Helplessness in a dream is read as facing something you cannot change by your own effort. Tradition links it to waking situations where control slips away, and to the need to ask for support.
Where in your waking life have you met something like this lately?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.