Verfolgung
Vermeidung — etwas, dem Sie sich weigern, sich zuzuwenden und anzusehen.
Chase dreams are reliably about avoidance. The pursuer is not the threat the dream makes it look like — it is what you have been refusing to face. The dream's structural trick is that the moment you stop running and turn around in the dream, the chase usually ends.
In waking life, this maps onto a conversation you have been postponing, a feeling you have been numbing, or a truth you have been performing around. The dream is not telling you the situation is dangerous; it is telling you avoidance has become more costly than confrontation.
Where you often see it. A pursuer you cannot see clearly. Running through familiar streets that are larger than usual. The dream uses chase for avoidance — something you have been refusing to turn around and look at.
What it is not. The chaser is not the threat the dream makes it look like. The dictionary's standard reading is that turning around in the dream often resolves the dream.
Related in the dictionary. Read chase with running, hiding, and any scene where the dreamer's whole effort goes into not facing one thing.