Sports Car

To dream of a sports car represents feelings about decision-making or being in control of a situation where you are focused on being faster than other people or getting away with something. Easily getting ahead of other people in a situation. Your attempts to get what you want in life while feeling in control, capable, and experiencing little resistance.

Negatively, dreaming of a sports car represents feelings of enjoying getting away with arrogant behavior, being faster than other people, dishonesty, or crime. Feeling faster in life than weaker, less intelligent, or innocent people. Not being intelligent about being too fast about being in total control of a situation.

To dream of a red sports car represents feelings about being passionate, arrogant, or dangerous about decision making that feels good being faster than other people or getting away with things. Successfully doing what you want with little regard for being held back or told to stop. Negatively, a red sports car may reflect decision-making that feels good getting away with being immoral or dishonest. Getting ahead at all costs.

To dream of a car accident with a sports car represents feelings about a problem or difficulty that is making you feel less powerful or less in control of your life while you were trying to be faster than other people or get away with something. Arguments, poor decisions, or arrogance that stopped your ability to be faster than other people or get away with something. Getting away with something dishonest that came to terms with problems or someone else's honesty. A problem or oversight that has reversed an attitude that originally felt it was faster than other people. Feeling caught with a crime after believing it would be easy.

Dreaming about a sports car is common for rich or successful people. It's also common for people who are making important business decisions.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing another woman getting out of a sports car. In waking life, she was suspicious that her husband was cheating on her after he accidentally called her by another woman's name. In this case, the sports car may have reflected her feelings about the competitive nature of the woman she suspected her husband was cheating on her with. The sports car may also symbolize her feelings about the other woman getting away with the affair.

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Accident

To dream of being in an accident represents waking life errors of judgment or mistakes you've made. Feelings about an oversight you've made or weren't thinking about your actions carefully beforehand. Feelings about having a problem you need to fix. Conflicting ideas, goals, or situations. Conflicting decision-making or directions in life with someone else. Relationships, friendships, or business decisions in conflict with similar goals.

Car accidents in a dream may also reflect a collision of ideas or agendas with other people. Two people getting into a fight about different ways of living and not wanting to talk to each other anymore. A social mishap that neither you nor other people want to be responsible for.

To dream of other objects or vehicles other than cars crashing may reflect feelings about potential problems arising in your life. Failures. Conflicts or embarrassments. Fighting or arguments. A successful area of your life that has suddenly stopped. Conflicting agendas of different people colliding.

Example: A young man dreamed of crashing his car into another car. In waking life, this man's friend found out that he was sleeping with his ex-girlfriend and he had to stop the affair. The crash reflected the conflicting direction of their lives coming to an end.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of getting into a car accident. In waking life she was trying her best to avoid an ex-boyfriend whom she tried to be friends with before finding out he had a new woman pregnant.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of getting into a car accident. In waking life, she got into an argument with her friend and stopped being friends.

Example 4: A man dreamed of getting into a car accident and not knowing how to fix the vehicle. In waking life, he was drawn into a serious problem with people he used to know and police refused to assist him with the problem.

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Carjacked

To dream that you have been carjacked represents a forced change in decisions or the direction in life you are headed. You may feel fear, problems, or other people are interfering with your ability to proceed. Something is stopping you from making choices that you were making.

You may have lost your direction in life or circumstances in your life have lead you on a different course.

Cars

To dream of cars represents feelings about your ability to be in total control of the direction or speed a situation is going that doesn't have to stop if you don't want to. Operating a car reflects how competent at managing a situation you or some aspect of your personality is. Who or what is in control of the direction and speed a situation in your life is going.

The type of car represents the style of decision-making or control being exerted over a situation. The type of car may also reflect how you feel as you go about controlling decision making in a new way. People who drive your car represent aspects of yourself or projections of other people who are guiding your choices. People riding along with you in a car reflect aspects of your personality that are influencing your choices or problems that are "coming along for the ride" as you work towards a goal.

Cheap or rundown vehicles reflect vulnerability, a lack of resources, or a lack of impressiveness with your style of controlling decision-making in a situation. Not feeling like a big winner or feeling that showing off looks stupid.

Expensive or powerful vehicles reflect the impressiveness of decisions, effectiveness, or a direction in life that is unstoppable. Feeling like a winner with an effective method of controlling the decision-making over a situation.

To dream of getting a new car may represent feelings about a new ability to be in total control of the direction or speed a situation is going that doesn't have to stop if you don't want to. A new approach to controlling decision-making as you take on a new relationship, new job, or start a new project. A fresh start or a new way of going about your business. A new decision-making style.

To dream of being unable to find your car represents feelings of being cut off from being allowed to control decision-making related to the direction and speed a situation to going. Surprise that your ability to control decision-making is not possible or allowed. Feeling that you have not gotten what you bargained for. Feeling that your normal decision-making style is not giving you the satisfaction that you thought it would. A situation that leaves you feeling embarrassed or confused. You may feel that there is no meaning to some area of your life. You may not know what you really want to do with your life or where you want to go.

To dream of your car being out of control represents feelings about life situations where you feel a compromised sense of control over decision-making. Feeling that you are losing control of a situation. Managing a situation or people is difficult. Feeling you have lost a sense of stability with control over a situation.

To dream of a stolen car represents feelings of being stripped of your identity or ability to control the speed and direction of a situation. The loss of your job, a failed relationship, or some situation where you feel your role or momentum has been compromised. Feeling that a situation is not honest about letting you remain in control or make decisions freely.

Negatively, dreaming about your car being stolen may represent feelings about thinking you are better than someone else being abruptly cut off. Feeling embarrassed for being selfish, arrogant, or deluded in your decision-making abilities. Dishonest self-control over a situation that suddenly got cut off. Disbelief that you are no longer in control of a situation where you were totally selfish to the point that someone else embarrassed you by shutting you off. Feeling that someone else isn't supportive of you being in control of a situation anymore.

To dream of a car that won't start represents feelings of being unable to start making decisions because of problems, delays, or frustrations. Controlling the direction and speed of a situation is not possible to begin with.

To dream of fixing your car represents your attempt to restore control over a decision-making process in your life that was sidetracked with problems or delays. Trying to get back on track in your life. Getting back your ability to control the direction your life is taking. Restoring your ability to progress or push ahead in some area of your life. Restoring your ability to freely make decisions or be in control of your own life. Negatively, fixing your car may reflect feelings of being sidetracked or prevented from doing what you feel you should be doing.

To dream of a car that is sinking in water represents feelings of being overwhelmed by uncertainty as you attempt to take control the direction and speed of a situation. Decision-making abilities are being overwhelmed by negative emotions or problems that are too big to control.

To dream of being in the backseat of a car may represent feelings about not being in control of a situation you are experiencing. Feeling that other people are controlling the direction of your life or that decisions you've made can't be stopped. Feeling that you are not in control of your own destiny. Feeling that someone is interfering with the direction of your life.

To dream that other people are in the backseat may reflect feelings about being in full control of a situation while other areas of your life or problems are being "carried along." Feeling able to effectively manage a situation away from problems as a leader. Negatively, it may reflect your tendency to take control of a situation and not listen to other people. Temporarily taking control over a situation with serious problems that could get worse. Casual control of something that is more powerful than you are to the point of being dangerous. Not respecting something that is bigger or more important than you are while you are in control of a situation.

To dream of a car on fire represents feelings about losing your ability to control the direction and speed of a situation to intense danger, anger, stress, or recklessness that is out of control. Control over decision-making that has been lost to other people hating you. A loss of control over a situation while also experiencing ongoing financial loss. The dream suggests that your plans or actions are leading to a potentially catastrophic outcome, and it may be time to reevaluate your approach. Alternatively, the car on fire could represent a sense of loss or failure in regard to something you have worked hard for, such as a job or relationship. You are unable to feel that you are in control of a situation anymore.

To dream of a black car represents control over a situation with a professional attitude about decision-making or control over a situation. Alternatively, dreaming of a black car may reflect decision-making that is considered excessive. Control over a situation that scares you. Fearing others being in total control of a situation you can't control at all.

To dream of a red car represents control over a situation that is passionate and driven by a desire to achieve. It may reflect the enjoyment of a successful and fulfilling career or project that one is deeply committed to. Enjoying your life being rich or successful because you are passionate about what you are doing for a living. Negatively, dreaming about a red car represents decision-making control over a situation that is dangerous and illegal, while knowing what you are doing is wrong. Danger or illegal decisions as the boss of a situation. Enjoying being a snob who never has to listen to anyone else tell you what to do. Getting away with dishonesty or immorality all the time. Knowing what you are doing is dangerous.

To dream of a light blue car represents control over a situation that is very sensitive, thoughtful, or very well-intentioned. A high degree of concern for honesty or caring about others feelings. Control over a situation where you or others are very concerned with caring for others. Positive management or control over a situation.

To dream of a dark blue car may reflect control over a situation in a manner that is very insensitive or brutally honest. Controlling a situation where being mean feels necessary. An all-business or emotionally immune honest attitude about control.

People changing jobs in waking life often dream of driving in a car that is not their real car. A possible reflection of a decision-making style that is not a usual style. Making decisions that you don't want to make while you change your life or adapt to your new job.

Older or elderly people may dream of cars that are too damaged or worn out to repair, often reflecting the aging process making certain areas of their lives impossible to continue with.

Pregnant women often dream of driving big trucks, buses, or cars that are difficult to maneuver.

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Example: A woman dreamed of losing her car. In waking life, she was unhappy with the direction her career was going because it had not brought her the happiness that she had expected it would. In this case, the lost car may have reflected the dreamer's feeling of losing a sense of control over the direction and speed her career was taking because it was boring.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of being in the backseat of a car that started moving and screaming "I'm not ready to go!" In waking life, she was experiencing anxiety before a surgical operation that was about to take place. In this case, being in the backseat of a car may have reflected her feelings of being "in the back seat" of the doctors controlling her life with the scheduled surgery.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of driving her mother's car. In waking life, she felt that her attitude and decision-making style in a situation she was involved in were based on her mother's influence and not her own.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of her car burning. In waking life, she was experiencing serious financial problems at work with no easy way to solve them. She felt unable to conduct business properly while losing a lot of money. In this case, the burning car may have reflected her feelings of financial ruin along with a sense of loss of control over the direction and speed that her work life was going.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of being in the backseat of a car. In waking life, she felt that other people had interfered with her relationship and caused it to break up. In this case, being in the back seat of the car may have reflected the dreamer's feeling of being a passive observer in her own life and the sense that other people were in control of the direction and outcome of her relationship. The backseat of the car may symbolize her feeling of being a passive passenger in her own life, without a sense of control or agency.

Example 6: A young man dreamed of crashing his car into another car while he tried to turn off the highway. In waking life, he got caught having sex with his friend's ex-girlfriend while trying to stop the relationship from reuniting. In this case, cars crashing into each other may have reflected the collision of 2 different people's lives with different views of control over the speed and direction that a relationship with the ex-girlfriend should take while neither wanted to stop their way.

Example 7: A woman dreamed of getting a new car. In waking life, she had decided to take her new relationship seriously. In this case, the car may have reflected her feelings about being in control of direction and speed that her dating life was going as she focused on not being single.

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Driving

To dream of driving a vehicle represents full control of decision-making or the direction a situation you are experiencing is taking. Controlling or navigating the direction in life you are headed. Increased feelings of controlling outcomes or your destiny. Whoever is driving reflects the quality or aspect of yourself that is influencing your current path.

If you are driving and can't see the road ahead it's a sign that you do not know where you are headed in life or don't know what to expect in the near future.

To dream of driving and missing your turn may be a sign that you are not paying adequate attention to a situation. Awareness of yourself not having cared enough about what is going on. Oversights or frustrations about having to start over or "turn around."

To dream of driving too fast may reflect risky decisions or pushing yourself to dangerous limits. Alternatively, dreaming of being in a car that someone else is is driving too fast may reflect your anxiety about how quickly a situation is occurring without any ability to slow it down. It's a common experience for people to dream of driving too fast or driving without brakes before an illness or injury occurs.

To dream that you are driving at night, suggests that you are feel a lack of confidence or enthusiasm for the direction in life you are headed. You feel that something is not as good as it used to or has taken a turn for the worst. You may be unsure of where you are headed in life. You may be experiencing obstacles toward your goals. You may not feel good making certain decisions or you are afraid to continue on. You may be feeling apprehensive about the future.

If your view is blocked or obstructed while you are driving it reflects distractions or setbacks. If you are driving down a curvy road it represents difficulties in achieving your goals due to a lack of stability or certainty. You may even feel that your direction in life never stays the same.

To dream that you car has poor controls or missing parts represents a compromised sense of control of a current situation.

To dream of your car spinning out of control represents your feelings about your life not going as planned. A crisis, setback, or difficulty may be occurring.

To dream of driving big or bulky vehicles may reflect sensitive decision making about very important or awkward situations. It may also reflect problems with your ability to physically move around. Pregnant women, people with weight gain, or leg casts often have these types of dreams.

Example: A woman dreamed of 5 year-old girl she knew driving her car. This young girl was someone she felt was spoiled. In waking life she felt her own behavior had been very childish when dealing with a situation.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of an Italian man driving her car. In waking life she was having very strong sexual drives. The Italian man most likely reflect her assertive need to encourage feeling good with her husband.

Example 3: A young girl dreamed of having a crazy woman driving a car she was in. In waking life she had been taken to another country by her mother despite her objections and felt totally out of control of her life.

Example 4: A man dreamed of having difficulty driving his car and then slowly regaining control. In waking life he was recovering from an illness.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of driving her ex-boyfriend's car. In waking life she was having sex with him all the time to try to keep him interested in her while she got prepared to get pregnant without his knowledge.

Example 6: A man dreamed of driving a car and driving in a direction opposite to what other people were telling him. In waking life he was looking for a job in another state and considering moving his family with him because he thought it was best.

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Hearse

To dream of a hearse funeral car represents feelings about decision-making or management of a situation that involves settling a failure. Settling a serious change. Respectfully managing someone else's failure. Involvement in a situation that requires helping someone move on from a failure or serious change. You are dealing with some kind of unfinished business.

Negatively, dreaming about a hearse may reflect feelings about delays you are experiencing while managing failure or unwanted changes. Feeling that your involvement in a situation revolves too much around dealing with failures and changes instead of on starting something new. Feeling unable to get a break from current responsibilities because you are heavily involved in a closure process.

Alternatively, dreaming about a hearse may reflect situations where you or someone else is making an obvious display to others about being heavily involved in a situation with pending closure.

A hearse car in a dream might in some cases reflect a person's frustration or unhappiness with dealing with a real life death.

Knob

To dream of a turning a door knob represents thoughts about caring about making the choice to go all the way through with something different in order to progress, access something, new opportunities, or a change.

To dream of turning a door knob and the door is locked may reflect your thoughts about a choice being easy to go through with, but feel that you're not allowed to. Frustration or jealousy that what you want to make happen isn't possible.

Example: A woman dreamed of a door knob being put on backwards that made it impossible to stop a man from entering to kill her. In waking life she was feeling unsure if she wanted to continue her relationship as she felt the relationship was stale. In this case the door knob that was put on backwards may have reflected her feelings about being unable to control her boyfriend from breaking up with her first after she made it obvious that she wanted to make the choice herself.

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Knocking

To dream of knocking represents you or someone else that wants to be noticed. It may also reflect a situation that is forcing you to notice it's importance.

To dream of a loud knock at the door represents feelings of seriousness about some person or area of your life demanding acknowledgement. Feelings about a problem that can't be ignored anymore. Feeling that someone is very angry with you while you prefer to ignore them. Feeling nervous about confronting a problem. Feeling that someone is testing your nerves.

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Lock

To dream of a lock represents a sense of restriction, confinement, or security in a situation or relationship. It may symbolize boundaries, obstacles, or the need for control and privacy in certain aspects of your life. A lock can also indicate the feeling of ownership or protectiveness over something or someone.

To dream of locking something may represent restrictions you are making for others or your attempt to shut off others completely. Alternatively, you may feel that certain demands must be met emotionally or situationally by someone else. You feel a sense of ownership over something. Establishing boundaries or a need for control and privacy.

To dream of unlocking may represent new opportunities or a sense of liberation from previous restrictions and limitations. You may be experiencing newfound freedom in a relationship, career, or personal growth. Unlocking can symbolize overcoming obstacles, solving problems, or gaining access to previously inaccessible resources or information. It might also indicate a shift in your mindset, allowing you to explore new perspectives, ideas, or ways of thinking that had been previously unavailable or unattainable. Feelings about someone giving you permission to do something they previously didn't.

To dream of being locked out represents feelings of exclusion or being left out. You may feel that your freedom or independence is being limited by external circumstances, such as policies or regulations, or by internal factors like fear or self-doubt. You may feel cut off or kept away from something. You may also feel unable to see something. An obstacle, boundary, or impossible requirement feel imposed on you. A lock could also reflect someone else's sense of ownership. Alternatively, you may feel that you're unable to see someone else's hidden motives.

To dream of being locked in represents feelings of entrapment, confinement, or powerlessness within a situation or relationship. You may feel stuck, unable to make progress, or unable to escape a certain circumstance. This could also indicate a perceived lack of control over your own life or decisions. Being locked in might symbolize a need to confront your fears, reevaluate your choices, or seek help in order to regain your freedom and sense of autonomy. It can also reflect feelings of helplessness and a need for change or intervention to break free from the constraints that are holding you back.

To dream of your key not working on a lock may represent feelings of frustration, helplessness, or inadequacy in finding a solution to a problem or obstacle in your life. You may be experiencing difficulties in accessing something important to you, or you might be struggling to make progress in a situation. This could also symbolize a need for change, adaptability, or exploring alternative approaches, as your current methods or mindset may not be effective in addressing the challenges you are facing. A need to find new answers or insight into your problems. You may have to try something new to find a solution.

To dream of picking a lock represents your desire to defy boundaries, rules, or expectations placed upon you. It may symbolize your determination to access something that is off-limits or restricted, or your unwillingness to accept limitations in your life. Picking a lock in your dream could also indicate your resourcefulness and creativity in finding unconventional ways to solve problems or overcome obstacles, asserting your independence and personal power in the process.

To dream of being unable to lock something may reflect feelings of insecurity, vulnerability, or a lack of control in a situation or relationship. It could indicate that you are struggling to establish boundaries, protect your privacy, or maintain a sense of ownership over something or someone. This might also symbolize a fear of intrusion or the inability to keep unwanted influences at bay. Alternatively, it could represent feelings of incompetence or inadequacy in safeguarding what you value or care about, prompting you to reassess your priorities or seek more effective means of protection and control.

Example: A woman dreamed being unable to lock a door and feeling unsafe. In waking life, she feared that her husband's sex addiction couldn't be stopped and that it would ruin their marriage. In this case, being unable to lock a door may have reflected her feelings of powerlessness and insecurity in her relationship, as well as her inability to establish boundaries or protect her emotional well-being from her husband's addiction.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of being locked in her apartment. In waking life, she was unhappy in her marriage and days later began discussing separation with her husband. In this case, being locked in the apartment may have reflected her unpleasant feelings about being trapped in her relationship or living situation with her husband.

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Mechanic

To dream of a mechanic represents feelings about a thinking style or decision-making style being wrong. Feeling that your lifestyle "needs to be repaired." Feeling that your life needs a change to help you become a bigger winner or "get back on track." Advice or acknowledgement about what kinds of changes you will require to return to a happy or smoother functioning life.

A mechanic may reflect insight or acknowledgement about your flaws or oversights. Realizing that there is a need to be more sophisticated about your approach to goals. It may also reflect the healing past hurts or traumas that are holding you back. Repairing or changing some area of your life that has stopped you from making progress.

To dream that you are a mechanic may reflect informing others about what they have to do to make their choices or goals work. Helping others be more intelligent about the choices or decision-making. Revealing to others their lack of understanding or sophistication with their methods or decision styles. Feelings about yourself helping others move on from trauma, bad relationships, or painful conflict. Helping others learn about flaws or weaknesses that stop them from being a bigger winner.

Example: A man dreamed of an incompetent mechanic that tried to fix his car, but left it with a fatal error. In waking life was recently divorced and felt that he had made a big mistake in choosing to start dating a woman that he was too afraid to break up with. The incompetent mechanic in this case may have reflected his feelings about his decision-making style regarding dating women needing some changes.

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Model

To dream of being fashion model represents your awareness of yourself doing something better than others all the time. Being a perfect example of "positiver" behavior. Being noticed for doing something the best way. Portraying certain image to others. Negatively, a model may reflect narcissism.

Alternatively, a model may reflect you view of someone else that you are noticing is doing something better than you are. You may be striving for something that's unrealistic. Your idea of beauty.

To dream of a model car represents your observation of what it's like to live or make decisions in a certain way. Noticing all the details of a certain lifestyle or what it takes to be like someone else. A developmental phase of your life or laying out a plan. Negatively, you may be desiring too much to be something you are not or that is currently not possible.

To dream of a model airplane represents your close observation of all it takes to win or succeed at something. Being aware of all it takes to get a project or plan going.

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San Francisco Streetcar

To dream of a San Francisco streetcar (cable car) represents a journey or experience in life that is both pleasant and unstoppable. A pleasurable recurring experience. Often a symbol for successful people waiting for their paychecks.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing a San Francisco Streetcar on fire. In real life he was independently wealthy from an automated web business that was under threat from competition and he feared losing a lot of money.

Streetcar

To dream of a streetcar represents a direction in life that is certain and irreversible. A situation where there is no turning around or an an experience that happens whether you like it or not. An unstoppable recurring experience that you can confidently rely on.

Positively, a streetcar may reflect confidence in business or employment with regular paychecks. Negatively, a streetcar may reflect feelings about aging and birthdays leading to death.

To dream of a streetcar on fire may reflect feelings about fearing losing something that you have always confidently relied on. Fearing losing your regular paycheck or income source.

Example: A old man had a recurring dream of a streetcar that would open it's doors and have the driver tell him it wasn't his train yet. In real life he was an elderly man that spent a lot of time thinking about when he was going to die. The streetcar may have reflected his feelings about doctor's visits always having the potential to reveal to him that his old age had finally caught up with him and that he should prepare to accept his aging becoming an unstoppable journey towards death. He was always surprises that the doctor would tell him that we has perfectly healthy and wasn't dying yet.

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