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You may also watch out for getting yourself stuck in the same mess over and over again, or getting the feeling that you're trapped in routine.

This is an odd question, but what exactly is so horrible about this? Originality is something that is overrated. Individuality is slightly less overrated, but still meaningless when it comes to what is truly you.

In other words, why does everything have to be different and what does it matter if you are caught? It's one thing to explore every available option and another to have to do things differently every time.

I just get this feeling that this dream has more to it than just fear of being predictable and using all available alternatives. More to do with the reason why you feel the need to be unpredictable in the first place. Is it a fear of not being first, of having your place taken? Or is it a fear of being caught, that your unpredictability has become so predictable that you can no longer hide behind it?

Maybe I am getting stuck in the same messes over and over again. I don't feel like I follow a routine

Freedom, huh?

Are you the kind of person that is seen as caring and responsible, that others go to when they need help or a favor?

I get the feeling you are.

If that's true, then this dream is most likely a representation of your life and the dilemma of it. The thing is you are a very clever and intelligent person. You know how others think and especially what they expect. And you don't want to let anyone down or leave them hanging. But this clashes with your own needs and freedom. But rather than assert yourself, you'd sooner just avoid the situation and thus the contradiction outright. So when you don't want to feel pressured to have to do something, you just avoid it by avoiding the people that will appeal to your "better" nature to do it.

At first, this is a thrill. Cause you get to exercise your cleverness and resourcefulness that is otherwise underappreciated. And you get the smug satisfaction of outsmarting others that just want to use you anyway. But as time goes on, they catch on. And are more than happy to play this little "game" with you.

I don't think you've been caught 100% at it yet, but I think what your subconscious is trying to pose to you is just what will you do when you run out of options, that there literally is no where else to run?

I feel pegged sweatdrop
What would I do? I've had problems with that before so it actually makes alot of sense what you said. I guess... in the avoidance of the issues I'm trying to ignore that question to. I don't think I'd go along with it. I'm very defiant when people try to make me do things. Sometimes though when people are nice and... ask me in a way that isn't too presumptous or demanding its hard not to. Your interpretation makes alot of sense as the people wouldn't take me or capture me in public. Which is true when people want to ask you favors or get you to do something, they usually don't try to make you do anything in public or they have to convince the public that its "ok" what they are doing. People don't like others to judge them I guess.

They also never used force they always just tried to talk to me. But I always made sure I was in public or others were around.

Heh, I hope I wasn't too blunt. I know from experience no one likes feeling pegged. Feels like an intrusion of privacy, ya know?

Anyway, I understand very well where you are coming from. It sounds like you're definitely more assertive though. It's just that you hold back during times it would probably be better if you were just blunt with the people.

That's also the hangup with the dream. I mean you're found. You don't want to be found. You don't want them finding you again. It would be the simplest thing just to tell them to go away. In fact, the dream makes it clear that you really ought to. I know I would if I had someone hounding me like that.

Of course in real life it isn't quite that simple, but it can be. What it boils down to is knowing when something is truly reasonable and knowing when a person is just sounding reasonable. And you definitely have the sense to know.

So like the dream keeps pushing...the ball's in your court. DO something. 3nodding

Hmm...

I haven't really wanted to pry too much, but any detail, any little oddity or feeling, is very important when it comes to deciphering dreams. The rule usually is that if you noticed it and remembered it, it is something important.

Like not hearing any sound...the feeling of not being able to stop it.

Since sound deals with hearing and listening it suggests a communication problem on your end. Like either you are not hearing these people or they are not really talking to you.

This is enforced by you saying that you feel as though you would not be able to talk. It is impossible to respond to something you did not hear.

And...this changes some things. More like inverts them... x.x

Like until now I've been saying and thinking the problem was a lack of action. And I should have caught it when you said that even though it is difficult, you have and can be assertive. So the problem may not be that. It may be that you're acting ineffectually in the absence of information. That by trying to avoid unpleasant situations with others, you may be causing them or at the very least preventing yourself from obtaining the information needed to resolve them.

And that in turn would help explain the repetitive nature of the chase. Like, how you end up in the exact same spots getting caught may be a clue in an of itself that you're just repeating. And you've said that before...but I didn't really catch the potential significance of that till now. Because without any new information, one would be doomed to repeat the same tired paths and events in their life.