Mudflat
A wide flat exposed by low tide — rich, ugly ground that feeds an enormous amount of life.
A mudflat in a dream is the dream's image of rich, ugly ground that feeds an enormous amount of life. The mudflat is not picturesque; it is the platform on which thousands of birds and creatures make their living. The dream brings the mudflat when something in your life — an unattractive but productive part of a system, a thankless support role, a piece of work that no one wants to be photographed doing — is currently sustaining a great deal of life nobody is connecting back to the source. A mudflat respected by those who know what it does is the dream affirming the productive ugly ground. A mudflat paved over for development is the dream noting that the surface convenience was chosen over the deep food web, and what depended on it will go elsewhere or fail.