Jail

The dreams in which a prison appears or in which you are imprisoned allude to a limitation of your energy and creativity. They denote the need to transform your routine. They are also related to the changes that occur on the outside and cannot be reached from your prison. Therefore, images such as this one advise you to reflect on the causes of your imprisonment. Finally, these dreams express those attitudes and emotions imprisoned within yourself and that must be freed. When you see someone behind bars, it likely symbolizes that part of you that you repress.

The most common superstitions say that if you have this dream one of your greatest wishes will come true. Others, surprisingly, predict marriage.

Jail is the place where criminals go when they are awaiting trial and before the major incarceration of prison. You can be quite innocent of a crime and still be in jail. In this way, jail is symbolic of any powerful sense of restraint and limitation that keeps you from enjoying a sense of freedom.

If your dream takes place in jail, examine your life for a situation or limiting belief that is holding you back.

Prisons can often stand for a set of beliefs that limit the dreamer’s personal development or progress. The dream may help us escape this limitations by forcing us to confront them and examine what triggered them. A similar symbol of psychological entrapment, a cage, may also represent some kind of frustration with our life. There may be feelings of inferiority or a desire to break free from social convention.