Colors

Vermillion

A vivid orange-red — a colour that arrives fast and demands an immediate read.

Vermillion in a dream is the dream's image of a vivid orange-red that arrives fast and is not easily ignored. Vermillion is the colour of warning lacquer and of celebratory powder; it occupies the eye on impact. The dream brings vermillion when something in your life — a piece of news, an appearance, a marker on a calendar — has reached the stage of demanding immediate attention. A vermillion mark on a clear day is the dream affirming that the signal has been correctly received. A vermillion that has been put on so many surfaces it has lost force is the dream noting that the urgency you have been declaring has become background colour.

Related symbols

Amber (colour)

A warm honey-gold — the colour of preserved old material held in something translucent.

Ash grey

The grey of what fire leaves — colour that is evidence of a finished burning.

Black

What is hidden — the unknown, the unconscious, what you have not let into the light.

Blue

Calm, distance, and the cool part of the spectrum — what holds steady.

Brown

Earth, durability — what is not glamorous and is reliably solid.

Crimson

A deep, blood-toned red — the colour of decision and of cost that has already been paid.

Disclaimer: For entertainment and self-reflection only. Not a substitute for professional advice.