What does it mean to dream about scissors?
Scissors usually point to cutting something off or apart, a separation or a clean break, so notice what you were about to cut and how it felt.
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 scissors as a cutting instrument bound up with severing and at times with anxiety about loss or castration. To cut can express the wish to be free of a tie, or the fear of being cut off.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see scissors as the act of separation the self must sometimes make, dividing what was joined. Cutting a cord or a cloth can mark a decision to part with something.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Threat-simulation theory reads sharp scissors as a danger object, the sleeping mind rehearsing harm and the need to avoid it. They can also echo waking thoughts about cutting ties or making a clean break.
Threat-simulation theory (our summary).Mythological
The shears that cut the thread of life belong to the weavers of fate in myth, ending the span they have spun. To sever the thread was to bring a destiny to its close.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Brewer).