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Lisa Sasha

Dreaming of talking animals

Latest Post: September 7, 2011 at 12:43 AM

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This may sound crazy but I dreamt of a talking cat last night - my boyfriend's cat was talking to me. And it was so strange. In the dream I was running down a road, actually, more like bounding down the road - it felt light in a way but it was as if I was running from something. It's at night and there are dogs running toward me and pass me. Then I hear something and I turn around and I see the cat (she's ginger colored and white) and she's looking at me and I turn to here and she talks - I don't hear what she says at first because I'm stunned. But then I listen as she talks again and she says something like, "I see you, do you see me?"
She repeated it and I just looked at her, half shocked, half as if I will soon figure out what she means... then I wake up and I have to go to work.

This dream stayed on my mind all day. I googled talking animals/cats and it says that when you dream of that, it represents superior knowledge and that you are soon to realize your potential... " Its message is often some form of wisdom. Alternatively, a talking animal denotes your potential to be all that you can be. "

I like this interpretation. It sits well with me because I feel like I am always searching for my higher self but I'm not so sure I will soon find that...or that I will. I've been trying to write creatively again for some time and it's like I hold myself back from doing it - I have ideas for stories, for poems but they just never go further than a thought... and I want nothing more than to be creative yet, it's like I block myself.

Could this dream be telling me that I will soon shed that fear of being creative again? I don't even know why or how I developed it in the first place.

Or does it mean that there is something else in store? Something that I will realize with time?

I don't know. And I want nothing more than to create with words, that's all i know how to do, and all I love to do .. yet it's not happening...

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Chris Utterman

September 7, 2011 at 12:43 AM

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Hi Lisa, some quick thoughts.

May I ask if by chance you saw or read Alice in Wonderland lately? It seems to me, from the structure of the sentence, that you talked to the Cheshire cat:

You say Lisa that: " I googled talking animals/cats and it says that when you dream of that, it represents superior knowledge and that you are soon to realize your potential... " Its message is often some form of wisdom. "
In the Reacting to one's dreams conversation Edna Stern mentions that: "I understood that in ancient times it was seen as impiety to not consider seriously and react to one’s dreams, as they were an invitation by the Gods to do something." Is that what you feel? Do you believe the gods are speaking to you through the dream and sending you messages of wisdom? Personally, I accept more the usual viewpoint of psychology that in the dream you are talking to yourself. The message, which may be some form of wisdom, is being told by you to you. Perhaps you are trying to tell yourself that you'll work to be more creative and let go of the things which hamper your creativity.. Whatever the case may be, as the saying goes: God helps those who help themselves. That is,the dream may be a call for action by you, and not a fortune cookie telling you the future. .
You ask: "Could this dream be telling me that I will soon shed that fear of being creative again?" Maybe, but if so, it will probably be of your own doing.

Looking forward to reading what you create with words.

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