Chains
To dream of chains represents feelings of bondage, confinement, or restriction. Feeling controlled or unable to escape something in your waking life. Feeling intentionally held back from your true potential. Feeling limited. Feeling like a victim, feeling used, hating your job, or disliking having decisions made for you. Difficulty freeing yourself from a responsibility.
Alternatively, chains may reflect your own attempt to confine or restrict someone else.
Positively, a chain may reflect solidarity or group support to get through serious problems. Strong bonds, friendship, or family ties.
To dream of a chainlink breaking represents feelings of liberation, freedom, or breaking free from constraints. A sudden release from restriction, confinement, or barriers in some aspect of your life that was holding you back. A significant change in your life where you feel released from a situation, relationship, or mindset that was restricting your growth or happiness. Breakthroughs, newfound independence, or the courage to move forward in a new direction. It could also signify the end of a difficult period, allowing for new opportunities to arise.
Negatively, breaking a chainlink could represent feelings of instability, loss of security, or fear that something can't be controlled. The breaking apart of a relationship or support system that you depended on.
Example: A woman dreamed of seeing a "human chain" being made by a group of people who were all lost in the ocean not knowing how to swim. In waking life, she joined a support group for cancer victims.
Example 2: A man dreamed of his hands being chained and then a dark figure tugging on it telling him to get help. In waking life, he was alone, experiencing serious health complications, and hoping for death to come. In this case, the dark figure tugging on the chain reflected his fear of death making him choose to live even though he didn't want to. The chain in this case would reflect his fear of death "chaining him" to life.
