Stairs
Stairs often represent the climb or descent between different states of being—ambition meeting effort, or perhaps the weight of slipping backward when momentum fails. The direction matters less than how you felt on them: was each step deliberate, or did gravity decide for you?
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for stairs, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of passing up a stairs, foretells good fortune and much happiness.
If you fall down stairs, you will be the object of hatred and envy.
To walk down, you will be unlucky in your affairs, and your lovemaking will be unfavorable.
To see broad, handsome stairs, foretells approaching riches and honors.
To see others going down stairs, denotes that unpleasant conditions will take the place of pleasure.
To sit on stair steps, denotes a gradual rise in fortune and delight.