On my imaginary staircase, I'm descending, not ascending, perhaps I misunderstood that from your description.

Santana has a jazz albumn called Caravanserai that's all on this subject, which may or may not resonate at all with you of course.

YouTube - ‪SANTANA, Song Of The Wind‬‏
YouTube - ‪Every Step Of The Way - Santana‬‏
YouTube - ‪Santana : La Fuente del Ritmo‬‏

Like I said, bears don't have a negative vibe for me either, even though they're somehow in front of that other thing. As a child I had a very large artic dog that was a little bit like a bear. Think wolf, but bigger and stronger, and all white. It was a wolf crossed with something else. I loved that dog.

Naturally, another person doesn't get much from your dream unless they can feel something of what is behind it. For this reason I think its usually hard to share this kind of thing. Also, even if you could somehow force or seduce them into seeing your vision, it would set them back rather than inspire them forward, since the strength of the vision would deflect them off of their own path. But if you do succeed somewhat it bridging the gap, when the other person is asking for what you see, then it changes them in a positive way. Through you they know something greater than what they were before, since you are not them, and everybody knows something a little different.