Dreaming Lens: Were you driving or was someone else? Were you in control of the car? Were you in the proper seat? Were you speeding, slowing, or stopped? Were you comfortable or was panic setting in? Were you responsible for anyone else, such as passengers or pedestrians?
Personal Focus: As a culture, we are dependent upon our cars. They take us where we need to go in our lives with such regularity that they hold the symbolic meaning of how we are moving on our paths through life. The circumstances around the car and the driving experience will identify for you what emotional and psychic challenges are surrounding you at this time.
If you are driving out of control in the dream, you must consider what area of your life might be beyond your ability to regulate. If you are in the back seat and need to gain control of the car, look for ways in which you haven’t yet stepped up to the plate. You may not be able to do so yet because of circumstances beyond your control. If your car isn’t responding to you, you may be feeling ineffectual about taking charge of some path you are traversing. Varying speeds might be reflecting movement in life that feels either too fast or too slow for your comfort.
A vehicle other than a car might point to being in foreign territory. You may not be feeling confident in your ability to work with the circumstances you have been handed. Causing an accident could be an invitation to look at the consequences of your choices. Being an accident victim might encourage you to look at ways in which you have abandoned your own direction because of another person or outside force beyond your control. Driving in the rain connects emotional issues to your current route. Icy conditions indicate that emotions are being frozen over, making your way treacherous. Down or up a hill would illustrate the sense of effort or ease involved in your life movement. [1]
To dream of driving a public cab, denotes menial labor, with little chance for advancement.
If it is a wagon, you will remain in poverty and unfortunate circumstances for some time.
If you are driven in these conveyances by others, you will profit by superior knowledge of the world, and will always find some path through difficulties.
If you are a man, you will, in affairs with women, drive your wishes to a speedy consummation.
If a woman, you will hold men’s hearts at low value after succeeding in getting a hold on them.
See also: Cab or Carriage. [3]
Driving well can represent taking charge of your life, making good decisions, or staying on track.
Crashing can represent a feeling or fear of a disaster or inability to handle things in your life.
A driver other than yourself can represent an authority figure or someone you’ve allowed to make decisions for you, someone who was in charge of a certain process that’s represented by the vehicle’s movement (such as the leader of your project team, or your friend who took you to dinner).
See also: Traveling, Vehicle, Car, Steering, Road, Riding, Fast, Leader, Driver’s License, Windshield, Accident [4]
According to Freud, a symbol for intercourse.
According to analytical therapy, the analytical process itself. [5]
If someone else is doing the driving you will find yourself in luck, money wise.
To dream of driving in the driving rain must be interpreted by using the condition of the rain, either murky or clear, to get a better meaning. [6]
If someone else is driving, you, the dreamer, place confidence in that person and are willing to cooperate.
If you are speeding away from something, emotional impulses overwhelm you so that you are seeking release in your dream state. [7]
The feeling of having no choice as to how to proceed in a given situation - in short, of being “driven.” If the dreamer is not the drive, he should consider who is doing it. Astrological parallels: Aries, Capricorn Tarot parallel: The Chariot [8]
The dream is telling of how you are moving and navigating through life.
If you are driving and cannot see the road ahead of you, then it indicates that you do n [9]
2. Mobility, personal control (if the dreamer is driving).
3. Feeling a lack of control, letting others set your path.
4. Finding lost valuables. [11]
If the driver is reckless it symbolizes carelessness in life [13]
along an open road: a passionate weekend awaits.
busy street, a: family responsibility is weighing you down.
backward: are overwhelmed by impulses toward decadence.
changing course while: wil be exhausted in difficult activities that appear undignified.
dead end, into a: poverty and unfortunate circumstances until you turn around.
downhill: press more lightly on the pedal, if at al .
drunken driving: ecstatic and frenzied release of repression.
loved one: hopeful implications if you avoid rivals.
not being able to stop: avert disaster by quick reactions and skil .
of: discovery of a major solution, which was troubling you.
others: expect monetary losses, if another chooses the purchase.
recklessly: are losing control of basic cravings; attracting unjust criticism.
relatives: listen to the suggestions and profit from superior knowledge.
running out of fuel: wil spend a large amount of money unnecessarily.
sports car, in a: belief in own mastery of your independence.
SUV, in a: wil realize your moderate ambitions to become a prominent citizen.
with no map: feel you have little control over own destiny.
without a license: look at yourself as a grownup, and drive your wishes with maturity.
wrong direction on purpose, the: difference of opinion with loved ones is your choice.
speed: must avoid impulse to have a hasty, thus unfortunate, marriage. [15]