Lying down
Putting the body flat — chosen submission to rest, or to the ground, that the standing self refused.
Lying down in a dream is the dream's image of submission to rest, or to the ground, that the standing self had been refusing. Lying down is not defeat; it is the chosen abandonment of an upright posture that is no longer required. The dream brings the action when something in your life — exhaustion, grief, sudden honest tiredness — has finally been given permission to take the body to horizontal. Lying down on a clean surface is the dream telling you the rest is appropriate and the floor will hold. Lying down on bare ground, with no preparation, is the dream noting that the surrender was unplanned and is happening wherever the body finally stopped.