“The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn’t just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.”
From the poem “The Naming Of Cats” by T. S. Eliot.
Beautiful, put me in a dream state just watching it. That fine line between dreams and awake must be crossed cautiously. Loved the pussycat in it as well. Cats always seem to be in a dream state just by being.
The period between being fully awake and fully asleep is very interesting. In my teens, I had a recurring dream that I was awake but couldn’t move. I couldn’t call for help, and I heard a very high pitched tone that seemed to be directed at my head. In a couple of the dreams, I did, slowly and with great effort, manage to crawl out of bed
and on to my hands and knees, but I couldn’t get more than a yard or so from the bed because a tremendous force keeping me from forward motion. I felt as though a strange presence outside my bedroom window was looking at me, almost studying me, and I was terrified when I woke up. Eventually, the dreams stopped, but I never forgot them. A couple of years ago,around thirty years after the first series of dreams, I had the same dream. It brought back unsettling memories of the first experience. I checked out this type dream online…it sounds as though I have experienced not dreams, but classic “sleep paralysis”–a fairly common occurrence. It seems strange to me that people don’t talk about it more…and what our minds can do when we are not fully awake.
Have you read my piece (about a week or so ago) called “An Elephant in the Room”? It is a response to an article in the New York Times about Jung, sent to me because many friends know how much I follow dreams. I am in dream analysis and find it of profound importance. More on this as time goes on, but I’d love your thoughts on that piece that I wrote. A caution. It isn’t a simple piece and it takes what might be considered some “leaps of faith.” But dreams function in a way that we are just beginning to understand. Nonetheless, just because we still don’t really understand them completely (like with any science) it doesn’t mean that the existence of dreams isn’t of critical importance to our existence.
Haunting.
Give the Cat another chance!
What is his/her Name?
“The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn’t just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.”
From the poem “The Naming Of Cats” by T. S. Eliot.
Cheers!
Herman G.
Beautiful, put me in a dream state just watching it. That fine line between dreams and awake must be crossed cautiously. Loved the pussycat in it as well. Cats always seem to be in a dream state just by being.
The period between being fully awake and fully asleep is very interesting. In my teens, I had a recurring dream that I was awake but couldn’t move. I couldn’t call for help, and I heard a very high pitched tone that seemed to be directed at my head. In a couple of the dreams, I did, slowly and with great effort, manage to crawl out of bed
and on to my hands and knees, but I couldn’t get more than a yard or so from the bed because a tremendous force keeping me from forward motion. I felt as though a strange presence outside my bedroom window was looking at me, almost studying me, and I was terrified when I woke up. Eventually, the dreams stopped, but I never forgot them. A couple of years ago,around thirty years after the first series of dreams, I had the same dream. It brought back unsettling memories of the first experience. I checked out this type dream online…it sounds as though I have experienced not dreams, but classic “sleep paralysis”–a fairly common occurrence. It seems strange to me that people don’t talk about it more…and what our minds can do when we are not fully awake.
Have you read my piece (about a week or so ago) called “An Elephant in the Room”? It is a response to an article in the New York Times about Jung, sent to me because many friends know how much I follow dreams. I am in dream analysis and find it of profound importance. More on this as time goes on, but I’d love your thoughts on that piece that I wrote. A caution. It isn’t a simple piece and it takes what might be considered some “leaps of faith.” But dreams function in a way that we are just beginning to understand. Nonetheless, just because we still don’t really understand them completely (like with any science) it doesn’t mean that the existence of dreams isn’t of critical importance to our existence.