In my last dream, I was going to join some military organization or something, but I'm not clear on what it was. To qualify, applicants had to climb either a framework like the metal skeleton of a building or a (real, not a manufactured) rock wall. I chose the rock wall, but I wussed out partway up and climbed back down. They let me try the following day again, and I completed it.
However, rather than going on to join this organization, I came by from time to time to regale new classes with my exploits of having climbed the rock wall, to give tips, and tell war stories about my having completed this test. Years later, climbing that rock wall was my life achievement.
It was pretty pathetic, and the kind of dream that seemed to have been trying to tell me something.