Swift
A bird that lives almost entirely on the wing — a life spent in motion with very rare landings.
A swift in a dream is the dream's image of a life spent in motion. The swift eats, drinks, and sleeps on the wing; it lands only to nest. The dream brings the swift when something in your life — a working rhythm, a person, a season — is being lived almost entirely in transit, with the moments of being stationary so rare they have become specialised events. A swift in a long high pass is the dream affirming the design. A swift grounded, unable to take off from the flat — as the bird in fact cannot — is the dream noting that you have come to rest in a place from which the life you were built for cannot be resumed.