Train
To dream of train represents situations in your life that you feel will take a long time of "staying on track" while waiting to complete. Long-term projects or plans you are working on. Feelings about your life "being on track." Train dreams often reflect the long-term nature of life or our expectations about things that may take years to complete. Being carried forward by a larger life direction, long-term plan, or inevitable process that is already in motion. Feeling that long-term situations are on autopilot as long as you "stay of track." A long-term "journey" with some area of your life.
Negatively, a train in a dream may reflect feelings about long-term plans you can't control. Awareness of wasting time on waiting for long-term plans. Problems or distractions while waiting for long-term plans to be completed. Feeling trapped, rushed, or powerless to change the direction of a long-term situation. Feeling that life is moving too fast, too slow, or in a way you didn�t fully choose. Feeling that once you commit, you can�t easily reverse a long-term decision.
To dream of missing a train may represent feelings about having missed out on an important long-term opportunity or falling behind on a long-term plan. Missing out on a new phase in your life. Fear that an opportunity may not return, or that catching up will require significant effort. Concerns about being left behind while others continue progressing with their lives.
To dream of being hit by a train may represent neglecting to consider someone else's long-term plans which are more important than your current plans. Feelings about being overwhelmed, shocked, or blindsided by the consequences of a long-term situation, decision, or direction in your life. Feeling powerless against a momentum that is too strong to stop. A powerful wake-up call that a long-term plan, habit, or life path you ignored or underestimated has suddenly become unavoidable.
To dream of being on a train that is going in the opposite direction to another train may represent feelings about different long-term directions in life than other people. A long-term plan that requires "staying on track" to be in direct conflict with someone else's plans. Feeling that you are drifting apart from other people or that long-term goals have nothing in common with others.
To dream of running on top of a moving train may represent feelings about taking risks, exerting extra effort, or pushing yourself beyond safe or maximum limits in order to keep up with a long-term plan or life direction. Feeling that simply "staying on track" isn't enough, and that you must actively struggle, prove yourself, or perform under pressure to keep pace with expectations, responsibilities, or a life path that doesn�t slow down for your comfort. Impatience with a situation that you know will take a long time to finish.
Many people who are mourning the loss of a loved one often dream of them leaving on trains.
Example: A woman dreamed of getting on an uncomfortable crowded train with no room to sit. In waking life, her boyfriend had just died, and she didn't know what to do with the rest of her life. In this case, the train may have reflected her feelings about being forced onto a long and uncomfortable life journey without her boyfriend with the start of this journey being the funeral (crowded train).
Example 2: A man dreamed of being on a train and speaking to people who would never believe him. In waking life, he experienced a spiritual awakening after taking an Amazonian hallucinogenic tea called ayahuasca. In this case, the train may have reflected the new spiritual journey he was on and how he felt that nobody would believe anything he said about his hallucinogenic experience for the rest of his life because it was too weird.
Example 3: A woman dreamed of being on a train going in one direction and seeing a passing train going in another direction with her mother on it. In waking life, she felt that the death of her mother was causing her to move in completely different directions in life from her family after her mother died.
Example 4: A woman dreamed of being on a train that unexpectedly stopped. In waking life, she was experiencing serious relationship problems. In this case, the train that stopped may have reflected her feelings about her long-term expectations for the relationship being in jeopardy.
Example 5: A man dreamed of running on the top of a train. In waking life, he was very impatient about getting a new job after having lost his old job. He knew getting a new job would take a long time, but he was making extra effort to look like he was trying hard to get a job because he didn't want to look like he wasn't appreciating his wife's support. In this case, running on the roof of the train may have reflected his feelings about faking exerting extra effort beyond normal limits in order to keep his wife supporting him while job hunting might take longer than he expected.
Example 6: A woman dreamed of getting off a train. In waking life, she had raised her teenage granddaughter and was starting to get annoyed by her granddaughter's relationship problems. In this case, the train may have reflected her feelings about raising her teenage granddaughter being a long-term goal that required "staying on track" in order to raise her right.
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