White lily
A tall white lily in flower — a striking, ceremonial bloom often used at thresholds of life.
A white lily in a dream is the dream's image of a ceremonial bloom that turns up at the thresholds of life — births, marriages, funerals. The flower is striking by itself; the cultural uses concentrate the meaning. The dream brings the white lily when something in your life — a passage, a public occasion, a grief — is being marked by a presence whose form is clearly ceremonial. A lily standing in a vase at the centre of a room is the dream affirming the dignity of the marking. A lily wilting before the occasion it was brought for happens is the dream noting that the ceremony intended did not arrive in time, and the flower has done its passage alone.