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What are climbing dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like climb.

Climbing in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 2.8% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 35 dreams.

What are the major highlights of climbing dreams?

Climbing is a normal dream symbol. Having climbing in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Climbing dreams are friendly

Dreams of climbing have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of climbing will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of climbing are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include lifeguards, cannons, lips, languages, walls, librarians, Algeria, heroes, spirits, and wallets.

Dreams of climbing are aggressive

Climbing dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all climbing have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having climbing in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include Syria, jumping, endings, apocalypses, qualities, accomplices, tackling, Cameroon, jails, and general movement.

How does the dream symbol of climbing affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of climbing

Who is in climbing dreams?

Overall, dreams with climbing are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of climbing are more related to animals and more related to insects than dreams in general.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

more than usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

the same as usual
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What are the emotions in climbing dreams?

Overall, dreams with climbing are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of climbing are more related to fear and more related to fun than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to grief and sorrow, and less related to embarrassment.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

less than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

less than usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in climbing dreams?

Overall, dreams with climbing are more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of climbing are more related to human places, more related to transportation, and much more related to natural places than dreams in general. They are less related to work.

Home

the same as usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

more than usual

Transportation

more than usual

Natural places

much more than usual

Magical places

more than usual
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What happens in climbing dreams?

Overall, dreams with climbing are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of climbing are more related to aggressive interactions, more related to friendly interactions, and more related to disasters than dreams in general.

Aggressive interactions

more than usual

Friendly interactions

more than usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

more than usual
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How do climbing in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with climbing are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of climbing are more related to recurring dreams and more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

more than usual

Recurring nightmares

more than usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do climbing in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with climbing are more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of climbing are more related to hearing, more related to smelling, and more related to vision than dreams in general.

Hearing

more than usual

Smelling

more than usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

more than usual

Touch

more than usual
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How can you make sense of climbing in dreams?

Climbing dreams are relatively common. Among other things climbing dreams are normally interconnect, friendly, and aggressive.

Do you think this is true for your dream of climbing? How might your dream of climbing be different?

All dreams have meaning

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

Look for the differences

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience climbing in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Return to the feelings

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about climbing in dreams. See how you feel about climbing now, in your waking life.

What are possible meanings for dreams of climbing?

What does the action of climbing up say symbolically? In simplest terms, it means moving up.

It can mean progressing toward a goal or conquering a challenge. See: Mountains

It can mean rising fortunes or status, “climbing the ladder.” See: Ascending

It can mean doing something one step at a time. For example, you want to get married, or get a divorce—what steps do you need to take? Or you want to start a family, get a college degree, or command an army. It’s a tough climb that progresses in stages.

Climbing can symbolize raising your consciousness or improving yourself. See: Spirals

Climbing can be a way of escaping or avoiding something. For example, climbing a tree to get away from a bear can symbolize escaping an overbearing mother figure. Climbing onto the roof at your workplace might express a wish to avoid work-related difficulties or stress.

For ideas about climbing downward, see: Descend.

The symbolism can be based on the skill and concentration, or planning and preparation, involved with mountain climbing. In which case, climbing is used to compare with something requiring similar abilities.

The strong grip required for climbing can symbolize the hold you have on something: your emotions, a concept, a situation.

A ladder is climbed one step at a time, and when you elevate your life you take steps to do it. In this sense, climbing represents progress toward a goal, something that raises your status or fortunes, such as moving up in a hierarchy.

A ladder is climbed one person at a time. It’s a solo activity that can translate to symbolism for preferring to be alone or doing things your own way.

Oftentimes, the meaning of the symbolism of climbing is deciphered by analyzing the thing climbed. Climbing a tree combines the symbolism of climbing with the symbolism of a tree and can mean rising authority or position within a hierarchy. Climbing stairs can symbolize taking steps to protect yourself or prepare for something. Climbing a wall can symbolize overcoming an obstacle or wishing to escape chaos or stress.

See also: Ascending, Buildings, Cliffs, Descending, Elevators, Feet, Fences, Mountains, Trees, Wallets

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet.

Examples of dreams of climbing

Read some real dream reports of climbing dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.

Recurring Dream Help

For quite some time I’ve had a dream about a large house that either I’m visiting or I seem to live in. The constant is that this house has secret rooms. They are always large and beautiful with big bathrooms in each. I never sleep or stay in them I just run from room to room. I have almost always been the only person who knows about these hidden rooms.

Last night I dreamt I was living in the house and it was full of people in the regular rooms. I had to get ready for something so I thought to use the secret rooms...only to discover that multiple people were sleeping in each room. I didn’t know who these people were. The dream ends with me climbing a flight of stairs trying to find an empty room and ending up in a shopping mall/ community college. The mall part is new. Any thoughts?

For quite some time I’ve had a dream about a large house that either I’m visiting or I seem to live in. The constant is that this house has secret rooms. They...

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I just woke up from a dream about me and two girls I’m acquainted with smoking a blunt on a volcano that was in a place where there would never be a volcano....

So today I had a dream that me and two girls i used to be friends with and smoke with all the time in high school. We were in Manhattan and I thought that we were just climbing a really really really tall building like It was as tall as a sky scrapper. And I’m afraid of heights so I remember once we were sitting on it I started feeling anxious about falling off but I still sat down and lit the blunt and didn’t say anything about it. So as were smoking we’re just talking and what I thought was a building underneath us it starts to get really hot and shake. And then on my phone I look up like a live map of where we are, and it showed a volcano that was erupting or about to erupt. And then one of my friends was like yeah we better go this thing is about to erupt. And as I stood up to quickly get off I started getting dizzy and felt like I was about to faint which is what usually happens when I smoke weed and get a lot of anxiety. And then that’s when I woke up.

Any idea of what any of this could mean or was it just a crazy stupid dream lol.

So today I had a dream that me and two girls i used to be friends with and smoke with all the time in high school. We were in Manhattan and I thought that we...

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Terrible Dream... need translation.

So recently we bought two bibles, one for me and my partner. Last night I had a dream that we opened one up, and the pages were black with gold text, I bumped one of the pages with my mouth and it tore the page, the slowly the letters started to bleed red. We jumped out of bed and tossed it in the trash before it made a mess.... but then I woke up (so I thought) I could feel my partner next to me, I was cold as I had no blankets on me, so I grabbed the blankets on my partner and pulled them on to me. I then felt something grab the blanket near my hip and try to lift it, I quickly pushed the blanket in back down, and knowing it wasn't something natural. I could no longer move and I was trying to speak and wake up my partner, rolling my body into hers and only being able to put out a light moan. I tried to wake her up, then I felt the weight of something on my arm and side, as if it climbed on top of me.... then I really woke up.

So recently we bought two bibles, one for me and my partner. Last night I had a dream that we opened one up, and the pages were black with gold text, I bumped...

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Very depressing dream I just had

I’m walking under a bridge and to my side there is a very large hill of gravel. The sky is very dark gray. I’m listening to a podcast of these guys talking about their biggest achievements.

I try to climb the hill of gravel a few times until I eventually find a stairset. I climb this extremely steep stairset that is built into the gravel all the way to the top. At the top of the hill there is a very tall and thin building. There is a ladder to the top. I climb the ladder and get to the roof. I sit down on top of the roof and begin to look out across the city. There is sad music and a voice asks me “Are you okay with living for nothing?” And thats where it ended

I’m walking under a bridge and to my side there is a very large hill of gravel. The sky is very dark gray. I’m listening to a podcast of these guys talking...

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Dying after an incident. Black eyed Child? First “nightmare” in 5 years. Picturing it while awake for over a week now.

So this is the first nightmare I’ve had since high-school, from this post it was a week ago and I’m still getting flashes of what happened during it and I have no clue what’s going on.

Me and my father were our boating on a lake, a lake I spend over 2-3 weeks at each summer (my “happy place”) but it appeared much older. What I’d guess 20-60 years ago.

We were boating and we watched a boy, 8-11ish, jump off a cliff on a rope swing. Only he had wrapped the rope around himself pinning his arms to his side, and knotted it. We watched him slowly unravel until he was still pinned, dragging across the water. And then he disappeared under it. And then he emerged, escaped from the rope. I remember thinking it was some kind of adrenaline “beat the clock” sort of game. He swam to a dock, climbed onto it and we boated over and from the boat gave him the dad “You could’ve died speech.” To which he responded “Where’s the fun in that?” He then took a few steps over towards us on the dock. And all of a sudden his face hollowed in, his eyes went entirely jet black, his skin shrunk around him like he was anorexic, and turned violently and entirely dark purple and blue, with dark blue veins running across his body. He made direct eye contact with me and said “I feel cold.”

And I woke up. And now for a week straight, I keep seeing flashes of this emaciated child staring at me and saying that. I’ve read what drowning means, but he didn’t disappear or die then. I’ve read what black eyed children means, but I don’t know since he didn’t start off that way? I’ve been trying to analyze this but I have gotten nowhere, and this seemed like the best place to help.

So this is the first nightmare I’ve had since high-school, from this post it was a week ago and I’m still getting flashes of what happened during it and I have...

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