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Race Dream Meaning

Dream interpretation from 22 unique sources about Race

Are you competing or running from or to something? In order to have a good understanding of this dream you should consider those factors.

If you are simply running, it may be an indication that you need to slow down in your everyday life.

If you are competing, you need to consider your competitive drive and realistically look at the current challenges.

If you are running in a race and win, your unconscious may be expressing confidence that you may or may not feel in the wakened state. Running in your dreams may also symbolize the energy levels, the strength, or the force that you have to get through life. [1]

If you always are in a hurry, this dream can be an allegorical representation of life. It also reveals the need to compare yourself to others; a very competitive personality. By slowing down you are likely to get more. The slow-moving tortoise beats the impulsive hare. It may also indicate that you are taking too many risks or spending excessive energy.

If you are running or driving a car, the dream states that you will soon receive news.

If you win the race, that news will be wonderful. [2]

If you are simply running in your dream, it may be an indication that you need to slow down in your every day life. Running a foot race in your dreams show that you have an enemy who is a threat to your possessions and is envious of your acquisitions or achievements.

If you win the race it means you will quickly overcome your adversary. Running in your dreams may also symbolize the energy levels, the strength, or the force that you have to get through life. [3]

To watch any kind of race being run is a form of obstacle dream in that it predicts success in whatever concerns you most, providing that in your dream you bet on (or rooted for) the winner.

If you dreamed of running in a race yourself, you can expect an exciting new offer whether you won or lost A dream featuring race relations signifies progress if the climate was pleasant but disappointment if it was not [4]

This image almost always refers to career issues, addressing primarily the question of winner and loser, because such dreams usually deal with emotional energies. Are you running ahead? Are others behind you? Or are you running behind the pack? Different people taking part in a competitive race in the dream represent the many different sides of the Self. [5]
Dreams of a race symbolize competition, comparison, winning and loosing. Your competitive edge may be inspiring you to become your personal best, pushing you to cross the finish line toward victory and a successful life. Your dream is giving you the message to do your best everyday, and to only compete with the person you were yesterday.

See also: Sports. [6]

Dreaming that you are in a race signifies that others are envious of your achievements and want what you have for themselves.

If you win the race, your dream means that you will overcome your competitors. This dream can reveal your competitive nature and how you tend to measure yourself against others. [7]

One’s life or taking part in life and the human race, perhaps acknowledging one’s position in the ‘race’; competi­tiveness, or feelings of competition. Racing car, bike: competi­tive drive; sexual energy; daring.

See also: example in failure. [8]

Running a race may depict how the dreamer feels about his or her waking life (a hectic “rat race,” perhaps?), possibly indicating the dreamer should slow down or change his or her approach to life. [9]
To dream of running a race is good to all, except they be sick persons when they dream they come to the end of their race, for it signifies that shortly they shall come to the end of their life. [10]
If in a race, you are competing against yourself. Unite all aspects of the self in order to “win.” If racing along by yourself, take some time to relax, integrate and reflect along the way. [11]
(1) Are you always measuring yourself against other people, instead of getting your values from an inner source?

(2) Is it the prize that is the important thing? See Prize. [12]

To dream that you are in a race, foretells that others will aspire to the things you are working to possess, but if you win in the race, you will overcome your competitors. [13]
1. Running in God’s purpose and calling;

2. Calling to go forth in ministry;

3. The race of faith;

Gal. 2:2; 2 Tim. 4:7; Heb. 12:1-2; Ps. 19:1-6. [14]

If you win a race in a dream—afoot, horseback, or in an automobile—you will be able to hold your own in competition with others. [15]
A good dream to well persons, to the sick a speedy termination to the race of life is denoted (Artemidorus). [16]
1. Preoccupations or obsessions.

2. Jealousy of others, compe­tition.

3. Need to slow down, relax. [17]

1. Paul told to run the race of faith;

2. Life of Christ;

3. Our Journey

Heb. 12:1-2. [18]

One of the ever-recurring obstacle dreams, warning you to persevere if you desire success. [19]
Symbolic of the journey of life, Eccl. 9:11 [20]
lucky numbers: 13-14-16-41-48-50

dog, a: wil have mastery over your enemies if you learn to pace yourself.

marathon: must answer for misdeed you deemed an accident.

running a: must preserve your energy if you desire long-term success.

and winning: commercial undertakings of import wil be consummated.

losing: wil have many competitors in your affairs.

friends: wil stand by you, whether you win or lose.

jockey, in a: wil gain in stature just for finishing the race.

member of family: are demanding too little of yourself.

others: are being deceived by unsportsman like behavior.

track, running on a: repeat old patterns for success; others aspire to them. [22]

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Sources and Authors

  1. The Bedside Dream Dictionary by Silvana Amar [Back to dream]
  2. The Big Dictionary of Dreams by Martha Clarke [Back to dream]
  3. Tryskelion Dream Interpretation by Pagan - Anonymous [Back to dream]
  4. The Complete Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams by Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett [Back to dream]
  5. Little Giant Encyclopedia by Klaus Vollmar [Back to dream]
  6. Strangest Dream Explanations by Dream Explanations - Anonymous [Back to dream]
  7. My Dream Interpretation by myjellybean [Back to dream]
  8. A Guide to Dreams and Sleep Experiences by Tony Crisp [Back to dream]
  9. Dream Symbols in The Dream Encyclopedia by James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver [Back to dream]
  10. The Complete Dream Book by Gillian Holloway [Back to dream]
  11. The Dream Books Symbols by Betty Bethards [Back to dream]
  12. A Dictionary of Dream Symbols by Eric Ackroyd [Back to dream]
  13. Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation by Gustavus Hindman Miller [Back to dream]
  14. Dream Dictionary The Biblical Model by Vincent Wienand [Back to dream]
  15. The Complete Dream Book by Gillian Holloway [Back to dream]
  16. The Fabric of Dream by Katherine Taylor Craig [Back to dream]
  17. New American Dream Dictionary by Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin [Back to dream]
  18. Dream Dictionary The Biblical Model by Vincent Wienand [Back to dream]
  19. Mystic Dream Book by Internet Archive - Anonymous [Back to dream]
  20. Christian Dream Symbols by Tyler Wolfe [Back to dream]
  21. Dream Meanings of Versatile by Versatile - Anonymous [Back to dream]
  22. Zolar’s Book of Dreams Numbers and Lucky Days by Zolar [Back to dream]

What does Race mean in a dream?


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1. Race of faith;2. Church with a competitive spirit. Matt. 26:33.

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You are in a race to get to the finish line. Remember it is the tortoise that always finishes first; haste makes waste.See Car, Race and Competition.

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You will win more than a race despite keen rivalry.

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Being controlled and rushed into doing something

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See Contest, Race, Sports and Jealousy.

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1. Preparing for the race of faith; Ps. 147:10.

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1. A person of a different race is generally interpreted as “Foreign.”1 Cor. 15:46.

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If you dreamed of rowing a boat, or of being rowed in one, you can expect to make steady progress along your chosen path.See also Oar and Race.

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The mark at the end of the race, the finish line in a dream indicates that you are very close to completing some chapter, cycle, or process.

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