Recently, 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.