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Aside from all the other dreams I pack into a night,

I was some kind of live in housekeeper I think , and the family had descended for a family weekend so everything was very free and easy and I didn't need to do anything . I went out for a walk in the snow, a few people threw snowballs which i returned. then i noticed a little bird, bluetit, caught in some fine strawberry type mesh, and held it while i untangled it... ran back to the house to give it water and food, but as I dipped it's beak in and it drank I found I was holding a plastic bird that was filling up with water each time i dipped ( but it was still drinking, ie moving its beak so 'alive'......

any ideas? apart from the straight-jacket?

That is an easy one Rose.

It means you are wasting your time/energy on something you thought was real but isn't. Once the rose coloured spectacles come/came off you begin to see the situation for what it is but still continue to try to revive it knowing there is no point.


The first part of the dream is just that life was good/normal before seeing the bird even if it was relatively unexciting, it had calm.

Susan, i was afraid someone would say just that :)

add...it was such a pretty little bird....

Dreams are supposed to have symbols,so this is my interpretation,for what it's worth..

You are just coasting along in your life... everything's pretty good. You have a few problems thrown at you (the snowballs) which you cope with perfectly well.You have a compassionate nature (helping the bluebird) but when the living bird changes into a plastic one you find things are not as they seem.There's some confusion there,in your mind-you can't quite decide what the truth is,
whether the bird is alive,or plastic,and if it needs your help.You help it anyway,but try to ignore the feeling that you're being deceived,or taken advantage of in some way.

Does that sound right,or is what I've written a load of old cobblers??

I would be interested to know.

Best wishes,

Margot.

PS You do have interesting dreams,most of the time I don't remember mine,and they are not that interesting..

I agree with the going along with life with the snowballs being problems, and I would have said, that being snowballs, the problems were not serious and like snowballs they would melt away..

....and the real bird turning to plastic would mean that something you had hopes for had not materialised and you thought they would, and you were trying to breathe life into something which cannot happen......

So its much the same as RRs and Margots.......

Sorry tht should have read Susan and Margot's....
btw I think you being a hosekeeper and feeling at ease with the family......could it be that your children have left home and you do not have th responsibility any moe of a busy household and you feel more relaxed when they visit.....?

Interesting,Rose.....I've just read the other 2 responses to your dream,ie Susan with numbers,and Moonchilds,and mine,and we all say pretty much the same thing,so I think that your little bird was a symbol of what happened.(a broken dream,a refusal or reluctance to face a painful truth,
etc.)

I can't ever remember having a symbolic dream like that-mine used to be the falling down the well one,but I never touched the bottom;flying,
in my own wishing chair,(Enid Blyton influence) to win running races at school,because I always came last,or second last,when I was a child etc.
Now I travel a lot in my dreams,revisit houses I've lived in,buildings I've been in,spend time with friends and acquaintances,and sometimes something that I've buried,like a thought I've pushed down,comes out in my dreams.They're strange things,aren't they?