You feel threatened. Someone is trying to hurt you—so you flee, the most natural defense. But why are you fleeing in the first place? The trick is to understand who is pursuing you, and what that might represent in your life.
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It might be one person or several, a monster, an animal…sometimes the dreamer manages to escape, other times he or she might wind up at a dead-end and wake in a panic. There’s no lack of possible explanations for this kind of dream. One popular interpretation says it symbolizes an inability to understand men, perhaps due to an absent, threatening, or violent paternal figure.
In these dreams, the chasing figure tends to be masculine. Thus, he is often associated with the father and to the dreamer’s perception of men constructed in childhood.
What is certain is that this dream is a sign that your subconscious is trying to make you aware of a profound anguish. It may be the past catching up to you, or shadowy parts of your life that you may have (voluntarily or not) repressed because you were not yet ready to face them.
And if, in the dream, you find yourself turning around, it means that you are finally wanting to face down whatever is haunting you.
Finally, this dream might also mean that you are wanting to flee some kind of oppression, in the case where you feel that you are not as free as you would like to be or that your life is passing you by.
