Robin
A small bird with a red breast — a familiar visitor linked in folklore to the return of someone gone.
A robin in a dream is the dream's image of a small, familiar visitor whose arrival carries more weight than its size would suggest. Robins are unafraid of people and turn up in gardens when the ground is being dug; across many traditions the bird is read as a sign that someone gone is briefly near. The dream brings the robin when something in your life — a memory of a person, an old kindness, a recent loss — is making its presence felt through a small, modest signal. A robin settling close is the dream telling you the visit is real, even if it does not last. A robin glimpsed and instantly gone is the dream noting that the small presence came when it could and did not stay.