What are stairs and ladder dreams about?

I've had a recurring dream my whole life. I walk down stairs into a solid steel room divided by a wall with a window in it. I walk into the side and there are 2 guys in hazmat gear. Through the window there are giant hooks hanging from a bar that turn into umbilical cords attached to dead babies. Nobody says anything, the hazmat guys just stare at me.

So,I dreamed that i have a phobia about going down stairs.(I was kind of scared about it already,but this makes me automatically stay away from down-going stairs.) But in the dream,I had to walk down 100 steps. I immediately trembled and was scared.Is there some kind of meaning of this?

There is this I house that I have dream several times over the years... since I was a kid! I’ve dream about it, idk... ~40 times in my life. Sometimes I find rooms that i didn’t knew they existed, like secret rooms, i tell whoever I’m with (in my dream) hey! I haven’t been in this room before.. -oh yeah! This is where x sleeps.

It’s a super old house, all dark wood, little light coming through. It has very long stairs and lots of nooks and ‘secret rooms’. Sometimes I’be been to the attic which is whole floor with lots of rooms in itself. Sometimes I go through the kitchen. One time the house was burning and i was trying to get out.

The first time I remember dreaming this house I was maybe 8yo. I am now 38 and last night it came to me again.

I have images of it right now since I just dream it, but if I try to draw it or something I wouldn’t be able to since it makes no sense!

I'll dive right into it.

First off, this is not a dream with any actual storyline or even any actual objects/people in it. It is very abstract, and it's hard to even explain, which is why I've often given up on trying to do so. That is until a friend of mine recently told me about having this exact experience as a child (I've never told him about my own identical experience).

It's a dream that we both had multiple times as kids. I can't know for sure, but I want to say between the ages of 6-12. My friend told me that all his siblings had them too during those years.

The dream itself is a sort of two dimensional screen/wall. My friend described it as countless of black shapes on a white background. I myself always thought of it as a machine/factory - and when I said that, he told me that the "shapes" would sometimes be gears and whatnot to him. The main point is that it is a two dimensional scene playing before your eyes, where a lot of things/shapes are moving around, sort of like a huge machine taking up all of your field of vision.

Then, at some point, something goes wrong. It's like some error causes the whole machine to break down. You just know something just went wrong, and the feeling you get is pure fear, because you know that the error that just happened, is the worst thing that could ever happen.

I don't like to exaggerate, but I remember it as being much more overwhelming than the fear of death.

My friend said that he would often wake up in full panic, screaming and even trying to jump down their staircase. I too remember being in a state of complete panic, and even more so because I couldn't explain to my mom what was wrong.

I'd be happy to give more details if requested, but really I just hoped to hear some input :)

I just woke up from a dream. Just spooked out to be honest.

The dream started out with me and my family in a different home, we were watching tv. I went to school, but only my spanish class. Our teacher was mentioning the whole planet will be having a heart attack for two reasons: to have your consciousness go to a parallel universe. And two, if you survive, somehow you will adapt... idk. So I died, and my dream self had thoughts too, because I heard “myself” ask why there wasn’t pain. I woke up in the dream In a really nice house. I was with my mom and sister and it was the morning. My mom told me to start getting ready so I did. I checked if there was anything different in this “parallel universe” (physically) and it was just my teeth (idk.) I showered, FaceTimed my friends, and then changed in my room. I went downstairs and talked to my family, I even mentioned to my sister that it was her time to walk the dog (the clock showed 5:54 or 6:5... not sure.) I went back upstairs to my room and I turned on a Xbox and ps4... idk why. I noticed I had this small tv I used to have as a kid and I wondered why I still had this same tv.

I then heard a knock, I ran downstairs, but all the lights were off. The flight of stairs was endless and I just kept going down. Eventually I woke up In my own bed and I felt something start pulling on my blanket, I let go and then I just heard a bunch of clown horns, like from a little tricycle or something. I cried for help, I even thought someone heard me. I then felt something watching me, I felt some kind of pressure on my chest as if something was right on top of me. I woke up in my real dream, I still thought I didn’t have a blanket. Still spooked out.

This was my clearest dream yet. There are some minor details I let out but I really thought that I was gonna die... or something. Sorry