GRAY

The color of something as yet unconscious and undefined, a color-less mixture where light emerges from the dark. Blending contradictions, as in Wedding, where it mixes black (female) and white (male), so it is archetypal. Gray stands on the border between day and night, light and dark, and—in a dream—asks us to draw clear distinctions. Gray here may represent the unassuming; on the other hand, the inconspicuous gray may also point to the conspicuous, the essential, and the real in life.

See Mouse, Shadow.

It is the symbol of indifference and lack of determination.

Dreaming of this color may be a warning against a crisis of values that threatens to make you lose your way. No wonder, therefore, that the gray also represents symbolic elements like fog or ash. In oneiric terms, fog symbolizes the fears and anxieties stored in the depths of the unconscious.

(see Colors)

Old age and the sagacity that comes with long life (note the gray hair on elderly people). Finding yourself in between stages, or having qualms and misgivings (e.g., “gray areas”).

The subconscious or the substance of the mind itself (e.g., “gray matter”).

The cabalistic color of wisdom.