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Prison

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💡Possible meaning

Dreaming of being in prison symbolizes feeling trapped, restricted, or limited in some aspect of your life. It may also represent feelings of guilt or shame. This dream may be a reflection of your current situation or a warning to avoid making choices that could lead to negative consequences.

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Reflect on your current situation and identify any areas where you feel trapped or limited. Consider making changes to improve your circumstances. If you feel guilty or ashamed, try to make amends and move forward. Avoid making choices that could lead to negative consequences and seek help if needed.

❤️ Feelings

The dream of being in a prison can evoke feelings of confinement, restriction, and powerlessness. It may symbolize a sense of being trapped in a situation or relationship, or a fear of losing one's freedom and autonomy. This dream can also elicit emotions of frustration, anxiety, and a desire for escape. It may reflect a need for self-reflection and a search for inner freedom.

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11 Nov 2024

dream-about-exploring-a-high-end-building
Anxiety
Guilt
Prison
Friend
Cuddle
Building (Action)

Dream

I was in some sort of large high end building with a group of friends. And we were on sort of adventure that turned into a game. We we exploring the building incognito as we were not suppose to be there. We kept finding layers upon layers to the building, even inside this building there was a mall which was a perfume I wanted to purchase when we were there the first time but then I didn’t. I also kept getting distracted with the other perfumes on display, but made note of the one I wanted to buy in the first place. We continued to explore and as we got deeper into the building we found a space with large commercial appliances that then turned into show rooms with large luxury high end cuddle palettes that were this extravagant cushions that were beautiful and so soft. One of them was two story building high. We jumped and played on them. As we continued to explore we found an area that was off limits with that had machines that were clearly very important and dangerous to mess with. I went inside one that looked like a fridge but as we were exploring a group of workers were nearby and we had to hide. We laid low until they passed. We we moved further along we found a prison. One of my friends was there and it surprised me to see him as he was always a man who was kind and did his best and I was confused as to why he was there. We sat and talked for a bit and he was worried about his sister. As we decided to make our way out of the building we had to pretend to be business men who were very busy and in a hurry to blend in, at one point I was in a suit and I would run through a space where there were people saying a bunch of a numbers. When we were coming back I remembered the perfume I wanted to buy. I did not get distracted this time with the perfumes and stayed focus. I had to wait for a worker to come and help me and I was anxious waiting on them, because I wasn’t suppose to be there. As I was making my purchase we were getting caught by the building and my group of people started fleeing, we had been found out and were no longer incognito, we started racing to escape. As we were running we found an elevator that got us out but as we were getting in our group split up as it was merely seconds the door was closing. I felt guilty that the group split and some of my people were left behind.

8 Nov 2024

dream-about-hidden-cameras-and-prison-breaks
Mountain lion
Police
Prison
Family
Apartment
Girl

Dream

it started with me living with my mom again, but we were in these apartments, and I went to get the mail and somehow got caught up in my neighbors drama, eventually police were brought in and as they were going through evidence they showed video of me in my room through a hidden camera and I went back to my house and was trying to figure out where the camera was from the perspective and I had a few holes in my walls from where scres used to hold things and I eventually found the one with the camera and I decided to use plaster to discreetly cover it up so it looked like I was just watching holes in the wall so it wasn't suspicious to whoever was watching me, then i found a couple more around the house and did the same thing, after that I went out to lunch somewhere with picnic tables inside, and then police showed up again and arrested a girl and I realized it was Sam (she's been my best friend since 2nd grade) and I tried to stop them, then I tried to get into the prison to help her, it took a while to figure out how to schedule a visit but eventually I visited her and I told her I would come back with supplies to break her out, and there were stakes all around as I was leaving and everyone looked suspicious as if I was known for prison breaks, and the exit lead to a bridge that was really high up and there were wood platforms to walk on to get down and some were disconnected from others, they were all attached to these tall trees but eventually there was a part connected to steep dirt like we were in some mountains without all the snow or something, but the parts leading to the dirt path were more rotted and at some point some family had joined while going down this weird segmented wood path and they had two little girls who tried to go on the part that was rotten and it started to crumble and fall when the second girl went on it so I went grab her and drag her back onto the path and more of the piece fell away so I lifted her off completely and put her on the dirt so we could keep going but then I woke up.

5 Oct 2024

dream-about-arrest-and-prison
Arrested
Friend
High School
Parade
Police
Prison

Dream

Attorney, I'm in a house with five people. He got arrested when the police came in and I said something smart. The charges was related to public intoxication. When he got there, myself and my friend Natalie were not arrested due to an error, but the others were. I returned to the location several times trying to get them out and couldn't. When we talked to them, I noticed that two of them were male high school classmates. At the counter, I was talking to someone about the case and an attorney walked up and read one of their cases and said to them, good luck trying to get out of that. And they walked me to the station and told me to get out of there. And I didn't want to get out of there. At some point, I was inside the station, but it now seemed like it was a... prison. I was talking to two teachers in the prison and was seeing desk from elementary. The one teacher was trying to show me something and another teacher walked up and said that she was glad to see that I was open and finally getting it. When I walked around to the other side of the building, it was like there was a parade of large action figures moving back and forth really fast. And one of the individuals I needed to speak with was caught in the crowd. I also had a conversation with Natalie at the prison as we were trying to some things out. I ordered lunch for my friend Yolanda who lives in Houston, texas. In the dream she was the third person in prison. Sitting at the table she was able to give me a card to pay for her lunch using some machine at the table. At some point in the dream I was on the phone with my sister, I was talking to her about moving back home. I was telling her that I don't know where I'm at, where I'm going, but I would have to get a job and consider it. My sister said, we hope you will consider it.

4 Oct 2024

dream-of-escaping-prison-and-flying-to-the-moon
Flying
Money
Prison
Wife

Dream

I'm in prison again, but before that already, I have discovered that you can energetically affect your world and that it can be measured based on your movement. So you measure how you step and you know which of three energetic groups you are by the way you move energy. And I discovered this and somehow I got arrested for it, but I'm being selected to go to the moon still. And they selected people that are neither the lowest nor the highest energy, but somewhere in the middle. So I'm flying to the moon and I take secretly photos and prints of steps on the moon. And I send those to my wife because for some reason I'm a man and then my wife uses it to sell it and to make a lot of money. And we have a discussion with my wife about the amazing invention and that as an inmate they can't make money of it. And she says well I can do it, I'm not an inmate. And we're having this great adventure and this great business idea combined with this discovery. It's all very exciting.

12 Sep 2024

dream-about-dystopian-prison-and-clones
Escape
Prison
Torture

Dream

This dream was very convoluted and I played various roles throughout it. The setting was consistent however and I dreamt from the perspective of several different people within this framework. It seemed to be taking place in a dystopian future, which felt like reality for the majority of experience except for one moment in which my step-father showed up to ask me a question about something unrelated to my dream. It was then that the setting took on a Jurassic Park, fenced off, alternate reality type situation where I could leave to deal with real life. I was a prisoner in a huge industrial type location that was filled with clones, not just of me but of other people who had similar genetics. The main purpose of this was to achieve interdimensional travel through space, led by a man who claimed to be my brother but I didn't recognise him. The people in this prison were horrible tortured and mutilated into semi-human machines in order to continue the research. These were sort of robotic machines that were using body parts to build structures, using muscle and skin to cover gaps and run a conveyer belt. I tried various ways to escape, in one scenario I was packaged in with whole corpses of my clones in order to get out but the container I was in was blown up. In another I was a worker type prisoner and tried to sneak out but I never reached a conclusion for that one, as I was interrupted by the question from my step-father during that period. The other scene I remember I was being tortured by another woman clone who was extracting something from me by raping me with a suction tube. I saw people cutting themselves in half after being forced to cut other people into pieces. It was really gruesome and detailed.

8 Sep 2024

dream-about-zombies-and-dinosaurs
Blood
Gun
Zombie
Prison
Dinosaur
Sword

Dream

It started out with I and few other individuals. We decided to hide in a closet in this building because it was overrun with zombies. The door knob kept rattling and the door open a little. I was holding the door handle with all my strength to keep it from fully opening against the zombies. I eventually got it to close, then one of the other men outta nowhere suggested we go get quarters from mines. I was like that ludicrous because the zombies were gone and it was dinosaurs. They were medium-small, carnivorous dinosaurs and I decided to use myself as a distraction when we first got outside. The other people stayed in the closet. It was sunny and sandy like a desert. The man yelled out to me to hurry up but it was already too late. I ended up fighting 4 to 5 of the medium-small, carnivorous dinosaurs and I got injured. I sat up against the wall with my hand over wound as the blood seeped out. Then, somehow I wound up walking into another part of the building seeing people being held prisoner. I tell them have you learned nothing from the revolution. The person looked at me and seem pretty keen on the notion that prisoners were necessary by pulling out a shot gun. I left walking down the hallway and I walked outside with same sunny and sandy surroundings with a few trees. Someone spoke my name as they were leaned up against the wall outside. I had to put dinosaurs down that people kept as pets because it was against the rules. I had dual, saber swords and I hacked away at the herbivore dinosaur until head was detach from it body. The other dinosaur was carnivorous one but someone orphaned it. It was resting in the tree and I swung one of my sword to kill it in one fell swoop. The sword broke and I took out the tree and place it on the ground. It took three punches to hear the skull cracked. Once I heard the skull cracked; I knew it had died and so did the man.

25 Aug 2024

dream-about-murder-accomplice
Angry at Dad
Fear
Escape
Knife
Prison
Group

Dream

I was an accomplice to a murder. I was attending a dinner with a small group of women. No idea what the occasion was. It was at one of their homes. My partner came with me. There was a blonde woman there that my partner was flirting with and vice versa so i was in a really bad mood. I was angry but trying so hard to hide it but the more the woman spoke the harder it was to hold in my anger and annoyance. We were all sitting together in a large circle- the blonde women sitting opposite me and my partner on the other side of the room. The blonde woman eventually got up and when she did, another woman just randomly went up to her and slit her throat with a kitchen knife. The next thing i remember we were all trying to flee the situation and avoid getting caught. But the people i escaped with were not the same people from the house. My partner was no longer with me but i didn’t necessarily notice this in the dream. I was really scared, especially about getting caught. The group i was with was really set on denying that we knew anything, should we be questioned. But they didn’t have a plan, no alibi, no nothing. I thought to myself, “we’re not gonna get away with this, they will know she was with us last if they seize her phone”. Eventually we end up at some type of prison camp? I’m actually not sure what it was, but there were lots of other people there and there was set meal times, followed by everyone lining up to get vitamins, similar something like that of a camp or prison. I don’t know why hay is significant. There were haystacks around this place. I repeatedly played the scene in my head and i remember feeling a sense of relief when i remembered that i didn’t kill the woman myself. I reminded one of the people in my group and they mentioned that the girl who did it wasn’t even with us. I was terrified of going to jail but knew i was incapable of lying. I was thinking of all the ways we’d get caught and trying to find a way around it.

24 Aug 2024

dream-about-lost-in-anthony-house
Abroad
Death
Fight
Naked
Prison
Being Late

Dream

i had a dream my roommate was getting ready to go to her new boyfriend anthony’s house in florida (we live in california) but i decided to tag along on a separate flight and then we got there and her and her boyfriend had the room with multiple beds but i was assigned a room that was basically a prison with a pad for a bed but i took a nap in one of the beds in anthony’s room and i woke up disoriented and i had packed in 2 seconds and realized i forgot my meds so within like hours of being there i immediately flew home. but before i went home i went kinda crazy at anthony’s and got naked and his door in his room to outside was open and the neighbors across the property (it was like in the middle of nowhere) were like wizards and flew a firework out of their hands essentially to warn me to put clothes on and then we had like a baseball scene from the movie twilight moment against them to stick up for ourselves bc they were like threatening violence. and also i decided to walk like 5k floors up a hospital to get my dads belongings bc apparently he had died in a hospital 3 years ago but no one got his belongings yet and i had to climb up the stairs to get them. (he died 5 years ago). and there were two women behind me but i was getting tired and emotional and crying and they for some reason were only communicating with me over the phone and were kinda telling me hey stand aside so we can pass by you so i think i stepped aside so they could pass me by and i still had so many floors to climb and i don’t know if i ended up giving up i might have woken up.

12 Aug 2024

dream-about-sentenced-to-penitentiary-and-forming-connections-with-inmates
Friendship
Gun
Marriage
Nudity
Violence and death
Prison

Dream

Last night, I had a dream where I was sentenced to 25 years in a real penitentiary, though I didn’t know the crime I committed. I was told to plead guilty to a gun charge, which spared me from a life sentence. In the dream, I was being transferred in a van and became close friends with other inmates who introduced me to people in the prison. They told me that someone could get me anything I wanted, and I remember being protected by these inmates and forming strong connections with them. Later, I was sitting in a line when a group of women in bras and panties walked on the side of me. One of them made eye contact and sat down beside me. She mentioned she was married, but a guard told her to get dressed and return to her cell. As she walked away, the dream shifted to her talking on the phone, pleading with someone not to do something. Then, she stumbled upon a scene filled with bodies. It seemed she knew who was responsible, and then the dream ended.

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The Prison dream symbol page on DreamApp explores what it means to dream about Prison. It highlights how dreams of an Prison may relate to personal feelings, and what direction would be useful to take. The page also includes several examples of dreams that contain the symbol Prison. Check page for deeper insights and interpretations.

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