It is the holiday season again. How might visions of sugar plum fairies dancing in our dreams during a blinding snowstorm be a healthy omen? Are gifts beneath an evergreen tree covered in ice cycles a precognitive message? And, what could the colors red, blue, and green mean in your dream?
Dreams are often our subconscious speaking to us with signs, symbols, colors, and numbers. Look at a dream’s play on words for its underlying message. What is a sugar-plum fairy, and is there a play on words?
The sugar plum is a round piece of candy made of boiled sugar, often referred to as sweetmeat 1, and is anything and everything sweet and wonderful in the world. It is the reason choreographed Lev Ivanov chose sugar plum fairies for Tchaikovsky’s music in the Nutcracker Suite’s Waltz of the Snowflakes. 2 Sugar plum is also a term of endearment like a sweetheart or darling.3 According to Webster’s Dictionary, a Fairy is a small mythical being of folklore with magical powers,4 like Peter Pan’s Tinker Bell. So a sugar plum fairy might be considered a tiny flitting sweetie.
Water in dreams signifies purity, and snow is the change to a new beginning after hardship.5 A snowstorm is water drops transformed into frozen crystal show flakes dancing in the wind. Perhaps a dream snowstorm is a spiritual awakening of growth from pure inner awareness.
Our subconscious minds use color to express symbolic emotions as our waking minds use it to convey meaning. Colors in dreams, like colorful ribbons, have strong meanings.
Colorfully wrapped gifts may represent possibilities and happiness. Most Holiday Trees are evergreens, and ice cycles, like snowflakes, are transformed from water. Dreams of gifts under the Christmas Tree may be a positive omen for joy.
An evergreen is ever-alive, another play on words for Tree of Life. The color green symbolizes life in dreams, as it does in our waking world. Red represents power and vitality, like healthy lifeblood. Although the color blue can express sadness, like the play on words, “She was blue,” it is often synonymous with soothing peace and tranquility. In dreams, blue may indicate times of rest. Winter, the hibernation season, is often depicted in shades of blue.
So during this holiday season, what might a dream of sugar plum fairies dancing during a blinding snowstorm around gifts wrapped in red ribbons beneath an evergreen tree covered in blue ice cycles mean? A sugar plum fairy in a snowstorm may be a new relationship after a time of difficulty. It could point to someone or something endearing or magical dancing into your life in the form of sweet meat. Oh, you must love that play on words.
Perhaps the dream is a positive omen of life’s transformation of endless possibilities for love that will gladden you during a time of peace and tranquility followed by health and vitality. May all your holiday dreams be filled with Sugar Plum Fairies.
Resources:
- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sugarplum
- https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_of_the_Sugar_Plum_Fairy
- (https://wiki.celebrity.fm/what-does-sugar-plum-fairy-mean-48505/)
- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fairy
- https://thepleasantdream.com/dreaming-of-snow/
