Black Baobab in dreams
A huge, water-storing tree of dry country — a body built to outlast long droughts.
How black changes the reading
Black colour pulls the symbol toward the not-yet-known — depth, hiddenness, the part of the situation that has not yet come into the light. The dream is rarely warning you; it is showing you that there is more to the picture than the part you have been looking at.
The base reading of Baobab
A baobab in a dream is the dream's image of a body built to survive long, dry seasons by storing what it needs internally. Baobabs hold water inside the trunk and live for centuries in country that should not be able to support them. The dream brings the baobab when a long-haul self-reliance — financial, emotional, spiritual — is what is currently keeping you alive. A baobab standing on dry plain is the dream telling you the interior reserves are doing their job. A baobab hollowed out from inside is the dream noting that the long self-reliance has cost the centre, and the trunk is now fragile.