What does it mean to dream about bottle?
A bottle often holds something contained and given out in measure, so it helps to ask what was inside and whether it was full, empty, or sealed shut.
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 bottle as a container with bodily meaning, holding what is poured out or kept stoppered. What it contains and whether it is opened can carry desire or restraint.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see the bottle as a vessel holding something of the self in concentrated form, feeling or spirit kept until needed. A sealed bottle can point to what is bottled up within you.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties bottles to waking thoughts about what you store, ration, or hold back. A bottle you cannot open or one that is empty can echo a real sense of feelings kept in or used up.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The sealed flask of myth holds a spirit or a wonder, like the genie bound in the bottle until released. The stoppered vessel has long been where power is bottled and set loose.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Brewer; Bulfinch).