Automobiles or Vehicles

Vehicles that you ride in usually reflect two things; the direction you are heading in life, and your body. (the thing you travel or "ride" through life in) This might vary if you are a mechanic or designer of vehicles. Unusually frequent exposure to a specific vehicle type may easily change the meaning. The condition of the vehicle might give you an idea of your health. Driving an old beat up car down a muddy road on a stormy night would be considered a pretty bad dream! However flying a Lear jet through blue skies with a song in your heart and the wind at your tail would be a rather good dream.

The larger the vehicle, i.e., bus, car, truck, the more force and the more people involved in our waking life work and behaviors. This also will cue us into realizing that either something is or is not within our control. Sometimes, in dreams, a vehicle we think we are driving, is actually out of our control, speeding up or slowing down, or turning in ways counter to our efforts. This is an indication, that in our waking life, we are in fact, out of control. If there is negative stress involved with the vehicle, we need to look at what we are doing in our waking life to cause stress to ourselves or to others. If there is adventure stress, as in "this is fun, exciting, and wow!" It could indicate that we are the "driving force" behind a project or group and we need to really pay close attention to what we say and do in waking life to make sure we are not running over, or ignoring some important details or other players in our drive to achieve or succeed. If it is a calm, leisurely adventure, it is to reassure us that we are doing everything to the best of our ability, doing our part, doing what we can. Regardless of the outcome of the project in waking life, we have done our part. If we crash or are suddenly going too fast for comfort, we need to re evaluate whether or not we are being realistic in our approach to others involved in our life, work, career.

Car: Relating to your feeling of security or lack of it in life. The type, color, condition, speed, power, direction of movement, and whose driving are all significant factors. These same factors apply to the truck. "In the drivers seat", taking control of the situation.

Common symbol of the self, the “the direction we are headed in our lives.” A more immediate symbol than planes and trains and ships (which indicate larger concerns and transitions) due to its ubiquity in everyday living. Cars with no brakes, poor steering or limited visibility almost always are important warning dreams about feeling out of control in one’s life, and of being “unable to see the future.” 

Notice the arrangement of passengers in the vehicle. If you are a passenger, it suggests that you are allowing “someone else” to steer or direct your life. Also significant is the condition of the car. New cars indicate a new status in your life—pregnancy, career advancement, new role as mother, father, or marriage.

Also: The car in your dream may symbolize the physical self or ego development and ego function. In that, it represents the way that you travel through your life's journey. Consider all of the details in the dream, including its emotional content (e.g. difficulty of the road, identity of the driver, direction of the incline). Recurring car dreams usually deal with life's major themes that may include issues of control and sensibility. By carefully examining this dream, you may gain insight into important areas of life, including to how well you are navigating from one stage of your life to another, if you are assertive and take charge or are passive. Dreaming about traveling in a car is a very, very common dream theme that provides valuable information in regard to a specific part of or long-standing theme in your life's journey. See also: Journey, Road.

Dreams of car accidents, as a rule, should not be considered literally precognitive. They are considered to be reflections of emotional “loss of control” however, which likely will be reflected in excessive behaviors and erratic decisions in waking life. 
 

Airplane: You are flying. Relates to confidence or lack of it depending on situation. ~ Spiritual.

Flying: Love those flying dreams! Flying dreams are given to us for a number of reasons. Generally speaking, a person who is under a great deal of stress due to circumstances beyond their control, will have flying dreams to ease the stress and remind the dreamer in a sense: "We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey." (-Sarah Covey). Those who do remote viewing or psychic work in their sleep may find themselves flying to a destination or scene which provides them with the information that they are seeking, or need to know to resolve a problem or situation or mystery. 

~ Airplanes are amore realistic way to fly, but almost the same thing. It depends on how large or small the plane is and whether there are other passengers, how familiar they are to you (in the dream) and who is at the controls. These kinds of dreams will tell you more about your intellectual side. If the plane is huge, you are being too intellectual in your walking life, and shutting out the most important aspects of emotional or spiritual senses, feelings and experiences. Trying to be "above it all" can lead to disastrous downfalls! Different elements of the flight, or the plane will tell you what you need to do to change your course, open up your communications or land safely without hurting anyone close to you. ~ Concern with a condition or one's status in life. If traveling within the plane, this is an astral or out-of-body experience. If the plane is taking off, this indicates potential for success and growth. If the plane is descending or landing, the condition is coming to an end. If the plane is in trouble, or crashes, this indicates fear of failure. ~ The plane journey shows a move toward independence, leaving home or friends, success. 

~The general definition of any flying vehicle is that you are beginning the process of awakening, literally flying to and in new levels of experience, and into space you have yet to master. Airplanes are at home and at their best in the air. They are able to achieve flight against many odds, not the least of which is their own weight. Airplanes are vehicles of both land and air. They travel at very high speeds, can carry many different cargos, and must have a very specific flight plan and schedule to maintain. Does this remind you of anything? This would also make a good pun. Which "Plane" are you on at the time? Or do you feel plain? What type of an airplane is it? Is it on the ground, taking off, landing? Is the flight going well? Why, or why not? What kind of weather is it flying into, and out of? Where are you the airplane? Who is the pilot? What kind of passenger or cargo does it carry? Where is it headed? How would you like to fly in this airplane when you are awake? Why are you in a plane, and not a car or on foot? Do you like to fly? Why, or why not? 

Pilot: Pilots often symbolize a teacher or special guide of some kind, and frequently your Higher Self, or some other higher guiding part of you. Pilots have the ultimate responsibility for all other objects on the vehicle they are piloting. What is the cargo? This is another good pun. Are you about to begin a pilot project? Which Plane are you trying to pilot or master? What's your flight plan? Who is the pilot? Male or female? Why? What does he or she look like? How are they dressed? How competent are they? How much training did it take to receive the license? Or do they have one? What kind of vehicle is being piloted? What direction is it going? Where did it start from and what is its destination? Who would normally trust their life or cargo to this pilot? Why? 

Crashing a plane: Loss of faith or confidence 

Airliner: Common carrier. Going with the flow. Someone else doing the driving (flying). In 3 dimensional space and relating to confidence in the 3rd level or the superconscious. 

Airport: Arrival at an airport symbolizes birth, departure means a new plan, an indication that you are approaching a new departure in your life. Some new idea is taking off or is ready to take off. You may be experiencing a new relationship, new career path or new adventure. 

Also, A desire or need for a new departure or new adventure in your personal life; the desire for freedom and/or travel as this is the jumping off point for all those who travel the world and it brings out your hidden desires to do the same.

Also, Since airports are hotspots for the unexpected in the waking world, they signify an important transitional state in dreams. In our high-tech era, the boarding gates are portals of infinite arrival and departure. Face these points of entry bravely, with light baggage and an open mind for adventure. If you dream of losing your ticket, you may need to resolve a minor personality crisis. 

The foreign country may represent your unconscious, in which the dream is telling you that you have not arrived at your desired destination.

A busy airport in your dream, signifies the desire for freedom, high ideals, ambition, and hopes. 

Boat or Ship: Boats are our emotional health, strength, direction being made visible to us. If we are lost at sea, it indicates that we need to take a better personal inventory in our waking life and see if we are more off course than on concerning the things we deem valuable and important in our life. ~ Your transportation through life relating to spiritual and/or financial matters. They are interconnected since you can't be in high spirits when you lack the necessities of life. The boat is either on a river (your individual spiritual path) or in a sea (the universal spirit). 

Also: The relationship of your conscious life with unconscious motivations. Is it "smooth sailing"; are you drifting aimlessly; or are you "rocking the boat"? If you "missed the boat," you may be failing to attend to messages (intuition) from your unconscious, or you may be experiencing regret over lost opportunities. Are you just "skimming the surface," or is your boat nicely settled in the water and progressing steadily? 

Also: As mentioned in all relevant dream symbols, bodies of water represent your unconscious, your emotions and your accumulated soul experiences. Depending on the content of the dream, several different interpretations could be made. The boat in your dream could represent you and the manner you navigate through your emotions. It could symbolize the voyage of your life, an adventure and exploration of your unconscious, or a connection to the people in your dream by pointing out something that all of you have in common ("in the same boat"). When interpreting this dream, consider the kind of voyage and the type of boat.

Ship: Sailing over large bodies of water, a ship symbolizes the journey across/through the unknown/unconscious. As a large vehicle that sails on larger, more extensive bodies of water, it's more related to the process of transformation/individuation than a boat. If you're on the ship, how do you behave? Where are you going? How do you relate to those other aspects (other passengers) of yourself? Is the journey easy or does it have troubles? A shipwreck would relate to difficulties with the preceding concepts; feeling/fears of being overwhelmed by emotions or by circumstances beyond your control (nature, fate, destiny?). 

Ocean Liner: These often indicate a large scale shared experience. An event either just has, or is about to occur which will strongly affect the emotional tenor of a large group of people. Check the skies in these dreams. Their color, indication of weather effects in the dream will tell you if this is to be a long term negative, positive or a short-lived event. Regardless, buckle up, this is going to be something you have little or no influence over in your personal life. 

Also: Buses tend to involve other people. Getting other people to go along with our ideas. If we are invited to get onto a bus, and then end up being the driver of that bus, it means that other people are assisting us or coming to assist us in our work. Generally, this dream is there to assure us that we are NOT ALONE on a project or idea that has a very broad scope and effect on how other people think or act regarding our work. If we get on a bus and are taken to another location, we are being "guided" to the help and resources that we need to accomplish whatever we are working on that is of great importance to us. If the bus ride turns ugly, we are going to have to either meet sabotage and deception or extreme opposition on our project, or it is NOT going to end up where we think, hope it will. May need to rethink a current course of action regarding project, career, relationship.

You may need to move on with regards to some aspect of your life. Perhaps you are dwelling on a situation and it is time to move forward. Also, it may suggest your need for relaxation and a long-deserved break. You may be looking to be more in touch with nature and for a simpler life. 

Alternatively, it refers to your social circle and support group. You need to have a sense of belonging, but at the same time be self-sufficient and independent.

Also, a camper is a covering for your vehicle. Are you covering up something within yourself or from someone else?

A "tent city" may symbolize a sense of homelessness/lack of belonging; loss of security.

Motorcycle: Sense of power and freedom relating to security and being in control. Also relates balance or lack of it. 

Parking Lot/Garage: Traveling in a vehicle generally can represent our journey through life, or a portion of it. If you find yourself in a garage or a parking lot, two different inferences can be made. Consider the dream's content and mood in it as well as your current dilemma or situation in life. 

The parked car could represent a period of inactivity and indecision. The dream could be pointing out that you have been idle for a period of time and that it may be good time to "get a move on." 

The more positive interpretation of this dream might be that the parked car is symbolic of a reflective period or mood. You may be in "park" for a while so that you can rest, relax, and regroup while thinking things over. Or you may be stuck in your daily routine and need to slow down your pace, park yourself, take some time to relax from your daily activities. 

To dream that you cannot find a parking space, indicates your inability to find your place in life. You may still be on your quest to find your talent or niche where you belong. Alternatively, it may reflect your busy life and the lack of time you have. 

Station wagon: Domestic security.

Train or Railroad Track: Circumstances in life over which you have no control. It must run on tracks in an established format. It is the relationship of yourself to the rest of humanity. An unconventional person will constantly be crossing the track at right angles. 

Also: Trains are interesting. Freud had a lot to say about trains and sexual fantasies. They can be that, for sure, but they also represent other elements far more spiritual than physical, emotional or indeed, sexual! Trains are on a track, which means there is nothing you can do to alter the course. This tells the dreamer what the course holds for them. Often, we see old friends or relatives who have passed on, on these trains. This is a brief time for us to reconnect with them, and remember the things we learned from them. It is this energy, learning, that we have as a resource to guide us in our life and in our life's work. Often times, these dreams, we are forced to exit the train before it reaches it's final destination. That is because we have work to do in this life. It is not our time. There have been dreams by very intuitive or psychic people who find themselves on trains and become more lucid in the dream and go to the source of the information they need to either solve a mystery, a problem a crime or other dilemma. 

Truck:  To see a truck in your dream, implies that you are overworked. You may be taking on too many tasks and responsibilities and are overloading you. 

Seeing a truck in your dream can mean a father figure plays a role in the meaning of the dream.

On a side note, pregnant women often dream of trucks or driving trucks. This may be a metaphor of the load they are are carrying or an expression of their changing bodies. 

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Colors: The color of the vehicles is often important. Here are a few highlights: 

Black Car: Protection, guidance. This indicates that the dreamer is making some big errors but is being protected from the consequences for enough time to become aware and change course. 

Old Black vehicle , oversized or being powered by something other than the motor, (animals, another vehicle, etc.) indicates that there is an ego problem with the dreamer. They have an insecurity which leads them to over react or "act outside of the indicated information" and they are being protected by others (co-dependants) who prevent them from having to face the truth. The true power, energy, and drive as well as the outcome of a project or endeavor has many helpers. But the dreamer who dreams of other "means of power" is being reminded that they are not alone, that there is more to what is happening than just their work. It is a dream designed to comfort and teach us so that we do not take for granted, neglect or be abusive to those around us who in reality, make us look good and are taking us exactly where we are meant to go. Time for the dreamer to relax and become less critical, or even less temperamental towards those who work with us, live with us or love us. 

White car: Energy, health, strength, naivety (usually with surprisingly good outcome!) 

Blue car: Religious or spiritual motivation 

Red Vehicle: Anger, greed, fear, jealousy, hunger for power, sexual energy or conquest.

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Brakes: Necessary if needed to change direction in life... related to security. 

Bridge: Crossing to a new level of understanding and a new place in life. 

Bumps or Hills in the Road: Obstacles which you must ascend or become more to get through. 

Crashes: If we are involved in a vehicle crash, aside from the premonition that a vehicle crash could occur in walking life, chances are that we are pursuing a dangerous course of action, behaviors or investment that will ultimately damage us. The dreamer needs to be more aware of information and alter the course of action to avoid the destructive outcome. 

Dips or Holes in the Road: Obstacles which you must descend or become less to get through. 

Electrical System: Your life energy being used to maintain feeling of security. 

Gasoline: Can be fuel or hope to continue life's journey. But usually means volatile emotions (liquid). 

Keys: The keys to your creating a feeling of security or harmony in your life. 

Mechanic: Repair of personal security. 

Passenger: When you are the passenger in any type of vehicle, it generally symbolizes you are assuming a passive rather than an active role in the situation, that you are letting some other part of you or someone or something else take control and responsibility for getting you where you want to go. How you feel about being a passenger will give you your clue about whether this is a productive or unproductive thing at the time. Passenger can also symbolize that you are not taking responsibility for your actions on a day-to-day basis, or that you would like not to have to do so. But dreaming of being a passenger, or preferring to be one when you are awake, can also symbolize that you are very comfortable with the situation, and that you are literally willing to go along for the ride, to see where the driver takes you, maybe even take a back seat concerning this particular situation. How's the view from where you are? Are you comfortable with the driver taking control? Passenger can also be a great pun. Do you feel that you are being driven? Are you about to get taken for a ride? Are you taking a back seat? Do you deserve to be chauffeured about? Is it time to turn over the reins to someone else or some other part of yourself? How does the passenger feel about driving in general? What does this remind you of?

Ride: Being taken for a ride. Regardless of vehicle indicates that the dreamer is either being deceived or is deep in self-deception, and is in danger of losing either finances, a relationship, or other valuable assets in their walking life. 

Road: Your path in life. The journey that we take to achieve our goals. The road in the dream represents a road in your life. It could be the road to your heart, spirit, or mind. Consider the kind of road that your are on and try to see how it relates to your daily realities. If the road is straight, well-marked and lit, it may be reinforcement to you that you are moving in the right directions. If there are many obstacles and the road is very hard, consider your options.~ If you were more interested in what was around the road than on the road itself, maybe you should focus your attention on where you are going in life. If the road was rough, it points at some difficulties that need to be overcome.~ Bumpy is struggling, smooth is coasting, treacherous is problems or overwhelming obstacles. Emotional: How we conduct ourselves. Are we making things more difficult than they need to be? Are we searching for answers, running in circles? In a strange place with familiar signs? See also, Directions.

Steering Wheel: Your ability to steer your life. Control over security. 

Traffic: Frustration and delay.

Windshield: Condition of it shows how you view your present & future related to the car symbol.