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What are prisoner dreams about?

The DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon insights from 1,200 dream symbols in over 200,000 dreams. Let’s see what the data has to say about prisoner dreams.

The word cloud above shows the words that are specifically associated with prisoner dreams. These are the words that make prisoner dreams unique compared to all other dream symbols. Just examining the graph and reading the words of prisoner dreams can be illuminating about show prisoners affect our dreams. Be sure to check out the example prisoner dreams at the bottom of the page.

The circular bar chart above shows how prisoners in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that prisoner is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that prisoner is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, prisoner dreams have more unnamed people than 97.1% of dream symbols, more aggressive acts than 94.1% of dream symbols, and more strangers than 91.2% of dream symbols. On the other hand, prisoner dreams have less sleep paralysis than 87.3% of dream symbols, less recurring dreams than 83.5% of dream symbols, and less family than 81.3% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of prisoners are friendly! These dreams have more friendly interactions than 80% of all of the other dream symbols. Friendly dreams can be great. They involve people helping other people, expressing love, and just being good to one another. Finally, dreams of prisoners are aggressive! Prisoner dreams have more aggressive interactions than 80% of all of the other dream symbols. Aggressive interactions involve attacks, arguments, yelling, pushing, killing, and so on. These dreams can be scary, stressful, or confusing. But, as with all dreams, it is best to explore what is there. Why was there aggression? Was it really aggression? Every dream is unique. These are general patterns observed in an analysis of over 200,000 dreams. This analysis is a tool to help you make sense of your dreams. It is best to look at the differences. See how your dream of prisoners is different than dreams of prisoners in general.

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How common are prisoner dreams?

0.3% of dreams have the prisoners symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 400 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is very uncommon.

Identification

How are prisoner dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like prisoner. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols characters and unnamed people.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of prisoners?

Prisoners dreams are notable because they have substantially more Bilbo Baggins, arresting, Venezuela, Lebanon, The Holocaust, jury members, Professor Albus Dumbledore, executing, Frodo, jails, Luke Skywalker than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of prisoners?

Prisoners do not especially suppress any other dream symbols.

Deep dive into prisoner dreams

Get an overview of characters, emotions, places, events, dream events, and senses in prisoner dreams.

Who is in dreams of prisoners?

Who is in dreams of prisoners?

Dreams of prisoners are much more related to unnamed people, more related to fantastic beings, and much more related to strangers than dreams in general. They are less related to peers and less related to family.

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What are the emotions in dreams of prisoners?

What are the emotions in dreams of prisoners?

Prisoner dreams are more related to fear, more related to hatred, and more related to fun than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to embarrassment, and less related to confusion.

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Where do dreams of prisoners take place?

Where do dreams of prisoners take place?

Prisoner dreams are more related to work, more related to human-made places, and more related to natural places than dreams in general. They are less related to schools.

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What happens in dreams of prisoners?

What happens in dreams of prisoners?

Prisoner dreams are much more related to aggressive acts, more related to friendly acts, and more related to sex than dreams in general.

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How do dreams of prisoners related to the type of dream it is?

How do dreams of prisoners related to the type of dream it is?

Prisoner dreams are more related to bad dreams and more related to weird dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring dreams, less related to sleep paralysis, and less related to vivid dreams.

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How do dreams of prisoners related the senses?

How do dreams of prisoners related the senses?

Prisoner dreams are more related to hearing and more related to smelling than dreams in general.

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How can you make sense of prisoners in dreams?

Prisoner dreams are very uncommon. Among other things prisoner dreams are friendly and aggressive. Do you think this is true for your dream of prisoners? How might your dream of prisoners be different?

All dreams have meaning

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

Look for the differences

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience prisoners in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Return to the feelings

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 prisoners in dreams. See how you feel about prisoners now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of prisoner dreams

An interpretation of prisoner dreams

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. To dream you are a prisoner can symbolize the feeling of being isolated or withdrawn. The situation might be due to circumstances beyond your control, but also consider that some people choose isolation in order to know themselves better and make personal progress. In this sense, a prisoner is like a monk or nun in a cell, deprived of freedom and social contact to gain a closer relationship with God. A dream about a cell might be a suggestion from your unconscious mind that you need more time alone in order to find yourself. On the other hand, it can mean you have too much time alone. You can be a prisoner of your beliefs or of your own mind. In this sense, a prisoner connects with the idea of restriction and limits. See: Cages, Jails A dream’s depiction of a character as a prisoner instead of a captive or hostage adds the dimension of punishment and guilty conscience. Prisoners can be used as characters to symbolize control by an outside influence or authority. For example, addicts are sometimes described as prisoners because they can’t control their addiction. “Prisoner” has a more helpless or slave-like connotation to it. See: Hostages People who live in poverty can be described as prisoners of their situation. People in cults are like prisoners if forcibly prevented from leaving. An abused domestic partner can be kept prisoner through coercion and threat. The question to ask is, what’s keeping you where you are? Use the list below to fully explore this subject. See also: Accomplices, Addicts, Attacking, Cages, Courts, Crime, Escaping, Fugitives, Guilty, Hostages, Jails, Police

Examples of dreams of prisoners

Reading dreams is one of the best ways to understand dream symbols. Even though the DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon data, it is grounded in the experience of reading thousands upon thousands of dreams. We invite you to read examples of prisoner dreams for yourself. These dreams are actual dreams people have had. As result, they may contain racist, sexist, violent, or otherwise offense language and imagery. This can be true even for prisoner dreams. Read at your own risk.

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