What does it mean to dream about centipede?
A centipede often points to a creeping unease, many small fears moving at once, or something that makes your skin crawl.
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 might read the many-legged creature as a swarm of small anxieties bound into one crawling form. Its sudden appearance could picture a repressed disgust surfacing. He would ask what revulsion it stirs in you.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
For Jung the centipede can image a primitive, unsettling instinct, many-legged and hard to face. It may appear when a creeping fear in the psyche asks to be noticed.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
As a threat image the centipede may rehearse a recoil from a small, fast, unpleasant danger. The dream can sharpen the body's quick aversion to something that crawls.
Threat-simulation theory (our summary).Mythological
Old lore treated the many-legged crawlers as venomous and unlucky, creatures of damp and dark corners. Their strange motion made them figures of dread.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Brewer).