Dreams of Being Chased, A Wake Up Call

I have unusual dreams most nights that, from what I recall in the morning, often involve me being chased. The first thing anybody asks me when I tell them about these dreams is, "well, are you running away from something?" And the first thing I tell them is, "well, not that I can think of."

And that's the honest truth. I came into this year knowing that I had to let go of and change a lot of things. I needed to start rebuilding relationships, and cutting the ones that were getting toxic. I took time to admit to myself everything that I was unhappy with in 2009, and am actively trying to make 2010 the year that I achieve many of the goals I let fall through the previous year. I know it's going to take work, but I do not want to repeat the mistakes that I made in '09.

With that being said, I can't think of anything that I could be running away from. But, I know that dreams are often more involved than we think, so I went to my favorite site for dream analysis for help. Dreammoods.com does a great job of analyzing the most common meanings behind chase dreams, but, of course, the answer isn't always so black and white. From what I remember of the dreams I've had, they tend to involve more than one attacker, usually people I don't know, and being chased through either a really public place, a supermarket in at least two cases, or the middle of nowhere, a forest in at least one.

I don't have all the answers right now, and I probably never will, but I'll take these dreams as a sign that I'm not out of the woods just yet... I still have something or somethings that I need to face. I just have to figure out what they are.