Dreams about being chased: a Jungian reading

Someone or something is behind you and you run. In a Jungian reading it tends to be a part of you — something set aside that is asking to come back. That is why speeding up rarely pays off in these dreams; what happens when you stop is far more interesting.

It depends on how it looked

• you cannot see who it isit has no face and no name yet
• you know who is chasing youyou know more about it than you admit
• your legs will not moveyou want to act and something holds you
• you stop and turn aroundthe dream often changes at that point — and so does waking life

A question for you

What in your life are you speeding up from instead of stopping?

And yours is read symbol by symbol

This is what a dream dictionary cannot do: it reads the dream you actually had. You write it in your own words — a house you had never lived in, a small door under the stairs, a key that did not fit — and each of those images is taken separately, with what it may be carrying for you.

Then comes the archetype the dream is standing in — the Threshold, say — a reflection that ties it to your own chart, and at the end a question to sit with. Not an answer. A question.

A dream reading needs an account, because the dream is stored — that is the point: the meaning shows up when the same image comes back a third time. The account is free and the first readings are free too.