What does it mean to dream about arms?
Arms often picture strength, capability, and reach, your power to act, to hold, or to embrace.
Four ways to read it
Each reading below comes from a named tradition and a cited source, so you can see where it came from and decide what fits your dream.
Freud
Freud would read the power to grasp and to act, and the wish to hold or be held.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see the capacity to carry out the will in the world, to make and to embrace.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties arms to waking ability, work, and connection, the strength to do and to hold close.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The many-armed gods of India image vast capability, while the strong right arm of the hero is the old emblem of the power to act.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Frazer).