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kaffe
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« on: July 23, 2008, 02:18:54 AM » |
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I was just wondering if some of you ever have nightmares or bad dreams about your pet(s). Last night, I dreamt that some woman gave Kaffe an onion slice from the sauce of her meal. Kaffe ate a few bites and immediately developed sickle-cell anemia and collapsed. I scolded the woman, picked up Kaffe thinking to administer charcoal right away, but he was limp-dead! I hugged him and then he came back to life. What can it mean? I've thrown every onion out.  |
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trudy1
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« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2008, 04:45:47 AM » |
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I'm so sorry you had that dream Kaffe. Let Me think on it for a minute. I might think of something.
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catmom5
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« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2008, 05:05:10 AM » |
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I don't know what it means ~ but I'm sorry that this is on your mind now. Being a gold medal worrier  I understand how uncomfortable that nagging can be. Give Kaffe an extra hug and I'll be interested if anyone else has some idea what it might mean. cm5 |
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catbird
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« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2008, 06:49:45 AM » |
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kaffe, most of the bad dreams I have involve my cats. I tend to have such dreams when under stress.
My guess is that the dream is an expression of your fear that your cats will get something harmful in their food that you can't control. (Quite a natural fear for us all these days!) Think of the woman as a symbol of the PFI, or Sally of ChemNutra, if you will. But your dream had a happy ending: Your love was able to bring Kaffe back to life. So deep down, you feel that your love will protect your cats, and it will be OK. Does that make sense?
As I mentioned, stress triggers such dreams for me. The usual one is that my cats have gotten outside somehow, I have to round them all up, and I can't find some of them. Definitely an expression of feeling that the situation is out of control!
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« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2008, 07:11:28 AM » |
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I've had them too and agree with catbird about it being stress related. We spend so much time worrying about whats in their food that I think its natural for it to show up in our dreams too.
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« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2008, 07:56:13 AM » |
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Me, too. I've had dreams about my cats getting lost, and I woke up freaked out. Stress.
Don't know anything about dream analysis, but since you are so involved with home preparing your cats' food, I could see how food would end up a concern in your nightmares.
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trudy1
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« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2008, 08:31:29 AM » |
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I think it's stress too. You are so afraid of doing and getting everything perfect for Kaffe.It's on Your mind a lot. But You love Him, and that's what saved Him in the dream. your love will help you with Kaffe. Your doing great. Also, like all of us, We are so afraid to loose them and have all this crap start again. You won't loose Him, You cook for him and love him lots.  |
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« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2008, 08:43:40 AM » |
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kaffe, I too think it's post-recall traumatic stress. How many of us have been
increasingly worried, concerned, and devastated by what we now know about
commercial pet food garbage? I see Doozie calling across the rainbow bridge and
it scares the heck out of me. Calling for her sisters to come? I hope not. Calling
out a continuing warning? Both? I don't know, but it hurts every time.
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« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2008, 09:14:47 AM » |
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I have had bad dreams, the one that comes to mind happened right after I moved 10 years ago. My boy Reggie was clinging to the outside of an open window and just as I was grabing him I woke up and the electricity went out. It really freaked me out and Reggie was the kind of kitty to be hanging from the window. I have to triple screen my windows before I will let them open even though Socks doesn't really lunge at the windows like Reggie did.  I think it is stress too. |
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« Reply #9 on: July 23, 2008, 09:59:13 AM » |
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I think all of us have nightmares about our fur-babies. We worry about them! Mine are usually about getting separated from the pets and not being able to find them again. One time Badness was lost in the desert. Another time, I was trying to protect Daisy during a tornado.
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kaffe
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« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2008, 11:30:33 AM » |
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Thank you all for your thoughts. And yes - I am rather stressed out these days. And I do worry about what's in my cats' food - even the ones I make myself! I guess it all comes with the territory. But I'll be extra vigilant about those onions!  3Cat: I also dream of some of my pets who have crossed the Bridge. But in my dreams, they are waiting patiently and quietly. Sometimes, I am with them in the dream and they tell me secrets which I forget as soon as I wake up. I just remember my sense of amazement. |
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« Reply #11 on: July 23, 2008, 01:27:45 PM » |
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kaf -- I hope they are all together and well and happy and waiting. It just
hurts so much that I can't hold my Doozie and tell her I won't forget what
happened to her, that I'm still trying to get answers to help all the others and
trying to make sure it will never happen again. Lastly that I would move Heaven to hold her again if it's allowed.
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Poco
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« Reply #12 on: July 23, 2008, 01:45:53 PM » |
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I agree that this dream was most likely just an anxiety closet dump, Kaffe. Dreams can be a mechanism for safely handling that. Even if the dream forcasted anything regarding events to come, the message was that Kaffe will ultimately be safe. So the message would be not to worry.
I think that the onion part could actually have been inspired by the unresolved salmonella scare. There was speculation about onions for a short time.
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« Reply #13 on: July 23, 2008, 02:06:27 PM » |
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3Cat: I daresay our pets who have crossed the Bridge know how much we suffer in missing them so. Klondike: Thank you for reminiding me that the bad dream did have a happy ending. I kept checking Kaffe this morning to reassure myself that he is absolutely fine. |
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« Reply #14 on: July 23, 2008, 02:27:39 PM » |
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I've had many bad dreams about my kitties. One that comes to mind is about two weeks before Mr. Brown died, I was dreaming he was after a huge tarantula spider. The strange part was he was in a glass cage and someone was trying to gas the spider and I realized Mr. Brown was in there with the poison. I busted open the cage and was screaming his name and trying to get him air and I was uncontrollably crying. I'm afraid it was just a manifestation of my anxiety over his declining health. I remember this feeling of being on the verge of tears that entire day rethinking that dream. Of course, I was extrememly emotional during that time, living on about 2-3 hours of sleep since I was constantly up with him. I'm glad that your dream had a happy ending, I'm certain it's due to alot of stress and probably little sleep.
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