To understand dreams in which you're being chased, especially by several people, it may be useful to determine your relationship to the pursuer or what common relationship exists among your persecutors. You may feel indebted to them or simply hated by them. It may include people with whom you feel an emotional or financial indebtedness or people you feel competitive with. You may feel that particular co-workers are angry or jealous and want you to cease being a threat. If you are chased by strangers, this may have more global implications for how you see yourself in the world.

During different times in life, many people experience a sense of not fitting in, or of being driven away. This feeling may come immediately prior to or immediately following a geographic move into a new region of the country or around other times of transition such as marriage or a career change. This type of dream usually reflects acceptance anxiety. In dreams where you are being chased, the emotion of the dream is often as important as the objects and images of the dream.

Did you feel your life was threatened?

Did you feel that you could have turned and faced the chaser with relative success?

Think also of the qualities of the pursuer - could he or she be the embodiment of something significant, perhaps a looming deadline at work or fear of something in your personal relationships?

See also Chased by animals