A hand separated from the body, yours, someone else's, sometimes placed on a table or fallen on the floor. The image is clean, the rest of the decor can be blurred.
The emotional tone
Shock, coldness, sometimes a detached curiosity that surprises the dreamer themselves.
Symbolic meaning
The severed hand symbolizes a rupture with part of oneself: a profession left, a relationship ended, a way of acting abandoned. It also speaks the violence of a detachment that hasn't yet been mourned.
The palmistry link
In palmistry, the hand carries your entire trajectory. Dreaming it's severed amounts to dreaming that an entire chapter of your story has been cut, and that your lines, symbolically, start over elsewhere.
What this dream signals in your life
This dream often arrives after a radical decision consciousness accepts but the body hasn't yet integrated.
A severed hand in a dream is a grief asking to be named.