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Dreaming of Prison
Two traditional perspectives
These are symbolic interpretations from different traditions, not facts about your life or forecasts. Your associations may be different.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
To be released from prison foretells debts lifted and hindrances falling away, the stalled affair moves at last. For the sick, walking free of a cell is an augury of recovery.
To be bound or shut in warns of entanglements tightening around your affairs, contracts, obligations, another's power. The dream counsels settling quarrels before they reach a judge.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
The prison is the psyche naming its own confinement, a rule, a role, a story of yourself sentenced years ago and never appealed. Simply seeing the walls clearly is the first mercy; the dream shows you the door before it shows you the key.
A comfortable cell you don't try to leave is captivity domesticated, a smallness that got cozy. Being your own jailer, and in these dreams you usually are, points to a sentence self-imposed and renewed daily.
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