What Does Dreaming of Prison Mean?
What does dreaming of prison mean in traditional interpretation?
In traditional interpretation, prison may often point to a heavy responsibility taken on, to hardship and debts, or at times to long life and purification from sins; according to Ibn Sirin, entering prison may sometimes signify marriage or entering into a bond. Being released from prison is taken as a sign of deliverance from troubles and the arrival of relief.
What does dreaming of prison mean psychologically?
From a modern psychological perspective, a prison dream may indicate that one feels constrained, trapped, or unable to escape a situation in waking life. In the Jungian reading, this place can also be seen as a reflection of repressed desires or of the inner limits one has imposed on oneself.
By Context
What does getting out of / escaping prison mean in a dream?
It may point to deliverance from a difficult situation and to attaining relief and freedom.
According to Ibn Sirin, Entering Prison: what does dreaming of prison mean?
It can be interpreted as marriage, a heavy responsibility taken onto one's shoulders, or setting out on a journey.
For a Single Person / Woman (imprisoned by a Sultan): what does dreaming of prison mean?
In traditional interpretation, it may point to marrying an important and worthy person.
What does seeing someone else in prison mean in a dream?
Though it varies with the person, it may mostly signify a relief or a joy.
Where these readings come from
Every symbol in this dictionary carries two readings side by side, and neither replaces the other. The traditional interpretation comes from the classical literature of Ibn Sirin and al-Nabulsi, where a dream is taken as a sign of what is to come and a symbol's meaning is largely fixed. The psychological view follows Jung and Freud: there a dream speaks not about the future but about the dreamer, and a symbol stands for something the person has repressed or cannot yet name. That is why the same symbol can read differently, even oppositely, under the two headings. The context section follows from the same idea: one symbol reads differently depending on who saw it and what happened in the dream.