What research shows
Pet-owners dream of their own animals frequently; the symbolic reading applies mainly to unfamiliar cats.
Animals
Dreaming about cats
Independence, intuition and the parts of you that do not answer to anyone.
The psychological reading
Often read as the independent or feminine aspect of the self. An aggressive cat suggests intuition being ignored.
What tradition claimed
A black cat in a dream was read as bad luck in Britain and good luck in much of continental Europe.
Included as cultural history. Traditional dream books are frequently ominous and have no predictive value.
How to record a dream, why the feeling matters more than the content, and when recurring nightmares are worth a doctor rather than a dictionary — set out once on the main page.
Before you look anything up
How the dream felt matters more than what was in it. The same image can arrive as comfort or as threat, and that difference tells you more than any entry in a dictionary — including this one.