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What does it mean to dream about being chased?
Miller's dictionary has no entry called "chase", but several of its entries describe being pursued — by a monster, a bull, even the devil — and one covers trying to escape. Here they are, quoted exactly.
What Miller wrote (1901)
To dream of being pursued by a monster, denotes that sorrow and misfortune hold prominent places in your immediate future. To slay a monster, denotes that you will successfully cope with enemies and rise to eminent positions.
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To see one pursuing you, business trouble, through envious and jealous competitors, will harass you.
Read the full entry for “Bull” →
If you dream of being pursued by his majesty, you will fall into snares set for you by enemies in the guise of friends.
Read the full entry for “Devil” →
To dream of escape from injury or accidents, is usually favorable. … If you try to escape and fail, you will suffer from the design of enemies, who will slander and defraud you.
Read the full entry for “Escape” →
Your dream is not a dictionary entry
A dream about being chased comes with a place, other people and a feeling, and the old books read the same image very differently depending on those details. Dreamlore takes your whole dream, spoken or typed, finds the passages that fit it in Miller and Freud, quotes them word for word, and leaves you one question to reflect on. The journal stays on your phone.
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What does it mean to dream about being chased?
Miller's 1901 dictionary has no single entry for being chased. Where it describes being pursued, by a monster, a bull or the devil, it reads the dream as a sign of sorrow, rivals or false friends, while escaping injury is called usually favorable. These are old readings to reflect on; what the dream means to you depends on who or what was chasing you and how it felt.
Where do these quotes come from?
They are quoted verbatim from public-domain books: Gustavus Hindman Miller's Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901). Each quote on this page is checked word for word against the source text before the page is served, the same check the Dreamlore app runs on every quote it shows.
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Dreamlore and these pages are for reflection and curiosity. The books quoted here are old — Miller wrote in 1901 and his entries read as omens, and many of Freud's ideas are disputed today. Take them as a starting point for thinking about your own dream, not as prediction or advice.