The Cat that Lives in a Skyscraper
This was interesting, and I think it needs a new category.
Category 11: Stylized — the point of a stylized dream seems mainly to be the graphical elements of the dream, for example a dream in which one reads a magazine or a cartoon dream. Things are abstracted and not much happens, but what happens does so with a very definable and apparent style.
This definition has now been added to the original Dream Log post.
Aside from that this dream was in categories 1 and 3.
The content of the dream was as follows
The dream is a stream of disconnected vignettes concerning a cat who lives in a skyscraper, in it the cat goes out on the roof of the skyscraper — seems unlikely — it is very empire state like in my imagination.
It uses the elevators by jumping up and hitting the buttons. It wanders between apartments and gets fed bowls of milk, I think the source of the dream is I binged season one of Only Murders in the building which had a subplot about a cat. I thought (as I was watching the dream) what if the owner only thought he was the owner but the cat had multiple people it visited and sponged off of.
And also I have been watching a lot of Wes Anderson and some scenes were reminiscent of his style + the cat on the skyscraper roof.
Finally I should remark the cat was black but at some point it acquired a diamond shaped tuft of white on its chest. This was narrated in the dream, as in saying that suddenly it showed up with a white diamond on its chest but nobody knew where it came from. Other than that one bit of narration there was no other narration. So as category 1 is narration it was very barely category 1. Basically the most pertinent thing about this dream was how very stylized it was.
