Exercise 5

I recently became a cat owner. (in case the photo is no clue).
I don't want to be boring about it, but as any pet owner will agree it does have a fairly significant effect on your life. (Budgies and goldfish, obviously less so than cats and dogs.)

So, my cat seems to have taken on some kind of symbolic significance in my subconscious. She has starred in three dreams.

In the first she'd been in the "care" of friends, who'd left open glasses and bottles of alcohol around. She sampled all of them and was seriously drunk. Dangerously. As in Alcoholic poisoning. As she staggered around i screamed at those people who'd been so irresponsible. Yelled and screamed like i've never screamed at anyone in real life ever before.
Or ever will, knowing me.
It was kind of cathartic.

In the next dream she went completely limp in my arms and I was running around in a panic. Afraid she'd die. Trying to find help and not succeeding.
This was the opposite of cathartic.

In the third, my friend (who is soon to be actually cat sitting for me), was explaining that she'd not be able to look after the cat like i do; would not be able to copy all my patterns and follow all my rules. She seemed unworried by this. As if my "rules" for cat tending and raising were impossible and silly. Or too personal. She was going to do it her own way.
At least this last one wasn't a nightmare.