What does this phrase mean?

Question

"the sky is folding under you" or "it's like the sky is folding under you"

Answer 1

Bob Dylan wrote this when he was tripping on LSD during the days of the Viet Nam War. It seemed as if he was being pulled into the folding patterns of his bed spread and he couldn't tell up from down or left from right like a sort of "vertigo state" He was inspired to write this line into his music.

Answer 2

This is from:
It's All Over Now Baby Blue
Bob Dylan - performed by Stephen on "The Woodstock Sessions"

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun,
Crying like a fire in the sun
Look out the saints are comin' through
And it's all over now, Baby Blue

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense
Take what you have gathered from coincidence
The empty-handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets
This sky, too, is folding under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue

All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home
All your reindeer armies, are all going home
The lover who just walked out your door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor
The carpet, too, is moving under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue

Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore
Strike another match, go start anew
And it's all over now, Baby Blue

;-D It is about death I think, and floating and drifting away, being wrapped in the sheets that other people have made for you. It is a poetic phrase and maybe he just needed a rhyme!

Answer 3

As with many things, it makes perfect sense in the throes of an acid trip, but it means nothing to someone (even the same person) when they're sober and thinking more rationally.