A Bike, Riding Home, and Ever-Shifting Paths

I dreamed I was riding an old bike and traveling a battered concrete road very close to home. Not my current home in reality, but a place I recognized as home in the dream. It reminded me of a German village, like where I once lived in Heidelberg, with its cobblestone streets and narrow alleyways.

I knew I only had to travel down one short street, and I'd soon be there. I did so, but suddenly it dead-ended. I didn't know where I was, and it hadn't led me home as I'd expected. Perplexed, I decided to turn around and head back to retrace my route. For some reason, before I could turn around, I had to travel upward and onto a square stone platform. I rode upward via a gently sloping ramp. I planned to get my bearings there and head back. Suddenly, I looked around me, and the ramp was nowhere to be seen. Hence I could not return the same way I'd come. I thought it was bizarre, but I wasn't going to let that deter me. I was now surrounded on all sides by steps. I managed to pick up my bike, although it was cumbersome to do so, and cradle it in my arms. I had no other choice. There was only one way down.

Slowly and carefully I began walking down. Then, the very stairs I had begun to traverse morphed into a treacherous stretch ahead of me, composed of tightly interlocked boulders. It seemed safe enough at first, but just as I noticed a small brown-haired boy in front of me, I saw the rocks shift and begin to separate. I sensed he was going to fall, and I yelled to him to watch out, as I reached forward to steady him. Luckily, he was okay and quickly moved to the side of the trail, where there was solid land. A white-haired, bearded old man crouched on a rock nearby. He remarked that "yeah, this isn't always the safest path to take," although he didn't budge to offer us help. Gaps began to open up between the stones, and even though we were not very high off the ground, only a bright expanse of nothingness was visible through the emerging openings.

Here is where the dream ended, so I do not know its conclusion.