Black Elbow in dreams
The hinge that lets the arm fold — the joint of reach and of leaning in.
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 Elbow
An elbow in a dream is the dream's image of the hinge that lets the arm fold — the joint of reach, of leaning on a table, of bringing food to the mouth. The elbow is ordinary; you notice it when it stops working. The dream brings the elbow when a part of your life that depends on small, repeated reach — feeding yourself, leaning in to listen, putting on clothes — is calling attention to itself. A working elbow is the dream telling you the small reach is intact. A locked or painful elbow is the dream noting that a small, daily capability has been lost, and the activities you took for granted now require help.