Police
Police in dreams often surface when part of us feels monitored, judged, or answerable to an authority we can't quite name. Sometimes they represent conscience or external pressure; other times, a longing for order when inner life feels lawless or exposed.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for police, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
If the police are trying to arrest you for some crime of which you are innocent, it foretells that you will successfully outstrip rivalry.
If the arrest is just, you will have a season of unfortunate incidents.
To see police on parole, indicates alarming fluctuations in affairs.
Fontaine, 1862
If any respectable person dreams of being arrested by police officers, it is a sign that some distinguished honor will be conferred on him: if a young girl should dream that policemen took her lover into custody, she will hear of his advancement in the world.