Ian Wallace Interpretation:
Opportunity to revitalize a unique talent I have been neglecting so I can breathe some new life into my creative efforts
Dream: You are in a public place in broad daylight and are horrified to find yourself being pursued by a gang of zombies. They move in such a ponderous way and you can’t work out how they are gaining on you because you are running as fast as you possibly can. You try to avoid them but nothing stops their inevitable progress as they plod slowly towards you and they seem intent on turning you into one of the undead like them. Although zombies are the most common pursuers, you may also find yourself being chased by vampires or werewolves.
Meaning: Dreaming of being pursued by zombies suggests that you are involved in some dull repetitive activity in your waking life where you feel like you are just going through the motions. This activity is often associated with your professional life and usually involves mind-numbing tasks that seem to drain all the life energy from you. Being in this situation leaves you with very little time to pursue the hopes and ambitions that really matter to you. This can lead to you abandoning your most precious plans, particularly if you feel under pressure from peers or parents to do so. Although you thought your aspirations had been laid to rest, they have been lurking in limbo, waiting for an opportunity for you to bring them back to life. The ponderous progress of the zombies reflects that you feel that you are getting nowhere in your professional life, even though you seem to be working as hard as you possibly can. Your fear of being caught suggests that you are afraid of becoming trapped in your current job and it will become a completely soul-destroying experience for you. The zombies have the potential to embody all the things you want to achieve, however, and are just waiting for you to breathe life back into them. Being pursued by vampires suggests that all your energy is being drained by an unhealthy romantic relationship. Pursuit by werewolves indicates that family commitments are allowing you no time to pursue your ambitions.
Action: This dream is alerting you to the fact that you have a unique talent that you have been ignoring. Although you assumed your opportunity to express this talent was dead and buried, it is time to breathe some new life into your efforts. By bringing your ideas and plans back to life, you will revitalize your ambitions and feel like you have real purpose in your life again. Zombies usually try to eat the brains of their victims and this dream is urging you to use your brain to release yourself from conformity and really express your individuality.
Background: Even though zombies can seem quite monstrous, our key fear isn’t that they will kill us, but that we will end up in a lethargic and lifeless limbo like them. Although zombies have become part of our popular culture through films such as George A Romero’s 1968 film Night of the Living Dead, they were inspired by the Voodoo tradition of reanimated corpses being controlled by a sorcerer. This has come to symbolize how armies of workers have given up their individuality to be controlled by the bosses of a corporate machine, as powerfully depicted in Fritz Lang’s 1926 film Metropolis.