Cypress tree
A tall narrow evergreen of cemeteries and old gardens — long mourning kept upright as a shape.
A cypress tree in a dream is the dream's image of grief that has taken a permanent shape. Cypresses do not spread out; they go up, narrow and dark, and they last. The dream brings the cypress when something in your life — a loss long ago, a mourning that became part of the architecture of a family, a sorrow that is now more landscape than weather — is currently kept in that tall upright form. A cypress standing healthily in a garden of the dead is the dream affirming that the long mourning has been given its proper place. A cypress fallen across a path is the dream noting that what had been kept upright for years has come down, and the place it shaded is now exposed to a sun the household had grown unaccustomed to.