Nails Dream Interpretation: Insights from 12 Unique Sources

(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.

(See Body’, Claw)

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.

Depending on the content of the dream, hammering might represent feelings of anger and hostility or you may be reflecting on hard work and honorable endeavors. Additionally nails may have some sexual connotations.

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

To dream your nails are grown long is very good, and denotes riches, prosperity, and happiness, great success in love, a good industrious husband or wife, and dutiful children; it also foretells that you will suddenly receive a sum of money that will be of great use to you.

Nails are used to hold wood together in a construction project. Thus, they may remind you to nail things shut with regard to a business deal. They may also symbolically represent feeling crucified; they offer the message to quit being a martyr.

To see nails in your dreams, indicates much toil and small recompense.

To deal in nails, shows that you will engage in honorable work, even if it be lowly.

To see rusty or broken nails, indicates sickness and failure in business.

1. God’s Word;

2. Words that are stick in the memory;

3. Something that is permanent;

4. Unmovable;

Ez. 12:11; Is. 22:20-25; 41:1-7; Col. 2:14; Jer. 10:4; 1 Chron. 22:3; Eccles. 12:11.

It is a very good omen when you find your Nails grown long in your dream; it denotes prosperity in business, success in love.

They symbolise a persons’ ability, capability and position – since he uses his finger –nails to scratch his body.

lucky numbers: 12-17-24-27-29-41

biting down to the quick: are brought to the limit by disparaging remarks about you.

breaking own: misery and affliction, briefly; things wil go back to normal.

buying: your reputation for being high-strung and irritable is not in dispute.

carpenter: have laborious duties to continue; don’t make it harder than it is.

copper: sorrow with your preoccupations; step out of them for a while.

horseshoe: wil be worried by bad news, which you wil turn around.

iron: solution wil be found by solid, heavy-duty research.

steel: the solution wil be uncovered in a pinhole and solved with a rivet.

children’s, growing: you, or someone dear to you, wil have an accident.

cutting own: an accident for a man; a quarrel for a woman.

others: dishonor in the family; unusual associations prove disastrous.

extra long, woman’s: big profits do not come from smal minds.

false fingernails, using: your mistakes increasingly occur due to lack of concentration.

hammering, in wall: the truth wil out; tel it first.

hangnail, having a: prompt attention must be paid to the tiniest detail.

of own finger: to continue your abundance, stay frugal.

others’: a high achievement for a woman to protect the tender parts of herself.

people chewing: wil be shunned by the higher class for perceiving yourself as lower class.

pulling, out: your extreme sensibility makes your actions careful.

selling: your concise analysis wil tie loose ends to a solution you can share.

tearing off another’s: a sadistic approach exposes a domestic bliss.

toenails, biting your: are about to be exposed for abetting a crime.

very short, having: have not established your own opinions or point of view.