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Weird dream involving dead kittens?

I would appreciate an serious answer, please.

My dream starts out with my family and my best friend in the car. We pull up to a grocery store, but walk to the side entrance. There is a little garden area (note, I've had dreams with this garden area before)

We see an orange tabby kitten and my younger sister scoops it up, cuddles it, and keeps on walking. I see a gray tabby cat sitting beside a wall, so I walk over stepping stones, and reach for it. Suddenly I'm seized with horror and look down. Dead kittens are buried in the ground, but only covered with rocks. I see fur and ears sticking out from under the rocks. I ran back to my best friend, who was standing just outside the garden. (I'm not sure whether or not I grabbed the gray tabby) I'm so upset in my dream, I'm nearly bursting into tears (I don't get as upset as that in reality). My best friend looks at me, but doesn't do anything. She seems sad about the kittens, but her eyes are saying "it happens" She doesn't comfort me, just stares somewhat sympathetically yet blankly. A hear a man's voice behind me, he sounds around 20 or so.

"Those three were the only three that survived," he says about the three remaining kittens. I don't turn around to look at him, but my best friend does. We continue to walk down the garden path, and meet my youngest sister at the edge.

"Can you get me the kitten?" she asks me, pointing to a grayish-brownish tabby kitten. I take a breath, knowing that I'm freaked out, and go back into the garden. I grasp the kitten and run back, where my sister takes the kitten and runs down the path. I glance at my best friend, and she looks at me. We say nothing as we walk down the path.

Could anyone tell me what they think it means? My younger sister had a dream about three kittens. Her dream took place in a rough neighborhood, but found happiness in the end. My took place in a beautiful garden, yet death lingered there.

I would really love your opinions and help.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I think that you and your sister must have had some common experience to dream about the same thing. Even if this was just your sister telling you her dream and then you proceeded to dream about a similar topic.

    I would first advise you that the goal of examining a dream is to move on, not to get mired in what it might mean. An interpretation should lead you back to life, not further into a subconscious, random world.

    That being said: it seems you feel that something paradisaical or beautiful is threatened in your dream by the fact that there is death there. If there is an analogous situation in real life, then you have a starting point. If you are, for example, struggling economically, and some of your activities that you spent money on previously are no longer viable, you could feel threatened by that.

    If your sister has the opposite perspective that an area is ruined, but there is something to salvage from the place, nonetheless, perhaps you should consider her perspective.

    Even though someplace beautiful is not once what it was or an ideal situation is no longer ideal, this does not mean that it has lost all possibility for good. Rather, the challenge is to find something to save out of the rubble, as it were, and not to shrink back from doing so. The greatest human triumphs come in the face of adversity (or so the story goes). Challenge is an opportunity to demonstrate character.

    Your friend in the dream seems to fill the gap between your perspective of despair and your sister's attempt to salvage something from the garden. She is accepting of the situation and willing to keep living in it, but that does not seem very fulfilling as an option in the world of your dream.

    The 20-something guy, likewise, seems an observer to the scene. His rationalism doesn't contribute much beyond what we could already see. While the truth is important, it is important to act on.

    I think if the dream seems irrelevant to your life, then it probably does not contain any truth you should walk away with. If, after reading people's suggestions, you feel that there is some resonance between the dream and your situation, then I would think what you can do to take something away from the situation (and the dream it inspired) that you can use to keep living. If there is death in the garden, there is also life.

  • 1 decade ago

    This dream represents the people in your life and their perspectives on life and death.

    Your sister, being young and innocent, sees the beauty in life and seeks out the happy ending. She can only understand what is living.

    Your best friend accepts the cycle of life and tragedy, but cannot feel the pain. Perhaps she has never experienced a connection with death, or she cannot bring herself to think about it. She chooses not to understand what is not living.

    You, on the other hand, are the only one of the three (notice a pattern? three girls--three kittens) who is concerned with death and its effects. You understand what is living and dead, but now this dream must help you comprehend your place in the world. You should take your own path, your own opinion about death, but at the same time, perhaps you should take a second look at your friend's point of view. Be affected by death, be saddened, but be sure to remember that you are alive--you are one of the three kittens/girls that survived. Don't worry about dying, but try to prevent death, and live life to its fullest.

  • 1 decade ago

    Were you eating sugar when she told you her dream?

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