Your hands are tied, rope, chain, handcuff, or more diffuse bond. You try to separate them, or stay strangely still.
The emotional tone
Oppression, frustration, sometimes a resigned acceptance that worries on waking.
Symbolic meaning
Bound hands symbolize a freedom of action hampered, by a poorly chosen commitment, a weighing loyalty, a dependency exceeding what you can carry.
The palmistry link
In palmistry, lines crossing to the point of imprisoning each other form symbolic 'knots'. This dream replays them: your trajectories are entangled more than they should be.
What this dream signals in your life
This dream arrives for people in a relationship, contract, or family dynamic preventing free action. It doesn't ask for rupture, it asks for lucidity.
Bound hands in a dream untie the moment you stop pretending they're free.