What does it mean to dream about face?
A face often stands for identity and how you present yourself, your own or another's, and what is shown or hidden in it.
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 the self presented to others, and what an expression betrays of a hidden wish.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see the persona and the question of recognition; a blurred or changed face marks uncertainty about who one is.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties faces to waking concerns about identity, judgment, and relationships, reading others and being read.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The face of the god was often hidden or forbidden, and the two-faced Janus looked to past and future at once, guardian of thresholds.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Brewer).