Running dream meaning is explained below using 31 different sources. Each interpretation is shown with its source.
Interpretation 1 — Zolar
afraid, because of being: wil go into exile to avoid facing your guilt.
after an enemy: victory and profit at another’s disastrous expense.
deer or a rabbit: you are a miserly person who extracts blood as profit.
catch someone, to: forever trying to keep up with others, forgetting yourself.
children, with clubs: a slow pace is indicated.
people: dissension between labor and management.
circles, in: friends do not think very much of your roundabout methods.
jogging at a steady pace: are bored with present exercise.
madman, like a: your progress is being sabotaged.
many people, in confusion: wil receive dreadful news of chaotic events.
naked: wil be overtaken by your over-destructive impulses.
others: great profit if you apprehend your opponent.
too fast: unexpected fortune at the expense of your health.
wanting to run but can’t: are torn by inner conflict.
while hunting: are more afraid of your prey than they are of you.
Interpretation 2 — Silvana Amar
If you are simply running with no goal, it may be an indication that you need to slow down in your every day life.
If you are competing, you need to consider your recent rivalries and realistically look at the current challenges.
If you are running in a race and win, your unconscious may be expressing confidence that you may or may not feel in the wakened state. Running in your dreams may also symbolize the energy levels, the strength, or the force that you have to get through life.
(A similar definition appears on top of the page for Race , since many people continue to ask me for running, I decided to list them separately.)
Interpretation 3 — Gustavus Hindman Miller
If you stumble or fall, you will lose property and reputation. Running alone, indicates that you will outstrip your friends in the race for wealth, and you will occupy a higher place in social life.
If you run from danger, you will be threatened with losses, and you will despair of adjusting matters agreeably.
To see others thus running, you will be oppressed by the threatened downfall of friends.
To see stock running, warns you to be careful in making new trades or undertaking new tasks.
Interpretation 4 — Pamela Ball
To be running forwards suggests confidence and ability.
To be run- ning away from signifies fear and an inability to do something.
2- Obviously in dreams of running, time and place are significant. Where we are going will perhaps indicate why speed is needed, although if we arc being pursued this will also give some kind of reason.
To be running something as in managing - is to be taking responsibility.
3- Running in dreams suggests the potential for anxiety or distress. Spiritually we may be trying to do something too quickly.
Interpretation 5 — Theresa Cheung
If you are running forwards, this indicates confidence or taking responsibility. To be running backwards or away from something signifies fear, or an inability to achieve your goals. A spiritual interpretation of running dreams could suggest that you are trying to do something too quickly.
To dream that you want to run but cannot suggests that your ambitions are harder to accomplish than you thought.
Interpretation 6 — Dr. Mıchael Lennox
(See Slow Motion.)
Interpretation 7 — Garuda
See Walking.
Depth Psychology: Are you running after someone (or something)? Are you running away from something, someone, or yourselfr Maybe your own fear or your own feelings? How does running make you feel: satisfied and happy? Or do you feel you’re being chased?
Interpretation 8 — Pagan - Anonymous
If you succeed in running away from, or elude a pursuer, then you will be able to change those things in your life that has you ‘on the run’.
If you dream of the desire to run but cannot get your feet to obey it shows a lack of self confidence and perseverance on your part. Try sticking to your guns and see how much your life will change.
Interpretation 9 — Michael and Elizabeth Thiessen
If you succeed in running away from, or elude a pursuer, then you will be able to change those things in your life that has you ‘on the run’.
If you dream of the desire to run but cannot get your feet to obey it shows a lack of self confidence and perseverance on your part. Try sticking to your guns and see how much your life will change.
Interpretation 10 — Versatile - Anonymous
To be running forwards suggests confidence and ability.
To be running away from someone or something signifies fear and an inability to do something. Running back to something indicates that a readjustment or reassessment is necessary.
If we do not know our destination we may not have thought through a plan properly.
Interpretation 11 — Versatile - Anonymous
If we are being pursued this will also give some kind of reason.
To be running something – managing – is to be taking responsibility.
Interpretation 12 — Nancy Wagaman
A desire to move forward more quickly.
A perception of time passing quickly (or not quickly enough).
Feeling rushed somehow in your life, or making a “dash to the finish line.” A real-life intense activity or exertion.
See Traveling, Escaping, Fast, Chasing, Chased, Being
Interpretation 13 — Ella Freeman Sharpe
If the dreamer is running with others contests or festivities may be subconsciously latent in the dreamers mind.
If the dreamer is running away from someone there is a fear of loss of money or a hatred for that someone.
Interpretation 14 — Astro Center
If such a situation is not readily recognized by the dreamer, looking to the other symbols in the dream should give the answer. Astrological parallel: Pisces
Interpretation 15 — Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin
2. Avoidance of conflict or confrontations; fears and anger (to run from something).
3. Enthusiasm toward goals (to run toward something).
4. Good luck and happiness.
Interpretation 16 — Patrica Telesco
What’s chasing you, or from what are you trying to escape? Perhaps the past or an unpleasant experience?
Hurrying, without necessarily having a defined goal.
Interpretation 17 — Martha Clarke
Interpretation 18 — Versatile - Anonymous
The original marathon signalled victory and was a trial to the death. Running races or marathons in dreams are, therefore, tests of endurance.
Interpretation 19 — myjellybean
Interpretation 20 — Vincent Wienand
1. Flee from truth;
2. Being attack;
3. From what are you running, fear/ exams etc; The race in the kingdom of the Lord; Jer. 12:5;Prov. 1:6; Rev. 9:9; 1 Cor. 9:24; Is. 40 31;Job16:14.
Interpretation 21 — Stephen Girard
Interpretation 22 — Silvana Amar
Interpretation 23 — Ariadne Green
Interpretation 24 — Internet Archive - Anonymous
If you succeed in reaching your goal, then all will go well. But if you tire, or stop Running, then expect business difficulties.