Apprentice
A learner serving under a master craftsman — a person in the early stage of a long acquired skill.
An apprentice in a dream is the dream's image of a person in the early stage of a long acquired skill, working under someone who already has it. The apprentice is not paid for output; the apprentice is being shaped by exposure. The dream brings the apprentice when something in your life — a beginning at a craft, a junior role, a deliberate placement under a teacher — is being lived in a register where receiving instruction is the work. An apprentice patient under the master is the dream affirming the honest position. An apprentice impatient to produce on equal terms before the craft is absorbed is the dream noting that the stage of learning is being skipped, and what is produced will not survive scrutiny by anyone who has done the time.