It is common to imagine that you are falling just before you fall asleep or just as you are awakening. Often, your body will jerk, as though you are actually falling, and this movement will wake you up. This is your mind’s and your body’s reaction to the movement from the waking state to the sleeping state, or from the sleeping state to the waking state.
If you dream that you are falling, you could feel that you have lost control of a difficult situation.
You could feel that you have failed at something, or you could be worried about failing.
Falling in a dream can be a message that you need to be more grounded – that you need to be more practical and pay more attention to the things that are going on around you.
A dream that you are falling can mean that you spend too much time thinking about mundane issues and start thinking about higher matters.