Long twilight

A long twilight in a dream is the dream's image of a slow extended dimming of the day, the kind that happens in high latitudes when the sun drops at a shallow angle. The twilight is neither day nor night; it is its own long phase. The dream brings the long twilight when something in your life — a slow ending, a lingering goodbye, a season of diminishing light — is taking longer than the ordinary transition would, and the house is being asked to live in the extended in-between. A long twilight respected as its own phase is the dream affirming the long passage. A long twilight rushed past, with the lights thrown on early to call it night, is the dream noting that the slow phase was not honoured, and the genuine darkness will still arrive on its own schedule.