Dreams: My dreaming of my being a cat was really real as it could be, or was it?
By emptychair
@innertalks (23746)
Australia
January 1, 2020 4:42pm CST
Just the other night, I was dreaming that I was a cat.
My father, another cat, was teaching me about life as a cat in this house, where we both were living.
He told me to put on some weight, until I weighed 10 kiliograms.
"Then," he said to me, "you can take care of yourself."
"You will be big and tough enough looking to all of the stray cats that come into our owner's property. They will no longer bother you then, but if they still do, you must know son, that you do need to defend your property, and fight them off from causing trouble/damage here in it."
I would expect that dreaming that we are an animal is an unusual type of a dream for most people.
Here, I think that it shows me that I am not currently happy as a human, but I do want a chance again in another easier form, or so I see it to be, and yet here, my father cat puts me right back into the true picture of what life is, and of what it's really about.
Life is mostly about our struggle to find our true self, to be this true self, and to defend our self in our being of our true self, so we do not get swamped into our being anything esle, instead of this real true self, in whatever covering we have found our self within, for now.
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Was I a cat in my dream, or am I really a cat dreaming me now, as me?
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
1 Jan 20
You had a very interesting dream. I sometimes wonder if anyone truly can be 100% happy? It's like a goal in life but one we continue to struggle for. Maybe it is not the quest for happiness but the quest for satisfaction we should be looking for?
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
5 Jan 20
@innertalks Now you have laid out a very believable plan here. Makes a lot of sense to me. I would also say the quest for knowledge and the more we know and experience, allows us to have more and/or different experiences. The more, the merrier or fuller life.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
6 Jan 20
@kareng Yes, I would agree, that our experiences change as we change as a society, and as we change personally, and as both grow themselves through such knowledge and experience. Our grandparent's experiences are a lot different than ours are now, for example.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
2 Jan 20
I think I would tend to agree with your observation there. Perhaps we are not meant to be 100% happy, at 100% of the time.
This would make us one-sided, instead of multi-faceted.
Perhaps feeling all of the different colours of the rainbow, at various times, gives us a broader spectrum view of what is behind it, the light of God.
Perhaps being sad at times, rather than happy, brings us experiences of truth in wider ways, which allow us to grow a broader understanding of it then too.
We grow a greater wisdom from different experiences, than ones that are all the same, or too similar.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
2 Jan 20
I think that that would be true for me anyway. I could not be fully happy, in my form, if I didn't feel that it was my true form. I would keep searching, and happiness is sort of placed aside then, by the searching, which is of a higher priority, for me anyway.
Perhaps it might be as Abraham Lincoln is reported to have said, though.
"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln, (1809 to 1865), a former American President.
I should make up my mind just to be happy now then, or perhaps I never will be, even if I do eventually find my true form.
Chasing after happiness, usually never catches up with it. If we choose it, happiness, perhaps, it then chooses us, without any searching, or chasing after it, being involved at all then.
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
2 Jan 20
@innertalks I keep hoping happiness will choose me.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
2 Jan 20
@CarolDM Yes, so do I, but it has never found me yet. I hope it does one day, before I die...lol...
@KristenH (33591)
• Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
2 Jan 20
@innertalks That's interesting and enlightening me with that insight. I've had cats in my dreams, but not being a cat per se. Could be. I used to have dream cards a long time ago with a dream interpretation dictionary. I might have to find some dream analysis website to find out if you're right about the cat in the dream.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
2 Jan 20
@KristenH I used to own a few dream dictionaries too.
My current dictionary also tells me that it is about independence, and staying independent, in a world of duality, as it is claimed that cats have a duality in their nature too. This is why people are wary around cats, and do not trust them as much as they would trust a dog, for example.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
2 Jan 20
Thanks, Kristen.
I am in my 60's now, and I have never dreamed that I was an animal before, as far as I remember, so this departure from my normal dreams, might be some type of a wake-up call for me too.
A cat in a dream, according to some, refers to our intuition.
I am being bullied in my life then, from my following of my intuition (i.e. various people in my life are not allowing me to follow who I am, my higher self, and intuition. I am being who they want me to be for them, instead). I am too afraid to follow it, my intuition, thinking that it is too way out there for me to follow it. What will others think of me, if I do so, etc etc, is my thinking.
But this more refers to a cat coming into our dream, not our actually being a cat, as I was here.
Perhaps it means then that I am actually my intuition, and when I do not follow it, I am not being the real me then either. My intuition is my higher self, which I should own as myself, rather than just ignoring it.
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@Shiva49 (28402)
• Singapore
2 Jan 20
I try to be comfortable in my own skin as others are taken including other species!
However, we do not have control over our dreams and cannot even snap out of them while dreaming.
Personally, I believe we are given enough wherewithals here to survive and find our own level.
Every life has its own challenges and being a cat does not come easy with humans and others lording over them.
Your dream is definitely food for thought but we have to complete our innings here keeping our chins up! siva
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
2 Jan 20
We can connect to animals here, in our everyday lives.
Some cultures believe that we have an inner "power" animal attached to us. Perhaps, this cat dream was attached to this type of archetypal pattern, in our collective psyche.
Power animals are thought to be some type of an inner influencing factor, in the spirit or shape of an animal, that can help to empower someone, with the traits and characteristics of that animal.
Power animals are a vehicle that allows someone to better connect to all forms of life, and to the qualities, character, and power of that life.
Power animals are said to be the spirit of animals that come to us in visions, or in dreams, to assist us in the living of our lives here.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
3 Jan 20
@Shiva49 The spell-checker doesn't pick up typos like that one, but it is interesting with some typos, they make more sense/mean more, in a way than what the correct line might have meant...LOL. (I corrected it now to lives, not lies)
Yes, untruth traps us in more ways than one. These days, we have so much pride, that nobody wants to own up to their mistakes, or of their having done anything wrong.
I think too, that the other species are helping us spiritually, and are contacting us in that way to help us from their higher selves, too. God created them for a greater purpose than just to be playthings for us, or to be eaten and used and abused by us too.
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@Shiva49 (28402)
• Singapore
3 Jan 20
@innertalks Yes Steve, we are all interconnected although our lives are more of lies of all types as you inadvertently mentioned "everyday lies" unlike those of other species as it looks like. We seem to be trapped by this syndrome of lies, fear, and distrust. Tough to know whether it is an inborn trait or an acuired one.
I believe other species know us more than we give credit for and they share the basics of life mainly of survival and fear - siva
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@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
5 Jan 20
@innertalks
Thank you for sharing that with us and a very interesting dream.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
5 Jan 20
Yes, it was an unusual dream for me to have too, as well as interesting.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
6 Jan 20
@Hannihar Yes, I have never had one like that before.
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@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
6 Jan 20
@innertalks
That is a very unusual dream I would say Steve.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
3 Jan 20
True in many ways, but I feel too, that we are also far more than our just being our own thoughts.
We have our higher self, guidance coming from our intuition, and God is always also guiding us through his Holy Spirit, working in our hearts, as well.
So, we have our thoughts, but we must also learn to listen to other inputs coming into us from others too, at all times. We are our thoughts, plus the thoughts of others too, if we allow them in.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
3 Jan 20
@innertalks In short those things you mentioned comprise of a total being.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
4 Jan 20
@Nakitakona Yes, embracing our totality keeps us balanced too, I think.
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