The Dream Hat Zoo #4

Often, in our dreams we find that we are in some sort of vehicle.  Either we are controlling the vehicle, or it is "taking us" somewhere. We will do a section on observing vehicles, etc. from the outside, in another section. You can pretty much, from these examples, deduce what being outside of these modes of transportation can mean.  Write me if you have any questions.

Keep in mind that all these dreams can also relate to the dreamer's personal life if vehicles are involved that the dreamer commonly uses.  Skaters will dream of skating more than other people.  Dream can mean more to them relative to a competition or drive to succeed.  Race car drivers, or vintage car owners can have a special meaning attached to their dreams of these vehicles.  Same for boat owners, sailors, etc. 

Vehicles

We are driving: (It's about us and what we are doing.)  What drives us, our "drive", etc.

Others driving: (It's about what is controlling our life, elements, others, etc.)

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.

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.

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.  Black cars can have a negative connotation as well.  They can bring sad news.  Black cars are a warning that we need to pay attention, make some changes or we will be in deeper trouble.

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 them, live with them or love them.

White car: Energy, health, strength, naivety (usually with surprisingly good outcome!) Best intentions, and often portends good luck or fortuitous events unfolding.  Often when a new baby is expected, those closest to the child's family will have "white car" dreams. 

Blue car: Religious or spiritual motivation.  Dirty blue car is a deceiver who is pretending to be a spiritual or religious individual. 

Red Vehicle: Anger, greed, fear, jealousy, hunger for power, sexual conquest.  Red cars can also represent reckless behaviors.

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. 

Boats: 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.

Rough water indicates that there is some major emotional effect coming soon, or that the dreamer is presently in.  This could be the loss of a job, the break up of a relationship or the death of a close friend or loved one.  How we handle ourselves in the dream is an indication of how we are, or will be handling the situation in walking life. 

It is good to note here that almost every dream like this carries a "rescuer".  There is either an animal in the water (emotional resources) or a dingy, or a radio call (need to call help to help get you over the worst of it) or another boat (indicating assistance from those who have been there, done that before. Or perhaps, people becoming aware of your needs and offering assistance.)

Rivers: Going down the river, and how you go down it will indicate whether you are going with the flow of your life and meeting your destiny in a harmonious way, or if you are battling the currents, trying to impose your will on life and others, to obtain a sense of security unrealistic and unworkable in walking life. 

Pulling over to the bank and taking a "break" in the journey can either indicate you are working too hard and need to take a rest, or that some illness or injury has occurred (or could occur) that would force you to rest.  These breaks are times for the body, mind and spirit to do some inner healing, regenerating and reviewing.

Ocean Liners: 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. 

Trains: 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. 

Elevators: These are a form of transportation as well.  Especially for those of us in need of a short-cut!  Elevators can reveal things about the physical body that are important.  If the building is a familiar one in the dream (regardless of how familiar or known it is in the walking life) the dream is about one's own physical, emotional or mental health, depending on where the elevator takes you.  It can also take you to the present (ground floors) or to the past (basement, parking lots, store rooms).  It can take you to the future (roof, penthouse, upper floors).  It can take you to your intestinal or lower body areas (basement- stomach; parking lot or ground floor - legs and feet; windows - eyes (outlook); upper floors - head and ego. 

NOTE: Attics also represent parts of the person's way of thinking: I.e., things stored (memories) and sound or unsound approaches or behaviors... depending of course, on whether the attic is orderly, or with holes and rot in the roof above. 

When the Elevator goes Sideways... figure you are in a more psychic, spiritual setting and being taken to different areas (aspects of your life, or situation you are involved in) to be shown the information you need to either resolve a situation to your liking, or accept the outcome as beyond your ability to control.

When the Elevator starts to fall... aside from "this could be a warning to be careful about being on elevators..." in general it relates to the dreamer who is being sabotaged in waking life by someone who is "helping" them.  Just as the dreamer in waking life is about to embark on a new job, new relationship, new home, education, etc... someone close to them who wants to keep them dependent, crippled and guilt-ridden, begins to remind them of past failures, or worse yet, they become sick or upset and the dreamer feels an imperative to once again sacrifice their life, ambitions, etc... to nurture the crippled "helper" in their life.  "You can always get another boyfriend/girlfriend, job, go to school another time, move to another apartment, etc.,"  If your elevator dreams are dreams of the elevator falling, and you are emotionally bound to a destructive parent, mate or sibling, you need to make the choice to save yourself, regardless of how others will condemn your "selfishness" .  Hey, I have seen mothers fake suicide to prevent their daughters from getting married!  I have seen fathers withdraw financial support just as a business is getting off the ground, and burden the dreamer with additional debt just to make it impossible to escape the parental control feature in their egos!  But it can be done.

If in the dream you are the one making the elevator fall, you are the one in waking life who is sabotaging yourself.  Check in with counseling to see how to overcome your fear of success and change in life. 

The point is, if you don't make the changes, chances are very great that you will pass your victimhood on to your children, and use the same gimmicks to emotionally blackmail them the way you were emotionally blackmailed.  Very destructive cycle here.  But, it is one that can be changed.

Bicycles:  The dreamer often finds themselves in a variety of transportation modes.  Bicycles often indicate that the path they are on right now requires a great deal of attention to detail, patience and work.  Depending on how wide or narrow the path, how rough or smooth, how level or up and down, all indicate the emotional impact currently experienced by the dreamer in their walking life. Personal effort, even a sense that the dreamer in walking life, must do most or all of the work without assistance from others.

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: A more 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. 

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.

Roller Blades and other Skates: (Not Ice Skates)  Indicates that the dreamer is either doing things the hard way or having so much fun they don't know they are "working"  (depends on the terrain one is skating over).  Skating over the heads of others would indicate that the dreamer, despite evidence to the contrary, is going to succeed beyond the expectations of those around them.  The dreamer who finds their dream journey is on skates will also find they have quick wit, and a good sense of humor.  All of this makes it appear to others in walking life, that things "come easy" to them.

Ice Skates: Indicate that the dreamer is capable of moving or changing at great speed.  Emotionally solid, even "aloof" at times, this person is in very good control (if the dream doesn't involve falling on one's behind!) of their emotional side.  Their buttons are not easily found or activated. 

If the dreamer falls on the ice, the dreamer is being cautioned to "slow down" and take more information into consideration lest they suffer an embarrassing loss.

Note: Walking on ice indicates an inability to emotionally relate to those who are the closest to the dreamer in their waking life.  This may be because the dreamer is emotionally disconnected, or their partner is emotionally unavailable. 

Walking on ice around people who are lying down indicates that the dreamer has to remain emotionally uninvolved in their line of work.  Surgeons, paramedics, police, etc... cannot afford to become emotionally entangled in the cases and events they are working on and this sometimes leaves them in the double bind of not being able to connect emotionally in circumstances where they feel they should, or being misread as "cold" or "aloof" or even "uncaring" by those they are working to assist.  They will have "walking on ice" dreams from time to time and need to sort out if it is a problem or not.