What does it mean to dream about grasshopper?
A grasshopper often points to sudden leaps, living for the moment, or, as a swarm, to a worry that multiplies and consumes.
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 might read the single grasshopper as carefree impulse and the locust swarm as a wish or fear that has multiplied beyond control. Its leaps could picture desire that springs without plan. He would ask what it suggests to you.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
For Jung the cricket or grasshopper can image instinct that lives in the present, while the locust swarm images a collective force that overwhelms the individual. The image often turns on one or many.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
In continuity terms a grasshopper may echo recent impulsiveness, or a small worry that suddenly feels like a plague. The dream often mirrors the difference between a single concern and a swarm of them.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
Fable contrasts the heedless grasshopper with the prudent ant, and ancient accounts dreaded the locust swarm that stripped the land. Crickets, by contrast, were welcomed as lucky hearth-companions.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Brewer).