Dear Shelly,
 
I didn't have a clue as to what your daughter's dream meant until I read a copy of Joe Hoyle's reply to you early this morning.  Then after I went back and reread her dream, two things stood out in it. Those two things were the purple sunset and the tanning session.  The purple sunset is a symbol of the descending sun which represents the descending Son from heaven in 1 Thess. 4:16 at the resurrection - rapture.  The tanning session represents "outward appearances," and brought to mind a joke about a black man whose potter and creator (the Lord) left him in the oven longer than others so that his skin turned out darker and he was "well done" so that on judgment day the Lord would be able to say to him, "Well done, my good and faithful servant."  In other words, the browner something is the more well done it is. Although "outward appearances" (looking well done) have nothing to do with our getting into heaven and being in the Rapture, "Well done, my good and faithful servant" is something each one of us wants the Lord to say to us at the Rapture which will be the judgment day for the house of the Lord.  1 Peter 4:17 says, "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?"  The 5 Foolish Virgins not chosen to go with the Bridegroom that Joe mentioned are not obeying God, and are not prepared at the Rapture when the bridegroom comes.  Of course, the Lord taking us to heaven has nothing to do with the color of our skin, but obedience to him does.
 
Just as a side note, when I originally heard that joke a long time ago, I made up a counter joke about my white skin and my looking "rare" from being undercooked so that the Lord could say to me, "You are a RARE and precious gem in my sight."  However, outward appearances and looking good and self-righteous has nothing to do with being accounted worthy to be in the Rapture. Again, as the Bible points out and Joe pointed out, obedience is the issue.  Believers don't please God by "good outward appearances" which is what a person would get from a tanning session. So it's a good thing that your daughter was having a hard time with her tanning session in the dream because a believers pleases God by their obedience to him and not by their "outward appearance" or looking tan.  A believer would have a hard time pleasing God by their outward appearance because it would be impossible to please him that way.
 
God bless,
Donna