The most common superstitions say that if you have this dream one of your greatest wishes will come true. Others, surprisingly, predict marriage. [1]
If your dream takes place in jail, examine your life for a situation or limiting belief that is holding you back. [2]
If you are the jailer, you may have an unconscious desire to exert control over others or in a particular situation. Either way, this dream suggests that you have obstacles in your life that may not be easy to overcome. [4]
To see strangers in jail may mean you will be asked to help someone you do not feel is deserving.
To be in jail may mean you are suffering from a feeling of confinement and too much togetherness with your spouse.
To see someone on death row denotes the death of an unhappy relationship. [6]
For a young woman to dream that her lover is in jail, she will be disappointed in his character, as he will prove a deceiver.
2. Reverse: happiness, likely domestic.
3. A feeling someone close may not be truthful.
4. Temptations should be avoided (as in “jailbait”). [8]
If you dream your boyfriend or crush is in jail, it is a signal that this person is deceitful and untrustworthy. [9]
Your difficulties will be short term if you escaped or were released; otherwise expect a long tough struggle.
If your dream featured others in jail, it signifies freedom from worry. [10]
If you are the jailer, you may have some unconscious desire to exert control over others. [12]
being a jailer: keep an immoral or improper impulse in check.
being in: resent being guarded from your criminal impulses by others.
dark, a: look wel into matters before you leap and are cal ed to account for them.
enemies: a short-lived fortune from your reluctantly granted favor.
for a long time: feel trapped in a jail-like relationship.
life: wil answer to your employer’s criticism for going on a jag.
friends: wish you were in charge of a particular person’s actions.
wrongdoing, because of: wil be caught in a white lie, which becomes a big lie.
sweetheart, your: wil be gravely embarrassed and disappointed in lover’s character.
woman dreaming of: must endure much suffering from an unknown source.
released from, being promptly: are in danger of contracting an infectious disease. [24]