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.
[1]See Also: Dream Dictionary: Prison
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.
[2]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.
[3]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.
[4]We need to examine and reconsider ideas and beliefs, particularly about religion and spirituality, which restrict and restrain us.
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