Wendy,
I agree that I think you need to relax a bit before you will be able to visit with Cricket. Often times, the animal may need to attend to something or someone else before being able to visit with you again.
I had a very old poodle, KC, that I collected from the city streets, that had cancer -had her operated on once but it came back. The day I took her back to the vet for the results, I told her before I left the house that I promised to bring her home, (I don't believe she was ready to "go" yet). The vet said cancer had come back, and I had allowed my mother and the vet to talk me into putting her down right then and there...even though she was having a good day. I broke my word to her, betrayed her and felt horribly guilty (even to this day). I was sure she was mad at me, felt as I did that I had betrayed her. When I tried to visit
with her in my dreams...much like you, I was walking the streets (seemingly very real) of a city ....not the one I found her in , but a city all the same....cleaner tho somehow, but I couldn't find her. Finally after months of walking that same street, I saw her...but her coat was dancing with a million small motes of colored light, and she was trotting parallel with me....but it was as if she didnt' see me, she was on a mission. And she faded away. About two years later, I saw her briefly in a dream sitting on an older lady's lap...happy. See, KC never belonged to me. I picked her up, nearly starved, off the street, and although she was a wonderful dog for the two years I had her...whenever she woke up, she looked so happy, until she looked around and saw us. I know she loved me, and she had moments of happiness, and was grateful, but there was someone out there that she had been seperated from that she loved first, someone she had wanted to
find before she could bother herself with me.
Your Cricket is a cat afterall....he will come to you in his own good time. :-) In the meantime, accept what his housemates are trying to tell you...he is ok, he still exists...and they will bring him back to you when the time is right. Next time you dream you are walking in those fields calling his name. Stop walking. Sit down. and Give a cat a chance to be a cat....tell him you are going to wait right there for him to come to you. And busy yourself in memories (good ones) of him...(He isn't your pet anymore, he's his own little self, as he always was..but more so now...besides....I bet he didn't always come when you called him in life....why expect him to in the next...he IS a CAT afterall! ;-) He'll come to you when HE'S ready.
Important: Try in your dream...not to "remember that he's dead". HE
isn't dead...his body is. That thought seems to be blocking you from "seeing" him. "He's dead", so of course you won't find him, "he's dead" so of course he won't come. His body is dead...that's all...only his body. Everything that WAS Cricket still exists, its just different is all.
(A last explanation could be simply this: Cricket had nothing left to fulfill...so he didn't hang around, you and his housemates gave him everything he needed to move on from the first. If that's the case ...be happy about that - for him- and let him go. The love always remains, but sometimes, the spirits have to move on ahead.)
God Bless & be at Peace.
T
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, wendy wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:26:08 -0800 (PST)
> > From: wendy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: OT: Dreams
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I wanted to ask everyone's opinions/thoughts on
> > dreaming about kitties you have lost. I know it's
> OT,
> > but I have a hard enough time keeping up with the
> > posts here, so joining the OT list is not an
> option
> > for me time-wise.
> >
> > Since Cricket has passed, I have continued to look
> for
> > signs from him letting me know he's ok. The best
> I
> > have gotten is a dismembered cricket that my other
> two
> > kitties left by my bed a day or so after he
> passed,
> > which was weird because I haven't seen any other
> > crickets anywhere, inside or out this year.
> >
> > A couple of nights ago, I dreamed I was walking
> around
> > everywhere calling for Cricket. I couldn't find
> him
> > anywhere and kept finding myself in all these
> > different places. Rolling hillsides, snow-covered
> > forests, places I didn't recognize. The dream was
> so
> > real. And all I did was call for Cricket the
> whole
> > time, like I used to when he would sneak out of
> the
> > backyard when I wasn't paying attention so he
> could
> > explore the neighborhood. "Crickeeee, Crickeee,"
> over
> > and over and over. I started panicking in my
> dream,
> > and of course when I woke up, I got upset because
> I
> > knew the reason I couldn't find him in my dream
> was
> > that he was dead. It really disturbed me.
> >
> > Apparently, I still need closure. I still have
> guilt
> > over Cricket's passing, even though I know the
> facts.
> > I am disappointed that I haven't seen or heard
> > something that lets me know he's ok and that he
> isn't
> > mad at me. Do you guys have any idea what that
> dream
> > meant, and also, what's a good way for me to get
> > closure as I think about it a lot?
> >
> > Thanks for any advice or thoughts you have,
> > :)
> > Wendy
> >
> >
> >
> > __________________________________________________
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam
> protection around
> > http://mail.yahoo.com
> >
> >
>
>
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Photos
Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever.
