Did you dream about cars? Being able to own and drive a car is a huge enabler in real life. Having a car subconsciously suggests that you are in control of your own life. This section will go over various dream symbols with the events that can happen to or with your cars inside the dreams. Look for all the hidden interpretations and analyses in your dream now.
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Various events can happen to or with your car. With this complete car dream interpretation guide, we will go over all the common themes to help you decipher the meaning of your car-related dreams.
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Generic Car Driving Dream Meaning
A car driving journey or trips symbolizes how you are dealing with the decisions in your life. To dream about traveling alone on a long-distance trip means that you will face difficult situations and worries.
However, if you are traveling with family members or friends, it signifies that you will find new friends.
When you are not the one driving in your dream, you are taking a more passive role in life. If you are riding in the passenger front seat, you want to have a more active say with the decisions. While traveling in the backseat of the car means that someone else is mostly making all the important decisions for you.
Dreaming about jumping from a car means that you are not happy with how your life is going. You want to leap of faith to get out of your current situation. Take note if the car is going fast or slow within your dream; it can foreshadow whether or not the leap may be dangerous in nature.
Dream About Car Accident
Since a car accident or wreck can have many underlying symbols. Please refer to Dream Meaning for Car Accidents. This includes the car being flipped over or exploding.
Dream About Car Stolen or Hijacked
The dream about your car being broken into and parts being stolen means that someone has taken advantage of you in a certain way, based on the actual parts or the car itself being stolen or stripped away. You can check our Car parts dream interpretation for the meaning of different car parts. The dream might mean different things based on the missing car parts stolen from the break-in.
Entire Car is Stolen
If you dream about your entire car is lost or missing due to being hijacked or robbed. One thing to note is that if you were present in the dream while the robbery is happening.
If someone is robbing and stealing your car right in front of you, it means that someone might be stopping you from achieving your goals.
Suppose you lose your car without being consciously knowing who stole it. The missing car symbolizes lost opportunities.
Dream About Car Race
When you dream about fast car chases or races, the context of the race matters within the dream.
Note the reason for the race, is it to compete for a prize? Is it for fun? Maybe you are trying to compete with other people in real life. Next, note the result or the race itself. Are you chasing the other car racers, or are the others chasing you?
If you win the car race in the dream, a good thing will happen to you. You may be able to get a promotion such as “getting ahead” in life.
Dream About Car Driving Variations
The dream has a car driving itself:
Try to remember how you feel while sitting in the car when the car drives itself. Are you relaxed? Maybe you enjoy letting someone make an important decision for you once in a while. Consider letting go of some of the responsibilities at work.
You dream about driving backward:
If the car is going backward or in reverse, you may be backing out from unpleasant offers or work situations. However, if the car is rolling backward without your control because of a downhill, watch out as your efforts in life may be compromised because of other life events.
The car is flying in the dream:
Your life is going on the highway. Is the flight being smooth, or is the car flying excited and dangerous? The context matters in a car flying dream. You may need to dial down your ambitions if it is a dangerous dream. But if the car flight is smooth, you may overcome many hurdles and obstacles in waking life.
You Dream about driving someone else’s car.
When you drive someone else’s car to get to where you need to go, you may need help and assistance from other people as you have lost your own car. Look within the dream to get more clues on why you had to use someone’s car instead of driving your own.
Dreaming about the car rolling downhill
You will have a smooth ride after some periods of hard work. This is because you had to drive hard to get uphill in the first place.
Dream About Car as Gift
If you are dreaming about buying a car as a gift, you may be helping someone a great deal in real life.
To receive a car as a gift in a dream, good things will happen to you.
The location of the gift car given does not really matter whether it is inside a car dealership or your house garage.
Dreams About Different Car Problems and Troubles
Depending on the context and situation of the car troubles, they may have different meanings in the dream world.
Look at the different car problems, and figure out whether or not they are repairable.
Dream About Car Equipment Problems
Car Not Stopping Because No Brakes
When you dream about the car not stopping because of broken brakes, it is usually a bad dream involving last-minute panic. The reason is that you typically do not notice that the brakes do not work until you need them.
Try to listen to the people around you for advice, limit your own impulses and reckless behaviors. If you end up having an accident due to a faulty brake system that fails to work, the wake-up call is a warning for imminent danger. However, you still have a chance to repair the damage by fixing that brake ahead of time.
Car Stuck in Mud or Pothole
For dreams of driving a car that is stuck in mud or any pothole, life may offer obstacles for you to try to overcome. If you cannot seem to get out of the dream, the current obstacle may be too much for you to handle. Consider asking other people for help.
Car Not Starting or Stalling
In the dream, your car is not starting or stalling. Your goal is to figure out the reason why the car is not working. It may be running out of gas or maybe because of other failures. Your goals may take a hit and come to a stop before you fix the broken reasons.
Vandalized Car
Having your car being vandalized in the dream means that someone might be hurting your outward image.
Dream About Trouble with Driving
Car Getting Towed Because of Parking
The dream about cars being towed because of parking violations is another form of a wake-up call. Your call will only get towed by police when you park in the no-parking places. This means that your habits may be hurting you in the long run. Bad habits may hinder your ability to move through life and work.
Car Spinning Out of Control
When the car gets out of your control while driving, it means that you may be going too fast, or life may throw a curve at you. Try to look into the reason behind the uncontrollable car is key to decipher this dream. You want to regain back your control to prevent catastrophe.
Locked Out of Car
Dreaming that you have lost your car keys and cannot get in a locked car means that you are careless with your daily tasks. Be more careful about using your resources and know what you have.
Lost and Not Finding Car in the Parking Lot
To dream about not finding your car in a big parking lot full of cars means that you are being distracted from your goals because of other distractions. Slow down and plan. Track your every move in real life always to know where you are and where you stand.
Dream About Car Failures
Car Overheating and on Fire
Dreaming about a car overheating and even being on fire. It means that you may be burned out from your endeavors. Time to take a break and let the car rest. It is better to slow down before you do damage to yourself and the people around you.
Underwater or Flooded Car
The dream is about a car being underwater, and you are drowning along with it in places like a pond, ocean, sea, lake, or river. The car in the dream is falling and filling with water, and you cannot get out. That sinking and submerged in water means that you may be depressed about your situation.
However, if you wake up to the impact of the water, it may simply be that you are cold in real life, and you dream about the splashing cold water to wake you up.
Dream About Car Wash
Getting a full car wash for your car means that you are ready to start a new journey. You first start with the outward appearances by having a clean start.
Dream About Car Insurance
Dreams about purchasing or switching car insurance mean that you are ready to take bigger risks. Or you may be trying to cut down your costs in doing business.
I drove someone else car in their house right up to the front door
I realized then what I had done and apologized
I thought about driving out the front door
As the shortest route out so I wouldn’t drive through their home again
Deep steps and a hill outside front door-
Obstacles ? I knew I would “bottom out the car” I think in dream I say this to the couple- the homeowners and realize I have to go back the way I came
The authoritative answer, funny…
It agree, the helpful information
I dreamed my family and I were all in a different city, away from home. I was in a black limo riding down the highway when I looked out the window and saw all my family in a convertible limo riding beside me. They all looked so happy. I was trying to hurry and get my phone to take their picture when the highway split in different directions. They went left and I went right and I was very sad.
What is the meaning if you steal the car because I did it in a dream about leaving school with my brother and driving home
I dreamed. My friends were in my car. I was in the boot with the back seats down and the rear access door open.
The car was rolling slowly on a straight. When a female and 2 passengers in another vehicle shot down the street. The moment I exited the vehicle. She collided with my car. No damage done to mine except hers. My friends were unscathed and only the female driver survived. Very confused as to what this means
Dreamt that the passenger side door was broken into my vehicle and money was stolen. Everything else remained the same . What’s the meaning of this dream
Ok
Dreamt I was in my old car driving and all of a sudden in my exes mums car down the road , I got down she wished me well and her car turned to a bike I walked down back and found my car vandalized in a pit area at a gas station saw some of the boys who vandalized and took their knife they used as I told my self this is my souvenir of my old car
I had a dream that mine and my ex’s car boots were being broken into. They were parked next to one another. We were inside and didn’t hear it. I told him about this dream the next day, only for him to say he dreamt of his car boot being broken into, having had the dream on same night. Crazy!
u will die soon
Why would you say that to anyone? You are sick
I dreamed i missed the passanger car i was travelling with
I literally woke up with a start like 10 minutes ago after having dreamed of seeing a car fly, Dukes of hazzard style over a neighborhood street on a hill, kinda like in San Francisco (but not as steep) and it crashed and I heard the people inside screaming. It was truly horrifying!
I dreamt that i travelled with my boss prado jeep to my village then i drove it to my gate while steeming a relation relations took the car without telling and wad driving it tound town.
My wife deamt that she was pushing her car up a hill, went over a cliff then she was able to reverse the scene to avoid going over the cliff.
The church is not a house of prayer anymore…Its became the den of thieves…Yah said no buying or selling in the Temple is why he threw the money changes over
I dream that I was standing with someone who claim to be a pastor and the place he is using as his church a lady came there to say is her shop, then his friend came there again and discover that the car that the pastor parked there was his own that was stolen for long
I dreamed I was driving a ’69 impala on the wrong side of the street.
I see a strip mall that I want to turn into to get out of traffic but when I turn off – I end up in a gas station in front of the mall. Each exit from the station that leads into the mall parking lot is blocked because of road repairs (one caution tape & orange cones the other gravel and boulders). The only open exit is back onto the street. I look over at the mall confused as to how to get over there and I wake up.
I had a dream that the gearbox of the car (belongs to my father) that I was driving broke. Someone (unknown to me) said that it can be fixed but it will be expensive. The man then drove me home – I felt safe with him. We drove a different road to get to my home (much longer). Along the way, we picked up a dog and a cat. We also stopped where my dad was working (a much younger version of my dad), who told me it is too expensive and we need to find a cheaper way of fixing the car. When I had to get back in the car it was vertical with the nose facing the sky. I had to be assisted to get into the car and a woman (unknown to me or where she came for) handed me the dog and the cat through the passenger window. The man driving me was with me al the time making me feel safe.
I dreamt that I was parked crooked in my driveway, and in my dream I had fallen asleep on the passenger seat. I wake up and get ready to crank up my car, but sumthin tells me to look under the body of the vehicle.. and my chassis is in complete disarray. My control arm was where my rack & pinion is supposed to be & the ball joints were loosened from the frame and my tires were taken off & set to the side leaning on my vehicle. If I were to crank it up & move, woulda been a disaster. I don’t even know what that was about…and it’s been difficult to find sumthin on the internet about sumthin such as this … goodness man🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
I often dream that I park my car ,then when I go to get it later I can’t find it
me too
I had a dream my family asked me for a lift and they directed me to a dodgy wooden embankment by the river with no proper rd, then they told me to carry on drivin which I stupidly did cos I would do anything for them. But then it come to a wooden cross with jus 2 bits of wood I had to balance over ,which they seen were dangerous but asked me to cross. But thn my car fell and sunk into river, it was horrible 🙁 . I also not long ago, had a dream that someone stole my car right in front of my eyes 🙁 I don’t even know how it happnd 1 min I was in drivers seat, next min I’m outside watchin iy happen n tryin to run to it, I cried my heart out 🙁 What is it with these scary car dreams, my heart drops every time I wake up, it’s my baby 🙁
I dreamed I was a passenger in a car. The driver looked like a young Robert Redford. We were driving up and out of a garage on a spiral ramp. The car shuddered and then stopped. The driver said, that’s it, she’s shot. Steam was coming out of the front end. From my view in the passengers seat, I suddenly noticed the instrument panel in the dash was missing. No, speedometer, clock, instruments.t an empty spot. I looked as if it were removed a long tie ago. I told the driver “How about we get a rental from La Guardia airport? I have to fly to Houston, anyway” He shrugged. I took out my cellphone to send an uber to get us. My phone melted in my hand after making a funny sound(fart? deflating baloon?)
I dreamt when I was seated in a fast moving van (seated at the co-driver’s seat and my mom in the back seat).
The van was moving backwards, very fast; no driver, but it was being taken for repair; as if it was being towed, but I was not seeing the vehicle that was towing our van. I was so scared of running into an accident, but my mom kept me strong saying that the vehicle was going to be repaired. She was not scared.
And moreover, it was white guys going to repair the vehice. Please note, I live in Africa. What does that mean?
I dreamt I borrowed my fiance’s sister’s car and I had a stomach upset so I parked and rushed to a public toilet forgetting to remove the car key. I came back and saw three men around the car and I told them the car belongs to me but while we were talking I got stomach upset again and rushed to the toilet when I came back they were driving the car away so I run after them to their workshop and asked them to give me back the car but they were just tossing me and I didn’t find the car in the dream. Please what does it mean
I dream about seeing 2ladies stealing cars but one car was mine Bmw and real life I own one but it wasn’t the shape that dreamed . It was another car when the ladies saw me I asked hei what’s happening they run away but I chased after then and got one bite so hard with the stone on the head and refused I hit her head on the rock eventually told her iam squashing your head then she said the parts of my car are in the new houses house no 7 then there then starting thing of how much it would coast me to repair the whole And she say she didn’t want to steal my car they just forced to do so!
Ok so I had a dream last night that I was out with family and when we went to leave all the cars including my in the parking lot had the windows broken, doors pulled open almost torn off the hinges and everything stolen out of them. Like the steering wheel and seats,stereos everything except the dashboards were still there. What on earth could this mean? Can anybody help me out here? What on earth does this mean?
I have had multiple dreams where I’m in the backseat of a topless vehicle. We are driving down a bumpy road and I go flying out the back. Sometimes I hang onto the bumper for a minute and sometimes I just go flying and just keep falling. Anyone have any insight?
You must be watching some fast car series!
I dreamt I was leaving a house at night. I was backing up and all of a sudden it was pitch black and the car was being pulled backwards. I couldn’t see, I was terrified. While I was in the car it kept going in huge potholes. Sometimes forwards, sometimes backwards, but they were huge! I ended up waking up in a panic.
That could have meant at the time there was a time or is a time in your life that you were going through or experiencing a part in your life that is keeping you from going forward. It’s not allowing you to go forward or backwards.
I dreampt of me having a red jeep
Then the same red jeep pulled up with the top off
Dreamt that when I went to get tn my car the left back seat was gone.
I dreamed that I driving a new Mercedes-Benz, a white Mercedes-Benz.
I dreamed that I was watching a car sink underwater on a flooded street. The person, gunned the engine and the car came back up for about twenty feet, than started to sink again. It was a white car, and when I saw the driver, he had a clowns face. The car went down under the water again without coming back up this time. The man drowned. The water was dark so you could not see the street below. What could this possibly mean?
I had a dream that my car was totaled, Broken car parts strewn everywhere. My rearend separated and in multiple pieces, car body parts everywhere. But I’m fine and walking around my car inspecting the damage. What does this mean.
I had a dream I was leaving somewhere and heading to my car but when I approached my car all the doors were open including the trunk and an extra set of keys was on the console and the car was completely cleaned. No papers or anything in the car. What does this signify?
Hey everyone. Today I had a dream. I was in the car with other unknown people and most of them were of younger age like 16 and below apart from the driver who I think was in his twenties like me. The drive was in a busy town. All of a sudden, our car collided with two other cars but ours was in the middle. The driver fainted and the car moved on by its own. I thought of I moving to go and control the car, because I was right behind the driver seat, but I recalled that I can’t drive. All of a sudden I saw men running after the car, so that they could stop it and safe our lives. Fortunately, they stopped the car and we the lift takers got out safely and went away as the driver was under watch of people to see whether he is dead or alive. Some said he is dead others said he is alive. What happened next to him I don’t know. So I went back with phobia of crossing the road because I thought I would be knocked down. I reached home safely and was able to narrate the story to my father.
I had a dream that my uncle had taken a pickup that used to belong to me
I dream of receiving a black car and the key as a gift .and also dream receiving cell phone as a gift too
What if the car stolen in the dream is not yours? And what if the parts of the car broken into was found?
I had a dream me and a friend pull up to a parkinglot cut off the car just sitting there then all of a sudden my car doesn’t cut on but simply starts moving at top speed no other cars are around so no car wreck but it feels like an strong unseen force is pushing me through a field and feels like my truck is picked up and thrown in the field I’m upside down but oddly my phone is still in my lap as if glued there in panicky I scream help me in my dream and also in real life and my truck has no damage I’m not hurt not even a scratch as if something was trying to hurt me but something was also keeping me safe I just can’t understand for the simple fact there were no other cars
I had this dream that I am sitting on the back of the bumper of the car with one person and someone is driving it I don’t know where I’m going or I don’t know who I’m with what is the meaning of this dream can you please tell me
i dreamed that i was in my house and came out side to get into my car but there were others car that had me blocked in so that i was not able to get out of my driveway i mean several cars that i did not know to whom they belonged to what does that mean?
I had a dream that was driving a car full of passenger inside a mall
I dream that a great person handled over a car key
To me ,and he says when he is going I should see him
But I did not find any at the place we was .And when he is
going I did not meet him. An walk up on bed
I had a dream that a man was giving me a car as a gift
It seems like the devil is after everyone.
I had a dream of a child drowning inside a 1952 car gas tank
I had a dream that some thugs burn my car and broke all of my windows out and ran and when I came outside to report it my ex boyfriend brother was watching near by was clapping his hand as if he was happy that my car was gone
Had a dream about riding on the roof of a truck down the highway while trying to keep myself and my belongings from blowing away. (Hat and jacket)
Anyone understand this?
I have had a dream about not finding my car and then finding my car fully stripped down to a bare shell. What does this mean?
I had a dream where I walked back to my car and 2 people were trying to break in. I told them to fuck off cuz there’s nothing of worth in my car and they walked away. What could this mean?
I dream someone disable my car.
I had a dream where I witnessed two cars (mine and my former parter’s car) sliding down an embankment. My car only had a bit of damage to the rear bumper, however his car was totally wrecked. What does this mean?