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A raven in a dream is the dictionary's image of intelligence with a dark edge — knowledge that you do not want but that is honestly yours. Folk tradition makes the raven an omen of death or misfortune; in dreams it is more often the messenger of a truth that you have been refusing to claim.

A single raven watching from a height is the dream pointing at something specific you have known for a while and not said out loud. A raven that speaks in the dream gives you the exact sentence you have been avoiding writing.

Where you often see it. A raven on a high perch. A raven watching a scene without participating. The dream uses the raven for hidden knowledge — an unwelcome truth that still serves you.

What it is not. A raven is not always omen. The dictionary reads it as the dreamer's intelligent dark-feathered observer.

Related in the dictionary. Read raven with crow (the lighter cousin), magpie, and any scene of dark-feathered knowing.