
You’re rethinking something-or everything. The damage to a city, town or neighborhood caused by a tornado in a dream can symbolize forces bringing down structures in your life such as values, beliefs, and assumptions. A feeling of devastation can stem from a specific situation, or stress.Ī tornado is a particularly good metaphor for heavy stress-it’s destructive, turbulent, electric, stormy-and captures the related emotions in one image. Tornadoes can have a devastating impact, and that association can be used by dreams to symbolize something that devastates you: separation, failure, loss, addiction, illness, mental breakdown. You suddenly find yourself going a different direction, just as tornadoes are known for suddenly switching directions. It can mean your life is turned around by a powerful event. Or the spinning motion could symbolize arguments that go round and round, or thoughts that do-your head is spinning.

And as a funnel whirling around a core, it’s a great symbol for the energy of the psyche. A tornado is, after all, powerfully energetic. Those forces will unleash tremendous energy. And ultimately it’s a sign to let go and allow the powerful forces of the unconscious to work within you. You have something big inside you trying to come out, and it takes a big change to make it happen.īefore making a big change, especially a change in their psyche, people are known to dream about tornadoes hunting them. In this way, tornadoes are commonly misunderstood as nothing but bad. For a great example of such a dream, see: Family Home. Tornadoes can show the powerful force inside you that’s going to shake up your life. In simplest terms, a tornado is a disaster. It can symbolize personal destruction, or something in your life that leaves a trail of destruction in its wake.

That association can be used to compare with someone you know, such as a child leaving a trail of destruction. Tornadoes are destructive, flinging objects and debris all directions. He realizes it’s too much to take on at once and has to drop one of them to give his best to the other one. Things happen quickly, suddenly.įor example, in a dream about two tornadoes, the dreamer, an author, is thinking about two writing projects he has going. When your life is like a whirlwind it can’t slow down. Tornadoes are terrific symbols for frantic activity.
