An abyss or deep pit or gulf usually symbolizes the unconscious and its underlying instincts.
It can also represent the nothingness before you are born, your mother or the maternal breast.
It is very common to dream about standing on the edge of a never-ending drop, where the fear of falling into it is great.
It could be that you are being invited to descend into your subconscious, to have a good look at yourself from the inside; this is often a very scary thing to undertake which is where the fear comes in. What lay beneath the abyssal darkness could be the repressed parts of your nature.
You may find yourself flying or leaping over a deep ravine, or traversing a bridge across it. This is a symbol of shallowness, where you don’t want to delve to deeply into yourself but prefer to skim over the surface for whatever reason.
If you dream of actually falling, uncontrollably, into the abyss it could be a sign that you are or are becoming depressed; or that you’ve been enduring anxiety for too long.
A dream of falling into an abyss can also be a warning from your unconscious to be careful of danger.
An abyss is a bottomless pit, where one may keep falling forever with no control.
Staring into an abyss, like the never ending vastness of the universe, can make us feel incredibly small and sometimes afraid.
It is common to have abyssal type dreams when we are facing a particularly huge task in our lives, or when something we are afraid of has to be faced in the near future.
Abyssal dreams stem from our natural fear of not knowing what is coming next, especially where risk-taking is concerned. Triggers could be anything from buying a house to going on a deadly mission, or the fear of dying.