Facing Fears and Understanding Dreams: How Pursuit in Dreams Reflects Our Inner Struggles
Dreams where we are chased often represent internal fears or unresolved emotions. These dreams can reveal much about our hidden anxieties and the parts of ourselves that we are avoiding. By understanding these dreams, we can begin to face the fears that pursue us.
Chasing Dreams: What Do They Mean?
The example shows how we can be pursued by fears or emotions, and can either continue to avoid them or face them. We are, in a real sense, pursued by what we have created with our thoughts, emotions, actions, and inaction. What we are avoiding might be sexual feelings, responsibility, expressing what we really feel in public, our fear of death, sense of failure, guilt, emotional pain, grief, etc. We can never escape from ourselves, so such feelings may pursue us through life unless we meet them.
Common Types of Chasing Dreams
- Chased by the opposite sex: This may signify a fear of love or sex, or being haunted by a past relationship.
- Chased by an animal: Often represents one’s passions, anger, or natural feelings.
- Chased by a thing or shadowy creature: Usually signifies past trauma, childhood hurt, or unresolved experiences.
What Does Chasing Symbolize?
- Chasing: Can represent something you are pursuing in life, a goal, desire, or even aggression.
See Also: Fear, Trauma, Emotions, Chasing, Love, Sex, Passion, Childhood Hurt
[1]1- Dreaming of being chased or of trying to escape is perhaps one of the most common dreams; usually we arc trying to cscape responsibility; our own sense of failure, fear or emotions we can’t handle.
2- Being chased by shadows shows the need to escape from something previously repressed, such as past childhood trauma or difficulty.
To be chased by an animal generally indicates we have not come to terms with our own passion.
3- Spiritually the image of being chased or pursued suggests either fear of one’s actions, or is a play on words, as in chaste.
[2]To dream of being chased is symbolic of being pursued by a spiritual or physical enemy, Deut. 1:44. If you are being chased by authority figures like police officers, school principals, or other adults, it may symbolize a problem with submitting yourself to authority
[3]Dreams of being chased are most common. These dreams are typically metaphors of the need for the dreamer to escape certain situations in life. Such escapes may not always be productive.
[4]Pursued by the pressures of life from which one tries to escape
[5]See Also: Being Chased.
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