Bridge of sighs
A covered bridge between courthouse and prison — the short crossing on which the verdict becomes life.
A bridge of sighs in a dream is the dream's image of the short crossing on which a verdict becomes life. The phrase comes from the enclosed bridges that linked courtrooms to cells; the condemned crossed it once. The dream brings the bridge when something in your life — a public decision, an internal judgement, an announcement that fixes the next chapter — is being walked across with the awareness that the room on the other side will not be the room on the original side. A bridge crossed with steadiness is the dream affirming the honest passage. A bridge refused, with the walker still in the courtroom hours after the verdict, is the dream noting that the decision has been delivered and the move into the new room has been delayed at a cost.