WALKING

If you shake dust away from your shoes as you are walking, this suggests that you are breaking successfully from the past. Dust is a symbol of the earth and if you are gathering dust on your clothes, shoes or in your hands as you walk, you may be thinking about the approaching of old age. A dream limp may suggest your movement is being crippled or restricted in some way in waking life.

Always consider how you were moving in a dream and try to make the connection to your attitude in waking life at present. Are you walking purposely in your dream and do you know where you are heading? If you can answer positively to both of these questions, this suggests a sense of direction and purpose in life. The opposite is true if you are lost.

If you were skipping or dancing, you are feeling carefree but if you are dragging your feet, this may suggest reluctance. Tripping or stumbling suggests making a mistake; jumping, taking a short cut; crawling, humiliation or extreme hardship. And if you could not move at all, your dreaming mind may be reflecting your sense of being at a complete standstill in your waking life as a result of your indecision.

Running in a dream suggests impatience to reach a destination. It can also indicate a desire to please others or to run away from them.

See also ACCIDENTS, ACTION AND ADVENTURES.

To be walking purposefully suggests we know where we are going.

To be wandering aimlessly suggests we need to create goals for ourselves.

To take pleasure in the act of walking is to return to the innocence of the child.

To be using a walking stick is to recognise our need for support and assistance from others.

2- Walking may be used as a relaxation from stress, and it is this significance which often comes up in dreams.

If we are alone then our walk can be silent and contemplative.

If it is in company, then we can communicate and converse without fear of interruption.

3- A spiritual walk is a journey of exploration into realms we do not know.

The meaning of walking in a dream implies an expression of meekness and submissiveness before one’s Lord, and it could mean seeking to earn one’s livelihood. Jogging in a dream means victory over one’s enemy. Walking backward in a dream means reversing one’s decision, cancelling a commitment, or it could represent corruption in one’s religious practices. Struttingor prancing in a dream represents an ugly state of mind that is coupled with evil actions. Falling down over one’s face during walking in a dream means loss of benefits in this world and in the next. Tripping while walking in a dream means exposure of one’s ills, and suffering the consequences of wrongdoing.

To cause someone to trip while walking in a dream means ridiculing him, or delivering him a humiliating blow.

To walk earnestly and steadily in a dream represents one’s good intention. Travelling on foot in a dream means facing danger. Walking while bowing one’s head in a dream means longevity, or it could mean recovering from a long illness. Walking over the clouds in a dream means rain. Walking with a cane in a dream means old age, or an illness which will require the help of a cane. Hopping on one foot in a dream means losing half of one’s wealth. Having several feet in a dream means losing one’s sight.

If the governor sees himself having many feet in a dream, it means that he will be impeached from his office.

If one sees inanimate objects such as a tree, a rock or a mountain walking in a dream, it represents major adversities and plagues.

The movement of inanimate objects in a dream also means being dogmatic about one’s spiritual stand. Walking like animals in a dream means emulating ignorant people, seeking the unattainable, or being a hypocrite, unless if the animal is permissible for food, then such style of walking means offering good deeds.

(Also see Jogging, Prancing, Sound of walking, Strutting, Tripping)