Ten Thousand Dream Dictionary

by Pamela Ball
1- Since bowing is indicative of giving someone else status, to be bowing to someone in a dream would indicate our sense of inferiority.

To perceive a bow, as in Cupid’s bow. within a dream can indicate the need to be loved the union of masculine and feminine.

2- While intellectually we may not need to feci inferior, on an unconscious level we may actually sense someone else’s need to feel superior and acknowledge that in the dream stale.

To see a bow made of ribbon in a dream is making a connection to the feminine principle and beauty.

3- Variously a bow can indicate superiority, union of masculine and feminine, celebration.

My Dream Interpretation

by myjellybean
To dream of a ribbon tied in a bow (on a dress, around a tree, etc.) is lucky, signifying happy relationships. Anything else tied in a bow represents respect. You are acknowledging a greater and larger power in your life, whether that is spiritual or an authority figure.

To see an archer’s bow in your dream refers to the pursuit and accomplishment of your goals.

Islamic Dream Interpretation

by Ibn Seerin
In a dream, a bow means travels, a brother, a wife, a son or closeness to someone.

A covered bow in a dream means that, one’s wife is pregnant.

If a pregnant woman hands a man a bow in a dream, it means that she will conceive a girl from him.

If a pregnant woman hands her husband a bow in a dream, it means that she will deliver a boy. Stretching the strings of a bow in a dream means longevity. Stretching it without an arrow in a dream means planning to travel.

A broken bow in a dream signifies the death of a brother, a business partner, or a son.

A bow is broken bow in a dream means that an accident may cause the hand of a brother or a business partner to fracture. Holding a broken bow in a dream means losing one’s job or closing one’s business. Seeing a young man attaching a string to a bow in a dream represents one’s enemy. Attaching a string to a bow in a dream also means marriage, while detaching the string of a bow in a dream means divorce. Seeing oneself standing before a ruler with two bows length between them mean receiving an appointment.

The two bows in a dream also represent one’s eye-brows. Shooting arrows with a bow in a dream means speaking wrong about something or backbiting someone. Carving a bow in a dream means preparing to get married or begetting a son. Shooting an arrow and hitting one’s target in a dream means fulfilling one’s needs, or attaining one’s goal. Selling one’s bow and arrows in a dream means giving priority to one’s religious life over that of his mundane one. Shooting hazelnuts in a town in a dream means backbiting people, while shooting hazelnuts in the forest means earning lawful money from hunting. Shooting arrows in front of the city hall in a dream means backbiting or slandering others. Shooting a pigeon in a dream means slandering one’s own wife. Bending an arch in a dream means preparing for war.

(Also see Eye-brow)