Thread: Recurring dream involving transportation

It’s great that you’ve provided background information because doing so helps to improve the accuracy of the interpretation of your dream.

Just to start off by saying that a recurring dream appears in order to try and get an important message across to the dreamer about a certain inner and/or outer situation.

In your recurring dream, it’s probably best to think of your dad as symbolizing “fathering” as opposed to representing your dad himself.

In this way of looking at your dream, the landscape and the journey symbolize a need to get in touch with an inner “fathering” aspect of yourself which hasn’t existed up until now or with which a connection may have perhaps become too weak.

To help to clarify this approach, “fathering” is a so-called “masculine” activating principle present in a person regardless of their gender.

Its presence helps to ensure that a person doesn’t tend to lose momentum in her or his self-development but instead is revitalized and energized in an ongoing way.

So the idea is that a person should try to create a kind of inner “protector” and empowering agent so that one’s own sense of authority is able to feel strong enough when facing the various practical challenges of life.

This includes the ability to “overthrow” any outer “authority” that could get in the way of the person fulfilling her or his own individual potentials.

One also has to be able to accept the need to face and deal with such feelings as fear and loneliness etc. that will appear in various challenging situations which help us to mature over time.

In your dream, riding along on the bus probably partly symbolizes the need at this time to move through life by partly going along with a certain level of “commonality” and “what everybody else does” in order to help to fit in with others and to make friends etc.

However, the dream seems to be saying that at certain times, you should purposely “get off the bus” in order to re-connect with your own personal authority and individuality as symbolized by your dad.

This seemingly is needed in order to prevent drifting along to a kind of “dead end” where there’s nothing of importance in the area and in fact, apparently only a hot, lifeless expanse where there’s a cliff with an unexplored cave in it.

It’s possible that the underlying situation, whatever it may actually be, is tending to deteriorate over time.

This is because in the first dream of the series, you met with your dad and he was glad to see you, possibly meaning in this way of looking at your dream that you were able to maintain a certain kind of personal presence and firmness in the early stages of your move to Canada with all of the challenges this would involve.

However, the latest dream shows an upsetting scene where there might have been a flood and wrecked cars are set on fire etc.

A vehicle in dreams basically symbolizes the complex mix of the physical body along with one’s interests, drives, wishes and beliefs etc. etc.; that is, it symbolizes a kind of body-and-soul unity with which the person moves through daily life.

In this case, the dream might unfortunately be showing how things could potentially break down too much in how you’re moving forward if more of an effort isn’t made to become more forceful and assertive, for example, if you possibly tend to be a little shy at times.

Anyway, without knowing much about you, this way of looking at your dream might not fit your personal circumstances very well, but I hope these ideas can be helpful in some way.

If by chance you feel that you might benefit from bolstering your assertiveness skills, a couple of time-tested and reliable books which I often recommend are “Your Perfect Right: Assertiveness and Equality in Your Life and Relationships / Edition 9” by Robert Alberti and Michael Eammons, and “Asserting Yourself” by Sharon and Gordon Bower. These are available on such websites as Barnes & Noble and Amazon for example.

Please feel free to ask any questions or to make any comments about this particular way of looking at your recurring dream.