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💡Possible meaning

Dreaming of being locked up or locked out can represent feeling trapped or restricted in some aspect of your life. It may also indicate a fear of losing control or being unable to access something important.

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Relationships

Consider what in your life may be making you feel trapped or restricted. Is there a situation or relationship that is holding you back? Alternatively, are you feeling overwhelmed and in need of some time alone? Use this dream as a prompt to identify areas where you may need to make changes or take action to regain control.

❤️ Feelings

The dream of being locked can evoke feelings of confinement, frustration, and helplessness. It symbolizes a sense of being trapped or restricted in some aspect of life, whether it be in relationships, career, or personal growth. This dream may reflect a desire for freedom and the need to break free from limitations or obstacles. It can also signify a fear of being controlled or manipulated by others. Overall, the emotions associated with this dream are often negative, highlighting the need for change and liberation.

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13 Nov 2024

dream-about-throw-up-and-criticism
Car
Family
Locked
Vomit

Dream

So I had this dream where me, my mom and my sister were going somewhere. But when I get to the car, I see throw up everywhere and when I try getting in, it's locked. I almost puke because I'm disgusted by throw up. I try to get to a place with now throw up and my mom told me that I should've waited next to the car even though they're was throw up, because it's not that disgusting. So objectives change and now we're helping grandmas friend. While I do help grandmas friend, people keep criticizing my work (my aunt, my cousin maks, my mom) because I'm not doing the work well enough, even tough I know I didn't know how to do it well, because I never put dishes in her dishwasher.

30 Oct 2024

dream-about-being-locked-out-of-family-dinner
Sadness
Friend
Family
Bathroom
Dinner
Locked

Dream

I had a dream I was in Texas but hosting a dinner for my grandparents, or at first, the dining room was open. And then guests started to come in. My friend Landon came. I then went to the bathroom and that was when more and more guests came. People kept trying to open the bathroom door when I was in it. My stepbrothers, I remember. Then I cracked the door open to tell them I was using the bathroom. Then I then was done. I think I might have been procrastinating taking a shower in there, but I only used the bathroom. I then left and saw my grandma and grandpa and hugged both of them. I also saw my uncle, Emilio and was only able to give him a high five because his “new girlfriend” or friend who was a girl was in the way. I then saw my aunt at the door and she didn't see me. I then left for some reason. Then I was locked out of the dinning room where everyone was. My friend Landon was locked out too, but it was because he wasn't family, but I was. I think we were locked out of a family dinner, but I was forgotten. Sad dream. Everyone else in the family ate except me. Landon was watching funny videos and I tried to watch with him so I didn't get sad and think. The end.

20 Oct 2024

dream-about-being-chased-and-trapped-3
Killing
Blood
Fear
School
Ladder
Basement

Dream

So, I just woke up from a multi-part dream. One of the parts, I was in what seemed like high school again, or some kind of school and maybe a college, and my friends and I were wandering around the campus, and we were getting into all the authentic spaces. We were going into the back rooms, we were going into the basement, and just generally exploring, and we found one area that was really disturbing. There were all these masks and jumpsuits, and they were all bloody and fucked up, and while we were there, we heard a noise coming from behind us, and there was probably three or four of us, there must have been four of us, and one of the guys, one of the younger guys, jumped, wait a minute, jumped into one of the doorways that had this big metal submarine door on it, and before any of us could do anything, the door shut, and he was locked in there, and then we heard a bunch of very disturbing noises, and we realized when there was blood coming out from the bottom of the door that he probably did not make it. So we got out of there, and we were making a plan to go back for the body when the guy found us, the guy with all the masks and stuff had found us, and so we scattered out there. Fast forward, it's years later, I'm now living in a converted garage in my dream. The garage door is completely open, the large front one, and all that's there is a mosquito net that has magnets that make it come together. my bed in my dream was very, very high up, almost to the ceiling of this garage. I had to climb up a ladder to get to it. It was hidden and out of the way, because I was always scared that that person was going to come back and find me. one night I had a bunch of people over, and I converted my giant tall bed into several seating areas by taking mattresses down and whatnot. as I'm sitting there staring out the large garage door out onto the driveway while it's raining, a car pulls up, and I just had the worst fear that it was that person. it wasn't, it was one of my friend's friends, and so we're all sitting there talking. next thing I know, coming from inside the house out to the garage, was that person with masks. he came out, and that's when I woke up was when he was killing some of my friends. I couldn't leave or get away, but I woke up before I got killed or killed the intruder myself to stay safe and keep others safe as well. I hate dreams like this yet I have them frequently.

25 Sep 2024

dream-about-escaping-dangerous-situations-5
Sexual Assault
Escape
Poison
Chased
Bus
House

Dream

In the first dream, it was possibly me that was raped, a possible couple was involved, I remember the man and woman. I tried escaping by telling them I needed to go to the toilet, I managed to escape but I believe the woman caught me and the send time I tried escaping, they had put a galvanized chain link fence, they left lots of room for someone to escape from the underneath and I remember thinking how ridiculous it'd be if I tried going my butt up. I later on saw the whole building, it was huge, white, not easily visible. I took pictures of it and the street names nearby as evidence, my understanding is that I was going to report it to the police. I woke up to one of my cat's scratchings a door, eventually fell asleep again. This time I visited a man I had met online in my old neighborhood from my childhood and preteen times, when we got to the apartment, we sat down to a dinner table and he told me he had previously murdered 35 women. I remember thinking I needed to leave. There was a budgie on the table that was peeing in a small cup, I was shocked and took my phone out. He wanted us to eat, I checked his fridge and noticed he kept foods that had expired in July and it's September now. He was mixing a smoothie or something and I realize he was trying to poison me. I told him I needed to go to the bathroom, once I got in, I locked the door and tried hearing if he was nearby or standing right by the door. He went for a cigarette and I took my shoes, jacket and tried to make as little noise when leaving as possible, knowing the door would make a sound anyways and for some reason I didn't shut it behind me. I remember rushing down the stairs, finding me in the same old streets I sometimes see in my other dreams. I tried changing my looks, wearing a hoodie. I looked at his house and it was pitch dark so I knew he had left it. I kept walking forward thinking the bus is eventually coming anyways, there were lots of people in the streets and he was suddenly in the crowd trying to kill me. I managed to get into the bus, I kept thinking how was I going to pay for the trip but then remembered I had the local transportation app.

5 Sep 2024

dream-about-an-ex-boss-and-crazy-friend
Conflict
Ex
Friend
Crying
Dinner
Locked

Dream

I dreamt about my old boss. We had a shared friend and they wanted to have dinner but wanted me there as a buffer to keep the conversation going. My friend made me stop at their house first to help her get ready, then insisted we drive over together. The dinner itself went okay, we just hung out at his house. Then she started getting kind of crazy. Making side comments and twitching. I think she threw something of mine in his room and I was forced to go get it, and I found a weird ring buried in the carpet by the wall. I dug it out and brought it back to him. It looked feminine but I wasn't sure so I just handed it to him. He handed it to our friend, who hadn't been in his room, and it clicked for me that they had slept together before. She started freaking out because he didn't say it out loud. Like, CRAZY freaking out. Mascara running down her face crying, messing up her already super short hair, throwing and breaking things, screaming. Because she wanted something serious and he didn't. I tried to stay calm, but she brought up some stuff to me about how she got an ex of mine to cheat with her and tried with another that turned her down. How guys had crushes on me and she would sleep with them to get them to ignore me again, like she had with this boss. On and on about all this awful stuff she did. Eventually my calmness wasn't getting through and I snapped. My boss had already told her to get out of his house and she wasn't listening and her blatant disrespect flipped a switch in me. I started yelling back, but not uncontrollable screaming. It was a deep commanding voice that I'd never used on her and she wavered, but still wouldn't leave without me since we'd come together. I tricked her into thinking I was going, and then shut and locked the door on her. It was awkward for my ex-boss and I since she was still pounding on the door screaming and I was now locked in his house with him after she confessed he liked me, but I wasn't going anywhere near her. He called the cops to arrest her for trespassing and destruction of property. It was really cold out but I had to walk back to my car. He offered me a ride and I declined, so he walked with me instead. It was kind of nice to talk with him like that on the way home.

30 Aug 2024

dream-about-being-trapped-on-campus
Being chased with a knife
Friend
Locked
School

Dream

I was walking on campus trying to find my class but then I kept going to this wrong door and I'm like this is not the right building and I go out I try to find another door and it's still not the right building on the inside then I come out and then this guy's looking at me I think he's and then he tries to get me I'm pretty sure he was trying to rape me but that didn't happen luckily that was very beautiful but then I go into this other building and it's still not right not it's still not the right building and I start walking around I'm just going through these doors trying to find my way out but it's not out and then I get a sense of the moral of the story is trapped in the same I'm trapped in the same place unless I make a change or whatever and then I find my way out with a friend and yeah

19 Aug 2024

dream-about-getting-a-tattoo-in-a-sketchy-hotel
Being chased with a knife
Darkness
Hotel
Tattoo
Bathroom
Creepy

Dream

I was in the hotel that I used to get all the time when I lucid dreamed, but I wasn’t searching the building like I usually do on my own. This time I was in the ‘lobby’ getting a tattoo appointment for a tattoo that I really want in the waking world. The people that worked there looked so dystopian, the lobby looked like a really sketchy office, the lights were dim and had a yellow tint to them, and there was a couple of tattoo chairs to the right around the corner. I could see the long hallway that I always dreaded in this hotel with the infinite amount of doors, and the brown check in desk was in front of me. The lady was asking me what kind of tattoo I wanted and what my budget was. I tried to pull up the vine tattoo that I wanted on Pinterest, but it wouldn’t load. I explained to the lady that I was sorry for the app not loading, and that I couldn’t describe what I wanted to a t. She said it’s okay and that I could go in one of their waiting rooms until I had the reference picture pulled up. I said okay and went. I don’t remember what caused me to feel the need to hide from these people, but I bolted down the long hallway to find an unlocked door I could go through and hide. I eventually found one, locked myself in and sat by the door hiding my feet and shadows. The room didn’t look like the other creepily identical hotel rooms with the single bed, chair, and nightstand. This one looked like an old timey bathroom. I remember the yellow tinted lighting piercing through under the door and onto the cream tile floor in the bathroom. The workers were looking for me and asking if I was okay, and if I was ready to get the tattoo. I remember feeling very unsafe, and I felt like these were s walkers that I was dealing with. Their voices didn’t sound right, and I kept hearing non human sounds, like demon and creature noises. I eventually woke up feeling very panicked and I thought they had found me.

14 Aug 2024

dream-of-frantic-escape-and-survival
Gun
Escaping
Car
Boyfriend
House
Locked

Dream

I don’t know where my dream started. I just remember we were all trying to get away. I don’t remember all the details but it took mulitiple bullets because I still had the round bullets in there from when I prepped for the gun range to kill the people after us. My boyfriend and I left the house to find the car and park it closer. I remember frantically loading up mine and my boyfriends guns when we get home. I start yelling at everyone to grab their necessities and get in the car because we don’t have much time. My grandma took too long because she couldn’t find her shoes and wouldn’t listen to me when i said “just put on a pair, it doesn’t matter. I’m wearing sneakers with no socks” but she wouldn’t listen so i had to go to the other room to find her shoes and by the time i find them the people showed up and locked us is the house. For some reason they weren’t killing us so we were still plotting to make a run for it towards the car. We all made it to the car except for one person and I could see vividly who it was in my dream but now I can’t remember for some reason

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