Elephant herd
A family of elephants moving together — a long memory kept by a slow, coordinated body.
An elephant herd in a dream is the dream's image of a long memory kept by a slow, coordinated body. The herd remembers water-holes the youngest members have never seen; the oldest females carry the route. The dream brings the herd when something in your life — a family, a guild, a culture — is currently operating on memory held by elders that the younger members rely on without knowing they do. A herd moving in steady file is the dream affirming that the memory is intact. A herd without its old matriarch, milling in the wrong direction, is the dream noting that the route was held in one head, and that head has gone.