Rails Railway Train Station

Opportunity or choices in life; your life direction if on train – or the direction the events in life are taking you, perhaps your direction of growth. Sometimes the train refers to the direction or events you are involved in with others, a train of events’ in fact.

Carriages: A particular compartments or facet of your life. The situation or environment you are in at the moment – perhaps with particular people.

Leaving someone behind or being left behind: Feelings about loss of spouse; or break-up of relationship; being left; change of some sort; watching someone take a direction or get involved in things that mean parting.

Lines or tracks: The rails themselves represent orthodoxy, the accepted way of going about things, moral values or a direction that is hard to change, and perhaps shared with others. Thus one can say someone has gone off the rails. A communal or generally accepted direction; habitual pathways of thought or action; rigidly fixed to certain attitudes or way of life; inflexibility.

Missing the train: feeling left out of opportunity; sense of inadequacy; held back by one’s own hesitations; hidden desire to avoid change or to make one’s individual journey; not connecting with an opportunity or events.

Railroad crossing: A need for awareness and observation in case of danger. Possible block to progress. Conflict between your personal direction — the car – and the prescribed direction of the train.

Railway station: Moving toward something new; making a choice or having a choice of directions – directions that may need decision, planning and or choice; changing scenes – i.e. from family to work environment; leaving something behind – a relationship, one’s youth; one’s ability to change; effort to get somewhere in life or experience something new; parting or meeting, saying farewell or waiting for someone; changes in a relationship or work. The station can also depict the ‘station’ you have reached, or are moving toward in life. So it might therefore be a situation you are in or trying to reach.

Sometimes ‘station’ in your dream can mean your life state or station. So it is your present life situation. The station you try to reach is the place or situation you will arrive at when you bring your desires and actions under direction.

The train journey: The aspect of our journey through life that has connections with other people and has a predetermined end unless you change trains. It is therefore limiting your individual will, and passing through certain stages. It may show a journey into self-awareness. And because you are being pulled along by a power other than your own efforts, it can refer to ageing and death – especially where there is a feeling of ‘departing’ or ‘time of departure’; the train of thought or experiences that carry us through life. But it refers in general to your movement through life as time passes.

The journey might be one you remember making in the past, or meeting someone from a previous journey. These can both refer to influences in your present life from prior to your birth.

Ticket: See ticket

Train engine: The energy that takes us through life; libido.

 Example: I lived in a village/town at the foot of a huge mountain. I felt desperate and that I had to do something – I must climb the mountains straight away. I ran away from home, family, to straightaway start to climb the mountain. The beginning of the journey was on a train. Although it had been night and raining, now it was light and blue sky. As the train slowly climbed the mountain, I looked out on the scenery behind us. There were strange rock formations, mountain valleys, lovely vistas, so beautiful I wept openly at the beauty. Others in the carriage noticed how moved I was.

Idioms: Go off the rails; lose track of something; make tracks for; on somebody’s track. See: airport; ticket.

Useful Questions and Hints:

If I was on a train, where was I going?

Did anything important happen on the train?

Did you or did you not have a ticket?

See Being the Person or Thing – Journey – Journey Inward – Water Wonderland

Comments

-Sylvia Grinham 2018-05-19 4:58:30

In this deam, whic I have had a few times before – I am trying to find my way to the railway station. It involves stairs, a blonde lady, crowds , streets, a town which seems to be by the sea – and seeing the railways line, or sign to the station but not finding the way.

    -Tony Crisp 2018-05-21 12:56:27

    Sylvia – Your dream involves a blonde lady, crowds , streets, a town – which appear to be the general ‘rush’ of life activity – is that what you are trying to get away from at the station.

    But in fact you are by the sea, the great ocean of Life that dreams offer. Wheras going by train is the accepted way of going about things, moral values or a direction that is hard to change, and perhaps shared with others. See https://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/

-Anjie 2018-01-13 21:22:15

This morning I had a dream that I am with my partner of 10 years at a train station with multiple tracks and trains. Some trains are arriving and some leaving. We do not board any train but start walking on the tracks going outside the station. At one point all tracks join together and we are walking hand in hand on the single track that is left leaving the station far behind us. Still trying to figure out the significance. I am a regular lucid dreamer.

-D Reynolds 2018-01-08 11:48:09

I have 3 cat’s and in my dream I swapped my cats for 3 new cats only the cats all looked like German Sheppard’s. For some reason the cat’s wouldn’t come home with me not matter how hard I tried. Each one was running up and down the railway track and I was scared wittless that they’ll all be run over.

    -Tony Crisp 2018-01-14 16:25:23

    Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/news/summing-up/ and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.

    Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/

    Tony

    D – It seems you lost your first 3 cats because they became dogs.

    I believe when we care for animals it can trigger a huge parental urge. I watched one of my cats being born, handled him straight away. Watched his eyes become seeing, saw him learning to grow from babyhood to the magnificent cat he was. And then saw his lifeless battered body when he was run over. I bawled as if it was my son.

    Your love and care for your animal can trigger your mothering/parenting instincts with a vengeance. Being female holds with it an enormously increased anxiety about your baby/cats. You see all manner of things that might be a threat, and I believe that is what such dreams shows. Your imagination for such dangers is enormously increased.

-Tejal 2017-12-11 15:42:00

I dreamed something like this..
I and another guy were walking on the platform and i suddenly get down at the track and then later was at the platform with the help of that guy..
What it means…!?

-PJ 2017-11-16 18:14:33

I had a dream that I am travelling with some one I am in a love with. Then that person gets down at a station and I spot her with another person. I do not confront but I see in a secret way through other compartments. What does this mean?

    -Tony Crisp 2017-11-17 14:39:35

    Hi – The answers I give arise not out of me thinking up things to say, but from fifty years of exploring dreams in depth. So some of what I write may seem wild. This may be because dreams arise and are experienced by a level of your mind or awareness that very few people have any concept or experience of – usually called the unconscious. Life dreamt in its creatures millions of years before even humankind awoke and developed self awareness or language. So to understand dreams we need to leave our thinking minds behind and go into our feelings and reactions – a much older level of awareness.

    But it would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/news/summing-up/ and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
    Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPersonor http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/

    Tony

    PJ – Love is not something you are in control of as a person, for it had its beginning in your infancy, and was further chiselled in you in childhood. So your ability to love was shaped by your childhood experiences.

    A baby attempts to form a living bond with its mother. In all mammals this level of connection is vital. Without it the baby will die unless it forms that bond with another adult who will act as a guide, an encourager and someone who has wider sympathies of awareness than the missed mother/father. If that is disturbed in any way by a lack of love at any time, it leaves great pain and inability to love. Literally the baby or child fears it will die without that love. That is how it learnt to love.

    I remember a man driving many miles to consult me because, as he said, “My wife is going to leave me if I do not change.” He explained that his wife said that he was so jealous that if she talked to another man it would cause a row. So, I asked him to remember the first time he felt like that. It took him a while before he said, “I was about five”. I then explained that he had not learnt to grow emotionally since then. I also explained that I, in my mid forties, had married again, and discovered much to my horror that I had regressed to a four years old in relationship to my wife, and I needed to be near her and follow her around. Realising what was happening I started learning to grow, and went through childhood, teenage and on. the man went on his way with a new intent.

    So ask yourself as you searched through the secret ways through other compartments of your life whether your ‘love’ is like that. If you are in that situation, ask yourself when you first felt like that, and trace it backwards.

-Amritha 2017-06-16 4:04:27

Hello, I dreamt I was at the railway station with a close friend, beginning a much awaited trip. Suddenly an engine on fire comes and parks in the track nearest to us. People rush to put out the fire while another train approaches this burning engine from the opposite direction. The train tries to avoid a collision and applies brakes. It ends up riding on the the platform where we stand. We move backward, but get sandwiched between the burning engine and tracks, wall of the railway station and the de railed compartment moving towards us. But we aren’t harmed! Then, I see our train approaching the station at high speed. Suddenly there are about 5women standing on the track, to cross it just when the train is close enough. Train hits all of them, go without stopping at my station. All women die. I even see one of them shudder and bleed (she is known to me) just before dying. There is also a covered corpse, ready to be buried. None of the corpses lok gross. They are laid in parallel on the track, with only some blood. We are still at the station.
What does my dream mean?Woke up with a start at 6:30 am seeing this.

-Jessica Trim 2017-05-17 11:51:22

Hello,
I was meditating and wittneed a clown on a train carriage and the door were closing on the clown.

Tge cliwn was black and white so it could have been a mime character.

Im very confued as I cant quite distinguish what my feeling were from the clown ie happy or scared.

I hope you can enlighten me more.
I know you dont want to answer any morr questions but the clown aspecr is quite interesting.

Love and light
Jessica

-Smriti 2017-05-13 0:36:08

I have seen a dream about a train accident in front of my room. I helped some people and give them water then later I saw I was about to reach railway station but there was many angry elephants. They were chasing me everywhere. I was not able to reach railway station.

-Tomino(Tomas) 2017-03-21 12:29:51

I had a dream about girl someone like soulmate. Like if I found someone I looking for all my life. So it begins in old train station. I saw a girl she was so beautiful I immediately fall in love for her smile. So i approached her just saying hello. She smiled at me and she said that she is lost and if i can help her. i dont remember mutch about details. My memory stops here but it continues in her apartman she was in her underwear smiling on me and we was in love. But not ordinary it was so strong something i newer feel before something so strong i cant describe it…I just met her and i knew everything about her, her past her childhood everything.She was so beautifull i know we will be together for ever than I woke up. (and sorry for my english i am not english speaking person i am just learning)

-josephine acolicol 2017-03-13 17:10:51

hi i had a dream that in the old railroad somewhere in asia i saw my ex-bf across the railway coming our from a native restaurant like a hut looking structure..but i was w/ someone so, i just told myself that well, if he see me i will say hi or if he happens to come near me i would say hi otherwise i will just ignore it. then he crossed the railway and stand from 3 people standing infront of us so, i just said hi but when he saw me he glowed in white radiant and he just kissed me..someone else is holding my hands but i let it go so i can touch my ex face while we were kissing passionately..and i woke-up

-josephine acolicol 2017-03-13 17:10:51

hi i had a dream that in the old railroad somewhere in asia i saw my ex-bf across the railway coming our from a native restaurant like a hut looking structure..but i was w/ someone so, i just told myself that well, if he see me i will say hi or if he happens to come near me i would say hi otherwise i will just ignore it. then he crossed the railway and stand from 3 people standing infront of us so, i just said hi but when he saw me he glowed in white radiant and he just kissed me..someone else is holding my hands but i let it go so i can touch my ex face while we were kissing passionately..and i woke-up

-DR DAVID ASISH 2017-02-04 18:45:25

I dreamed that, I was in a futuristic sophisticated train station, and a modern high speed train, I am supposed to board is on the wait, on the ground floor of the station building. I was in the top of the building(8th floor) , I tried use the lift to get down quickly , as i still have to buy the ticket, but it didnt work. I used stairs to get down quickly. when I got down I cudnt figure out where the ticket counter was. I hurried in various directions and people around me tried to help , finally I was led to a ticket booth,located in a busy market like place , not at all sophisticated. and then i woke up.

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