I have been a frequent flyer while dreaming - quite often a few hundred feet above tree-top, above the world, surveying the landscape from the bird's eye view - aware of my body, thoughts, feelings - sometimes landing and taking off again...
Your dream suggests intuitively a distancing from life's problems - where spiritual solutions are revealed beyond the intellect. The female asked how and you said you didn't know, but answered with the truth of forgetting you did not know. The male asked for your assistance and may be an aspect of self, one held down by information, unable to move past the vastness of Big Book data to the pure intuitive, where all higher authentic power information is found.