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What are driving dreams about?

To drive in a dream is to leave something and head towards another thing. You can drive towards something. You can drive away from something. This symbol is identified by words like drive.

Driving in dreams is a common dream symbol, occuring in about 7.3% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 15 dreams.

What are the major highlights of driving dreams?

Driving is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having driving in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.

How does the dream symbol of driving affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of driving

Who is in driving dreams?

Overall, dreams with driving are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of driving are more related to different roles, more related to close people, and more related to family than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to fantastic beings.

Animals

less than usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

more than usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

more than usual

Family

more than usual

Romantic partners

more than usual
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What are the emotions in driving dreams?

Overall, dreams with driving are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of driving are less related to happiness, less related to embarrassment, and less related to pain.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in driving dreams?

Overall, dreams with driving are more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of driving are much more related to home, more related to work, and more related to human places than dreams in general.

Home

much more than usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

more than usual

Transportation

much more than usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in driving dreams?

Overall, dreams with driving are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of driving are less related to friendly interactions.

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

the same as usual
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How do driving in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with driving are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of driving are more related to recurring dreams and more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

more than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

more than usual
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How do driving in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with driving are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of driving are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to taste.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

the same as usual
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How can you make sense of driving in dreams?

Driving dreams are common. Among other things driving dreams are very postively interconnected.

Do you think this is true for your dream of driving? How might your dream of driving be different?

All dreams have meaning

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

Look for the differences

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience driving in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Return to the feelings

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about driving in dreams. See how you feel about driving now, in your waking life.

Examples of dreams of driving

Read some real dream reports of driving dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.

Has anyone else felt like they saw into the future?

I had a dream where I was at a lake that I had never seen. It wasn't the weirdest dream that I had ever had, but it stuck in my memory for whatever reason.

About a year later I'm driving past this lake and it seems very familiar. I remembered the dream and realize that it is the exact same lake. It was not just very similar I knew that it was the exact same lake I saw In my dream a year earlier.

Has anyone else experienced something like this?

I had a dream where I was at a lake that I had never seen. It wasn't the weirdest dream that I had ever had, but it stuck in my memory for whatever...

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Had a dream when I was 10 with a girl I didn’t know in it. We’re dating now.

I’ll try to keep this as short as possible, I have ADHD and my stories turn into ramblings most of the time.

Anyways.

When I was about 10 or so, I had this dream where me and this random girl were playing and just having fun doing kid stuff. Suddenly I got the urge to tell her “this is a dream, and I can leave whenever I want to. Isn’t that cool?”

She replied with something like “I know.”

So I said “watch this” and in the dream, I closed my eyes and opened them and I was awake (in real life).

Didn’t think much of it.

Come this past June, I was in a town about 4 hours from the one I live in, getting my drivers license photo and all that done since COVID restrictions took them out of my town.

I walked out of the DMV there, and a girl is walking her dog. The dog peed on my moms car door, and she apologized.

We talked for a bit and she asked me for my Snapchat so we could talk some more, which was a first for me since I’m a solid 3/10.

Flash forward a few days later, we’ve been talking, we like each other, decide to hang out in person. She makes the drive up to my town to spend the night.

We spent most of the night just talking about random childhood stories, and I went a grabbed my 3rd grade school picture. Then she told me she had a dream when she was younger about how she was hanging out with a boy, then he said “this is a dream” and left.

She pointed out how younger me looked almost like the kid she had a dream about those years ago.

Well I told her my story of the similar incident, and we concluded we were destined to meet.

I think we both are in agreement that it’s just a scary coincidence, but we both also feel very twilight-zone-y about it now and we aren’t sure if it is a coincidence or some weird fate stuff.

Life is weird, kiddos.

I’ll try to keep this as short as possible, I have ADHD and my stories turn into ramblings most of the time.

Anyways.

When I was about 10 or so, I had this...

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Rasputin told me that I would experience “a death” at 11 today

Dreamt I was at my old job gathering trash when a tall man in robes came around. I joked around, being my friendly self. I make a mention of death, and he responds “You will experience a death at 11”

This has shaken me. My dad works driving a bus, and I don’t think he’s gotten enough sleep last night!!

Dreamt I was at my old job gathering trash when a tall man in robes came around. I joked around, being my friendly self. I make a mention of death, and he...

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I dreamed I saw a dead friend, who told me I would die on the anniversary of her death.

I had a good friend who died last year on October 17th. She dated one of my good friends and as such we grew close. Important Characters are Me, my friend Kyle, my friend Roy, my deceased friend Rose, and another friend Alisha.The nightmare is as follows.

It started with me, my siblings, and my mom packing up her car. We were seemingly leaving and trying to do so in a hurry. But I got the impression we took to long, and when we began to pull out of the driveway we hit my friend Kyle's car as he was trying to pull into the carport. We canceled our plans to leave and me and Kyle decided to drive to what I think was a high-school reunion.

We arrived at the event, and it was almost like a chapel/gym hybrid with large windows towards the front of the room. I saw most of the people that I went to high school with conversing and interacting with each other. I saw my friend Roy who was our senior class president cutting up pineapple and putting it into a drink. He said he didn't have enough pineapple and me and my friends laughed at him for it. Now the nightmare/dream starts.

I walked outside for some fresh air, and when I came back I saw my friend Rose, who is dead, and my friend Alisha who is alive. They both looked like spirits however. I asked Rose how I could see her, and asked if I was going to die soon. She said yes I was going to die, she started becoming more solid. I asked her if she could as God of I could live longer. She said that she would ask but its going to happen anyway. She started getting more solid, so I left the room to try and escape my death.

As I walked into the foyer to escape, a blonde skinny teenager came in. He pulled out a gun, and I was shot with either lightning, or the gun. I don't know which but I felt myself dying. I was then teleported to a city block where I saw a newspaper on the road. I picked it up and it had a picture of me, saying I died on October 17th. The day was Friday. I woke up and wrote the dream my journal quickly. I then went back to sleep, and had a dream where me and rose went to Wendy's just like we used too when she was alive. I ordered her food and we hung out.

That was the end of it, and it's not as scary as some experience. But I woke up sweating and scared. Thanks for listening.

I had a good friend who died last year on October 17th. She dated one of my good friends and as such we grew close. Important Characters are Me, my friend Kyle,...

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I dreamt I had screws drilled into the back of my neck.

(19F) I had this dream where I'm being criticized for praising Jesus. A group of women (4-5) chased me down with a cordless drill. The main chick wanted a photo of my face so I ran trying to cover it. (Not sure if they were atheists, feminists or what) but in the house I was trying to get out the window because they tried breaking in and eventually made it inside the house. I ran out the window and got into my car and drove off. They followed behind. Shortly after, I went into a shopping center and they caught me. They had me pinned down. Then, with the cordless drill, the lady smirked as she drilled screws into the back of my neck. The goal was so that I couldn't turn my head. Also, one of them put a napkin up to my face, so I would lose conscious. My eyesight was getting blurry, and I tried to get up but was in too much pain.

(19F) I had this dream where I'm being criticized for praising Jesus. A group of women (4-5) chased me down with a cordless drill. The main chick wanted a photo...

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