Deep wrinkles
Lines worn deeply into the face by years — the record of the expressions a life kept making.
Deep wrinkles in a dream are the dream's image of the lines worn into a face by the expressions it kept making. The wrinkles are not damage; they are biography. The dream brings the deep wrinkles when something in your life — an older relative, an elder self, a long-tenured colleague — is showing the specific tracks of what the face has spent its decades doing. Deep wrinkles read with honest respect are the dream affirming the record. Deep wrinkles read only as a deficit, with the biography invisible to the reader, is the dream noting that the face is being judged by the smoothness scale and the actual story it is telling is going unread.