You could be clinging to a project that is no longer feasible and the effort to hold on is taking more from you than it is worth. You may be trying so hard not to lose a relationship that you have become suffocating to the other person. In waking life, this may relate to something you are holding on to that you really need to let go of, or at least loosen your grip on.
FALLING TO DEATH DREAM FULL
So many dreams of falling begin by holding tightly on to something, desperately hanging on, full of terror at losing your grip and falling. Another common underlying thread of a falling dream is freedom and release.įalling in your dreams may cause you to look at what you are clinging to in waking life, and whether doing so is beneficial for your growth as a human being or not. Issues around losing control often reveal aspects of vulnerability. One of the common themes here is a sense of control, especially when countered against voluntary surrender versus the involuntary loss of control. Let’s consider the unifying themes that can help us to make sense of such complexities. We can “fall for” someone we love but “fall apart” when that love is lost. We also speak of “falling on our feet” when chance benefits us, of “falling into bed” when passion overtakes the senses, of “falling to earth” when we regain our sense after a period of distraction. In this context, falling implies a beautiful surrender, a sense of letting go to experience something greater and more enriching. We also “fall in love” and “fall asleep”. If everything that is associated with highness and elevation, including joy, social status, wealth, opportunity, spiritual state etc, is seen as good then, conversely, any aspect of falling must be a measure of what is lost and, therefore, bad. We talk about “falling from grace”, falling “in esteem”, “falling into depression”, to be “down on one’s luck”, or to be at your “lowest point” and “hit rock bottom”.
Falling in many instances has negative connotations. What does the actual symbolism of falling in your dreams mean, then? Falling is a rather complex symbol as it contains so many inherent opposites. This is consistent with the knowledge that normal laws of physics and the commonly accepted constraints of reality do not apply in the dreaming mind. In an interesting side note, I did dream that I died as a result of the fall, although I also kept on dreaming after the fall. I have dreamed of falling and hitting the ground, and I am still here to write about it. However, if scientific research does not satisfy you, I can give you my personal feedback. There are many research articles that support the fact that hitting the ground in a dream will actually NOT end your life. Perhaps this belief stems from that same ancient memory, a deep belief that we must cling to safety in order to survive, like a monkey in a tree. Some people are concerned that if you don’t awake from a falling dream before you hit the ground, you will actually die in waking life. This leads us to a common misconception about falling in your dreams. These occur in the REM (rapid eye movement) cycle of sleep and are more commonly described as hypnagogic visions, those that occur on the threshold of consciousness, just on the edge of sleep. You may experience some dream-like sensations or visions to accompany this effect, but they are unlikely to be what we usually describe as true dreams. Regardless of what causes these sudden startling movements, they are not actually dreams, and are not at all dangerous. Others posit that the reaction occurs due to an ancient genetic memory built into our body from our simian ancestors, designed to stop us falling out of trees as we dozed and our muscles relaxed. Some theories suggest hypnic jerks occur as a result of misfiring muscles. Usually referred to as Hynagogic jerks or hypnic jerks, these involuntary muscle spasms are believed to affect up 70 percent of the population and are entirely normal (if not completely understood). The feeling of falling you get as you fall asleep, which suddenly jerks you awake, is a biological reaction and not a dream. This sensation, though it feels like falling, has some significant differences to dreaming of falling once you are actually asleep. Before we can explore the symbolic meaning of falling in your dreams, it is important to differentiate it from the sensation of falling that you may experience sometimes as you are drifting off to sleep.
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