What Does it Mean to Dream About Walking?

It is no coincidence that the most philosophical academy of the traditional world, built-in Greece between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, was called the Peripatetic School.

The Greek noun “peripatetikos” refers to the act of walking itself, it indicates something itinerant, wandering, and thus the overall action of movement. The Peripatetics (walkers, walkers) loved to define themselves as the main exponents of this school, from its founder Aristotle to Nicholas of Damascus.

And most of the lovely modern thinkers say in unison that the most straightforward thoughts were when they were walking. Therefore, walking has always been a source of great inspiration and progressive ideas. This action allows for complete immersion within the space of the category. Crossing the encircling areas can make deep synesthesia between moving, looking, and contemplating.

What does it mean to dream of walking?

• Beginning with the Pythecanthropic ancestors, our species has assimilated this action as inherent to its being, and walking has become natural, straightforward, and spontaneous.
• But what is the way to read this action from a purely dreamlike and anthropological point of view? The image of walking is deeply linked to the concept of movement, which is the main characteristic of this action. Walking means moving or continuing towards a path.
• It symbolizes the action of living in and of itself, the relentless progress towards one’s goal, and towards one’s aspirations or moral values ??that act as a compass within one’s lifetime.
• Life is continuous movement, and walking is its metaphor par excellence. To consent to the current empirical law means facilitating our maturation processes and accompanying our physical or spiritual beings. Furthermore, walking indicates the dreamer’s intrinsic potential to choose his existential path autonomously and decide the direction to follow the ways required.
• Obviously, like several self-respecting dream images, we must pay close attention to the main points in the background of our dream and adapt the overall interpretation from time to time to particular cases.

A dream of walking down the road

The dreamer chooses the path. It is the direction and compass that he is following that will lead him to change. The unconscious can paint the dirt road on which the dream is in various ways—counting on the moods of the dream traveler (concrete, earth, stone, asphalt, etc.). In any case, the trail is an indicator of the choices we have made, for better or for worse. It gives meaning and an objective to the change undertaken and of which walking may be a symbol.

Dreaming about climbing uphill

• Even the road, as seen, can have different aspects and characteristics. It can be, for example, an uphill road or even a slope. If you discover yourself facing a torturous route, it means the dreamer’s life is heading upwards.
• It is useless to emphasize that an uphill route may be tiring, complex, and demanding. It needs all the attention and of the traveler. In other words, great results require great sacrifices.
• The dreamer is invited by his unconscious to realize his goals and results, which may not require too long to come. But the climb also can be perceived as too exhausting for the dreamer, at which point one must wonder if the trail taken is the right one or not.

Dreaming of pacing up and down

Descent facilitates and helps our progress along the chosen path. Being earlier a decline indicates that each one of our work has finally paid off.

Especially after experiencing a difficult period, the descent presents itself as a chance to alleviate pressure, anxiety, and concentration, making a living more pleasant.

Dreaming of walking on water

The sea understood as an immense body of water, is again a positive symbol of our unconscious. It symbolizes all the motivation in our possession that determines our paths.

Walking on a calm and serene sea is synonymous with great inner peace. On the contrary, a rough sea could reflect all the evils of our existence.

In both cases, the ocean has got to do with our psychic resources to be engaged to see a brand new and inventive path.