A piece of string is read as a thin, practical connection — something that holds, ties or guides. Tangled string is taken as a muddled situation; a single strand as a clue to follow.
Has this come up in your dreams before? What was going on in your life then?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.