To dream it stands still is a sign that you have a sly deceitful enemy, but if it is at work, and you are one of those who tread it, it shows there is no end to your labour, and that a domestic, or a pretended friend, is confiscating your earnings to their own use, or your bosom friend hoarding it for her private use. You should watch diligently.
Dream dictionary: Tread-Mill dream meanings
In the ear, profit and wealth for the dreamer. Heaped in great quantity, abundance of wealth and great profits. In small quantity means famine and misery. Carry it signifies infirmities. See a wheat sheaf burn and consume, represents famine, mortality. Burn without consuming, fertility and abundance of wealth to the dreamer. Tread it under foot when on the ground signifies money gained through trouble.
To dream of eating grapes at any time, signifies profit; to tread grapes, signifies the overthrow of enemies; to gather white grapes, signifies gain; but to gather black grapes, signifies damage.
To see or wear sandals is explained as the dream with fortunate symbolism for the dreamer. This dream means comfort and ease. You have an open understanding of others. The dream may also indicate that you need to tread lightly around certain people or risk offending them.
…guided me to a path, and, after setting me in my course, left me to pursue my way as best I could. Plunging irresolutely into the gloom, I followed the winding of the path with considerable uneasiness, fearing to tread lest I should be precipitated into some abyss, and momentarily anticipating the appearance of the strange and uncouth race of people, previous experience had told me inhabited the wood. On and on I went, my fears increasing with the gloom, which, at last, became so impenetrable that I was compelled to halt. I could see nothing, nothing but the faint glimmer of tree trunks; for the rest, all was blackness. I was then suddenly whisked off my feet by a body that shot precipitately between my legs, and, with the wind howling like ten thousand demons through my ears, I was borne through space. For a long period all was…
…desert with its interminable extent of brown soil, dotted here and there with spidery looking trees, discovered no one; neither could I discern the slightest evidence of life in the town.Entering a broad, cobble-paved street, I was proceeding slowly along it, almost afraid to tread on account of the clatter made by my boots, when suddenly, without the faintest warning, I was surrounded by a crowd of people, all in brown clothes, and all wearing an air of the greatest mystery. Catching hold of me gently by the arms, with one finger laid on their lips to enjoin silence, they tiptoed cautiously forward, dragging me with them. In this manner we advanced some hundreds of yards, coming to a sudden standstill in front of a kind of brown bathing machine. One of the crowd then stepped forward, and, bowing to me with mock solemnity, very cautiously approached the wooden box….