Labyrinth

A labyrinth in a dream is the dream's image of a single path that does not branch — a long inward walk where the only work is to keep going. Unlike a maze, a labyrinth has no wrong turns; the difficulty is in the length, the doubling-back of the path, and the trust that the centre is real. The dream brings the labyrinth when something in your life — a piece of grief, a vocation, a slow practice — requires not decisions but persistence on a route already laid out. A labyrinth walked to its centre is the dream affirming that the long, doubting middle was part of the design, and arrival is the work paying off. A labyrinth abandoned halfway, on the suspicion that the path is wrong, is the dream noting that the only thing the path was asking for was the willingness not to leave it.