Gathering
Bringing many small things together — the work of collecting what was scattered.
Gathering in a dream is the dream's image of the work of collecting what was scattered. Gathering is patient by definition; the collector must go to each piece. The dream brings the action when something in your life — a community after a loss, a long-spread set of evidence, a self that has been distributed across too many roles — is being brought back into one place. A gathering that fills the basket is the dream telling you the collection is succeeding. A gathering interrupted by wind, with the pieces blowing again before they can be brought in, is the dream noting that the conditions are still working against the collection, and the basket cannot be filled in this weather.