I have birds and so don't have cats. At night a cat comes near my room and meows. I think it penetrates my dreams and causes cats as a dream sign.

So in the first part of a dream, I dreamed that some relatives were guests in the house. Then there was an unrelated scene. Next was a slightly disturbing scene so without realizing I was dreaming I thought I should wake up.

I had a false awakening, I was in a bedroom with a cage of birds with the door open. I closed the door and lay on the bed thinking I was tired and should go to sleep. Then a cat jumped up on the bed, remembering the earlier segment I thought a relative must have brought the cat. As I petted the dream cat and it rubbed against me I told myself that If I should awaken and find a cat in the room,
it would be this real cat that was with me now and not a false awakening with a cat!
(Like the false awakening with a cat I was actually in)