The power of personal voice and “singing your own song.” Restriction or limitation, or wanting more freedom (since canaries are sometimes kept in cages).
Dreaming of this animal can represent too much or not enough of one of those qualities, or someone or something you associate with the quality or animal.
Consider also the animal’s actions, context, and your feelings about it.
As with all Birds, what is also addressed here is freedom and intellect.
A bird flying high in the sky symbolizes sexual ecstasy that, in the case of the canary, is (only now, or already) present in the beginning stages. [3]
buying a: need to check for poison air before entering the mine.
dead, a: attaining your aspirations takes delicate careful steps.
having a, in the home: idle talk that is a hindrance to yourself.
owning a: play the music you want to sing and live the life you wish to live. [11]