Ribs ribs in a dream are women, because they were created from the ribs, and the ribs are protective of what was surrounded by the hollow like a tent and its pillar . Perhaps the ribs indicate family and relatives of varying size and age, and they are equally intimate and loving . The ribs indicate hidden works . And whoever sees his ribs protruding from under his skin, he fears that he will be punished. If it grows in a dream or has thickened flesh, it indicates sustenance and a cure of diseases . If he sees himself in a dream without ribs, he has lost in his wakefulness the one who pointed him out of family, money, or children, and perhaps he did an act that he believed was right and wrong . If he sees that he is eating from his ribs, he becomes a burden on his family and relatives, or he sells the wood of his house, or what he conceals in terms of heat and cold .