Cage, Cell Dream Interpretation: Insights from 5 Unique Sources

If the dreamer is in the cage: frustration arising from a sense of social pressure restraining expression, or from one’s moral restraints imprisoning one; feeling caged by lack of opponunity or lack of developed abilities.

The cell often depicts how we imprison ourself within our own anger, re­sentment or depressed feelings; or we may be trapped by childhood trauma. Something or somebody else caged: desire to restrain whatever is represented by the thing, person, that is caged.

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Dreaming of a cage most often represents some form of trap or prison. However, if the dream incorporates the dreamer ensnaring a wild animal, implies that we are locking up our primal instincts; that we need restraining.

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A cage can also represent a sense of entrapment in ourselves, in particular, with rigid beliefs about religion.

Material aspects: The cage normally represents a form of trap or jail.

To dream of caging a wild animal alerts us to our need to restrain our wilder instincts.

To dreamthat we are in a cage indicates a sense of frustration and perhaps of being trapped by the past.

Psychological / emotional perspective: We are being warned that we are enforcing too much restraint on our hidden abilities. We could be allowing others to hold us back.

We need to examine and reconsider ideas and beliefs, particularly about religion and spirituality, which restrict and restrain us.