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States & actions

Being chased

The thing you have been outrunning

What it often means

What chases you in a dream is often a feeling you have been outrunning by daylight. It is not coming to harm you — it is asking to be looked at.

When it tends to appear

  • When you are avoiding a hard conversation with yourself
  • When stress has built without release
  • When grief, anger, or fear has been rerouted into busyness

Sit with these questions

  1. 1

    What feeling have you been keeping just out of view?

  2. 2

    What might happen if you stopped and turned to face it?

  3. 3

    Whose voice is the one chasing you really wearing?

Did this symbol visit your dream?

Decode the whole dream