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THE DREAM

So here goes - what I remember from the dream (and it was last week, right after I started reading the first book) - and it was actually just after another dream where I had actively been diagnosing a dream I'd previously had about the pink walls that appeared. I thought I was awake when discussing it with John (nope, still dreaming!).

I digress. As always.

My Dream: There was green grass - flattened grass, it wasn't very tall - a nice shade of green, perfect grass green, if you will. Almost mossy. And as I was walking this path - the green was on either side of the (what I'm assuming dirt?) path, there was a line of trees up a ways on this hill.

I saw a sort of stuffed-animally/real looking leopard walk up the hill (there may have been an overturned cart there of some sort, renaissance-like) on my left, into the treeline. I was not afraid of him, I just knew him to probably be the animal of the weird guy that lived there. The animal was shy, which is why he left. He also looked back at me.

As I strolled along on this beautiful day (most of my dreams are dark), the treeline gets closer to me - it begins dipping down and flattening out. I'm not sure if I was looking for my cat, but soon I see Ozzy (also on the left). As I turn towards him (he is actually under a tree), I notice that he looks hurt. He then proceeds to take his paw and lift up his fur off of his body to check to make sure he wasn't really hurt. It lifted right off of him, like a big hunk of fur coat or something - it was covered in a murky brown (much like the brown mud on another cat recently in waking life) as he lifted it up - but no damage done, just a pinkish flesh underneath. He put his "coat" back on, and then I turned around to head back the way I came.

I yelled for him to join me, but Ziggy showed up instead, and he was running gaily beside me. I took a second to pause and call for Ozzy again, and as I turned around, I knew he was going to follow, even though he hadn't just yet.

My cats were of normal coloring - Ozzy a grey tabby, Ziggy a brown/black tabby.

The End of What I Remember.

 THE ANALYSIS

Step One: Associations

Green - color of outside; color of money; allergies; my mother's favorite color; a color I didn't like when I was younger but am OK with now; healing color; calming color

Grass - allergies; something I wish I could roll around in like an animal but cannot <allergies>; the texture is something I love to walk on

The Path - cart path; allegory for the proper path to walk in life; the olde way; religious jargon; recreation;

Treeline - border between what is known and what is not known; forest, an area I like to get lost in/hike in; creatures living in there that I'd like to meet but am afraid they'll eat me :)

Hill - something I have a hard time running/walking up; out of breath; a struggle, an obstacle

Renaissance Cart - IF it occurred in my dream, it was broken, so: similar to a cart we had in The Faire, a place I worked at as a kid; something broken, needing to be fixed in order to work

The Leopard - a wild animal, but beautiful and graceful; the form it took in my dream was almost like this giant stuffed toy my grandfather got me from a garage sale/DAV as a kid - I still have it; my childhood; my wildness urging to be broken free; the animal was shy, so perhaps my fear; isolation (he was walking away)

The Strange Man - He didn't actually make a tangible appearance in the dream, but he seems worth mentioning as he is the one that the townspeople considered weird (as I referred to him that way as well, but it wasn't necessarily because I thought that, I just knew him as that way); perhaps he is my animus who has yet to make an appearance?; someone intriguing that I'd like to get to know, but am fearful of

Shade Trees - protection; hiding

Ozzy - my soul-mate; all that is good in me (except for his tendency to spray all over my house); looking on the brighter side of things; enjoying life to the fullest; adventure; keeping everyone in order to exist more peacefully; a partner

Brown Mud Color - the exact coloring of what had been on Phantom earlier that day when we thought he may be injured; earth; dirt; life

Pinkish Flesh Color - life; sensitivity

Ziggy - all that is wrong in the world that I cannot fix but want to; sweetness; stubborn; mean and vicious; loving; a friend

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