Trains just like ordinary life, are places where we begin a journey. In the dreamworld, it is a good thing if you are travelling on a train alot. It means there is alot of potential for frequent journeys…
Many of my best lucid dreams, were preceded by long train or tram journeys. If you’re carrying too much baggage with you onto the train, then it generally means you’re carrying too much daily life concerns with you into your dreaming… With me, I have had the occasional dream of leaving my baggage on the train - which at the time was a way of telling me, I felt too caught up in my dreaming life, and not relating to my friends as much…
Try and pay attention to the station, what it means to you. Reminds you of.
It’s very common, for the person who seeks out experience or knowledge in dreams, to be on a train alot. Try keeping your intent for dreaming clear and simple, and be happy when you’ve had a dream of a train, it’s probably leading you somewhere.
Wow…exactly the kind of dreams I’m having
Now, if we could find similarities in our real life…it could help to explain those dreams!
@explora
Are you sure? I mean, those dreams are rather unpleaseant to me, because I always feel “lost” or “misplaced”
BTW, since I started this topic, my dreams dramatically changed. Now I dream of taking sport classes at school…and I’m never on time…or I’m unable to find the gym…or…
All kind of being late dreams are very annoying isn’t it!? I remember being on the trains/buses few time in my nonLDs… I think one time in my LD. I either be late or reach at the destination with no problems. I had one bus dream where the bus drivier almost won’t let me go because I was in the bus trying to find my shoes. I told him, “It’s my destination! I just lost my shoes!” Then fortunately, he just opened the doors, being very annoyed. I departed happily.
Maybe you’re feeling stressed out about something? I am now having reoccuring “sick” dreams and it suddenly stopped when I thought about being stressed out or feel emotionally overwhelmed. I’m still working on to fix the situation where would cause me to be overwhelm. By the way, I rarely have reoccuring dreams. Strange eh?
LOL! I have exactly the same thing, trains trains trains everywhere in dreamland. I’m not that bothered by it and like others said I could use this a a dreamsign to become lucid so it could even become an advantage (especially because I travel a lot by train in real life too, good occasion to do some reality checks).
A recurring situation in those train dreams: a train controller appears and while I am absolutely certain that I have bought a ticket I just can’t find it anywhere . But eventually the guy (or woman) always spares me …
I have some dreams where I lose something like shoes, underwear, etc…
I did dream of being on a train (ND) a few days ago - odd because I’ve never been on one except for an underground train many years ago - with some people I know at work.
I was laughing when i read this. Yes trains are my number one dream sign. I always assume that i am dreaming when i go on the train IRL. Tracks and power lines make me suspicious too. In general i have found that i often dream about transportation: Trains, buses, cars, bicycles, boats, planes, spacecraft…
One of the dreams that sticks out most in my mind was a train ride to heaven after I died in a building explosion.
Hmmm… Maybe I have the makings of a country star in me?
“Where were you… when they built that railroad to heaven?”
I can’t remember any train dreams but I’m always dreaming of being late, missing buses, failing things all the time. It feels like a metaphor for my life - that I’ll never get anywhere. In reality I often have a mad rush at the last minute before catching the bus to work.
Hey everbody, my first post. Yeah man i get train dreams all the time. It may be my friends and i smoking doobs on the train. Or me getting knocked out o nthe train by a mugger. Or a police jeep driving onto the subway. Im always on the train, or in teh train tunnels. The last dream that i remember about trains, i was in the tunnels with a partner fighting of some soldiers, then my gun stopped shooting bullets and started shooting piss, funny stuff. Oh and then i blew some guys brains out who was sitting on a horse, in the tunnel. There was also lots of trees and greass and rivers but i na subway tunnel, strangeness.
Oh yeah and my most memorible one was when i took the F train to Amsterdam and it was only a 2 hour ride. And then while there i got a tattoo and hurried home. From Brooklyn to Amsterdam in two hours on the subway, i wish…
Well, after reading this thread I’ve had a train dream.
I had just finished a long journey on a fairly ordinary looking train. I met my friend somewhere near the station where you could still see the trains arriving and departing. There may have been snow on the ground. I waved goodbye as she boarded a very old, unsafe looking form of transport. It was like a goods train, carrying people instead of coal. A minute after it had left there was an alarm and a voice on the intercom announced that it had crashed and there were 8 deaths (yes they knew this within a couple of mins ) They acted like it was an everyday event that they had experienced many times before. In the station was a wooden box attatched to the wall with lots of little compartments inside, one for each passenger of the crash. You had to look for their name first and if there was a cd in the compartment it meant they were alive. My friends cd was there.
I had one time this year when i had the same dream everynight, exactly the same. It wasn’t a bad dream I sort of liked it. Eventually I realized the reason I was probably having this same dream, was because I always remembered it and thought about it before i went to bed the next night, I thought about how I wanted a new dream. Finally I got my mind off of it one night, and I was thinking about other stuff that had nothing to do with that dream. I fell asleep and sure enough i’ve never had that dream again.
its interesting that you say that you miss the train or you are not on the right train… some people say that a train means an adventure in your dream… or something like a symbol of becomming concious…
so maybe missing the train means something…
i have had a few dreams where i am on a train and then become lucid
I don’t think I have ever dreamt about a train, but i seem to have alot of other vehicles in my dreams and I usually end up crashing them and waking up. But 2 nights ago when I was trying to do VILD i suddenly saw a train instead of my VILD scene . And I wasn’t asleep so i suppose I was having HI or HH.
I think maybe this will answer some questions - it’s from the dreamstop.com dreamsign search engine:
"Dream Symbol:
trains
Meaning:
Ah, well, Freud has much to say about seeing trains in a dream, the first thing being that seeing one represents… yes, you guessed it… a penis. Now moving along, if you miss a train, this could be either missing or escaping death or an opportunity that was offered to you that you felt too guilty to accept. I guess you’d know which one of these applies better than me."
The only dream I had with a train in it was when my mother was driving me to school and she decided to take a short cut on an old road which turned into a train track and then a train came and hit the car and killed me. I dont think that was the type of train dream your talking about though…
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Trains
I got on a train. When I looked out the window - at first I thought I was going in the right direction. But then realised that I wasn’t - I was going in the direction of Scotland.
The view was spectacular - I wa shigh up and I could see a valley with some small mountains, a lake, trees, rough vegetation and a steam train coming towards me - it was going to pass below me into a tunnel I think. artpad.art.com/?i8ij32l5rj8
I looked at the time-table to try and find out which station would be the best to get off at inorder to get a train going the other way. I even considered staying on the train to the terminus and then returning with the train - but it wouldn’t be going to my destination so that wouldn’t work.
(I kept on looking out the window enjoying the view of the valley and the approaching steam train).
. But eventually the guy (or woman) always spares me 
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Tracks and power lines make me suspicious too. In general i have found that i often dream about transportation: Trains, buses, cars, bicycles, boats, planes, spacecraft…
) They acted like it was an everyday event that they had experienced many times before. In the station was a wooden box attatched to the wall with lots of little compartments inside, one for each passenger of the crash. You had to look for their name first and if there was a cd in the compartment it meant they were alive. My friends cd was there.
. And I wasn’t asleep so i suppose I was having HI or HH.
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