Nails

If you are hammering you may be either expressing some violent feelings, or you may be reflecting on hard work and honor (depending on the content). Bright nails means you will nevertheless enjoy the work. Bent or dull nails will show sickness and disorder entering your life shortly.

To drive nails shows you will complete a deal and ‘drive’ a hard bargain.

If you injury yourself with a nail you should be careful of careless talk and sharp words. Additionally nails may have some sexual connotations.

A man may be expressing some repressed anxiety about sexual potency and a woman may be expressing her unconscious abhorrence of sex.

A staple in building and construction, the nail is the ultimate tool for keeping the separate pieces of any structure together.

A nail is the element that is introduced into an environment in such a way as to join disparate segments together, and herein lies its symbolic meaning. To see or use nails in a dream is to have access to that which will keep the thing you are building together in strength and integrity.

The thing you are building represents a new idea in consciousness, and the nails ensure that it will take proper form.

(Capture, Fingernails, Strength, Victory) Fingernails in a dream represent victory over one’s enemy. Having long fingernails for someone who needs them for his or her work in a dream means prosperity. Long fingernails in a dream also mean a trend that opposes what is common and practical. Long fingernails in a dream also mean strength, power and protection from one’s enemy. Long fingernails in a dream also denote shame. Losing one’s fingernails to a sickness in a dream means losing one’s wealth, or reaching a dead end. Clipping one’s fingernails in a dream means following the common norms, lending money, or collecting gold jewelry. White fingernails in a dream mean understanding, vigilance, or memorizing things. Fighting someone with nails in a dream represents a cunning person. Long and beautiful fingernails in a dream mean money, or business.

If the length of one’s fingernails reaches near breaking in a dream, it means losing to others what otherwise could remain under one’s own control, or it could denote the need to pay alms tax or to distribute charity. Seeing one’s fingernails broken or chipped in a dream means loss of money, status or health.

If one’s fingernails become claws in a dream, it means that he will triumph over his enemy.

(Also see Body’, Claw)