What does it mean to dream about airplane?
An airplane often pictures ambition, escape, or a major transition, the wish to rise above and travel far, with takeoff and landing as the risky thresholds.
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 wish to rise above earthly limits, ambition and at times the body's flight of feeling.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see a rapid passage between states of being, the self lifted toward a new level, sometimes faster than it is ready for.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties planes to waking ambitions, journeys, and transitions, with turbulence or a crash marking anxiety about the change.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The flight of Daedalus and the fall of Icarus made human flight the old emblem of soaring ambition and the danger of rising too high.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch).