What does it mean to dream about bucket?
A bucket usually stands for carrying or holding, often for what you take on and bear, so it helps to ask whether it was full, empty, or leaking.
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 hollow vessel that holds and pours as a feminine and bodily image, a container for what is gathered or given. A leaking bucket can carry the sense of effort that drains away.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see the bucket as a vessel for what you draw up and carry, the contents of feeling or duty you bear. Whether it holds or leaks can show how well you are containing what you carry.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties a bucket to waking thoughts about carrying loads, holding things together, and tasks that fill or empty. A leaking bucket often echoes a real sense of effort that never seems to hold.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The vessel that cannot be filled runs through myth as the leaking jar and the endless task of carrying water, a labour set as punishment or test. To fill what would not hold was the very shape of futility.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Brewer).