| There is strong tendency to alcoholism in my family. I think I escaped the family curse only because I married Bill. At a party, I get tipsy on two drinks and as soon as I feel the effects, I know I'd better slow down on the drinks as Bill will say something if I get any degree of silly. I appreciate this and resent it at the same time. My sisters husband, we call 'the alcoholic', really a very bright and nice guy, can't seem to live without getting so plastered that he acts silly and drinks until he passes out. This happens four or more times every week and this has gone for years. A few months a ago this process finally caught up with him and he couldn't go to work and he began to get something like the delirium tremens, where he shook, perspired, had hot and cold moments and finally began to see things that weren't there. I knew something about this kind of thing from when, in my childhood, an uncle and two of my cousins (all musicians) had to be hospitalized for alcoholism. Anyway in this case my sister and I took turns sitting along the side of his bed and talked to him for the several days it took him to detox at the hospital. He told of seeing hats floating in space access the room, heavy rain, wind. snow and many cats. He was perplexed when we said we saw none of these present. I recently heard from my sister he was again in bad shape and in the hospital again. I feel bad that I can't leave my work and return Midwest to help her in this crisis. All this has some connection to my dream. As one of his cat hallucinations was that a black cat came into the room, stood on its hind legs and took off its fur, just like taking off a fur coat, and stood there looking at him. Also during this in hospital stay he was incredibly sarcastic to everyone trying to help him. In my dream I believe I replace the alcoholic patient with my brother who is not alcoholic as the dream actor, dreams do twist things around, My dream is, my brother and his wife and I was somewhere where, we had two cats and they both had black fur. There were two old ladies who were trying to catch the cats and kill them because of an edict that cats weren't supposed to have black fur on them. I (somehow had to save them or do the ordered act to kill them.) I shaved all the fur down to the skin off of one to save the cat from the edict but could not do this in time for the other cat so I hid it. However, the old ladies kept hanging around and I had anxiety over keeping the other cat hidden. Then there was a man and a woman that came to the house. They were some kind of inspectors to check on something suspicious, dangerous or illegal. I fear being involved either way, animal cruelty or evading the edit. The old ladies now very upset go and hide from the inspectors. We (Brother, his wife and I) were in a little cottage by the ocean and the ocean was a beautiful turquoise color and there was a pleasant mist blowing up to the house. I see this as the opportunity to take the cat and to get away. They all followed me. I was far ahead of them. I ask a boy that I meet just outside of the sight of the others for a razor to help me, but he had been swimming and had on only his swimsuit. He did some search and found a knife and he and I, cut a strip cut down the cat's back. My brother came running up and I could also hear the old ladies also coming. I told the boy we'd never get it done in time and he said to peel it off since I had a start. So I skinned the cat and it had pink flesh, just like a baby. Then the boy that helped me then sat a little ways away and he said for me to "come here!" I wasn't going to go, but he sounded urgent and I decided to. Then some man (not sure if it was my brother) said "Well I never thought I'd ever see a cat in June do that" (I, in the dream) Took this to insinuate that, he himself, would have never have obeyed any such edict or sought to evade it without giving a sarcastic reply. |
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