Police

A dream involving a police officer symbolizes the establishment and its rules and regulations. It may also mean a failure on your part to fulfill and honor your responsibilities and promises.

To dream that you are arrested by the police suggests guilty feelings about your repressed emotions or sexuality.

To dream you are a police officer indicates your moral compass. Your dream may be directing you to a righteous path.

If you have recurring dreams of being a police officer, it may mean a guilty past. Your dream calls for you to look at your acts and wrongdoings from police perspective.

To dream that you are having difficulties in contacting the police suggests ineffectual authority. Take command of a given situation and be in control of the circumstances in your life.

To dream of being pulled over by police suggests taking time off from your busy schedule and refraining from stressful activities.

To see or dream that you are chasing a felon suggests a moral dilemma which you need to resolve.

Your own conscience.

Protection or security, or a desire for more.

Rules or requirements (yours, a group’s, society’s, etc.).

Laws (a country’s, nature’s, scientific, spiritual, etc.) or an issue regarding them (dislike, a desire for better enforcement, etc.).

A need to take responsibility for your actions.

Being asked to live up to an agreement you’ve made.

Calling the police can represent: a feeling or fear of threat or overwhelm, a need for protection or help.

Being afraid of the police can represent, fear of a real-life authority (the tax collector, your supervisor, etc.), fear of being falsely accused.

The police catching you breaking the law can represent: a feeling or fear of being accused, watched, or scrutinized, feeling a need to take more responsibility for yourself and your actions.

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If the police are chasing you, it suggests that you may be feeling some guilt about something that you have done or have been thinking of doing.

The police could be addressing Karmic Law as well as the laws in our physical world.

If you are feeling that you can’t meet all of your obligations and fear repercussions due to an unmet commitment, the police may be an unwelcome sight. On a more positive note and depending on the details of your dream, the police could symbolize support and protection. Your emotional response to the dream will provide you with good clues to interpreting this dream accurately. Old dream interpretation books say that dreaming about police is an indication that you will obtain unexpected assistance with a current problem.