Some common conditions of vehicles in dreams involve steering, braking, accelerating and the inflation of tires. Once you make the connection that a vehicle represents your “vehicle in life” to get you to where God wants you, the details involving that vehicle will take on personal meaning to you.  Your tires are the only part of your vehicle that directly touch the road you’re on. Inside those tires is an invisible substance called air that is necessary or your vehicle won’t move like it was designed to move. Air represents the Holy Spirit. If your vehicle has a flat tire or low air pressure, the dream is revealing a need to be refilled with the Holy Spirit. This is an example of a Self Condition Dream. Often dreams with vehicles are either calling, warning or self-condition dreams. Not being able to control the direction or speed of your vehicle indicates that at this point in your journey this is true about your ministry or “vehicle of calling.”

God wants to remind you when you need a refilling of His Spirit to accomplish that which He’s put in your heart. He wants to warn you when you need to slow down or show more self control in the direction and decisions you make on the road to that destiny. And God wants to encourage you along that path by showing you things you might not realize about yourself, your gifts and calling. Who knows you better than God?

Moderators Note: These two tips come in from one of our teachers.

1) For several years now I have had many white people who have dreamed of their pastors/bosses. In the dream they are black, but in reality they are white. Finally last fall, I to had one of those dreams.  What Holy Spirit taught me was these were ones (authority figures) who have been in the fields, working the fields and being burned by the Sun, tending the garden.

2) There has been several whose dreams have had at different times things or themselves spinning either clockwise or counter-clockwise.  Holy Spirit showed me in a dance that as one spins they are bring into wholeness things in their life or taking request to or bring answers back.  Clockwise is taking up to heaven and counter is to bring down from heaven.  Isaiah 55:10,11

Vehicles you are driving in your dream, or that you know belong to you in the dream, have different functions and characteristics. Often those characteristics will give you insight into the “vehicle” you’re using to get you through and to the destiny God has for you. What type of vehicle is it? The size of the vehicle you find yourself in can determine the size of your influence. God has a purpose for everyone and the extent and range of your influence isn’t as important as the passion of your pursuit and the character you display along the road to that destiny.

Having said that, airplanes and cruise ships symbolize international influence because the function of these vehicles is to travel long distances and over borders and nationalities. Driving a bus or a cargo van would indicate greater influence than a regular car, and a car would indicate greater influence than a motorcycle. Ever found yourself on a bicycle? That indicates your current vehicle is requiring a lot of effort on your part.

What if your vehicle has a flat tire? No brakes? No acceleration. Next time, we’ll discuss some common conditions dreamers find their vehicles in.

Another element that often finds its’ way into your dreams are vehicles: cars, trucks, buses, airplanes, boats, etc. Anyone familiar with the Streams dreams courses will know that vehicles in dreams represent the “vehicle” that helps get you to your destination, destiny or purpose in life. It doesn’t have to represent your life-long dreams, sometimes it can be a job or temporary assignment along the way to something greater. God has much to say about your “vehicle” through life — past, present and future. But you have to pay close attention to the details.

What the vehicle looks like — type, color, make or model — describes the “vehicle” in life that is currently propelling you toward your destination. For example, if you find yourself always driving trucks in your dream, it conveys that your “vehicle” is helping others, as trucks are designed to carry loads, or sometimes tools that provide help for others.

Once again, there is no one size fits all interpretation for dreams. A true interpretation will almost always resonate in your heart immediately. We’ll discuss other types of “vehicles” next time.

Moderator’s Note: Please feel free to offer an interpretation to any of the comments left on DreamBloggR. We want to create a community here that helps itself. Any interpretation that feels accurate, or at least isn’t blatantly inaccurate, will be posted..

To recap, God puts you in homes from your past, present or future to talk about issues of your life. I haven’t mentioned future before, but this would include dreams of you being in a home that wasn’t yours, but in the dream you knew it was your home. This can often be an opportunity to uncover an issue of your life that’s in the future — whether good or bad. The context of the dream will tell you whether it’s a warning dream, a discouraging or fearful dream from the enemy, or perhaps, a soulish or flesh-driven dream that you caused yourself to dream by focusing a lot on it.

When the house is someplace you’ve been in the natural, look for any visual differences of it in the dream.  For example, ‘it was my house, but the living room was much larger.’ If you’re unfamiliar with the house, the context and details become even more important to its’ meaning. For example, a dream that puts you in a house or building made of all glass is different than a building with many windows, or for that matter, with no windows. The glass building speaks of transparency and vulnerability and the windows speak of vision or lack thereof. Why? When you’re inside a house of all glass, the focus will often be who can see you from the outside of the building. Windows, on the other hand, will reveal to you what’s outside the house.

Before I start my post, I’d like to mention that we won’t be able to interpret dreams through this blog. We invite comments concerning overall interpretive themes, concepts and experiences, however, it would be impossible to tackle individual dreams. We’ve enabled comments, but we will only be publishing those that meet the above criteria. Also, this blog will be a collaborative effort among Streams teachers, so writing styles may change from time to time.

As touched on in the previous post, God uses your home in your dreams to communicate issues of your life. But even the rooms within that house where the action occurs have meaning in and of themselves. Dreams occurring in the bedroom speak to issues of intimacy, the kitchen often speaks of learning (preparing and consuming of spiritual food) and the bathroom those matters that need cleansing or the removal of issues your body or soul needs to get rid of.

But before you run back to your dream journals to see if these hints unlock any meaning, remember context should be applied first. For example, garages for some have always been the place where they’ve parked their vehicles. But for others, the garage may be the place they’ve always parked items they bought but never got around to using. Hmm.

Another cool way God reveals issues in your life is to take you back to where you used to live.  We’ve all had dreams that take place in scenes from our past, and one common dream scene takes place in your childhood home. What could that be a picture of? What age or ages were you when you lived in that house?

Those dreams are often speaking of issues that took root at the time you lived in that house. What’s the condition of the house? Where in the house do the dream’s actions take place? It’s not imperative that the house be precisely the same as the actual house, or even that you actually be in the dream the age you were when you lived there. So when you have a dream that takes place in one of your homes, past or present, think of the home representing your life, and proceed from there.

One of the hidden mysteries of dreams involves time — how God reveals our past and how He reveals the future. In Genesis, Joseph interpreted the Baker’s fate and the timetable of his demise in an amazing way. The baker was carrying bread in a basket on his head and birds came after that bread three times. From that, Joseph knew those three confrontations meant three days.

Why three? That’s simple,  it happened three times. But how did he know it referred to a period of time? In the days in which this event took place, bread lasted one day. Bread was a major part of the Hebrew culture, and “give us this day our daily bread,” not only meant the Word of God figuratively, but actual food for the table in the most literal sense.

So, in looking over your dreams, see if God may be giving you a timetable of when an event might happen by having the same thing occur over and over again.

Thanks everyone for your comments to this blog. It’s great to hear your excitement in learning more about dream interpretation. In reading your comments, many of you have asked if it’s possible to have a dream be both intrinsic and extrinsic. Some of you are quite certain it is possible, and I don’t want to issue any blanket responses without specifics.

In my personal experience of interpreting my dreams and the dreams of others, if I am participating at any point of the dream, I label that dream as intrinsic. Remember, intrinsic means the dream is about you; extrinsic means it’s concerning someone or something else. The point of dream interpretation is not in the rigid tagging of the dream, it’s discovering the meaning and learning from the hidden wisdom.

For example: Sometimes I’ve noticed I’ll be participating, and then suddenly find myself removed from the action of the dream yet still privy to what’s going on or what’s being said. I don’t consider this now to be an extrinsic dream. The dream is still about me. It’s just not important for me to be there when that information is revealed.

Or, sometimes you just “know” things in a dream. The back story of how you found this out isn’t important to the meaning of the dream, so it’s excluded.

So for clarity, I would suggest tagging any dream you participate in at any time as intrinsic, and any dream you are strictly observing, extrinsic.