Old graveyard
A long-used burial ground — generations of names kept in stone in one quiet field.
An old graveyard in a dream is the dream's image of generations of names kept in stone in one quiet field. The graveyard is not for the dead, who do not need it; the graveyard is for the living who come to read the names. The dream brings the old graveyard when something in your life — a sense of family history, a quiet acknowledgement of those who came before, a long conversation with people who can no longer speak — is being conducted at a specific place where the names are kept. An old graveyard walked through with respect for the stones is the dream affirming the right kind of memory. An old graveyard fenced off and forgotten, the stones falling over with no one righting them, is the dream noting that the field of names is no longer being visited, and the long quiet conversation is being left to weather.