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• -(JoAnn) “CRYBABYSTILL”- Invited Guest Blogger

• February 16, 2010

Dream: The Pharoh’s Cat

I feel something touching my legs and because we are so tightly packed together, I have panic thoughts about being molested or groped. I work my hand down fully expecting to contact some body’s hand, Instead, I detect that it is a furry cat and shift around until I can lift it high enough to see it. It is a black cat with a long neck and short hair, a living version of the cats pained on the wall decorations. I am relieved, it is calm and comfortable in my arms. I become worried that somehow I had violated some sacred tradition and could expect punishment of some kind to follow. The guide is too far on the other side of the crowd to ask, what to do and a trumpet horn sounds and the crowd pushes me back up the steps into the foyer.
A security guard passes and I try to explane what happened. He calls me crazy and to get that cat out of here now. Outside I feel I am RESPONSIBLE FOR BREAKING SOME LAW. I think that I don’t want a cat. BUT FEEL I AM BEING TRAPPED INTO CAREING FOR THIS ONE. I think then of reincarnation and wonder if a connection exists.

To go home with the cat is a concern, in that the city bus has a no pets allowed policy. I would have to take a taxi. I put the cat down and try to walk away, but its follows closely.
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My analysis of this dream runs on two tracks, the obvious and what is not there.

The obvious is I am a seeker, looking for some enlightment from the ancient world, perhaps partly echoing my early catholic indoctrination which also covered much of the same thought world, with heaven, hell, enternal life and a panthion of saints.

The feeling in the dream of much being unsure. Could there be this also as a reality in the modern world? I am unsure–there is much unsure in the dream content- I arrive too early, I am diverted to the reconstructed repliica of the pharos earthly remains, he is surronded by the images of things from this workd that is to accompany him to the next- I am uncomfortable in a tight pack of the crowd-I feel as first thought, the contact on my legs as a threat of some sexual intrusion unexpected and uninvited. My reaction to mystical cat is one of fascination, uneasiness and inappropriate of having any further association and I look for away to shift this to some other. This seeming impossible I think ahead, what if I accept the cat so magically present and later it would just as magically leave, I am unsure of the cats gender or if I return a bond to it equal to its apparent attaching to me, and even if such was possible and would not some time the pharaoh awaken and demand his cat back?

More down to earth, in the dream the there was was none of the feeling of sharing, support and warmth that I once had when so many years ago, I actually attend events at this museum and explored its philosophic teachings with enthusiasm. Is the cat that I fear to accept somehow a wish to restore that lost anchorage?

–JoAnn