Dreams about falling: a Jungian reading

Falling often comes at the very start of sleep and the body jerks — that is physiology. When it keeps coming back, though, it tends to be about the sense that what you stand on might not hold. It is not a prediction; it is a question about support.

It depends on how it looked

• a short jerk as you fall asleepthe body, not a reading — there is nothing behind it
• a long fall into the darksomething is crumbling under you and you do not know what
• someone let go of youtrust that has cracked
• you land and nothing happensthe fear tended to be bigger than the consequence

A question for you

What are you standing on in your life — and will it really take your weight?

And yours is read symbol by symbol

This is what a dream dictionary cannot do: it reads the dream you actually had. You write it in your own words — a house you had never lived in, a small door under the stairs, a key that did not fit — and each of those images is taken separately, with what it may be carrying for you.

Then comes the archetype the dream is standing in — the Threshold, say — a reflection that ties it to your own chart, and at the end a question to sit with. Not an answer. A question.

A dream reading needs an account, because the dream is stored — that is the point: the meaning shows up when the same image comes back a third time. The account is free and the first readings are free too.