City Town

One’s relationship and interaction with other people, society, and all the opportunities and diversions city life offers. Therefore the dream may show something of the many choices you make or can make about direction, relationships or activities. It may also be about your sense of community, or the mental and emotional environment in which you live. For instance if it is a dark rainy city, then it suggests you are living within that sort of dismal inner life. If bright, sunny, with opportunities, then that is most likely how you feel about things.

The city may be like a mandala, a symbol of your inner state, the structure of your personality and what it is built upon. In this case the beauty or despair of the city will be saying a lot about your present inner condition. See: mandala.

In some dreams: Work and opportunity.

Home town or town of birth: The familiar way of life; the way you usually go about things. If it is a past home, then it shows your feelings or state of life at that time.

Strange town: The new; different attitudes or way of life, new choices or opportunities.

Alone in a town: Feeling isolated and out of touch.

In a deserted town: Outmoded social attitudes or way of life.

Lost in a town: Feeling uncertain regarding your place or direction in society.

Idioms: Go to town; ghost town; man about town; paint the town.

Useful questions:

What is the mood or atmosphere of the city, and does that reflect the inner state within myself I have created?

What am I doing in the town, and metaphorically what does that say about me? (i.e. if I am lost in the town am I lost in my life at the moment? If I am looking for love in the city is that true now in my life?)

What are my interactions with others in the dream suggesting about me?

See: capital.