What does it mean to dream about basket?
A basket often points to gathering and keeping what you have collected, so notice whether it brimmed with plenty or sat empty in your hands.
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 often read the woven container that holds and carries as a feminine and bodily image of fruitfulness and gathering. A full basket can stand for plenty, an empty one for a wish unmet.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see the basket as a vessel for the harvest of the self, what you have gathered and made your own. Its contents can show what you have earned or stored within.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties a basket to waking thoughts about gathering, providing, and keeping things safe. A full or empty basket often matches a real sense of plenty or of want in your days.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The basket holds a strange power in myth as the cradle set upon the water that carried the foundling child to safety, and the gift basket whose contents could not run out. To be borne in a basket was sometimes to be saved for a great fate.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Frazer).