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What does it mean to dream about falling?

Falling dreams most often reflect pressure and a fear of losing your standing, or standards you've set very high. They can also be about losing the support of people close to you, or simply losing control. How the fall ends matters: a safe landing tells a different story from a fall that never stops.

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Falling dreams are some of the most common we have, and the jolt can wake you up. Where you fell from, who was in control, and how it ended all change what the dream may be about. A fall that ends in a safe landing tells a different story from one that never ends.

What dreaming about falling may mean

  1. APressure, and fear of losing your standing

    A fall can be a picture of how much you have to lose. The dream may be about pressure at work or in your studies, or about a fear of losing your position, your reputation, someone's good opinion, or the comfort you've built.

    You've been pushing hard in waking life

  2. BExpecting too much of yourself

    Falling from a great height may reflect the height you've set for yourself: standards that are hard to live up to, a fear of losing control, or the loneliness of being at the top.

    You fall from the sky, a high mountain or a cliff

  3. CFeeling smaller next to someone else

    Sometimes the fall is relative. When someone close to you moves up in the world, the dream may be about feeling left behind, or smaller next to them.

    Someone close to you just got a promotion, got married or won something

  4. DLosing the support of people close to you

    The fall may be about the ground you stand on with the people who matter most: a fear of losing their understanding and support, or of mattering less to them than you used to.

    The dream involves family or a close relationship

  1. ELosing control, or blaming yourself

    Falling is one of the oldest fears we have, and the dream may simply be about helplessness. Pay attention to who was in control. If you were a passenger, the dream may be about having handed the controls to someone else. If you were the one steering, it may be about feeling responsible, and guilty, for something that went wrong.

    You're a passenger in whatever goes down · You're the one at the controls when it goes down

  2. FFalling for someone

    Dreams play with words. In English we "fall" in love, and a dream of tumbling may be about exactly that.

    You tumble down a hill or a mountain · There's someone new you're drawn to

  3. GComing through it

    How the fall ends matters. Landing safely may say you can let something drop and survive it. Landing on your feet may mark the end of a stretch of feeling out of control. And if someone catches you, the qualities you see in them may be your own, and within your reach.

    You land safely, or on your feet · You've been juggling too much · Someone or something catches you, especially if in earlier dreams no one did

These are possibilities, not verdicts. The reading that fits is the one that matches the details and the feeling of your dream, and what's going on in your life.

Questions that tell the readings apart

  1. Q1Where did you fall from, how did you fall, and how did it feel?A fall from a great height and a slip on your own stairs point to different things.
  2. Q2Who in your life gives you this feeling: you're up high, and then suddenly you drop?Falling dreams are often about a relationship or a position, not about heights.
  3. Q3Did you land? How? Were you driving, or along for the ride?The ending and who was in control matter as much as the fall itself.

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