Hi everyone! I just happened upon your dream forum. I do have a question about the length of dreams you can post--is there a character limit? Some of mine are rather long and detailed.

I'd love if someone could help me interpret this dream. Thanks in advance!

The dream begins when I hear a vehicle pull into my back yard. I look out the window and see no vehicle but I notice that the garage door is open, so I assume that my ex is there to use the garage as he sometimes does. Just then I hear a vehicle’s motor roar, as if it is stuck, and his dark blue truck comes into view and parks by the garage. Next I am standing in the doorway between my kitchen and foyer looking out through the window in the front door. Up in the sky I see birds flying toward me. As they come closer I notice that they are huge. They are blue in color—the color of robin’s eggs. As they come closer and begin to fly over my house and I notice that some of them are carrying something with their talons and beaks. They remind me of storks carrying babies, but as they get closer I realize they are carrying nests. The nests look almost too huge for them to carry. I’m just awestruck watching these birds and I want to go and get my camera to take a picture of them. I wonder if my ex is seeing them fly over, as he is out back. I also want to go and speak with him. Before all of this began there was something important, perhaps urgent, that I had to do but I’m not sure now what it was. My daughter walks up beside me and I ask her what kind of birds they are. Then I think she leaves to get the camera.

I walk closer to the window and in the tree I see a very small man standing on one of the tree branches. I’m so excited—I’m thinking, “OMG, it’s the little people! I knew they existed! I used to play with them when I was very young (in waking life). But I don’t remember them looking like him.” He was about 18 to 20” tall. He looked very regal, dressed in colourful robes. He was a very wise man (he reminds me of what I would think the wise men of the Jesus story might look like). He had shoulder length brown hair, wavy, almost curly, and he donned a beard. He was talking to someone whom I could not see because they were out of my view, but I sensed that it was a normal size person and not another little person. He had an air about him, he was very calm and he certainly seemed to be imparting wisdom upon this other person. He did not notice me. My daughter walked up beside me. I asked her if she was seeing this—she said yes—I said, “You see a small man standing in that tree?” Again, she said yes, she saw him, but she was not as excited as I was. I was trying to be careful that he did not see me because I was afraid he would vanish, and I wanted that camera to take a picture of him. Just then the whole scene magnified, came closer, and was right in front of my face so I could see in more detail. Still, he did not notice me.

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I'm struck by the coincidence of a blue truck and blue birds, and wonder if the "nesting instinct" of the latter does not tie in to your ex's arrival. You might want to look over your and his feelings about the breakup (and, if you want to bring them up here, you might like to know you have private message capacity here).

It's interesting: usually it's we who can't see the little people; but this one can't see you! I also note that your daughter seems to take him as a matter of course, as a child might do, while you are the more excited. That excitement is good; but does it make sense to you to see, perhaps, an inner longing for younger, more innocent times? You're hardly alone if you feel that way sometime!

If this were my dream, I'd be most interested in reflecting on whether the arrival of your ex and that of this wonderful fantasy world (and fantasies are very, very real, by the way, at least in dreams) are not tied together.

Blue Birds and Little Blue Man

Thank you for taking a look at my dream. You’ve brought up some things that I hadn’t seen; like the little people seeing us but normally we can’t see them—I hadn’t thought of that. The inner longing for younger more innocent times certainly seems to fit there. (Although, my daughter isn’t a child anymore—I should have mentioned that—she is certainly younger than I.)

My ex and I will not be getting back together (my preference), but we have remained friends for the past 5 years since we parted. Maybe there’s a correlation in the sense that my ex was at the back of my house (in the past) and the nests were in the front – representing probable ‘future’ relationships??? But certainly not with the little man—lol! I also missed the correlation of the blue truck and blue birds. You could also say that the nests came 'out of the blue', as in ‘blue sky’, which is why I didn’t see them clearly at first. One thing that the color ‘blue’ represents to me is ‘communication’. You’ve certainly given me more to ponder here Thanks again!