Conference hydra::dejavu

It's possible that the cats in your dreams represent yourself. Killing
a cat might be a metaphor for hurting or being angry at yourself.

If this interpretation doesn't feel right, then try substituting
someone who is very close (friend or relative) for "yourself" and
"cat", and see if that feels closer to the meaning.

    
    To take what Mike said a step further, I believe that cats can 
    represent your inner self (reference: The Golden Cauldron, by Nicki
    Scully, on Egyptian shamanism).  See how that feels when applied to
    your dreams.
    
    PJ may be able to elaborate since he has that particular chapter.  (;^)
    
    Cindy

    If I fit your interpretations into the context of the rest of the dream
    then yes, it seems appropriate.
    
    Interesting how many symbols in our dreams can reflect ourselves...
    houses, schools, and now cats...
    
    Thank you for your ideas!
    
    

    Yeah, I'm going to try to post the info on that chapter in here. I've
    had cat dreams and irregular interactions with cats lately. Not dead
    ones, mind you. Maybe in a day or two, when I'm here late into the
    evening.
    
    PJ

    
    I used to pick up and hug my cat Sterling every night.
    
    He *HATED* it.  On good nights he tolerated it for about 5 
    seconds, but the look on his face...
    
    Cindy

    
    Hey!  Sterling was a great big grey Persian too!  Lovable - great with
    ankles and beside you on the sofa - but not huggable and holdable.
    
    Cindy

    Dreaming of cats - a feeling of aloofness or wish you could be?
    
    Dead cats - putting aside aloofness or mayhaps independency? 
                
    
    Just some thoughts,
    Serenity

    Mine not only want hugging they demand to get inside my shirt and sleep
    in there.

    I often dream of cats. I usually wake up directly to hear two of them
    outside the bedroom door demanding to be fed their breakfast. For some
    reason they don't understand weekends.

    Jamie.

    I too have a big persian grey cat that does not like to be picked up or
    hugged, but will persue you relentlessly if you don't scratch his chin
    pronto!
    

    I had a cat 22 years old.  When I moved out here, I finally
    found it necessary to euthanize her.. 
    
    Well some time after that, I had a dream, and she was trying to
    jump on the bed as she always did to sleep with me (in her old
    age I had a stool for her to climb which I had to remove due to
    my grief). I felt so guilty about it.. it was bad enough to have 
    had to "kill her". I told my friend about this dream, and he simply and
    directly said, "Well put the step back for her!".
    
    I did and it made me feel much better, and I'm sure it made it
    easier for her to join me in bed thereafter.
    
    I guess it doesn't help much in interpreting your dream, but I
    had to take the opportunity to write about her and my experience.
    
    				..zoe

    
    22 years...all that wonderful time you spent together.
    
    My former kitty's box is under my bed...and pictures of him are 
    on some of the places he used to enjoy sitting.  And, given the
    many countless signs I encountered when my two new cats came
    to live with me, I'm fairly certain he's now back, only in two
    different forms.  
    
    So, be watchful...she may indeed come back in another form too.
    
    Cindy

The night my grandfather died, I woke suddenly because something was
on my bed.  Half asleep I touched it and it was a very happy dog.  I
petted it for a few seconds and then it jumped off and ran away.
Years later my mom said that she woke up about the same time and saw
her father standing over the bed.  I then put it together.  The dog
was one that I had as a small child and had died.  For what its worth,
My grandfather and the dog were in Hawaii, and we were in the SF bay
area.

I have always believed that ALL life is as legitimate as our lives,
and that at the "other side" there is no difference.

    I do not like cats in the least little bit and often find them very
    frightening.  I've had many nightmares about being attacked by cats,
    horrible dreams!!
    
    lv

lv, 

I love cats so much I even have one in my office (yes, that's right, a real
cat in my office).  Alf likes cats almost as much as I do, come to think of
it.

80)

    Well, it's almost two months since I've put this note in here and guess
    what?
    
    Yes, I'm STILL having dreams about cats.  Now they are not about dead
    cats but about live ones.  They are diffebut similar in that they
    always leave me feeling guilty and/or badly when I wake up.
    
    If I ever feel scared it is because I feel like I'm missing something.
    I sometimes wake up feeling like I missed something or I am missing
    someting...
    
    This topic has gone off as to whether or not people like cats...I'm
    still trying to figure out why I'm dreaming about them all the time...
    THAT is disturbing...
    
    In my waking hours I can't think of something I'm missing, like
    "missing hte boat" 
    
    but I am confused as to why, for several months, I've been continuously
    dreaming about cats!
    
    WEIRD!
    

    In the dreams I know that they are animals.  It is as if I am trying to
    take care of them.  But I wouldn't ask them and expect them to answer
    me anymore than I would walk up to a cat in my waking hours and expect
    it to answer me.
    
    I can try it next time, but I'm afraid that since in my dreams I am
    thinking logically, I do not believe I feel they could answer me.
    
    I'll try it.
    
    
    

    I don't need to ask the cats why I'm having nightmares about
    them...they give me the creeps!!!
    
    I spent a weekend at my aunt's house when I was young.  Her cat persued
    me relentlessly for 2 days.  Springing out and clawing at me every
    chance it got, even while I was sleeping.
    
    To this day, there isn't very many cats that have crossed my path, that
    don't hiss at me.  It's a mutual hate relationship.
    
    lv