Prison
Prisons in dreams often speak to a sense of constraint that feels both external and self-imposed—places where movement stops but feeling intensifies. Perhaps the dream asks what freedom might mean when walls can be built from obligation, fear, or simply waiting for permission you've never truly needed.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for prison, 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 prison, is the forerunner of misfortune in every instance, if it encircles your friends, or yourself.
To see any one dismissed from prison, denotes that you will finally overcome misfortune.
[174] See Jail.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream you are put in prison, foretells that honor awaits you: but this omen does not apply to rogues or dishonest people, though such a dream by them favors their desires: if a girl dreams that her lover has gone to prison, she will soon hear of his advancement.