What does it mean to dream about rake?
A rake usually stands for tidying, gathering, or clearing away what has fallen, so it helps to ask whether the work brought order or only scattered things further.
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 gathering and clearing of what has dropped away as the wish to order the leavings of the past. Raking can carry the urge to set in order what has fallen out of place.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see the rake as the patient work of gathering the cast-off parts of life into one place, the quiet tidying of what a season has shed. It can mark a turn toward putting your affairs in order.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties a rake to waking thoughts about tidying up, finishing a season's work, and clearing what has piled up. Raking leaves often echoes a real wish to gather loose ends together.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The gathering of the fallen harvest runs through myth as the work of the reaper and the turning of the year, the clearing of one season to ready the next. To gather in was to mark an ending and a rest.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Frazer; Brewer).