What does it mean to dream about eyebrows?
Eyebrows often point to expression and the small signals of feeling, the way a face shows surprise, doubt, or judgement before any word is spoken.
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 eyebrows as part of the face's silent speech, the gesture that gives a wish away before it is owned. Lost or shaved brows can mark a fear of being stripped of one's expression or shamed in the eyes of others.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see the eyebrows as a feature of the persona, the practiced face one shows the world. A change in them may mark a shift in how the dreamer wishes or fears to be seen.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties eyebrows to waking concerns about appearance and being read by others, since they carry so much of how a face is judged. Dreams about them often follow days of feeling watched or self-conscious.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
Across traditions a marked or joined brow was read as an omen of character, for good fortune or for ill. The lifted eyebrow has long been the face's quiet word of doubt.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Brewer; Bulfinch).