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Steps

Steps

Steps — ascended or descended — often touch fair prospects relieving anxiety when you climb, misfortune when you go down, and failure if you fall. The dream may ask which way you're moving on the stairs of your circumstances, and whether you're rising toward relief or stepping down, perhaps stumbling, toward a reversal.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for steps, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

To dream that you ascend steps, denotes that fair prospects will relieve former anxiety.

To decend them, you may look for misfortune.

To fall down them, you are threatened with unexpected failure in your affairs.

[211] See Stairs.