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What are prisoner dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like prisoner.

Prisoners in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.2% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 400 dreams.

What are the major highlights of prisoner dreams?

Prisoners is a normal dream symbol. Having prisoners in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Dreams of prisoners are aggressive

Prisoner dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all prisoners have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having prisoners in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include heroes, knees, baboons, raping, paramedic, pain, skeletons, gas stations, east, and nazis.

Prisoner dreams might be about death

Dreams that contain prisoners are highly related to death. They are more related to death than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include venom, nuclear bombs, fugitives, bombs, cannons, disease, El Salvador, cursing, opponents, and grim reapers.

What symbols less present in dreams of prisoners?

How does the dream symbol of prisoners affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of prisoners

Who is in prisoners dreams?

Overall, dreams with prisoners are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of prisoners are much more related to different roles, more related to fantastic beings, and more related to distant people than dreams in general. They are less related to family and less related to romantic partners.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

much more than usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

more than usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in prisoners dreams?

Overall, dreams with prisoners are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of prisoners are more related to fear, more related to pain, and much more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to embarrassment.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

more than usual

Hatred

much more than usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in prisoners dreams?

Overall, dreams with prisoners are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of prisoners are more related to human places and more related to natural places than dreams in general. They are less related to home and less related to magical places.

Home

less than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

more than usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

more than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in prisoners dreams?

Overall, dreams with prisoners are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of prisoners are much more related to aggressive interactions, more related to sex, and more related to disasters than dreams in general.

Aggressive interactions

much more than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

more than usual

Disasters

more than usual
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How do prisoners in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with prisoners are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of prisoners are less related to lucid dreams and less related to sleep paralysis.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do prisoners in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with prisoners are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of prisoners are more related to taste than dreams in general. They are less related to smelling and less related to vision.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

more than usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

the same as usual
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How can you make sense of prisoners in dreams?

Prisoner dreams are very uncommon. Among other things prisoner dreams are normally interconnect, aggressive, and about death.

Do you think this is true for your dream of prisoners? How might your dream of prisoners 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 prisoners 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 prisoners in dreams. See how you feel about prisoners now, in your waking life.

What are possible meanings for dreams of prisoners?

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

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 prisoners

Read some real dream reports of prisoner 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.

Dreamt with Hitler & I'm still mad about it

Last night I dreamt that Hitler had his arm around me. And I was disgusted.

It started with me at a gathering of some sort. Fancy people I guess, because I felt that I had to be on my best behavior. At the corner of my eye, I noticed that he had his arm around a Black girl. She didn't seem to mind at all. In fact she was smiling. Reminded me of a hspply go lucky woman from the 70's...she even had an afro. I'm not Black per se, but am Afro-Latina

When I passed by, he fixed his gaze on me. Suddenly I found myself being pulled towards him as he inserted his arm around me. Instantly, I felt like a prisoner, I just remember hating my situation because I knew who he was, and that any resistance could produce a violent response. I distinctly remember being careful not to show my disdain. Howev, anyone who saw my face in the dream would have known.

And that was it. I just felt the shame of being associated with that monster. That's all I remember.

Thanks for reading! Any ideas??💡

Last night I dreamt that Hitler had his arm around me. And I was disgusted.

It started with me at a gathering of some sort. Fancy people I guess, because I...

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A dream I had a while ago, this is what I wrote about it.

There I was, taken away from the world I belong to, me and my dog, to one where I was introduced to the horrors of universe domination.

I faintly remember familiar faces but they didn’t stick with me. In soft shades of lilac and orange, a white fog makes everything disappear.
In this dark house, sitting on its wooden floor, we are being watch by the strict eyes of a military force. Their leader stands out among them, a tall strong woman, visibly more refined by her confident stance and her perfect makeup which would’ve been inappropriate in such circumstances if it were anyone else wearing it. I remember her perfectly styled blond pixie cut, she was her own image of perfection and intended on seeing the multiverse at her feet, remodeled to her vision of an ideal society.

I held onto my dog as if my life depended on it, because it did. The world around me was disappearing, the trees, the grass, the sea infused with roses, it would all soon be gone. I walked up to a window, the fog had done its work, I saw a mansion of red bricks I have never seen before, in front of it was a forest of perfectly lined trees, a kind I have never seen before. Birch trees with blood red stripes like cuts on tortured prisoners. This wasn’t right, this wasn’t how it was meant to be. Only straight lines, only one way, no choice to be made, no freedom. I knew my homeworld was next.

I ran outside, I screamed in pain. A scream from the deepest corners of my being, I saw myself and heard myself, my scream was deafening.

But there was something I didn’t expect would happen. As I stepped back in the house, a soldier took matter in his own hands. Quite literally for he grabbed his leader and threw her to the ground. I hugged my dog and covered my eyes but I knew what was happening. I heard hits on the wooden floor, the leader’s head being slammed to the ground until she wouldn’t even have a spasm.

Such violence, I started crying. I cried and cried until I woke up.

There I was, taken away from the world I belong to, me and my dog, to one where I was introduced to the horrors of universe domination.

I faintly remember...

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I had a dream about being a counselor at an abused child camp

I dreamed that I was on a mission trip to Germany with a team that I was a counselor at a camp in in real life. We arrived at the camp and it seemed fine just everyone was a little bit strict. The kids loved there and basically as they got older they turned into the ones who ran the "camp" but they were dressed more like guards than teachers or mentors. It was cold and snowy and i remember one of the guards telling me to get this girl who I think was named "Elle" or something. Anyway I go around the corner to find this girl named Elle writing poems on the snowy door. The guards are laughing at her but she's basically crying. Then she starts running away and I run after her. She starts running in this dark tunnel for some reason and she stops at this crate with a candle where she takes out a stack of papers and there are a bunch of poems there and she starts trying to finish them. Im just standing there and looking at her furiously writing and then I actually walk over and start reading them. And basically it's about how she's a prisoner in this camp/or wherever she is and they won't let her go and they abuse her and stuff. I don't remember exactly what the poems said but she signed them her full name and "- from Hell" or something. I start asking her about what it's like here and I forgot alot about our long long conversation but we end up both crying for some reason and I give her a hug and I remember saying something comforting before we hear the guards come running. Then they rip the poems away and take Elle away and she's sobbing and I'm sobbing and they're laughing at the poems and I'm very sad lol. There's still a small stack of poems on the ground that the guards didn't take yet so I grab them after she's gone and then for some reason MY EX (who yes was a counselor in the camp) comes running and we look at the poems and I'm basically sobbing in her arms. That's it.

I dreamed that I was on a mission trip to Germany with a team that I was a counselor at a camp in in real life. We arrived at the camp and it seemed fine just...

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Dream last night was wild/profane

I was at a large party like hundreds of people.... and we were all celebrating the end of covid. Eating crab legs and other delicious sea creatures. Then all of the sudden it happened.

Everybody started shitting themselves. I mean brown fountains flowing out of everybody's asses. It was like a Quinton Tarantino movie, but instead of blood spraying everywhere, it was shit.

Well it hadn't hit me yet... so I started running towards the edge of the party and trying to get away from everybody's poo, and honestly trying to find a bathroom so I wouldn't have to mess my pants.

Couldn't find an empty one but I felt the urge. I ran outside.... and somehow stumbled upon a hayfield. For some reason I built myself a Hay Hut to shit inside of. Meanwhile there was a highway below me. And passing cars. I didn't mind because A- I liked the view, and B- This was an emergency. So anyway I pulled down thy pants and gushed a big pooper. A cop car saw me and started driving up the hill. Shit.

So, I run back inside as the 2 cops started chasing me. There is shit everywhere. I'm sliding in shit. They are sliding in shit. I'm always like a hallway away from them and doing good. Finally, Barney Fyfe catches up to me. I try to plead my case and he isn't having it. So, he makes me sit down on this sofa to wait. We get to talking and he decides to let me turn myself in tomorrow between 9 and 5.

Ok, so the next day I show up to this "police station". It is setup like a mega movie theater, like the size of Mall of America. Can't find it. Also, can't find a place to park my Ferrari. Anyway, I start stumbling around. Walk passed the Oprah that is having a memorial for the 1 year anniversary of somebody that a police officer shot.

Eventually get to this area where there is a jail. Turn myself in for shitting in public, in my hay hut. And who else is a prisoner? ROBIN FUCKING WILLIAMS. My day just got better, and I'm pumped to be in jail. At one point, he and I are taking bets on various things like who can kick a rat the farthest.

Eventually Rob, he likes it when I call him that, and I devise a plan to get out of jail. We talk Barney into taking us on a trip in the cruiser. We talk him into showing us how you are supposed to sit in the backseat. And we shut the backdoor on him. That was easy. Apparently you can't open them from the inside. At some point Barney loses both of his hands trying to get out.

Rob ends up renting out the space beside the jail for a mega mansion, and we live out the remainder of our years something like the Count of Monte Cristo. Throwing lavish parties and enjoying hit air balloons.

End.

I was at a large party like hundreds of people.... and we were all celebrating the end of covid. Eating crab legs and other delicious sea creatures. Then all of...

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Learnt Love & Family for a Man.

I remember going down to asleep, we were prisoners. It was a different world when I wake up. There was this guy (I don't know him) who was stopping me. I fought him and then, we passed the hallway (long golden pillars). We were stopped by some others, where I learnt my brother is dead. I escaped that place by killing others. I somewhere met my father. That place was a modern house(white walls, wooden floors, yellow gold lights) beneath floors was my acutal real old school full of kids and teachers (real people). I was at home again, where I learnt that my brother died while working for someone. My father said to me "it's hard but he saw a painting of a experiment." Then, he told that our grandfather is alive (who really died in September 2020). I was crying like it's real. Losing my brother, so many things left to do. Got my grandfather, saw him walking and his smile. I don't really cry in real life never. Last time, I cried like that 7-8 years ago. I then woke up in reality but In the end of the dream, I was in my real room saying to my family it's not a dream, it's just an another reality. It's real. We are ______ I don't remember anything else.

Hope that description is good to understand.

I remember going down to asleep, we were prisoners. It was a different world when I wake up. There was this guy (I don't know him) who was stopping me. I fought...

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