When it comes to a cat appearing in your dreams, there are two potential interpretations of the image, depending on whether you like or dislike these animals.

If you have no special feelings for the felines and you do not own one, a cat appearing in your dream forewarns future ill luck and bad fortune, mostly associated with treachery and slyness. You may be 'stabbed' from behind by seemingly friendly and honest people around you. However, if you see yourself chasing away a cat in a dream, this means that things will eventually turn out well and you are going to overcome all obstacles in the way.

A cat in the dreams of people who love the domestic feline is usually a symbol for femininity and all its attributes, including gracefulness, elegance and refinement. Being a symbol for feminine sexuality, but also for the strength, independence and creative thinking, the cat stands for a powerful and ambitious individual who is going to do all it takes to attain his/ her goals.

If you are a woman and you love cats, then the animal in your dream stands for your own traits of character - you are independent, self-sufficient, creative, ready to overcome any obstacle in the way towards success and prosperity. But the woman who sees a cat in her dreams is also moody, impulsive, with an inconstant and changeable temper. Such a woman is not outspoken and she prefers being a sealed book to the others rather than becoming vulnerable and exposed - she is reluctant to showing her real feelings and thoughts to the others, unless this serves her best interests.

When a cat appears in the dreams of a man who loves the animal, this means that he wants at all costs to sexually dominate a particular woman in the waking life or women in general.

Overall, dream experts state that the cat is one of the most pregnant symbols of both women and men's feminine side (or the anima, according to C. G. Jung's theory of the psyche). If the cat is cute and cuddles near you, this speaks about the gentle, tender side of your personality. But if the cat in your dream is aggressive, bites or scratches you, this means that you are dissatisfied with your sexual life.