If it’s clear in the dream that the vehicle doesn’t belong to you, the dream could be providing  insight into that person to whom the vehicle does belong.  Don’t jump to the conclusion that the dream is extrinsic, or about that person. For instance, if you’re in a car that you know belongs to someone else, that dream is much more often speaking of how your relationship is affecting, negatively or positively,  that person’s ministry or calling. So, it’s actually about you.

Are you driving his or her vehicle? If so, is it from the back seat or passenger seat? Where you are in the car and what you’re doing provides the important context for the dream’s meaning. How many of us know that the term “backseat driver” doesn’t only refer to someone barking out instructions on how to drive from the backseat? God uses this metaphor to reveal to us a need to control something entrusted to someone else. It’s a call to pray for that person and to ask God to change our need to control and trust that person’s journey to Him.

Driving from the passenger seat — if the context of the dream is positive — could indicate you are, or will be, helping that person to drive their vehicle during a stretch of time. What’s the outcome of you driving from the passenger or backseat? Who else is in the car? What do those people mean to you?

God, who sees you from eternity future, wants to help you in your ministry. He also wants to reveal blind spots in your relationship with others. He has made us with different gifts — the Apostle Paul calls us parts that make up the body. Why wouldn’t He give us help along the way to fit together?

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?