Universal Landscape: Money as power; financial security.
Dreaming Lens: What feelings were evoked by the dream? Was the bank austere and intimidating? What occurred in the bank? Who was there in the dream? Was actual money involved? Did you feel safe about the bank’s involvement in your finances?
Personal Focus: Money is a complicated issue for most people, making any image that relates to money difficult to interpret. There are many contradictions in the way with which this symbol can be associated. Rife with paradox, your own personal relationship with money must be part of arriving at an accurate interpretation. This can be challenging, as most people operate in varying levels of unconsciousness where wealth is concerned.
A bank is a construct of modern society created around the concept of protecting the abundance of the average individual. When examined more closely under the scrutiny of symbolic meaning, a bank connects more to fears around money and the desire to hoard abundance to gain a sense of security about future needs. Additionally, the institution of banking is founded on the greed principal: those who have more tend to profit from those who have less. While perhaps a necessary function in today’s modern world, the essence of a bank connects more to lack than to prosperity.
A bank is where money will be safely guarded while increasing in value over time. Yet in the world of finance, it is the least risky forum for investing and, therefore, represents caution where abundance is concerned. It is also the primary cultural institution connected to expanding lifestyle choices through the borrowing of money. However, this is more likely to connect to living beyond personal means than actual expansion. The reality of being unable to meet a bank’s demands include foreclosure, which represents loss and the consequences of overspending.
On a surface level, banks represent stability, longevity and bedrock of foundation, both personally and communally. Consider your relationship to banks and banking, both in the dream and in waking life, and include your thoughts about money, credit, debt, and financial insecurity when interpreting this dream symbol.
[1]Banks and vaults in dreams represent your psychological potential. Your unconscious may be urging you to start using your inner reserves and energy rather than locking your talents away. On the other hand, your dream may simply be highlighting your need for financial security.
If you dream of robbing a bank, it may suggest that you are depleting your inner resources. If, in your dream, you were depositing money in a bank, this suggests feelings of security in waking life, although such a dream may also contain an element of wish- fulfillment.
Banking in dreams can refer to something you are storing within yourself; perhaps you are withholding emotion or important information. Freudians would regard dreams of safes or strongboxes as representing female sexuality, since these things usually contain valuables. As places for hoarding things, they may also suggest greed or an inflexible approach to life. Money is a symbol of spiritual power for Jungians, so the safe or strongbox may represent a storehouse of insights into your unconscious mind.
[2]The bank represents your pool of resources, wealth, and accumulated energy. Therefore, dreaming that you save money or store jewelry or valuables in a bank reflects a clear need for safety and security to address the problems of life. On the contrary, if you withdraw money it means you will have enough strength and confidence to face such problems. Banks, especially the safes, represent your inner warehouse, your source of psychological potential. The unconscious is telling you to use your skill and energy reserves: your talent. Also, the dream can have a more literal meaning: you do not need to worry about the safety of your assets, as they are well kept.
If you dream of robbing a bank maybe you are making too much effort in something; there is risk of failure due to lack of resources.
If in the dream you deposit money in the bank you will soon receive financial support. If, however, you see empty boxes, it predicts financial doom.
[3]Thoughts around money, power, and financial security are coming up for you.
A bank is a construct of modern society created around the concept of protecting the abundance of the average individual. When examined more closely under the scrutiny of symbolic meaning, a bank connects more to fears around money and the desire to hoard abundance to maintain a sense of security about future needs. You may be concerned with keeping your sense of prosperity safe and guarded.
[4]1- The financial, mental or spiritual resources of the dreamer may need careful management.
The sense of security, without which we cannot venture into the world, needs to be properly managed and monitored.
2- Our emotional resources, such as self-confidence, social ability and wisdom are held in reserve. There may be fear over the actual management of our resources.
3- A bank indicates a secure spiritual space.
[5]Being in a bank in your dreams relates to concerns about your finances.
A bank is an insutuuon’ where you learn about money and its value, a place where you may save money and withdraw money.
A bank may indicate that ir is time to start saving money for the future or that you may need to withdraw funds for an important purchase or make an important investment.
[6]Cosmic exchange, energy vault, unlimited resource. Collective unconscious; reservoir of all knowledge and ideas you may draw upon at any time. You make investments in yourself, deposits of talents and insights which will always be there; you are free to use the whole collective reserve to create whatever you want. Meditation enables you to tap these energies.
[7]1. A place where resources are deposited, withdrawn and exchanged.
2. A place to deposit resources for the future;
3. Heaven (God’s treasury);
4. Jesus;
5. Reserve;
6. Sure thing;
7. Wealth/money;
8. Storehouse;
9. Interest;
10. Your place of employment (where you receive financially). Rom. 2:5; 2 Cor. 4:7;
[8]Resources—financial, mental and spiritual; one’s internal sense of security, emotional resources such as confidence and sexual certainty; social power, River, field or canal bank: minor difficulty or obstruction; a boundary, such as the border of what you might permit sexually. Idioms: bank on; break the bank.
[9]To dream of a bank signifies your hopes for monetary stability. This dream could represent that your insecurities about finances are not based in reality.
If you dream that you are robbing a bank, this represents that you are spending excessive efforts and could run out of energy.
[10]Dreams of a bank symbolize that you are processing through your issues of financial security. Perhaps you are reevaluating where you’ve been investing your time, energy and resources. This dream can also be pointing you towards a prosperous future. Consider the feeling tone.
[11]A rather straightforward dream.
An empty bank signifies losses.
Tellers paying out money is a warning against carelessness in business matters, unless you were yourself receiving or depositing funds, in which case you can expect some form of money luck.
See Also: Money.
[12]To see vacant tellers, foretells business losses. Giving out gold money, denotes carelessness; receiving it, great gain and prosperity.
To see silver and bank-notes accumulated, increase of honor and fortune. You will enjoy the highest respect of all classes.
[13]A bank in a dream may signify something that needs safekeeping. Further, it indicates solidity, stability, and security. Note whether the dreamer feels overdrawn or secure to indicate whether he or she is maintaining a balance in business or personal life.
[14]Where ‘treasures’ are stored; material security.
If you are making a deposit, you are adding to your assets.
If you are making a withdrawal, you are calling upon them.
[15](See Also: Vault)
As a storehouse of wealth, a bank may symbolize the (stored up, not yet used?) potential of your psyche.
[16]1. Sudden loss of money.
2. Semen.
3. Emotional or spiritual reserve or resources.
4. Security, usually financial.
[17]To see a bank in your dream, symbolizes your desires for financial security. Also see “ATM Card / ATM Machine”
[18]It is a sign of financial difficulties to dream of transacting business in a bank. .
[19]Symbolic of investment and security, Lk.19:23
[20]See Also: building, Places metaphors.
[21]Financial security
[22]lucky numbers: 05-07-11-21-28-34
being a banker: you wish to be respected for your financial advice.
being in a: false promises are received from your energy storeroom.
money changer’s: giving lavishly does not gain you friends.
borrowing money from a: financial losses ahead through your careless act.
dealing with a: sudden loss of confidence and emotional security.
hoarding money in a: fear you wil lose virility if you share.
lien on your, account: disputes are not ridiculous when they can cross state lines.
operating an ATM: your emotions are secure.
and having it take your card: confront one who risks your emotions.
owning a: friends make fun of your innate sense of responsibility.
receiving a loan from a: you feel insecure in balancing business and personal life.
sandbags reinforcing a: put pet project on ice and watch for time to reopen it.
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