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💡Possible meaning

It symbolizes fast movement in life. It suggests that you are rushing to achieve your goals or ambitions; however, please be aware that you sometimes miss the essential parts of it when you run into things.

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🧭 Direction

Identity

Is there anything that you desire in life? Are you moving towards it or away from it? Your dream tends to guide you. It shows you how to achieve what you always wanted, so it's important to pay attention to all the details you see in your dream. Then, work on things you want in your waking life slowly and carefully.

❤️ Feelings

The dream of running can evoke feelings of freedom, exhilaration, and empowerment. It symbolizes a desire to escape or overcome obstacles in life, and the need for speed and progress. Running in a dream can also represent a sense of urgency or a need to keep up with the fast pace of life. It may bring feelings of determination, stamina, and a sense of accomplishment. However, it can also signify anxiety or a fear of being chased or pursued. Overall, the dream of running elicits a range of emotions, from excitement and motivation to stress and apprehension.

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11 Nov 2024

dream-about-exploring-a-high-end-building
Anxiety
Guilt
Prison
Friend
Cuddle
Building (Action)

Dream

I was in some sort of large high end building with a group of friends. And we were on sort of adventure that turned into a game. We we exploring the building incognito as we were not suppose to be there. We kept finding layers upon layers to the building, even inside this building there was a mall which was a perfume I wanted to purchase when we were there the first time but then I didn’t. I also kept getting distracted with the other perfumes on display, but made note of the one I wanted to buy in the first place. We continued to explore and as we got deeper into the building we found a space with large commercial appliances that then turned into show rooms with large luxury high end cuddle palettes that were this extravagant cushions that were beautiful and so soft. One of them was two story building high. We jumped and played on them. As we continued to explore we found an area that was off limits with that had machines that were clearly very important and dangerous to mess with. I went inside one that looked like a fridge but as we were exploring a group of workers were nearby and we had to hide. We laid low until they passed. We we moved further along we found a prison. One of my friends was there and it surprised me to see him as he was always a man who was kind and did his best and I was confused as to why he was there. We sat and talked for a bit and he was worried about his sister. As we decided to make our way out of the building we had to pretend to be business men who were very busy and in a hurry to blend in, at one point I was in a suit and I would run through a space where there were people saying a bunch of a numbers. When we were coming back I remembered the perfume I wanted to buy. I did not get distracted this time with the perfumes and stayed focus. I had to wait for a worker to come and help me and I was anxious waiting on them, because I wasn’t suppose to be there. As I was making my purchase we were getting caught by the building and my group of people started fleeing, we had been found out and were no longer incognito, we started racing to escape. As we were running we found an elevator that got us out but as we were getting in our group split up as it was merely seconds the door was closing. I felt guilty that the group split and some of my people were left behind.

11 Nov 2024

dream-about-driving-crazy-and-getting-lost
Dead
Fear
Gun
Car
Cousin
Driving

Dream

I went with my cousin in her car to drive to my grandparents and she was driving like crazy. She missed the turning and ended up in some really narrow back streets and she wouldn't listen when I told her to turn around. We ended up at someone's huge private estate and I told her to turn around quickly but she ignored me and drove like crazy through their land. The owners saw us in the window and I told her to keep driving and get back on the road and dissappear. They sent a man on a silver bike after us so I told her to drive as fast as she could to lose him but she got the car stuck at a tight turn. We ran through the narrow streets trying to find our grandparents but we ended up at a dead end and the man trapped us. I told her to stay quiet and hide but she started blubbering and wailing crying that she was sorry and scared and I had to hold my hand over her mouth. Because she was crying the man found us and cocked a gun at my head and I woke up

5 Nov 2024

dream-about-getting-lost-and-fear
Apartment
Celebration
Fear
Sexual
Darkness
Father

Dream

I was home getting to head to work, it looked like it could’ve winter outside as I was dressed warm and so was the client I’m assigned to. She came over to my address, which in my mind I was confused to how she knew my exact address and wondered if the agency gave her my address as in the past they’ve provided my old phone number to a patient but I wasn’t sure if they’d do the same thing with addresses. So, I left my home with the patient and my area looked different, the patient had this big bag and asked me to carry it in my bag she put it in my bag but surprisingly it wasn’t that heavy and she was assuring that it wasn’t and that it’s better I hold it in my bag instead. I was in this a apartment, I walked into the bedroom and it felt like it Jacob’s (the guy I was seeing recently) room as it seemed familiar. There was an apartment unit next to the room I was in and I thought it’d be a nice idea if I could be roommates with them one day, so I took out a piece of paper and while writing I’ve encountered something. It’s like I was watching something unfold without actually being, and it was an unserious situation going on as if they were playing a game plus a newly celebrity was involved and the game seemed a bit lustful. I was then at the park playing on the playground with the other girls, we were celebrating someone’s birthday. I decided to a store and used Google Maps to walk me there, I found myself in this building that I was supposed to walk through but I winded up getting lost inside the building but before I got lost I seen this little girl and her father together. But when I became lost, I seen the same girl close by calling out for him she looked scared and confused but when I realized she was by herself that’s when I wanted make sure she was okay. She said she seen her dad and pointed in the corner where I only seen a glimpse of him, and I found it eerie that he just stood there and looked like a completely black figure so I told the girl that it’s not him and tried to evade. We were running every door that could be closed shut but it wasn’t closing as the dad still managed to catch it before closing, until we got into another secluded room and I grew the courage to close it tightly with her help. He began banging on the door, and he started talking to the girl in a calm way but obviously angry but he started saying sexual stuff—stuff I wish he could’ve been saying to me in that moment as it was turning me on but unfortunately that was for his daughter who looked no older than 6.

4 Nov 2024

dream-about-helping-a-friend-with-drug-problem
Drugs
Scream
Children
Guy
Running
Childhood home

Dream

Trying to talk to a guy I know who I like but he lives in another state, but learning he has a drug problem and trying to help him come and see me; but his family is looking for him and worried about him because he went missing. Then going to watch a children’s movie in my childhood house with kids in the hallway. When starting the move there are two adults there while starting it, the one sitting down in front of the kids and the other dressed in a deformed monster costume. No one knew who the person in the costume was and when I asked him to leave he refused and started to take off the costume. It was a man and to make him leave I had to scream and bite off my tongue while yelling. I ran out of the house across the street to my neighbors house, while still screaming my neighbors name for help while the man chased me; unable to reach my neighbors house while he still chased me.

3 Nov 2024

dream-about-running-from-men-in-city
Group
Laughing
Girl
Running
City
Jumping

Dream

I was with three other girls. We were dressed nice, short dresses, makeup, heels even. It was a city area and we went into this nice looking huge building. I don’t know what we were looking for, but eventually men started to follow us. We started rushing through different areas of the building, even jumping some distances to get rid of these men but they never seemed to relent. We got separated into groups of two and eventually got out of the building, somehow meeting back up outside while still retreating. Somehow we were still having fun, laughing and enjoying ourselves while getting away from these men. We had smiles on our faces, joy in our eyes, while jumping through the maze of a building and running out into the city. Two men followed us out so we kept going in the city, running around with each other. I kept waking up and falling asleep back into the same dream to continue it.

1 Nov 2024

dream-of-being-in-doctor-who
Friend
Hat
Long hair
Police
Running

Dream

I was walking home with April when I saw a blue police Box like they have in the show doctor who except this one syud Post Office because it was owned by the Post Office and it was behind a fence so I asked her if we could go in and have our picture taken next to it. April agreed and went inside the building We walked around for a while and try to try to find out where to go someone in the Post Office a young heavyset man. Send us in the wrong direction but then he said he was just kidding and pointed us in the right direction we walked out into a large Courtyard where they were filming and they just us up in costumes and said we would be screen tested. I thought this was cool I might make a good doctor who especially with my long hair Which I had recently grown. The scene was for us to run a long distance through what looked like a um county fair. When we finally arrived at the tardis we were to deliver our lines I hoped I would have enough breath in addition to my hair And a long coat which I was wearing which was also appropriate I had a pin of a dragonfly which I put on my lapel And a hot kind of like Sylvester mccoy's straw round small brim. They tried to give me another hat but I wanted this one. The running was hard and I hoped I had enough breath to deliver my lines at the end I would really like to get this part..

29 Oct 2024

dream-about-junk-shop-and-running
Bike
Bus
House
Road
Running

Dream

I had a lot of dreams last night that kind of merged into one. I was wondering that I was on a bus going down the road that I used to work on when I was younger. I was going on the bus and I saw this junk shop and I think in the window I saw something I liked or I saw something in the shop and I'd gotten off the bus and I went into the shop and it was like a proper junk shop, there was just stuff everywhere. I was falling off the edge and I ended up going back down. I think it was a bike or something I liked. I was trying to find out how much it was but I couldn't find out how much it was. I left the shop and as I left the shop I saw somebody I knew. We were joking around outside and I was joking around and a door next to the shop opened and it had a flag. I hadn't seen him in 30 odd years and I kind of saw him and I was startled and I just ran. I ran all the way down the road and I ran past the house that I grew up in that he actually lived in. I just kept running and running and that's all I remember.

25 Oct 2024

dream-about-orange-cat-in-desert
Being chased by murderer
Cat
Desert
Injured
Running

Dream

I can’t remember most of the dream, so I’ll just tell you the small amount of stuff that I can remember. I was a pretty skinny (in a healthy way)orange cat and I was in this desert like area. There were people working there. They each had a barrel filled with coal and a thin but slightly tall “building” (idk what to call it) that was sorta like a bigger greenhouse next to them. I was being very cautious and was sneaking low to the ground. Then I got up and started sprinting past everyone. I can’t remember clearly, but I think I was on a mission of some sort that ended up getting me in the desert and the people were trying to kill me for no reason (this is just a wild guess, so I could be completely wrong). Anyways, I was running and some guy caught me. He trapped me under his hand and picked me up with a suffocating grip around my rib cage. I panicked and I think I scratched his arm so bad he let me go and bent down over the pain. I got back up and as soon as I was going to start running again, he aggressively stomped on my two right feet. The dream ended with me laying on the ground and the random guy reaching his hand out to me with either an angry or annoyed expression.

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