Young Albatross in dreams
A long-distance ocean bird — a burden you carry, and the long journey it implies.
How young changes the reading
In its young form, the symbol is past the early-vulnerable phase but not yet at its full strength — a part of your life that has begun to come into its own and is still learning the shape of itself.
The base reading of Albatross
An albatross in a dream is two old images at once. It is the long-haul traveller who can stay aloft for weeks without landing, and — through Coleridge — the weight a person earns by harming what should not have been harmed. The dream brings the bird when something you did, or failed to do, is now travelling with you for a long way. An albatross flying freely is the dream telling you the burden can be released. An albatross hung around the neck is the dream naming a guilt you have not yet found a way to set down.