Universal Landscape: Exertion or ease in your current life’s journey.
Dreaming Lens: Were you going uphill or down? Was the uphill challenging? Was the downhill easy or frightening? How much further was there to go? What was waiting for you up top or down below? Was the hill an obstacle in your flow or an expected part of your movement?
Personal Focus: Any path in a dream such as a road, trail, or walkway connects to your journey through life. The degree of inclination or declination is key to understanding how your unconscious is experiencing the current level of stress involved. This should be applied literally to the interpretation of how you are understanding some life experience. Consider the direction: uphill points to difficulty and challenge while downhill brings you ease and speed. Both perspectives have positive and negative associations to them.
While going uphill can be exhausting and debilitating, a modicum of exertion can also be very stimulating and the accomplishment of the climb can be very satisfying. Going downhill may be easy and exhilarating, but the sense of free fall can also breed terror and create danger or misfortune. These dichotomies must be examined when coming to an accurate interpretation. Your Dreaming Lens will guide you, but you will also want to factor in your own physical abilities and/or limitations. If you are debilitated in life in some way, challenged movement in your dream could be an expression of frustration with your limitations. Similarly, ease of movement could be compensatory in some way.
If the uphill journey in your dream stops your ability to move at all, you may be working out feelings of inadequacy and may be shut down in the face of a life challenge. Similarly, a downhill plunge that leads to calamity and injury could indicate the fears that are stopping your movement in life. If there is a view at the top of the hill, you may be looking at the motivating forces that underlie your current choices. If you are sailing easily and safely downhill, your unconscious may be signaling the end of a previous dilemma or signaling a need to proceed with blind faith—that no matter what the consequences, you will survive and proceed successfully. Pay attention to the road ahead and you cannot falter.
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