One of the most frequent types of recurrent nightmare or anxiety dream, being chased sometimes can be traced back to waking situations in which you felt caught or vulnerable, acted passively, or in which you gave in.

Some researches connect it to a stressful situation dating from childhood or adolescence, the memory of which is often repressed. Being chased by animals or demons can represent your own unexpressed or unacknowledged anger or aggression, which is being projected onto the chaser.

Being chased and caught, especially by a man, may be birth process memories. Consider it as a possible sexual pun for chaste being chaste, and not caught. If you are the chaser, what you are chasing may represent a goal, or a solution to a waking issue. With what ease or difficulty are you pursuing it?

See escape and fear.