Travel dreams

I had the same dream again last night with different details.

It was the day I am supposed to fly someplace. Everything I wanted to do seemed to be taking too much time. I was abandoning half made snacks, cups of coffee etc because I realised I did not have time for them.

In the dream I was in my parents house. I asked my mother if she would drive me to the airport because I dont have much time. She said, ''is it today you are going, I did not know that.''.

I approached the airport with one and half hours to spare. I wondered if that would be enough time for checking in and all the other airport stuff. Then I woke up.

At least the dream is improving. It used to be that I missed the flights, but now I am just short of time with all kinds of things frustrating my attempts to get to the flight on time. Reply to this

From what I have read about my dreams on a dream analysis site I think the dreams are not about the travelling itself. The travelling is more like a symbol for other things. The travelling represents goals that are not yet clear in my mind. The dream turns my goals in the symbol of getting into the plane and going up. I think this happens because I understand travelling more than the other things I am aiming at where the path to get to them is not so clear and the goals themselves are not so clear either. You know the types of things that come into your mind and you are no so sure you can do them because they are something you have not experienced yet and then you dont push ahead because of doubts about your abilities to get there. I think the obstacles getting in the way of me getting to the plane are to do with ambitions that come into my mind and then are quickly followed by thoughts such as I might not have what it takes to do that, others are much better at it than I am, how am I going to fit it in with the rest of my life, this and that could go wrong... I think things like coffee and snacks represent having plenty of time and everything being so organised that I can go at a pace that fits in stopping to make coffee and have a snack...

My parents are one I never thought about analysing. They dont exaclty approve of the way I live so they would be more like an interruption that tries to push me in another direction. At least that is how they have always been. But they have in fact solved problems I have had as they are pilars of the community in Ireland and so wield a lot of clout. You are probably familiar with the nepotism in Ireland by now Debbie. I am not fan of it even if it my parents can give me advantages because of it. I generally refuse to let them use their influence because I am too much of a leftist to approve of that sort of thing. :D It is true that there are a lot of things in my life that my mother could sort out if I let her and maybe my dream represents my longing to get away from having to do all these things without any help. Especially since I am not sure I am in fact able to do them.

Your own dreams could represent actual anxiety about the travelling or else they may also be trying to make you look at some other area of your life. I sometimes have the most bizarre dreams. When I have one that causes some strong negative feeling I know it is trying to tell me something. Sometimes it is telling me to face something and other times it is telling me to turn in another direction because the path I am following is not a good one for me and will lead to something not so good that is also in symbol form in the dream.

I kind of wonder if your dream about staying with the family in India was in fact a preminition. It may be warning you about confidence issues and urging you to consider the consequences to not being confident about your own resourcefulness. It may also be a symbol about another area of your life which causes these issues. Reply to this

The most direct interpretation would be that you are pregnant or are curious about pregnancy or fear it.

Other things that are symbolized by pregnancy are a project in your life or a responsibility. This responsibility doesnt necessarily have to be a thing or another person. It can represent your inner child(for want of a better phrase. I am not too keen on psyco babble)

Pregnancy dreams for women are positive signs for your life.

I used to have that dream when I had finally worked out which path I wanted to take after university did not work out. I was pretty much getting it all together and had plans to work on and felt I knew where I was going.

The parts about forgetting if you are pregnant or doubting are representing feelings about your responsibilites. Think about a project or responsibility which is dominant in your life right now and how you are looking at it. Where does the doubt and forgetting come in. On the other hand if you are pregnant or want to be or are curious about it, then look at the doubt and forgetting concerning this. Reply to this

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funny you should have a dream about a plane landing on a highway, I dream of that too, have done for as long as I can remember, even as a kid. I have them a couple of times a week.

I dream of them landing on highways, or trying to take off down a highway, except in my dreams the planes never take off, there is always some problem, or they just keep driving down the road. One time the plane took off on the road and crashed. I had that dream the night before I flew off to Australia, nice!

My dreams are full of planes, mostly i dream I am watching a plane slowly fall out of the sky and have to get out of their way, again, at least once a week since i was a child. I was actually petrified to fly for most of my life, and until fairly recent times had never set foot on a plane!
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No, I havent had any dreams analysed. I wanted to travel in my teens, but the reccuring dreams about watching planes crash were getting me so down, and my fear if flying was so bad that I could not even look at a photo of a plane without panicking. A friend of mine suggested past life regression, so I went and i had a vision of standing in a field with wartime planes overhead dog fighting and one falling from the sky close to me and i knew part of it was going to fall on me and kill me.....i freaked out apparently at that point and the hypnotist brought me back. I don't know if I believe that truly happend in a past life, my father was a kid in WW2 so I have grown up with stories so my head is full of war info, but it would tie in with the dreams since i was a little kid. But then maybe it was my way of justifying my dreams. I have never been back for p/l regression, real or not it was too vivid and frightening. The only thing that got me over my fear of flying in the end and got me onto a flight was a big old bag of pills from the doctors!

I would like to find out what the planes taking off/trying to take off on highways means though. Reply to this

then that would make sense....never taking off or crashing to the ground lol, sounds like my life to a T! Take a look at some sites Reply to this

This one is really weird.

Last night I dreamed that I was in India with my daugher. She had managed to somehow get on top of an elephant. I was trying to get up there to get her down when the elephant jumped onto my back with her in it. It did not even feel heavy but it did feel inconvenient. :D I saw one of the hotels that terrorists recently attacked in Mumbai. I went to the door of the hotel and asked the door man if he would get this elephant off my back. He was very friendly and effortlessly got the elephant off my back. In the dream another hotel that the terrorists attacked was accross the street(which it is not in reality). I was going to walk through the hotel to get to the other side where the Gateway to India is(in the dream) but decided to walk around the hotel instead.

Should I even bother to analyse a dream as weird as this one? :D Reply to this

Hi Mel,

Only just read the post about your dream, but you are right, it was most likely an anxiety dream about keeping your daughter safe.

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I know what you mean. I am planning my london to Beijing overlander trip at the mo, and the 'what ifs' keep popping into my head too, but only as my main concern is my son. I was planning a mumbai trip for Jan, but its on the backburner for now. I know you can't live your life with fear hanging over you, but sometimes you have to change plans to give yourself peace of mind. I think you will have a more enjoyable time going somewhere a bit more low-key, but you will always have that fear in the back of your mind given whats happened, the key is to live your life without giving into it. Reply to this