Chain in a dream: meaning in Ibn Sirin, al-Nabulsi and Ibn Shahin

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Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam

In a dream it indicates a woman of long life, of enduring lawful wealth.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 162

And perhaps it indicates threatening and menacing.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 162

And the chain in a dream is disobedience, if he sees it in his hand or around his neck.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 162

(And whoever sees) a chain around his neck will marry a woman of bad character.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 162

And the chain indicates the entanglement of affairs.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 162

(And whoever sees) that he has been bound with a chain, worry will befall him.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 162

attributed to Ibn Sirin, Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam

The chain indicates the committing of a grave sin, because of His saying, exalted be He: "Indeed, We have prepared for the disbelievers chains."

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 295–297

Chains on a man's neck: marriage to a woman of bad character.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 295–297

Whoever is bound with a chain, it indicates grief he is in, or will be in the future.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 295–297

Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

A Chaine is a Wife, defaining, ill successe of affayres, and hinderance.

Oneirocritica (1644 English translation), The Third Booke of Artimedorus His Exposition of Dreames.

Kinds and conditions of Chain

chains

Ibn Shahin al-Zahiri, al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat

As for chains, they are interpreted as helpers/assistants, and the chains of the steelyard balance are interpreted as the judge's assistants; and the whole of them, when in vessels, is interpreted as wealth.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 187

As for the zinjīr (fetter-chain) and the shackle, their interpretation has already been mentioned in their sections in the twenty-fifth chapter. As for what is made of the metals mentioned, such as vessels and utensils and the like, their interpretation comes in their sections in the seventy-second chapter. As for other than that, of whatever is made from each kind of them, it accords with its own genus, and we have already given it.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 187

chain of associations

Freud and Jung, a separate view

It is correct to say that there is no series of associations which cannot be adapted to the representation of sexual facts.

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams / On Dreams / Dream Psychology, Dream Psychology, ch. V Sex in Dreams

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