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Police
Rules, conscience, and order
What it often means
Police in dreams embody rules, conscience, and the part of you that polices your own behaviour. Being pursued by them can point to guilt; being protected by them, to a need for safety or order. The feeling they evoke reveals your relationship to your own sense of right and wrong.
When it tends to appear
- When guilt or the fear of being caught is present
- When you long for protection or order
- When you are testing the limits of a rule
Sit with these questions
- 1
Were the police protecting you, or pursuing you?
- 2
What rule — yours or someone else's — are you wrestling with?
- 3
What would it take to feel safe rather than watched?
Did this symbol visit your dream?
Decode the whole dream