What does it mean to dream about hook?
A hook often points to something that catches and holds you, an attraction or a trap, so notice whether you were drawn in, hung up, or hooking something yourself.
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 barbed hook as an image of being caught by a desire that bites and holds, the lure that draws against one's better will. To be hooked can carry the pull of a temptation hard to shake.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see the hook as what snags a part of you and will not let go, a fixation or a fascination that has caught hold. What it catches can show where your attention is held fast.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
A sharp hook can set off the brain's rehearsal of being snared or wounded, keeping you wary of a thing that catches and tears. The caught feeling often mirrors a real sense of being hooked into something you cannot easily leave.
Threat-simulation theory (our summary).Mythological
The hook and the lure run through myth as the bait that drew the great fish from the deep and the snare set for the unwary. To take the hook was to be drawn toward a fate baited and waiting.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Frazer).