Train dreams are more related to strangers than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to fantastic beings.

Train dreams are more related to confusion than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to grief and sorrow, and less related to embarrassment.

Train dreams are more related to home, more related to human-made places, and much more related to transportation than dreams in general.

Dreams of trains are less related to aggressive acts, less related to friendly acts, and less related to sex.

Dreams of trains are more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to sleep paralysis.

Dreams of trains are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to taste.

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.

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

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 trains in dreams. See how you feel about trains now, in your waking life.

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet. The symbolism of trains can be created by the fact that they’re interlinked rail cars pulled by an engine. That can symbolize a job or duty with interlinked responsibilities or people, and the leader is the engine that makes it move and gets things done. It can be a metaphor for leading an endeavor and pulling other people along. Trains take you places, especially toward distant destinations, a metaphor for distant places you want to reach in your life. For someone just starting college, graduation is far off. For someone just starting a family, raising the kids to adulthood is a distant objective. A train is a great metaphor for a family because both are interlinked, with a head of the family who pulls everyone along and determines the direction they go together. For example, a young man who’s about to graduate from college dreams about being at a big, festive gathering of people at a train yard. A marching band plays as people walk one at a time through an open, empty train car. Each person gets a moment in spotlight before moving on. It symbolizes graduation and moving to the next phase of life. Physical movement in a dream can symbolize personal movement in your life, and a train is going in only one direction. For example, you want to avoid someone but have no choice but to run into the person. It’s inevitable, just as there’s no stopping a speeding train. Symbolism can be created by the limited options for a train’s movement because it runs on tracks. For the same reason, trains can symbolize a “one-track mind” and similar ideas related to being forced to go in a certain direction or having only one option in mind. Trains and tracks can symbolize “staying on track,” meaning staying focused and heading toward a goal. Boarding a train can symbolize embarking on a journey. See: Embarking, Journeys Trains run on schedules, and another word for schedule is routine. Breaking a routine can be symbolized as a train going off its track. For ideas about what a train station can symbolize, see: Airport. A train can connect with the symbolism of a bus or car. See: Buses, Cars A train can be a wordplay for “in training.” See also: Airports, Buses, Cars, Embarking, Journeys, Passengers, Rollercoasters, Spotlights