Purple Lotus flower in dreams
A flower that opens on still water — clarity that has grown up out of murky ground.
How purple changes the reading
Purple colour places the symbol between hot and cool — a reading that has both calm and intensity at once. The dream often uses purple for symbols that do not fit the usual categories cleanly. Take the reading more seriously than you would otherwise; the colour is asking you to.
The base reading of Lotus flower
A lotus flower in a dream is the dream's image of clarity that has come out of muddy water. The lotus does not grow in clean conditions; it puts its roots in silt and the flower opens above the surface. The dream brings the lotus when something clean and beautiful in your life — a piece of work, a relationship, a self — has emerged from a difficult background and is now visible above it. A lotus open on still water is the dream affirming the transformation. A lotus that has not yet broken the surface is the dream telling you the work is real and the opening is still to come.