What does it mean to dream about tongue?
A tongue often points to speech and taste, what you say or hold back, and the words that carry your meaning into the world.
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 tongue as a site of pleasure and of speech, the wish to taste and to say. A swollen or stilled tongue can mark something the dreamer cannot quite bring to words.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see the power of the word and of utterance, the self giving shape to what was inward. A bitten or lost tongue may mark a truth held back or a voice not yet found.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties the tongue to waking concerns about saying the right thing, being understood, or having spoken too freely. Trouble with the tongue often follows a day of difficult conversation.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The tongue is the seat of eloquence and of curse alike, the gift of the bard and the slip that betrays. In many traditions a guarded tongue is wisdom and a loose one is danger.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Brewer; Bulfinch).