It is a strange sensation to be doing anything in your dream. Everything seems to move in slow motion, and you feel as though you are fighting against your own mind and body to move at free will. The movement within dreams has been a focus of fascination for so long, that even movies were formed on the premise.
The actions in your dreams hold meaning, and walking in your dreams, on a spiritual level, holds a great relation to what is happening in your life. Depending on where you are walking and with whom, it could mean that your spiritual path is on a positive trajectory.
But walking may not be as straightforward as it seems. Let us take a deeper look at the spiritual meaning of walking in your dreams and what it may mean for your life in reality.
The Deeper Meaning
Walking is rarely done without a purpose, and whether you are trodding the path less traveled or you are headed down a smooth path, dreaming about walking has a lot to do with the path you are headed on in life.
Dreaming about walking means that what you are currently doing in life is good and correct. While we do spend a lot of our time questioning our decisions, questioning if we are doing the right thing, and questioning if we are actually good people, your dream may be just the confirmation you were looking for.
The Relationship Journey
Every aspect of life is a journey, including relationships. If you dream that you are walking with your partner, this directly relates to your relationship in reality. Walking with your partner can either mean something good or something bad about your relationship.
If, in your dream, you find you and your partner walking slowly, strolling, and walking at the same pace or hand-in-hand, it means that your relationship is doing really well. Whatever you are doing to grow and nurture your relationship and to keep it peaceful and fruitful is something you should continue doing.
However, if in your dream, you or your partner are walking ahead or behind each other, this holds a negative meaning, and you may need to work on your relationship. Whether you are going to try to work on and heal your relationship, or if you are going to ‘walk away,’ your dream may be the sign you needed to reassess where you both are.
Walking with Different People
Dreams can hold warning signs for us and could provide us with some information that we are not ‘awake’ enough to notice when we are awake. If you dream that you are walking with a particular person, your dream may reflect your relationship with that person.
But if you dream that you are walking with many people and that your dream seems quite chaotic, it may mean that you need to reassess the circle of people that are close to you.
Walking up Flights of Stairs
Quite literally translated from a dream, if you are walking up a flight of stairs, because of its upwards trajectory, it generally means that you are experiencing personal growth. But growth also means changes, and this could be seen as a warning to know that things are going to progress and develop in your life in a positive way.
Staircases in dreams are generally directly correlated to your educational or spiritual growth. So, whether it means you are going to pass your upcoming exam or assignment, or whether it means that you are going to experience spiritual enlightenment, you are very likely to encounter some positivity in your life.
Finding it Hard to Walk
In a dream where you find it difficult to walk or you are unable to move with ease can be really frustrating. Even waking up from that dream leaves you wondering why it may have been so hard to walk and achieve anything in your dream.
This once again is directly linked with your reality. If you find yourself trying to walk in your dream but you just can’t, even though you aren’t hurt or injured, it may mean that you are trying to maintain the pace of those around you, but you are unsuccessful in doing so.
Despite trying, whether in your opinion or in reality, it may mean that you are helpless or powerless to some degree. But in such cases, you should not lose hope and realize that, in life, you move at your own pace.
Finding difficulties in walking, even though it is just a dream, provides some foreshadowing of difficulties that you may face in the near future.
Walking and Spirituality
Walking is not just an act that we do on a daily basis, but it also holds certain connotations. Walking in dreams holds many different meanings that may or may not be open to interpretation. But beyond your dreams, the notion of walking can be related to your overall spiritual journey.
You may have heard of a spiritual walk with God – there is a reason that your spiritual life is referred to as a walk. This is because your spiritual life is never-ending. It is a journey and not a destination. Your spirituality is something you work on every day, and it is something that you constantly pursue.
It is also believed that God walks with us each day and that angels walk among us. If there is such a strong correlation between walking and spirituality, its meaning in our dreams must be a sign from the spiritual realm about what is happening in our current lives.
Additionally, beyond the concept of dreaming, people can take on spiritual walks whereby they walk and pray, meditate, or repeat an affirmation. People sometimes feel closer to a spiritual higher power when they walk in nature because of basking in the joy and beauty that God has created.
Conclusion
Just because walking is a basic human act that everyone so easily does in everyday life, its spiritual meaning and representations in one’s dreams hold a powerful meaning that should not be underestimated. Whether you are putting your ‘best foot forward,’ strolling through life, or journeying on your spiritual walk, its representation in your dreams is a direct reflection of reality.
Heed the warnings or embrace the change of positivity that these dreams are foreshadowing.