Chased

To dream that you are being chased represents issues or situations that you are avoiding facing, or confronting. Something you may feel is impossible to overcome or defeat. You may feel stressed or threatened. It may also reflect something you don't want to acknowledge. You may have anxiety, strong fears, insecurities, or guilt. Situations you find emotionally dangerous.

Your actions in a chase dream parallel your waking life reactions to pressure, fear, or stress. Instead of confronting the situation, you are running away from the issue. Less serious dreams of being chased may reflect waking life situations where you are avoiding problems with friends, family, or colleagues.

Alternatively, being chased in a dream may be a sign that you feel pressured or driven by a sense of fear or failure. Avoiding embarrassment at all costs. It also reflect your desperation to avoid a serious illness.

To dream of being chased by your father may represent your inability to come to terms with doing what you know is right. It may also be a sign that you are avoiding a bad decision you've made.

To dream of being chased by an elephant represents your wish to avoid a person or situation that has the potential to become very upset with you. Doing everything you can to avoid anger, yelling, being fired, or being broken up with because you didn't do something. It may also reflect your desperation to cover something up that you know will upset someone.

To dream of being chased by a raccoon may represent you wish to avoid the consequences of bad behavior. You may have arrogantly broken rules you knew you weren't supposed to break and now wish to avoid getting caught. It may also reflect your wish to avoid someone who you know is breaking the rules or threatening you with something illegal.

To dream of being chased by a snake may represent your wish to total loss, total failure, or total embarrassment at all costs. It may also represent your wish to avoid someone you can't trust at all.

If you dream of being chased by a person , ask yourself what characteristics stand out the most about them. Hair, height, race, facial features, clothing, holding something? Do they subtlety remind you of something?

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To dream that you are chasing someone or something else represents your attempt to get a hold on something. A goal that is eluding you or a difficult problem that you trying your hardest to get control over.

To dream of something vague chasing you may reflect anxiety about issues that are not yet clear to you that you are avoiding.

To dream of being chased by something big or enormous may reflect your avoidance of issues you feel are too powerful or overwhelming to confront.

To dream of being chased by something hairy may represent your avoidance of something unpopular, unsavory, or not to your personal tastes. Avoiding something that is excessive in some manner or not considerate of your preferences.

Example: A young man dreamed of being chased by a man with an alligator head. In waking life he was losing his hair due to an illness and was avoiding telling anyone at all costs because he feared they would laugh at him.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of being chased by someone. In waking life she felt that she was avoiding her ex. She had promised to meet with him again giving him the impression that they might be able to date again when she had no interest in him anymore. She felt the need to avoid him with his constant calls.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of being chased by monsters. In waking life she felt unable to escape unemployment after deciding to leave her old company due to hating her boss.

Example 4: A man dreamed of being chased like it was a game of tag. In waking life he quit his stable job and had to take a freelance job which required regulars fees. In this case being chased may have reflected his attempts to avoid his fees as long as possible before being required to keep up with them.

Clowns

To dream of a clown represents an aspect of your personality makes other people laugh. In a positive context clowns may reflect practical joking or childish fun. Acting silly. In a negative context clowns symbolize issues in your life that embarrass you. Incompetence that is humiliating, inadequacy that is embarrassing, feeling that you or someone else looks foolish.

To dream of an evil clown represents a fear of embarrassment, or that people will laugh at you.

To dream of being raped by a clown symbolizes your sense of powerlessness to stop feeling embarrassed. Feeling that humiliation is being forced on you while you fail to escape it.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing ape-headed clowns. In waking life he had embarrassed himself showing off to other people taking dangerous amounts of drugs.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing Hitler dressed as clown. In waking life he was a citizen living in Germany while Hitler was dictator. He felt that the Hitler was an idiot who was embarrassing his nation.

Example 3: A man dreamed of running away from a clown. In waking life he was desperate to avoid allowing his illness to cause humiliating hairloss by wearing a hood.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of a clown. In waking life she had an abortion and noticed that her husband was embarrassed to discuss the abortion with friends or family.

Coffin

To dream of a coffin represents acceptance of change or loss. It can also reflect ideas and habits that are no longer of use and can be buried or given up. You may also be noticing that something in your life is ending or changing for the worse.

In a positive context, a coffin reflects your willingness to move forward. Negatively, a coffin symbolizes self-defeating thinking patterns.

Alternatively, a coffin may reflect an unhealthy preoccupation with death or failure.

To dream of building a coffin represents a progressive movement towards a grim result. You may be noticing how your actions are slowly contributing to a loss of some kind. Something you're doing isn't working out.

To find yourself inside a coffin in a dream symbolizes acceptance of defeat, or giving in to your problems. You may feel as though you can't win or that you're never going to be able to do something you want ever again.

Coffins can also symbolize thoughts about death. People who think about suicide or death a lot may see coffins in dreams accompanied by a lot red color to reflect the negative emotions associated with those thoughts.

Example: A man once dreamed of being inside a coffin. In real life he lost his job and felt like there was no hope for him. Being in the coffin reflected his acceptance of defeat.

Example 2: A woman once dreamed of building her own coffin. In real life she felt that all her attempts to rebuild a relationship were failing. Building the coffin reflected her feelings about all her failed efforts to rebuild the relationship progressing towards the impossibility of ever rebuilding it.

Example 3: A woman had a recurring dream of being in a coffin and listening to people talk about her life. In waking life she was very old and spending a lot of time thinking about her death.

Example 4: A man dreamed of seeing people asking him to get into a coffin. In waking life he was having serious business and financial problems. The coffins in this case may have reflected his fear of accepting the loss of his business.

Example 5: A young girl dreamed of her deceased Grandfather getting out of a coffin, socializing happily and then getting back into the coffin to sleep. In waking life her Grandfather had recently died and she was having issues remembering him or talking about him.

Conan O'Brien

To dream of Conan O'Brien represents an aspect of your personality that is more incredible than someone else (or gets more attention) for being laughable for never taking yourself seriously, while never being angry that thinking you're more important never works, and isn't careless that other people enjoy themselves with you. Embracing awkwardness, standing out for being different, or using exaggerated humor to cope with discomfort. Self-deprecating wit. Playful absurdity.

Any late-night TV show host may represent your interest in enjoying entertaining yourself while avoiding having to think about emptiness, being uncomfortable, or not being safe.

Corpse

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Creatures

To dream of strange creatures may represent fears or insecurities.

To dream of a faceless creature may reflect fears or insecurities that are ambiguous. Fear or insecurity about something you can't define or be totally sure of.

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Darkness

To dream of darkness represents feelings about situations with uncertainty, fear of the unknown, emptiness, or a lack of clarity, direction, or emotional security. Situations with fear, danger, ignorance, injustice, anger, evil, or death. Anxiety, depression, or feeling lost without guidance. A positive situation that has taken a turn for the worse. Expecting the worst. Worrying. Emotional crisis. An unwelcoming or unpleasant situation. Unhappiness. Feelings about having nobody to help you with a problem, and that you are all on your own. Thoughts about vulnerability, unresolved problems, or moving through a phase where answers, reassurance, or understanding feel out of reach. Feeling bewildered or perplexed by choices that sabotage you.

Alternatively, darkness may represent your inability to see the truth or find the answers you want. Feeling cut off or without the ability to know what is happening in a situation. Feeling unable to know what is happening with other people. Ignorance of the truth. Feeling out of place. Feelings about ill health, being lost, or needing help. Growing unhappiness. A lack of insight into a problem. Worried about what lies ahead, or struggling with situations that feel hidden, threatening, or out of your control.

Positively, darkness can reflect courage during impossible situations. Feelings about yourself or others having to behave dangerous or evil to be protective.

Situations where there is a complete lack of any sense of humor. Situations that are inconsiderate of your feelings. A pessimistic attitude (especially dark blue or dark grey).

People who fear losing their eyesight often dream of darkness.

Dark objects in a dream may reflect scary or excessive choices.

To dream of the sun or light taking away the darkness represents answers, overcoming problems, or fear that is vanishing.

To dream of feeling safe in the dark may represent comfort with uncertainty, acceptance of difficult circumstances, or emotional resilience while navigating situations you don�t fully understand. Trust in yourself during confusing times, inner strength when facing the unknown, or learning to cope without immediate answers. Adaptation to hardship.

To dream of pitch-black darkness represents total confusion, extreme fear, or feeling completely cut off from guidance, hope, or emotional support. A situation where you feel utterly lost, powerless, or unable to see any way forward. Deep depression, overwhelming uncertainty, or the sense that you are facing problems without any insight or assistance. Confronting your deepest fears, being forced to deal with the unknown alone, or feeling trapped in circumstances that offer no clarity or reassurance at all. Feeling that there is no help within range.

To dream of darkness overtaking the world represents feelings about your entire life revolving around a significant turn for the worse. Feeling that your entire life is being overtaken by fear, uncertainty, or negativity. A dramatic loss of hope, trust, or justice. Feeling terrified that nothing matters ever again. Losing faith in people, society, or the future, or sensing that a situation is becoming emotionally or morally unbearable. Hopelessness on a large scale, as though problems are spreading beyond your control. Anxiety about irreversible change or feeling that no safe place remains.

To dream of dark clothing may reflect feelings about the personality being excessive, imbalanced, or afraid. For example, very dark green may reflect powerful jealousy or greed. Dark red clothing may reflect feelings about the excessively dangerous behavior.

Example: A man dreamed of experiencing nighttime as he walked down a street. In waking life, he had developed a rare illness and felt that his life was going to be destroyed. In this case, the darkness may have reflected heavy feelings of fear of the unknown future and the loss of clarity about his health.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of seeing a dark grey building. In waking life, she was entering university and felt that nobody at the school was tolerant of her religious views. In this case, the dark grey building may have reflected her feelings about her university being empty with intolerance about her religious views.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of being in a very dark room. In waking life, she was experiencing negative comments being made by someone, where there was no sense of humor at all. In this case, the dark room may have reflected her feelings about how empty it was to experience other people's negative comments without any sense of humor.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of seeing dark clouds. In waking life, she was worried about her family. In this case, the darkness of the clouds may have reflected her feelings about the emptiness of whatever issue was overshadowing her family life with worrying about a negative outcome.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of standing in a very dark cemetery. In waking life, she was very uncomfortable having to discuss very old painful memories with someone. In this case, the darkness of the cemetery may have reflected her feelings of emptiness about the old painful memories.

Example 6: A woman dreamed of seeing a very dark building. In waking life, she felt that a group of people she had to speak to were going to be very unwelcoming to her because they didn't agree with her belief system. In this case, the dark color of the building may have reflected her feelings about how empty it felt to have to speak to people who didn't agree with her beliefs.

Example 7: A man dreamed of standing in the jungle in the darkness to see a very big black snake killing a hippo. In waking life, he was experiencing his father dying. He didn't like his father and had to watch a very unpleasant death occur in the hospital. In this case, the darkness may have reflected his feelings about the emptiness of death.

Example 8: A woman dreamed of being in darkness. In waking life, she felt that she had nobody to support her with a problem. In this case, the darkness may have reflected her feelings of emotional isolation, helplessness, and emptiness about facing her problem completely alone, without guidance, reassurance, or support from anyone else.

David Letterman

To dream of David Letterman represents an aspect of your personality that is more incredible than someone else (or gets more attention) for being laughable for being perfectly sane about doing what you have to do while being an embarrassment of liking other people the way they are no matter what they do. Behavior that keeps things light, ironic, or sarcastic while still handling responsibilities. Being emotionally detached enough to joke about what�s happening, even if the situation is complicated or awkward.

Any late night TV show host may represent your interest in enjoying entertaining yourself while avoiding having to think about emptiness, being uncomfortable, or not being safe.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing David Letterman on The Late Night Show that looked 50% like his lawyer. In waking life, he was he ended up wasting his time visiting his litigation lawyer in order hear new details about how to deal with a difficult family member he was having a legal disagreement over an tenent/landlord issue. The lawyer's new information was laughable about seeming perfectly sane about the legal problem, but the situation ended up being an embarrassment with the dreamer not needing to do anything different without liking his lawyer billing him for a useless visit. In this case, David Letterman looking 50% like his lawyer may have reflected the humorous or laughable aspect of talking to his lawyer telling him to enjoy not needing to do anything else, yet while seeking information about current developments with his case as the situation turned for the worse.

Dead

To dream of being dead represents feelings of loss or total failure. If your death takes on a more positive theme it may reflect positive changes or transformation. The end of friendships, relationships, or some important part of your life. A fear of change. Difficulty with a transition. The end of an era.

To dream of seeing dead people represents aspects if your personality that have completely changed or lost all power. It can also reflect your projection of other people that have changed or lost power. You or someone else may have experienced a noticeable change.

To dream of seeing dead loved ones who actually died in real life most likely reflect an aspect of your personality based on your most honest feelings about them. The fact that they are dead is most likely irrelevant unless it's the most powerful quality about them. For example, seeing your deceased father most likely symbolizes your conscience just as it would if he were alive.

If loved ones have recently passed away or you've been spending a lot of time remembering them then they may represent your grief or desire to be with them again.

Example: A woman dreamed of holding a dead baby in her arms. In waking life she had just received news from her doctor that she would be unable to ever bear children. The dead baby may have reflected her dead hopes to have a baby.

Example 2: A young boy dreamed of his mother being dead. In waking life his mother began to date again after divorcing his father and he feared losing his mother because as she began dating her personality started to change.

Example 3: A young man dreamed of seeing dead people he was trying to hide. In waking life he contracted a disease that was causing his hair to fall out and was desperate to hide it from everyone he knew by wearing hats.

Example 4: A young man dreamed of seeing his ex-girlfriend dead. In waking life he was very concerned about losing his friendship with his ex-girlfriend after he broke up with her.

Example 5: A man dreamed of seeing a dead bird. In waking life he accidentally met up with an ex-girlfriend whom he had strong feelings for and learned that she had moved on leaving him with no choice to get back with her. He realized all hope was gone to ever have a relationship with her ever again. The dead bird may have reflected his feelings about accepting the potential for reconciling be impossible.

Example 6: A man dreamed of seeing a dead bird. In waking life his brother died of cancer and all hope for recovering from the cancer was lost.

Example 7: A woman dreamed of seeing dead people. In waking life she was spending a lot of time thinking about and old friendship that she lost.

Example 8: A woman dreamed of seeing a dead dog. In waking life she realized that her relationship with her boyfriend was over.

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Dead Body

To dream of a dead body represents feeling about an area of your life that has completely changed. It may also reflect a loss or sense of failure. A transition or ending.

Positively, a dead body may represent negative aspects of your personality or negative situations that have been successfully confronted. You have stood up to something or resisted negative influences. The end of an era.

Negatively, a dead body may represent positive aspects of your personality that have been overcome by negative emotions or situations. A mistake or failure may have spoiled an area of your life. The end of a relationship or something happy in your life. Feeling replaced. Feelings about experiencing a permanent loss of some kind. Feeling that there is nothing left you can do to keep a situation going.

To dream of trying to hide a dead body may represent your attempts to conceal your past or to cover up a failure. It may also reflect your wish to edit your tastes or beliefs for a special situation, group, or person.

To dream of burying a dead body represents a wish to due away with things about ourselves that we feel are undesirable. Hiding a liability or a concern that something about you will be brought to light. Positively, it may reflect progress of you move away from bad habits, negative influences, or things you feel are childish.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing her own dead body floating in water. In waking life she separated from her husband and was beginning to realize that she could never love her husband again. Her desire to be married was lost for good.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing a dead bird. In waking life he accidentally crossed paths with an old girlfriend and fully realized that there was no hope left to be her ever again.

Example 3: A young woman dreamed of seeing a dead dog. In waking life she had broken up with her boyfriend.

Example 4: A young man dreamed of seeing a number of dead people. In waking life he was thinking about how terrible it was to experience a friendship ending.

Example 5: A man dreamed of dead bodies being carried into a home. In waking life he was getting a divorce. The dead bodies in this case may have reflected his feelings about his marriage or aspects of his married life being over with.

Death

To dream about death represents change. Your personality or life situation is transforming for better or worse. An area of your life has come to an end, an era is over, or roles are shifting. You may also be preoccupied with someone else's death or illness. Alternatively, death in a dream can reflect failure or loss.

Dreams of death that come true are incredibly rare. They more likely to reflect fears of failure or feelings about undesirable changes than an actual death. In one study, people with heart disease who dreamed of death and taking journeys had a much higher mortality rate.

Seeing bad people die in your dreams is a sign that issues have been confronted. Negative aspects of the personality are being overcome by positive influences. Good people in your dreams dying symbolizes positive aspects of your personality being overcome by negative influences.

To dream of experiencing your own death represents feeling of watching yourself fail completely. Positively, it may reflect the experience of watching yourself undergo a powerful change or transformation.

To dream of experiencing your own death after helping others may be a sign that you nee to reconsider how you are handling yourself in waking life. You may be stupidly giving up too much of yourself to others. Unreasonable risks or endangering yourself.

To dream of dying while people laugh at you represents feelings about situations or people being indifferent or insensitive to your failures.

To dream of people you know dying symbolizes changes to certain qualities in yourself that these people reflect in you. It may also represent your view of these people succumbing to a problem as well as shifts in their personality or lifestyle.

To dream of a child dying represents a loss or unpleasant change to some area of your life that had potential. Positively, a child death may reflect a growing problem that has finally been dealt with.

To see your parents die in a dream reflects an inability to make positive or effective choices. Your father dying symbolizes your conscience or ability to make positive choices being compromised. Your mother dying symbolizes your intuition or ability to think ahead being compromised. A dead mother may also reflect feelings of being overwhelmed by bad luck. You can't find answers you want, or you feel unlucky. The death of parents in a dream is a sign that you need to seriously reconsider your current life path. Significant or fundamental changes may be in order.

To see a boyfriend or girlfriend die in a dream symbolizes a helpful or protective aspect of your personality that has been overcome by a problem. A habit or situation that had your best interests at heart may no longer be viable or has been compromised.

To dream of a spouse dying represents a permanent or secure aspect of yourself that has been compromised. A habit or situation that you've completely depended has changed. Something you were accustomed to may have been compromised. It may also reflect a loss of something in your life that you never believed would change.

To dream of a faked death may reflect feelings about having faked ending something. Faking failure of something in your life. Concerns that other people think you were not genuine in moving on from a problem or bad relationship. Tricking enemies by pretending to lose.

Example: A woman dreamed of her father dying. In waking life she had broken up with her boyfriend. The dream reflected the metaphorical "passing" of her decision (father symbolizes decision making) to give her boyfriend anymore chances in the relationship.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of her child being hit and killed in a car accident. In waking life she had gotten into a big argument with her husband about future plans they had together which she felt would never happen now.

Example 3: A man dreamed that his best friend had died. In waking life his friend had joined a religious cult and he felt that he had lost his ability to connect with his friend forever due to his inability to accept his friends new life.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of experiencing a death that was different than real death. Shortly after she contracted the sleeping sickness.

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Demons

To dream of a demon represents an aspect of your personality that is noticeably antagonistic to anything positive. It reflects problematic people, situations, or your own bad habits that are totally motivated by negativity. It may also reflect people or situations that seem to actively work against you, or your own shadow self that prefers negative choices. Destruction addictions you can't resist. An area if you life where you are experiencing torment, repressed urges, or unacceptable urges. Feelings about people or situations being evil in the method they interfere with your goals.

A demon may also reflect people or situations that never allow you to break free of a problem. Also jealousy or bitterness that seems personal. Ignorance, distress, or meanness. Feeling as though someone is out to get you.

Alternatively, a demon may reflect your own jealousy, bitterness, or anger at someone you want to torment or get revenge on.

To dream of being possessed by demons may reflect a powerful sense of helplessness. You may have strong feelings of guilt, anger, or bitterness. It may also indicate problems getting over your past.

Example real life situations that may inspire demon dreams may be racism, abuse, children that won't behave, , revenge, intense fears, addictions, or bullying.

To dream of fighting a demon represents emotional or psychological conflict with bad influences, bad habits, or negative situations. Confrontation with something you perceive to be negative or dangerous.

Dreaming of a demon may reflect real life feelings about spiritual warfare or that evil is following you. Highly religious people may have issues with their faith being so strong that they perceive anything wrong or losing in their life as demonic conflict. In these cases strong faith may be a problem because it interferes with new ideas.

Example: A man dreamed of being accused of being a demon. In waking life he felt at fault for serious problems within his family.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of seeing her ex-husband as a demon. In waking life she was having issues dealing with her ex-husbands abusive behavior.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of seeing a demon. In waking life her husband was being threatened with deportation and she felt that the immigration authorities were "out to get" her husband by interfering with all attempts to keep her husband in the country. The demon symbolism in this case may have reflected her feelings about how intentionally evil or mean the immigration authorities felt to her.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of demonic angels. In waking life she felt that issues with her past mistakes would never leave her alone.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of seeing a man with a sacred secret that she felt was a demon. In waking life she became aware of her Alcoholic Anonymous sponsor secretly drinking alcohol.

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Devil

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Die

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Dinosaur

To see a dinosaur in your dream represents an all powerful fear. A fear that is too big to confront or so time consuming that you can't think of anything else.

To dream of being chased by a dinosaur represents an all powerful fear that you are doing everything possible to avoid. You may feel like life is hanging from a thread.

To dream of killing a dinosaur may reflect waking life situations where you are trying to confront and overcome a big fear you have. Standing up to a person or situation that absolutely terrifies you. Confronting a bully or nightmare scenario.

Example: A young man dreamed of seeing an enormous dinosaur that he felt loved him a lot. In waking life he was considering killing himself. He felt killing himself was a good idea because his life was so terrible, while also feeling that actually carrying out his suicide was terrifying.

Example 2: A young child dreamed of seeing baby dinosaurs. In waking life she was fearing that her family life would be destroyed by her parents upcoming divorce.

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