What does it mean to dream about spring?
A spring often pictures a fresh source rising from below, renewal, healing, or feeling that wells up clean from a hidden depth.
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 water rising from the ground as a source of life and feeling welling up from below, fresh and renewing. The spring can stand for a need met at its source, or for energy returning clean to the surface.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see the spring as the unconscious offering up clear water, a source of renewal rising from the depths into waking life. To drink at such a source can mark a return to something nourishing within.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
The continuity view ties a spring to waking wishes for renewal, healing, or a fresh start drawn from a deep source. The clearness of the water usually points to the hope behind it.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
Sacred springs and holy wells fill the myths of many lands, places of healing and of wisdom where the otherworld rose into the daylight. People came to such waters seeking cures, omens, and the favor of the powers beneath.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Frazer; Brewer).