What does it mean to dream about werewolf?
A werewolf often stands for a fear of losing control, or a wild, instinctive side of yourself that you keep hidden until it breaks loose.
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 transformation as the eruption of instinct the daytime self holds down, appetite or aggression breaking through. The beast is the wish that civility forbids. Consider what urge in you feels barely caged.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see the werewolf as the shadow, the animal nature split off and feared, returning when the moon, the unconscious, is full. The aim is not to slay it but to know it. The dream may ask you to own a wildness you deny.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Under the continuity view, the werewolf often mirrors waking worry about anger, impulse, or a hidden side others might see. It can follow a moment you feared you might snap. Notice whether you watched the change or underwent it.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
Tales of people who turn to wolves run from ancient Greece to northern folklore, marking the thin line between human and beast. The change usually comes at night and against the will. It speaks to the old fear that the animal in us is never far off.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Frazer; Brewer).