Dreams of fists are more related to insects, more related to unnamed people, and more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general.

Dreams of fists are more related to happiness, more related to grief and sorrow, and more related to embarrassment than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness.

Dreams of fists are more related to magical places and more related to schools than dreams in general.

Dreams of fists are much more related to aggressive acts, more related to friendly acts, and more related to disasters than dreams in general.

Dreams of fists are more related to lucid dreams, more related to nightmares, and more related to sleep paralysis than dreams in general.

Fist dreams are much more related to hearing, more related to smelling, and more related to taste than dreams in general.

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience fists in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about fists in dreams. See how you feel about fists now, in your waking life.

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet. A clenched fist is an image of heavy-handed authority and conflict. Dreaming about a fist can symbolize the idea of “iron-fisted,” meaning inflexible or absolute. It’s authority that beats down any challenge. A clenched fist can symbolize “tight-fisted,” meaning stingy. People can be stingy with money, but also consider how it applies to other situations, such as when someone won’t give compliments or they keep a tight hold on their emotions. Dreaming about hitting with your fists can express frustration or anger. Hitting someone you know with your fists can connect with anger and frustration with that person. Usually it’s a way of acting out your feelings. The entry for Mother has a great example. If a character hits you, it can be a sign of frustration or anger directed at you, or anger with yourself. An unfamiliar character you hit with your fists can be a surrogate for someone you know, or it might represent a side of yourself that’s unwanted or repressed. For example, a teen male dreams about a pack of boys his age mercilessly beating up another boy who doesn’t appear able to fight back. The boy who takes the beating doesn’t look like anyone the dreamer actually knows, yet the dreamer feels that he knows him well. He joins in the beating and gets in a few blows of his own as he mocks and scorns the boy as a “pussy” and “fag.” The character that takes the beating is the soft and gentle side of the dreamer. Now that he’s a teenager, he can’t allow any sort of softness or weakness to show around his peers or he’ll be labeled as a sissy. The action of beating the boy in the dream is a physical representation of repressing this side of himself, and his scorn of the boy is actually a reflection of how he scorns himself for being soft and gentle. He fears this side of himself, and he acts out all the related feelings. The action tells the story. Another possible way of looking at the same dream scene is that it expresses the dreamer’s anger or frustration with himself. Scenes involving hitting are common in the dreams of people who are angry. If the person you hit is not someone you know or recognize, you might be expressing anger or frustration with yourself. The character is a surrogate. See: Anger Described in simplest terms, hitting is abuse, and while hitting can manifest in dreams because of physical abuse, it can also refer to emotional and psychological abuse. Getting hit expresses how you feel. Things aren’t always as they appear, though. In fact, in most cases your dream characters are based on your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. They are projections of your inner world. For example, you dream that your best friend hits you, and it reflects your feelings of guilt for letting that person down. Getting hit in a dream expresses the feeling that you deserve some sort of punishment. It doesn’t mean that your best friend feels that way. The character’s actions are scripted on the basis of your feelings. And now for another twist. Some dream characters don’t represent people at all. They don’t represent something about you. They represent a subject, idea, or organization. For example, a math teacher getting beat up by a group of students in a dream is an expression of the dreamer’s frustration with the subject of math. Beating up a mail carrier can symbolize frustration over a package being delayed or lost. Also consider that hitting in a dream can be a way of acting out other definitions of the word. For example, your best friend hits you in a dream and it means the person has been “hitting on” you, expressing romantic interest. Or you get hit upside the head in a dream and it means you finally realize something. Duh! See also: Abusing, Anger, Fighting, Weakness