There’s a light-coloured, possibly white bird. I think it might have been a goose, since geese are the birds I see most frequently in waking life.

It has laid an egg, but there is something wrong with the egg. According to the TV documentary I’m watching, the bird has had a “miscarriage”. The action in the TV documentary is also taking place as though it was real – this is common in my dreams, me reading about something or watching it on TV and it happening “for real” at the same time; I mentioned it in a post about another dream.

According to the documentary, the bird deals with a miscarried egg by spitting out a huge string of saliva which turns into a stringy type of material (sort of like a spider web but maybe thicker). It holds one end of the string in its beak, while the other end is wrapped around the egg so that it can fly with the egg, with the egg dangling t the end of the string.

The bird is now flying over the ocean with the wrapped up egg hanging from its mouth.

Once again, this is all being explained in a documentary but is also really happening in my dream.

I find myself in the ocean watching the bird. Then I realise that I can’t swim (I can’t swim in waking life) and I’ve gone too far from shore to get back. There are things in the water that I can land on (rocks?) but they’re quite far. (I’m not thinking about the possibility of drowning, but about being lost in the middle of the ocean.) Then I realise that I can move through the water by moving my arms in the water.


That’s all I remember.

The dream made me think of a story I read just recently about the geese problem at airports that cause airplane crashes when they fly into the engines.

One thing the U.S. government has done is allow locals to sterilize the eggs to keep them incubating and/or destroy the nests, but I don't remember the exact method they used. But it's to keep the geese population down. You could say the eggs are "miscarried." It's also interesting that the way the geese carry their eggs in flight in the dream is that it could cause them to fall. They "mis-carry" their eggs.

Finally, a recent crash had the plane in the water. The pilot was able to maneuver the jet safely so as to not cause any fatalities. The cause of the crash? Geese. You were in the water at the end of the dream. I find the correlation fascinating.

The bird would represent an emotional aspect of your own nature and can refer to a spiritual concept, a feeling or an intent/intention. The light colour would imply no negative, heavy or gloomy feeling nor a concept that would serve Satan, but this might possibly be a very innocent feeling (possibly white bird) which also implies one that reflects a lack of knowledge. The goose in particular is often associated with the expression, “a silly goose”, thus possibly suggesting an emotional motivation towards behaviour that is silly or simply a feeling of being silly – or a spiritual concept that could be silly.

Using your spiritual concept or feelings, the scene can suggest that you have “laid an egg” – failed to produce an idea that will interest people. Because the egg is the bird’s way of procreating, the egg can also simply be seen as an idea that will intensify a feeling (that of being silly?) or strengthen a spiritual concept. As the egg is referred to as a miscarriage, the idea may simply not meet Nature’s or God’s standard of perfection or requirements. When associating the goose with an egg, we have a well known expression, “the goose that laid the golden egg”. This egg is not golden; it does not reflect God’s qualities.

Receiving this information by watching TV implies this information is being received as if it were only but something you might imagine. But, the information is “for real”. (it is happening “for real” at the same time ) There is reality to what you might only be able to regard as completely imaginary.

Emotionally the bad idea is carried on with, but in a way that implies that there is a string attached, that is, that one doesn’t have unlimited scope or freedom regarding this idea. Yet the implication of restrictions is seemingly set up as if to suggest that any supposed restrictions come from an emotional ability to self deception and are but part of some delusion. (stringy type of material - sort of like a spider web)

Your focus upon a spiritual concept or your feelings has seemingly put you into a spiritual/emotional situation (ocean) which you are not well able to deal with (as you cannot swim). The ocean can particularly represent spiritual thinking pertaining to God. Your main concern is and perhaps needs to be about being lost in the ocean. This could mean something similar to being “all at sea” – being in a state of confusion, in this case pertaining to spiritual thinking about God.

Rocks would represent hard truths. Rocks in water usually indicate being in trouble. Using these ideas as a base of reasoning seems a bit remote at the moment and even questionable – perhaps more possible in future. (things in the water that I can land on (rocks?) but they’re quite far) To get back to shore or to grounds of rational thinking you may need to get up in arms. (I can move through the water by moving my arms)

Sweet Slumber - I didn't know about the government allowing people to sterilize geese eggs. Interesting coincidence.

ElizVanZee - Thanks for the interpretation. Very interesting.