Falling
Loss of control — financial, emotional, or in a relationship.
Falling dreams almost always come at the edge of waking. The fall itself is the body letting go of muscle tone, but the imagery the mind builds around it points to something real.
Falling from a height — a roof, a cliff — usually marks something in your life that has grown structurally unstable. You have known it for a while. The dream is naming it.
Falling and landing safely means you have already begun to handle the situation, even if you do not feel like it. Falling without ground in sight is the harder version — it usually means there is a decision you have been postponing for so long that postponement itself has become the problem.
Where you often see it. Falling without obvious cause at the edge of sleep. Falling from a height in the dream itself. The dream uses falling for loss of control — financial, emotional, or in a relationship.
What it is not. Falling is not always a sign of literal disaster. The dictionary reads it most often as a worry about losing footing.
Related in the dictionary. Read falling with feet, cliff, ground, and any scene where balance is the issue.