If you have ever dreamt of being in a hotel or going to a hotel, you might be thinking that this is one of those dreams that are safe to forget. But your hotel dream meaning actually packs quite a bit of a punch.
After all, most people have stayed at a hotel at least one point in their lives.
In fact, a lot of business people spend quite a bit of their time in such accommodations.
Still, if you were to dismiss your hotel dream meaning, you might be missing out on some important messages that your subconscious is trying to send you in terms of your daily waking life.
General hotel dream meaning

The general meaning of a hotel dream involves a life’s journey.
We all start somewhere.
We all start as babies who don’t know much about the world.
And as we try things and experience things, we become wiser.
Of course, throughout that process, there’s a lot of triumphs, victories, as well as humiliations, defeat, and heartbreaks.
That’s just the way life is.
And when you see yourself staying at a hotel in your dream, this indicates some sort of way
station or some sort of point of comparison, as you go through your life’s journey.
Because as you travel all over the place, you’re not going to stay at the same hotel, it changes as your life situation changes.
Your living situation is also reflected in the hotel imagery in your dream.
You start out with something small and humble.
And as you become more skilled and are recognized for your capabilities and competence as a human being, you’re able to afford more luxurious accommodations.
Finally, another general meaning of hotel dreams involves opportunities.
People go all over the world to meet others for business, because they’re chasing opportunities.
Where do you think they stay?
That’s right, they stay in hotels.
Your dream is trying to communicate with you that there are certain opportunities that you have at your disposal today, not tomorrow, not the day after but today.
Unfortunately, we focus so much on opportunities that are tightly defined, that we fail to claim opportunities that are right in front of our faces.
Take advantage of the opportunities that are right in front of you.
Stop focusing on big paydays, or big and grandiose developments in your life.
Those will come about later on.
But you build up to them by racking up one small victory after another.
You can’t do that if you don’t take advantage of the opportunities that are already surrounding you.
What does it mean to see yourself in a hotel?

It depends on what you’re doing.
If you dream of unpacking, and you look worried, this indicates that the daily grind is getting to you and you’re beginning to doubt whether your journey is going to have a happy ending or whether it’s a journey worth going on in the first place.
This is to be expected.
It’s absolutely normal because you have to understand that anything worthwhile in life is worth struggling and sacrificing for.
Unfortunately, a lot of life’s payout and rewards don’t happen instantly.
In fact, even if everything that you’ve got on a project in one particular period of time, there’s still no guarantee that the result that you are looking for will materialize.
But you have to keep pushing.
You have to let the journey change you.
Because people who become successful in life are able to achieve that kind of victory because they let their journey change them.
They discovered a lot of things about themselves.
They learned how not to say no.
They learned how to keep pushing despite the fact that they’re tired, and want to give up.
Let the journey change you.
So when you see yourself seemingly frustrated in a hotel, this is a good sign.
It’s an invitation from your subconscious to step up and do whatever is necessary for however long it takes for you to become the kind of person that will be able to achieve their best life.
What does it mean to dream about a haunted hotel?

If you see yourself in a haunted hotel, or there’s some vague clues that the hotel might be haunted by ghosts, your subconscious is trying to communicate to you that you have become a slave of your worries.
You’re so focused on what could possibly happen, that you often lose sight of what you can control right here right now.
Now, nobody can guarantee what will happen tomorrow, we can lay the solid foundation for increasing the probabilities of happiness, success, great relationships, good health, right here, right now.
There’s actually a lot we can control today.
Unfortunately, so many people are too eager to rob themselves of whatever little control that they have.
They keep focusing on the past, they keep obsessing about their past failure, or they keep blaming other people or past situations for why they’re so frustrated today.
Any of these behaviors rob you of the power and focus you need to get out from under your worries.
Remember, when you worry, you are abusing your imagination.
You will be better off applying your focus and willpower on something that you can control.
What is the meaning of dreaming about waking up in a hotel lobby?

If you find yourself waking up in a hotel lobby because for whatever reason, your accommodations are not ready, this is an indication from your subconscious, that you feel that you’re always being taken for granted.
You feel that other people get better service than you or they have a higher priority than you and a part of you is resigned to this.
You’re not putting up a fight, you’re not making a fuss while you are in the hotel lobby.
Sure it burns you and you’re frustrated but you feel like there’s not much you can do about it.
That is precisely the problem.
You have to speak up.
You have to make yourself known.
And if you’re tired of always being overlooked or being passed over for promotion, you might want to step up, you might want to let the quality of your work do the talking.
Because talk is cheap.
People can talk all day and beat their own personal drum as to how awesome they are.
People are not going to care.
They’re only going to take a look at the results that you produce.
So if you are in any way, shape, or form unhappy with the rewards that life has been giving you so far, take comfort from the fact that you can do something about it.
You can level up the quality of your work, you can step up the volume of your output, there’s a lot you can do.
Life is not a foregone conclusion.
What does it mean to see yourself in a fancy and elegant hotel in your dream?

When you see yourself in a five star luxury hotel, your subconscious is telling you that you deserve the best things in life.
Now you may be thinking to yourself, “But I already know that”.
Well please understand that there’s a big difference between deserving and desiring.
All this time you’ve been desiring the very best things in life but deep down inside you feel that you’re not worthy.
Why do you think the universe has been blessing you consistently with the very best?
Because your spiritual and emotional wallet is very small.
You can’t receive all these blessings because what you’re using to receive them is simply too small.
This is rooted in low self esteem.
This is rooted in thinking small.
This is rooted in believing that you’re always going to get the crumbs of life.
So you better do a mental audit as to the kinds of stories that you feed yourself.
Start thinking big.
Start believing that you are worthy.
And that’s the only time your desires for luxury hotels or the very best that life has to offer will line up with your ability to make those things happen.
What is the meaning of dreams involving hotel checkouts?

Pay close attention to how quickly you check out.
If there is some sort of regularity or smoothness to the process, this indicates that you are already with the program.
You understand that life is full of changes, and you are ready, willing and eager to adapt.
This is a good sign.
On the other hand, if you dream about being held up during a hotel checkout process and the concierge taking forever to clear you, this indicates that you have a tough time adjusting to new situations.
Maybe you’re hanging on to old ideas or old mindsets, when in reality, your current situation requires a completely new way of looking at things.
This applies to relationships.
This can also apply to how you make your money or how you make your living.
Be more flexible.
Understand that tough situations are not so much to punish you or to grind you down.
Instead hard circumstances exist so a lot more of your character is honed, refined, and sharpened.
Just as iron sharpens iron, sometimes people can only realize how tough and adaptable they are, when they experience difficulties.
So don’t run away.
Look at it straight in the eye and beat the adversity that you come across during your life.
You have that strength in you.
What does losing your hotel keys mean?

When you see yourself fumbling through your luggage because you’ve lost your hotel keys, or you see yourself worried in your dreams because for whatever reason you lost your keys, this indicates that you have a tough time >strong>pivoting when life goes through ups and downs.
You have to understand that life is what happens while we’re making other plans.
We can come up with some sort of grand plan for our lives where we dot our I’s and cross your T’s and everything seems so well put together.
Everything is rational, everything is clear.
You know exactly what to do and when to do it.
And guess what happens next?
That’s right, your plan goes by the wayside because life keeps throwing you a curveball after another.
Maybe you got pregnant at an early age, maybe you dropped out of school, maybe your father got arrested, maybe somebody in your family got shot and killed.
Whatever the case may be, your best laid plans are shaken to their core.
This doesn’t mean that you give up.
This doesn’t mean that all is lost.
You have to understand that if you want to achieve more victories in life in whatever form you desire, you have to get in touch with your personal spiritual GPS.
If you’ve ever tried navigating your car with a GPS, you know that there is no such thing as a bad turn.
You know that you could never really get lost when you have GPS installed in your car.
Why?
One word: recalculating.
It will quickly find an alternative route no matter how far off track you went.
All is not lost.
Keep this in mind because you have your own spiritual personal GPS.
Sure, thanks might seem hopeless but if you trust that there is meaning in your life and you are put on this earth for a reason, eventually you will recalculate the route.
You’ll find a workaround.
Maybe you might even adjust the destination and come up with something better.
Whatever the case may be, life is always recalculating.
Allow yourself to be mentally and emotionally flexible enough to come out ahead.
When you lose your keys in your dream, it’s very easy to just feel lost.
But it’s not your keys that lead you into the building, it’s you.
When you show up to the concierge you best believe they will reprogram your door so you can get in.
There’s no need to worry.
Trust your ability to adapt to whatever life throws your way.
What does it mean to find thugs and homeless people in your hotel lobby?

If it turns out that you booked a downscale hotel or a rock bottom budget hotel in your dreams, you might find yourself in unfamiliar territory.
You might even feel that your safety is threatened.
What are these dream images and situations speak to?
Well, your subconscious is trying to draw your attention to your bad habit.
Usually, when people book a hotel room, they want great surroundings, they want to feel safe, they want a break from the normal routine.
The last thing that they want is to see homeless people or possibly dangerous individuals loitering around.
Your several subconscious is telling you that your bad habits have a way of spoiling whatever good plans and projects you have lined up for yourself.
I don’t think I’m going out on a limb here if I phrase it this way: We often are our own worst enemies.
We find ways to sabotage ourselves.
It is as if things are working out and then all of a sudden you find a way to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.
These are due to your bad habits.
The key to getting out from under them is to first recognize that you have bad habits, and then to identify what triggers them and what the bad action is.
Because all habits lead to reward.
People are not going to stick with a certain behavioral pattern if there is nothing in it for them.
It may be small consolation, or it might even be a less harmful result than something far worse.
But we find a way to view these as “rewards”.
What you need to do is accept the fact that you can’t change the triggers.
You also have to understand that when you do something counterproductive, there is some sort of emotional or mental reward.
The good news is you can control what happens in between.
You can control the habitual thought pattern or the behavior.
It’s not gonna be easy.
It definitely doesn’t happen overnight.
But before you know it by being more mindful and being more aware and putting yourself in tough situations so your habits change through sheer focus, you eventually will be able to clear out symbolic homeless people in your dream hotel.
What does it mean to see yourself check into a hotel that you can’t check out of?

I know that sounds like an excerpt from the classic eagles song: Hotel California.
But in reality in terms of our lives’ symbolism, we often find ourselves checking into hotels that we cannot check out of.
This can take the form of defining ourselves based on past bad memories.
It can also take the form of blaming other people for our frustrations today.
It can also take the form of codependency.
Maybe we all need a partner that enables our worst instincts while we also enable them.
We can’t let go of each other but we know we’re bad for each other.
Do you see how this works?
When you see yourself in a tight suffocating situation that you feel hopeless in, this is symbolizing your dream by a hotel that you can check out of.
But it’s an illusion.
A hotel cannot hold you against your will.
You can easily sue them for millions of dollars or false imprisonment.
What your subconscious is telling you is that you have trapped yourself into these tight situations.
You have defined certain areas of your life in such a way that you are making things all that much harder on yourself.
In reality, there’s all sorts of false dichotomies that you believe in, which prevent you from really living your best life today.
Is it going to be easy for you to identify what these are?
Of course not.
Because they’re couched in all sorts of justifications and sometimes people think that these are part of their identity.
It will take quite a bit of work.
Maybe you should get professional help.
There are lots of psychiatrists, psychologists and licensed clinical social workers that can help you.
At the very least you can look into books about cognitive behavioral therapy.
In other words, how you look at life and how you define certain situations and the emotional feedback you get, determine your actions, which then trigger the same situations and the process repeats itself again.
There have been many people who have successfully applied CBT to their lives to become happier and more fulfilled.
Because a lot of our personal demons are made up.
They’re not real.
But the problem is we believe in them so much that they have a real effect on us.
They determine where we can and cannot go, who we can and cannot be, as well as who we can and cannot hang out with.
Do you see how this works?
So understand that you can always check out at the hotel.
The question is do you give yourself permission to?
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Dream interpretation and symbology have fascinated me ever since I read Freud’s classic, “The Interpretation of Dreams.” Ever since, I have explored Christian, Jewish, Hindu, and Buddhist as well as Jungian psychological ideas about the meaning of dreams. Thanks for joining me in my exploration of the amazing intersection between our conscious waking world and the rich expanse of our subconscious-the home of our intuition, instincts, and hidden potential.