Dream About backward

Nancy Wagaman Interpretation: Something that is backward or opposite of what you expect can represent: Something in your real life that seems amiss or not quite right.

Something you tend to confuse or get backward (such as the names of two people).

Moving or stepping backward could represent: fear, retreating from something, or avoiding something (or a desire to do so); regressing or losing progress.

Walking backward or retracing your steps on a path could represent a desire to revisit, reevaluate, or redo something in your past.

See also: Moving Around; Repeating; Returning

Dream Explanations - Anonymous Interpretation

If you dream that someone or something is going backward, then this symbolizes rebellion, feeling out of style, or attached to outmoded ways of the past. Perhaps your dream is telling you that you are going the wrong direction, that you are off track, and are going against the flow, or perhaps that you are being contrary and rebellious.

See Rewind.

James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver Interpretation

A dream of moving backward may mean the dreamer feels he or she is losing ground in some endeavor. Retracing one’s steps may indicate that information from the past may be needed to bring about an understanding of a current situation, especially one that has gone wrong.

Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin Interpretation

1. A feeling that efforts are leading nowhere.

2. A need or desire to remove oneself or to “back off” from a situation or re­lationship.

3. Difficulties in communication, misunderstanding.

myjellybean Interpretation

If you dream of moving backwards, you need to remember information from the past to solve a current problem.

Vincent Wienand Interpretation

See direction metaphors chapter

Margaret Hamilton Interpretation

Regression

Marsha Trimble Dunstan Interpretation

not going the right way/away from God (see Jeremiah 7:24).

Ian Wallace Interpretation

Opportunity to work my way through a sequence of events so I can continue to make forward progress toward my chosen objective

Cathleen Connor Interpretation

If you dream you are walking. moving, or traveling backward in your dream — or slipping backwards — you feel you are covering old ground in some situation in your life. You may be slipping into old patterns of behavior, thinking, or emotional response.

Mary Summer Interpretation

(direction) connotes a reverse in one’s direction

Common Source

Walking or running backward in your dreams means you are talking steps back with your life and not advancing. You may want to reflect on your current moves that you are making in your life. It’s very possible that walking backwards means you need to take a couple of steps back in a situation. Are you too involved in a awkward situation right now? Going in reverse in a car means you are going back to fix the mistakes you have you did in your past.