I wheel my bicycle through a small perennial garden onto a tile-floored terrace bordered by a low stone wall. Either I or others have been here before because an informal footpath has been pressed into the soil, relieving my concern about walking through the garden. Two Short-eared Owls are flying over and beyond the wall, occasionally chasing white moths and occasionally almost perching together on the wall. I get out my camera and try to photograph them but the first image comes out completely dark. I adjust the aperture from f2.4 to f4 and try again and this time the image is okay but I had missed the owls.

When I look up from the camera I see that a crowd of maybe 20 people had joined me on the terrace. They all have packs so I wonder if they are travelers waiting for a ride somewhere. I have a pack too, a large green internal frame pack which is partly blocking the narrow passage from one side of the terrace to the other so I move it out of the way. I am worried that all the people will disturb the owls.

It turns out that my concern is justified because the owls have babies and the baby owls have been scattered among the bushes along the edge of the terrace. Someone points out one of the babies at the left edge of the terrace so I join a couple of other people over there. The baby is very small, maybe 3 inches tall and partly covered with down but standing up on its legs like a miniature Burrowing Owl. One of the adult owls, flying out over the space beyond the wall, pursues a butterfly and after a couple of failed attempts, succeeds in catching it. I wonder if the owl will bring its prey back to the baby near me but it flies back towards the other side of the balcony instead. Distracted by the owl, I had lost track of the baby when I notice a lizard, maybe 8 to 10 inches long, with a fringe of spines along its back. Someone else sees it and calls it a Sanderling (which is a type of shorebird). I take their word for it at first but wake up when I realize that it was actually an Iguana and it might have eaten the baby owl.

Does every dream have a meaning? I wonder, because this one seems to be just a collection of impressions from TV shows we have streamed recently. The bicycle is from Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 5 on Apple TV last night. The iguana is from The Longest 3rd Date on Netflix the night before and the terrace reminds we of some of the settings in the first couple of episodes of Transatlantic on Netflix last week, as does the crowd of travelers. The backpack on the other hand is a symbol which has appeared in two dreams earlier this month. As for the owls, I don't know where those came from, but a sparrow was featured in third dream earlier this month.

Reconsidering this dream a few months later, I will attempt to come up with a possible meaning.