Wheelchair dream meaning is explained below using 8 different sources. Each interpretation is shown with its source.

Interpretation 1 — Nancy Wagaman

Being in a wheelchair (when you don’t use one in real life) can represent: Support or help moving through a period of your life, especially assistance getting through challenges or “making the road smoother.” Feeling challenged or “disabled” in making progress somewhere in your life.

Using tips, tricks, technology, or other means of making life or a certain process easier.

Feeling a need for things to be easier for a while.

See Crutch, Disabled, Can’t Move, Walking, Leg

Source: The Curious Dreamer’s Dream Dictionary Author: Nancy Wagaman

Interpretation 2 — Dr. Mıchael Lennox

The wheelchair eradicates a level of disability by providing movement where movement is challenged. In this way, it is a symbol of triumph over adversity. Additionally, a wheelchair may appear in a dream when you feel a need or desire to continue moving through your life while expending less effort.
Source: Complete Dictionary of Dreams Author: Dr. Mıchael Lennox

Interpretation 3 — Dream Explanations - Anonymous

Dreams of a wheel chair represent the need for support during a challenging time. You are grappling with a real or imagined handicap, perhaps physical, emotional or spiritual. This dream is a message that there is an aspect of your life that is in need of attention, healing and nurturing.
Source: Strangest Dream Explanations Author: Dream Explanations - Anonymous

Interpretation 4 — myjellybean

To dream that you are in a wheelchair, suggests that you need to stand on your own two feet and stop depending on others. You also need to stand up for yourself.

If someone is able-bodied in real life, but you dream that they are in a wheelchair, that person needs your help in some way.

Source: My Dream Interpretation Author: myjellybean

Interpretation 5 — Klaus Vollmar

On one hand, restriction, suffering and the inability to escape from problems. On the other hand, in spite of a psychological handicap, moving forward. Often such dreams are a challenge, in a sense, to learn how to walk again.
Source: Little Giant Encyclopedia Author: Klaus Vollmar

Interpretation 6 — Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin

1. If in a wheelchair, one’s life has been difficult to manage.

2. If one is pushing someone else in a wheelchair, that person is dependent on the dreamer.

Source: New American Dream Dictionary Author: Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin

Interpretation 7 — Tyler Wolfe

Symbolic of recovery from injury or needing help
Source: Christian Dream Symbols Author: Tyler Wolfe

Interpretation 8 — Margaret Hamilton

Feebleness
Source: Dream Dictionary Unlimited Author: Margaret Hamilton