Captive
To be a captive in a dream marks treachery to deal with, and if we cannot escape, injury threatening. The dream tends to touch the loss of freedom, the sense of being held against our will, and to ask where we feel imprisoned by circumstance or by another's design, and whether a way out can still be found.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for captive, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream that you are a captive, denotes that you may have treachery to deal with, and if you cannot escape, that injury and misfortune will befall you.
To dream of taking any one captive, you will join yourself to pursuits and persons of lowest status.
For a young woman to dream that she is a captive, denotes that she will have a husband who will be jealous of her confidence in others; or she may be censured for her indiscretion.