Chasing dreams are more related to animals and more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to family and less related to romantic partners.

Chasing dreams are more related to fear than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.

Dreams of chasing are less related to work.

Chasing dreams are much more related to aggressive acts and more related to death than dreams in general. They are less related to friendly acts, less related to disasters, and less related to eating and drinking.

Chasing dreams are more related to nightmares and more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to weird dreams and less related to vivid dreams.

Chasing dreams are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to taste.

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience chasing in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about chasing in dreams. See how you feel about chasing now, in your waking life.

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet. “The chase” is one of the most widely reported dream themes, with a wide variety of possibilities for symbolism. The key to interpreting it is that it’s a physical representation of a personal situation. It’s something from your past catching up with you. You can’t escape it. Your reputation and history follow you. It’s something you don’t want to acknowledge or accept, such as a bad habit you don’t want to give up—an especially strong possibility if you dream about being chased by police or other authority figures. It’s something you don’t want to accept about yourself. You’re really smart and want to escape high expectations. Or you’re female with traditionally masculine traits that are hard for you or others to accept. The person you are deep inside wants to be embraced and accepted. What are you running from? It’s something you can’t handle. It’s guilt, remorse, shame, regret. See: Guilty It’s fear. See: Fear It’s your emotions. See: Emotions It’s the person you really are. Wherever you go, there you are. It’s a limit, rule, law, or restraint you want to avoid or escape. For example, just before spring break, a young woman dreams about her father chasing her around the house, and she avoids him. It symbolizes running from his expectations. She has plans to do things while on spring break that he doesn’t approve. Whatever it is, it symbolizes one of the common associations listed here, or a personal association. And remember, it’s a projection based on your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. If it’s scary, it’s only because it’s scary to you subjectively, not necessarily objectively. Then again, it might be something really scary, such as a bad health problem you’re ignoring, or an abusive person you’ll do anything to avoid. See: Bullies, Illness The thing chasing you could be something relatively positive, such as an ambition or goal that wants to be fulfilled. Or you have a vision for your life but for some reason think you can’t make it happen. Anything ignored or repressed can take form in dreams as something avoided. Often, when the thing chasing you is confronted, it’s not so scary after all. And the longer it is avoided or ignored, the scarier and more insistent it becomes. A young man dreams about aimlessly wandering around in a clothing store. He walks near another young man and they bump into each other. The dreamer insults the other man, who responds by chasing the dreamer around the store. The dream speaks to the dreamer’s need to find his place in life. Clothes are associated with identity, so wandering aimlessly around a clothing store suggests aimlessness in life. The other man in the dream is a projection of the dreamer’s aimlessness. The insult he hurls at the man is actually how he feels about himself. And the man chases the dreamer because he knows he needs to do something about the situation but isn’t doing anything. Now let’s reverse the scenario. What does it mean if you chase something in a dream? Some of the previous ideas apply. You chase your dreams, ambitions, goals. You pursue becoming the person you want to be and having the life you want, or something else you want, such as recognition, fame, sex, and love. You chase after the answers, your desires, your passions. Chasing can be a physical representation of closing the emotional or psychological distance between you and another person, such as when dating. Chasing shows desire to be closer to the person. See: Bridges Or you seek something within yourself that’s elusive, such as something about yourself that disappeared. For example, your patience disappears after a grueling stretch at work. Or you don’t have the same energy you used to have and want it back. See also: Animals, Bridges, Escaping, Fugitives, Hunting, Monsters, Opponents, Prisoners, Running