting in a lift i was watching standing back. Doors closed . I felt u neasy. Then lift sticks on floor they got on. Doors won’t open. I tried pressing buttons for them nothing. Then Sparks electricity sparks flew out of the doors of the lift. I freaked out and Ran down stairs in what looked like a new office building. I’ve no idea what this means??/
Last night I dreamt that the elevator stopped on floor 12 but I was going to floor 10. I missed my stop. As I was about to go down, it malfunctioned so I got out and decided to use the stairs to go down to my floor.
I was in a apartment elevator going to the 20th floor. But it went very fast up. I wasn’t scared though
This morning I woke up with a beating heart and a light headed feeling. In my dream I was riding on an elevator with one of my friends (Who I’m currently having some issues with). We clicked to go down to the first floor and instead were catapulted up. The elevator was shaking and moving upward at a crazy speed. The lights were flashing and I swear I felt everything. As soon as it crashed I woke. More than anything I’m just blown away by how I felt everything until I “died”, or woke up. Such a strange feeling.
i dreamt of a classy and spacious elevator, in an airport. it crashed down at very high speed and stopped few floors, protruding at the side of the building, before hitting the ground. i only got minor scratches but all the people who were with me suddenly vanished.
I had a dream where I was in a where me and my mom entered a glass elevator(also was in a hotel) with some stuff I own but when we got in, it disappeared. Though, I didn’t really paid attention to that I remember being scared of the elevator that was there a missing wall that I might accidentally fall off or is this elevator going too fast or am I just being worried too much? I also ask if we were getting lost but I already knew we were lost when a butler entered the elevator. We went sideways, up, and down and when we finally reach our destination, I felt relief to get out of the elevator. I had a feeling something was wrong when I got out, I was alone but I made myself imagine she was there.
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I had a dream I was stuck on top of an elevator not sure how I got there it was a service elevator I couldn’t get inside the trap door on top it started to move upwards as I was looking up as It ascended I had to keep move if from left to right to avoid wire harnesses and the elevator shaft was getting thinner and thinner as I reached the top and just as I was about to be crushed I woke up.
I had a dream today, I just woke up to. July 10 2023. I got on a elevator to go to the floor 3, for some reason I accidentally clicked the emergency button and the elevator inside was spinning(?) Someone operated it and then it stopped, someone also recognized me and told me I wasn’ t from that school lol
I dreamt about getting into an elevator that was huge but had no doors. If monsters heard us, they would come to attack. I even killed one monster with my sharp stuff. The elevator, everyone there was preparing for war.
Last night in my dream, the elevator door is malfunctioning. But I was able to come out of it, but when I checked that floor there were other doors and stairs where I saw a strange monster. I tried to go back to the elevator as soon as the door stopped malfunctioning but my legs became so heavy that I could not move towards the elevator.
I dreamt I could not get back to my office as the elevator passed by and would not stop. Had to try and find way out of other offices back to my own. Have had this dream regularly for 20 years since I retired.
I dreamt I had forgotten my toothbrush and toothpaste in a hotel but don’t remember how I got the ground floor. So went back into the hotel, I got into the elevator and pushed the floor number 4 to go get ’em. I got off then realized it was the wrong floor. I went back to the elevator and pushed the up button to go up to the 7th floor which was the correct floor. Then I missed the 1st elevator that showed up because the doors closed quickly then missed the 2nd one because I helped some woman get a part of clothing that was stuck in the side door gap and the passenger inside didn’t hold the open door button. Then I got on the 3rd elevator that was full of people and pushed 7. Only it went down instead of up and some guy on the elevator made a comment about making a mistake and I replied “.. but did you know that Time is the essence of being… but thank you for your commentary” because I was in a hurry and to politely tell him to stay out of my business. LOL I then got off on the 1st floor then pushed the up button again and the elevator came quickly. I got on with some cute woman, pushed 7 and the elevator started going up to the 7th floor, then I woke up…
That dream had a lot of different meanings given the interpretations. There have been a lot of things going on in my life over the past year. Tragedies, personal loss, setbacks… but most recently, realization, closure and advancement. So I guess Time will tell what that crazy dream meant soon enough. All because of wanting my toothbrush and toothpaste back. LOL
I had a dream I pooped in an elevator and there was lot and lots of it. I said to myself How am I going to pick this up because you have to pick up after your poop.
Bruh im sorry but this made me giggle frfr 😂😂😂
I dreamed my deceased’s mother, we were walking together and when it was time to get into the elevator she stayed behind
My Father was a Union elevator mechanic. I became union electrician and always felt substandard. My parents brother and many friends since passed away. Only reason is I want details possibly motivating last notes dream. I was upside down in a shitty rusty elevator going at lite speed into the ground. I honestly felt like I thought if I die in my dream I’m dead. I woke up an inch before it hit ground. My dog barking, probably because I was moaning???? Really not sure. I lit a cigarette and thought. No need to write this down. This something I will not forget!
i had a dream i was in turkey (i was just visiting) and i was talking to my uncle about life goals and things i want to accomplish , my family all left ahead of me and surprisingly they weren’t rushing me , it was like they didn’t care and i walked into the elevator and pressed the wrong button and it was falling down and up until it finally landed where i need. for some reason i didn’t really feel scared in the dream only for a little bit. i was even filming it while my feet were going up to show my boyfriend. when it finally landed the door was so weird it was stuck and i had to knock on it for someone on the outside to see me and help me out. and then i stepped out and people were telling me about how they haven’t seen anyone use that elevator in years and i did like it was nothing. when i woke up i was scared bc i was confused with what just happened.
This is the first time I’ve dreamed of an elevator. I dreamed I was in a municipal building with someone in a high ranking position. I kept seeing the name of a friend of mine with arrows pointing toward their direction and feeling I should follow them, but I got on the elevator instead. Halfway up it started shaking and acting like it was going to stop. One floor below where we were supposed to stop, the elevator released and we started falling. My heart was racing. I kept telling the person I was with (there was only one) to jump because I had heard if you jump before it hits bottom you minimize your injuries. Then we heard the emergency brakes kick in trying to stop the elevator. When the elevator finally stopped we were only about a foot from hitting bottom. I woke up feeling like I was having a heart attack.
I dream that a newly built apartment complex elevator took me down at the lobby floor where the lobby floor was was amazing decorated with beautiful Christmas ornaments
Most of my dreams where elevators are concerned are usually either in a hospital or hotel. I get in sometimes alone and other times with people in it, sometimes I know them other times they are all strangers but the elevator itself is more of like a front loading washing machine or dryer in the sense that one I get in I usually have to hang on tight or put a seatbelt on to hold me there and keep me from getting hurt. As it moves from floor to floor it twists and turns kinda like a gyroscope. I always get out safe but totally hate the thought of having to get back in but I do because someone is always depending on me for something. Yes, right now I am feeling stressed do to covid and not being able to work, I’m thinking that has to be a part of it. Any other interpretations?!
I have had an elevator dream twice. In the first one i was in a hotel, a really fancy one and i went into the elevator, i had a feeling that it is not going to take me to my floor but anyways i pressed the button and as soon as the elevator got closer to my floor the speed increased and it crossed my floor and now it felt like a roller coster my heart started beating faster and the elevator shot out of the roof so high that i can see the sky all blue with people and buildings below me and then i landed somewhere like a park with grass all around me and i was unharmed. Also there were 2 other people other than me in the elevator.
last night i had a dream where i got in an elevator i knew had the possibility of getting stuck, but I got in anyways. i was hoping it would not get stuck but it jolted to a stop and started making a loud buzzing noise while shaking. i went to go press the emergency button and as soon as I did, the elevator started plummeting downwards and it exploded right as I woke up. I know I have been pretty depressed lately, so I guess this just means I am feeling emotionally stuck and im scared I will continue to get worse… :/
I had the same exact dream. I been feeling sad too. It always feels like whatever shred of hope I have always comes crashing down
My mother was kissed and hug by my classmate .i beat him and et injury
i had a dream last night that i was in an elevator in a ballgown and i was going down but it missed my floor and there were no buttons except for the emergancy button. the elevator began to fill with water and soon i was under. then the elevator door opened at an underground car park but there was a glass hallway leading out of the elevator (im sorry if this doesnt make sense) and i saw a ring floating away from me that i lost 4 years ago that my mum got me. i was running out of air but i swam after the ring trying to catch it, finnally i caught the ring and just as i was about to run out of air i pushed the emergency button (which was beside me somehow) then i woke up.
the friday night before that i had a dream where i accidentally crushed and killed my family when i was going down in an elevator
i have absolutly no idea what this mean but if ANYONE could give me any insight it would be apreciated
Last night, I had a dream I was leaving a hotel with a few of my friends ( we were on the 48th floor) as we were going down, the elevator began to sway back and forth and it went down faster. As we got to the 28th floor, the elevator ended up horizontal. And my head was split open. What does this mean?
I had a dream where it was a very shaley elevator and I had missed the elevator twice, the first time because I was a little to late and the second time because the person coming out of the elevator was someone I knew and I started talking to her for a bit. Then the third time I got a little annoyed, the elevator was shaley and made of glass and it had those old opening handles which you pull to the side to open. So when I pressed for it to stop, it malfunctioned and it suddenly went up and then it started shaking, the elevator was very unstable it jerked and the people inside were about to fall down, there were three and the metal chain somehow caught onto some man’s neck and he was being pulled up by it and then the other tried to help him and he was seriously injured, but when he was pulled down by the other two the glass broke and there was blood everywhere , they managed to bring them out, but I was shook I thought it was my mistake no one could move or call 911 and I was crying and then I woke up
I had a dream that I was quitting a job, for another one, and had a meeting with the managing partner on the top floor of a tall downtown building. After the meeting and celebration of my leaving for new opportunities I got in the elevator with 4 other people. As we descended I felt the elevator turning, after alerting everyone, my dream spans out to see the building was on fire and the elevator shafts were gone. The elevator turned on its side as it was falling. The fall turned into more of a glide than a fall and we descended and landed on the ground, on its side. The doors opened and we got out of the elevator, unharmed.
I dreamed I was in a high rise office building on an upper level floor in the lobby with a group of people waiting for an elevator. When the elevator doors opened, a man (unknown to me) stepped on, except it was the elevator shaft and he fell to his death. Then several of us (myself included) decided we were going to take the stairs?!?!
My sister husband is sick . She told me she dreamt an elevator for sale and asked me if maybe it had something to do with her husband’s situation. Can someone Please give me an answer to this ?
I had a dream I was with a group of old friends and my boy crush.
(We’re gonna act like we are friends bc I was never their friends.)
We came from somewhere(apparently we were hanging out)and we found encountered some crackheads that fortunately actually helped us in the building.
We went into a building that has glass walls and so did the elevator.
We entered the elevator but we couldn’t go in the elevator that way so we went around and found him on the side that we were on. And then we went into the elevator.
When we went into the elevator and when we started up, him started scaling the wall (I promise I throughly that he was outside of the elevators so that scared me)with his shoes I could see them push into the elevator wall like my cheeks (face)on glass.
But the elevator was only warming up.
As it went faster he struggled and then lost footing. And then he fell.
And while he was falling it looked like he was terrified.
When he left the picture I told them to go down.
I told them to press two and I was hyperventilating and then what made it all very much worse is the elevator was falling down.
We had to hold onto the bars.
While I was holding onto the bar, I saw the buttons pressed but didn’t acknowledge them.
When the elevator stopped we left out quickly and grabbed him and were trying to pull him out but then my dream cut off
Because we pressed one also so the elevator would’ve crushed us trying to save him.
I had a dream before my brother in-law died unexpectedly I got into this glass elevator it immediately started to fall at a rapid speed I told my son to jump into green the water below I did not the water was so scary I knew at some point it was too late to survive there was nothing to hold onto when the glass elevator hit the water the combined speed and height of the glass elevator made it impossible to survive the drop I remember the glass bottom shattering up into the elevator with me inside I knew I was going to die-I have never experience any dream like this one it was horrific I had this dream last month sometime I began reading other dreams and remembered most of the details it was a really scary dream
Last night i dreamt of monster lights , army tanks and elevators in blue with many buttons and the lifts rolls round and round. Nonsense. No people inside. Please help me decode.
I had a dream that I was on an elevator going up to the 10th floor with 2 former colleagues and a couple of strangers. It was a bumpy and shaky ride, and once we hit the 10th floor, the strangers got off, and I questioned “We aren’t getting off?” feeling uneasy. The elevator went down to the 4th floor, and again bumpy and the floor was tilting. We all got off safely. Then the elevator fell into a crash.
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I have a dream of an elevator moving up.
The dream started from a building in which I, my elder sister and her boyfriend were waiting for the elevator. The elevator reached the floor and I, my sister’s boyfriend were asked to go inside the elevator. Sister will be coming in next time till we will be reached to the destination floor. I and the sister’s boyfriend step inside the elevator and we with some unknown persons were moving up in the elevator. We have to go to floor 3 and I pressed the button for that. At randomly, I saw that the elevator has a mirror at the top in which all we all were visible. Just near to it there was an indicator for the floor which tells the floor. I saw that and it was going more than 3 that is when I saw , it was 6….7….
I thought when it will be 8 we will reach our destination floor and then elevator keeps on moving without any display. Through the mirror on the inner roof of elevator, I saw him(boyfriend) and gestures him that the elevator is not working properly and he saw me at the same time. I don’t know what happened in a second I starts focusing on his eyes through the mirror and suddenly his eyes were full black and the whole body changes to a devil/ evil power and just attacked me through the mirror. I got scared and woke up.
I’ve had two recurring dreams involving elevators, which are hard for me to interpret. I never really put much stock in dreams having meaning, but I never had recurring dreams before either.
In the first one, I’m getting on an elevator On the ground floor at an old job I held for seven years. I push the button for floor 5, and the elevator rises very quickly, doesn’t stop at my floor, then drops just as fast, but the door never opens. It’s not terrifying, but I feel very uneasy and frustrated the entire time. I never make it to my floor before I wake up.
In the other dream, the elevator is at the same former workplace, only in the dream, I don’t work there anymore, and I have a strong feeling that I’m not supposed to be there. I never press a button when I get on, I just know the elevator is taking me to the top floor. As it rises (steadily this time), I have a deep sense of dread that some terrible presence or person is waiting for me on the top. Like the other dream, I never make it to my floor before I wake.
When I wake up, the uneasy feeling persists throughout the morning.
Had a dream I was on elevator going to the fifth floor. Looking for someone. Then back on the elevator for a second then I was outside with someone I wasnt looking for.
I had a terrible dream about an elevator crashing down so fast that I was in free fall, I was absolutely terrified and somehow it started going up really fast, I ended up in the roof of the building which seemed very very high up with everything in the building around me crumbling and falling onto many people, and on the roof I was on when I looked up I saw a helicopter trying to rescue people and they helped 2 of my daughter’s and then me, but they separated me from them dragging me from them and I was pregnant crying telling them I needed to be with my girls who are 14 and 5 and I was upset that I wasn’t near them, when I looked out the window I looked down and everything on the ground was falling apart and I could see people screaming and being crushed by falling debris, the emotion of this dream was so intense,I have no idea what it meant but when I think about it I can still feel those emotions and see those images clearly in my mind.
I had a terrible dream about an elevator crashing down so fast that I was in free fall, I was absolutely terrified and somehow it started going up really fast, I ended up in the roof of the building which seemed very very high up with everything in the building around me crumbling and falling onto many people, and on the roof I was on when I looked up I saw a helicopter trying to rescue people and they helped 2 of my daughter’s and then me, but they separated me from them dragging me from them and I was pregnant crying telling them I needed to be with my girls who are 14 and 5 and I was upset that I wasn’t near them, when I looked out the window I looked down and everything on the ground was falling apart and I could see people screaming and being crushed by falling debris, the emotion of this dream was so intense,I have no idea what it meant but when I think about it I can still feel those emotions and see those images clearly in my mind.
I had a dream where I needed to go to the very bottom floor. In my dream I remember not wanting to go there because it was underground bottom. I was in a university type of building. The elevator kept malfunctioning the doors kept getting stuck, the elevator wouldn’t move. Finally the doors open a few floors above the bottom floor and quickly escaped. The other people stayed inside. The elevator kept malfunctioning. Finally someone from the building came and opened the door for me he assured me the elevator had been fixed. Myself and a new group of people boarded the elevator. The elevator shot us to the top. I remember it moving extremely quickly and I could see all the floors flying by us. I reached the top and finally I was able to happily exit the elevator.
I had a dream in which I was in an old building with few electronic shops and I went walking down to the a underground non functioning area and saw a lift I never thought of it working but still I wanted to give it a try. I went inside it was broken and old fashioned with grills and bars. As soon as I went inside it…it started moving upward.there were no numbers for the floors only number 3. I started pressing it but it the lift never stopped. It went up and up and broke the roof and went into the sky
I had a dream that I took the stairs in this building that seemed like it was abandoned. It was me, my best friend who passed away a few years ago and 2 other strangers. We took the stairs knowing that the elevators were broken and it was a long way up. For some reason we were now to go down the building and the elevator was the route we decided to take. Once again, we knew the elevator was broken…. we got on the elevator and my best friend said now guys the elevator is broken so either the ride is going to malfunction or we just might not make it. The elevator started to move and at first it was going down at a regular speed and then all of a sudden the elevator started to go down at a crashing speed. It seemed like I was the only one afraid and holding on at this point. Once the elevator stopped it wasn’t leveled against the floor to walk of smoothly… it was just beneath so we had to climb out. Seemed like my best friend and another girl got off easily but when I started to climb up I had to ask my bestfriend for help and she did. There was another person who was still on the elevator who was extremely afraid to get off just standing there in a panic. We tried to tell them to hurry up and get off before the elevator started to move again but they were so afraid. And thats when my newborn started to cry and woke me out of the dream! ????
Thank you for the information. However I was wondering if anyone could give me a better portrayal of my dreams as what was in my dream isn’t exactly in the information I just read.
I’ve had x2 elevator dreams within the same month and each time I wake up with a deep, slow beating heart. My first dream, I was with my pet dog, we had to take another elevator which then left is separated from my Mom who was also in my dream. The elevator was going down and it was going down so fast to the point where my dog and I were off the floor (gravity obviously) I remember fear, I remember my dog shaking and me holding him to try and keep him safe. The elevator crashes down and the floor of the elevator flies open, however it’s quite a drop until we are on the floor – My dog falls out the elevator and hits the ground and is in a bad shape, I fall out and hit the ground, I’m also injured. I remember pulling myself to get to where he is and he succumbed to his injuries. My second dream, I was with my Mom in an elevator. I can never see the building I’m in as I’m already inside or going inside the elevator in my dreams. Same thing, the elevator was moving super fast to the point where we were off the ground, expect we past one random group of people (waiting to get onto an elevator from a different floor) we could see them and they saw us. I remember it was moving horizontally towards the end and we reached the opening where we were meant to go out, except the elevator didn’t fully make it to the doors. As in.. it was at the floor but only made it like a quarter way to the doors, where myself and my Mom had to squeeze ourselves through the gap that was left. No one was injured in this dream but I still woke up with a slow, deep beating heart.
Could anyone please give me a deeper meaning, maybe with all the other elements I’ve mentioned. I have a clear idea of the basic elements and what they meant but some I can’t figure out. Eg; The family member that appeared twice, my pet dog, the way the elevator doors opened and I had to squeeze myself through onto the floor.
Thank you so much.
Through-out my life, I have been dreaming about elevator crashes at least once a month. It’s always an elevator crash, but happens in different situations and different ways.
Today was a little different. I dreamed that my “friends” (I didn’t even know them) were coming over at my house, so my mom told me to buy some food before I came home. My “friends” were already at my house so I had to hurry up. I bought whatever I needed and walked to the elevator, where I came upon my old art teacher, we talked a little bit and then she left, but before she did, she told me that there was something wrong with the elevator. I still entered, but when I got in, I discovered that the buttons that I was supposed to click were a lot less and on the ones there were there, were some weird symbols or something like that. I looked around to make sure if there were any other ones, but there were none. I still clicked on one of them (I don’t remember what it said or what the symbol was) and suddenly the elevator started deforming and making weird noises. When I was entering the elevator, I for sure knew that the building was where my mom’s apartment was (and the elevator there is brown), but after entering the elevator, it seemed like I was somewhere else (the elevator was grayish or white, which looked like the one at my uncle’s apartment). So, the elevator was shaking, going in different directions, even rotating and I was also moving in different directions. After some time, I discovered that there were more buttons, which I didn’t see before (they looked so much like the ones in my uncle’s elevator) and in panic, I began to click every single button and I accidentally clicked the 7th (my uncle’s floor) and 10th (my mom’s floor) and it went up to the 7th floor, where it stopped. But the weirdest thing was that after all of this stopped, I realized I was sitting on a white bench and holding a book and I also had some white blanket wrapped around me, but I was still in the elevator. Then, I also realized I was at the floor where my uncle’s apartment was, I could see the door, but for some reason I felt like my mom would be there and I quickly searched for the products I bought, but they were nowhere to be found. In fear, I tried to press the buttons so the door would close, but my mom came out of the house and came to me, not caring that I’m in an elevator sitting, holding a book and wrapped up in a blanket.
At some point, I was able to control the dream, so I decided to end it. When I woke up, it was exactly 5:47am. I wake up early in the morning, but this time it was earlier than other times. I don’t know what this dream was, but I’m pretty sure it’s because of my family problems, which also have my uncle and mom in them. Also, the blanket looked like the one we have at our house, where we go on holidays. We were there till April with my uncle, cousins and mom, but because of some problems, my mom “kicked me out” and it was very emotional and stuff, so I think the blanket represents the fact that I still wanted to be there with my cousins, and didn’t want to go home, knowing that I felt safe and comfortable only with them.
I keep dreaming about an elevator that either goes side ways, or has no doors and is moving side ways, so weird
Me too its weird can someone decode?
I had a dream where my family and I were just walking around some mall and they said they were gonna eat somewhere. I was just looking at the floor below me when I saw my friend waving at me. I wanted to talk to her so I got into this big glass elevator. I was going down and down and as soon as I thought it would stop it just kept going down. It seemed to be going to the basement level of the mall. but no, it didn’t stop there and suddenly I heard a loud bang and the elevator started falling and everything was dark. I was terrified, trying to shout for help, then I woke up..
Your dream is telling you to remain close to your family.
I and a dream that I was in a mall elevator with a girl I used to know and her sister and baby brother, there was a struggle to get people in the elevator cause dad kept asking the daughters to come out and only the older ones go. As soon as we were in there it was semi glass, and we were trying to go down anyway. But it was stuck for a bit the suddenly it start shouting down and a ridiculous speed sucking me to ceiling and I was yelling at everyone to protect their feet, it felt like forever, and eventually we hit the ground and the elevator was destroyed but we were all fine, no one injured at all just a little dusty. We walked out without a scratch
I had a dream whereby my uncle took me to his workplace then we were in the building then only 3 of us went up until we reach the destination and guess what i was so excited when we get there before i knew i was awake with a big smile on my face.
I had a dream about getting on the small elevator that’s in the hallway of the apartment building I live in. When I got in, I pushed the 7th floor button to go to the seventh floor for whatever reason. When the elevator door closed, I felt it moving up as if it were going to the 7th floor, but the 7th floor button didn’t light up when I pushed it and then I kept pushing it again hoping it’ll light which it didn’t til the elevator moved down on it’s own and mind you I was alone. It kept moving at a steady pace and the door never opened nor did it stop. Then the buttons changed to only three buttons to choose and the call buttons. As it kept moving, I felt it heating up and I felt a drop hot form of liquid on my arm from the vent located on my right side as the elevator kept going. I was newed and started to get nervous; I then I woke up not knowing how it ended.
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I always have the same kind of dream involving elevators , sometimes i could be alone and others i would be with strangers but it always ends up the same way , when its time for the elevator to stop on the chosen floor it always looses control and shoots up out of the roof loosing control but no one is ever injured
I had this dream last night! In my dream I was getting on an elevator to go to the floor my apartment was on but I was not able to select the number I wanted and the elevator just shot straight up super fast and kept going higher and higher until it felt like it was going past the floors on the building. I would get to the highest floor safely (always some sort of attic type situation) and then it would let me go back down to my apartment.
I was having a dream about a broken overloaded elevator (but I wasn’t inside it); just watching it stucked and crashed before my eyes and people fell all the way down to the ground floor. Felt so helpless and just prayed for the people who fell were safe..
I dreamed of being in the elevator of my dormitory when it suddenly began to rise and fall at rapid speed. The buttons wouldn’t work, the doors would open and close, and it was turning and getting smaller in the inside. The doors would slightly open at each floor as I scream for help. People would be there concerned and somewhat helpful but others just watched. After being on the elevator for maybe one minute straight, it became small/narrow enough to only fit my body. I noticed a change in how the elevator worked, it finally stopped, however, the floor (base) began to move up and down getting closer to the roof of the elevator. It was like I knew I was going to die. Unlike most dreams of falling from the sky, I genuinely knew there was nothing I could do and no one could save me. Operating like a crusher, all I could do was brace myself for death. Couldn’t breathe, couldn’t think, couldn’t even cry really.
This was probably the most horrific dream I have ever had in my life. Usually, when I have a “near death” experience in a dream, I can wake myself and jump out of it. This dream was so mortifying and raw that I absolutely knew and felt death. I was honestly surprised when I wake.
I sat up hugging myself and thanking God for waking me up/being alive. I hope and pray no one else ever have that experience or feeling.
I dream of a elevator with a door in the front and a door in the back. If it opens in the front the dream is okay. If it opens in the back weird things happen, like fighting monsters.
Hi I had a dream I was at a part and the hallways were circular going down to the elevator. When I get in someone comes into elevator I don’t know. We went up to 108 floors and the elevator went through the roof and fell in like slow motion to the ocean. I remember thinking wow that is a beautiful site then thinking I can’t swim if we live how do I get to shore then woke up in sweat and disoriented
Hi I had a dream I was at a part and the hallways were circular going down to the elevator. When I get in someone comes into elevator I don’t know. We went up to 108 floors and the elevator went through the roof and fell in like slow motion to the ocean. I remember thinking wow that is a beautiful site then thinking I can’t swim if we live how do I get to shore then woke up in sweat and disoriented
Hi,
I dreamt to be in a very narrow and low elevator (a sort of capsule of the size of 1 person only), made of glass.
I remember to be afraid of using it because it doesn’t look very safe to me. I used it few times, but at a certain point it starts irremediably to fall down. Fortunately there was an opening on the top, so I manage to get out from it but, even if I’m outside of the elevator, I keep falling. I can see the elevator crushing and I’m still falling in the air, desperately trying to find a solution to save myself.
Then the dream ends, what could be the meaning of this?
Thank you
Dwayne H on June 26, 2016 at 10:37 pm said:
I’ve been having this dream a lot, and it’s scary. And work has been running me ragged.
In my dreams (all week)–I’m alone on the elevator, and no matter what buttons I hit, I zoom to the top (at least floor 100). And I see the entire city below when I step out. And I have to lie down and hug the floor because I’m petrified of being up so high (that’s in my dream). I am totally petrified of being so high up.
In other dream I have frequently–I am flying, and there are a bunch of frees. I am out of control so I grab a tree branch to slow down, but it shoots me up higher. I grab another branch, and it shoots me even higher, etc. etc.
The elevator one really terrifies me. I can’t get off the elevator, and even if I can get it to go down, it zooms back up again. And I can’t control it.
I know at work–like I said–has been hectic, and I’m pretty much the go-to guy there. Without me they’d be out of business. And I’m under stress with impossible deadlines, training others, fixing problems, and getting chewed out because apparently I’m not doing enough.
These elevator dreams make me wake up in a cold sweat and they are dreams I always remember in vivid detail.
Elevators going up usually is a very good dream.
You seeing the top and the city means supposed to be very good it is your response however is very negative – you are the type of guy who is most likely low-key, and most definitely has anxiety problems related with success?
The demand for your in social or professional life is creating so much stress for you. Some people gravitate this kind of recognition however, you cower and hide from it.
You’ve got the idea. The dreams you’ve had show that you believe something will soon get out of hand and out of your control and leave you in an uncomfortable position (ie the top of a skyscraper). This is a good time to talk to someone you know about your worries and if necessary, you could consider moving jobs if you find that that’s what will make you happy.
I dreamt that I was on the third floor, getting into an elevator. I was with a female who I knew, in the dream. I was supposed to stay on the same level, which I was thankful for. The elevator was going up and down and couldn’t understand why when I realized that I hadn’t pushed the button.
In my dream I was trying to find where my room number was and people kept telling me different things and so I kept going in the elevator to get to different floors to find it. Then a woman told me it should probably be room 21 or 22, something like that and the last time I got into the elevator, it didn’t close the door all the way on one side. Then it kept moving up and down Andy I was feeling nervous and anxious when suddenly it just went straight up and flew through the top of the building. I remember thinking if I was supposed to see my life flash before my eyes or pray or something while plummeting to my death. Then I woke up.
It’s funny that in my dream there was IKEA and KABAM IKEA add????????
I’ve been having a reaccurring dream about going up and down in this elevator but I’ve been holding on tight to a bag that has some clothes in it but this elevator is in a hotel that is like a mini city in Dubai or somewhere like that my partner is in the dream along with a friend of mine that my partner has never met but I’ve been in this hotel mini city for nearly 3 weeks in my dream but it’s like this it’s coming to an end but I’ve not really explored this mini city until today when I found what I could only describe as mini ponds but they were shaped to get a human in and they were like in a spooning position but all the people were naked and being covered with water and there was a stand with purple cases on it which I could exchange my bag for but my partner never touches me and hardly talks to me but my friend seems to be always hanging around my partner but when I get in this lift there’s always a lot of Muslims like bombers keep getting on the lift but make me feel very uncomfortable but not actually blowing the elevator up I also keep lying on the carpet in front of the elevator please I need help trying to determine the dream and what it means
I dream about riding in a cozy clean and elegant smooth ascending flow of the glass lift.its a place like a residential but it is a place where its own by a royal family.i am amazed with all the things.it was really nice ride up seeing beautiful green plants designed.
I used to dream about going up in an elevator, then suddenly the floor would drop out and I’d be left clinging to the rail which was terrifing. Last night I dreamed about one in a hospital. It was as big as a room and had a receptionists desk and plants and stuff. This one started acting like a monorail, circling around the hospital grounds at great speed before taking me to up to my destination. Not particularly scary but still weird.
I had a dream where i walkes back home from school and when i reached my house lift at the lobby i got in the lift and the lift malfunctioned and went up to the 13th floor but the doors didn’t open then suddenly it freefall and crash into the basement floor and after the crash i remembered in my dream i broke my right hand and left leg then i woke up ever since then i was terrified to take the lift alone as i was scared that it would happen in real life so each time i would call my maid down and accompany me up the lift to my house
So uh. I keep having a dream about some hotel and there’s always only two people there. Also I had a drama that my family was on our way back to that hotel and on the the train tracks I saw a girl…she killed herself by letting that train hit her..it felt so real that when I woke up I thought it was real and after a one of searching what happened it finally came to me that was a dream. Still scares me
I had the same dream 3 times. I walk inside the elevator with nor roof and each time after the doors close the elevator starts dropping fast and it leaves me behind and I start falling mid air. As I am falling I try to hold the walls anything around me to not die when I hit the endless depths. One of the 3 dreams was different. In the second dream there was a woman dressed in black who let me inside the elevator because I couldnt make it work. In the other 2 dreams I was alone.
I had this dream where I was in an elevator with 17 people,(filled to the brim.) In that dream I exited to a public space and got a heart attack. what is the meaning of that dream?
I had one of me inside and it crashed and in school i been take the stars when i read the one of crased it supprised me of death now i am never go one even one single. I have no idea this fear will last i have this like last week.
Every elevator dream I have is scary. The less frequent dream I have is I will push a certain floor number and the elevator always passes it and I’m trapped forever because it never goes back to the first floor ever.
The elevator dream I almost always have is I try to go to a certain floor but instead it just goes down and down and down. Sometimes it gets darker the further it goes. The elevator even starts to changes from an average elevator to a rusty, decaying one. Sometimes there will be a small window or wholes to peak through. The scariest dream I had was, I tried to go from floor 1 to 2 but I went down so many levels at a faster than usual speed and the elevator turned rusty and dark. There was a small round window on the door. It had a smal window just like the ones on submarines. When the elevator stopped, I saw a long dark hallway and a creepy person like Pyramid Head walked by. I prayed the door wouldn’t open and I woke up after a while. I hate those dreams. Sometimes a dead lady will be in the elevator with me but I can only see her only from my peripheral vision.
This is very much like my nightmare… Did you ever get a reply?
In my dream it was me, my dad, and a young child and we were in a fancy hotel full of fancy people from a long time ago, the 20s maybe. And we were all trying to get away from something that was coming for us and we knew that we were going to probably die. Me and my dad and this child ended up stuck in this room with an elevator in it and i saw the other people had used it to escape the hotel. I tried to convince my dad and the child to come with me in the elevator but he said he had already tried so i got in and it shot me up into the sky out of the hotel. The elevator became glass and then dissapeared altogether, i was floating over this town and it was beautiful and everything was ok
I dream seen myself in hotel with another man not my husband
I dreamt last night that I was watching from the sidelines as several elevators malfunctioned and went out of control, including a glass elevator with a man inside of it. The man didn’t notice or didn’t care that the elevator was crashing. The elevator repeatedly went up, crashing into the ceiling, and then back down, crashing into the ground. Me and Brittany (the person in the dream with me) took the stairs and eventually another elevator that had a movie theater inside of it. We got off on the wrong floor, but took the stairs the rest of the way back down.
I have had this dream for many years…. the elevator is spinning (most of the time I feel like it’s spinning like a carnival ride over and under). I feel as if I’m not sure the door is safe. Sometimes I’m alone, and sometimes I’m with others but it’s really crowded and I’m always near the door that may not be stable enough to remain closed. This time, I felt nauseous and dizzy in my dream after it stopped. What could this mean?
In my dream, I was with my mother at a huge luxury hotel in the lobby. Along came two strangers whom I bumped into, saying excuse me as I’m on my way to the elevators to go back to my room because I forgot something,leaving my mom to wait for me. I get on the elevator but it doesn’t go to my floor. I get instructions from a worker to the correct elevator. I get on the elevator which is luxurious, made of glass. As I enter another woman gets on with me. She presses her floor and I remember thinking ok, I guess I got on the elevator going up instead of going down. The woman gets off at her floor, the doors closes, the elevator proceeds to go up to the 35th floor,then suddenly the elevator starts going down way to fast, to the point where I was lifted up to the ceiling. Suddenly the glass breaks. Scared I grabbed the gold bars to bring myself down closer to the floor knowing that when it hits bottom I wont fall as hard or far from the floor and have minimum damage to my body. Once the elevator crashes at the bottom, the scene changes I’m out but my speech has changed to a draw, I’m unable to speak normally. Scene changes to court room where I’m on the stand giving an account as to what happened to me. I am now using sign language to communicate. I can hear but I can no longer speak. I woke up with tears in my eyes. Any one knows what this means??
In my dream I’m on my way home to my apartment. I go into the elevator and press the button to my floor but when it’s about to go up it starts to malfunction and sometimes tilts a little bit to the side and then it decides to skip my floor. It feels like the elevator has a mind of its own and after it missed my floor it starts to go down and up, getting stuck between floors and so on.. And when the doors finally open I’m on the wrong floor. So i try to take the stairs but it’s really hard to get to my door because for every floor i take with the stairs, the floors seem to change. (For example, if i go down one floor i might end up one or two floors higher) and every floor can be different. One floor can be really luxurious with crystal lamps hanging from the ceiling with black and white tiles. Other ones can look completely trashed with graffiti and beer cans. Like a junkie hideout with dim lights. Some floors even look apocalyptic with sand, dirt, rock fragments everywhere and small fires in the corners.
If i do reach my door, which i eventually do, i will reach for the handle. But when i get really close to it someone opens the door before i do, as if I were expected. The person opening the door has a blank face and when I look at the persons face I wake up terrified.
I dreamed that the elevator is going up and then suddenly my husband fall down in the middle of rising up.then i decided to go out and my kids to follow where my husband is.but where in a place that no one can help us to go back home because its late in the evening
I had this dream about elevator just after I had earthquake dream…I was inside an elevator with few strangers …there’s this lady frequently pressing the wrong button ..so elevator going up and up then suddenly it down…everybody were panic…including me…but she seems having fun…
I dream that i get into a plush hotel elevator which is large like a living room and im the first one in there, pushing a newborn in a pram and my mum follows close behind with suitcases. We push level 5 thenthe doors start to shut but strangers slowly start walking in and pushing other levels. Meanwhile a strangers baby tries to climb on top of my newborn in the pram and i put them back on the ground. The elevator is stopping at everyone elses levels and letting them off, when i say out loud ‘why is it that we were the first ones on and its not stopping at level 5?’ Everyone looks at me with a disgusted disapproving look, like I’m complaining. It goes on for the whole dream and i get more and more angry and frustrated but no one seems to care! Then i walk off at level 1 and speak to reception and they put the boss on the phone. He then tells me he can fix my broken engagement ring for a good price. But i comeback with ‘it’s okay i can take it back to where we got it made and the lady can do it for free’ then i wake up……
I lately had another (say) “the elevator dream” where it was on some 14+ th floor of an under-construction-linearly maze shaped-tower with a couple of my classmates wearing their bags and standing busy and scattered near the elevator door. Weirdly it was after-hours and though there was enough of tubelights lighting the vast space near the elevator door, the nearest one was flickering. The one nearest to the door was the one of my close friends in class/college – surabhi. I walked up to her, spotted a handsome handy diary with a pen bound in the edge in her hand and took it saying “I’ll take it. How much will I have to pay you?”. Ironically she said it’s just ten rupees and suggests me to keep it anyway. In the meantime lift’s there and I got in after the rest facing the door with my back to all of them. The bell ticked ground and the door opened. I got out of the elevator only to find it empty once I turned back to it while it was closing.
And I forgot to mention that I had the diary in hand even after.
In my dream, I am trying to get back to my hotel room on the third floor. No matter what elevator I take, it either doesn’t stop at the third floor, or it is a service elevator that opens on a space filled with male hotel workers, or the elevator doesn’t work and has become a place for storage. I become increasingly frustrated and anxious, because I am supposed to meet my husband and I can’t reach our hotel room. I wake up sweating and feel awful.
Did you ever get any insight to the nightmare?
I dreamt that as soon as I stepped into the elevator it became non functional, it slowly went down, stopped at the bottom, the doors did not open, but that a maintenance worker opened it and said the elevator would never work again.
It was in a building, I never saw another person, but walked the stairs up and out of the building.
My dream im riding on top of a tall, metallic black evelvator but its not just in a building, it is like a self driving car almost and it kept looping around it would go from this wooded area that a house was at and took me to a hotel and took my up to the top floor where it didnt make any stops i would be at the top with nothing to hold on to and i was a little scared but the veiw was beautiful, i just kept feeling like i was going to fall off, then it would decend and take me back to the place where the house was
I had a dream about myself running into a motel to the elevator as I wanted to meet a loved one. I got in it and I pressed the button. The elevator numbers were going backwards and they stopped at the number 5. The elevator wouldn’t move then the wires on the top broke and the elevator was dangling between floors. I was screaming. Then more wires broke and the elevator fell down down and crashed at the bottom. I was screaming the whole time then everything went back. When I woke up I was critically injured and in my loved ones arms. They were saying I was taken too soon but I was confused cause I was alive. I woke up from the dream screaming and I was crying
I’ve been having this dream a lot, and it’s scary. And work has been running me ragged.
In my dreams (all week)–I’m alone on the elevator, and no matter what buttons I hit, I zoom to the top (at least floor 100). And I see the entire city below when I step out. And I have to lie down and hug the floor because I’m petrified of being up so high (that’s in my dream). I am totally petrified of being so high up.
In other dream I have frequently–I am flying, and there are a bunch of frees. I am out of control so I grab a tree branch to slow down, but it shoots me up higher. I grab another branch, and it shoots me even higher, etc. etc.
The elevator one really terrifies me. I can’t get off the elevator, and even if I can get it to go down, it zooms back up again. And I can’t control it.
I know at work–like I said–has been hectic, and I’m pretty much the go-to guy there. Without me they’d be out of business. And I’m under stress with impossible deadlines, training others, fixing problems, and getting chewed out because apparently I’m not doing enough.
These elevator dreams make me wake up in a cold sweat and they are dreams I always remember in vivid detail.
I’m just another reader in this website, but the way I interpret your dream is that your employer is asking too much of you because they know that you can do it. I can feel that you are a perfectionist and because of the workload that you’ve been given, you’re not satisfied with your finished product, but it got done anyway. I too have dreamt of flying; once I was chased by a lot of elephants that I ran so fast that I flew, wherever I flew to, the elephants were there, but on the ground… I really enjoyed myself while flying. I remembered flying above the clouds on a moonlit and starry night, it was magical. I think, it’s just how you accept your waking situation. My advice to you to feel needed at your work, and that your employer really needs you. When your employer chews you out, tell him/her that you’re doing everything possible to meet deadlines and with feeling of dignity, and that they need you more than you need them. Few minutes before dozing off, put yourself in your ideal situation (for me, it was here in the U.S…. and I’m here now). And do it every night, keep thinking about being already the person that you want to be until you fall asleep. It is really that easy. I hope this helps because it should =)
Wow!
Sounds very similar to my dreams,…and it’s very often