What does it mean to dream about gravity?
Gravity usually points to the forces that hold you down or hold you in place, the weight of duty, reality, or what cannot be escaped.
Four ways to read it
Each reading below comes from a named tradition and a cited source, so you can see where it came from and decide what fits your dream.
Freud
Freud would read the pull as the press of reality on the dreamer, the demands that keep wishes earthbound. To feel weightless can stand for release from that press. Whether you are held or freed is the clue.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see gravity as the grounding force that ties spirit to the earth, the necessary weight of being. Its loss can mean freedom or unmooring. The dream asks whether you need anchoring or release.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties gravity to waking feelings of being weighed down or, in weightlessness, suddenly unburdened. It often follows days of heavy duty or sudden relief. The pull or its absence mirrors that load.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
Older traditions spoke not of gravity but of the earth's claim on all things, the pull that returns every body to the ground. Falling and rising carried moral weight in many tales. It stood for the order that binds the world below the sky.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Frazer).