I had a dream the other night about a train, i cant recall all of the details because i have memory problems and if i dont write them down as soon as i wake up, i seem to forget some details of the dream. But what i do recall is that my husband and i were going on a trip somewhere by train ( i have no idea where we were going). the train looked very old and rickety and was gloomy and dark inside. as we were about to board the train, i was told i could not board because i had too much luggage and could not take it all with me. i had quite a few large size suitcases and some smaller bags. i was upset when i heard this and told the man that i HAD to bring this many bags with me, there was no way i could leave any of them behind. my husband became angry and told me to leave some of my bags behind and just get on the train because we were going to be late. I refused and we argued about it for a time, then suddenly my husband boarded the train without me and before the doors closed i could see him glaring at me before the train pulled away from the station. i stood there alone in tears. then i woke up and found i had been crying in my sleep, my pillow soaked with tears. any ideas as to what this dream could mean? i am not good at interpreting dreams, but i have wondered if it relates to the problems we are having in our marriage and if it means my husband wants to leave the marriage and move on by himself because he thinks i have too much "baggage"?

The train being old and rickity-

This tells me it will be a subject of the past that will come up again to cause problems. It being dark and gloomy tells me it was not a good subject but one that caused alot of strife for you and hubby in the past, that will resurface.

The fact you are told you have way too much bagage to get on the train, refers to either having held unto the past hurts of the original obstacle that caused you trouble before, or youstill hold to your original beliefs of that obtacle that caused problems before.

The fact you are left off the train and your hubby gets on, shows that before you can move on as a couple, this "bagage" has to be released by you. Its apparently a very touchy subject that has tremendously il effected your marriage before and will need to be resolved or a seperation will occur once it resurfaces.

God is letting you know something needs to be resolved between you two and like it or not, it appears you are the one holding unto unnecessary "rocks" or "baggage" that needs to be let go of, to keep the marriage solid.

If the train had been a more modern one, it would be a more recent problem to come up. But because it's old and rickity and is gloomy or dark, its a problem of the past that will come back to haunt you as a couple, that must not have been fully resolved, to re-occur again. But God is telling you, the baggage needs to be left behind on your part, that both of you can go on without the unnecessary strife.

God Bless!!

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Warrior of God

Dearest rainbow, you hit it right on the head with your interpentation of the dream. The train represent your life with your husband. How the inside of the train looks presently is how you - yourself sees it. Dark and gloomy. The conductor and your husband is telling you that the baggage especially the large ones are over taking you and you don't want to let go of these baggages that is 'consuming' your life. Your dream tells me that regardless if you get rid of these over bearing baggage he is going to continue on to the next destination with or without you. It seems as though he would rather go with you, but your baggage is not allowing you to do so. What I can suggest is to start to open up your baggage and sort through them see what it is that you really need in your life at this present time and what it is that you are just holding on just to be holding on. I pray that this is helpful to you dear one. Be bless in all that you shall do.

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Michelle H.

When I saw "'train," I was thinking of ministry, because Bill & Alexis told me transportation represents ministry. So, when I read your dream, I thought that yours wasn't about that. But really it is! Marriage is your #1 ministry if you are married. You have to put your mate before youself and all others...only ministry to God (as in worship, prayer and devotion comes before him). So, yes, dear Sister, do as is being said here: Let it go! The only way your train (marriage) will be a strong, powerful locamotive (something I dreamed about) is for you to let go the baggage holding you back. I can envision you standing there with all those bags. The train is about to leave. And there just isn't TIME to get them all on the train; the train will fall behind schedule if they wait for you to drag them all on. So, it's time to figure out what is essential, and leave the rest behind. Ever take a bunch of stuff on a trip and end up using about 1/4 of it? Well, in your marriage, you are bringing uncessary stuff along. There is way too much cluttering your heart and emotions. You don't need a lot of what you are packing along with you. Figure out what's really going to help you survive and leave everything else at the train station. Jesus is the conductor, and He wants you to LET IT GO!!!

JeriRose

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Father, I pray for America to have a Godly president. Proverbs 29:2 says the people rejoice when the righteous thrive. According to Proverbs 6: 16 & 17, you hate those who shed innocent blood (those who are pro-abortion). So, Lord, we pray that a RIGHTEOUS person may be our President. Whatever it takes! In Jesus Name, amen.

Wow, thank you both for adding so much more detail to this understanding. Man for so much more clarification. Thank you Jesus.

God Bless!

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Thank you CC for your insights on my dream. as i read what you wrote, i felt in my spirit that much of what you said is true. my husband and i have been together almost 27 years and have gone through some very rough patches in our marriage over the years. we both have a lot of "baggage" from the past that has put strain on our marriage, having both been raised in dysfunctional families, though different in many ways, and my husband's first marriage failed which caused him much pain. we both carry a lot of emotional pain from the past that we are trying to work through. sometimes i wonder if this is the root cause of our illnesses. for years my husband dealt with his emotional pain by drinking, but praise God, he quit drinking almost 2 years ago. he deeply regrets the years he drank. now i worry about our son's drinking, however. my husbands father was an alcoholic as was his step-father, and my father used to drink years ago before he had health problems. They were all WW2 vets and we believe that they tried to escape their pain through drinking. i do worry that our son may develop a drinking problem as a way of dealing with his emotional pain over losing two of his close friends to suicide several years ago. when he gets depressed he tends to drink too much (any drinking is too much!) so its a big worry for us. and we worry about my husbands daughter from his first marriage as she started drinking and using drugs at an early age even before she came to live with us at age 14, and she is living with her boyfriend who drinks and has become abusive when he drinks in the past. she has an 11 year old son. these problems with our kids is a huge burden that has been really weighing us down emotionally on top of our health and financial problems. I guess i tend to carry these burdens instead of giving them to God, so perhaps this is what He is trying to tell me in this dream. i wonder if the gloomy, dark appearance of the train symbolizes my struggle with depression over the years. the depression has been quite severe in recent years since my health has worsened and the loss of quite a few loved ones.

Thank you Michelle for your insights regarding my dream. much of what you said is right on. God bless you sister!

Wow, thank you JeriRose for your incredible interpretation of my train dream! i was not aware that transportation represents ministry. i do believe you are correct that there is way too much cluttering my heart and emotions and that Jesus is the Conductor and He wants me to let go of my heavy baggage of burdens i have been dragging along for so long. I have been feeling very weighed down and i tend to take on everyone else's problems as well. it can be so hard getting rid of old habits! God bless you dear sister!

rainbow-

I don't mean this to sound as tho either of you are bad. Neither of you are. But, a good christian Councilor who would help each of you individually learn where some things are that have caused you adverse thinking, hurts, etc, can help both of you to heal from them.

Since both have carried some of that over into this marriage, it would be best if each of you could learn how things each other do may trigger them and how to learn not to associate such things anymore. Part of the process of healing from past hurts, is learning how forgive and let go of past hurts, then learning how not to let present situations trigger a return of those past hurts.

As we grow from children into adults, we will experience similar things later, that remind us of our past. How we view that particular aspect of the past, from our perception of it back then, will be a basic foundation for how we respond to it later on.

This can be a very good positive responce, to a very negative destructive one, as according to how we were psychologically effected the first times. Because of what you both have dealt with growing up, know that neither of you are bad, dirty, or unworthy.

You are both good, productive and very worthwhile investments for each other, your famly and as a witness for God. All you basically need to do, is learn how to accept what has happened before in a good or acceptable light, that each of you will not let that cause negative reactions against each other now.

Changing it from over sized bags or boxes of rocks of anger or hurt, down to a smaller, lighter positive charged container of gems of understanding, acceptance, love and compassion, you gain power and energy from God, rather than being sapped of such by Satan. Expressing anger, hurt, etc always expends energy, never builds up or helps store it. Where postive thinking and operating does build up and helps store it.

Not to mention, the "gloom and doom" aspect slowly disappears in favor of bright, sunny, joyous light.Thats why tests prove, at nght, when starts getting dark, people are more accustomed in general to slowing down and wanting to sleep, where, when gets light out, most are getting up ready to get active.

All thats needed, is an adjustment to the perceptions you each have accepted that are negative with past events, in order to not let your spouces' actions or "Fruit" now, spark that past negative back again.

God will help you with the proper application for facing past hurts and learning how to accept and let them go, that you can be released from thier bondage, to freely love, forgive and accept each other more.

God Bless!!

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Father, I pray for America to have a Godly president. Proverbs 29:2 says the people rejoice when the righteous thrive. According to Proverbs 6: 16 & 17, you hate those who shed innocent blood (those who are pro-abortion). So, Lord, we pray that a RIGHTEOUS person may be our President. Whatever it takes! In Jesus Name, amen.