If this distinction is made clear in your dream, recognize that jail is a more temporary form of bondage. Prison indicates that a more serious matter is being expressed. At the core of the symbolic meaning of prison is what you did to get there.
The inciting incident that ends in jail time is always a choice that may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but has consequences resulting in the removal of freedom and comfort in some area of your life. When this environment plays prominently in a dream, examine your life for where you may be feeling that a decision you made in the past is feeling like something you can’t escape in the present. [1]
1- Prison, in dreams, stands for the traps we create for ourselves. We may feel that outside circumstances are making life difficult, but in actual fact we are creating those circumstances ourselves. This can be on an emotional, material or spiritual level.
Often we crcate a prison for ourselves through a sense of duty or guilt and this can often be shown in dreams.
The types of locks and bolts we perceive in our prison may show us how we are imprisoning ourselves.
For example, a lock with a key would suggest that we know how to escape, whereas a bolt shows that we have to make a greater effort.
A barred window would suggest that we are being prevented from using that which is external to us.
Duty and guilt are opposite sides of the same coin in a spiritual sense. Duty can be a liability and therefore a trap, and guilt can prevent us from seeing a way forward. Often, when we feel trapped either by duty or guilt we will dream of a prison. [2]
If so, you must integrate the repressed emotion or
instinct that is now overflowing from your unconscious into your observable behaviour,
(2) If someone else is in prison, he or she probably represents some part of you that has been shut up in your unconscious, possibly as a result of some traumatic experience (in childhood?), and which needs to be set free and given suitable employment in your conscious life. [4]
To dream that someone is put in Prison through your efforts is not a fortunate sign. You are being too venturesome in your money matters, too eager to secure a profit, and it may mean a loss instead 01 a gain. [5]
A prison may also mention that you are imprisoned by your own thoughts or beliefs. Since a prison represents lack of personal freedom, it may point to a relationship that restricts your freedom, such as a bad marnage. [6]
To see any one dismissed from prison, denotes that you will finally overcome misfortune.
Punishment.
Discipline.
A feeling or fear of an authority having too much control over you, or allowing them too much control.
See also: Trapped, Restrained [10]
If you dream your boyfriend or crush is in prison, it is a signal that this person is deceitful and untrustworthy. [11]
2. Confining or trapped situation.
3. Repressed communication, expression, usually emotional.
4. Repressed aspect of personality (someone else imprisoned). [12]
2. Captivity
3. Stronghold;
4. Place of confinement;
5. Satan’s kingdom;
6. Place of judgement and punishment;
7. Bound by your own thoughts/words. [13]
A mental bondage; see “bound” [16]
If one sees a known personality or a government administrator imprisoned or jailed, it could mean the same.
If one sees himself incarcerated in a large prison in a dream, it means that he will stand before a strong person who will delegate an important responsibility to him, and from which he will gain spiritual advancement.lfhe is incarcerated in an unknownjail which is built from plaster in a dream, then it represents his grave. Ifone sees himself locked and tied-up inside a house in a dream, it means a positive advancement in his life.
If in such a place one sees himself being tortured in a dream, it means that his benefits and profits will be greater.
If a woman sees herself imprisoned in a dream, it means that she will marry an important person or an older person.
If in one’s dream the prison is administered by a religious authority, it means that one correctly prescribes to his religion.
If it is a civil prison, then it means adversities, sufferings and distress caused by hypocrisy and by blaming others.
An unknown prison in a dream means the world.
A prison in a dream also represents an ill-natured wife, a difficult cause, silence, or controlling one’s tongue, the perfidy of one’s enemy, accusations, allegations, associating with rich people, one’s grave, suspension of travels because of an illness, losing one’s 342 drive, poverty, or unhappiness. Entering a prison in a dream also means longevity, or reuniting with one’s beloved.
If one chooses to live in a sanctuary away from people in a dream, it means that he will be protected from sin.
If a sick person leaves his prison cell in a dream, it means that he will recover from his illness.
If a prisoner sees the gates of his jail open, or if there is a hole in the wall, or a ray of light, or if the ceiling of one’s prison disappears and he can see the skies and stars above him, or ifhe can see them through the walls of his cell in a dream, it means that he will escape from jail.
A prison in a dream also represents the safe return of a traveller, or the death of a sick person. Ifone sees himself imprisoned and tide-up by someone in authority in a dream, it represents adversities he wishes for them to be removed. Walking out of such an imprisonment in a dream means relieffrom such adversities Ifone is travelling, it means that he is a heedless, and if he is sick, it means that his sickness is a prolonged one.
It is also said that imprisonment in a dream may mean that one’s prayers are answered and that his difficulties and distress will be removed.
If one sees himself incarcerated in an unknown jail of an unknown location and whose dwellers have uncommon appearance in a dream, such a prison then represents his grave.
If a sick person sees himself walking out of an unknown prison, or out of a tiny house into a large open space in a dream, it means that he will recover from his illness and fully enjoy his life.
If one sees himself incarcerated in a prison he does not recognize in a dream, it means that he will marry a woman through whom he will prosper and have children.
If one sees himselftied-up inside his own house in a dream, it means that he will profit and witness blessings that will show in his household members.
If one who is experiencing difficulties in his life sees himself tied-up to a chair or to a wall in a dream, it means that his problems and fears will be dispelled.
If one sees himselfbuilding a prison in a dream, it means that he will meet a righteous man, or an Imam who will guide him on the straight path.
A prison in a dream also represents paralysis, arrogance, self-deception, or incarcerating troublesome people.
If one sees a deceased person in jail in a dream, it means that he is in hell. Ifone sees himself imprisoned in a dream, it also means that he may enter a forbidden place, a house of a prostitution, or a tavern.
(See also: Cage, Imam, Mental hospital) [23]
barbed wire surrounding a: straying has irredeemable consequences.
being in: are dejected at being forced to account for your actions.
others: self-enslavement is an addiction; success in spite of it.
released on parole: you know the seemy side and are unafraid to report on it.
being released from: reject the current offer on the table.
cell, being in a: your behavior patterns need revision.
breaking out of a: feel restraints are unjustified; your addictions rule the roost.
empty: prefer to be left alone in love disputes.
looking from barred windows: whose scruples are blocking your action?
dining hall: food wil never be sufficient to feed your hunger.
getting out of a: punishment for a short-lived fortune has been enough.
iron gate: need help of several friends to stimulate your creativity.
others being in a: need to elicit help of several friends.
prisoner, untying a: unexpected events wil transpire.
remaining in: a triumph over a restrictive part of yourself.
trapped in a: a big disgrace wil come to you from enforced restraint.
tunnel, trying to escape through a: your guilt is a journey, go through it.
visiting another in: your deeds have debilitated the friendship.
windows that are barred: others prevent any new action until you revisit your old actions. [24]