What does it mean to dream about old Woman?
An old woman often stands for wisdom, nurture, or the deep knowledge of experience, or for your own inner guide, rather than a literal person.
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 an old woman as a mother or early caregiving figure, tied to comfort, authority, and the feelings of childhood. He would attend to the emotion about that early figure the dream brings forward.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see the Great Mother or the wise old woman, the archetype of nurture, intuition, and deep knowing. The figure often appears when the dreamer needs counsel from a feminine source of wisdom.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties an old woman to waking thoughts of family, aging, or the search for guidance. The figure can reflect a real elder in your life or your own intuitive understanding.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The old woman appears across myth as the crone and seer, the keeper of thresholds who spins fate and tests the heart of the young. The figure tends to embody wisdom, transformation, and hidden power.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Frazer).