Red Cinnamon stick in dreams

A cinnamon stick in a dream is the dream's image of a small, warming addition whose flavour reaches every spoonful of the pot. The stick is not eaten; it is added, and then it does its work invisibly. The dream brings the cinnamon stick when a small, deliberate warmth in your life — a kindness, a humour, a particular friend at the table — is what is currently flavouring an otherwise ordinary stretch of time. A cinnamon stick used at the right moment is the dream telling you the small addition is doing the work of a much larger ingredient. A cinnamon stick left in too long, turning the dish bitter, is the dream noting that the same small warming presence has been over-extracted, and is starting to spoil what it was meant to flavour.