Tree Trees
The tree depicts the living structure of yourself or another person. In particular it shows not only your past in the condition of its roots and trunk, but also what you have grown into and what your possibilities or potential are. It is what has grown from the past into the present. Its roots show your connection with your physical body and the earth, your family background and influences, and cultural roots; its trunk the way you direct the energies of your being – growth, sex, thought, emotion. The branches are the abilities, directions and many facets you develop in life – varied and yet all connected in the common life process of your being. The tree can also symbolise new growth, stages of life and ageing, with its spring leaves and blossom, then the falling leaves. The top of the tree, or the end of the branches are your aspirations, the growing vulnerable tip of your personal growth and spiritual realisation.
From this point of view, the leaves may represent your personal life, this particular life with its many activities and desires, that may fall off the tree – die – but what gave it life continues to exist. The leaf may indicate something in you that is living, growing, or outworn (depending on colour of leaf). This may be part of your thinking or feeling. You can also be blown like a leaf, suggesting separation from your roots and main growth; or you can take a leaf from someone’s notebook, thus following their example or idea.
The roots depict your connection with the earth through food, air and water, as well as your psychological roots in family and culture. Earth is made up of everything that has died and so becomes soil. In the cycles of life things live and then die. In death they become important fertiliser and nutrients for what is growing. In human life earth represents all that our forebears left us from their lives – our inheritance. It has all been purified by death and so is worth our roots feeding from it.
The trunk shows your body and what you have developed in your life, the main thrust of your expression. The tree can also depict new growth, the stages of life and ageing, with its spring leaves and blossom, then the falling leaves. The top of the tree, or the end of the branches, are your aspirations, the growing vulnerable tip of your personal growth and spiritual realisation. From this point of view, the leaves may represent your personal life, this particular life with its many activities and desires, that may fall off the tree – die – but what gave you life continues to exist. The leaf may indicate something in you that is living, growing, or outworn (depending on colour of leaf). This may be part of your thinking or feeling. You can also be blown like a leaf, suggesting separation from your roots and main growth; or you can take a leaf from someone’s notebook, thus following their example or idea.
The tree may also at times represent a place of safety or refuge, as when we climb it to escape. In fact, the tree is such an enormously deep symbol it depicts your whole life, as well as the urge that pushes you into being and growth. It depicts the force or process which is behind all other life forms – but seen as it expresses in your personal existence. See Ancestors
The seeds or flowers are your own fruition, the expression of what is deeply your own unique self manifesting creatively. They are also your reproduction as a parent with children or ideas or influences in the lives of others.
Dead wood represent parts of you that no longer carry life and energy, perhaps ideas or opinions that you no longer hold.
The lightning struck tree represent sudden change, even death. The tree may also at times represent a place of safety or refuge, as when we climb it to escape. The tree is our whole life, the urge which pushes us into being and growth. It depicts the force or process which is behind all other life forms – but seen as it expresses in our personal existence.
The phrase ‘family tree’ describes a way the unconscious uses the image of a tree to represent something that is an internal reality. Within the unconscious there is an awareness that our present personality is built upon the lives and character of our forebears. So our face may be presented on the top or surface of the tree, but behind our face, or on lower branches, or in the trunk, lie the lives of our ancestors stretching back throughout the ages.
In some old manuscripts pictures show a man lying on the ground and his penis growing into a tree, with fruits, birds, and perhaps people in its protective shade. This illustrates how ones personal life energy can branch out from its source in the basic drives, and become creativity, fruitfulness, something given to others. The tree can also represent the spine, and the different levels of human experience – physical, sensual, sexual, hungers, emotions, relatedness, communication, thought, self awareness.
Example: In the dream I was looking at a very large and old tree. I wondered if I could climb it but couldn’t see any way up it. But I noticed a large area without any bark, like an old wound, and I thought that area would become rotten and so the tree would become hollow and offer shelter to animals and humans. Then I walked around the back of the tree and saw that the bark was like thick cables about 6-8 inches wide. I could then see a fairly easy way to climb the tree. So I climbed up and the top of the tree was like a massive bell shape made by the branches, like a huge flower, a crocus shape. And it was light and colourful. Suddenly I saw a spirit, a beautiful female. It was the spirit of the tree. At this point I was semi awake, and I wanted to hold the beautiful spirit, but realised that the tree was a representation of my life, and so was the spirit of the tree. The spirit sat on me in a sexual position, so I was lying on my back and she was upright. She slowly took me into her, I mean the whole me, as if she was sucking my whole body into her. There was no sexual movement as this happened. Then I realised that I had to die because she wanted to take all the experience of my life and endeavour into her and fertilise herself to form a baby. So I was ready to let go and watched her form a new baby, a mixture of her and me. See The Sacred Tree In Dreams And Myths
A wood or collection of trees: The natural forces in your own being, therefore ones connection with or awareness of the unconscious; other people’s personal growth and connection with self. The wood also indicates allowing yourself to be natural, to express what is innate in you, and for the mind and emotions to move in their own way. Walking in a wood might therefore suggest a feeling of relaxation, but it can also mean delving within your deeper feelings and mind – your unconscious – exploring your inner life.
Birch or Silver birch: The birch symbolises growth, renewal, stability, initiation and adaptability because it is highly adaptive and able to sustain harsh conditions with casual indifference. Birches are also associated with the Tír na nÓg, the land of the dead and the Sidhe, in Gaelic folklore, and as such frequently appear in Scottish, Irish, and English folksongs and ballads in association with death, or fairies, or returning from the grave. The leaves of the silver birch tree are used in the festival of St George, held in Novosej and other villages in Albania. (Sidhe are Irish earthen mounds, which in Irish folklore and mythology are believed to be the home of the Aos Sí (the people of the mounds))
Birch bark played a key role in the manufacture of canoes for transportation, wigwams for shelter, and a host of useful implements made by the many tribes and nations of the Northeast. Indians believe that the mist emitted from birch tree leaves placed upon heated rocks in a sweat lodge helps purify the body; the tree’s branches, when tied together and then used to lash the body, result in the removal of poisons. Because of the prolonged existence of ancient birch trees on Earth, American Indians maintain that these trees have much to offer humans.
Branches: Members of your family; directions or possibilities in your life. Or the end of the branches are your aspirations, the growing vulnerable tip of your personal growth and spiritual realisation.
Burnt tree:If this is just an area of the tree or trunk, it shows painful events and the mark they have left on you, perhaps from early in your life. If the hole tree is burnt it shows great difficulties or the death of someone.
Christmas tree or other evergreen: The eternal or unchanging aspect of your transitory experience.
Climbing a tree: Exploring or becoming aware of the directions and facets of your personal growth; using your skills or strength to get away from anxiety or danger, such as you do when climbing to get away from a dangerous animal.
Cutting down: Could be that you are getting rid of old influences in your life, or clearing space. It depends on what attitude is behind the cutting. Are you seeking wood to burn, to build with, or just for devilment.
Dead branch: A direction that no longer has life or motivation in it; a member of your family dying or leaving you.
Dead tree: Past way of life; something which was full of life for you in the past, but is now dead; dead relative.
Falling fallen or crashing down tree: Sense of threat to your identity; this can often suggest a big change in the way you express yourself. It is a breaking down of the influences you lived from in the past, perhaps because your childhood set in place painful or negative influences, or it could suggest the loss or death of a relative or someone close to you. It can also sometimes shown the death of someone. When trees are old or storm blow in our life trees are felled by wind or weather. But in some dreams it may suggest making more space around by the dead trees falling.
Flowering tree: Fertility; femininity.
Human or animal hung on tree: Personal sacrifice; the death of some part of self so further growth can occur – death of dependence so independence can arise; surrender; the pains and struggles, the sense of crucifixion occurring in the maturing process, so the pains and suffering of life in the body.
Leaves and tree tip: The tip is the living, growing part of you. The part that is still vulnerable because of its newness, or outworn (depending on colour of leaf) part of your thinking or feeling. leaves, well you can also be blown like a leaf, suggesting separation from your roots and main growth; or you can take a leaf from someone’s notebook, thus following their example or idea. The leaves as a whole, if falling, can represent the end of your a period of your life, or can be the passing ego that dies, but leaves the trunk, the process that gave life. See Death of Ego
Roots: Your connection with the past, with your family heritage or influences; the things you are tied to by necessity or love; your fundamental physical characteristics as they express in your personality; the aspects of your culture or family ties that you particularly identify with or find connection with.
Roots in dreams represent the hidden and often unconscious links that reach deep into our body and its long past. For our body is an outcrop of the life that began when life began on this earth, and it carries with it ancient memories. The dream roots give us entrance into that long past and what it brings with it into our life today. See The Conjuring Trick
The root can sometimes indicate the ‘root’ of your biological potential/energy – the root centre. As such it shows your undifferentiated self – the you rather like an energy, like electricity. that is invisible until it flows into an apparatus/body, which enables it to show part of its enormous potential – movement, feelings, self consciousness, etc.
Tree trunk: Your family background and connections; What you have developed or grown from. Any injury to the trunk shows a traumatic event; if it is low on the trunk it indicates youth, if higher up then later in life.
Example: Dreamt that I was looking at the large plane tree at the back of our house in London. I noticed the base of the trunk was burnt internally. I pulled away bark. It looked a bit like a bees nest, but was cindered wood. Now I saw folds in the trunk of the tree showing that the tree was leaning, and I realised the cindered bark I pulled away had been supporting the tree. It would now soon fall. I saw a very clear mental image of the tree falling to the right where there was space, because straight ahead was a building it would crush. The tree then began to fall exactly where I had visualised. I now saw the top of the trunk base cut clean.
The dreamer explored their dream and said: The tree is that which has grown from the past into the present. When you discover it is burnt at the base, this means you begin to see that deep within, at the foundations of this lifetime, much has been destroyed in you.
The burnt wood means that much which was to have been expressed as growth was turned inward and consumed the inner life. The burning was realised as your loneliness, your fear of relating, and the pain of living within yourself. When the tree fell, this is the part of you built upon those problems falling away. Tree threatening to fall on building is perhaps having a medical career, but have gone in another direction, against something being built. The burn is the debt on the hands. It is in my hands what I do.
Uprooted tree: It is mostly about your inner world so your every day life has been uprooted – to remove a person from their home or usual environment. See The Inner World
So it can indicate either a serious psychological injury which can lay you low; or that you are living a life that does not connect with your real or core self. See Core
Idioms: Top of the tree; family tree; barking up the wrong tree; tree of knowledge; dead wood; can’t see the trees for the wood.
See: Sacred Tree in Dreams and Myth; death and rebirth, and archetypes of the self ; Individuation; Cross, Wood.
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Hi, there! I’ve always been a willing student of my dreams and have never had much difficulty in deciphering their meanings, particularly if they are accompanied by an animal guide. This one from last night has me a little confused, though. It’s the first dream (I remember) that I’ve ever had of trees.
First, my favorite tree was the oak tree in my front yard at my childhood home. I spent many hours a day sitting within its roots and speaking to it. If I was sad, I was comforted; angry, calmed; afraid; encouraged; lonely, loved. I have always had a kinship with forests, though I’ve never effectively explored the spiritual side of it.
My dream took place at my old childhood home and my front yard and that of my neighbor (who had an oak tree in her yard, as well – I grew up Louisiana). We had other oak trees, pecan trees, plum trees, a cumquat tree, and a nectarine tree in our backyard.
In the dream, I was back there as an adult. No one from my past was there, though. My 12 year old daughter was there and a man other than my husband, who I don’t know but knew in my dream. There were a few other people who weren’t in focus, as if they were just wandering and meant nothing.
My daughter and I had just filmed a family of squirrels (which did happen this morning – foretelling aspects in dreams are common for me). I left her at the door while I was drawn to the acorns on the ground. As I bent over to look at them, I noticed they were the size of golfballs and tennis balls. I held them in my hand and could only have one at a time because of their size. I called out to my daughter to see, but she wasn’t as interested so I kept looking around on my own.
As I looked around the ground beneath the other oak trees, what I thought to be grapefruit on the ground caught my eye. I looked up and saw a very tall tree filled with grapefruit that turned into pumpkins. I tried to take some of the grapefruit down to show my daughter because she had never seen a fruit tree, but they turned into pumpkins every time I reached for one. Eventually, it became a pumpkin tree and I laughed at how odd it was for pumpkins to be growing on trees. They were only a little bigger than the grapefruit.
As I watched them turn, I started to notice the fruit in the other trees around me. There were more of the large acorns but now there were grapefruit and pumpkins.
I approached my oak tree, which was surrounded by all of these trees that didn’t exist there when I was a kid, and looked up to see how tall it had grown. I was shocked to discover it didn’t seem to end. The top went well past the clouds and couldn’t be seen.
I looked around to see if I could climb the tree to find its top branches. That’s when I noticed my cat that died in February on one of the branches of another tree (she visits me in my dreams). I saw a ladder beside her, so I took the ladder and went to my oak tree.
At this time, the man in my dream came over and said he would help me if I was trying to get the fruit. I said I was trying to find the top of my oak tree. He said he couldn’t help me with that but he started to climb up the ladder to get fruit for me, anyway. I thought that was kind of pointless since there was so much fruit and nuts all over the ground. I just smiled politely and put the fruit he handed me into a bucket. I still couldn’t take my eyes off the unseen top of my oak tree.
The branches in all of these trees seemed bare. It seemed like there weren’t many leaves at all, just fruit and nuts (and pumpkins).
I have started to more actively seek my inner voice, my deeper knowledge. I THINK this dream is telling me I have a lot within me waiting to be discovered, some of it unexpected, and I am fully capable of reaching heights that I can’t imagine right now but I’m on the right path to do so. I don’t know if this is right, though, so any ideas from an unbiased person such as yourself would be very much appreciated!
Thank you!
Tabitha – Certainly an unusual dream and very meaningful.
As you must have read from the entry of the tree, your dream shows you the outer form of your whole life. I a guessing that you have some way of expressing what you have realised about your inner life – see http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/inner-world/ and http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/the-sacred-tree-in-dreams-and-myths/ – and that is why you see such huge seeds. Or is it that you have so much to share with others from within you that still needs planting in others lives?
Certainly the fruits of the tree can feed many.
The man in your life is not your leader as you have your own impulse to discover and find. But no leaves suggest – I guess – that your summer of new leaves and flowering is still before you. I am interested to know how and when this happens.
I said the outer form, and to break through the surfaces images try using some of these – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/
Salutations – Tony
Hi, Tony! I am so sorry I never responded! I lost the link to this page and just now found it again.
Thank you for all of your information. I have been on a very sacred spiritual journey over the last 18 months. I didn’t even realize I was traveling this course until recently when things have been happening to bring it all together to make sense. One of those things happens to be trees.
I am discovering much regarding my Scandinavian heritage, and the most recent discovery is about tuntre trees. As soon as I began to read about them and learn their meaning, my dreams I mentioned all made sense. The trees in my dreams are my ancestors, and I am being led to my true heritage and purpose.
I wanted to come back and tell you this because you were such a big help to me and I never responded. I’m so glad I finally found this page again.
I don’t know if I can post links here and you can remove the link if you wish. I just wanted to share my findings with you. Thank you again! Have a wonderful day!
http://norwegianjournaloffriluftsliv.com/doc/192010.pdf
I had a dream where I took off in flight from my living room (where I was physically sleeping on my couch) and I could hear a wind all around me, take me up and out into an evergreen forest, deep, deep green and vibrant evergreen forest, that had small caps of snow on the tips of the branches and top of its crown. This forest was very big, I could see far our through the forest. The sky was beautiful blue for night sky and the stars were so bright. I could also see the ground from where I flew, above and through the tops of the trees.
The wind took me further through this beautiful forest, and I could see inside a house. The house was gorgeous, I could see in the living room area – which was all white walls, all white living room furniture and in that living room was a baby crib, all white too. I flew closer to the living room, which looked warm and inviting to me and still hearing this wind all around me had come back to my living room and was set back onto my couch.
I’ve had two other dreams, where I have been picked up by a “wind” – and its strange. The first two I was a little frightened, but this one, I asked the wind to take me and show me what it wanted me to see. I wasnt afraid.
I just dont “get” the dream and wanted to know what a subject matter expert thought… Sandra
Sandra – WOW what a wonderful dream. But dreams images are like icons on a computer screen – You have to ‘click’ on your dream images to make them come alive. Thinking about them doesn’t work. You need to open yourself to the magic of them. To make them into the wonderful gateways they are you may have to learn certain skills. And what’s in it for you? See http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/clicking-on/
Your dreams have so much information hidden in the images and drama, but it needs information also so you can in the future understand and gain the wonder it contains. So please read the following – – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us/#Important – – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us/#Virtual
Your dream shows you being moved by what is called you Life Will, explained in the link above. Of course it is shown in symbols such as the wind. The forest is an image of the vast territory, the immense inner mind we all have that is usually only met in dreams – unless we click on the images.
Then you move onto the House of Your Ancestors, in other words the image of the you out of which your present life grew. Like any seed – and you were a seed in your mother’s womb – you were the product of many seeds that grew in the past.
I think you are on the verge of a big change, and it is about exploring that vast world that you glimpsed in your dream. I know I have given you a lot of information already, but I think it might help also to see http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/using-your-intuition-1/
Tony
I had a dream where all of the trees big and little were falling, one at a time all around me. I could hear the thumps and noise made. It was frightening and I have had it more than once
I’m sorry to bother you, but I’ve been wondering about a dream I had two nights ago (it’s one of few I remember clearly). I was sitting in a tree by a path in the woods (there were no leaves, I assume it was fall), and a friend of mine (not a very close friend, but a friend nonetheless) walked by and asked me to go thrifting with her, but I declined, inviting her to join me. She smiled like she always does, and then continued down the path. That’s it. Thank you 🙂
Hi Tony! 🙂
I find your trees explanation very informational. Although I can not find a direct answer to the dream I was dreaming. I would appreciate it very much if you could help me out.
I had this repeating dream sequence in which I knew that there should be a tree but it was missing. I was aware of the fact that I was dreaming but I was also asking myself why would my brain override the tree that should be standing there. This sequence started to annoy me so much that I woke up. When I fell a sleep again I was dreaming the same dream all over again. 🙁
Thanks for helping me out.
Best regards, Jan
Thank you! With the dream I had all night yesterday, I read what you are saying about falling trees and it could not make more sense than that. It s exactly what I am living right now or at least trying to do. Thank you very much!
This morning I had an extremely vivid dream of me and my stepfather (who is deceased) working in a wooded area. I could not see him but could hear him and feel him walking next to me telling me what to do:He told me since we don’t have any zip ties to take smaller twigs from small bushes and tie them in a knot around the bigger trees. As I got to the end of the path of trees and turned around to head back up the hill I realized there was a church at the top of the hill with thousands of people that the dream told me I had to get to (my stepfather was no longer talking). Upon arriving at the church I realized that I had forgotten my coat at the bottom of the hill and I also had no shirt on. Every time I tried to get though the crowd to go back and get my coat the crowd got bigger making it impossible to get through, I don’t even know where my shirt went, there was a lot more to this dream but I’ll get to the point as the church service came to an end I began looking for my wife (who is living and we are happily married) but could not find her and came out side to hear people of the congregation saying that was a beautiful service. Walking up to one of the guy’s and asked him what all the noise was in the back of the church that we could not see, he told me there was a funeral going on. I immediately woke up and told my wife of this dream and we tried to look it up but could not find a straight forward answer.
Andre – The first part is easy – you were feeling relaxed and in your natural state no stress – the woods. The communication with your stepfather was also straightforward, but I wonder what associations you have with the knotted twigs. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/association-of-ideas-with-dreams/#Working
The top and the bottom are the top of your body and the bottom, but psychologically they represent the duality we are – the body with its roots in the earth – our stomach is our roots – and all its wonderful source of energy. And the top of the hill is the crown or our head with its wonderful transcendence of the body, the place of the skull in Golgotha, or the lotus flower rising out into sunlight. In other word our ability to transcend our physical senses.
The great gathering is a mighty collection of memories out of which new insights or understanding can arise. See http://dreamhawk.com/interesting-people/rudolph-steiners-philosophy-of-life-and-death/
I believe the up and down movement in the dream is a way of saying you need to link the two, and not get lost in one or the other. The funeral is probably to do with the death or crucifixion necessary as you reach the higher levels of awareness. It is the death of old ways of seeing and relating to the world, and of course the birth of a new world of experience.
Tony
Last night, I dreamt that my 10 year old Golden Retriever, Sam was driving a huge earth mover.
My wife and I were standing in the backyard of a house we rented in 1996 watching Sam drive across the back yard.
There was a huge Water Oak, fallen across the back fence with the root ball facing us, completely out of the ground. The root ball was 20 feet in diameter. Sam appeared to back into a water Oak to the right first by mistake but actually intentionally knocking it down. Sam had gone mad.
We were screaming at him. He went forward and knocked down an Oak that was standing next to the original fallen tree.
That tree fell on Sam and engulfed him and the earth mover taking the shape of pizza dough but with bark.
Sam was dead. I was relieved because he could cause no more harm.
I had a dream last night that the world was “ending.” Everyone was gathering in a large school type of structure and devising a plan to save everyone. The oceans were going to rise up and flood everything, the wind was whipping everywhere and there was a storm raging outside. The people decided to cut down all of the trees and put them into the ocean to keep the ocean from overflowing. I kept trying to explain to everyone that it was a horrible idea, because once the ocean rose the trees would be launched at everyone and would cause more damage but no one would listen to me. I looked out into the ocean and saw all of these dead trees floating in the water and was just so upset over it, all of the death I felt from the trees and how upset they were. My mother was in the dream and I kept trying to get her to leave and go with me far away from the coast but she refused and wouldn’t listen to anything I had to say. I ended up leaving and was walking around town holding my cat in my arms trying to find help or get out of the city. I found a car and got in and was trying to get all of the gas that I could. I didn’t have a phone so I couldn’t call anyone but I had this weird credit card looking walkie talkie and it was enabling me to contact the people in the school, and I was pleading with them once more to leave and as I was pleading I heard screams and knew the ocean was rising and the trees were coming for everyone. This was a very emotional dream and I woke up feeling like I hadn’t slept at all. It’s rare that I have dreams that emotional. This almost felt like more a nightmare. No one would listen to what I had to say and I had no other choice but to run and leave everyone behind. I’ve read what you have here about trees and it’s very informative but I am not quite sure how it may apply to the dream I had last night. Any insight you may have would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
hello, i had a dream that i was looking at a huge, thick tree trunk with big thick roots.. it was growing slanted into the perfect shape to sit down on it..thats all i was thinking in the dream..
i had another dream recently that i was going to climb a tree just to sit on it & there were tons of black bears adults & babies both in the tree.. their backs were all facing me as they looked out..
What a great website Tony, I found it after searching meanings for my dream. I dreamed of an old apple tree that used to be in my childhood back garden. It had a huge oak like trunk and heavy apples that I was picking for baking.
Soon after, a man touched the trunk and the huge branches of the tree and trunk came apart and the branches supported themselves without a trunk. They then fell into the road. There was a name attached to the tree it read ‘Noel’. The feeling I have is that this was the name of the man.
I tried to move the limbs of the tree from the road, they had done no damage as they fell and I was able to lift them despite their size and weight.
I am baffled as to what all this means!
I had a dream last night that i was out front of my yard cutting branches off my tree and i noticed that in the middle of the tree it was dead as i cut it, it sort of flaked off. and i made one big cut and all of sudden all of the tree started to flake off the dead portions of the tree until finally most of the tree had been flaked off leaving a new look to the tree, or more solid look although it had all throughout it sad, scary smiley faces. or at least what looked like smiley faces you know? but they were sad or scary looking.
In my tree dream, I was with a group of people – not very large, maybe just a handful – and we were each holding onto our own trees (nice thick Evergreens) and flying through the air. At first I was afraid I wouldn’t be strong enough to hold on until our destination, but then I saw where we were landing on a lake and I started to enjoy the flight. I can’t find anywhere that explains how holding on to a tree and flying are combined..
Hi,
In my “tree” dream, I was carrying a dog’s bed, and I was frantically climbing a tree to place the bed in the canopy where i felt it would be safe.
I got to the top and from there, I looked out and saw a few huge tree stumps. They were massive stumps and I thought, those trees must have been ancient and why would anyone cut them down. And I wondered how I didn’t notice them before.
What do you think is the symbolism of the tree stump here?
Regards
I had a dream of a forest and there I saw a big tree. From there I saw many anatidae/wallards/wild ducks coming down from the tree and I think they were also flying. I was commenting my wife: “I didn’t know that those birds live in trees.”
Dreamer – Yes some ducks do nest in trees. I had the unfortunate experience of moving a ducks nest from a high place to ground level. Just afterwards I saw a documentary showing ducks nesting very high up in trees.
Your dream is about your growth as a person – the tree – and seeing new life emerging – the ability to raise your awareness, to expand your mind and horizons, and also to look into what is hidden under the surface of life.
Tony
I’m interested in the meaning if you turn into a tree during your dream? My partner dreamt that he turned into a tree whilst I was there and it felt abit sad. He said it was then years later and I returned with my children (I do not currently have any children so these were children I had bore in the intervening years) and although it was sad he was also relieved because I knew that the tree was really him and I had returned to find him.
Naomi – Obviously this is not your dream, and sometimes the way it is written changes the meaning slightly.
But the best I can get is that your partner is slightly apprehensive about the responsibility of being a parent. So being a tree is a living and growing thing, but is not conscious in the same way as we are. It wasn’t as if he doesn’t love you, because her was relieved you drew him out of his sleep state. So it might be worthwhile talking about him as to how he feels about parenthood.
Tony