What Does Dreaming About Sunrise Mean?

Ibn Sirin reads the sunrise as good news and a way out of difficulty; for the one with an illness he reads healing, for the one with a traveler, reunion. Seeing the sun rise before its time he counts the sign of news arriving early. Al-Nabulsi ties the rising sun to blessing entering the household and reads the light striking the house as joy to be born in that home; both read the rising toward good.

A sun rising from among clouds is read as the good news delayed a little yet surely arriving; the interpreters count the cloud a veil, not a barrier. A red, hazy rising is the sign that the joy carries a share of caution with it. In Ja'far al-Sadiq's classification the clear rising is the best of the readings and the hazy one the one asking for care; the sources call for patience and an eye kept on the horizon.

Watching the rising alone points to news meant for the dreamer alone; watching with a crowd tells of the joy spreading to the house and the circle. Seeing the rising at the end of a sleepless night points to a long-carried grief finally ending. Setting out on the road after the rising is read as going after the fortune that has opened; the day brightening tells of works opening one after another.

In the Jungian approach the rising sun is the rebirth of consciousness: whatever could not be told apart in the dark settles into place with the light. The dream comes in seasons when a long inner tangle begins to loosen; the horizon is the opening face of one's own mind.

From the Freudian perspective the night's end is a suppressed hope finding its way. Those waiting on news see this dream often.