In travels in dreams, the train is a powerful vehicle and symbol. It implies movement forward, and speedy movement.

It implies having an inner “engineer” and “conductor.” It can signify being directed by your inner being to a specific-life goal or destination, riding at times alone, being both engineer, conductor and passenger. At times others come along and travel and work with you – in life and in your dreams. 

It can indicate having laid a path, using a “map,” and then laying a road-bed with “tracks of steel” to your destination – when the dream train is a traditional track-wheeled train. 

The train can be a powerful symbol of a dream experience called mutual dreaming, in which two or more are traveling the subtle worlds together. The train implies safe traveling as the means and way is “engineered” by the individual’s soul-being or the collective “soul agreement” of the riders. When one follows (or rides) the “soul train” one is nurtured (trains do have diners) and assisted along the way, as the travel is in agreement with the soul’s destination and life purpose.

Of course, in the vast world of the mind and imagination, there are sky trains, space trains, and trains that burrow and tunnel through the earth – all signifying different potentials and movements that can be experienced in dreaming..

I knew a child. He saw me writing. He asked, "What are you writing?" I said, "About dreams." He said that was good. After a moment he said, "And don't forget to tell them about visions."  I thought, isn't that amazing – a child wanting the world to know about visions!  I asked, "What do you know about visions?" He then began telling me about some of his visions. I then pondered, here is a young child wanting the world to know what a child can see, and seeking an adult to listen.

What an amazing platform with social media, and the dawn of a new collective consciousness to share.

When we listen to a  child's dreams, we must listen through the heart center. The young child's dreams are created not so much from thoughts, as from deep psychic impressions and memories – and feelings.
 
When the child shares a dream they are inviting you into their heart. They are seeking inner knowledge and knowledge of the self. They are seeking the language and words to put their experience into waking consciousness – for you to help them decipher – that is for them to know what their inner soul already knows. 

That is why it is so important to listen to every word the child speaks when sharing their dreams. We do this by focusing on our own heart center, quieting the mind with sustained-quiet listening, and seeking inner knowledge with the child – seeking to see or feel what they had seen or felt – to know the unknown.