Dreams about losing control of a car: a Jungian reading

You are behind the wheel and the brakes do not work, or you wake up in the back seat. It tends to be about steering your own life — not about ability, but about the sense of who decides.

It depends on how it looked

• the brakes do not workit has picked up speed and cannot be slowed down
• you are in the back seatsomeone else is deciding for you
• you cannot see the roadyou keep going and cannot see where to
• the car is gonesomething that kept you moving has disappeared

A question for you

In which part of your life are you not the one behind the wheel right now?

And yours is read symbol by symbol

This is what a dream dictionary cannot do: it reads the dream you actually had. You write it in your own words — a house you had never lived in, a small door under the stairs, a key that did not fit — and each of those images is taken separately, with what it may be carrying for you.

Then comes the archetype the dream is standing in — the Threshold, say — a reflection that ties it to your own chart, and at the end a question to sit with. Not an answer. A question.

A dream reading needs an account, because the dream is stored — that is the point: the meaning shows up when the same image comes back a third time. The account is free and the first readings are free too.