You're in a creepy place, or a place where you are very far from comfortable, and then suddenly someone is after you. They are coming for you and you need to start running. Fast. Frustratingly, and quite uneasing, you can only run in slow motion. It feels like there is an invisible force holding you back no matter how hard you push to move forward. Just when you can't push any longer your dream ends, or at least the thing chasing you has disappeared.
This has been a recurring dream of mine for quite some time. I remember having these dreams when I was a little girl. It is never a pleasant dream, and I usually wake up feeling stressed or foggy-minded.
I was reading an article by Dr. Michael Brues that discussed the meanings of recurring dreams. He said that recurring dreams fall into two main categories : stress related and full-on nightmares. He had an explanation for my kind of recurring dream. Being chased and not being able to run may signify that a person is in REM sleep, when the body is paralyzed so they don't act out their dream. He also thinks that recurring dreams represent a question or a message, and that the recurring dream may even stop once the message is figured out.
SOMETHING INTERESTING -- Abe Lincoln was quoted talking to General Grant during a cabinet meeting. He told the general that there would be big news from the warfront, and when asked why he thought so he said, "I had a dream last night, and ever since this war began I have had the same dream just before every event of great national importance. It portends some important event that will happen very soon."
That evening, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. WHOA.
