What does it mean to dream about scissors? |

Dreaming of scissors can symbolically indicate ruptures and separations. Just like scissors, a practical object that cuts different materials, its representation in the dream is capable of representing both painful – but necessary – and liberating experiences.

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Reflect on the context of dreaming about scissors

What scissors is this? Does it belong to anyone? Is it a pair of pointed, blunt, rusty, new, sharp, blunt scissors? What is she made of?

What does it cut or not cut? What draws attention to her? How does the dreamer relate to her?

Reflect on what the unconscious may be signaling when dreaming of scissors

How do I deal with ruptures and endings? Can I cut or break up with what is not good for me? Do I experience separations that I regret or do I make conscious cuts?

Possible interpretations

Scissors in dreams necessarily need to be contextualized. Scissors speak of the cutting tool, that is, of the power of the psyche to break, cut and separate. That’s the premise. In view of this, the context is evaluated in order to amplify.

Type of scissors can change the context of the dream

The type of scissors that appears in a dream, more evidently, can give us some information about what type of cut is possible and even if it is possible or what conditions exist in the psyche for a break. We can think of blunt scissors, for example, or too sharp, too cutting. What these scissors cut or the circumstances in which they appear also provide us with information to be able to understand the symbol more deeply.

Disruption is inevitable

In Greek mythology, the Moira Atropos, which means the one who cannot be avoided, cut the thread of destiny relentlessly determining the death of the living. The idea to which this leads us is that ruptures, cuts and separations are, for the most part, inevitable. We go through this type of situation countless times throughout our lives, and, in a way, we learn to face this experience as something negative, as a loss.

Ruptures, cuts and separations are, for the most part, unavoidable

But as the symbol is always much broader, we can see that many ruptures are actually part of healing itself, or opening space for something different. A break with something that no longer serves the psyche can be precisely the point of liberation to envision a new way of being in the world or relating.

Our experts

– Thaís Khoury holds a degree in Psychology from Universidade Paulista, with a postgraduate degree in Analytical Psychology. She uses dream interpretation, calatonia and creative expression in her sessions.

– Yubertson Miranda, graduated in Philosophy from PUC-MG, is a symbologist, numerologist, astrologer and tarot reader.