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.
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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!”
In my dream my mom was the bus driver and she was driving the bus backwards
In my dream I was standing to buy something in a roadside shop. At that time bus came fastly and it was about to kill.i move but it was sure to cross me.so I dunk and escaped.bus gone over my head.what it means?
it’s 4 am when i dream that i was riding in the bus with a friend and little child in between, and we’re happy, we’re just four together with the company driver and heading at the back of the old market and i know in that old market we need to pass the brigde. that’s all i rememeber then i woke up.
In my dream, I was sitting on a very very high seat in the bus. And I had to use almost 30 stairs to come down from that seat. I was with my brother and one driver who is a stranger but face seemed familiar to me. Then I reached a place where I saw friends of brother, my brother dancing and taking pictures.
I really don’t understand these dreams that I see
I keep dreaming of getting bus rides. Last night I was in the center of my country and wanted to go home in the north, but after some hours I found out I was in the south. I look at the list of stops and see that they go from north to south no north again, it doesn’t make sense. I think that I will have to stay on the bus for a very long time to reach my destination, or maybe it’s the wrong but and I don’t understand the timetable.
Anyway lately I take a bus every night.
I would not ask no question, but let me be honest that your interpretation is really commendable. Your articulation is superb. It seems you were in my dream.
I dreamed that my church members and I was waiting for the bus to take us to city center but we could not get. some buses are already coming back, we were kind of stranded and was worried if reach the destination.
I was waiting for a bus . While I tried to stop it but it didn’t stop .I was running behind the bus to stop it . Suddenly it stopped. Then I got into the bus . While getting into the bus I lost my one shoe
I dreamed I owned a bit for long time and I just found out about it. So I went and forced it out of the person who took it from me and drove off.
I was getting on a bus to go home after a woman, who i know in real life, gave birth in the hospital. All of our family got on the bus, it was public transport. Me and my sister sat together and they all went in the upper floor. And then it came to a bus stop which i thought we all will get off at, so me and my sister got off at that bus stop. But the family didn’t even get off and then i felt frustrated and anxious but then just waited for the next one and that’s when my dream ended.
I dream i was in a bus traveling we stop in a big shop buying food i left my son inside on my sit, ( i dont have a child now but i was having a child in my drem) i take time to find wat i was want to buy the bus take time waiting for me. After i find i go back inside i find my child was crying i take him n give him food i bought he stop crying stert eating every One in the bus was looking at me. The i wake up while bus was still moving
I was driving a bus with people in it, then i divarted from the road, not assident, and someone came in the name of help and made away with it
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I dreamed I was about to ride a bus with my late father. While he was buying a ticket for the two of us, I immediately get inside one bus to reserve the best seats for us. But when the bus starting to move on that’s when I realized I’m riding the wrong bus. I immediately stand up to get out of the bus. I stopped the driver but the bus keeps on moving. so I decided to jump off the bus and I almost hit by the bus’ wheel. what;s your interpretation of this? thanks
I’ve had a lot of dreams about missing the train this year. But tonight I dreamt I was riding the bus. I was sitting at the front of it and I think it was evening or night time.
My brother dreamt about him and dad and mom and my 18 years old sister in a car together but I wasn’t there he told me they stopped in front of a house my brother opened the door and found a woman named fatoma watching TV he said she looked beautiful and had a small physic and looked in her 20s… He then explained that he asked her to go with him but she refused and said they won’t let me out… My brother said later in his dream he somehow shifted to the car and fatoma was there but there was 3 yellow cars going in circles around our car all the cars were drove by 3 males… The dream ended ended with my brother feeling like they don’t want them to go anywhere… The first thing my brother( btw who is 12 years old) did after he woke up is asking if I know someone named fatoma and tbh I said the truth I didn’t know anyone in our family that uses that name later one I found out from my mother that my mother’s grandmother was called fatoma and she did had a small physic
I’m really thinking about this dream and why I’m not in the car with them if my great grandmother is actually asking for a visit to her grave.. BTW we never visited her grave my grandparents were the only people who did go to her every time but now they are old
I saw my self on a bus with lots of passengers was telling one òf that that my mum Immediate younger brother own the but, that was how I woke up
I had a dream that i was on a School bus and some old white man was driving and the bus wasn’t fully packed but packed enough..i somehow ended up saving 3 babies lives on that bus. All 3 were put into positions where i had the choice to either help them or let there parents watch them get hurt and i chose to stand up and help them all get back safely get back to there parent who was also on the bus but couldn’t stand up for some weird reason. This is the second time I’ve had a dream with a school bus in it. The first one wasn’t like this one. Please tell me your still answering these? I need help with the meaning of all this. I tend to feel like I’m really in my dreams like someone put my soul there at that moment.
I was on the back of a bus with my husband who has done a lot of awful things within our relationship towards me and my daughter. In the dream we were being loving toward one another. As the bus slowed down to let people off, I started to move toward the front. I had left something of mine and my husband walked over to hand it to me. When I get to the door, the bus driver starts to speed up and doesn’t let me off the bus. As the bus collects speed while I’m still standing- I am tossed around with every turn and bump. Then I woke up.
Everytime I try to leave my husband it seems like life hijacks me and forces me to stay. 😒 I think need help.
It was my birthday that day so my family and I decided to hold it in the city and invited my friends also. It was evening and we decided to go home and we rode a bus. It was a blue bus, and as as I step into the bus i saw other passengers but I noticed that on the left side there was a cage and it has rails. Just like what we see in jail but it was a small one. As soon as we reached our house my family got out of the bus and when I was about to stand up I noticed that my hand was handcuffed to the window. And my family just watched from the outside of the window. As the bus took off with a great speed. And then the driver explained to me that I can’t get off because its the bus for spirits. And that’s when I woke up. Can someone please explain. 🙃🙃
I was on the bus already but then i exited it, was about to go home (i live close to the bus stop) and then i ran back and caught the bus in time. when i went on the bus there were some people i close and familiar with and some other faces but we all got along well and i think we were all going to the same destination- so sort of like a party bus.