The Curious Dreamer’s Dream Dictionary

by Nancy Wagaman
A transition in your life (since a cocoon is an insect’s transition between larval and adult phases).

Progress or development that isn’t visible or of which you’re not aware (as in a larva developing inside its cocoon).

A lull in a process before progress resumes.

Feeling cozy, comfortable, or secure.

A period of rest, recuperation, revitalization, or nurturing (or a need for such).

See Insect, Larva, Caterpillar

A Dictionary of Dream Symbols

by Eric Ackroyd
(1) A cocoon holds potential new life and may therefore symbolize (the possibility of) new psychic life and development.

(2) The cocoon is a covering and may therefore symbolize unwillingness to uncover and face up to your true self.

(3) Are vou in the* cocoon? If so, it probably represents a web of fantasies produced by an unconscious neurosis which is cutting you off from reality.

Dream Symbols in The Dream Encyclopedia

by James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver
Cocoons represent a place of safety, healing, or transformation.

Dreaming of a cocoon may be a response to a sense of feeling overburdened with life issues and the consequent longing for relief. Such a dream may indicate a place where the consciousness can restore and re-create new paths of expression, or perhaps the birth of a new aspect of the self.