A dream about feeling anxious in public isn’t about the public. It’s about the gap. The gap between what everyone can see and what’s actually happening inside you. The gap between how you’re required to appear and how you actually feel. The gap between the composed, functioning, socially acceptable version of yourself and whatever is…
A dream about losing control doesn’t start with things falling apart. It starts with the moment you realise you can’t hold them together anymore. That distinction matters. The external world hasn’t changed. The situation hasn’t collapsed. But something inside — the capacity you’ve been using to keep everything in place — has reached its limit….
A dream about darkness and fear isn’t about the dark. It’s about what the dark removes. When there’s light, you know where you are. You know what’s in the room. You know the distance between yourself and everything else. You have information. The dark removes all of that — and what you’re left with is…
A dream about heart racing is different from other anxiety dreams because the body doesn’t wait for the dream to explain itself. Most fear dreams give you something — a threat, a chaser, a situation — and your body responds. In a heart racing dream, the sequence reverses. Your heart is already going. The rate…
A dream about someone watching you doesn’t involve threat. It involves gaze. You’re not being chased. Nothing is closing in. The person watching you isn’t moving. They’re just — looking. From across the room, from a distance, from a position you can’t fully locate. And that looking is unbearable in a way that has nothing…
A dream about being trapped doesn’t start with the walls. It starts with the moment you realise there’s nowhere to go. Not threat approaching. Not something chasing. Just — the specific awareness that every direction you might move has closed off. The door won’t open. The window is sealed. The room keeps getting smaller or…
A dream about hiding from someone is different from being chased. When you’re chased, the threat is active — it’s moving toward you and you’re responding. When you’re hiding, you’ve already made a decision. You found a place. You got small. You made yourself as invisible as possible and now you’re waiting to see if…
A dream about running away from danger isn’t really about the danger. It’s about the running. The choice — made before you were conscious of making it — to move away rather than toward. To create distance rather than contact. To keep going rather than stop and face whatever is behind you. The dream doesn’t…
Being chased by something you can’t see is worse than being chased by something you can. When the threat has a face — a person, an animal, something with form — you know what you’re running from. You can measure the distance. You can orient yourself in relation to it. When there’s nothing there —…