Walking
Walking in dreams often reflects the pace and texture of your waking life—whether you move freely or struggle through resistance. The path matters less than how it feels beneath your feet: sometimes the roughest ground teaches what smooth progress cannot.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for walking, 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 walking through rough brier, entangled paths, denotes that you will be much distressed over your business complications, and disagreeable misunderstandings will produce coldness and indifference.
To walk in pleasant places, you will be the possessor of fortune and favor.
To walk in the night brings misadventure, and unavailing struggle for contentment.
For a young woman to find herself walking rapidly in her dreams, denotes that she will inherit some property, and will possess a much desired object.
[239] See Wading.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream you are walking in a dirty and muddy place, foretells sickness and vexation: in love, it denotes bad temper and disappointment.
Anonymous, 1894
Walking.—To dream you are walking in a dirty, muddy place foretells sickness and vexation; to the lover it denotes your sweetheart to be bad tempered and unfaithful; to the tradesman it foretells dishonest servants, and loss of goods by fire.