Sinking
To dream of sinking represents feelings of slow loss, despair, or losing ground. You are feeling overwhelmed or unable to stop a negative situation from getting worse. A fear of unstoppable failure. Someone or something is dragging you down. You may be experiencing low self-esteem and confidence. Needing help that is either not available or that you are not being assertive enough about asking for. Feeling pressure to make a decision or change before total embarrassment occurs. A situation that is deteriorating. Feelings about your worst fears becoming a reality. Feelings about being unable to help others. Feeling that you can't stop your life from getting worse.
Positively, a dream about sinking may reflect an unpleasant stage of your life that is coming to an end. Problems or bad people that seem to be slowly going away on their own. Experiencing your enemies succumbing to humiliation.
Example: A young girl had a nightmare about seeing a woman sinking into the ground. In waking life she was experiencing her mother's health deteriorating.
Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing a car sinking. In waking life he was fearing that his marriage was deteriorating because he couldn't get a job fast enough to please his wife.
Example 3: A woman dreamed of having a "sinking feeling." In waking life she felt that her entire life was slowly deteriorating with no way to stop it as family relationships kept getting worse.
Example 4: A man dreamed of seeing a sinking ship. In waking life his health problems were slowly getting worse.
Example 5: A woman dreamed of seeing apartment buildings sinking. In waking life she started a new job helping terminally ill people. In this case the apartment buildings sinking may have represented her feelings about the sick people and their families having lives revolving around an illness that nobody can control with a slow inevitable death.