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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When trying to understand your dreams it is important to know that your dreams are… your dreams. As such, you are the best person to figure out the true meaning of your dreams.
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.
My online course “Unlock your DREAMlife” gives you a great foundation for understanding (and recalling) your dreams.
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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).
Dream dictionaries are a very helpful tool when interpreting dreams. However, generally learning how to approach your dreams, will give you a better foundation for understanding them. My online course “Unlock your DREAMlife” teaches you how to much better utilize – recall and understand – your dreams.
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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!”
I dream I was on a fancy bus with soldiers coming home to their family. I was there but I wasn’t. I was watching the conversation between the soldiers and I, yet I was talking.
Hi Lois,
thank you for your highly interesting dream! Unfortunately I no longer offer help for free, as I get very many requests every day. Instead I offer the following (interpretation of your dream, with payment): http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I dreamt that I was traveling in a bus and the bus checker came in when we reach my destination which made me to avoid the bus checker because I had no bus ticket but I luckily escaped the bus checker because he came at my stop of desyination
Hi Joseph,
and sorry for the late response, but I had to give up helping out for free on this website, as I simply drown in requests. Instead I offer help the following way: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I was dreaming of riding a bus with family & colleagues, we look happy on the bus. But i noticed that the road wad turned into was a sea of black water then someone closes the gate to that way then it suddenly opened i saw that the sea of black water was turned into a road
Hi Aileen,
and sorry for the late response, but I had to give up helping out for free on this website, as I simply drown in requests. Instead I offer help the following way: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
When I saw that dream I was bus driver… very happy and enjoyed so much…. Please explain this..
Hi Deepak,
and sorry for my very late response, but I had to give up helping out for free on this website, as I literally drown in requests. Instead I offer help the following way: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
Hello, I dreamt I was walking towards a ship with my mum and her friend,they climbed the stairs and got on the ship first. Just as I was on the last step of the stairs almost inside the ship, the sailor moved. I held on to the stairs and started struggling for my life despite being blown by wind and being scared of the raging sea, i held on tight trying to enter the ship. But I couldn’t, because I wasn’t on deck yet. Later the crew went a little below sea level and brought me up unto the ship safely. Though I later left the ship and board a bus to go home,but the driver passed another long route instead of the easy and short route,I complained at first, but wasn’t bothered later in the dream because thanks to that route I met a military man who loved and cared for me, though we both got down from the bus together. Thanks
Hi Posh,
and sorry for the late response, but I have simply given up helping out for free on this website, as I literally drown in requests. Instead I offer help the following way: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
Hi! I dreamt i left my car in a not so nice town to catch the bus.. The bus went several towns away to its destination and then back home again. It took 18 hours and i didnt sleep at all. I remember feeling that i just wanted the time on the bus to think. It was nice.
Hi Sleepy – what an interesting dream! Unfortunately I am no longer able to help out interpreting your dream for free, as I get many requests every single day. I am in the process of setting up a payment system, and will be able to help you once this is in place. Best – Michael
My bus dream was a bit different – the bus did not move. It was raining outside. I was fretting about something bad going to happen. There was a man in the bus and he told me to listen to what sounds I could hear from outside the bus. I told him there was only the drumming sound of the rain. “That’s right, only the rain”, he said. Then he said that the roof window of the bus should be kept open. However, the secretary from my workplace, an utterly timid and insecure person, came and closed the window, then disappeared again.
Hi Anne,
Unfortunately I am no longer able to help out interpreting your dream for free, as I get many requests every single day. I am in the process of setting up a payment system, and will be able to help you once this is in place. Best – Michael
Hi Michael,
Can you help me with dream interpretation?
So I found myself in a courtroom where many divorces were going through.
I am married and I also was about to get a divorce there was a divorce lawyer who was dealing with my divorce but she appeared to be uncapable and not that good of a lawyer.
I then find the inside of pens scattered on the floor. Belonging to my lawyer.
I picked up a few and pot them in py pocket then my husband appears and picks them and they were supposed to go on on a machine like thing so my husband shoved them in there and handed it to the lawyer.
I then decided not to get a divorce and so I found myself in a car with my husband it was a very nice warm day.
Driving I saw this nice valley with the most beautiful flowers so I asked my husband to stop the car so I could pick them.
I looked at the car and it was an old rusty car.
Then I had to climb a little to get to the flowers. I remember a pink rose bush and an orange and red tulip bush.
I didn’t want to wrench this beautiful flowers so I asked my husband to find something I could cut the stems with.
He pulls out a Swiss knife and he is standing on a valley going down from the high spot where I was standing.
Then there’s a cow there as he’s trying to hand me the knife he gets it lodged onto the cows horn.
The cow then freaks out runs further down the valley and there was a tunnel with train tracks coming out of it and the cow starts to enter the tunnel as it does so flashing lights of green yellow and red start flashing then at that moment two bears one male one female come out of the tunnel and one of them is about to attack my husband I’m telling him to run but he won’t listen so i then see my dog attacking the bears. I then slide down trying to run back on the road where the car was but I know my dog is now dead.
I see a train wagon wich was made of very thin metal sheets I jump in it and shut the door a see the female bear trying to attack me and I was scared because I thought the train wagon wasn’t going to be safe enough but it worked I didn’t get attacked.
Then I woke up..!!
Can you help me interpret this dream please?
I have a feeling this is a very important dream
Thank you for your help.!
Wendy
Hi Wendy – what a very interesting dream with lots of fantastic symbolism! Unfortunately I am no longer able to help out interpreting your dream for free, as I get many requests every single day. I am in the process of setting up a payment system, and will be able to help you once this is in place. Best – Michael
Hi Wendy, only you know the correct interpretation. I’m not a dream interpreter but two things strike me about your dream:
1. In both of these segments you are picking up things, first it’s pens and then it’s flowers. You might ask yourself, why that is? Are they similar?
2. Both of these dreams have different outcomes though they are similar: the first outcome is no divorce, the second outcome is the death of your dog. Dogs often represent loyalty or unconditional love. He means to pick up a flower but instead he stabs a cow. What does the cow represent to you? Is it a white cow? Could it represent truth? or milk (sustenance)?
Divorce can cause a person to worry about their future… hence you’re worried about being attacked. You could be attacked because a part of you wants to attack or for it to end. It’s like a revolt to the first dream… but I don’t know. Only you know.
I was riding on a bus sitting next to my mother who is deceased. I’m very frightened that this means that I’m going to die soon. I dream about dead relatives a lot. I’ve been very depressed and discouraged because my children are far away and I am alone and they ignore me. I don’t feel as if I have much to live for. I’m a Christian and suicide is not an option so I’m afraid that these dreams may portend my soon death.
Hi Jean, what an interesting dream and scary dream! Unfortunately I am no longer able to help out interpretating your dream for free, as I get way too many requests. I am in the process of setting up a payment system so I can help you out once this is in place. BUT – bigger picture, normally dreaming of deceased wouldn’t be an illustration of the dreamers own death- more figuratively speaking. Maybe you are depresses because you “talk” so much to you mother (i.e. an inner dialogue)? Best regards – Michael
I think your mum appeared in your dream to let you know that you are never alone and that even though your mother’s earthly shell has gone, her energy and essence are always with you. So step out with a smile in your heart knowing you are never alone and get on with a new chapter of your life. Get on “the bus” to new adventures “Namaste”
I dreamed I was riding a bus going back to the place where my grandparents lived. However, while traveling I could not determined where on the journey I was. I felt a bit afraid that I may pass my stop. The bus stopped and a few people got on with some tour guides it seemed. One of the guides seem to know me and commented if we are still traveling on bus. When they left the bus I tried to ask them through a window where on the journey I was but they did not hear me as the bus took off on its journey. I later woke up. One think though, during the dream I got a call from my kids father, he was very upset and told me that he dreamed that I was dead. He had no other information.
Hi Andrea,
what a very interesting dream! Unfortunately I am no longer able to help out on interpretation for free, as I get way too many requests. I am in the process of setting up a payment system so I can help you out. Best regards – Michael
I had a dream where I was literally riding the bus on top of the roof towards the front… What does that mean?
Hi Jade – what an interesting dream! Unfortunately I am no longer able to help out on interpretation for free, as I get way too many requests. I am in the process of setting up a payment system so I can help you out. Best regards – Michael
Hi Michael. I dreamt that I was on the bus, trying to put my coins in while the driver was driving really fast, dancing and singing to loud music. She told me not to worry about the rest of the fee.. I insisted on paying the total fee, so I held on longer, standing in high heels, struggling to stand there and put my money in.Lol Eventually I put in that last quarter, and sat down. When I sat down someone’s stuff was on the seat beside me, a females, but no-one was there or claimed that seat. I then woke up, After I sat down. I could really feel that bus moving fast. Lol
Hi Rachel,
what an interesting dream! Unfortunately I am no longer able to help out on interpretation for free, as I get way too many requests. I am in the process of setting up a payment system so I can help you out. Best regards – Michael
I dreamt of boarding a bus with my sister in law but leaving behind my mother in law what does this dream mean?sh
Hi Shashi Tambi, what an interesting dream! Unfortunately I am no longer able to help out on interpretation for free, as I get way too many requests. I am in the process of setting up a payment system so I can help you out. Best regards – Michael
nice post! i had a dream that i was in a bus with my highschool classmates. most of them are sleeping, but there are only two people who are awake including me. i am already 27 yrs old and its kind of weird to have a dream like this. i quit my job for family reasons and its kind of depressing since all i need to do is to wait for my chance to be on track again.
Very interesting dream Lou! Unfortunately I am no longer able to help out on interpretation for free, as I get way too many requests. I am in the process of setting up a payment system so I can help you out. Best regards – Michael
I have been on several bus journeys in recent dreams. Journeys to meet people that in my
waking life I do not recognise, I have homes in other places that are
very real to me in the dream.
Do you think whilst dreaming we share a part of other peoples lives?
Hi Linda,
not directly I would say, other people working with dreams do believe so. I would say other people in your dreams that you do not know represent some side(s) of yourself. Your unconcious would typically have picked up the faces of the people you then see (and locked them in your memory), you however haven’t noticed. I have realized that I have no chance (not enough time) in terms of getting back on all the comments I now get, so I have decided not to offer free interpretation any longer. Very soon I will have a payment system on the website, so that I can offer dream interpretation against payment, at that time I would be glad to help you out! Best regards – Michael R Olsen.
I keep dreaming that I am trapped on a fast moving bus, I yelled for it to stop but it wouldn’t, at first I was the only one on board until my deceased father came and stood in front of it and took me off it. I dreamt I was on the same bus again but this time my son was on board , I screamed for it to stop moving so fast, but this time it crashed and every body died except my son and I . I felt so afraid in the dream.
Hi Sirdy,
and thank you for your interesting dream! I have realized that I have no chance (not enough time) in terms of getting back on all the comments I now get, so I have decided not to offer free interpretation any longer. Very soon I will have a payment system on the website, so that I can offer dream interpretation against payment, at that time I would be glad to help you out! Best regards – Michael R Olsen.
, you could have answered his question and then let the world know you wanted paying – Kinda mean on the guy :\
The first time I dreamt ofa bus was I sort of missed it. I slready left my bag in the bus to save my space as I left for awhileto use the comfort room. When I returned, the bus already started to leave and I ran after it just to get my bag nd let the bus leave – there’s no room for me anyway. The second bus dream was I got in a bus, got a seat, tried to transfer seats when I saw empty ones, but when I got closer to the empty seats, people were slready sitting and so I returned to the area of my previous seat butto a different seat and a bit uncomfortable at that. The third bus dream was just last night. It was a different bus in general because there were like 5 seats each side and the backmost set was like around 10 seats. I was already sitting somewhere on the rightside then saw empty seats at the back andtried to transfer butwhen I got closer somebody got ahead of me nd though there were still vacant seats I still did not take a seat because I want to be seated aprt from other people. So I tried to transfer to another row of seats but they were wet (it was raining – yes, sort of the rain water seeping into the bus – the other seat I tried to ransfer to at the backmost set was also wet that’s why I looked for anotherseat in another row). Seeing the sets wet, I looked further in front and decided to go down (yes! The bus apparently had a lower level). But when I tried to go down, the area appeared to be a wide function room with stage in front and I tried to take the rightmost front row seat but when I got there I was told it was already taken (I never like sitting in front row seats in talks ir events that I am not much interested but at that particular moment in my dream I thought that was the best choice to avoid beeing seen by someone). But because the seat was already taken, I settled forthe rightmost seat in the next row even if there was already someone sitted right next to me. I didn’t stay for long though because the one I’ve been avoiding to see me out already sent a message that she’s on her way to my home to visit me. The later part of the third bus dream is somehow related to the very current waking life so it’s not a puzzle. I’m just wondering why I have recurrent bus dreams and transferring of seats but people get ahead of me, “missing” a bus by letting it leave when I already saved my seat, etc.
Hi Chel,
thank your for your very interesting bus-dreams!! I get a feeling that they might be about how you try to find your place (/seat) in life, and how you constantly feel others get there before you. The dream might be saying – SCREW THE OTHERS – and find a new bus altogether – or even better, get your “own car”. I.e. – you should be the boss of your own life, and be in the drivers seat. But other than that it is hard to know what the dreams might signify as I don’t know anything about your life situation – you seem to have an idea yourself though? (at least on the last dream) – Best regards – Michael
I dreamed that I was getting off a bus after realizing it was the wrong one. As I was waiting for the right one, the one I was on before broke down before my eyes. I saw some young people get off the bus and they started pushing it, as it was stuck in sand. I was scared the bus would fall on them, but it never did.
Hi LIsa – very hard for me to know what this dream might be about, since I do not know you or your specific life situation. Maybe something leaving a path you have been on in your life for some time, and then fearing whether that will have any consenquences. One could also ask; what about driving a car, then you decide yourself where to go? (instead of taking a predefined route, a route (life!) defined by others). I don’t know how old you are, but in dreams we can all drive cars. Best regards – Michael Rohde Olsen
I dreamed I was in a mini bus carrying a bucket of pomegranates. In the minibuses s I was with some relatives who on this earth to what was mine and took it for themselves . We got of the bus and I spoke to one of them who’s children were mean to me and are the ones who stole from me. I was ready to go my own way with my bucket…. what does this mean?
Hi Manka,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
Hi i dream about i was riding in the bus with my family and then the bus suddenly stop and all passengsr including us family went out i think the driver is going on a break or some inspection. We we webtcout i realise that place is kinda familiar with me but suddendly the bus turned on and drive with some of the passengers inclusibg us family the passengers all the passengers are running to catch up with the bus that when we finally gonna i catch there were two buses and we don’t know which one to ride then i finally wake up what does it mean
I dreamt I rode a bus. I was trying to stop but the breaks didn’t work. The bus carried on until it stopped, but during the time the bus wouldn’t stop I feared it will crash but it didn’t.
Hi Anna – thank you for your dream! It is hard for me to know what this might be about since I do not know much about your specific life situation. It might portray how you feel that your life is leading you astray, that you somehow feel pushed/trapped into following a certain (beaten?) path in your life. It could be saying – YOU need to lead your life, not others. Or it simply might be saying – you are moving way too fast (too much work?) at the moment, please take time to slow down, and think about where you (really) want to go. Best regards – Michael
Thank you for your definition of my dream. The other profound part of my dream was that there were deceased relatives in the dream. All of them had mistreated me while they walked this earth. I had no anger for them, It was a nice reunion. Thank you.
Your welcome Fred! Michael
Black man driving bus as I jumped on as mean and said hurtful words another black man behind me took up 4 me. Im white female. The trip was short like I got on by mistake. Did get off and woke crying
I dreamt that I was in a bus and was chatting with a woman sitting next to me.but someone shouted Jesus and I turned to look.the bus drove into fire and my body was burning but I was alive.I wasnt driving the bus.
What does this mean
I dreamt that I was boarding a bus, and the bus driver was someone I despise. As I boarded the bus we heard a lot of sirens and one man said oh yh it’s kicking off. Oh no there’s a gun
Yh there is a gun
So once he had said all this everyone on the bus started screaming… and a tanoy started. “Can …. …… please leave his form of transportation”. I have not mentioned this persons name as he was recently on the news after being sent to prison.
He would not leave
Suddenly the gun started firing. There was no blood but I was under all of the bullets. I had survived this man’s actions before in real life and it was the same in my dream. All though I saw every bullet an inch above my head I managed to put my body between the seats in front and hide my head under the seats.
After that the firing stopped and I looked up everyone had copied me. No one had got hurt
Apart from the bus driverj