Your backpack or travel bag in dreams represents your past, which you carry with you. This means that you carry with you your old ideas, your conclusions, your traumatic experiences, your impressions and everything that belongs to your past.
You can believe that this content is positive. However, it has a negative meaning because your past conclusions were based on your ignorance and you believe in many false concepts. Surely you went through many traumatic experiences, which created abnormal reactions due to your fears. You also had many false impressions of your reality because you are ignorant and your human consciousness is one-sided.
This does not mean that you should forget your past and never analyze it. It means that to analyze your past you need the help of a psychoanalyst. Fortunately, the unconscious mind that produces your dreams is the best doctor you could find.
You will get rid of your past traumas through the translation of dreams and gain new ideas, which will be based on real knowledge. The unconscious mind will give you new life, based on wisdom.
I will show you in this article two parts of two dreams where the backpack appears. I can’t post the full dreams because my translations are private, but I can post two sentences from two different dreams by two different dreamers without exposing the dreamers in any way to give you an object lesson as they both had a dream where the backpack appears.
Here is a part of the first dream, which was dreamed by a mentally ill woman who is between 30 and 40 years old:
‘There is a backpack in front of me whose color is ocher. (I’m looking for your zipper.)’
Translation of dreams:
This backpack is the content that belongs to your past. The ocher color indicates support and kindness.
You are looking for its zipper to open your past and remember the old content. This means that you are attached to your past and believe that your past contains support and kindness.
This is a false impression.
This dream showed the dreamer that she was shunned for believing that her past could bring her something good and help her in her life. She had many traumatic experiences in the past and her struggle against her conscience controls her constantly. I cannot explain the details of this case, but I can tell you that the dreamer is far from balanced.
Knowing this detail, you can understand how wrong the dreamer really is to believe that her past reactions and conclusions can help her in any way. The color of the backpack is misleading. It reflects what the dreamer thinks about her past conclusions and her past ideas, while she is mentally ill and cannot trust her own thoughts. Her mind was invaded by her anti-consciousness.
Now he is carefully analyzing his past through dream translation. The unconscious mind is gradually removing the pain caused by her trauma and showing her what had really happened to her.
Therefore, the fact that he had a backpack was a negative. This backpack is a burden on his shoulders. She must get rid of this backpack instead of believing that her old ideas and conclusions can help her in her life.
The translation of this part of the dream clearly shows you the negative meaning of the backpack.
Now, I am going to translate some phrases from a dream dream of a 35-45 year old woman where the backpack appears in a dream scene. She is not mentally ill. Her basic problem is related to a love relationship.
‘Then class ended and I couldn’t find my blue backpack, which had my keys and my books. How was I supposed to get back to work?
Translation of dreams:
The backpack is what you carry with you from your past. It represents your past ideas, your memories and everything that connects you to your past behavior and past life.
The blue color represents understanding. Thus, everything that comes from your past makes you have the behavior of an understanding person.
Since you lost your backpack, this means that you lost the content that you carry in your personality and in your mind from the past, which gave you an integral character (blue color). In other words, you are a person who understands everything very easily and has the reactions of ordinary people. You lost this content that was influencing your behavior because you now understand that you can’t be like the average person. You have to be superior.
Keys represent a solution in dreams. Since she lost her keys, this means that she lost a solution that she had found. In other words, she forgot a solution that she had found in the past and that is why she lost her keys. Or, you find yourself in a situation that demands much more from you and you can’t use the same solution that you usually use when you find yourself in a difficult situation. Now you have to face a new situation that demands a different tactic.
His books represent the knowledge given by human beings, which is false knowledge, limited by human ignorance.
Therefore, the fact that you have lost your backpack is not negative, as it seems. You lost your old ways, which were based on misconceptions. What you carry with you in your backpack in dreams is the collection of misconceptions that you have from the past. You got rid of this collection now that you are studying the meaning of your dreams and you have to face a different situation. Now you have to deal with the complicated case of the person you love.
You should pay attention to the unconscious lessons in your dreams because the solution you used to solve your problems in the past (keys) and the knowledge you have from studying what human beings have taught you (books) cannot help you in the situation at hand. which you are now.
As you can see, the backpack (or travel bag) always has a negative meaning in a dream. It represents your old ways of dealing with life’s challenges, which are based on wrong conclusions, even if you don’t have a mental illness and haven’t had serious trauma in the past.