20 years ago I had this dream which I never forgot and had been wanting to get it interpreted.
The Dream:
I found myself walking on a narrow pathway going down a steep cliff wall going upward on my left and downward on my right. The pathway was barely wide enough for one person. As I was walking on this pathway I noticed that others were also going along the pathway. The person in front of me stopped and could not go on any further and when I got to them and tried to help them, I lost my balance and started falling. The thought I had at the moment was that I was not going to survive the fall and I released myself to God. Once I did that, the fear left me and I was at peace, more peace then I have ever felt. The next thought was that this was a dream and if this is a dream I should be able to fly. So I spread my arms out and started flying. Once I started flying I was in a dense fog and as the fog was dissipating and I was preparing to enjoy the scenery below I woke up. When I awoke I was upset because I woke up before I could enjoy flying.
A.R.E. Volunteer Interpretation:
In time we would be our own best interpreter of our dreams. Writing that I can attempt an interpretation of your dream, as if was my dream.
Prior to the details of the dream it is often good to identify the plot. — I am on a difficult journey with others. In helping another (service) I seem to fail on the journey only to realize with knowledge, service and faith the journey does not have to be difficult, if I remember and practice such.
As for more details, If this was my dream, I would interpret as that we often see the world and our spiritual journey as a physical quest (see King Arthur’s Quest for the Holy Grail, a parable on this). Often as a narrow path (eye of the needle) leading either up or down, very linear. On this narrow cliff path I attempt to aid another and appear in so doing to fall off the path into space. In this “falling” off the physical path I begin to realize with knowledgeable faith in God (the physical world is more of a dream than the spiritual, consciousness world and that this latter world is closer to true reality and I can fly and be unbounded, travelling as I desire. There is fog though, just beginning to dissipate, perhaps symbolic of the beginnings of such wisdom that cuts through such fog. I am frustrated because I return to the bounded limits/thoughts of the physical world.
Base upon the A.R.E. Volunteer Interpretation, this is my own interpretation:
The narrow path going down a steep cliff with other entities represents our material pathways. The stopping to help a person who has stumbled on his pathway and our acceptance to help that person to continue on his pathway. The falling off the cliff and giving yourself to God represents the end of our pathway when we return back to God. The realization that it is a dream, represents the time you awaken from the dream of material world into the reality of the Spiritual realm. The knowledge that you can fly represents that you are now able to continue on your Soul Journey and the fog represents your future which has not been decided yet.
I feel that this dream was a gift from GOD.