What does it mean to dream about vampire?
A vampire often pictures something or someone draining you, whether energy, time, or vitality taken, or a craving that feeds in the dark.
Four ways to read it
Each reading below comes from a named tradition and a cited source, so you can see where it came from and decide what fits your dream.
Freud
Freud would read a forbidden, consuming desire, an appetite that takes life from another, bound up with the body and with guilt.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see a part of the psyche or a relationship that feeds on the self, the undead complex that will not rest until faced.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties vampires to waking feelings of being depleted by a person or demand, the sense of life being drained.
Threat-simulation theory (our summary).Mythological
The blood-drinking undead haunt folklore from the Balkans outward, the dead who return to feed on the living, kept at bay only by old rites.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Frazer; Brewer).