To dream that you are using the tape, means that you want to make a special bound with someone particular, especially if you are the one who bought it. The tape could also mean that you feel too much of the attachment and wish to be free at some point of your life. Youre lacking of freedom.
Dream dictionary: Tape dream meanings
Dreaming of tape, denotes your work will be wearisome and unprofitable. For a woman to buy it, foretells she will find misfortune laying oppression upon her.
If you used the tape in a dream, then such dream indicates the barriers you have to deal with. Perhaps somebody made the restrictions to you.
The measuring tape in dreams indicates your ability to check things many times before doing something important. The dream could also show that you are the person who likes everything to be planed.
These seen in dreams are always unpleasant omen.
Dreaming of seeing or using a tape represents limitations or need for accommodation.
If you are dreaming of yourself listening to music on a record player, then it announces joys, parties and happiness due to your own successes or those of family or close friends. If the record is interrupted, for example because the record or tape is broken, then it signifies that serious problems are coming.