Dad will appear in your dreams when you are exploring the influences that he holds over you. If he is driving the car – the dream can be showing how his influences are currently driving you. When he appears in your dream – examine his presence as your own judgements that can be either positive or negative. Similar to police appearing in a dream – dad can represent our own critical tapes. Since everything in the dream is representing the dreamer – it is not ‘dad’ that is the focus – but the aspects that you adopted from him.