Dream About Falling Ladders And Alternate Universes

At a business outing, perhaps, we were on the second floor outside patio in a cabin-like building. Viewers were trying to get down to the ground level, and all we had was a wooden ladder that seemed unstable. I volunteered to go first, and I was attempting to approach the ladder. But the ladder fell to the ground before I got to use it. I was frightened yet relieved that I didn't get on the ladder. Then I had a dream where I was just talking to myself in a narrative and convinced myself there are alternate universes. I felt I had died in some of the other universes, once I fell asleep at the wheel of a car, another one I took my own life as a young child.