How come when you fall you feel weightless even though gravity is pulling down on you?

Question: How come when you fall you feel weightless even though gravity is pulling down on you?
- Keywords:
  gravity,
  weight
Asked by Maddie and Hannah to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 16 Jun 2015.
- Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 16 Jun 2015:
  
  @Maddie and Hannah when you fall, the only thing acting on you is gravity. But gravity cannot be felt unless there is an opposing force (like when you land) so you would have no feeling of it. Basically there is no force of support on your body so you feel weightless.

Question: How come when you fall you feel weightless even though gravity is pulling down on you?