What does it mean to dream about eclipse?
An eclipse often stands for something hidden or overshadowed, a time when a familiar light is briefly blocked and the order of things feels uncertain.
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 look at what is being blotted out, often a guiding figure or a part of the self temporarily cast in shadow. The darkening of a familiar light can carry both fear and relief. What returns afterward is telling.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see one principle eclipsing another, the conscious and unconscious or masculine and feminine briefly overlapping. It can mark a rare alignment or a temporary loss of a guiding light. The shadow passes, but it marks the moment.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties an eclipse to waking feelings of something important being obscured or a familiar source of light withdrawn. It can follow a time when a guide or certainty dimmed. The unease usually lifts as the dream moves on.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
Eclipses were read as omens across the ancient world, the sun or moon swallowed by a beast or stolen by an enemy. Kings feared them and astronomers learned to predict them. They marked a rupture in the expected order of the heavens.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Frazer).