If it's clear in the dream that the vehicle doesn't belong to you, the dream could be providing insight into that person to whom the vehicle does belong. Don't jump to the conclusion that the dream is extrinsic, or about that person. For instance, if you're in a car that you know belongs to someone else, that dream is much more often speaking of how your relationship is affecting, negatively or positively, that person's ministry or calling. So, it's actually about you.
Are you driving his or her vehicle? If so, is it from the back seat or passenger seat? Where you are in the car and what you're doing provides the important context for the dream's meaning. How many of us know that the term "backseat driver" doesn't only refer to someone barking out instructions on how to drive from the backseat? God uses this metaphor to reveal to us a need to control something entrusted to someone else. It's a call to pray for that person and to ask God to change our need to control and trust that person's journey to Him.
Driving from the passenger seat -- if the context of the dream is positive -- could indicate you are, or will be, helping that person to drive their vehicle during a stretch of time. What's the outcome of you driving from the passenger or backseat? Who else is in the car? What do those people mean to you?
God, who sees you from eternity future, wants to help you in your ministry. He also wants to reveal blind spots in your relationship with others. He has made us with different gifts -- the Apostle Paul calls us parts that make up the body. Why wouldn't He give us help along the way to fit together?

Some common conditions of vehicles in dreams involve steering, braking, accelerating and the inflation of tires. Once you make the connection that a vehicle represents your "vehicle in life" to get you to where God wants you, the details involving that vehicle will take on personal meaning to you. Your tires are the only part of your vehicle that directly touch the road you're on. Inside those tires is an invisible substance called air that is necessary or your vehicle won't move like it was designed to move. Air represents the Holy Spirit. If your vehicle has a flat tire or low air pressure, the dream is revealing a need to be refilled with the Holy Spirit. This is an example of a Self Condition Dream. Often dreams with vehicles are either calling, warning or self-condition dreams. Not being able to control the direction or speed of your vehicle indicates that at this point in your journey this is true about your ministry or "vehicle of calling."
God wants to remind you when you need a refilling of His Spirit to accomplish that which He's put in your heart. He wants to warn you when you need to slow down or show more self control in the direction and decisions you make on the road to that destiny. And God wants to encourage you along that path by showing you things you might not realize about yourself, your gifts and calling. Who knows you better than God?

Vehicles you are driving in your dream, or that you know belong to you in the dream, have different functions and characteristics. Often those characteristics will give you insight into the "vehicle" you're using to get you through and to the destiny God has for you. What type of vehicle is it? The size of the vehicle you find yourself in can determine the size of your influence. God has a purpose for everyone and the extent and range of your influence isn't as important as the passion of your pursuit and the character you display along the road to that destiny.
Having said that, airplanes and cruise ships symbolize international influence because the function of these vehicles is to travel long distances and over borders and nationalities. Driving a bus or a cargo van would indicate greater influence than a regular car, and a car would indicate greater influence than a motorcycle. Ever found yourself on a bicycle? That indicates your current vehicle is requiring a lot of effort on your part.
What if your vehicle has a flat tire? No brakes? No acceleration. Next time, we'll discuss some common conditions dreamers find their vehicles in.

Another element that often finds its' way into your dreams are vehicles: cars, trucks, buses, airplanes, boats, etc. Anyone familiar with the Streams dreams courses will know that vehicles in dreams represent the "vehicle" that helps get you to your destination, destiny or purpose in life. It doesn't have to represent your life-long dreams, sometimes it can be a job or temporary assignment along the way to something greater. God has much to say about your "vehicle" through life -- past, present and future. But you have to pay close attention to the details.

What the vehicle looks like -- type, color, make or model -- describes the "vehicle" in life that is currently propelling you toward your destination. For example, if you find yourself always driving trucks in your dream, it conveys that your "vehicle" is helping others, as trucks are designed to carry loads, or sometimes tools that provide help for others.

Once again, there is no one size fits all interpretation for dreams. A true interpretation will almost always resonate in your heart immediately. We'll discuss other types of "vehicles" next time.

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To recap, God puts you in homes from your past, present or future to talk about issues of your life. I haven’t mentioned future before, but this would include dreams of you being in a home that wasn’t yours, but in the dream you knew it was your home. This can often be an opportunity to uncover an issue of your life that’s in the future — whether good or bad. The context of the dream will tell you whether it’s a warning dream, a discouraging or fearful dream from the enemy, or perhaps, a soulish or flesh-driven dream that you caused yourself to dream by focusing a lot on it.

When the house is someplace you’ve been in the natural, look for any visual differences of it in the dream.  For example, ‘it was my house, but the living room was much larger.’ If you’re unfamiliar with the house, the context and details become even more important to its’ meaning. For example, a dream that puts you in a house or building made of all glass is different than a building with many windows, or for that matter, with no windows. The glass building speaks of transparency and vulnerability and the windows speak of vision or lack thereof. Why? When you’re inside a house of all glass, the focus will often be who can see you from the outside of the building. Windows, on the other hand, will reveal to you what’s outside the house.

Before I start my post, I'd like to mention that we won't be able to interpret dreams through this blog. We invite comments concerning overall interpretive themes, concepts and experiences, however, it would be impossible to tackle individual dreams. We've enabled comments, but we will only be publishing those that meet the above criteria. Also, this blog will be a collaborative effort among Streams teachers, so writing styles may change from time to time.

As touched on in the previous post, God uses your home in your dreams to communicate issues of your life. But even the rooms within that house where the action occurs have meaning in and of themselves. Dreams occurring in the bedroom speak to issues of intimacy, the kitchen often speaks of learning (preparing and consuming of spiritual food) and the bathroom those matters that need cleansing or the removal of issues your body or soul needs to get rid of.

But before you run back to your dream journals to see if these hints unlock any meaning, remember context should be applied first. For example, garages for some have always been the place where they've parked their vehicles. But for others, the garage may be the place they've always parked items they bought but never got around to using. Hmm.

Another cool way God reveals issues in your life is to take you back to where you used to live.  We’ve all had dreams that take place in scenes from our past, and one common dream scene takes place in your childhood home. What could that be a picture of? What age or ages were you when you lived in that house?

Those dreams are often speaking of issues that took root at the time you lived in that house. What’s the condition of the house? Where in the house do the dream’s actions take place? It’s not imperative that the house be precisely the same as the actual house, or even that you actually be in the dream the age you were when you lived there. So when you have a dream that takes place in one of your homes, past or present, think of the home representing your life, and proceed from there.

One of the hidden mysteries of dreams involves time — how God reveals our past and how He reveals the future. In Genesis, Joseph interpreted the Baker’s fate and the timetable of his demise in an amazing way. The baker was carrying bread in a basket on his head and birds came after that bread three times. From that, Joseph knew those three confrontations meant three days.

Why three? That’s simple,  it happened three times. But how did he know it referred to a period of time? In the days in which this event took place, bread lasted one day. Bread was a major part of the Hebrew culture, and “give us this day our daily bread,” not only meant the Word of God figuratively, but actual food for the table in the most literal sense.

So, in looking over your dreams, see if God may be giving you a timetable of when an event might happen by having the same thing occur over and over again.

In my personal experience of interpreting my dreams and the dreams of others, if I am participating at any point of the dream, I label that dream as intrinsic. Remember, intrinsic means the dream is about you; extrinsic means it's concerning someone or something else. The point of dream interpretation is not in the rigid tagging of the dream, it's discovering the meaning and learning from the hidden wisdom.

For example: Sometimes I've noticed I'll be participating, and then suddenly find myself removed from the action of the dream yet still privy to what's going on or what's being said. I don't consider this now to be an extrinsic dream. The dream is still about me. It's just not important for me to be there when that information is revealed.

Or, sometimes you just "know" things in a dream. The back story of how you found this out isn't important to the meaning of the dream, so it's excluded.

So for clarity, I would suggest tagging any dream you participate in at any time as intrinsic, and any dream you are strictly observing, extrinsic.

Does the name itself play an important role in the plot of the dream? Does the name seem out of place, or a name of someone you're not familar with in the natural? Is the name spoken out loud or used in a way other than to describe a person taking part in the dream?

If you answered yes to any of the previous questions, there may be significance in the meaning of the name beyond identifying a specific person. Look it up and apply the action surrounding the name to the cultural meaning of the name. Names were incredibly significant in Hebrew culture and dreams always involve symbolism. Thus, the names themselves are fair game.

By the way, the most accurate name book I've found is "The Name Book" by Dorothy Astoria.

The simple answer to that question is almost always. That is to say, that almost always -- about 95 percent of the time -- the dream you have is about you. For instance, say you're consistently having dreams that take place at work and involve coworkers. You may have the tendancy to think that dream is about one of those coworkers, but your participation in that dream should point the finger back to you. It doesn't matter that the majority of the action is being done by the coworker, the dream is revealing an issue about you and using that coworker to establish a location, context or symbol to pinpoint that issue.

So ask yourself, 'what does that coworker symbolize to me? What characteristic do I attribute to them? Try replacing that coworker with just the characteristic and then observe how the context, or storyline, deal with that characteristic. How did you respond or interact with that coworker or characteristic? As the mirror unfogs, a new reflection of yourself emerges and that silly dream isn't so silly anymore.

So "I had a dream about you last night,' would probably be better said, "I had a dream about me last night and you were there."

One of the most important things to remember about your dream -- and it's important to do this right after waking up -- is how you felt during the dream and what lingering feeling you had after waking up from the dream.

Sometimes "how you felt" about the dream can be subtle. And it's on these occasions where it's most important to include this somewhere in your dream entry. For example (Feeling: When the dream started, I felt a little apprehensive, but as it progressed, I felt more and more comfortable).

In much the same way as the three most important parts of real estate are location, location and location, the three most important parts of the technical side of understanding your dreams are context, context and context.

We'll talk about some of the other aspects of context in later blogs.

Did you know you can use DreamLoggR from your computer? You can by using DreamServer, a feature inside DreamLoggR that connects you to your dream journal through a shared wifi connection. Here's everything you can do through the DreamServer feature.

• View your dreams in DreamLoggR from your computer.
• Type out new dreams using your computer's keyboard
• Copy and Paste existing dreams from your computer into your DreamLoggR journal And the results are instant. No need to sync. Just type or paste, save and it's automatically updated to your device.

 Here's how:

Before you start, you'll need to be connected to the same internet connection as your computer. On your device, try browsing in Safari (or any browser you've downloaded) to make sure you're connected to the internet.

Once you confirm you're connected via wifi (wireless network), go to the homescreen in DreamLoggR and select the "more" tab. Then select "Launch DreamServer"

At the bottom of the next screen, DreamLoggR will provide the URL address of your shared connection. Type that URL into your computer's browser address box and you'll be linked up with your device. Now you just copy and paste from your documents into the DreamLoggR interface you see on your computer's screen. If you have your dreams handwritten in a dream journal, this is the quickest way to get them into DreamLoggR -- by typing from a full size keyboard.

As soon as you save your new dream entry, you'll see it's already in your device.

Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Dreams

Now that you've downloaded DreamLoggR, you might want some help in knowing how to properly apply the tags. One of the first tags you should apply would be to either tag your dream as either intrinsic or extrinsic. Extrinsic means you were observing in your dream and intrinsic means you were participating in the dream.

The majority of dreams are intrinsic, so look back closely before giving your dream an extrinsic tag.

Tagging your dream is important for two reasons. First, it allows you to search by category or by an element in your dream. DreamLoggR comes preloaded with dream types, categories and common symbols. In this first DreamBlog we'll talk about the two types of dreams: Intrinsic (about you) and Extrinsic (about someone else).

The overwhelming majority of dreams you have are Intrinsic. This means they're about you and you're participating in them.

If you're strictly observing in the dream, the dream is Extrinsic.

You now should be able to separate your dreams into two types: Intrinsic or Extrinsic. Now, as you're logging your dreams, you can apply the proper tag and whenver you want to view every dream you ever had about someone else, you select the "tag" button and type in the tag you want to search by. DreamLoggR will pull up every dream with "Extrinsic" added.

One of the first things to do when logging a dream is to give the dream a title. You'll be amazed at how important titling a dream is to logging and intepretation process. The very words you choose in giving the dream a name can contain keys to its meaning. As with a lot of things related to memory, the first thing that comes to you is usually the best choice.