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
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