Feline Dream

I was living in the back yard of my childhood home. Outside the door, I saw a mountain lion walking toward the house. Then, a cougar appeared, a lynx, all kinds of big, slinky cats. No lions, but I saw a baby leopard - still with the camouflage badger stripe on its head standing at my doorstep, as if waiting for me.

In the dream, I made sure the doors were locked, that my kids were safe inside. But suddenly, my son ran outside. I screamed for him to get back in, I was too scared to go after him. I grabbed his arm and tried desperately to re-lock the door, but I couldn’t find the right key.

As I tried to turn the deadbolt, a black panther slinked up to the door. I was trying yet another key when the panther lifted a paw and flicked out its thin claws and began to pick the lock. My dream Husband yelled for me to lock the door already, but I became hypnotized by the green eyes and long nose of the big cat and couldn't move.