What does it mean to dream about net?
A net usually stands for being caught or for catching, the snare or the safety that holds you, so it helps to ask whether you were gathered up or tangled fast.
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 net as a snare for desire, the trap that catches what slips through other holds. Being caught in one can carry both the dread of capture and the secret pull of being held.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see the net as the web of circumstance or relationship that binds you, for protection or for capture. Whether you cast it or are caught in it can show your part in the entanglement.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties a net to waking thoughts about being trapped, being supported, or trying to secure something elusive. Tangling in a net often echoes a real sense of being caught up in a situation.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The net runs through myth as the snare that caught the lovers in the smith's cunning mesh and the great net cast to take gods and beasts alike. To be netted was to be exposed and held fast for all to see.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Brewer).