What does it mean to dream about flower?
A flower usually carries beauty, growth, and the opening of something, whether love, potential, or a brief and precious season.
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 read flowers in terms of sexuality and blossoming, the opening bloom an image of desire and of innocence at once.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see the unfolding self and the wholeness of the mandala, the bloom as the psyche coming into its own.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties flowers to waking joy, romance, and growth, with a wilting flower marking something fading.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
Flowers spring from myth at every turn, the narcissus, the lotus of creation, the blooms that mark a god's death and return, beauty bound to brevity.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch).