Walls
Walls in dreams often speak to the boundaries we've erected—protection that has become imprisonment, or necessary limits we're finally ready to challenge. Whether you're building one or tearing it down, notice what feeling rises first: the relief of shelter, or the ache of separation?
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for walls, 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 that you find a wall obstructing your progress, you will surely succumb to ill-favored influences and lose important victories in your affairs.
To jump over it, you will overcome obstacles and win your desires. To force a breach in a wall, you will succeed in the attainment of your wishes by sheer tenacity of purpose.
To demolish one, you will overthrow your enemies. To build one, foretells that you will carefully lay plans and will solidify your fortune to the exclusion of failure, or designing enemies.
For a young woman to walk on top of a wall, shows that her future happiness will soon be made secure. For her to hide behind a wall, denotes that she will form connections that she will be ashamed to acknowledge. If she walks
beside a base wall. she will soon have run the gamut of her attractions, and will likely be deserted at a precarious time.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream you are walking on, or climbing over walls, denotes some dangerous enterprise, trouble, and vexation: if you get down without the wall falling, or hurting yourself, you will succeed; if not, be disappointed.