Cherry blossom
Pink-white flowers of the cherry tree in spring — beauty made specifically to last only days.
A cherry blossom in a dream is the dream's image of beauty whose meaning is in its briefness. The blossom is not at its best for long; the form is built to fall. The dream brings the cherry blossom when something in your life — a stretch of love, a child's particular age, a creative phase, a city in a particular spring — is at exactly the moment when its beauty is at full intensity and the next stretch will not have the same form. Cherry blossoms walked under deliberately are the dream affirming that the brief good was met while it was open. Cherry blossoms noticed only after they have fallen, the petals already on the ground, are the dream noting that the short window of perfect form was not attended, and what remains is the carpet under the tree.