What does it mean to have a reoccurring dream about a city?

I don't know about an underlying meaning, but it could just be a part of your dreamworld in which you go to to feel comfort while dreaming. Is it a place in real life or a city you've never seen before? I have recurring places in my dreams, one is a brick town and another is a beachfront neighborhood.

Think about how you feel in the city in your dreams, comfortable or frightened? Happy or curious? The key to determining the meaning to this dream might be in realizing how it makes you feel or what you learn while you're there.

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If it is a city, either real or fictional, that you feel comfortable in, it might just be that you need to relax and that place in your dreams is the ideal place to do so.

If it is just "a city", or a different one each time, and you live on the countryside, it may be your subconscious telling you that want to move into the city.

Lastly, a city could symbolise many things you desire; freedom, a bigger house, a new life, your own place, a new job, etc.

I have had the same thing, years of dreaming about a city. Any new dreams that I have of this place attest to what I remember about it from other dreams. I can drive (in my dream) on the streets and now which road will take me to another part of the city, remembering where stores, buildings, parks, etc are from earlier dreams.It becomes even more surreal than dreams usually are, because of the intensity of this city.

I was reading a book called The Dreaming Universe by a physicist turned metaphysicist: Fred Alan Wolfe. In this book he discussed having the same types of dreams. Through research and talking with psychologists that work on consciousness and dreaming, he said that it 'could' be a whole 'nother life.

I am not saying one of those multi-dimensional 'lives' that we are subject to in syfy movies, but an internal life. I guess, kind of like that online reality: second life, but within.

I am not sure that this would help, but if anything, you are not alone.

As far as underlying meaning, there are too many different types of dreams; the ones that are so out there that there really is no way to determine what it means, the ones where you are astro-traveling (which may actually apply here), and the ones that are, indeed, telling you something about some aspect of your waking life that you either need to take care of, be aware of, or to solve a problem in your life. Like the previous commenter said, analyze how you feel within these dreams, and that should give you a first step to understanding it. Unfortunately, you cannot go by dream books, as they only give symbolism to one particular aspect of a dream, not what all aspects of a dream mean in relation to each other.

For me, when I am driving, walking, or just living in my 'dream' city, I feel like I do on a day to day basis. Good luck!

Maybe you feel insignificant and its trying to tell you that you're part of something bigger.

I guess it would require more info on the dream to tell for sure...

Kitty, that makes complete sense! I have been to the city, and to be honest I don't care for it much at all! But, for instance before I woke up this morning, I was there and then woke up.

I turned on the TV and that city was on the television! That's when I thought there has to be something to this!

Tshivley, this astro traveling I need to look into more. It would actually explain A LOT! Because it's not somewhere I prefer to dream about going to!Lol.

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