Depth Psychology: The cuckoo represents immature eroticism and sexuality; it interferes with your love relationship, because you are looking to satisfy it in places other than home.
The dream is also a warning about freeloaders who—when you aren’t looking—will try to dump their responsibilities on you (“laying a cuckoo egg in your nest”). [1]
The heralding of a change.
An interruption or surprise.
Being present in the current moment.
The idea of time, or awareness of the passage of time.
Isolation, whether or not by choice.
The idea of home or coziness.
Chaos or craziness.
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.
See also: Bird, Mockingbird [2]
Alternatively, there may be someone in your life whose presence is unwelcome or annoying. [3]
To dream that you hear a cuckoo, denotes the painful illness of the death of some absent loved one, or accident to some one in your family. [4]
2. Something undesirable has entered one’s emotional life, and is not about to go away. [6]
catching a: others’ gossip is cruel, but you know the truth is worse.
killing a: wil interfere in another’s business and with another’s emotional life.
many: sexual promiscuity leads to eggs in the wrong baskets.
of a: a selfish person wil insinuate himself into your family.
singing: your lover is a fickle freeloader.
shouting: do not accept another’s responsibilities as your own. [13]