What does it mean to dream about Being chased ?

Category: Life / Disasters and Crimes Published: Mar 25, 2025

What does it mean to dream about being chased? Is it good to dream about being chased? Dreaming about being chased has real influences and reactions, as well as the subjective imagination of the dreamer. Please see the detailed explanation of dreaming about being chased below.

Being chased: the pressure of real life, or the flood beast in the heart.

Dreaming about being chased or killed by people, animals or even aliens, and you are out of breath. This kind of dream reminds people of the real life that is always full of pressure, so the source of pressure is the key to this kind of dream. So if you can identify that the one chasing you is your boss or your wife, it will certainly help to clarify the meaning of the dream. But if unfortunately, the enemy chasing you is vague, then you can only infer who the "enemy" may be from the people who helped you or the people who traveled with you during the escape. So next time you dream, you need to try to be brave enough to take a look, so that you will know where the inexplicable fear in your heart comes from, and you must dare to face the danger to solve the problem.

For the target of pursuit:

If you can recall the specific person who is chasing you, then the dream interpretation is very obvious. If it is your boss or colleague or classmate, it is related to your work and study environment and pressure; if you dream of your family and children, it is naturally related to family repression.

However, more often the "enemy" chasing you is often your own incarnation, so you can't get rid of it at all. This incarnation is actually your instinct, such as a sense of morality, responsibility, guilt, etc.; if the "enemy" is a part of yourself, then the outcome of the pursuit is very important.

Results of the chase:

You may stand up and fight against the enemy, whether it is setting traps or picking up a submachine gun to shoot randomly, it means that you suppress the flood beast in your heart and achieve a temporary rational victory.

You may find a safe place to hide, which means that you use temporary escape to gain inner peace. But this is often a self-deception, adding a disguise to yourself and deliberately not feeling anxious. This kind of dreamer is generally weak in character.

You may be killed after running for a long time, or wake up with excessive fright, which symbolizes that the dreamer usually suppresses his instincts too much, and after suppressing to a certain intensity, he begins to resist or retaliate strongly from his instincts. The more brutal the pursuit in the dream, the greater the intensity of the dreamer's instinctive suppression.

If you shook hands with the enemy inexplicably, then pay attention to how you made peace with the enemy in the dream. That is the gift of wisdom that the dream gave you besides the shock. Perhaps with the same method, your confusion in reality will be solved.

For the process of chasing:

Analyze how you escaped, whether you ran fast or wanted to run but couldn't run fast. Most people want to run but can't run fast in their dreams. The feeling of not being able to run fast makes them very scared in their dreams. This reflects a kind of self-awareness, thinking that they have no ability to escape the dangers they face in life.

How you escaped in the dream can also explain many problems. For example, some netizens once dreamed of being chased by someone, and wanted to run away but couldn't run fast, so they jumped up and wanted to fly to the sky, but were grabbed by the ankle by the person behind them, and were very scared. This dream reflects that the dreamer attempts to escape reality by fantasy (flying to the sky), but is caught by the ankle by reality.

If you want to hide, but no matter where you hide, you will be found, no matter how tightly you close the door, it is useless, no matter where you run, the pursuer is a few steps behind you. At this time, the person or animal chasing you is a part of yourself, a symbol of your conscience or your values, or your own memories, worries and pain. Since the pursuer is in your mind, you certainly can't hide so that it can't find you, because you can't completely deceive yourself.

Zhouyi Dream Interpretation

The dream of being chased is probably the most common dream, and almost everyone has had this dream.

Such as being chased by a dog or a group of dogs, being chased by a group of bandits or robbers, being chased by a group of enemies, etc.

According to Freud's theory, the symbolic meaning of this type of dream refers to the conflict between a person's self and instinct. For example, sexual instinct and attack instinct are suppressed by civilization and society, so they are generally symbolized by wild beasts or savage and bestial people. In other words, in this type of dream, dogs or other ferocious beasts, bandits, robbers, etc. are all symbols of instinct. The person being chased is usually the dreamer himself, and sometimes someone else, but it is still a symbol of the dreamer's self.

From an emotional point of view, this dream is a manifestation of fear. It shows that the dreamer is facing some kind of danger in his life at that time. He is very afraid of this danger and tries his best to escape and get rid of this danger.

Running away may be the first reaction of our animal ancestors when they encounter danger. When monkeys see ferocious beasts, they cannot hide in caves like snakes, nor can they curl up like hedgehogs, and they are even less like turtles that have shells to shrink into. The best choice for the monkey is to run.

Therefore, escaping due to fear is the deepest instinct in human nature. When you are afraid, you will naturally dream of running away, and the dangerous enemy will chase you closely behind you.

Therefore, if the dream interpreter wants to know what makes the dreamer so afraid, he should ask the dreamer what kind of person is chasing him in the dream; if it is not a person, then what is it? The person or beast or monster chasing him symbolizes the person or thing he is afraid of in his current life. Although the dreamer may not necessarily admit that he is afraid of the other person rationally, he is already afraid in his subconscious mind. Let the dreamer know that his inner fear is not a bad thing. The next step is to help the dreamer face this terrible reality and help him solve this difficulty, so as to eliminate fear and gain a sense of inner security.

There was a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old who said that she often dreamed of being chased. The author asked her who was chasing her. She replied: "It was a beggar."

So I asked her again, in her life, is there anyone who is like a beggar, begging for material things or emotions from her.

She answered: "That's my parents. When I was a child, I was raised by my grandparents, and I don't have much affection for my parents. Now I am with them, and they are always begging for my affection like beggars. They also often blame me for not having feelings for them. So I am afraid to see them."

"They are the beggars in your dreams. You want to escape from them but can't, so you are afraid. Their behavior is understandable. Parents all want their children to love themselves." I said.

The little girl responded to me: "So I also feel that I am not good, why can't I love them?"

"You are not unfilial, feelings have their own rules, can not be forced. You have not been with them since childhood, how can you have feelings for them all of a sudden? You don't have to blame yourself for this. Don't be afraid of them, because you are not wrong. Just like treating beggars, if you are willing to give money, give it, if you are not willing, don't give it, don't run away. In this way, they will gradually understand the truth that feelings cannot be forced. In this way, maybe after a while, you and your parents will have real feelings." I said.

If you don't know who is chasing you in your dream, try to be brave enough to take a look, so that you will know where the inexplicable fear in your heart comes from. This kind of look is the so-called: dare to face danger.

You can also analyze how you escaped, whether you ran fast or wanted to run but couldn't run fast. Most people want to run in their dreams but can't run fast. The feeling of not being able to run fast makes them very scared in their dreams. This reflects a kind of self-awareness that they don't have the ability to escape the dangers they face in life. How you escape in your dreams can also explain many problems. For example: I once dreamed of being chased by someone. I wanted to run away but couldn't run fast, so I jumped up and wanted to fly into the sky, but the person behind me grabbed my ankle, so I was very scared. This dream reflects that I tried to escape reality by fantasy (flying into the sky), but reality grabbed my ankle.

Have you ever had this kind of dream: when you are being chased, you want to hide, but no matter where you hide, you will be discovered, no matter how tightly you close the door. Wherever you run, the pursuer is a few steps behind you. Or just like the woman who dreamed of a dog: she hit the dog with a stick, but she couldn't kill the dog.

At this time, the person or animal chasing you is a part of yourself, your conscience or your values, or your own memories, worries and pain. Because this chaser is actually in your own mind, you certainly can't hide so that he can't find you, because you can't deceive yourself.

By the way, do we have to obey our inner conscience? Not necessarily. Because for ordinary people, the so-called conscience is just the education and family influence in childhood, which may not be correct. For example, a person in the old times may think that it is very shameful, immoral and against conscience for a widow to remarry, and this kind of conscience is nothing more than the old morality. Through dreams, we can know what is "chasing" us in our hearts, and then analyze specifically what we should do. Is it to obey the chaser, or to defeat it or persuade it.

Because instinct does not consider social norms and ethics, it often manifests itself as sexual impulse and aggressive impulse, so it inevitably conflicts with the self of a person. The ending of the dream of being chased often symbolizes the dreamer's strategy to resolve this conflict.

Generally speaking, there are several endings to the dream of being chased:

(a) The chased person (often the dreamer himself) is bitten or killed;

(b) The chased person pretends to be dead or hides to avoid the sight of wild animals or bad guys;

Ending (a) symbolizes that the dreamer usually suppresses his instinct too much, and after the suppression reaches a certain intensity, he begins to be strongly resisted or retaliated by the instinct. The more brutal the pursuer in the dream, the greater the intensity of the dreamer's instinctive repression;

Ending (II) symbolizes that the dreamer often uses self-deception and turning a blind eye to release some instinctive impulses in daily life, that is, adding some reasonable disguises to the instinctive impulses so that the self does not feel anxious. Such dreamers are generally weak in character;

Ending (III) symbolizes that the dreamer continues to suppress his instincts in daily life, or the dreamer has been suppressing his instincts for a long time, and the dreamer himself has become a rational machine.

The strategies shown in the above three endings are not the correct attitude towards instinct. The correct attitude towards instinct should be like Dayu's flood control. Letting it flood is naturally undesirable, but blindly suppressing instincts will inevitably lead to future troubles, and "drainage" is relatively desirable.

Shaking hands and making peace with the beast or bad guy in the dream is a kind of guidance. If the instinct is guided, it is a continuous source of vitality and vigor; if it is suppressed, blocked and eventually overflows, it will become a destructive force; if it is overly suppressed, the vitality and vigor will be exhausted.

Psychological Dream Interpretation

Dream Interpretation: This kind of dream is usually caused by extreme worry or setbacks in real life. Dreaming of being chased and running is a bad omen, indicating that the dreamer wants to get rid of some difficulties or pressures as much as possible, but often cannot do so. In fact, when you are at a loss, you can seek help from others and use the power of others to help yourself overcome difficulties.

Psychological analysis: Dreaming of your wife chasing you means that your life will be very happy, the relationship between husband and wife will be harmonious, and the love will be sweet. If you dream of a friend chasing you, your difficulties will be difficult to overcome and you will lose your friends' help at a critical moment. If you dream of an animal chasing you, you may be unhappy because you cannot solve the difficulties in work and life. If you dream of being chased by a ghost, the dreamer will become notorious, or you may have mental problems due to the pressure of work and life. If you dream of chasing others, all your current efforts are in vain, and you need to spend more effort to achieve your goals. If you dream of chasing the opposite sex, the dreamer will be depressed because of being single, but there may be a person you like.

Case analysis of dreaming about being chased (from)

Dream description: Mr. Cao's company's career development is in a leading position in the same industry, and his business ability has been generally recognized by the industry. Recently, the company arranged for him to take over the management position from a technical position to develop new projects. He began to worry about what would happen if he failed to challenge the new project? He was worried about gains and losses, worried about insufficient ability, mistakes, and losing his current position. He was full of concerns and became more and more conservative in his behavior. He was indecisive in dealing with people and things. He did not have the decisiveness he had before, and his work misjudgments increased. He became more anxious and worried that he would fail. That night, he dreamed that he was chased by a group of men and had nowhere to escape. He stepped on the stairs and fell down. A man raised a big knife and chopped at him. Mr. Cao was chopped on the face. His face was distorted and disfigured. He woke up in fear.

Dream interpretation: The symbolic meaning of this kind of dream of chasing refers to the conflict between a person's self and instinct. For example, sexual instincts and attack instincts are suppressed by civilization and society, so they are generally symbolized by wild beasts or savage and beastly people. In other words, in this kind of dream, dogs or other ferocious beasts, bandits, robbers, etc. are all symbols of instinct. The person being chased is usually the dreamer himself, and sometimes someone else, but it is still a symbol of the dreamer's self. Chasing and killing in dreams symbolize psychological conflicts. The mind is like a dam. If the water in the dam accumulates too high, the water will burst out. Therefore, the water in the dam needs to be both enclosed and channeled. There is a reasonable balance between various external demands and human nature. The more you suppress nature, the stronger the rebound will be, and nightmares will follow. Nightmares remind you to pay attention to the balance of physical, rational, emotional, and sexual energy.

Therefore, Mr. Cao had such a dream, which means that he did not want to accept the new position in his heart. His subconscious mind knew what was the most suitable for him, so he showed it in his dream. The warning meaning of the dream is that if Mr. Cao insists on doing an inappropriate job, he will fail - being chased, falling down the stairs, and losing his current reputation - manifested in the dream as disfigurement.