What does it mean to dream about heart?
The heart usually points to love, courage, or the emotional centre of a matter, what you truly feel beneath the reasoning.
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 seat of feeling and desire, and sometimes anxiety about the body and its workings.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see the centre of the self and the meeting of feeling and meaning, the place where the head's knowledge is tested.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties the heart to waking emotion, love, and worry, and at times to literal health concerns.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The heart was weighed against a feather in the Egyptian judgment of the dead, the measure of a life, and across cultures it is the seat of courage and love.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Frazer).