Dream
Hello Ian, I have a horrible recurring dream where I am arrested by the police and locked in a cell in the police station. I am told I am allowed one phone call and I ask to speak to my daughter. The police prevent me from doing this because she is not a responsible adult and is not authorised to take calls. I am also bursting for the toilet but there is no toilet in the cell and the police won’t let me out. I wake up in a horrible panic. Sharon
Meaning
Being arrested by the police in a dream usually indicates that you feel you have a particular obligation to meet in your waking life. Although you have been trying to avoid this responsibility for some reason, you are now in a situation where you feel that it is really starting to hold you back. It may seem as if you have no other options and just have to accept the limitations being imposed by this particular responsibility.
However, your daughter represents your creativity and your openness to different ways of thinking. You are trying to express some unique talent that you possess as you know that this will set you free from what is currently restricting you. Although your creative thinking is your one way to gain your freedom, your misplaced sense of responsibility is preventing you from doing this.
Your need for the toilet in the dream shows that you are being frustrated in expressing your most pressing needs. Your most urgent need is to express your creativity and playfulness but you feel that this would make you appear irresponsible to others. The key to your dilemma is to give yourself permission to use your creativity whenever you can.