What are jail dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like jail.
Jails in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.5% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 200 dreams.
What are the major highlights of jail dreams?
Jails is a normal dream symbol. Having jails in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Dreams of jails are aggressive
Jail dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all jails have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having jails in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include break ups, pretending, suffocation, trespassing, quicksand, east, Morocco, doors, tanks, and fast.
What symbols more present in dreams of jails?
Jail dreams are notable because they have substantially more abusing, Somalia, lawyers, prisoners, police, different roles, killing, fingerprints, crime, drugs, suicide, India, going, burglary, criminals and outlaws, robbing, guilty, cocaine, courts, movement, zebras, raping, spotlights, stabbing, accountants, serial killers, general movement, money, revenge, pretending, innocence, characters, castration, detectives, airports, escaping, hiding, jury members, ambushing, capturing, Australia, locks, grey eyes, judges, cars, beetles, books, farms, anger, gas stations, bandits, shirts, parking lots, molesting, hazel eyes, identifying, death, cages, jobs, and China than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of jails?
Jail dreams are notable because they have substantially less bedrooms, closed my eyes, creatures, fantastic beings, gold, sleep paralysis, voice, witches, other fantastic beings, mouths, mirror, opened my eyes, angels, general colors, paralysis, teeth, aggressive interactions, places, human places, verbs, vomiting, skin, guiding, birds, sleeping, swimming, and spirits than 95% of other dream symbols.
What are the symbols that help define jails?
The symbol of jails in dreams is highly related to arresting.
How does the dream symbol of jails affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in jails dreams?
Overall, dreams with jails are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of jails are much more related to different roles, more related to distant people, and more related to close people than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and much less related to fantastic beings.
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What are the emotions in jails dreams?
Overall, dreams with jails are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of jails are more related to sadness, more related to grief and sorrow, and much more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are less related to confusion.
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Who is in jails dreams?
Overall, dreams with jails are much more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of jails are much more related to work, much more related to human places, and more related to transportation than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places and less related to magical places.
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What happens in jails dreams?
Overall, dreams with jails are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of jails are much more related to aggressive interactions than dreams in general. They are less related to friendly interactions.
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How do jails in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with jails are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of jails are less related to lucid dreams, less related to sleep paralysis, and less related to sleeping.
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How can you make sense of jails in dreams?
Jail dreams are very uncommon. Among other things jail dreams are normally interconnect and aggressive.
Do you think this is true for your dream of jails? How might your dream of jails be different?
All dreams have meaning
You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.
Look for the differences
The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience jails in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.
Return to the feelings
Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about jails in dreams. See how you feel about jails now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of jails?
Being in jail is likely to be a physical representation of a personal situation. You’re trapped, confined. A situation is never-ending. Things never change. You can’t get away. See: Prisoners
Dreams can begin there and branch out far and wide. For example, you have a disability that creates a perception of you that can’t be escaped—people will always see you that way—or that limits what you can do. Or you are perceived as an unintelligent or quiet person, so you are never asked for your opinion or input.
You feel trapped in your body, in your life, in your head. It’s like being in jail.
Racial and gender stereotyping can be confining. For example, a female working in a male-dominated profession might feel like she can’t advance because of her gender.
Rules and restrictions can be confining. They can make you feel limited and trapped.
Making decisions can spark a dream about being in jail. It captures the feeling that once a decision is made, it can’t be changed. It limits your freedom to choose.
Beliefs can be limiting—not just religious beliefs but personal ones, such as a belief that you can’t do something because you don’t have the skill or ability. Some people avoid any sort of religious organization because they don’t want to limit their spiritual pursuits.
The same idea applies to social groups. To be part of certain groups, you have to look and act a certain way and espouse certain opinions and beliefs. To some people, such conformity is equivalent to being locked in a cage or kept in a jail.
“Detained” is another word for “jailed” and it can be associated with a feeling of being delayed or bogged down, in a specific situation or just in general. Or you feel you are under suspicion—suspects in crimes are detained.
Jails are associated with punishment, and in dreams a jail setting can symbolize that you feel you are being punished, or that someone—yourself included—deserves punishment. For example, you can feel that an abusive or neglectful parent deserves to be punished and dream about the person being sentenced to jail. The parent might not have broken any laws, but did break your heart or spirit. That idea applies to other people in your life. If they wrong you, they deserve punishment.
Dreaming about being jailed can stem from a guilty conscience—you feel that’s what you deserve. See: Guilty
Jails are associated with isolation. Isolation can be involuntary, such as when you don’t have any friends. Isolation can be necessary for thinking through what’s happening in your life, or pursuing something that requires long hours of solitary concentration. In such a situation you might dream that you are sentenced to jail, symbolizing self-imposed exile.
See also: Accomplices, Arresting, Bullies, Cages, Dungeons, Escaping, Fugitives, Guilty, Hostages, Jails, Police, Prisoners
This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet.
Examples of dreams of jails
Read some real dream reports of jail dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.
Dreamed that my father raped me
Does anyone know why I would dream of something like this? I’m so confused and disgusted.
Had a dream last night where I accidentally walked in on my parents having sex. It’s a bit foggy now, but I remember distinctly thinking that my “mom” didn’t look like how my irl mom looks. I can’t remember what my dad’s face looked like, but in the dream I recognized them as my parents and proceeded to get very uncomfortable but couldn’t move. Anyways eventually my mom got out and ushered me towards him, I was really scared and crying the entire time (I’m pretty sure I was aged down in this dream as well, maybe 10 or 12). I think I managed to realize it was a dream after a bit and woke up in a cold sweat. Now I can’t stop thinking about it and it makes me want to shrivel up and die, it’s so gross and uncomfortable.
It’s been a few weeks since my dad got out of jail and he’s been trying his best to put his life back together and support us. I’ve also forgiven him for being thrown in in the first place and rekindle the father-daughter relationship we had, but a dream like this just makes me want to distance myself even more.
Does anyone know why I would dream of something like this? I’m so confused and disgusted.
Had a dream last night where I accidentally walked in on my parents...
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Freaky dream that I know has a huge meaning
I’ve been fearing people I trust in my life and friends have bad intentions for me and through church and prayer I’ve found some peace but this dream scared me... I was back in jail at a facility called Rio Consumnes Corrections Center (the place where I first felt the presence of god in me and preached to other inmates) and for some reason I decided to hop fences and escape and I made it out of the last fence and made a break for a rocky hill and at the base to my right I saw a little brown snake halfway hiding beneath a rock and kept running then saw 2 more small brown snakes snakes one crawling in some weeds to my direct left and one just kinda chilling but all of them made eye contact with me at some point but I ignored it and kept running until I stopped dead in my tracks frozen in fear because there was a final brown snake with a large throat and no scales at the bulge in its throat sitting on top of a rock at about chest level to me coiled up and just staring into my soul flicking it’s tongue and tilting it’s head and staring Just the most terrifying stare I just stopped in my tracks and stared back for a moment before turning around and carefully trying to walk back to the jail carefully trying to remember where the other snakes were and right about when I turned around and made a few shakey fearful steps my girlfriend woke me up... anyone out there know what this may mean I’ve looked up some snake dream meanings and jail escape jail meanings but I’m not sure how to fit them together and which meaning may apply to either side of the dream... anyone have any idea what this might mean ??? Taking all interpretations
I’ve been fearing people I trust in my life and friends have bad intentions for me and through church and prayer I’ve found some peace but this dream scared...
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I killed someone
So I recently had a dream where I was in a boot camp-like place with many of my friends and we were all ordered to do stuff, the sleeping and toilet conditions were bad and so on. But at one point everyone, including the boys, were to meet up in a specific area and wait for further instructions. Many of the girls from my group headed to the area and most of the guys too, but I noticed four boy sitting in another room looking through a window at the rest of the group. For some reason I went in there and noticed an unattended gun lying on the ground. I didn’t really hesitate or even think of telling someone about, but instead I picked it up, aimed it at one of the guys and shot them. I immediately dropped the gun, kicked it to one of the other guys, and bolted out the room. Staff ran into the room but I was talking with someone I knew.
I remember I was scared and confused and even praying to God that I didn’t get arrested. After staff took away the gun and the body, the cops were called. The cops lined everyone up against a wall and they had the gun in a bag. One of the staff asked if they were going to look for finger prints on it but the cops said due to a new law they wouldn’t be able to search for prints.
I was so relieved and was thinking it was a gift from God or something and that I wasn’t going to jail even though what I had done was really bad.
That’s the second time where I was a murderer in a dream
So I recently had a dream where I was in a boot camp-like place with many of my friends and we were all ordered to do stuff, the sleeping and toilet conditions...
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A dream about witnessing a murder/assassination
I feel like it was familiar with a dream I had some days before, but basically I witnessed some woman in the same room being shot by a possible hitman. I somehow understood that the hitman was ordered by the government and knew they were gonna cover it up. We were stuck in a room, certainly not jail, but it seemed cell-like, like we were detained for something. I was there with a relative too. I was particularly shook of the murder that took place, and they were contemplating whether to let us go or shut us up permanently since we were witnesses. Then I woke up in stress
Any takes?
I feel like it was familiar with a dream I had some days before, but basically I witnessed some woman in the same room being shot by a possible hitman. I...
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Duvet made of Jail Bars. But struggling to interpret.
So I can't tell you the rest of the surrounding dream because it's faded from my mind. However, this section sticks out most:
I was asleep in my bed, but not in my room. In an open space with the surrounding area is crumbling and burning buildings as if it was a city ruins post post-apocolyptic war. I wake up in the dream and my duvet is made of jail bars that move in motion as if it was the same as a normal duvet. I don't feel trapped. I don't feel the weight of the bars. All I feel is that I'm very cold and I want to warm up.
So I can't tell you the rest of the surrounding dream because it's faded from my mind. However, this section sticks out most:
I was asleep in my bed, but not...
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