Do you ever dream of driving your car off a bridge? My gosh, you’d be surprised how many people have this dream… and especially surprised how many people have developed gephyrophobia (fear of bridges) because of this dream! Below is one such gephyrophobe. Luckily for her, she sought out the true meaning of her dream, which allowed her to release her fear. The following is from my syndicated newspaper column The Dream Zone…
Dear Lauri,
I have a recurring dream of my car going off a bridge and I have to get me and my two sons out. We always make it out ok. It happens enough that I am spooked every time I go over a bridge and my boys are in the car. – Denise 32, Memphis, TN
Lauri: You ARE NOT seeing the future so don’t worry. You’d be surprised how many times someone sends me this sort of dream and tells me they are afraid to drive over bridges because of it. Bridges in dreams symbolize transition, getting from one point in your life to the next. We often dream of falling off bridges because transitions can be difficult and SCARY! When we feel unsure of making that transition successfully, we get the falling-off-a-bridge dream. Ask yourself what tough situation you are currently going through that you wish you could get you and your sons out of, just as you had to get your sons out of the car? You always make it out in your dream. This is how your dreaming mind is reassuring you that you WILL pull through just fine. You’ve got the chutzpa to get through anything girlfriend! Keep that in mind and this dream won’t bother coming back. Good luck!
Denise replies: I can relate this dream to the fact that I was diagnosed with severe dysphasia/pre cervical cancer in the fall. I had two procedures to stop the growth and as of now things are going okay. It’s been a very scary experience and I’ve often wondered if I was going to make it through. This dream makes so much sense now.
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I had a dream where I was behind a car, on a bridge. I had to be in the closest side to the bridge because there was this HUGE red tower, like a beacon or lighthouse & it was red red red, all over. As I’m creeping behind the car in front of me, I take a second to look at this huge thing & im like why is this here??? The second I look back, I see that there is no more bridge & I am already going over. In my mind I said I won’t watch myself fall to my death. So I closed my eyes & repeated Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus, the dream cut right before I hit the water. Then I just remember waking up to the sound of my alarm. But there was a second where the dream cut & everything was black & then I woke up. Didn’t wake up angry or upset, I just woke up.
I had a dream where I drove off a bridge.
Me too, I had the same dream last night. It was scary that it woke me up.
Hello, glad I came across this post and thread. I am pregnant going to be a single mom IRL. Last night I had a dream I was going over the SF bridge and my coworker was taking the turns super fast. It looked like we were going to make the jump to the second bridge and we missed, my coworker looks at me terrified and apologizes profusely. I knew we were going down, I told her it’s done now. I looked down to my pregnant belly and just holding my baby and saying how much I love him and that we were going to be okay no matter what, this wasn’t the end for us. We missed the water and were about to hit the docks by the Oakland side. As the impact was made, I “woke” back up to an earlier part of my dream. I was terrified saying how baby and I just went off a bridge in my coworkers car and my other coworker was like that was a daydream but it all felt like major deja vu, the dream continued and then I woke up in real life and was in awe. Surprised it didn’t trigger lucidity but it felt so real. Each aspect of the dream was vivid and feels like a memory. Dream reflecting how this is a big transition in my life and I am very emotional with my hormones and I am worried but I know I can handle it. I also have had a history with bridge dreams so this is a common theme for me when going through changes and growth.
Recently I had a dream that I was driving my car around a curved bridge and was going too fast and I lost control of the car and drove off the bridge. Just barely missed the river below. I was fine but my car was slightly damaged and I started driving it trying to get home. But every time I Would try to turn a certain way to get on the road I would lose control of the vehicle. But the other way I did fine.
When I was about 4 years old I had a dream that I was riding in the backseat of a car with my niece and nephew. My mom and sister were in the front seat. She suddenly slammed on the brakes, they got out and flung the seats forward and pulled out my sisters kids. I leaned forward to see what was wrong and the car was teetering on the edge of a bridge and then it goes over and I wake up panicked. I had the same dream almost weekly until I was 12. The last time I had it was one week before the Skyway disaster which happened right near me with a bridge just like the one in my dreams. I never had that dream again. Now however I have dreams where I am driving and not paying attention and drive off a incomplete bridge or onto the roof of a building that was near a road and had the same slope. Again because I was not paying attention.
I have a dream that I was driving the car at the entrance of the bridge, I missed the curve and fell out of the bridge. I was worried I cannot open the doors when we will hit the water. Fortunately I pressed the unlock button and the locks went unlocked, I was ready to open the door before we hit the water when I woke up. Strangely while the car was falling, I did not feel that we were going down. The passenger was not my husband but a stranger, a man I never met before.
I have a dream that I was driving the car at the entrance of the bridge, I missed the curve and fell out of the bridge. I was worried I cannot open the doors when we will hit the water. Fortunately I pressed the unlock button and the locks went unlocked, I was ready to open the door before we hit the water when I woke up. Strangely while the car was falling, I did not feel that we were going down. The passenger was not my husband but a stranger, a man I never met before.
I have a dream that I was driving the car at the entrance of the bridge, I missed the curve and fell out of the bridge. I was worried I cannot open the doors when we will hit the water. Fortunately I pressed the unlock button and the locks went unlocked, I was ready to open the dorrs before we hit the water when I woke up. Strangely while the car was falling, I did not feel that we were going down. The passenger was not my husband but a stranger, a man I never met before.
I had a dream last night that my boyfriend and I was driving across a bridge. I was in the driver seat and he was in the passenger seat. We were admiring the cruise ships that were going by and talking about trips we wanted to take, and all of a sudden while driving I could see the water and then as I continued to drive I noticed that there was a chunk of the bridge missing but by then it was too late. We went head first into the water. My window was already down so I crawled out and three guys that was working on the bridge below jumped in and helped my boyfriend out of the water because he couldn’t swim. We both survived but then I woke up with a migraine.
I had dreamt that my son was the passenger of a motorbike and I was driving behind them, suddenly the curve caused them to crash onto the left side of the freeway bridge. Their motorbike crashed into the wall but my son was ejected over the bridge, I watched him fly in the air and fall as he went over the rail, he tried to catch the rail but slipped down. I don’t know if he landed into oncoming traffic below the bridge but I yelled out his name as I woke up.
I have a recurring “car launching off of a bridge” dream. Usually, I’m driving and it’s just soaring and i don’t land. I’m speechless but not freaking out. One of those, I landed in a huge mud field in a minivan(which i despise). Recently i had where we several of us were in a van. I was not driving. The driver approached a sharp turn on an overpass way to fast. We broke through and were all screaming. We plummeted down to what we thought was our death. Then all of a sudden the driver whipped the van fast onto a pull in for a Hard Rock Cafe that was just up in the air. Weird!!!! Am I crazy?? Any clues
I have a recurring dream of driving off of a bridge. The first time my daughter was driving us with her two boys in the back with their seatbelts on. I remember turning around to make sure they we strapped in their car seats. All the dreams after that I’m driving alone. I’m always calm as my car is almost floating on its decent. Suddenly, I wake before I hit the water.
Lastnight I had a dream I was driving in a old car I had it was nighttime and I was driving on a long road high up where their was railings and my car drifted off unintentionally and out my control on the railing it broke and my car as well as myself in it almost fell off but my window was rolled down and my leg caught my fall and I was safe . What does this mean ?
Last night I dreamed that I was driving and looked down at my phone to make sure I was taking the right exit. I look up and I slam into the side of the bridge launching the car into the air. I was flying and then steered the car back towards the bridge. The car was hanging off the side of the bridge so I left to get help.
Weird right?
I had a dream an Ex drove off the highway, over a bridge in his truck…
I had a dream where I was a passenger and we were driving on an overpass that was under construction and we slid hit the wall launching us over the Bridge, I felt weightless and while falling saw myself in third person and right before we hit the ground I woke up still feeling that weightless feeling in my Gut…. what does this mean it keeps happening.
I have this EXACT SAME DREAM and omfg it’s freaking scary as hell and add to it that my 3 year old son is in his car seat in the car with me hell I even remember thinking dear Jesus please help us on the way down to the water and wondering how I was going to get my child out and keep him from drowning at the same time! We were going up the incline of a VERY TALL bridge at a very high rate of speed and I was behind the drivers seat asleep in my dream and woke up to the car being accelerated massively and immediately started trying to put on my seatbelt and secure my baby to prepare for the inevitable crash and just then it happened and we crashed just at the top of the incline I actually didn’t realize it was even a bridge I just thought it was the interstate until we went over that rail!
I dreamt last night that I was driving downhill on an icy mountain road and my six year old son was playing in the car not buckled in. We came to a turn that was too sharp and went off the edge and fell hundreds of feet to the bottom. I woke up after we landed. On the way down I thought, wow I wonder if we are going to die and why aren’t you wearing your seatbelt Evan? And I’m ready to die, trying to imagine if I could have done anything more to prevent us from going off the edge, it was so steep and there was no blockade. The roads were so icy. On the way down Evan was in the passenger seat floating near the ceiling of the car, since he didn’t have a seatbelt. I told him, this is why I always told you to wear one.
I had a dream about my grandma my dad and me flying off the side of a highway when my dad was trying to tell me about this bump in the road called the white elephant and when we flew off the side of the road we didn’t know what to do so we just fell in the grass. I was mostly awake through this dream and I’m also terrified of my bedroom so idk. So since I was mostly awake I was like well what’s gonna happen next? AND WE LITERALLY SHOT A RANDOM GUY! Now I’m not expert but I don’t think that’s a good dream
last night ihad a dream where me and my dad where driving to toys r us in a white car with a big trunck in the back (it didnt say it in the dream but i recognise the place from when i visited them) early on in the call i cant remeber how it came up but we where talking about how its a myth that you die midair when ou fall from high up and your dont feel yourself hit the floor (which turns out to be true) and then later abouter animals and what not we drove onto a bridge and not soon after we teeded to make a turn and my dad said “do you trust our —-” i dont remeber what he asked me what i trusted but something to do with the car and then one of our wheels fell ofwe twisted onto the rail somehow the door of the car opened and i feel off my dad said “remeber what i told you” and i head dived in, i assume by what i told you he means that i wont die midair but im not sure
last night ihad a dream where me and my dad where driving to toys r us in a white car with a big trunck in the back (it didnt say it in the dream but i recognise the place from when i visited them) early on in the call i cant remeber how it came up but we where talking about how its a myth that you die midair when ou fall from high up and your dont feel yourself hit the floor (which turns out to be true) and then later abouter animals and what not we drove onto a bridge and not soon after we teeded to make a turn and my dad said “do you trust our —-” i dont remeber what he asked me what i trusted but something to do with the car and then one of our wheels fell ofwe twisted onto the rail somehow the door of the car opened and i feel off my dad said “remeber what i told you” and i head dived in, i assume by what i told you he means that i wont die midair but im not sure also when i died i didnt wake upit was like my whole life was a dream and i spend ages crying and a dark void trying to get back to life and i hit somethign that say “n” and then i woke up
I had a dream that I was driving home on the highway and I didn’t turn in time and fell into a ditch and died. The wierd thing is during all of this I couldn’t feel my hands they had fallen asleep. What does this mean?
I had the exact dream but, it was not I that went off the bridge it was a bunch of random people in my home town driving off the edge. I try to warn them they can’t see or hear me . They were driving at full speed they hit the bottom piled up and it just kept happening. I woke up in cold sweat.
I dreamed my daughter was driving my husband and I and she went to go on a back road instead of a highway and it looked as if she would run off of a curb but the road ended and we drove off the side. We were up high and I just looked down and told them both I loved them and then I woke up.
I dreamt last night that I was in a car with a friend driving and he missed the exit we needed. Then after that it was a lot of construction and narrow roads on a very high bridge. He lost control and we went over. I was so scared and was holding on so tight and I really felt it. Like my body lost control and gravity was gone. I felt my body lifting off the bed. As far as I know of course it didn’t but it felt so real. As i was falling to my death my biggest fear was leaving my babies behind in this world with out me. So I Immediately stopped crying (as I was still falling) and said I love you my babies. I love you so much. Before I actually hit the ground I woke up and was so terrified it felt so real. The fear was so real.
Oh my gosh, Kristy, I had the exact feelings in my dream last night…same dream of driving off a bridge. In my dream, I had food in my mouth and I remember thinking, as I was falling, “I’d better swallow it before impact, so I don’t choke”, lol. I woke up before I hit the water, but I was absolutely terrified and it took me a few minutes to calm down and get back to sleep!
I keep having a dream where I am a passenger and brother is driving but daughter is in back seat, it's a huge motorway bridge and I can feel myself going down and I say I love you to y child but as it is about to hit the ground I jump awake, what does it mean please
i keep having this dream were i dont know were i am and my mom drives offf the bridge and every time i do it its like a video game when you die you get back up and then every time we get back up we keep driving but this last time i did we didnt end back up on the bridge we jus totaled the car and found some nice people to help..
I dreamt last night I was driving and hit snow/ice as I entered a bridge/overpass..car went right off the side..I grabbed ahold of the bridge as it went over and basically had my arms around a rung or two on the side of the bridge (like in a movie) swinging there and then climbed back up onto the bridge….phew
Last night I dreamed I was alone in my sons car, and I took a wrong turn . I was going in a high rate of speed, and came to one of those bridges over a bay. It was too short a turn for me to make and I remember thinking in the dream I’m going to crash. But, at the time that I actually hit the side it’s like I open my eyes and I was standing on the bridge and I started running back towards the way I came. In someway I knew I had gone over, and I looked in there I was in the car as it was starting to submerge into the Clearwater. I was sleeping then in my car, but at some point I know I woke up and was trying to get out. At that same time, my husband arrived on the scene and picked me up, me on the bridge me. He told me how lucky I was, because they had informed him that I had gone over the side of the bridge and Likely was dead . I explained to him what had happened and that I was still in the car . And we both decided that we would just have to “wait and see “. I remember at the end of the dream before I woke up I thought about calling my mother to tell her how much I loved her Just in case I hadn’t made it out of the car. My children were nowhere in the dream .
Im 16 and Im currently in Galveston. I drove here from Houston. I had a dream that my great grandma who is deceased was driving me, my parents, and my little brother. She was speeding and she just kept going even faster once we got on the bridge. A part of me knew what was about to happen and another part of me didn’t want to accept it. Then she drove off the bridge into the water. At first I was panicking but the first thing I thought was to get my little brother out. While doing that I blacked out. I then wake up to my body close to shore and my little brother standing on the beach smiling. My parents were right behind me. I then look back at my brother to see a huge tsunami getting ready to hit. Then I woke up.