What does it mean to dream about goat?
A goat tends to mean surefooted independence and vitality, or a stubborn, appetitive energy, and at times a figure made to carry blame.
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 lust and instinctual energy, the appetite that climbs where it will.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see the independent, instinctual self that finds its own footing, and the scapegoat that carries what others disown.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties goats to waking themes of independence, persistence, or being made to bear fault.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The goat-god Pan and the scapegoat driven into the wilderness make the goat both wild vitality and the bearer of a community's sins.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Frazer).