Dream of a Monk
A monk or a priest stands for a spiritual guide. The dream comes most often when you want to empty your mind and ask which way to go, and giving alms to a monk is read as a good dream: merit built up and blessing returning to you. A monk speaking to you reflects less what he says than what answer you are hoping to hear right now. A temple or a hall appearing alongside marks a time of closing one chapter and beginning another. That said, this dream foretells nothing about any particular religion, and it comes with the same meaning to people of no faith.
A monk stands one step outside the reckoning of the world, so in a dream the wish to seek an answer from outside borrows that figure. Traditional dream lore counted meeting someone in religious practice as favourable, and read giving alms in particular as merit built up and blessing returning. Whether you met in a temple or on the road, and whether words passed between you, is what parts the grain of it.
Readings by Situation
Giving alms to a monk
A good dream of merit built up and blessing returning to you. Old lore read giving in a dream as wealth in circulation. What you put in now is understood to come back later.
A monk speaking to you
It reflects the answer you want to hear rather than the words themselves. Old readings treated a monk's words as a guide, yet more often the words are gone by morning. When that happens, look at whether the room felt easy rather than at what was said.
Meeting a monk at a temple
Read as a time of closing one chapter and beginning another. Old lore read visiting a temple as changing your mind about something. It signals there is something to put in order.
Becoming a monk yourself
Not an ill omen. Read it as the wish to set down what you have been carrying. It marks a need for rest, so start by taking things off your schedule.
It is a dream that comes in the same shape whether or not you hold a faith. Nor should it be read as hinting at ordination or conversion; read it as a picture of wanting to empty your mind.