Why am I always running away from somethimg or someone in my dreams?
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January 4th, 2009
I have a lot of dreams about being chased by attackers or running from the police or some militant group for some crazy crime. Sometimes I escape, other times I am caught or killed. What could this mean?
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It’s probably the Police chasing you after your last drug deal.lol
That happenes to me, too! Maybe it’s because your mind is bored of the dream you had before the great chase, and wanted to make it more epic.
From Jeremy Taylor’s excellent dreamwork website:
“The basic metaphor in chase dreams is usually the “death” that I am so desperately trying to avoid. “Death” in the dream world is the single most frequent archetypal image of growth and development that the unconscious has to offer. (Dreams do depict psycho-spiritual growth and change in other ways, but death is by far the most common and universal.) Therefore, if I dream that I am being pursued by dream characters who are out to get me, it is usually a symbolic representation of fleeing from insistent interior promptings, telling me that it is time to grow and change and let go of some cherished notion about who I am. To grow and change, life energies have to be withdrawn from the outmoded parts of my self-image, no matter how good or useful they may have been at one time. This withdrawal of life energy looks symbolically like death.”
I have lots of dreams of running from the cops after robbing a bank or something of the like. Weird, since I am not nor have ever been a theif. Actually, my only brush with the law has been a parking ticket! I do remember waking up feeling exhilirated from all the excitement. Maybe the dream is a safe way to experience something you would never do in real life?
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