Ladders in Dreams

June 6, 2013 — 7 Comments

I have had dreams lately in which ladders and levels have been featured heavily. I have climbed them, but I watch others doing it and taking big risks in most cases.  There is an MC Escher kind of set with stairs/ladders/ split levels leading in all directions.  There is a need to escape the mesh of levels in order to find daylight or reality or some better circumstance.  The dreams have a matter of fact nature, nothing scary or odd. There are different sets and casts of characters, all featuring ladder and or stair climbing.  In the dreams ladders become stairs and vice versa.

Once I noticed the dreams with steps leading up as a theme I brought this into my daytime reality to see where and when I use proverbial ladders.  I do not and did not climb any corporate ladder.  I just had no interest. I own a home with a second floor, where my yoga room and bedroom are private from the rest of the world.  Only two people regularly go upstairs. We need very big ladders to paint or repair our ceiling because of an atrium entry/living room.  I have had repairs done lately and have been contemplating other upgrades to my home that all require ladders.  I went to study soul and spirit and found that spirit is basically always upwardly mobile.  Soul lives in this horizontal earthy plane, while spirit soars or climbs the stairway to heaven. With all this in mind I believe the ladders are an emblem of both care of my path, and a Jack in the Beanstalk style note to self.  Knowing when where and why to go up a ladder is important information.

Climbing for climbing sake has not been my style in this life.  Serving as I go along is my modus operandi.  There are many paths to nowhere and stairways to nothing.  This is only part of the risk one takes when deciding to climb or not to climb.  Often I notice in these dream characters, who do not remind me of real people, the mindless will to climb is related to envy and pity.  They solicit pity for working so hard, taking abuse along the way, then alternately solicit envy for the position they have won.  I know folks who do this in real life without noticing that the ladder is two dimensional. I have unlocked no big secret here, gentle reader.  Working with dreams is a technique anyone can use.  Keeping a diary and writing the details will lead to more insight.  There is no need to analyze deeply or search for big meaning.  Dreams speak softly in very faint language.  They sink into the consciousness over time.