Waiting
Time spent without acting — sometimes patience, sometimes paralysis.
Waiting in a dream is the dictionary's image of time spent without acting. The dream is honest about whether the waiting is patience or paralysis; the texture of the dream tells you which.
Waiting in a place that feels alive is patience. Waiting in a place that feels stale is the dream's image of paralysis dressed up as patience.
Where you often see it. Waiting in a queue that does not move. Waiting in a room with no clock. The dream uses waiting for time spent without acting — sometimes patience, sometimes paralysis.
What it is not. Waiting is not always wasted. The dictionary reads it as the dreamer's relationship to the unfilled interval.
Related in the dictionary. Read waiting with clock, silence, and any scene where action has been deferred.