Pulling in a dream can be a direct reflection of exerting effort in one’s waking life.
If we dream about being pulled, it represents our sense of being influenced, of being “pulled” in a certain direction.
The dream might also be drawing on a idiomatic sense of pull, as in “pulling strings,” to “have pull,” to “pull something off,” to “pull together,” or to “pull rank.”
[1]To coerce
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