Dream Dictionary

Police

To see the police in your dream, indicates some failure to perform or to honor obligations and commitments.

The police also symbolize structure, rules, and control. A more direct interpretation of seeing the police in your dream forewarns that you should avoid reckless behavior.

To dream that you are arrested by the police, suggests that you feel sexually or emotionally restrained because of guilt.

If the police are trying to arrest you for some crime of which you are innocent, it foretells that you will successfully outstrip rivalry.

If the arrest is just, you will have a season of unfortunate incidents. To see police on parole, indicates alarming fluctuations in affairs.

To dream that you are a police officer, represents your own sense of morality and conscience.

The dream may serve to guide you down a straight path.

See also: Jail

Dictionary definition

  • n. 1: the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him" [syn: police, police force, constabulary, law]
  • v. 1: maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol [syn: patrol, police]