OVERVIEW INTERPRETATION
Hi Paranoid,
As this recurring dream theme began when you started your news agency job, it is likely to reflect the challenges you have experienced during this time, but whether or not they are directly related to the material you handle is an interesting question.
What else changed for you when you took on this job two years ago? What did you leave behind? Did you leave anything unfinished? Have you had hopes for this new job that haven’t eventuated?
When someone chases you in a dream, you run or hide. This occurs when you are running and hiding from an issue instead of facing it, confronting it. Who or what is chasing you in these dreams? What energy do you feel the chasers exude? This is the energy you wish to escape. Usually this is fear. Fear is the main reason we choose not to confront an issue, but the more we run the more it chases. The only way to deal with this situation is to face issues.
The details in each dream hold clues about the nature of this issue, but you already have a clue in the two-year duration of this dream theme. What is the issue you have been running from during this time?
Do you feel stressed and hurried by deadlines? I’m thinking from a dream pun point of view about the ‘dead’ in deadline and the feeling that the chaser in your dreams often wants to kill you. Do you try to escape deadlines?
Death in a dream often symbolises an ending of some kind, and it is not necessarily bad. To move forward in life, to make positive changes, we sometimes need to let go of, or kill off, attitudes and beliefs that are not serving us. Death of the old needs to make way for birth of the new. What endings might you be refusing to face?
Your dream theme sometimes includes being hurt, with blood and gore visible. What emotional hurt are you running from? The more you run the more you hurt, which is why the hurt keeps chasing and why the threat remains. When blood flows in a dream, or when inner gore is exposed, sickening though it may feel, this may be your own hurts finally being felt or exposed, or your own lifeblood (vitality) flowing and being expressed. Again, the details in each dream hold the clues that pinpoint the actual issues.
How can you get rid of these horrific dreams? By turning round and facing the issues you are running from. You can prepare yourself to do this by visualising facing your dream pursuers, knowing they represent your own beliefs and feelings. When you face fear, it is nowhere near as frightening as you imagine. In fact, it usually disappears. Focus on embracing the pursuer and transforming fear of him into a healing love.
You will find it helpful to read ‘I’m being chased or followed’ in Dream Alchemy, pages 219-24 and ‘Cuts, wounds, blood, guts and vomit’ in Dream Alchemy, pages 183-88.
DREAM ALCHEMY PRACTICE
Dialogue:
Your dialogue is between you and the person chasing you. Start by saying, “Why are you so persistent?” and see what the chaser automatically answers. Keep it going for 20 minutes.
How to do this:
Give yourself no longer than 20 minutes. When you do this exercise do NOT think! Don’t plan ahead. Just let whatever happens happen. Let the two entities speak to each other on paper using whatever words come up. It’s a bit like writing a film script or play – but without the brain being involved.
How does this work?
By not thinking, by keeping the words flowing, you are letting your right brain and unconscious mind do most of the work. They created the original dream so they know what these symbols mean for you. They will reveal. You will be surprised.
More details on Dialogue as a Dream Alchemy Practice in: “Dream Alchemy”, by Jane Teresa Anderson, pages 321-4 and 333.
Jane Teresa Anderson
You can consult with Jane Teresa or her Dream Team and receive your interpretation by email within five working days.
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