You can’t feel the difference between sitting still, or moving at a constant velocity (same speed in same direction), or freely moving under acceleration due to uniform gravitational attraction acting on every atom in your body. Being in orbit around the Earth is perpetually falling in a circular path, and you’re basically floating and falling in that orbit, depending on whether you only look at what the stuff in and around your body is doing (nothing much happening here!), or whether you choose to compare what you are doing to what the Earth is doing (wow, things look like they’re moving fast out there!). If you’re falling through matter (air, water, etc.), then you can’t accelerate freely to match gravitational attraction because you keep running into stuff that slows you down, so “falling” in the atmosphere or standing on the surface of the Earth is very different from “falling” in the mostly empty space above the Earth’s atmosphere.
It’s a puzzlement.