What Does Dreaming About the Sky Mean?

Psychologically, the sky is the vast expanse above — open, limitless, and overarching — so it most often touches possibility, freedom, aspiration, and the higher reaches: open potential ('the sky's the limit'), the freedom and expansiveness of the open sky, and your outlook, mood, and aspirations. The sky is the great backdrop of possibility and the higher above the everyday.

The sky's state and quality color it strongly. A clear, blue, open sky usually reflects peace, hope, clarity, freedom, and open possibility — a positive, hopeful outlook and a sense of expansiveness and calm. A dark, cloudy, or stormy sky mirrors trouble, foreboding, gloom, or turmoil — clouds gathering, a sense that something difficult is coming, or a darkened mood and outlook. The sky often mirrors your emotional mood and outlook on life (your inner 'weather' written across the sky). As the higher and the spiritual, the sky touches the heavens, the divine, transcendence, and aspiration toward the higher. As limitless potential, the open sky touches boundless possibility and freedom. A strange or unusual sky (odd colors, two suns, surreal phenomena) can touch a sense of the uncanny, awe, or something extraordinary. Whether the sky is clear and blue, dark and stormy, vast and open, or strange and surreal usually mirrors your outlook and mood, possibility and freedom, aspiration and the higher or spiritual, hope or foreboding, and limitless potential.

A Freudian reading would attend to the sky as the vast expanse above — open, overarching, and limitless, evoking aspiration, the higher and the boundless, and the mood written across its clear or stormy expanse. The sky can embody the higher reaches and the open expanse of possibility, with its clear or clouded state mirroring the mood and outlook projected across it.

Its openness or its storms carry the charge of possibility and of mood. What the sky evokes — the freedom of the open blue, the foreboding of gathering storm, the awe of the vast above — tends to point at the dreamer's relationship to possibility and mood: the aspiration toward the higher and the open expanse of potential, and the inner weather of hope or foreboding cast across the overarching sky.

Scripture's heavens proclaim the divine — 'the heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork,' the lifting of eyes 'unto the hills' and the heavens, and the sky as the realm of God's glory and the signs above. The sky touches this theme of the heavens declaring God's glory, the lifting of one's view to the higher, and the divine above.

A sky dream, read this way, can touch the higher, the divine, aspiration, hope, or foreboding. A biblical sensibility might weigh the sky as the heavens that 'declare the glory of God' — a prompt to lift one's eyes and outlook to the higher and the divine, to read hope in the clear sky and to meet a darkened sky with trust in the One above the storm, reading the vast expanse as an invitation to aspiration, awe, and the lifting of the heart toward the glory and the higher that the heavens proclaim.

In Islamic sensibility the sky (sama) is a profound sign of God — the heavens 'raised without pillars,' the sky as a 'canopy' and a sign to reflect upon, full of God's signs (the sun, moon, stars, the clouds bearing rain and mercy). The sky evokes God's signs, the canopy of the heavens, and reflection on the divine above.

A sky dream, in this frame, might point to the higher and the divine, aspiration, hope or foreboding, or reflection on God's signs. Held with humility, the sky can invite reflection on the heavens as a sign of God's power and artistry (the canopy raised without pillars, the signs above), gratitude and awe before the vast expanse, and the lifting of one's outlook and hope toward God — reading the clear sky as a sign of mercy and hope, and meeting a darkened sky with trust in the One above all the heavens.

In a Hindu frame the sky (akasha) is one of the great elements — the subtlest, the space and ether that contains all, associated with vastness, openness, the higher, and even consciousness itself (the boundless 'space' of awareness). The sky evokes the element of space (akasha), vastness and openness, and the higher and boundless.

A sky dream, in this frame, can point to possibility and freedom, the higher and spiritual, aspiration, vastness, or mood (in its clear or stormy state). The tradition's note attends to space and the boundless: the sky as akasha, the vast, subtle element of space and openness (even an image of boundless consciousness) — an invitation to expansiveness and the higher, to the boundless openness of awareness, and to lifting one's outlook toward the vast and the spiritual that the open sky represents.