What does a stolen car mean?

For as long as I can remember, or at least as long as I have lived in California, I have had a recurring dream that my car gets stolen. It's happened with different cars (but always my real car at the time), in different places, under different circumstances, with different people involved, but always the same theme. I had another one of these dreams last night. My car was stolen in 'downtown LA'--although the place certainly wasn't downtown LA. And all the dreams end the same: Whether friends, aquaintances or strangers are around, no one offers assistance, no one seems to care, and I am left trying to contact the police by myself. In last night's dream, in "downtown LA", I was going to give a ride home to a neighbor. In real life, this guy doesn't exist. I guess he was just a figment of my imagination. In the dream, when the car was gone, this 'neighbor" found another way home and left. Then I ran into a friend's brother, who does exist in real life. He was going to give me a ride home, but I had to keep arguing with him that I had to go to the police station. He finally understood and let me out of the car so I could report the crime to the cops. And then he was on his way. Then the dream ended--like they always do. I've never gotten to the point in the dream when the police come, or the car is recovered, or have any kind of conclusion. It just ends. I don't like it--it's very unsettling. So, today I researched dream interpretations on the internet. The few sites that had "car being stolen" listed, had the same interpretation. They said that dreaming about your car being stolen represents yourself and your ability to control your life, and that your personality is being taken away either through the loss of employment, a relationship, or other circumstance in which your sense of self plays a role. None of that applies to my life right now. At least I don't think it does. But I was telling a friend the other day that I am bored with everything in life and if I want to make it different, I need to do something different. Maybe the dream is telling me to go for it, that I do need to change my personality, my life, my sense of self. Now I just need to figure out who I am supposed to be. In the meantime, I'll keep locking my car doors.