Strange Dreams

I have been having the strangest dreams lately. I think some of them are due to being too hot or too cold. After a party at my apartment, I think that last night's may have been substance-induced. In reality, I fell asleep on the couch last night after my guests left. I woke up around three AM to what I thought was a loud thump against my window. Last week I watched the movie "Salem's Lot" and I was convinced at the time that it was vampires trying to get me to invite them in. I told myself to calm down and fall back asleep. Then the dream began...

Again, I wake up at 3AM on the couch to a bang against my window. This time I decide to get up and check it out. When I go over to the window and look out over the river, I see multiple flocks of birds in the sky, right on level with my windows. A few of them have flown into my window (hence the bumps) and a few more seem to be heading my way. Suddenly, all of the birds completely freeze in the sky. I hear no more noises and they are just hovering without flapping their wings. I look down and there is a man in the street looking up at them with his hands in the air and saying something which I can't make out. Then one by one the birds start falling to the ground. I can tell they are still alive, but they aren't moving. Within five minutes, hundreds of these birds are lying in the street in large pools of blood. I go downstairs thinking that maybe I can catch a few from hitting the ground. By the time I get down there, all of the birds are already dead and the man is gone. No one else is on the street or looking out of their windows. So I just sit down in this pile of blood and start crying because it seems like such a shame that all of those beautiful birds are dead.

Anyone care to venture an analysis of that one? It seems to me that it was a type of frustration dream where I felt powerless to act out. Who knows where these images come from. I actually woke up in a very good mood, so I probably had another dream after that one that was much more pleasant.