What does my dream mean: being stalked and chased by a rapist?

Good morning, Elisabeth.

Being chased in a dream is a very common theme. In general, it reflects a waking-life need to get away from something. The dreamer can be fleeing responsibility, guilt, intimacy - pretty much anything.

In your case, you are running from a rapist - with dubious success. The rapist, obviously, shows up almost exclusively in women's dreams. He is archetypal of unwanted male contact, and the associated emotions are humiliation, powerlessness, and sometimes rage against the first two. So what you are trying to escape is these emotions, or something which causes these emotions.

It seems you can run, but you can't hide - you find the rapist in your own home. So my guess is that this is where you are exposed to the very feelings that you are trying to escape. There is some situation at home in which you feel powerless, unable to change things, and this in turn causes feelings of shame and guilt. This doesn't narrow it down much - there must be hundreds of ways that someone can feel this way in their private life.

I'm not certain how your mother fits in, because you don't tell me what (if anything) she does in your dream. Often the mother can be the source of shame, guilt, and powerlessness. Or it could be her death that made you feel this way, and something has reminded you of that.

You tell me that you end up getting away, which could mean that you don't have as much reason to be afraid as you might think, but I'm concerned about the repetitive nature of these dreams. Usually we have the same dream over and over because we haven't yet got the message. The dream is trying to clarify it by introducing additional elements.

A couple of suggestions regarding dream work. You can prepare for such recurring nightmares while you're still awake. Cultures which take dreams seriously advise their young to always confront a dream enemy, rather than run. As silly as this might sound, a self-defense class which teaches you to deal with a real-life attacker, can also prepare you to confront your dream rapist - and of course the skills you would learn would also give you more self-confidence.

That might be a bit much for your schedule, though. Another way to prepare for this dream only takes a few minutes before sleep. Picture each of the characters from your dream, and mentally ask them what they want from you. This bit of meditation has a good chance of carrying over into your dream. Keep it up every day, for at least a couple of weeks - you ought to get some results in your dream by then.

Please feel free to contact me if and when you learn more, and I'll try to help with it again. VIA email @ TheIceColdGamers@yahoo.com or here.

Pleasant dreams,

Jack M 16.

It is a dream of immediate warning which could contain yourself or your assets. To dream that you are being raped, or even if you dream you see anybody else being raped, then hinder free companions and the seamier part of lifestyles's highways and byways for safeties sake. Even be sure that you just investigate everything on any economic agreement, or any deal so some thing, involving your funds, because the chance of getting your bank account 'raped', or your corporation, may be very high to dream that you've been raped, shows vengeful emotions toward the opposite intercourse. You feel violated somehow or being taken talents of. Anything or any person is jeopardizing your vainness and emotional good-being. You think that anybody or something is being pressured upon you. Dreams of rape are also long-established for individuals who have been sincerely raped of their waking life. To see a rape being committed on your dream, denotes sexual dysfunction or uncertainty.