What does it mean to dream about sailor?
A sailor often stands for a part of you that travels the deeper waters of feeling, or a restless, adventurous side, rather than a literal voyage.
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 sea as a vast reservoir of feeling and origin, so the sailor may represent the part of the self that ventures over the unconscious. He would ask what longing draws the figure away from solid land.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see a sailor as a figure who travels the waters of the unconscious, at home with what lies beneath the surface. The figure can embody the wandering, exploring side of the self.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties a sailor to real feelings of adventure, distance from home, or being adrift between one shore and the next. The figure often appears when life feels like a passage across uncertain water.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The sea voyager fills myth from the wanderings of Odysseus to the immrama of Irish saints, the one who crosses unknown waters toward an unseen shore. The figure tends to embody the long journey and its trials.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Brewer).