To see big saws in machinery, foretells that you will superintend a big enterprise, and the same will yield fair returns.
For a woman, this dream denotes that she will be esteemed, and her counsels will be heeded.
To dream of rusty or broken saws, denotes failure and accidents.
To lose a saw, you will engage in affairs which will culminate in disaster.
To hear the buzz of a saw, indicates thrift and prosperity.
To find a rusty saw, denotes that you will probably restore your fortune.
To carry a saw on your back, foretells that you will carry large, but profitable, responsibilities. [1]
The process of dividing something into smaller pieces or sections (such as deconstructing a problem in order to analyze it).
Breaking down something in order to build something new from its pieces (such as reorganizing a large group into several more specialized ones).
Splitting things apart (such as in the breakup of a relationship, or the parting of friends at the end of a school year).
For more clues to meaning, consider the context, how the saw was being used, and how you felt about it.
If you dreamed of a band saw, the dream is telling you to persevere and you will win the approval you seek; a jigsaw portends the breakup of a romantic attachment; a buzz saw is a warning that you are endangering your reputation and/or credit through association with undesirable companions; a hacksaw predicts an increase in responsibility but with unexpected compensations; an ordinary handsaw indicates difficulties and obstacles to be overcome during a change which will ultimately be an advance. [3]
The saw itself represents your ability to change the shape of some form of thought, idea, or consciousness. When put to use, such a tool can be highly constructive but also dangerous. Let your dream indicate which direction to take your interpretation. [5]
A well-known symbol of differentiation (analysis) and intellectual work.
The saw is changing something rough into something more precise that the dreamer then can use. In many instances, this dream image has something to do with willpower that can be used to bring success. [6]
The dream may also be a pun on something you saw or are seeing.
To see an electric saw in your dream, signifies your ability to get down to the core of the problem. You know how to get to the point quickly. [7]
If a woman uses a saw, friends will come to her for advice.
The sound of a buzz saw portends frugality and resourcefulness. [8]
The faster the progress, the better are your chances for success. [10]
A saw in a dream also may represent a judge, an arbitrator, or marriage.
A saw in a dream also means division of assets, a scale, or a perfidious person who loves to create division between a husband and a wife, and to separates between them.
A saw in a dream also represents a cunning person, unfair dealings between people, hypocrisy, evil, an informant, or sexual intercourse.
A saw in a dream also represents a helper, strength, profits, a public ordinance, a proclamation, a learned person, ora judge.
A lumberman’s saw in a dream represents an astringent and an austere headman.
A marble saw in a dream signifies running out of tricks, or presenting an unsatisfactory proof.
A handsaw in a dream represents a layman, a miller, or sieve merchant, etcetera. [18]
buying a: gossip wil endanger your reputation and your credit; cut your own work.
dull, a: upgrade your systems to fit the chal enge.
hack, to cut metal, using a: the intricacies of your job wil take more time with extra pay.
hand: wil alter your politics to fit your reality.
of a: progression in business if you reuse the shavings.
rusty with broken teeth, a: your disgrace leads to failure.
sawing wood: your honesty irritates others; reevaluate your methods of sharing.
enemies: move on the issue while they are asleep.
others: accept responsibility for others’ failure, not yours. [19]