What does it mean to dream about cheese?
Cheese usually points to richness, reward, and small comforts, and sometimes to a choice or a lure.
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 cheese as a rich satisfaction of appetite, a small luxury that pleases the mouth. It can carry the wish for an easy reward. A bad or mouldy cheese may turn that wish to revulsion.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see cheese as the matured form of milk, something made richer by time and patience. It can mark the slow ripening of a thing within the self. Your own taste for it, or distaste, gives the lead.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties cheese to waking thoughts of food, comfort, and sometimes the small temptations of the day. It may simply carry over a meal or a craving. The bait in a trap is a common turn the image takes.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
Cheese belonged to the simple plenty of the pastoral world, the herdsman's store made to last the lean months. In folk tale it is the prize and the snare at once, set out to tempt the unwary.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Brewer; Frazer).