Friday, December 14, 2007

Dreams About Arms

Seeing arms, either your own or someone else’s in a dream is very common. While arms do not always have special significance in dreams, arms can be very significant under some circumstances.

Dreams in which details about arms remembered are likely to be significant, since it tends to be the most significant details that are remembered upon waking. Since dreams fade so quickly, if you are able to remember how arms figured in your dreams, chances are the dream had something important to tell you.

When you see your arms in a dream, especially when they represent an important part of the dream narrative, those arms may be symbols for your nurturing side, and for your desire to reach out and care for the people around you. Dreaming about arms is particularly common in people who are currently caring for, or worried about, a sick friend or family member. Reaching out with the arms in a dream is your mind’s way of telling you how important it is to connect and care for those around you.

Dreams about arms can also be indications of the challenges and struggles in your life. Again, the exact meaning will depend on the context of the arms within the dream narrative. Using your hands and arms for defense can indicate you feel like you are under attack, or that you need to defend yourself.

The impetus for this kind of dream about arms could come from many sources. For instance, perhaps you feel like you are being unfairly singled out for criticism in your job, and you feel a desire to strike back or defend yourself against the onslaught. Or perhaps you feel overwhelmed by events in your life, and you feel the need to struggle against those challenges.

Dreams in which your arm is injured, or dreams in which you appear with your arm in a cast, can signify that you feel an inability to care for yourself. These kind of injured or broken arm dreams an also mean that you are feeling helpless in being able to care for others. People who are caring for a friend or family member whose medical condition is beyond their control may experience dreams in which their arm is injured, or they may see themselves in a cast.

A dream about a broken or injured arm can also mean that the dreamer has been feeling restricted or limited in his or her activities. Seeing yourself constrained in the dream, by a cast or a broken arm, can be a symbol of your perceived restriction of freedom or movement.

The specific arm featured in the dream also carries a significance. The right arm is often seen as a symbol for an outgoing nature, and the right arm is often associated with the masculine side of the dreamer’s nature. The left arm, on the other hand, is more associated with female characteristics, such as nurturing and caring.

36 comments:

Anonymous said...

What if you have a dream about only seeing someone's arm? You know that you know that person but they're sitting in a seat and all that you see is their arm. You never see their face or anything but you remember their arm. What does that mean?

alex ceraolo said...

I dreamt that I got a thorn in my right forearm, does that have any specific meaning?

lisa said...

I had a dream where there were arms coming out of my laundry hamper and they were trying to grab me and take me away. Can you interpret it?

Unknown said...

I just woke up from the worce dream ever :-( I dream that I whent to my a uncles house and that he had a little water park inside his house and that my BFF and my bf came with me to his house and I bought my BFF a drink with alcohol and after a while we all met up in the living room and it seemed like a party well my bf was laying down on a sofa when this random girl started flirting with his and he went along with the girl and I was siting right Infront if them too and I got mad and pulled him away from her but he couldn't even hold him self up I guess he was drunk but the thing is he didn't drink thru my dream then when he sober up a little I asked him what that was about and he deny it he said he couldn't remember then I woke up..

Anonymous said...

I had that exast same dream but with lots of different size thorns I had to pull out of my arm

Unknown said...

I had one where I was laying with a group of friends, I made a funny joke and they laughed. Then the person on the right passed a bag with candy in it. I grabbed one and when I did I realized a hole on my left should that wasn't quite infected yet. So I was irritated and went to take a shower. It was in the house I grew up in, but with people I didn't know.

Unknown said...

I had a dream that my arms looked as though they belonged to an anorexic. It literally looked like bones with a tight layer of skin and i felt like i couldnt move them or else they'd break! It made me feel ill! What does it mean?

Unknown said...

I dreamt my arms were huge...too huge for my body and they were very long. I looked like a gorilla that was not hairy. Also twice I dreamt that my left rore arm had a hole in it. The first time, two black scorpions came out. 5 years later I dreamt some sort of alien green pods that looked like slimey beans was in my left forearm and I squeezed them out...then my arm hold closed up so fast that I could not check to make sure they were all gone.

Unknown said...

I dreamt someone who was nasty had their arms eaten by someone else ( not me ) because they were a nasty person. Then someone else had to help him eat or drink. His arms weren't completely gone though they were super skinny under a white shirt, what does that mean ????? 😔😔😔 it wasn't a nice dream

Unknown said...

I dreamed I was taking care of someone with amputated arms on the shoulders but the remaining arm was stuck on the person's skin . what in the world does that mean?

Unknown said...

I had a dream my husband pulled a shrimp out of my forearm, and it looked like one you could eat

Unknown said...

I had dream that one arm of the cross was broken, then 2 nights after I had another dream of big statue of Jesus Christ (the Jesus on the cross)emerged on the water with his left shoulder wounded and a big piece of wood stuck/stabbed in his shoulder, then I heard a big male voice as if the statue was talking to me, however I did not clearly understand the message.

Anonymous said...

I dreamt I saw my seven year old dead and my step gran cutting his arm into slices! What does this mean!?!

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Michael said...

I had a dream where I was laying down and a man came and stabbed my left arm once in the top of ,your forearm once in the triceps (like right under my shoulder) and once in my armpit and it seemed like very percase placing where he stabbed me and I could feel the pain very vividly. Does this mean anything at all, or wasomething I having like a stroke or something or was it just a dumb dream? If someone could help me i would much appreciate it. Thank you.

Steve said...

What does it mean when you have a dream about strange writing appear on your arms?

Steve said...

What does it mean when you have a dream about strange writing appear on your arms?

Unknown said...

i dreamed someone cut of my arm and what does it mean?

Unknown said...

i dreamed someone cut of my arm and what does it mean?

Unknown said...

Dreamt about severed arms being delivered in the mail. Put them in a 50 gal bucket of water. They started swimming and 1 turned into a puppy. Same dream: was walking to a restaurant with wife and my parents decorations on the way included taxidermy roosters and human hands holding purses. Fucking weird

Unknown Human Being said...

I had a dream, which was, as usual, mostly nonsense. I had a dream rather recently that me, and a little girl with mousy brown hair across from me (also accompanied by several unknown guests) were sitting in a banquet hall waiting to be served. The little girl noticed that her cup said "twentyønepiløts" on it, (this is one of my favorite bands, who indirectly have saved both my sanity and my life) and she said something insulting about the band with a sneer on her face, I don't remember exactly what she said. But I retaliated by getting angry and throwing one of the bowls out of my small stack in front of me. I THINK it was about three bowls stacked. It hit her on the head, but it didn't harm her in any way. It became a tussle underneath the table, where she ended up slicing my right arm open about 3-4 times, with the glass from a broken bowl,. I found this odd, since I have clinical depression and a history of self-harm, I have scars on my right leg and on my left arm. I have thoughts of suicide every day, and it's often accompanied by visions of me slitting my wrist down to my elbow, and drowning. I also have a slight history of attempting to starve myself as a form of punishment, and I've also once tried to force myself to puke after eating. I just thought that information might help me in decoding my dream. I always have extremely abstract dreams, nothing ever makes sense. When I was a child I had dreams of me simply trying to walk out of my room into the kitchen, but was hindered by random black holes of nothingness appearing in the floor if I tried to move. The holes couldn't be avoided and it was an endless cycle of me falling and re-spawning right back at square one. I can usually control myself to some extent, but not the environment or the people/things around me. I can only control myself and my movement, sometimes not even that. Sorry for such a long comment

Unknown Human Being said...

Correction, it was my LEFT arm she cut open in my dream. The same one with self harm scars

SDFL said...

What could this mean?
I had a dream that my sister in law made some type of food and two of her kids got sick and threw up worms, then one of my sisters made herself throw up to get the worms out and then I ended up trying to throw up the worms it took a while for me to throw them up, then out of nowhere I ended up in a different location with people I didn't know, my mom ended up being there drinking beer. I was worried about the worms still but then I randomly looked at my right arm and I saw that my skin was cut like if I had fake skin on. I lifted the skin up and I saw right through my forearm to the ground, I saw my bone, there was no blood and no meat on my forearm it was just bone and skin. I tried talking to my mom but she was to drunk to comprehend what I was telling her. I was panicking and some people saw me and told me to wait where I was that they were going to take me to the hospital but for some reason they took me to some place that I worked at in my dream to ask my boss for permission to go to the hospital and miss work. I showed him my forearm as proof, from where I was before I met those people my skin started to rot more and more the longer it took to get to the hospital. I was never taken those people were just driving me around different places.

Anonymous said...

I dreamt of my cousin's arms being dislocated. It's a pain in the eyes just to see that even though it's just a dream. What could this possibly mean?

Unknown said...

What if you dream that someone offered you to eat the arm and I ate it then I just found out lately because I have a picture of what it is. What does it mean?

Unknown said...

The meaning of your dream is someone on your cousin don't feel the freedom if you're there (with his/her). They feel trapped.....

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Unknown said...

I dreamed i was passing through a catholic church and one of the choir boys hit me to tell me to be quiet and i grabbed him ny his right arm, to take him to an adult, and put so much pressure on the arm that it snapped. I remember being able to feel the bone snapping. When i released his arm he shouted,"My arm is hurting". I immediately became fearful and ran out of the church

Unknown said...

I had a dream recently where I sustained horrible injuries to my left arm. This injury was .A broken arm and a paralell cut running on the side of my arm, from right up above the wrist to the elbow. My elbow turned black and I kept insisting I needed to go to the emergency room.......but no one listened......including my Mom who has been been gone for twelve years.

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Unknown said...

I had a dream when my right arm is being pulled and I didn't see who was pulling it the. I woke up scared and shouting what could this mean help me out

Lovemyparadise07 said...

I had a dream that is keeping me from sleeping right now. I dreamed I had an uncontrollable urge to twist my arms in front of me and I couldnt undo them...and now that I am awake I am having trouble shaking the feeling I had in the dream, like as if it was real, and I kept waking from the dream putting my arms straight and laying on my hands or having to stretch my arms to make sure I wasnt actually twisting them. I cant sleep now, any thoughts?

Cardinal Mandarin said...

I had a dream that my left arm had nasty holes... about 4 or 5. One of them was on my wrist, fully holed and exposing my bone. The others looked like... those circle wounds people in animations get when exposed to acid. The holes were big-- Bruh I can still remember the meat and yucky stuff. I got on my mom's car and told her to go to the hospital, but somehow I had to go to the house and do all kinds of stuff, and I never got to the hospital before I woke up...

Anonymous said...

What does it mean you were running away from people and there was two other guys with you. They had to defend for me because I couldn't use my right arm. They nocked out one of the guys defending for me and the other one ran away when he got the chance. Then a beast showed up out of nowhere and we all had to run and hide.

Unknown said...

I dreamed that a young women had her right shortened stumped short. I offered to prayshe refused i took her arm any way and prayed for her. What died this mean

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