15 Jul 2024
Dream
I dreamt of being in my living room, with just my dog at first. I walked over to the clear door that connects the inside of the house to the outdoor deck, and I went to it, flicking the outside light on from the inside. I saw my cat. I flickered the light on and off a few more times, just to make sure I was seeing it right. It looked to be him, but for some reason in the dream, I had a very strong memory of already letting him in from outside. I looked towards the couches in the living room, seeing my dog and no one else. I called for my cat, just in case, and he ended up coming out from the dark closet downstairs. I just watched him, as he rubbed up against my leg and then walked away towards the couches as well.
I took a moment before looking back at the cat outside. The cat that wasn’t my cat. I thought to myself, did I maybe let the doppelgänger in the first time, and the real cat is outside? Is the not-my-cat-cat even bad? What if he just wants shelter from the winds and cold outside, and is using anytmeans to get it?
In all honesty, I was about to let him in, but before I could unlatch the lock, the cat that had copied my cat, turned into a siamese cat, with blue eyes. He seemed upset I saw through the ruse, but I wasn’t especially upset by his trickery. He faded into the darkness of outside, and the once locked deck door became weak, and Inhad to keep it closed to keep anything hiding in the darkness out.
It was actually quite fun-my cat came to help me in an almost cartoonish way, putting wooden blocks and toys(I think) to help keep the sliding door as closed as possible. My dog even got up from laying down on the couch and kept watch by my weirdly small living room window that faced the same area my clear deck door did. The window only had one large vitamin, but it did cover the window until my dog nudged it and let the small window/hole peek through.
I rushed over to help him close it and my dog huffed and started budging at the curtain to fix it with me. I looked over to my car sitting by the slightly ajar deck door, unable to move it but keeping watch, and I kinda laughed, walking over to him and pushing at the door to close it again.
“Looks like we got work cut out for us, huh?” I said to my two pets. My white dog let out a rough whine and my cat just blinked at me. The dream felt hopeful, though.
