Lauri’s Blog

Our cars are a popular and powerful dream symbol and often reflect how our current journey down the road of life is going.  But what does it mean if we dream our car is stole?  Jesse, a 35 year old gal from Salt Lake City has been plagued with dreams that her car is stolen and is pretty darn tired of it!  Read on to find out the extremely important message this dream is giving her…

I constantly dream of the same thing and it can last all night. I am usually at a new place, apartment when my car is stolen. It is always my Dodge Durango that is stolen by someone and I try all night long to get it back. Sometimes I know the person that took it and I go get it back and then I wake up in the morning and it is gone again. I can never keep it in my possession. The impact of the car being gone is that I will try to steal other cars, sometimes being successful, other times not, but I steal the cars to try to get back home. It really stresses me out BAD! Can u help?  – Jesse

Lauri: Our cars, to our dreaming mind, mean much more than just being our car. To the dreaming mind our car is our ability to get where we want to go in life as well as our “drive” and motivation to reach certain goals.

Your car is constantly stolen in your dreams, which is a good indication that you may constantly feel directionless or that you feel you were robbed of an opportunity to reach a goal you had for yourself. It is also possible that this recurring dream is commenting on a recurring behavior pattern of losing interest. Do you tend to start something but not finish because of a lack of drive?

Very interesting that you also become a thief in your dreams! Do you tend to take shortcuts or try to find the easy way in waking life? I think you may not have found your path yet, you’ve not yet found that certain goal that keeps you motivated and wanting to work hard at it every day. You’re not alone. Many of us are wandering through life aimlessly, just going through the motions and not feeling fulfilled or excited about much.

Your dreams want you to find a new path, which is why they keep taking your car away from you in your dream, because the path you are on now isn’t going to get you “home,” it isn’t going to take you to a place in your life where you feel completeness and fulfillment. Ask yourself what you enjoy doing the most. See if you can incorporate that into your life in a productive manner that helps you grow and progress a little each day. Having trouble coming up worth it? Ask your dreams tonight to show you. That’s what they are there for. When you finally find the road you’re meant to travel, Or take the necessary action to get on the road you know you want, these dreams will stop!

Jesse replies: I have been trying to complete law school now for 3 years. I have not been able to finish because i had a baby, we can’t afford it and it’s out of state so i can’t go back to california to finish. I am struggling with how to make graduation happen and I can’t seem to find a way to make it happen. Since becoming a mother, I am second guessing what I should be doing for a career.

I am wondering if I am encountering all these obstacles because I shouldn’t be going to law school or be a lawyer. What I like doing most is working for animals’ rights’ and learning/speaking foreign languages. the only way i can see to incorporate those two loves is being an international lawyer with animal rights as a side specialty. This interpretation makes total sense! I knew I could count on you to help. You are truly amazing!

Our dreams will be persistent like Jesse’s recurring car dream when something in our life is not progressing.  Our dreams try to step in and point us in the right direction, but if we don’t pay attention to them, they will continue to come back, again and again, until you finally listen and take their advice.

THE BEST WAY to figure out what is causing your recurring dreams is to look at what happened the day before the dream.  Your dreams at night are ALWAYS connected to your previous day.  My book Cracking The Dream Code  has a dream decoding journal in it specifically designed to help you make those crucial connections between your day and what happens in your dreams that night.  No other dream book lays it out for you this way.  Want “aha! moment” after “aha! moment?”  Want to be able to easily fit the pieces of your dream puzzle together?  This book will do it for ya!

Don’t ignore your dreams they are your built in problem solvers. Want to know how many dreams you’ve had so far? Try my new Dream Calculator

This morning I was a guest again on FM 100 in Memphis with Dana Fox and Ron Olson.  A woman called in who had been plagued with snake dreams her whole life.  The audio below is a great example of how those pesky recurring dreams are actually good for us, if we would just listen to them…

Recently I was a guest on the Spezzano and Sandy Morning Show on WPXY Rochester, NY. As usual, the listeners called in with some really good dreams… dreams I’ll bet you’ve had! Okay, maybe you haven’t dreamt of a flamingo sleeping in a cardboard box like Spezzano, but I’m sure you’ve dreamt the breaks on your car aren’t working or that you are back with an ex. Listen to the audio below to find out what these common dreams REALLY mean!

The Flamingo dream is first, the car breaks dream is about halfway through and the ex dream is two thirds of the way through. Enjoy dahling!

Do snakes slither into your dreams?

Welcome to the very first Dream Zone Blog posting!!  I’m not sure how this blog will shape and form itself, but I am excited that you are going to join me on this journey!  I plan for this blog to be an additional source of information about dreaming for you as well as a way to join in a community of like minded people.  So when leaving comments, please be nice to each other!

This past Thursday I was a guest on Mike in the Morning on KSII in El Paso, TX.  A lady named Maria called in with a dream about kittens.  While the dream itself wasn’t hilarious, the interaction among the caller, Mike, co-host Trish and myself was!! 

Click play to listen to the dream.

That’s one of the many reasons I love what I do… dreams are a goldmine of comedic material!!!  If you ever want a career in stand-up KEEP A DREAM JOURNAL!!

While the audio clip is a sound byte, ending at precisely the right comedic point, it does leave you wondering, “What exactly IS the reason the snake is lunging at Maria’s mother’s throat anyway?”  I explained to Maria that the snake does indeed symbolize her husbands… um… male energy!  And her mother is standing in for her own role as Mom (our mothers appear in our dreams at least once a week on average, btw).  Her dream was telling her that her role as Mom was stepping on her sex life with hubby!

Our Dreams will ALWAYS let us know when we are ignoring or neglecting something that needs our attention.  Maria’s dreams sure let her know what part of her life was collecting dust! 

What about you?  Have your dreams ever brought attention to something you were neglecting?