Complete Dictionary of Dreams

by Dr. Mıchael Lennox
Handcuffs are used to bind someone in order to restrict their movements, usually in the case of criminal activity. In this way, they connect symbolically to this sense of restriction and the inhibition of freedom, but also to the consequences of behaviors and choices you may have made that have resulted in such restriction. There is a secondary meaning to handcuffs as paraphernalia in sexual play where this type of binding is considered erotic.

If the latter is the case, you may want to investigate whether sexual issues are inhibiting your freedom.

Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation

by Gustavus Hindman Miller
To find yourself handcuffed, you will be annoyed and vexed by enemies.

To see others thus, you will subdue those oppressing you and rise above your associates.

To see handcuffs, you will be menaced with sickness and danger.

To dream of handcuffs, denotes formidable enemies are surrounding you with objectionable conditions.

To break them, is a sign that you will escape toils planned by enemies.

Ten Thousand Dream Dictionary

by Pamela Ball
1- Dreaming of being in handcuffs denotes that we have been restrained in some way. often by an authority figure.

2- If we are putting handcuffs on someone, we may be attempting to bind that person to us. We may be being overly possessive.

3- Handcuffs are a binding symbol and spiritually would suggest that we are being hampered, probably by our own doubts and fears.