Chains
Chains often speak to what constrains you — a relationship, a commitment, a pattern of thought that feels impossible to leave. Whether the dreamer breaks free or remains bound matters less than noticing what the chain actually connects: sometimes we forge our own restraints, sometimes they're inherited, sometimes both at once.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for chains, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of being bound in chains, denotes that unjust burdens are about to be thrown upon your shoulders; but if you succeed in breaking them you will free yourself from some unpleasant business or social engagement.
To see chains, brings calumny and treacherous designs of the envious.
Seeing others in chains, denotes bad fortunes for them.
Fontaine, 1862
If you dream of gold chains it is a sign of a wedding; if a girl dreams she is presented with one, it is a sure sign of a speedy marriage. Such a dream to a man in business predicts that he will be prevented from doing something that he specially desires to do.