What does it mean to dream about riding a bus (dream interpretation bus)
Dream interpretation bus. Riding a bus belongs to the category of transportation. Means of transport in dreams symbolize how you move forward (and sometimes backwards) in your journey of life. The type of transport you use can be of great symbolic significance. When you in the dream is on a bus, it may symbolize that you live a very conformal life, in other words, you “go with the flow”, “do what other people do” etc. – but you don’t go your own way. It would be a different story if you were the bus driver! Or the driver of your own car.
We are all on a journey of life – en route to somewhere. In dreams, we often choose the mode of transportation, we would choose in real life like bus, train, ferry, car, airplane, bike etc. A bus journey can in this way be an expression of a shorter (and maybe more down-to-earth) movement/journey than for example a plane trip. Means of transport are used to take us from A to B – just like we would move from one place in our life to another; from child to adult, from having no kids to all of a sudden becoming a parent, but of course also our general development or “growth”. Dreaming about being on a bus can therefore mean several things.
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However, it is important to learn how to generally approach your dreams. Dream dictionaries like this one are only a supplement, and if you want to fully utilize the potential of your dreams, you should start at a different place.
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A bus as a symbol of public transportation – and therefore an attempt to fit in “with the crowd”. As mentioned – if you dream that you are on a bus, it may symbolize that you live your life in an attempt to fit in. You go with the flow and would rather not stand out too much.
If this is a recurring dream, then there is a good reason to take a closer look at it. Additionally, you can dream that you are late for the bus, and that you struggle to catch it. In other words, you are struggling persistently – and unsuccessfully – in order to adapt to the demands of the world.
Such a dram can once again be an invitation to stop and ask yourself what you want in your life. A crowded bus in a dream can therefore be an image of an extreme sense of competition in the course of life (or career), you have chosen.
A bus in a dream as transport bringing you from A to B. Your bus journey can also simply be a symbol of you moving from A to B in your life. In this way, you can dream that you catch a bus going in the wrong direction – that is to say, your life is going in the wrong direction (or that parts of you want to go in one direction and others want to go in another, and you experience inner conflict).
Have you had a dream about riding a bus? Please share your experience in the comments below (unfortunately, I have decided to no longer help out via the comments below – I simply get too many requests every day – on this blogpost, and the many other blogposts).
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NB: Dreams are 100% individual. When you’re dreaming you are on a bus, it probably doesn’t mean the same is happening in your life as it is in someone else’s. It is not a certainty that the interpretations above are relevant to you. An interpretation of a dream is only correct, if you can recognize yourself in it – if you really think “Yes, that’s me!”
In my dream, I was back in Jr High School and my mother was there for some odd reason. It was the end of the school day (but it was still morning). When I went outside to go home, I compelled to take the school bus but my childhood home was only a 10 minute walk away. In my mind, I knew I could walk home but I ended up taking a bus.
All the school busses had a chart attached to them that had the addresses of where you would end up and only one of the busses had a familiar address but it wasn’t my address. It was the address of my mother’s current house. I ended up getting on the bus because they were going to leave and I didn’t want to be left behind. When I got on, I sat in the back alone and the bus started to drive backwards. It wasn’t on a road either, it was on a concrete-like roller coaster. I was terrified that we were going to fall or crash. I ended up at my mother’s house though and all of my siblings and my SO (significant other) was there.
Lately (in waking life), I have been struggling with where to go in my life. I have been trying to make a big decision with buying a house or going back to live with my mother and saving up money because rent is too high for me to make ends meet with my bills and such. However, my mother is an abusive narcissistic person and moving in with her would be very stressful.
I’m not sure if this dream was telling me that I AM going backwards or if it’s a warning that I will go backwards if I go down that path. I’m afraid that no matter my decision it’s a guarantee. But all I know is that if I went back to my mother’s it would be a set back. I just hope that what I’m choosing to do is the right thing.
Hi – I can’t help but thinking that the outset of the dream is Jr High School – i.e. as if you are somehow living the relationship with your mom as it was back then. Also – adding to that – your fear of being left behind (in the dream) – how are you afraid of “losing out” in your life right now? I get the feeling that you are unconsciously falling back to old patterns of “mom please save me” – which would be normal in a jr high school setting – but right now in your life it would mean for you to give up yourself. The funny thing is – you can also just choose to walk, so it seems you are feeling the pressure of external (and internal) expectations; “you ought to be at a different place in life compared to where you are at the moment”. My advice would be to embrace the fact that circumstances are as they are. That is not embarrasing or wrong – that is just how it is. How would the more responsible side of you handle the situation; what are actual other ways of staying on your own self-upholding path? That said, if you end up going home to your mom anyway – then that is okay too – but it seems you know deep within how this would be for you (deeply dissatisfying). Question; how do you think your mother would feel about you coming home again? Would she deep down “love it” because her child is returning home and she can be a mom again (narcissistic satisfaction for her) – or is she “bigger” mom who would do what she can to help you thrive and live independantly? Best- Michael
Had an odd dream my significant other was driving the short school bus, really crazily in my dream, scaring the students and I. Such an odd dream!!
Hi had a dream where I ran to a bus that I had been waiting for and my metro card didn’t have any money in it. I attempted to use my phone (Apple Pay which I typically use) but it wasn’t working. The bus was crowded and then turned into my childhood home (a place of comfort). My dad (I was close to him) was there, who is deceased, and mom. I was very frustrated because I couldn’t figure out the bus fare on my phone. I attempted my dad’s laptop, mom’s phone, my phone to no avail. When I finally looked out the bus curtains, the bus was moving slowly past what appeared to be the block in front of my childhood home. This is where I had to get off, and was frantic to get my things but still didn’t have a fare to give or show the bus driver. I could have just left the bus without paying like some people and people do but felt too guilty. More time was passing and the bus was moving past my stop, in the rain. That’s when I woke up.