Driving Ambitions

Empty MotorwayRecently, a predominant theme for dreamers has been losing their cars or having them stolen.   When we dream about our cars, we are often dreaming about our ambitions in life, and how we might travel along our chosen career paths.

Dreaming of losing our car suggests that we are perhaps losing our ambitions in waking life, and somehow we have lost our drive to reach our goal.   If we dream that someone has stolen our car, then we may feel that others are trying to diminish our potential achievements.

Usually these dreams can be resolved by exploring the dreamer’s chosen path and revisiting specific ambitions, but many of these dreams seem to reveal a more general anxiety. People feel they no longer have the resources or the encouragement to reach their chosen goals.

This is reflected in the vocabulary and imagery experienced in these dreams  where the car thieves are often government officials rather than hoodies, and no assistance is given by the authorities to help find a lost car.  The more the government tries to restrict and control individual mobility, the less likely it is that individuals might achieve their chosen dreams.

Furnishing Your Beliefs

Au LouvreWhen we dream, we often find ourselves in a house.  It may be a familiar house, it may be unfamiliar, and frequently it is the house we grew up in. 

In our dreams, a house usually represents our self, and the different rooms in our dream houses reflect different aspects of our identity. As we move through these rooms during our dream episodes, we usually encounter different types of furniture.

In our dreams, furniture often represents our memories, habits and beliefs.  If the furniture is heavy and antiquated, we may unconsciously feel that some of our habits in waking life are out of date and weighing us down.

If we are rearranging our furniture, we may looking for a fresh perspective on our beliefs, and perhaps would like to turn the tables in our present situation.  When we find ourselves frequently sitting in an old easy chair, we may be remembering when we had more time and things were easier.

Until relatively recently furniture was by made by specialist furniture makers, or handed down by parents and relatives. In the same way, spiritual beliefs used to be provided by specific religions, or learned from our elders.

Now furniture is most often assembled from flat packs in the same way that people now tend to assemble their own beliefs from a variety of sources.