Dreaming about chickens
Why do I never dream about chickens?
The most numerous bird on earth and among the least dreamt about, which is the interesting thing about it.
Where an animal is everywhere in life and absent from dreams, something is worth explaining, and the explanation is the continuity account with a qualification.
Dreams are built from what a person has been exposed to. Most people are exposed to chickens as food rather than as animals, so for most dreamers the chicken is not an available animal image at all, and those reports belong with the meat material.
Reports of chickens as creatures come overwhelmingly from people with agricultural experience, which is the ordinary continuity finding and confirms the account rather than complicating it.
Where this reads well
A rare chance to test the continuity hypothesis against an absence rather than a presence.
Where it is harder
None.
Worth asking yourself
Have I kept or handled chickens? Was it an animal or food? What was I doing near it?
Dream interpretation is subjective. Nothing here is a diagnosis, a prediction, or medical advice.
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