Black Lamb in dreams
A newborn sheep — vulnerable goodness in need of a keeper.
How black changes the reading
Black colour pulls the symbol toward the not-yet-known — depth, hiddenness, the part of the situation that has not yet come into the light. The dream is rarely warning you; it is showing you that there is more to the picture than the part you have been looking at.
The base reading of Lamb
A lamb in a dream is the dream's image of new, defenceless good. The animal does not yet know it is vulnerable and is kept alive by something larger than itself paying attention. The dream brings the lamb when a new tender thing in your life — a kindness, a project, a child, a returned faith — needs you to stand over it for a while longer. A lamb that has found its mother is the dream marking that the protection is in place. A lamb that has been left out and is being circled is the dream warning that you stopped guarding something that is not yet strong enough to guard itself.