Randi
08-13-2002, 02:49 PM
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Floating on a dream?
I have owned (or been owned by) cats that dreamt before, but Fister does it a lot, and he also used to have regular nightmares. Since he sleeps with us in bed so much, we sometimes get involved! He can dream at any time, often just after he has fallen asleep across my stomach and with the TV going full blast. He doesn’t have to be in a deep sleep, sometimes his eyes will be half open, though often slightly clouded. This can be enormously entertaining, I can sometimes almost follow what he’s doing in his dream. He runs and jumps and stalks and fights. Perhaps his dream world is a place where the sun always shines and the mice only have three legs!
Once I followed him as he carefully stalked something, his front paws twitching, carefully placed one at a time, his back legs tightening and then released as he jumped on or over something. His whiskers vibrate wildly, he breathes in short sharp gasps, with back legs flailing, heart pumping, snuffling and spitting until he wakes with a start, looking comically confused. The trouble is, that when this happens and he is sleeping on Randis pillow, he jumps with a start, and can really give us a shock. If it’s a nightmare, he reacts like a coiled spring suddenly released, and almost jumps in the air with the weirdest of cries. He’s woken us up a few times like that!
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Under his wardrobe
He has two favourit retreats in our bedroom, one directly under us in bed, and the other under a wardrobe. He likes tiny little holes that he can crawl into. He has under 20cm of headroom, but this seems to suit him just fine. The problem is, that if he has a nightmare he wakes up very suddenly and throws his head in the air. This means that if he’s under our bed, his head hits the bottom of the bed very hard. It’s af if somebody hit the bed frame with a hammer, and is most effective at waking us up in a hurry in the middle of the night!
Once he lay full length beside me, on his back with his backside up under my arm and his head down by my knees. He presumably got involved in something dangerous in his dream world and had a serious nightmare. Suddenly with no warning, he gave out the most peculiar cry, and managed quite incredibly to jump up and rotate 180° and spin round 180° at the same time. I got a terrific shock, cats are so extremely quick it’s almost unbelievable. He then just stood right in front of my nose, totally confused and quite comical, but I do worry a bit about his long claws when he’s in that state, he’s managed to send two humans to hospital already!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/p97dc31798590c4dff733e9e06bee8a39/fd6868db.jpg
Sorry, I didn’t mean it!
Who would have believed that this innocent creature could have such sharp claws and such an active dream world!
Regards from John
Floating on a dream?
I have owned (or been owned by) cats that dreamt before, but Fister does it a lot, and he also used to have regular nightmares. Since he sleeps with us in bed so much, we sometimes get involved! He can dream at any time, often just after he has fallen asleep across my stomach and with the TV going full blast. He doesn’t have to be in a deep sleep, sometimes his eyes will be half open, though often slightly clouded. This can be enormously entertaining, I can sometimes almost follow what he’s doing in his dream. He runs and jumps and stalks and fights. Perhaps his dream world is a place where the sun always shines and the mice only have three legs!
Once I followed him as he carefully stalked something, his front paws twitching, carefully placed one at a time, his back legs tightening and then released as he jumped on or over something. His whiskers vibrate wildly, he breathes in short sharp gasps, with back legs flailing, heart pumping, snuffling and spitting until he wakes with a start, looking comically confused. The trouble is, that when this happens and he is sleeping on Randis pillow, he jumps with a start, and can really give us a shock. If it’s a nightmare, he reacts like a coiled spring suddenly released, and almost jumps in the air with the weirdest of cries. He’s woken us up a few times like that!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/p481f3b7059b86d4c5e51fce073149a3d/fd6868dd.jpg
Under his wardrobe
He has two favourit retreats in our bedroom, one directly under us in bed, and the other under a wardrobe. He likes tiny little holes that he can crawl into. He has under 20cm of headroom, but this seems to suit him just fine. The problem is, that if he has a nightmare he wakes up very suddenly and throws his head in the air. This means that if he’s under our bed, his head hits the bottom of the bed very hard. It’s af if somebody hit the bed frame with a hammer, and is most effective at waking us up in a hurry in the middle of the night!
Once he lay full length beside me, on his back with his backside up under my arm and his head down by my knees. He presumably got involved in something dangerous in his dream world and had a serious nightmare. Suddenly with no warning, he gave out the most peculiar cry, and managed quite incredibly to jump up and rotate 180° and spin round 180° at the same time. I got a terrific shock, cats are so extremely quick it’s almost unbelievable. He then just stood right in front of my nose, totally confused and quite comical, but I do worry a bit about his long claws when he’s in that state, he’s managed to send two humans to hospital already!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/p97dc31798590c4dff733e9e06bee8a39/fd6868db.jpg
Sorry, I didn’t mean it!
Who would have believed that this innocent creature could have such sharp claws and such an active dream world!
Regards from John