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
Hi Tony,
I had a dream,vision,I saw ahuge train travelling very fast, I was on the tracks and could not get out of the way quick enough, I turned slightly put my arms in a protective position the backs of my hands over my face and my elbows were pointing one up one down,in the configuration of a coat hanger..I closed my eyes and said this is going to hurt..the next thing I know the train is flying by at a furious rate..but I was fine…
Paula – You learned a great lesson about dreams – you cannot be hurt or die in your dreams. Of course you can feel enormous emotions such as fears – but that is all dreams are, an experience and vision of your inner life. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/questions-2/#Summing
Having learnt so much, and hopefully taken it on board, perhaps you can benefit from reading http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/secrets-power-dreaming/ – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/martial-art-of-the-mind/ – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/lifes-little-secrets/ – http://dreamhawk.com/news/avoiding-being-my-own-victim/
Tony
Dreamt of a huge shoot out in Manhattan I was down in train station when everyone started running rain with the crowd through the tracks lost my family got out of train station first thing I see a huge cathedral church. Was very scared two kids got shot a little girl and teenage boy family eventually found me.woke up in tears
Gabrielle – America has the highest murder rate in the whole world, so you live in a country where there is a lot to be anxious about. And your dream seems to be about a way that you can live out and discharge to fear you have about your surroundings.
Also it can be a way of reliving past hurts or present fears. This enables the dreamer to release fears and emotions safely allow them to experience and even find a decent reaction to what they fear.
Tony
hi,
I saw that I was at a big central station, I was looking for a chart to check my tickets confirmation, but I couldn’t find it, then I found a ticket checker, I approached him and started talking with him, he was very friendly and very well dressed, he had a symbol of two knifes crossing each other on his back which was made of some polished white metal, he was wearing white dress and white cap, generally in india ticket checkers don’t wear caps, we started moving towards train and chit chatting, all the time I was just praising his uniform and suddenly I woke up. the platform was very neat and the train was also very neat like a new train. can you tell me what does it mean?
Last night I dreamt I was in my sisters car.With my sister and her partner. He doesn’t drive but he was in the drivers seat driving the car. I was was sitting at the back it was just the three of us. We were heading around a round about heading left. We were moving rather fast. As we were indicating to go left out of no where this fast moving train appears. On the outside lane, With no time to react. I thought we are definetly goners. Waiting for the massive collision and our lives to end. Miraculously the passenger doors of the train open and I fly through. Some how i end up on the other side of the train land straight on my feet unscathed. That was quite and exhilirating dream then I awake. And cant get back to sleep. Seconds after waking the text message sound on my phone goes off indicating the batterys flat. I didnt go back to sleep after that.
I had a dream that I was riding a train but there were no tracks. Then we got on tracks as the train turned and I told the conductor that we were going in the wrong direction and he tried to turn the train around.
Could you help me understand why I have had a few dreams now where I can only crawl or roll over train tracks? I cannot actually walk over them, but I have to go over them slowly, fearing the impending train down the tracks.
Hi, I had a dream last night that I can’t stop thinking about can you help me to analyze. This is the part I can remember; I am on a train and there is an announcement the train is being held up for 24 hours, it passes the station and goes down an unknown route. On arrival everyone is forced outside and shot dead. I am still alive just and a lamb saves my life by coming over and licking the blood from my mouth and helping me to escape. Then I have to find a disguise so the killers don’t recognize me…this is as much as I remember, but woke up scared to go back to sleep. Please help, what is the dream trying to tell me? I am going through a difficult time and it could refer to a number of things. If you need more info let me know. This would be greatly appreciated. Peace
I had a dream last night where I was on a train and when it’s my stop, i could get out. The door was open but I just couldn’t get out of the train that I missed my stop.
Hi Tony
Lastnight i dreamt i left my newborn in the pram in the train, and when i ran back towards the train, the doors shut and train left. I hopped on another train going the same direction hoping to find my babys train. While im on the train, theres a police woman and another woman listening to me explain whats just happened but i had cried so much no more tears would come out. I can still feel the pain of loss as im writing this. I started looking out the window only to realise, my train wasnt stopping. It would go past a station and continued to go past the same exact station. The station sign was a 5 or 6 letter word starting with an ‘S’ strath? Sturt? Strat? Im certain it had an ‘S’, T, R, T but not sure if the other letter was an A or U? Anyway that was my dream and i cant stop trying to put the letters together to this puzzling dream.
I had a dream twice in one night: that I was rushing to get to a train. Got on it, but left my kids (10 &2) on the platform. Came back little one was gone (some lady had her) big one was like whatever you know she doesn’t listen. Got my kids back in the dream but what the heck could that mean?
I have continuously been dreaming of being on my way to the airport to catch my flight. Somehow, I always ended up in a crowded railway station – nice and modern, each time different one. In the end, I got lost and missed my connecting train to the airport or got stuck in line and missed my flight. These kind of dreams have appeared in the last couple of weeks. I do not understand the meaning of them even though I know that it is kind of a sign to tell me something.
Hi Tony
This is very helpful. I’ve dreamt a couple of times of being at a railway station. I just can’t seem to find the train I need to get to my destination. I’ll walk up and down stairs, follow signs but wherever I end up the train I need is not running from that platform. I will ask people directions, stop at ticket offices but no luck. I don’t feel hurried or exasperated, I just wander off in a different direction.
Debbe – The dream seems to be about not being in the right place at the right time – about not getting it right.
I suggest that you rewrite the dream in your imagination. Go back into your dream and see if yo8u can imagine being on the right platform and the train is there. Does it feel good or are you still not feeling right about it? It is important for you to find out.
Tony
Thank you Tony, I will try just that.
This description completely explains what I am going through in my life at the very same moment I am heaving this dream….thank you for making it so clear to understand
Thank you too Lisa for taking the time to think about it and also commenting.
Tony
I had a dream that i was travelling on a train.
And as the journey goes on the train stops at a station (as usual in Real world whenever a station comes the train stops)
And I get down to buy something or i get down to see that which station has arrived.
But as soon as I get down , the train starts running at a high speed.
I run to catch the train but it is running faster than me and I am unable to catch it.
And the train departs from the station leaving me behind. on the station.
I had this dream 5 to 6 six times since last few months.
Everytime a different train everytime a differnt station.
But one thing that happens all the time is that I get down to see which station has arrived and train starts running , I run to catch it, and after all its all in vain.
And I am left behind.
Chirag – Travelling on a train is usually about knowing where you are going. A train cannot change direction because it is on rails that are fixed.
I tried running this dream in my imagination, and I could feel the frustration of the train going. But then I played it by remaining on the train and that led to unrest. You see, the train journey is something you take in company with others. Like bus ride you are on a communal journey, and I wonder if you are not satisfied with doing the same thing.
Is your dream showing you another direction in life? Try it yourself by getting on the train or staying on it in imagination and see how it feels. The try it with the train leaving you behind and see where you will go then and how that feels.
Tony
I dreamt that I was a train, not on a train, but that I was the physical train zooming along at high speeds and hearing the loud whistles of the train inside my body.
Jules – This is an excellent example of the fact that every dream image is an expression of us – the dreamer. The train seems to express that you are going places fast; a real go getter. But remember that as the train you are on tracks, and cannot go anywhere the tracks – a communal or generally accepted direction; habitual pathways of thought or action; rigidly fixed to certain attitudes or way of life; inflexibility – do not allow.
Tony
Thanks for that interpretation Tony, by nature I am a very rigid person, even archaic in my mindset at times, and can get quite stubborn (inflexible); also one who enjoys long periods of solitudes, much like the train that travels on it’s long journeys all alone. Who knew I was most like a train..lol. Thanks for the insight, much appreciated.
Jules – Thanks for that.
I am sometimes like that. When I decide on a direction it takes a while to grab that handle that pulls the change to a different track.
tony