A hand grips yours very tightly, or squeezes an object until it compresses. The strength of the grip is the dream's central element.
The emotional tone
Sensation of power mixed with a vague impression of oppression. You don't always know who is gripping whom.
Symbolic meaning
Gripping in a dream is holding back what threatens to leave. The symbol refers to fear of losing, need for control, intensity of a desire that fears being dispossessed.
The palmistry link
Palmistry sees the closed palm as a sign of retained energy. Dreaming of a clenching hand is often feeling that something in you still refuses to open.
What this dream signals in your life
This dream arrives for people in a phase of excessive control, over a relationship, a project, a self-image. It signals it's time to loosen.
A clenching hand in a dream is one that hasn't yet learned to trust.