Something crawling in the walls

I heard something moving within my bedroom walls. I was following it around and listening closely. I stopped at an air duct and saw something moving in there. It was a bird and it started sticking its beak through the duck slots. I unscrewed the screws and removed the duct plate. The bird plopped happily onto the bed. It was a huge blue and green exotic bird. I picked him up and he seemed to be play-biting my fingers. I put him in the bathroom for safety and closed the door. Our cat “Siam” was outside the bathroom looking around because he knew something was going on. I started knocking on the doors of neighbors to see if they had lost a bird, but nobody was answering. Then I noticed that behind where our car was parked were several plastic totes that we use for Christmas decorations. Some were empty and some had lights. I began stacking them.

Two events in the past influenced this dream. When I was a teen, we had an opossum that had crawled into our floor duct work. Also there was something crawling in a wall of a room I stayed in once and I never figured out what it was.