...ah the ol' falling down dream!

it usually represents for me... that I have lost control and am fearful.

"going back to the ancient people... falling down exhausted likely resulted in becoming a meal for one or several hungry beasts"

this fright and desperation has been passed along through thousands of generations...

and although being eaten while super-vulnerable is very unlikely these days...!
the helplessness arrives in otherworldly ways especially and perhaps only in dreams.

I had one the other night... I fell down and I spent like hours of sleep trying to stand up... my knees were locked I could not straighten them to stand although I could on the ground...

I was a meal for any psycho monster being like that ...so vulnerable.

it typically translates for me upon wakening..
that I am lost and overwhelmed and it's making me feel 'out of control'