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Cage (jail) Dream Meaning

Escaping from a jail: Freedom, liberation, and self-expression. Also moving into a new stage in your life.

Punishing yourself or someone else for something you perceive as going against personal, societal, or divine law.

Cabin fever. Feeling cooped up with no place to really stretch your skills.

Restraint. What’s inside the cage that you’re not letting out? Or, what’s holding you in?

Having your rules set by an authority figure who makes you feel boxed in.

Prisons represent the inability to regain control. Also having limited options or confinement within a specific societal boundary.

An expression of claustrophobia. [1]

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Sources and Authors

  1. The Language of Dreams by Patrica Telesco [Back to dream]

What does CAGE (JAIL) mean in a dream?


Escaping from a jail: Freedom, liberation, and self-expression. Also moving into a new stage in your life.Punishing yourself or someone else for something you perceive as going against personal, societal,...

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Material aspects: The cage normally represents a form of trap or jail.To dream of caging a wild animal alerts us to our need to restrain our wilder instincts.To dreamthat we...

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Dreams in which you are a prisoner refer to a limitation of your energy and creativity. They are also related to changes that take place outside, changes you cannot enjoy...

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A cage is designed to keep something captive while still allowing an illusion of open space. You may be feeling confined in some way in your life. Who or what...

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also see Prison1- The cage normally represents some form of trap or jail.To dream of caging a wild animal alerts us to our need to restrain our wilder instincts.To dream...

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Seeing people in jail foretells small worries for the dreamer, such as disappointment in associates, or losses due to negligence on the part of others concerned.A jailer in the dream...

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Universal Landscape: Restrictions and consequences of choices made.Dreaming Lens: Were you in jail? Was someone else? Were you visiting a jail? Were you in a cell? Why were you imprisoned?...

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Dreams of a jail or prison guard signifies that you are coming to grips with the part of you that holds you captive behind bars of guilt and shame. You...

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Dreaming about being in jail usually reflects a sense of restriction one feels in one’s outer life, the limiting of one’s creativity. It could also indicate a sense of guilt...

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In a dream, a cage maker represents a builder, a tailor, marriage, a teacher, a prison guard or a weaver.

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There are consequences for the choices you make, and some of those choices bind you in a particular way. When you break the law, you go to prison. And while...

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Playing characters who are often taken over by the shadow of addiction, the appearance of Nicolas Cage may remark on depression, addictions, or defeatist attitudes. Despite his fumbling and failures,...

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If you wake up before being caught, eaten or beaten, you need to ask yourself what you need to wake up to. What are you missing or avoiding in waking...

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If the dreamer is in the cage: frustration arising from a sense of social pressure restraining expression, or from one’s moral restraints imprisoning one; feeling caged by lack of opponunity...

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The cactus is a negative sign because, like its spines, it reflects the painful moments that the subject is going through. This may be because someone constantly pricks you with...

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This can indicate restraint or entrapment or feeling stuck in a job, lifestyle or relationship. Is your freedom somehow restricted in waking life? Are your inhibitions stopping you expressing your...

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A dream about obstacles, as in Prison, Cage—only more severe.

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You are considering an unwise partnership if you dreamed of needing or supplying bail.Try to find a diplomatic way to sidestep the situation.See also Arrest and Jail.

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lucky numbers: 17-25-29-31-32-35being: wil be put in your place when trying to lay an indemnity on another. friends: wil incur debts from moneylenders. put in jail for: live strictly for...

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You are being warned against carelessness with your commitments if you dreamed of being confined in a cell.Failure to keep your promises could lead to loss of valued friends.See also...

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An omen of Black. But you will overcome your difficulties if you catch the bird, or if it is in a cage.

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A certain promise of happiness ahead, so don’t allow any current worries to depress you.See also Birds, Cage, and Colors.

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If you dream of being confined in a gaol, you will be prevented from carrying forward some profitable work by the intervention of envious people; but if you escape from...

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Restriction and lack of freedom, similar to Cage, Prison, Shackles. Restricted movements are particularly emphasized here.Folklore: A dream about obstacles.

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To get stuck on something and be unable to get away.A frequent dream symbol in cases of addiction. You feel emotionally imprisoned, as in Cage, Prison.

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To see a jailer, denotes that treachery will embarrass your interests and evil women will enthrall you.To see a mob attempting to break open a jail, is a forerunner of...

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Police in your dream are a symbol of security in your life, and even if your dream involved trouble with them, it is an omen of contrary and signifies that...

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It is one of the best omens possible to hear a bird singing happily; it is Nature in her kindest mood. But if the songster is shut up in a...

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Feeling restricted, needing more space and Air, as in Cage and Elevator (Lift).A symbol of power that has been achieved through clear thinking and personal judgment.

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Difficult situation, being imprisoned; more prudence and caution is in order. Feeling of restriction, as in Siege, Amber, Village, Cage, and Elevator.See Falling.

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Petrification, narrowness (restricted lifestyle), as in: Siege, Elevator, Village, Cage, Trap.A warning about arrogance. Also jealousy, like all types of jewelry (gems).

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Dreaming of a grid most often implies difficulties. To a certain point, it is a good omen, as it means that you can achieve success in your projects with strength...

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These little birds in your dream are considered harbingers of pleasant news.See also Birds and Cage.

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