An axe has many functions. It can be used as a weapon or as a tool.
If you dream that you are attacking someone with an axe, you are feeling angry or frustrated in real life. Your dream is a way of releasing repressed emotions.
A dream that someone is attacking you with an axe means that you are feeling threatened by something in real life.
If you dream that you are using an axe to chop something down, for example, to chop down a tree, you are moving from one stage of your life to another.
An axe may be used to perform a sacrifice, so an axe in a dream can represent a sacrifice that you have made.
Axes have been used as religious symbols; therefore, an axe in a dream can represent spirituality.