Anticipation
The forward lean toward a coming event — present time coloured by what is expected next.
Anticipation in a dream is the dream's image of present time coloured by what is expected to happen next. Anticipation is not the same as planning; planning works on the present, anticipation borrows the present from itself. The dream brings anticipation when something in your life — a holiday, an arrival, a promised meeting — is now occupying time ahead of itself, and the present is being lived in the colour of the future. Anticipation enjoyed alongside the current day is the dream affirming the gift of looking forward. Anticipation that has hollowed out the current week, with the present treated as the unimportant antechamber to the future, is the dream noting that the future has been given more weight than it can actually carry, and the current days are passing unlived.