What does it mean to dream about nose?
A nose often points to intuition and instinct, the sense of sniffing something out, or to curiosity and judgment.
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
Given its prominence, Freud sometimes read the nose with phallic and bodily associations, and as the organ of an instinctive knowing.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see instinct and discernment, the capacity to sense what cannot yet be seen.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties the nose to waking intuition, suspicion, or curiosity, the feeling that something is or is not right.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
Breath entered the first human through the nostrils in more than one creation story, making the nose the gate of the life-breath.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Brewer).