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What does it mean to dream about a car?
Miller wrote in 1901, when the automobile was a novelty, so his dictionary has only a short entry for it. Here it is, quoted exactly, alongside related entries.
What Miller wrote (1901)
To dream that you ride in an automobile, denotes that you will be restless under pleasant conditions, and will make a change in your affairs. … If one breaks down with you, the enjoyment of a pleasure will not extend to the heights you contemplate. To find yourself escaping from the path of one, signifies that you will do well to avoid some rival as much as you can honestly allow.
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A dream about a car comes with a place, other people and a feeling, and the old books read the same image very differently depending on those details. Dreamlore takes your whole dream, spoken or typed, finds the passages that fit it in Miller and Freud, quotes them word for word, and leaves you one question to reflect on. The journal stays on your phone.
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What does it mean to dream about a car?
Miller's 1901 dictionary reads riding in an automobile as restlessness and a change in your affairs, and a breakdown as a pleasure that falls short. The entry was written when cars were new, so it is best read as history and as a prompt for reflection.
Where do these quotes come from?
They are quoted verbatim from public-domain books: Gustavus Hindman Miller's Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901). Each quote on this page is checked word for word against the source text before the page is served, the same check the Dreamlore app runs on every quote it shows.
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Dreamlore and these pages are for reflection and curiosity. The books quoted here are old — Miller wrote in 1901 and his entries read as omens, and many of Freud's ideas are disputed today. Take them as a starting point for thinking about your own dream, not as prediction or advice.