Dream of seeing a river of brown boars becoming one boar, and then being in my childhood garden with my cat, told at the 41st conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Rolduc, The Netherlands, 9th June 2024

​I am looking out of an upstairs window at night. I see a valley and a churning brown river flowing uphill, all lit by the moon. I look closely and see that the river is in fact a herd of wild boar running up a hill, the light on their fur looks like a rippling brown river. I look again and now see it is only one boar, running through the undergrowth. I am then in the lower back garden patio of my childhood home, which is an old Victorian house. The patio is square, concrete, and sunken. It is surrounded by a trellis with green plants growing on it. My cat Mumu is climbing amongst the greenery in the trellis. I want to hold him, but he does not want to be held and eludes each of my grasps by hiding amongst the plants. I get hold of him and see that he is wounded, with a graze that is forming a scab on his right side. I feel guilty for not keeping him safe and fear that when my wife sees that he is wounded I will be blamed.