Ravine
A deep, narrow gully cut into the ground — a small scar of past violence that the land has kept.
A ravine in a dream is the dream's image of a small scar of past violence that the land has kept. The ravine was cut by a flood the country no longer remembers; the ravine still has the shape. The dream brings the ravine when something in your life — an old wound in a family, a historic rupture in a community, a private cut in your own past — has left a shape in the ground that subsequent ordinary weather flows along. A ravine acknowledged and skirted is the dream affirming the right kind of respect for old damage. A ravine driven into without seeing it is the dream noting that the shape that the past cut is still there, and the first warning you will have is that the ground has stopped being level.