The house itself is physically different in each dream, but it is recognized by me as the same house. Sometimes I know who or what is chasing me, sometimes I don't. Regardless, I always end up in an upstairs part of the house, and the entire middle of the house is completely open all the way to the ground. There is basically a walkway around the inside perimeter of the house with doors leading off, and nothing in the central cavity. As whatever is chasing me closes in, I leap from the walkway to the bottom of the house, waking up as I land jarringly. I do not have this dream regularly, but I have had it off and on for years. There are, of course, many different ways to interpret this dream. Taking a strictly Freudian perspective, the dream almost certainly relates to sexual desire in some way. Most...

The dark and narrow hallways that I run through in the house before reaching the top -- the manifest content of the dream -- are symbols for the female genitalia, according to Freud. The repeated passage through different doorways that occurs continues this sexual latent content, symbolizing a desire for intercourse in the Freudian perspective. My final leap does not lead to flying -- another Freudian symbol for sex -- but the falling through the air that is experienced and the sense of relief from escaping the chasing force could be seen as a desire to give myself over to sexual abandon. These guesses at the latent content of the dream are not very well substantiated, however, and the manifest content could represent a number of things.