What does it mean to dream about sheep?
A sheep often points to belonging, innocence, or following the crowd, gentleness on one side and a loss of one's own direction on the other.
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 docility and the wish to be led, with innocence set against the herd.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see the part of the self that follows rather than chooses, and the gentle, sacrificial innocent.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties sheep to waking concerns about conformity, belonging, or being led along without deciding.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The lamb is the sacrificial innocent across traditions and the lost sheep the soul sought and found, gentleness bound to sacrifice.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Brewer).