Depth Psychology: A dream about sentencing means that you are setding a score with yourself (if you are the defendant) or with the outside world (if you are the judge). Maybe you are revisiting an old argument. Or one pan of you is in conflict with and is sitting in judgment over another part of you? Sometimes people work through an actual legal argument in their dreams. Were you the defendant in the dream or the prosecutor? The rest of the dream symbols should provide additional insight. [1]
being sentenced to death: what have you done for which you feel such insane guilt?
to prison: are wrong and have to comply with another’s decision.
unjustly in a lawsuit: people are tel ing lies about you, as you are to yourself.
reading a, from a book: waste time with many pleasures instead of concentrating on you.
receiving a: do not confide in others your guilt or innocence.
writing an incorrect, in a letter: have not got a clear conscience; settle the confusion. [2]