Censer
A vessel for burning incense — a small device for filling a room with marked smoke.
A censer in a dream is the dream's image of a small device for filling a room with marked smoke. The censer does not perform the ceremony; the censer changes the air the ceremony happens in. The dream brings the censer when something in your life — a ritual, a meeting, a moment that has been declared special — is being prepared by a small deliberate alteration of the atmosphere. A censer swung at the right moment, with the smoke spreading through the room, is the dream affirming the consecration. A censer waved without belief, the smoke filling the room without changing anything in it, is the dream noting that the gesture has been kept and the interior content of it has gone away, and the room remembers the smell rather than the meaning.