Recurring dream about an elevator?

[scottk4122]

Every once in a while I have this dream where I am in a Large Hotel with a mall and casino inside it. I am usually just walking around by myself, never stopping or looking at anything in particular. This part changes in each dream. I always get on an elevator to go back to my hotel room, when the elevator appears to work as normal rising, not too fast or too slow. But it continues rising as though it will never stop. The elevator is always a light brown interior with standard lighting. I don't panic in this dream, but I do wonder why it hasn't stopped. I don't try to push any buttons, because I know they won't work, its an elevator after all, and they stop on their own. Then suddenly a window appears in the left side of the elevator and I can tell that my particular elevator has left the building and I am flying away from the building inside the elevator. At this point I do get concerned that I might get hit by a passing plane, because I can see clouds. The weather is pleasant, I cannot see the sun, yet it it is sunny and there are a few clouds. The elevator descends to the ground gradually and lets me out as if it were on some track or something. I am still outside, as I step out of the elevator. Each time I have this dream the elevator appears to land in the same area, like a drive up lane for exiting passengers , but that's where the similarity ends. I try to get back to the hotel, but something always happens along the way. One time I got back to the front of the Hotel, but I walked around for while and never made it back to my room. Another time I was back at my old high school walking the empty halls. Another time it was outside a different school with a more modern exterior. Last night I wound up in a parking garage on one of the upper levels. It was dirty and dark, with some lighting. No cars parked up there though. It appeared to be mostly junk. There was someone there, but I never could make out his face or who he was. He got this all-black lawnmower working, and it was running by itself, as if it was remote controlled. The lawnmower had no handle bar on it, but other than that it looked like a regular push mower, although I never got close enough to look at it in detail. I left, unaffected by what I saw and tried to resume my search for my hotel room, but before I could get out of the parking garage, I woke up. I always wake up before I can find my hotel room. After the elevator lets me off, I don't get on an elevator again in the dreams, they are just not around. There are always stairs or ramps, and there is usually a landing or a floor in between the sets the stairs/ramps. Only one of the dreams do I remember actually using the stairs to go down, but in all the dreams where I went a floor up, I acknowledged the stairs/ramps and I must have used them, but I don't remember the act of using them to go up. It's as though I know the stairs are there, I want to use them, then the next thing I know I am stepping off of them or walking away from them on the higher floor.