Footpath
A path made by walking, not by engineering — a route that exists because people kept choosing it.
A footpath in a dream is the dream's image of a route that has been made by being walked. Footpaths exist where the official map does not bother; people kept going that way until the ground itself agreed. The dream brings the path when there is a way through a situation in your life that is not the official route — an informal practice, a private workaround, a friendship maintained outside the official structure. A footpath followed with quiet confidence is the dream telling you the unofficial way is real and good. A footpath grown over is the dream noting that the informal route has fallen out of use and is becoming hard to find again.