What does it mean when you are being chased in your dreams or are running away from someone?

Question

i always end up dreaming that i keep on running away from something. and once it was something like FBI's then some sort of soldiers, then some skeletons dressed up in the British soldier uniform, and once as i remember running through a huge shopping centre from police and then ending up being in a lift and just kept on going up and it was so light and all i could see were clouds, and it felt like i kept on going up but when the doors opened the wind blew in my face and i woke up...i know it's weird, but hey i just need some answers! Thanks!

Answer 1

Probably refers to things in your life you're trying to avoid, or not facing. I remember dreaming i was being chased by the military for some reason....and I pretty much compared how i DIDN'T want to enlist into the military, but by contract I had to serve 2 years..hence...the dream.

THen i had dreams where i'd get chased by a werewolf, and no matter where i hid i always got caught and was killed. I still can't figure out what problem it is i'm running from that the werewolf represents..but supposedly from what i've researched that seems to be the meaning.

http://www.dreammoods.com is a good reference i use....it's pretty up to date.

Answer 2

This is a psychological analysis rather than a spiritual one.

Being chased in a dream is usually in response to anxiety. The FBI, soldiers and police suggest that what you are stressed or scared about is a commitment/obligation, or some other kind of control.

A shopping centre can symbolise making good impressions on people - or just keeping up with trends.

The fact that the lift wasn't letting you out at first suggests that there was an emotion that was getting out of hand - but when the doors opened there was wind, which signifies change in your life.


It's hard to interpret this completely without asking you about recent events and emotions, but it seems to suggest that you were feeling anxious about something or someone (either authority, or an obligation, whether it be social, occupational or otherwise. Judging by the shopping centre, I would guess that it has something to do with making good impressions.) controlling you, and this sense of anxiety was getting out of control. Good new though: something has changed, so it appears you're not too anxious anymore.

Answer 3

I think you had a more positive dream than you realize right now.

Running, etc., means you're afraid of someone or some situation. I get those too, more often when I was younger.

Moving up and becoming light is like flying, and it means you're feeling free. Flying dreams for me are rare but happy.

I have read that the way to deal with a "chase" dream, like yours was, is to turn around and face the pursuer, to confront it whatever it is. And it really works! The pursuer becomes something that's insignificant or no longer a threat. This can help you in your real (waking) life too. There is a time in the dream when you can do this, take control, and it's when you start to become fearful and are on your way to waking up. Or if you wake up and can't shake the dream, go back to sleep but this time imagine turning around and facing the thing chasing you. It won't hurt you. Good luck.

I think you must have done something like this in your own dream, somehow, maybe you forgot what it was, but if you became light, and went up into the sky, you must have somehow dealt with whatever it was that bothered you.

Answer 4

Sounds like a metaphore for running from authority...they're all in uniform, or the FBI, etc.
But the "authority" figure could be completely unrelated to government or soldiers....it may be something ELSE...ask yourself what's going on in your life that you may be conciously "running from"...chances are, whatever the first answer is that pops into your mind will be the right one.

Answer 5

It means no more chocolate for you before bed time girly! J/K chick. Some times we just dream crazy stuff that is meaning less but there are dream interprating web sites that are free. Try googling just like this "meaning of Dreams" "meaning" "dream" all together quotations and all in the search box. Happy hunting.

Answer 6

Running away from something is a typical anxiety dream and your wanting to get away from your life , you are most likely under some pressure or stress at the moment . try to resolve whatever it is and the dream will go away

Answer 7

working away = avoidance or get away e.g., in case you're working faraway from something or somebody "diseased", then you definately are ill and you are attempting to combat or "get away" from it. no count if it incredibly is MORALLY diseased or "ill", you would be able to desire to be struggling with off a psychological ailment, like melancholy or stress. it incredibly is significant to be conscious what's chasing you, and the main characteristics of it. In ailment, if a individual chases you on your dream, it incredibly is a unique reason, like a germ brought about ailment or malfunction. in case you dream a militia is chasing you, that could advise a plague, or an autoimmune ailment. (Viruses reproduce interior you sending "armies" of recent virus bots to invade and harm greater of your cells. Autoimmune issues do an analogous element even though it is your guy or woman immune gadget reproducing it incredibly is very own macrophages and harming your physique's cells.) A 2d occasion, in case you're working from a instructor, you're heading off an significant lesson in daily existence. in case you are attempting to flee an entire assembly of instructors, you're working away out of your conventional jobs. something is as much as you. learn the chaser for what they characterize to you, then attempt to ascertain what it would advise to you if it caught you! the quicker and greater livid the chase, and the greater you stress in attempting to flee the greater severe it incredibly is. good luck!

Answer 8

i would of thought with it being with someone in authority all the time that you have some kind of insecurity with authority maybe when you were a kid you had a run in with security or the police and it stuck in your mind and you relive it in your dreams

Answer 9

Insecurity, aparently. You stressed at all? It's sometimes linked to dreaming of flying/floating, which is supposed to mean you're reaching for goals you believe to be unachieveable.

but they're probably just dreams... sleep well ;-)

Answer 10

this might be helpful. check out the post "chase dreams"
http://spirita.blogspot.com/