Winter
A still phase — what looks dormant from the outside, what is preparing underneath.
Winter in a dream is the dictionary's image of a still phase. The dream often appears in stretches when you have been quiet for so long that you have begun to doubt yourself; the dream is gently noting that winter is a phase, not an end.
Where you often see it. Snow on a familiar landscape. Bare branches. A still room with the heating just barely on. The dream uses winter to mark a phase that looks dormant from the outside and is preparing underneath.
What it is not. Winter is not the end. The dictionary reads winter as a held season; whatever the dreamer cares about is still alive, just doing its work below visible level.
Related in the dictionary. Read winter with snow, sleep contexts, and the colour white. Pair with spring when the dream wants you to see both seasons in one image.