What does it mean to dream about sky?
The sky often stands for your outlook, your sense of possibility, or the wider mood that hangs over everything in the dream.
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 sky as the open field above the self, its colour and weather shaped by the dreamer's mood. A clear sky and a storm-dark one carry very different wishes or fears. The state of it is the clue.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see the sky as the realm of the heights, of spirit and aspiration above the ground of daily life. Its vastness can mirror freedom or smallness. What fills it tells you which.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties the sky to a waking sense of mood and possibility, bright or heavy. It often takes on the colour of the day behind it. A wide open sky tends to mirror a feeling of room to move.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The sky was the dwelling of the high gods in tradition after tradition, the canopy held up over the world. It was father to the earth in many creation stories. To look up was to look toward the divine.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Frazer).