My Dream

I was standing next to a pond which was really an above-ground swimming pool made out of wood.  In it swam a menagerie of animals for which I was responsible.  There was a goat, a chicken and others, none of which were water animals.  Next to the pool on the ground laid an assortment of abandoned eggs in a makeshift nest.  Several chicken-sized eggs were in the nest along with many tiny lovebird eggs. 

My mom and my neice, Emily were standing with me in a triangle looking down at the eggs.  I picked up a large chicken egg and handed it to Emily saying that it had been abandoned by a duck on the canals.  I asked her to crack it open and see if anything was inside.  I was afraid to crack it open myself. 

Emily tapped the egg on the side of the curb.  Suddenly the egg was very large, big enough to hold a human baby.  She peeled off a big piece of the shell.  Inside we could see the fully formed wing and feathers of a bird.  I exclaimed, "Wow, look, there is a whole duck in there."

Emily picked up the egg and dropped it and half the egg broke away.  The other half rolled over and inside lay a fully formed bird but it wasn't a duck, it was 1/2 snow owl and 1/2 human.  “How sad that I didn't open the egg sooner and save its life,” I thought to myself.  Suddenly it started moving its head from side to side and moaning.  I took off the rest of the shell.  As soon as it stretched, it wasn't deformed anymore.  I picked it up and put it in the pool where it haltingly swam and started sipping water in its little pointed owl beak.

I was overwhelmed with joy that I had saved its life.  I drained the water out of the pool and held out my arms and it walked over and hugged me.  It was me.  Then I woke up.