Reviewing these symbols will log them into your subconscious mind and help make the most of the time you sleep in two ways. First it will give you material, much like tubes of pigment for a painter, to build your dreams on. Second knowing the meanings of these common symbols will help in interpretation so that you can glean the accurate meaning and use the information to enhance the quality of your life.
1. Dreams of Vehicles
The meanings of planes, trains and automobiles. Boats, bicycles, elevator cars, and other means of transportation. Any vehicle can represent, in addition to the obvious literal item, your body, since the body is the vehicle of the mind and spirit.
Airplane: Planes and jets allow high speed air travel, they can represent that the dreamer is moving fast and high along the life path. A private jet could indicate prestige, wealth and success. Military planes could represent conflict or battle. Battling with
yourself or with others. Since air has to do with the mental aspect of the self (water is the spiritual and land the physical aspect), a plane in the air could represent fast moving thoughts, or rapidly changing your mind about something. You know? Like when somebody asks you who you think are the most beautiful woman in the world, and you answer "Halle Berry" and then you realize that your wife is in the room, so you rapidly add, "...would be second, after my gorgeous and forgiving wife."
Automobile: Is yours sporty or an old clunker? Is it time to get back to the gym? Also look at the parts; tires may represent feet, headlights eyes and so forth. If you are driving the car you are in control of your life, if no one is driving you may be out of control. If someone else is driving, ask yourself, who have I given my power to? Many people dream that they can't touch the brakes or the steering wheel; watch out you are out of control. What's causing the problem? An addiction? Procrastination? Whatever it is, time to slow down and take back your power.
Bicycle: A bicycle requires balance to be ridden and thus is associated with a need for balance in the life of the dreamer. Where is there a need for balance; work and home life, friends and family, healthy food and junk food, fear and courage? A need to simplify life or go back to simpler times.
Motorcycle: Read bicycle above but add the speed that the motor contributes. You may be affected by an issue of balance even faster and hit even harder. Motorcycles are also associated with being a free spirit, a part of a riding group or gang, a sense of antiestablishment philosophy. However they get good gas mileage and can get past a traffic jam with ease. Look to your own associations and with the rest of the dream for more clues as to the meaning of this symbol.
Elevator: In the language of dreams elevators going up symbolize a rise in status, title, financial gain and the like. Moving down could be losing a job or losing face in a situation. If the elevator car moves horizontally then, there is no upward motion at this time, if it launches out to space, hold on, you’re about to be a super star!
Train: Old-fashioned mode of transportation. A train can only move forward or backwards along a track. No freedom. One track mind. There is a romance about this method of transportation though, a feeling of slower times and old fashioned manners. Subway train is different of course. Since it is underground it can have to do with the subconscious mind. What do you associate with the subway? Heat, crime, smelly stagnant air or cheap but fast transportation? I once had a dream where I was in Manhattan, NY and I decided to walk underground using the subway tunnels instead of the side walks because they were so crowded, I wanted to get somewhere fast. But the tunnel ended at the end of the station and my idea was foiled. I have no idea how the trains got through. But that is the beauty of dreams, while they aren’t necessarily logical, they are always meaningful.
Boats: Floating or moving on the water, in the language of dreams--the surface of the unconscious mind. The unconscious is where inspirations, motivations and desires come from. Dreams are a vehicle for getting in contact with the Creator and with our own creativity. What type of boat and what it is doing has a lot to say about its meaning? Look at the characteristics, is it a tug, or a row boat moving slowly, or a jet boat racing along just above the water’s surface? Is it sleek or cumbersome? Is it a cruise ship? If so, your dream has to do with recreation and a need for rest. As with all vehicles if you are at the helm you are in charge of your life, in this case your emotional life because water has to do with emotions (think tears and cleansing). Likewise if your boat is without sails or motor or oars your emotional life is at a standstill. If your ship is sinking you’re overwhelmed!
Submarine: A vehicle that can navigate easily below the surface, much like an animal that lives there can represents something that dwells in the unconscious mind that is surfacing for your edification. Therefore an unconscious motivation or inspiration may be exposed at this time to help you.
