I have been having a series of rather strange dreams of late, though I don't remember them fully. Sometimes before I sleep, I will pray to the universe for guidance through dreams that night, and usually they will be answered. Take a few weeks ago for example, I remember having multiple dreams in a night, and they lasted for 2 hours each session. I will wake up at the top of the hour, look at the clock, go back to sleep, and wake up exactly 2 hours later again. That happened for 3 or 4 times that night.
Again, two days ago, I was experiencing the same happenings. In most cases, I remembered bits and pieces of it immediately after I woke up. But as the seconds ticked by, the details started to fade away. Once I got out of bed, I would have forgotten all or most of the dreams completely.
Yesterday, guidance came to me thru a good friend when we were talking online. He said when we dream, we go back to our source, that is to the place where we come from. We can unlock many mysteries in our head and learn about oneself from our dreams. He also shared with me the methods he use to remember and thereafter interprete them. Therefore, leaning on his advice, I put a pen and paper beside my bed when I went to bed yesterday.
Last night I had multiple dreams again, but it was the first one, which was the most vivid and I managed to scribble some words down on the paper. In the first dream, I was getting chased by a certain figure. The setting was in public spaces, and we were sort of playing hide and seek. I have no idea why I was running, but there was a degree of fear inside. In the dream, I also inherited some sort of temporary invisibility power (haha?), but the chaser was always able to track me down. It was so vivid that when I woke up, I was short of breath and having difficulty breathing, as if I was panting from the running.
The subsequent dreams were even stranger. I was dreaming in a dream, whereby I was writing down on the paper what I remembered about the dream, but actually that was part of the dream. When I came to my senses, I realised that nothing was written down, instead I was dreaming about what I have written about the dream in a dream. Comprehendo?
Righty, back to the first dream. I did some googling this afternoon, and these are some excerpts. Dreams of being chased can often arise from feelings of general anxiety experienced in the waking hours. The way the dreamer responds to feels of pressure and anxiety while awake is often reflected in the dream state. Chase dreams can manifest themselves in a variety of ways. Often the dreamer will dream about being chased by an attacker or pursuer who the dreamer fears will hurt or kill them.
Instead of facing your fear, you are running from it, and the attacker in your dreams represents the thing you are trying to get away from or avoid in real life. In some cases the pursuer or attacker in a chase dream represents not an outside force but part of your self instead. The next time you are being chased in a dream, try turning around and confronting the pursuer. Ask the pursuer what he or she wants and why they are chasing you.
Therefore, I guess the best way to exorcise the fears or anxieties is to confront them. I shall remember that the next time it happens. Thank you, good friend, for your timely guidance.
