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Dreaming of Train
Two traditional perspectives
These are symbolic interpretations from different traditions, not facts about your life or forecasts. Your associations may be different.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
To board and ride in good time, what the old readers knew as the swift carriage, foretells progress in a long matter and companions gathered along the way.
To miss your passage, or ride one going wrong, warns of delay in your affairs, or of being carried in a direction you did not choose and must soon correct.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
The train runs on the collective track, the life of schedules and stations, and to ride one easily means your own path and the world's timetable are, for now, agreeing. Catching it at the last moment is the psyche saying you still made it.
The missed train, the recurring one, is the fear of a life running on rails laid by someone else, stations passing that you never chose. Ask who wrote the timetable you keep dreaming by.
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