Dream Dictionary

These types of dreams are very common and portray a landscape where you can be free from the daily regimen. Going on ‘vacation’ captures the dreamscape where you can escape from the ‘daily constraints’ of consciousness.  See Landscape and Scenery.

See Drugs.

This landscape between mountains can suggest the feminine body and the budding fertility of your inner reserves and transformative potential.

This is a character who is sustained by ‘Blood’ or the need to get below the surface to find nourishment through feelings. While it may seem grotesque, there is a message here about how you need to find natural sustenance, allowing your feelings to be expressed. See Shadow under Archetypes and Universal Characters.

Like the Womb, the vase can symbolize your feminine heritage. Its condition will reflect your current relationship to these characteristics within you.
 

Vegetables often have associations that relate to their shape and color. They can represent the idea of fulfillment from an organic level, as in health, sex and general well being. See the Vegetable section of Food.

Vehicles and Places of Transportation are common dream themes. These types of dreams suggest the condition in which you are currently moving forward. The type of vehicle, and whether or not you are driving, in control or being driven, will portray your present sense of direction and autonomy.

Boats, buses and trains, in which you are a ‘passenger,’ suggest how you are following a course that is not self-directed and not easily changed. Travel over water is indicative of emotions and how the ‘flow of events’ or ‘current’ is leading you forward into the future, and often represent the internal drama of uncertainty. The water can be dark, calm or choppy in relation to how you feel about where you are currently going in life. The train follows a proven track as a representation of how the course has been laid down for you. The train can symbolize other's expectations and not necessarily your own. Missing a train can symbolize fears of failing in the eyes of what is expected of you. Jumping in and out of trains can symbolize how you are trying to find your own way. The bus is a classic image of conformity where a school bus is what you adopted or learned, while a public bus shows how you mould your way of being into what you believe is expected of you. Since the taxi portrays a ride with usually one other character, the driver should be given consideration as the side of you that is currently driving you forward. Being driven by anyone in a dream portrays a need to become more autonomous.

A bicycle, because it is propelled forward by your actual effort, can suggest vitality and issues related to health. As a child, perhaps you learned to ride by balancing your weight against movement, so it can also suggest balancing well-being with motivation and drive. Bumper cars, go-carts and other jalopies suggest how you are moving forward, sometimes in comical or dangerous ways. A vehicle without protection or some of its parts missing can symbolize scarcity or dysfunction operating in your motivation. The motorcycle is also associated with balance and precision. Trucks suggest how you are moving forward while carrying a ‘load’ or attempting to ‘transport’ what is important to you, rather than being free to move forward. Moving vans take carrying unnecessary baggage to a higher level of awareness. They usually appear when you are sorting through old ideas and making changes in preparation for moving forward. Where the bus shows conformity because of society's demands, the van full of people can represent the various sides of you collectively.

Airports and train stations are places of transition, and therefore are associated with hopes and ambitions. You can ‘fly’ to your destination through expanded awareness and insight, or find your compartment or ‘place’ on a train that follows a ‘proven track’ as in expectations. You can be going up, down or in circles, as a way of following inspiration, overcoming repression, or revisiting the past. Danger and the idea of crashing suggest how you are not in control of where you are going and are therefore, feeling uncertain about your direction. Being stopped by police or traffic lights show how you are obeying the disciplinarian controls of conscience. 

A delivery truck can signify being given or receiving some type of insight that you may be missing. The package can provide clues to what is hidden. Hitchhiking can represent not taking responsibility for where you are going in life. Giving a ride to an unknown passenger can represent integrating or understanding an unknown part of you at work in the root of your motivation. A parking garage or seeing a parked car reflects how your motivation is currently parked, sometimes because of changes your are making, and at other times, because you might not recognize how and why you undermine your ambition. Fender benders in a parking garage are usually the result of colliding sides of you coming out for consideration. A race car or red sports car can symbolize a competitive streak in your motivation. See Color for other associations of aspects related to motivation.

Since all people in a dream represent aspects of you, the idea of being a victim portrays a lack of integration between conflicting qualities. See Attack or Being Chased and Shadow under Archetypes and Universal Characters.

The vine captures the idea of roots, growth and how things are intertwined. Dreaming of a vine is a symbol of your heritage and your interconnectivity with the world around you. See Gardener.

Because of its ‘strings,’ the violin combines the ideas of free flowing sexuality and a sense of ‘the strings that are attached.’ See Music.

Dreaming of a virgin can be a symbol of innocence or the need to be less jaded in approaching experience. The astrological association with Virgo as an Archetype shows this character to represent issues related to work, service, diet and routine. There may be a tendency to see the trees, with little ability to see the forest. Fussiness and being detail oriented may be keeping you from seeing the larger picture.

As a pill that will give you additional energy or can lead to wellness, taking a vitamin can represent a situation that ‘encapsulates’ your movement toward wellness. See Drugs.

Capturing how emotions are repressed and will break through your foundation, dreaming of a volcano can suggest the need to express difficult feelings so that you don not ‘explode.’ See Landscape and Scenery.

Anything associated with the mouth usually represents communication. If you are unable to ‘digest,’ process or express something, you may dream of vomiting. The symbol that is vomited or character that is vomiting will shed light on what this may be. For example, if it is a child, then it relates to issues of childhood you may have difficulty 'stomaching.'

Combining the idea of Water with transportation, a voyage can represent the condition of your emotions as you move through life.

Since dreams often are a way of processing Anxiety, feeling vulnerable or scared is a common theme of dreams. See Attack and Being Chased.

A vulture combines the idea of ‘flight’ or achieving ambitions, with being an ‘opportunistic scavenger.’ To dream of a vulture can symbolize a side of you that is ‘preying’ on another weakness, as in the case of an inferiority complex that leads you to become an unfulfilled overachiever. Since this bird appears after something ‘has died’ it may be calling you to recognize how some aspect of you is thriving at the expense of another equally important aspect. See Birds.