Trial

If you are on trial and other people are judging you, the other people will usually represent parts of yourself. In other words, you are the judge and jury as well as the accused. Whatever the details of the dream (which may help you understand why you are declaring yourself guilty), bear in mind that guilt-feelings and self-denigration contribute nothing to your well-being or personal development; that all parts of you are of equal value insofar as their contributions are needed for personal wholeness; and that the conscience that judges you is usually parental and social expectations and prohibitions now functioning as mechanisms of your own psyche, and these ‘do’s’ and ‘don’tY themselves need to be judged in terms of whether they are life-enhancing or life-denying.

If you see yourself sentenced to a trial in your dreams, it symbolizes the need to review your behavior, your way of treating people, or the way you focus your life projects. The trial indicates that you are not satisfied with your own behavior. In and of itself, the trial is a symbol of the fight between good and evil.

If you are in the role of judge rather than the accused, it means that soon you will take on a great responsibility.

The majority of oneiric oracles agree that this dream foretells legal disputes.

Psychological / emotional perspective: To dream of a scenario where we are being prosecuted suggests that we feel that authority has us on trial and we must justify ourselves, usually from an emotional perspective, but sometime in our actions or demeanour. Trial by ordeal, such as the supposed witched went through in previous times, appearing as a dream image signifies that we may be feeling persecuted.