(1) If you are chained, the ‘you5 of the dream is likely to be your conscious ego. Therefore, the restraints represented by the chains should be looked for in the external circumstances of your domestic, social or work life.
(2) If what is chained is some sort of animal, the likelihcx>d is that it represents your animal nature or some aspect of it - your sexuality, for instance. Perhaps you are living in tcx> rarefied an atmosphere and need to get your feet firmly on the ground or to put your consciousness - your awareness - not only in your brain but also in your bxxjy.
(3) If some other person is chained, that person probably represents something in your unconscious. Perhaps it is a desire that has been repressed because of guilt-feelings attached to it.
If so, take a fresh - and this time an objective - look at it.
See also: it for what it is: a power that may be used by you to enrich your life, but not one that you have to employ. You don’t owe any of your emotions a living. But don’t neglect them. Don’t shut them away in vour unconscious, where they could fester. Either use them or dissolve them. [1]
If you dream that you are chained, however, it means that an internal aspect of yourself is being retained. You must set it free so it can express itself.
If it is someone else who is chained, then you have to find out what aspect of the character that person represents. Similarly, if it is an animal, you have to ask yourself what aspect of your nature you are repressing.
If it is a bull it might be your sexuality; if a dog, it may be your fury; and if it is an elephant it shows your inability to use your strength and wisdom.
Dreaming that you are chained predicts you will be victim of injustice. [2]
A succession of events can be linked together in a chain reaction. Ideas and opinions can be bound up in old ways of doing things.
The dreamer may be needing to break free of the chains that bind or to link up with new ideas, people, or situations. (See also: Rope). [3]
Alternative type of cage dream.
Rattling: Ghosts of a figurative nature. What are you trying to hide or avoid?
Security. Chains can be protective, keeping safe something or someone you perceive as being in peril.
Restrictive relationships (e.g., “the old ball ‘n’ chain”). [4]
If you are being chained, or you hear clanking chains, then some part of you is being forcefully controlled or held in check. However, if you dream of unattached chains, whether on you or someone else, you will soon be free of all your worries. [5]
To see chains, brings calumny and treacherous designs of the envious. Seeing others in chains, denotes bad fortunes for them. [6]
Whether your dream featured your own, someone else’s, or unattached chains, you will soon be free of all your worries.
For gold or ornamental chains see Jewelry. [8]
2. Warfare;
3. Gold chain around neck can be Sign of wealth; Acts 20:32; Eph. 4:3 [10]
bound in: your relief from burdens is imminent, but difficult.
cutting a: your opinions chain you to the wrong people.
your: worries wil dissipate, if you face the past.
enemies being bound in: are being restricted by deception.
others: burdens are about to depart on the heels of your opponents.
relatives: anchor your strength in several loyal friends.
flowers, a, of: stress wil lighten up momentarily.
gold, around a woman’s neck: the missing link to good fortune with lover.
iron: wil escape from what bound you after extensive endeavor.
not being free of: the succession of torment is linked to a relative.
others in: wil receive long-awaited news of the missing link.
person wearing, in jail: an anchoring of your basic needs al ows victory over foes.
person with a: confront the person to final y break free.
pulling chain apart: your strength wil free you from a confusing relationship.
reaction, a: line up the succession of events to the truth.
set free from, being: wil escape in the eternal cycle of renewal.
shackles, bound in: your beliefs have burdened you with isolation.
sound of chains: wil hear news that wil limit your future freedom.
succeeding in breaking: wil be free of social engagements.
wearing a: expect the limits of your ideas to hold you back in the near future. [12]