Jail
A jail often touches confinement and compromised judgment — being urged to grant favours to the unworthy, or disappointment in someone's true character. The dream may ask whom you're being pressed to trust against your better sense, where someone close might prove a deceiver, and what restriction, real or moral, is hemming you in.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for jail, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see others in jail, you will be urged to grant privileges to persons whom you believe to be unworthy
To see negroes in jail, denotes worries and loss through negligence of underlings.
For a young woman to dream that her lover is in jail, she will be disappointed in his character, as he will prove a deceiver.
Fontaine, 1862
(See Prison.) If a man dreams he is confined in a prison or jail, it shows that he will have honors or dignities conferred upon him, as such dreams go contrariwise: if his arrest and imprisonment worries him, it only shows that he will be the more delighted with his new dignities.