What exactly separates protection from surveillance when the thing watching you has talons? That question rarely surfaces during the dream itself. You’re standing somewhere — a field, a rooftop, a road you half-recognize — and overhead, something enormous crosses the dark sky. Not a plane. Not a cloud shifting. A bird. Specifically, an eagle. And it’s flying directly over you, at night, when eagles have no biological reason to be airborne. The dream of an eagle flying over you at night sits at a strange intersection. It pulls together authority, fear, spiritual guardianship, and raw predatory power into a single image — and depending on what you felt first (safety…