Handcuffs
Handcuffs often touch being bound by enemies and hostile conditions — menaced, restrained, surrounded by forces meaning you ill. The dream may ask where you feel your hands tied by adversaries, whether you can break the restraint and rise above those oppressing you, and what threat you'd escape by slipping free of the toils set for you.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for handcuffs, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To find yourself handcuffed, you will be annoyed and vexed by enemies. To see others thus, you will subdue those oppressing you and rise above your associates.
To see handcuffs, you will be menaced with sickness and danger.
To dream of handcuffs, denotes formidable enemies are surrounding you with objectionable conditions. To break them, is a sign that you will escape toils planned by enemies.