Death and the Dream

"In European folktales death is often personified as a not unkind but very earnest, mysterious man who acts directly on God’s orders. The only dreams which I have met in my practice referring to the coming of death in a similar vein were dreams in which the dreamer woke up with a start, feeling that an uncanny unknown visitor was knocking at his bedroom door.
More frequently, as the personification of death, one finds in modern dreams an allusion to death in the form of the destruction of animal life or vegetation: a horse is killed, the life tree is felled, a field of wheat is trampled down, etc., which reminds one that death carries in art a sickle or scythe, like the old god Saturn. This seems to mean that not all of our life is destroyed, but only the animal and vegetative life of our body."

Marie-Louise Von Franz, Psyche and Matter
Dream preceding the death of my mother, 12/25/2000 :
There was a tree in the front yard that need to be transplanted to the backyard. The tree could still be seen but now only through a pane of glass.
Amplification: The tree of life is to be moved from the front yard where it is visible by all, near the flow of life on streets and sidewalks. It is now in the backyard where things are still. We can see it but only through a pane of glass, as in the expression "it was like a pane of glass came up between us." We can see the other but all human warmth is lacking.