Murugan - The fact you didn’t feel in control is important. It is when we let go of controlling our life for short periods that we experience real growth - for after all we do not grow ourselves - the process of life does it.
You say you believe in God, but it sounds like just a belief. But I guess you believe you are alive, and as such are an example of the miracle of Life. But we are almost completely unconscious of how life creates us apart from reading or seeing films about it, and I think that is what your dream was about - along with the wonders your dream was showing you. See
http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/lifes-little-secrets/You start with the film and parking place. Your dream is all about you and you start your journey of your life with wrong ideals or attitudes. See
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/questions-2/#SummingThose attitudes where a ‘waste of time’. They took you a long time in the mental maze that they led to. The car park and difficulty may have been that you had stopped getting anywhere in life until you made personal efforts to change - walking. Fortunately you gained a view of what is attainable in life - the mountains. Then you really start on the mountain path.
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/mountain-path/ The elephants are a great symbol of what exist within you as personal experience, the great power within you that joyfully rushes up the mountain path clearing obstacles.
Then the sweets and Lord Shiva and his Consort. They are holy gifts, holy because they are everywhere evident around us in everyday life - the gift if friends, love, giving of oneself in service to others, everyday things that are a part of life’s actions like eating, breathing, reaching out our hand others. Such things are wonders we often fail to recognise.
Shiva was offering you something few people ever glimpse, but so many people are hungry for - love that last forever because we are married to it - merged as one person.
Example: I am life - and although that is not true, at the same time it is true.
In my being I am Krishna and Radha, Shiva and Parvati often shown as a common householder. In me they both live in a wonderful union of bliss. I am both the incarnation of godhead and also the worshipper before that wonder. That this wonder can live in us is beyond my understanding. That it can take on flesh - and that it does, every time a baby is born - leaves me in a state of wonder.
I feel all this because I am that blissful union of Krishna and Radha. In myself I know the union and the love. I have been and am that sweet love forever joined.
That the very creator of the universe can take on flesh, as it does every time a baby is born, brings me to my knees. This is beyond belief. Yet that is what I am seeing and experiencing as the truth. That is what I am experiencing in myself. I know that in this very existence, lost as I am in the sensory experiences of the world, and my feelings of isolation and physicality, I am at the same time, at the same moment, the godhead itself. I am both a man and a woman, both a woman and a man joined as one within myself.
That godhead has taken on the form of this man, and lives his life. That godhead in living his life has fully known all his pains and joys, every moment of his birth and life, every instant of his failure and his achievements, every light and shade of his searching and lostness. It meets all the disasters and triumphs that are heaped upon a human being.
Life and death - yes! To know, as I know now, at every moment of my life, that every second of my humanness, is at the same time the experiences of the godhead itself, has opened parts of me that I had kept closed.
Tony