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What are train dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like train stops, train platform, the train, etc.

Trains in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.2% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 80 dreams.

What are the major highlights of train dreams?

Trains is a normal dream symbol. Having trains in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

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

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Who is in trains dreams?

Overall, dreams with trains are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of trains are more related to distant people 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

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

more than usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in trains dreams?

Overall, dreams with trains are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of trains are more related to sadness and more related to fun than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to embarrassment, and less related to fear.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

more than usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

less than usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in trains dreams?

Overall, dreams with trains are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of trains are more related to home and much more related to transportation than dreams in general. They are less related to magical places.

Home

more than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

much more than usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in trains dreams?

Overall, dreams with trains are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of trains are less related to friendly interactions and less related to sex.

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with trains are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of trains are more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to nightmares, less related to sleep paralysis, and less related to sleeping.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

more than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do trains in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with trains are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of trains 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

less than usual
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How can you make sense of trains in dreams?

Train dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things train dreams are normally interconnect.

Do you think this is true for your dream of trains? How might your dream of trains 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 trains 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 trains in dreams. See how you feel about trains now, in your waking life.

What are possible meanings for dreams of trains?

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

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.

Examples of dreams of trains

Read some real dream reports of train 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.

Non-scary kind of random post-apocalyptic dream

So I woke up today from a strange kind of post-apocalyptic dream, and I was thinking about it all day. I was hoping anybody had any ideas of potential meanings, just for fun.

I was living in a this street with half-abandoned houses. It was kind of up a hill, old Europe-y vibe. the houses were kind of colorful though, even though some were fully crumbled, and even our house was kind of falling apart. We did live in the "poor" part of town though. I found this out in the dream when I had to go to the rich part for my job and it was full of all-intact white houses, a bit too pristine. they were all fully lived in too. We also moved houses in the dream, to a slightly bigger house someone from our group discovered to be empty - but just across the street from the old house, still in the poor part of town. I vaguely remember being afraid of leaving someone behind, but that person chose to go somewhere else.There were about 4 or 5 pairs living in this new bigger house (just across the street, looked like an abandoned shopping mall).

Anyway, the main thing about this post-apocalyptic world is that a lot of people became infected with this thing. Anytime people were infected, they would get paired with someone else who was also also infected. From this pair however, only one person could transform into something (a hybrid between an animal and a monster, kind of like pokemon I guess), the other person looked normal - they just now had this connection. Think of the movie "the golden compass". Uninfected people were neither paired nor could transformed. This street, and actually entire city was mostly made up of infected people though. I was also infected, and sometimes I was the normal person in the pair, others I was the one turning.

We would all go out to do normal things during the day, the only thing is that we had to be careful not to be seen (this also happened when we were moving). This was part of the routine though, and it was like nothing was wrong.

For some reason, at some point I had to go to a different city. Everybody was worried about me but I was totally relaxed at first. I started walking, but when I got to stand below a highway bridge I started to worry because I remembered that in other cities people were scared of the infected people, and I were prejudiced as well. I noticed the area below the bridge looked abandoned, had a bunch of debris, and was also partially flooded. When I noticed the flooding was not that shallow, I started panicked a bit about drowning or getting lost. My pair though turned into what I can only describe as giant fluffy water dragon and I was like "oh yeah, this is super lucky, I forgot for a sec they could do that".
We rode in the water until we got into this half-abandoned, half-ruined subway/train, and went looking for a seat. As soon as I sat down, I looked to the side and saw a bunch of half-dead people. I froze. They were the normal, non-infected people and I was afraid of what they would think when they saw my pair.
The train had started moving though so I couldn't just leave, and I decided to pretend everything was fine and hope they wouldn't notice.
I noticed a few of them were starting to look ovei in my direction, and they seemed intrigued, but not angry or anything else, so I was relieved again.
Then i woke up.

Thoughts?

So I woke up today from a strange kind of post-apocalyptic dream, and I was thinking about it all day. I was hoping anybody had any ideas of potential meanings,...

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Great dane.

Last night I dreamed I was going on a train ride to nowhere particular and ended up in a room full of strangers feeling lost. The train was more like a ferry inside than an actual train, I asked a young woman for directions on how to get of a train and she scolded me for being a “baby” and let me know I should figure it out for myself (she was french speaking?) I finally got of tha trainnd looked back a lot of people were running off of a ferry taking part in a ultra run, I decided to run with them but got checked for ID at a checkpoint and had to turn back, when I did, a grey Great Dane with no eyes blocked my path and I threw 3 bones to get it to go away. I finally got the owner to take it from me and left. I woke up just after getting away from the dog? Any ideas on the meaning this?

Last night I dreamed I was going on a train ride to nowhere particular and ended up in a room full of strangers feeling lost. The train was more like a ferry...

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My perfect Unknown Lover

In this dream there were a lot of time skips and everything happened in events. i can barely remember 50% of it but ill tell you what i can. the first or the latest i remember was being in a train station or a airport. my lover was not around but randomly time skips and i see him there. i forgot what happened but for the most part we joked and kid with each other another thing we did was tease each other with kisses like get hella close to ones face but purposely drawing away.. he was oddly perfect for me. all the qualities i did not even know i wanted and some. he was literally PERECT. like he was just the way i wanted. a guy whose fun and witty and oldy very intuitive when it came to me. i remember my family being here at this setting and some of the cast form the martin tv show? i dont understand why they are there. that was mostly it in this setting. my lover was tall and his hair was a bit to focus on but i know it was big as in like afro-is or curly afro-ish big?!? idk his face was even harder to focus on but i know he had dark big eyes, earrings and idk what else. he wore black i … i believed he was all black. the next setting was in a hallway with a warm light shining inside it. he had his back to the wall and i was standing intron of him. i think i was sad but i dont know why now or in the dream. and so he gave ,me a hug. he was soo freaking warm! i felt so much love witching that hug and my greedy ass wanted more so i desperately tried to wrap my arms around him but when i did i tried to close my hands from his back and i couldn't frustrated i just decided to wrap my arms around his neck while he had his arms under mines and wrapping my back. i got on my tip toes and put my face in his neck while smiling cause i finally got closer or as much as i could. btw he chuckled whenever i could not wrap my arms around him. pfft- bastard... jk! he had said to me in a calm voice of how he cant wait to love me or for me to be his girlfriends or be his. idk but it was soothing. and i wanted to kiss him but the hug was enough. i mean when i tell you.... THAT HUG COULD HAVE CURED CANCER! i remember going bed sad that night when that dream happened. also i dont know where this scene fits but i remember also in a train station or airport i was jokingly mad at him and slapping him? i did i twice and he seemed annoyed and it was hard but he did not care he just tried to kiss me again and purposely went away. pfft- ASS HOLE! hmpf! i also remember pam a girl from the cast of martin who is also tichina arnold she was laying down asleep and i and martin who is martin Lawrence picked her up and tossed her? did she wake up:? idk. did he die? don't know either. but hey a dream is a dream. what do you guys think and sorry for grammar. bad English and too lazy to proof read. :P

In this dream there were a lot of time skips and everything happened in events. i can barely remember 50% of it but ill tell you what i can. the first or the...

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I was in a underground train station with a black suitcase.

So in the dream I was in an underground train station. I was wearing a black pencil skirt with a brown floral blouse. I was also wearing my hair up in a bun and was wearing short black heels. I could see half of the train stopped. The other half was a wall that you needed to turn to see the rest of the train. I had my arms crossed against my chest with the suitcase in between. Now that I remember I was also wearing 3 blush pink bracelets. I think they were round crystals or beads but they looked like rose quartz color. I also had them in my right hand.When I was walking I had an uneasy feeling. I wasn’t scared I was just uneasy. Like something was going to happen. Then the dream ended. If someone could interpret this it would be nice. Thanks to anyone that replies. Have a good day. 😊😊😊

So in the dream I was in an underground train station. I was wearing a black pencil skirt with a brown floral blouse. I was also wearing my hair up in a bun and...

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Running from Nazis then dream turns into video game

I think I was a maintenance worker or something. I wasn't a Nazi but I was working for them. There was this Nazi commander guy who was following me around. I didn't want to talk to him so I tried to shake him by running around this desert. I was supposed to ride a train with him but I had other plans. I ran down a train tracks and he chased after me.

The dream took a surreal turn when tha trainracks went around a rocky bend and suddenly stopped. And then I saw the desert suddenly dropped off like I was outside the bounds of a video game map. I could see the bottom of the skybox when I looked over the edge. I had no choice but to turn around and I found myself in a mining camp. The Nazi commander was talking to some miners and there was a quest icon over his head. And this mining camp was closed in, I couldn't go anywhere else. There was also nothing to do. So I assumed the only way to progress was to take a quest from the Nazi commander. But I didn't, I just ignored him and wandered the mining camp until I woke up.

I think I was a maintenance worker or something. I wasn't a Nazi but I was working for them. There was this Nazi commander guy who was following me around. I...

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