What does it mean to dream about sun?
The sun often pictures energy, clarity, and optimism, the conscious power that rules the day.
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
In a Freudian frame the sun can stand for the father or for a powerful authority, the bright source under which the dreamer lives. Its warmth or harshness colors how that power is felt.
Freudian reading (our summary).Jung
For Jung the sun images consciousness, the self, and the source of clarity and order, the solar counterpart to the lunar unconscious. A rising sun marks new awareness; a setting or eclipsed sun marks fading clarity or a dimming of the self.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Cognitively the sun pictures energy, clarity, and optimism. Bright sun tends to track confidence and well-being; a hidden, harsh, or darkened sun can track depletion or a loss of clear direction.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
Sun-gods are sovereign and life-giving across cultures: Egyptian Ra, Greek Helios and Apollo, the long-armed Irish Lugh, sun-deities of order, kingship, and renewal. The sun images the conscious power that rules the day and returns each dawn.
Bulfinch; Frazer.