Colors

Gold leaf

A thin layer of beaten gold — value applied to a surface, beauty that is real on the outside.

Gold leaf in a dream is the dream's image of beaten gold applied as a layer. Gold leaf is real gold and real beauty; it is also extremely thin, and what is underneath is usually wood or plaster. The dream brings gold leaf when something in your life — a presentation, an honour, a reputation — is being given a beautiful and entirely genuine surface, while the structure beneath remains ordinary. Gold leaf applied with care to a piece that deserves it is the dream affirming the appropriate honour. Gold leaf applied to hide rot is the dream noting that the honour is being used as cover, and the rot underneath is not changed by it.

Related symbols

Amber (colour)

A warm honey-gold — the colour of preserved old material held in something translucent.

Ash grey

The grey of what fire leaves — colour that is evidence of a finished burning.

Black

What is hidden — the unknown, the unconscious, what you have not let into the light.

Blue

Calm, distance, and the cool part of the spectrum — what holds steady.

Brown

Earth, durability — what is not glamorous and is reliably solid.

Crimson

A deep, blood-toned red — the colour of decision and of cost that has already been paid.

Disclaimer: For entertainment and self-reflection only. Not a substitute for professional advice.