Dreaming Lens: How many flights of stairs did you traverse? Were they in a home? Were you moving up or down, or standing on one step? Did you know your destination on the floor above or below? What was the focus—your destination or what you were leaving behind? Were the steps clean, dusty, or covered with obstacles?
Personal Focus: A staircase allows you to move from one place to a destination that is located above or below you. They are symbolic of your ability to raise your consciousness to a higher plane, or explore deeper territory beneath you. Any set of stairs or steps in a dream is an indication of examining a higher or lower level of your psyche, depending on which direction you are moving.
If the stairs are in a home, it is your sense of self that is being examined. Social issues and how you operate in the world are connected to a stairway that is located in a building or public place. Moving upward could indicate an increase in awareness and a readiness to elevate your thought process. Moving downward might connect to reexamining your past or considering something more deeply.
The rooms connected by a stairway should be factored into your interpretation. After you assign a meaning to each location, consider the stairway as the pathway between the knowledge you take from where you started and the ability to use it when dealing with the issues you may find at your new destination.
It is also important to consider the sensations and feelings around this image. If you were expending a lot of effort in your dream-climb, you may be in a burdensome transition. Falling down stairs may be about the risks you are taking to get to a new level in your life. Tripping on the stairs might be an indication that you are not quite ready to move further. A broken stair reveals an obstacle in your life that requires mending before you go further. A spiral staircase could connect to feeling that you are going around in circles while trying to ascend through some area of your life.
The floor you are moving to or from could have some significance if you were aware of what story you were on. For example, the second floor might indicate a progression in and around sexuality, whereas the third floor could connect to following your gut instincts and self-esteem. The stairs that connect these two floors would represent the transition that occurs when you become more instinctual or intuitive around your sexuality. The same approach can be applied to how many steps were on the staircase. This is especially significant if you were stopped or stuck on a particular stair.
See also: Numbers for more details about working with numerology. [1]
If the stairs are in a home, it is your sense of self that is being examined. Social issues and how you operate in the world are connected to a stairway that is located in a building or public place. Moving upward could indicate an increase in awareness and a readiness to elevate your thought process. Moving downward might connect to reexamining your past or considering something more deeply. [2]