Sparrow flock
A noisy crowd of small brown birds — the unremarkable company that makes a place feel inhabited.
A sparrow flock in a dream is the dream's image of the small, unremarkable company that makes a place feel lived in. Sparrows are not striking on their own; the flock is what you hear from the eaves, the noise that tells you the building is not empty. The dream brings the flock when something in your life — a neighbourhood, a workplace, a family routine — is currently being held together not by any one figure but by a continuous background of ordinary presence. A flock chattering in the bush is the dream affirming the modest, daily company. A flock that has gone silent and left is the dream noting that the background presence which made the place feel ordinary has thinned out, and the room is going to sound different from now on.