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The feeling of being chased by someone or something, yet unable to run away or move, is also associated with the muscles in our limbs. During certain phases of sleep, in particular REM sleep, we are in fact paralysed. As with the myoclonic jerk, our unconscious awareness of not being able to move is often transformed into a scene in which we are rooted to the spot and cannot get away from whatever it is that is pursuing us. Sometimes the pursuer represents an aspect of the dreamer’s own hostile tendencies, and sometimes it is the hostile tendencies of others. If, however, we can consciously identify the thing that chases us during the night, and can turn to face it during the day, it will no longer haunt our consciousness or our unconscious.