Long hair
Hair allowed to grow to length — accumulated time kept visibly on the head.
Long hair in a dream is the dream's image of accumulated time kept visibly on the head. Hair grows at a fixed rate; long hair is the record of the years it has been allowed to. The dream brings long hair when something in your life — a long discipline, a kept identity, a private patience — is being expressed by the visible fact of length. Long hair washed and brushed carefully is the dream affirming the honoured long keeping. Long hair cut suddenly short is the dream noting that the accumulated length is being decisively let go, and the small public marker of the kept identity is no longer the first thing about the head.