The criminal in your nightmare can suggest dark characteristics that may be otherwise at odds with the individual’s personality. Dreaming of a criminal can indicate feeling guilty or shame, loss of intelligence, lifelong secrets revealed too late to mend delicate bridges with loved ones or peers, loss of social status due to revelation of potent or unethical thought patterns or subterfuge.
Dreaming about a criminal may signify a person taking someone else’s life against their will and being confronted by consequences of their actions. It can bring up feelings of vulnerability, guilt, abandonment, and anxiety.
Meeting criminals in a dream symbolizes unsafe or negative intentions, whether those intentions are consciously aware to the person dreaming or not. Turn your attention to these self-destructive tendencies before it overtakes the good in you.