Did you see a building collapsing in your dream? Try to notice how you felt as it collapsed. Was there anxiety, grief, worry, or relief when you saw the building collapse?
Your feelings as you see what happens in your dream can be a good indicator of its actual interpretation for your waking life.
What does a dream of a building collapsing mean?
A building is a tough structure to erect, build, and finish. To have it collapse means that something that took years to build is being destroyed in a second. What could this mean for you and your life? Here are some of the possibilities.
Symbolic of financial distress
It is possible that seeing a building collapse in your dream could mean that there will be financial distress in your reality. It could also mean that you are facing a financial burden or challenge in the present.
Do you think there is accuracy in this? The best thing to do would be to focus on what you can do in the present moment, and act on it so that you don’t have to give in to fear or further anxiety.
Remember that there is always a way out of your challenges, even if it may feel as if the mountain is currently insurmountable.
Try to find a way to make the task at hand reduced to bite-sized pieces you can chew on little by little. Soon you will find that you have already built a good foundation on which to work on rebuilding what has been lost.
Symbolic of betrayal
The amount of time and effort that it takes to put a building up could be tantamount to how trust is built in any friendship or relationship in general.
To see it collapse in your dream could mean that the trust that you had in a person is being challenged or has been broken. This is something that could understandably rock a person.
Let yourself take the experience in and acknowledge whatever it is that you feel about the situation. Then you can learn how to deal with it more constructively.
Symbolic of creation
It may sound like the opposite of what you see in your dream, but there are a lot of philosophies that abound that discuss how creation is born from destruction.
When you see imagery of destruction like this in your dream, it could mean that there is a chance or opening for you in your waking life to create something or build something new again.
Symbolic of a weak foundation
Sometimes, structures collapse because the foundation has been weak. It is possible that you may be in a situation in your life where the foundation of the relationship or the arrangement that you currently have is weak, and therefore could easily collapse. Try to see where this applies the most and do what you can to improve it.
Symbolic of a crisis
A dream of a building collapsing could be symbolic of a crisis approaching in general. This could be a crisis that will happen in your personal life, or maybe a premonition about what could happen in the world in general. There could be an issue in your community, in your city, in your nation, or in the world at large.
Symbolic of noncommittal engagements
There may be people or situations around you that seem so flimsy and have no backbone. Seeing a building collapse in your dream could be symbolic of these people or situations that don’t really have any good foundation to stand upon and feel so weak and feeble.
Symbolic of a warning
Sometimes, a building collapsing in your dream could be a warning of what is to come. Don’t worry so much about it – just be optimistic that you can handle whatever happens.
More than anything, this could be a reminder to be more in tune and aware with your own guidance, intuition, and sensitivity towards situations. This will help you be able to deal smartly with whatever occurrence that comes your way.
Symbolic of insecurity
Seeing a building collapse in your dream could be symbolic of the insecurity that you hold inside of you.
You may be feeling unconfident about something – this can be regarding a relationship that you have, or a work-related engagement, or a commitment that you feel you are not delivering well or contributing properly or meaningfully.
This is a good way to look into yourself and see why you are feeling this way, and take concrete steps to improve your situation in some way.
There are always good ways to build your confidence – and this is always a good thing to do, whatever situation you are in.
Common situations in which you dream of a building collapsing
Dream of seeing a building collapse in front of you
This dream may mean that you will see something unfortunate in your life soon. This could be related to a betrayal, or a financial crisis, or something that you just didn’t expect would happen.
There is no need to worry so much about this – the best thing to do to be able to arm yourself in this situation is to every day do the best you can in whatever you are doing. This will give you confidence in yourself, knowing that you have done all that you could.
That is really the only thing under your control, and you should realize that there is no benefit in looking towards the things that you have absolutely no control over.
Dream of a building collapsing while you are inside of it
This dream could be an omen about the danger that you will face. This doesn’t necessarily mean that it is a grave danger – it could be that you will miss your step and not get any injury at all from it.
It could also be symbolic of the worry that you are harboring in your heart. Try to check if there is any substantial basis for this worry. If not, you would do well to drop it as it is unnecessary to stress that may be keeping you from living your best life.
Dream of saving someone from a collapsing building
This dream could mean that you feel responsible for saving certain people who are in your life. You could be feeling worried about them, or burdened about their current situation. Also, try to evaluate if you are being fair to yourself by assuming that it is your responsibility to help them.
Oftentimes, you may be taking on responsibilities in your own mind and causing yourself undue stress, because you really don’t have the duty to make sure that everyone around you is doing fine.
The best thing you can do is make sure that you yourself are okay, as that is the optimal way to uplift them – to lead by your example.
Everything else that you do outside of that is only you doing the best you could – but is not necessarily your responsibility.
Dream of seeing someone in a collapsing building
This dream could symbolize the worry that you have for someone, and how you feel that they are in a crisis. This is also an opportunity to evaluate whether or not you should really be spending any energy worrying about other people.
If you feel that your worry is founded, then you can act on it. But most of the time, you can really let the worry go and just trust that people are also okay – that you don’t need to come in and save them and help them, and you are not the bad guy if you decide not to.
Dream of being the culprit behind the collapsing building
This dream could symbolize the guilt that you may be harboring in your heart. Do you have regrets about past actions that you are still carrying around until now?
Realize that this is not healthy at all, and is only causing you anxiety that you shouldn’t have to carry, really. Let it go as soon as you can and focus on the things that you can do something about.
Chances are, you are the only one torturing yourself for whatever it is that you feel is a fault of yours. You can just as easily get away from it when you choose to forgive yourself and others, and just let that self-punishing critic be silenced.
Once and for all, you can just let it go and allow yourself to feel good. Also, give yourself necessary and healthy doses of compassion – you deserve it as much as, if not more, than everybody else.
Conclusion
A dream of a building collapsing could mean a lot about your emotions regarding yourself as well as how you relate to other people.
See how parallel the dream symbolisms are with your situation in your waking life so that you can also more accurately interpret the meaning of the dream.
Try to remember as much as you can when you wake up so you have all of the details that are needed for a good interpretation.
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