DREAM ABOUT BEING TRAPPED
Having a dream about being trapped can be a frightening experience. Many times these dreams manifest when we feel stuck or unsure of what we should do next in our lives.
What does it mean to dream of being trapped?
If you dream that you are trapped and cannot escape, this typically means that you feel emotionally trapped in some way during waking life and are not sure how to escape from the situation.
Here are some of the things that can give us feelings of being stuck:
- Jobs and careers we are dissatisfied with
- Relationships that don’t make us happy
- Overwhelming Responsibilities and Obligations
- Making compromises for things we don’t enjoy
If you have a dream where you feel trapped in a situation, it can be helpful to understand exactly what is going on in your current life that is making you feel unhappy or feel blocked and trapped. Sometimes these dreams can also surface as a way to help us heal from painful past events. For example, if you had an experience where you were trapped, this dream may bring up fear and other emotions from the event that occurred.
If you don’t have anything in your current life that is unpleasant and you haven’t had any traumatic experiences that you can remember, it is also possible that dreaming about being trapped is simply a surge of negative emotions and energy that you need to release. Sometimes we have emotions that we have buried deep in our subconscious, and the only way to truly heal them is to let them go and move on.
Dream about other people being trapped
It is also possible that you have dreamed that your friends or family were trapped. These can be very scary and vivid dreams that stay in our minds for a long time. Fortunately, most of these dreams are not necessarily predictive or precognitive in nature around the actual events of the dream.
However, it can be a message dream where someone on a soul level is asking for help. In most cases, dreaming of someone trapped could mean that there is a part of you that feels stuck or that some aspect of yourself is being taken over by something else.
Remember to think of your dreams as a movie and the people who appear in it as actors, that other person in the dream could be playing a character! You may also feel that you are unable to take care of things in your daily life.
If you are caring for someone, you may feel that you are unable to meet the demands, or that it is becoming impossible to catch up on things. In some cases, these types of dreams can be a sign that someone you know may need help, but are not sure how to ask for it. For example, you may dream that a friend you haven’t seen in a long time is trapped in a dream. This could mean that the person can’t ask for help, and it might not be a bad idea for you to go see them.
Sometimes these dreams can also be a sign of soul loss or degeneration . When we experience difficult things in our life, parts of our soul may be lost or dormant. If you’ve ever heard someone say the expression “a piece of my soul just died” when something happens, it’s often a case of soul loss. Fortunately, if soul loss is the case it is very possible to bring back soul fragments and be whole again.
Pay attention to the details of other dream symbols
If the dream is symbolic in nature, and you are not exactly sure why the dream is happening or what it is about, it may be helpful to look up the meanings of the other symbols in the dream.
Are you trying to escape emotions?
Many times one of the things that most traps us in life is our own emotions. We often try to avoid our true feelings as much as possible, especially when these true feelings are negative or unpleasant to acknowledge.
Sometimes we feel that we are not allowed to express or experience our true feelings because they are not socially acceptable or because others may judge us for them. Being trapped in a dream can mean that you are trying to escape your own feelings and have been avoiding them for a long time.
This is where other dream symbols and events can give us some important clues as to what the dream might be trying to tell us. For example, if you have a dream about being trapped underwater , you are likely experiencing limiting emotions and beliefs that are holding you back in life. Water is a very emotional dream symbol to pay attention to.
Your negative emotions could be drowning out your true potential and you will not be able to escape the negative events in your life until these emotions are fully acknowledged and released.
Are there other people in the dream?
If you dream that you are being kidnapped or held hostage, this could mean that there is something going on in your relationships or career where you feel that someone else is taking away your personal power and freedom. Sometimes the people of our dreams come in as actors in a movie and act as characters in a scene.
If you dream that someone is kidnapping you, and it is a person you do not know , it is very likely that it is an aspect of yourself. Is there a part of you that you don’t like? A part of yourself that dominates another aspect more strongly?