What does it mean to dream about being chased?

Someone or something is chasing you, and you must run or hide.

A chase in a dream is superstitiously interpreted as a sign that something in life is catching up to you. A pursuer in a dream often personifies the part of oneself or a situation that a person runs from in waking life—an emotion, an admission, a responsibility. The more persistent the chase, the more important the material it carries; escaping completely rarely succeeds precisely because it's impossible to run away from oneself.

What it might feel like

Fear, panic, exhaustion

When this dream tends to come

Often arrives when there is a theme or feeling in life that a person consciously avoids acknowledging. Perhaps there is something you are running from in reality—a conversation, a decision, a feeling.

Questions worth sitting with

Who or what was chasing you, and was it recognizable?
Did you run away, hide, or have to stop and look at the pursuer?
Which theme in life do you currently evade most often?

Try today

Name aloud what exactly you've been running from in life recently—simply saying it already changes your relationship to the theme.

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