What does it mean to dream about flour?
Flour usually stands for raw material and potential, the unworked basis from which something is made.
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 flour and dough as the unformed stuff of nourishment, the makings of food rather than the food itself. The kneading of dough can carry a wish to shape and provide. The mess of it may also touch early pleasure in handling soft matter.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see flour as raw potential, the ground grain that waits to become bread. It can mark the early, formless stage of a project or a self still to be shaped. Ask what you are preparing to make from your own raw materials.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties flour to waking thoughts of baking, home, and work in progress. It may follow time in the kitchen or a task that is still only half formed. Notice whether the flour felt promising or merely a mess.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
Ground grain stood at the heart of the harvest and was scattered or offered as firstfruits to the gods of plenty. Across cultures the milling of grain into flour marked the patient turning of the wild crop into human food.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Frazer; Brewer).