Turning Into a Cat

Do cats have anxiety dreams? I know I've been having anxiety dreams lately, and they're exhausting. I wake up completely skeptical that I've had any rest at all; the temptation is to put in a few more hours to try to make things right.

Earlier this week, I was away from home for the night, and I had a dream that my house had been destroyed and was down to a pile of rubble. Only, the actual stressful part was simply that my cats were hanging out on the rubble pile, wondering if I was going to be back any time soon. Time was slipping away before they became likely to wander off and get lost.

Clearly these cats have cast a spell on me.

Perhaps they have been trying to turn me into one of them. The truth is, I don't just have trouble transitioning out of sleep when I'm having a bad go of it; actually, I have exactly the same problem when sleep is going really, really well. I realize there's a saying that you should leave a party while you're still having a great time, but tell that to the comfortable corpse of my sleeping body when I'm  in the zone.

I get into it -- sleep, that is. It's like I was made for it; I'm training for the sleep Olympics! I have three of the best sleep coaches a cat lady could ask for.