Nightmare Cheetah

I had another big cat dream.  This time there was at cheetah in my parents' living room.  I saw it from the doorway.  My parents and brothers were in the room.  (I think these dreams refer to the time when there were only five of us.)  I was terrified of the cheetah.  I see also that I wasn't exactly part of the family group.  My brother tried to shoo it away.  I called to him to stop and don't try it because "Cheetahs are the worst."   By that I meant that they were the scariest and most deadly.

Actually cheetahs are the fastest animal on land.  This fits with my feelings about my father.  Fast and scary.  I remember him chasing that same brother through the living room and up the stairs.  I keep recalling his hand suddenly reaching out to enclose my golf ball and move it to make the game easier for incompetent me.  I coloured the cheetah in black and orange which reminds me of Halloween and my father's birthday on the 30th.

Back to the dream -- the cheetah moved along the front hall toward the kitchen door.  I came around into the kitchen the other way.  My brother followed.  I was having a lot of trouble keeping the door shut.  The cheetah stuck his head around the door and ate the cat food from bowls there on the floor.  Finally the cheetah went out the front door.


This picture from the internet really gives me the creeps.