Penitentiary
A penitentiary — confinement for the punished — often touches engagements ending in loss, discontent at home, and failing business, with obstacles overcome if you escape. The dream may ask where you feel locked into a punishing situation, and whether the constraint hemming you in is one you must serve out or one you can break free of.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for penitentiary, 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 of a penitentiary, denotes you will have engagements which will, unfortunately, result in your loss. To be an inmate of one, foretells discontent in the home and failing business. To escape from one, you will overcome difficult obstacles.