Dead Pencil in dreams
A graphite writing tool that can be erased — provisional marks that can still be changed.
How dead changes the reading
Dead in the dream means the symbol's energy is no longer in active circulation in your life. The reading is not necessarily grim — most often it is the dream noting that something you had been carrying has run its full course and you can stop carrying it.
The base reading of Pencil
A pencil in a dream is the dream's image of provisional writing — committing thought to a form that can still be revised. The dream brings the pencil when you are at the drafting stage of something — a plan, a self, a piece of work — and the right move is to mark things down without yet locking them in. A pencil sketching steadily is the dream telling you the draft is taking shape and changes are still allowed. A pencil with a broken point is the dream noting that the means of provisional thinking has failed and the work is paused for an unglamorous reason.