What does it mean to dream about pupil?
A pupil or iris often points to the depths of seeing and inner perception, the very center of the gaze, and sometimes to what draws the light of attention.
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 pupil as the dark center of the eye, the point of focus tied to looking and being looked at. A strange or altered pupil can mark unease about how one sees or is seen at the deepest level.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see the pupil as the dark opening into inner sight, the still point at the heart of perception. It may invite the dreamer to look past the surface and attend to what lies within.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties the pupil and iris to waking concerns about clear sight, attention, and reading the feelings of others through their eyes. They often surface when a person has been watching closely or longing to be truly seen.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The eye has been named the window of the soul in many traditions, its dark center the doorway to a person's truth. Old belief held that the gaze itself could bless or curse, the pupil carrying a power that passed from eye to eye.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Brewer; Bulfinch).