Great-grandparent
A relative two generations above the parent — a figure whose life touches yours through deep time.
A great-grandparent in a dream is the dream's image of a figure whose life touches yours across deep generational time. The great-grandparent may or may not have lived into your years; the influence reaches you either way, through family stories and through the shapes that have been passed down. The dream brings the great-grandparent when something in your life — a piece of family character, a long-running occupation, a habit of mind — is being traced back further than the immediate parents to a source the current generation only partly remembers. A great-grandparent honoured in the story is the dream affirming the long lineage. A great-grandparent forgotten, with the line between you and them broken at the middle, is the dream noting that the depth of inheritance is real and is no longer being consciously held.