What Does It Mean to Dream About Madness?

To dream of madness or seeing a person who has gone mad may represent feelings about yourself or others having lost their senses to an obsession. Having "gone mad" crazy in love for someone to point of causing problems. Being emotionally incapable of getting your mind off something or someone. Unconventional behavior.

Negatively, it may reflect a tendency to totally embarrass yourself being obsessed with something. Humiliating yourself being too in love with someone. Feelings about yourself or someone else having behaved in an inappropriate manner.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing a mad man chasing after woman. In waking life she had rejected a marriage proposal from her boyfriend who continued to pursue her aggressively.

Any sort of madness in your dream is a result of repressed emotions that are being projected in your dream. The mad man is in fact a part of you, the shadow that may have reached it’s tipping point. If you are fighting with a mad person in your dream represents your inner battle with your beliefs, emotions and your Self. If you are running or being chased by a mad man suggests you are avoiding this unconscious problem instead of facing it head on.