Dream meaning of sentencing
To dream that you are being sentenced indicates that you need to take responsibility for your actions and confront your problems. Alternatively, the dream implies that you need to verbalize your feelings and thoughts.
If someone else is being sentenced, then you feel they need to take responsibility for their actions. Consider the severity of the sentencing.
In particular to dream of a death sentencing symbolizes the limited time you have to react or to do something.
Dreaming of a prison sentence indicates that you are being held back on some area of your life.
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The sentencing portion of a trial experience is about consequences. Your dream may be pointing to some experience from your recent past that is requiring you to take responsibility for choices that you have made.