Spring thaw
The end of the long freeze — mud, melt-water, and the gradual return of what was kept under ice.
Spring thaw in a dream is the dream's image of the end of a long freeze. The thaw is not elegant; the ground turns to mud, the rivers run high, and what was preserved by the cold begins to smell. The dream brings the thaw when something in your life — a grief, a hostility, a long silence — is moving out of its frozen phase into the messy water phase, and ordinary passage is briefly harder, not easier. A thaw lived through with patience for the mud is the dream affirming the necessary mess of the change. A thaw fought against, with attempts to put the ice back, is the dream noting that the season has decided and the resistance is now its own problem.