Shape Shifting Cats?

[sandlizard]

Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 13 Location: Nebraska Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:11 pm** *Post subject: Cats shape shifting Haven't been on for a while but have had several dreams lately that center around a common theme about cats. The latest dream happened last night.... As I was dozing off I started dreaming of being in some kind of rocket ship blasting off into space... My crew were characters from the Muppets shows. Included were Grover the frog, and some other Muppets, like that bear... Gonzo? too.. Anyways it was vivid but strange Somehow the scene changed to a cat watching over a mouse hole or something... and about ready to pounce on any small animal that dared stick it's head above the hole... As the cat waited, he started changing a little... Could see human hair growing on his/her hand... Sure the human hair looked like mine... and as I came back to consciousness I was sure the cat was changing into me... The dream that started this happened a couple weeks ago... Never wrote it down but remember some details vividly.. I remember coming upon a lake that was overshadowed by hills.... It looked like a lake in my region of the country.. Went out onto the lake with a boat... Then dove in (to a whirlpool or something?) The next scene shows this house out in the middle of the lake... It was a simple kind of (primitive - hate to use that word) house.... Wooden frame, on platform supported by stilts (?) Windows didn't have glass in them... Inside was an animal, deer or cat (sure it was a cat)... The animal was shape shifting and metamorphosized into a man... Then the dream ended... There was some kind of dream in between these two which I am sure also included a cat... Curious about this.... This has to mean something if a cat image is coming up three times in a row? But what? Some new details about my current situation (thats changed a little since last I wrote) that might help include the fact that I have been student teaching all year... Am doing a second student teaching component this semester and the school is new... First semester I had a car wreck which made my life quite chaotic for a while... Any insights out there? Back to top

[Dickie]

I too have had dreams featuring a shapeshifting creature which sometimes appeared as a Cat, although after a while they stopped. Still haven't had a clue as to what it meant, if anything though. Maybe you felt about something the way a Cat would, waiting to pounce on a mouse? Just a thought...

[TygrHawk]

Off topic, but... Originally posted by sandlizard like that bear... Gonzo? The bear is "Fozzy". Gonzo is supposed to be like a weird mutated chicken or something. I know, I have way too much Muppet knowledge.

[benkane1077]

Gonzo was an alien. There was one movie about his discovery. The whole chicken thing started from growing up on a farm. And what do cats mean? Cats symbolize whatever they mean to you. Dreams use symbols for stuff or are literal. A cat is a cat, or a cat is a symbol for a predatory sense. Most objects in dreams are one or the other. Discovery is based on self-discovery.

[sandlizard]

I can't remember for sure all the muppets that were in the dream.... Just know the frog was in there and the bear, think Miss Piggy was in it too... as for the rest? Basically I think they were an audience which were watching and cheering as the rocket (piloted by me?) was taking off.... And as for the cat(?) The point is the cat was featured in about three dreams (shape-shifted in two) so guess it must be an important symbol that is being pointed to me..

[benkane1077]

The cats could be a symbol. What would the muppets mean to you? They simply could be related to a resurface childhood memory.

[sandlizard]

Again, I think the muppets symbolized an audience which was cheering as the rocket was starting on a journey... .... As for the symbolic importance of each muppet.... (?) Grover the frog was most important of all the muppets though... Reptilean and amphibian figures seem to appear fairly frequently in dreams.... My own interpretation of the muppet scenario is that they represented a part of myself that was observing and celebrating my progress into 'dreamland...' Possibly the rocket symbolized the journey into dreamland Therefore the rocket taking off was the setting and the cat portion of the dream was the plot... I don't know, but that's the best I can come up with....