What does it mean to dream about atmosphere?
Atmosphere often stands for the protective layer around your life, the climate of mood and pressure you live and breathe within.
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 surrounding air as the mood that envelops the dreamer, the unspoken climate of a feeling. A clear air and a heavy one say different things. The pressure of it is the clue.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see the atmosphere as the protective sphere between the self and the void, the breathable bound of one's world. Its thinning can mean exposure, its calm a sense of shelter. What the air feels like points the way.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties atmosphere to the waking mood around you, the felt pressure of a place or a relationship. It often follows a day shaped more by climate than event. The air mirrors that overall tone.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The air between earth and heaven was held in many traditions to be the dwelling of spirits and the medium of breath and life. It marked the band where the human and the divine met. It stood for the living sphere that wraps the world.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Frazer).