I think K E gordon is pretty near the mark,but each stairs dream is relevant to the moment and the personal issues in your life. Dreams are like a Tarot Reading the interpretation is highly intuitive and individual. You can't learn Tarot by simply memorizing " traditional meanings ". The easiest way to detect a fraudulent or incompetent Tarot expert is to listen to their straight from the book card-meanings .It takes years of practice reading the cards to develop your own symbolic insights that are unique and personal to yourself.Traditional meanings can of course be pointers but they are not complete of themselves. This is true of dreams also. By all means have a look at Dream Dictionaries if you like, but you also need to consult what the ancient Egyptians termed " The intelligence of the heart ", the wisdom of the inner self -or your own sub-conscious intuition. What is immediately relevant is your attitude to the stairs themselves. you appear unsure whether to ascend them or not. the narrowness of one set of stairs indicates this, but it is not the stairs that inspire insecurity but the basic fear of the unknown.You could be afraid of taking the first step towards a new opportunity or afraid of taking a chance and prefer to remain where you are. It could also mean something completely different. It is all related to the time and events preceding the dream, - including whether or not you had cheese before bed-time. That the stairs are there however ,tells you that you have options and the future is an open-book. How you read that book is up to you.