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Julian Gross from Liars

Question: What did you dream about last night?

Answer: I was in a bath tub. Large, oval-shaped. My girlfriend was in the tub with me facing me. When I looked to my right I saw my eldest cat but he was sorta robotic. Actually he was robotoic, he was made out of metal, like a robotic arm you would see at M.I.T science lab. He had a dirty carpet over his back which made him look like a mechanical bull. He was dirty with wires sticking out. No real face, li'l green LED eyes, just a machine, almost dinosaur-like features. He was moving side-to-side, moving his head about. It was kinda scary, but i wasn't afraid...

When I looked back at my girlfriend, I was looking underwater. Now the bathtub was huge, sorta murky water. I was looking at our youngest kitten, but she was a baby hippo. She was floating and swiming underwater, fliping upside down. Though it was more like foreshadowing, 'cause there were a few of them underwater and I said to my girlfriend, "When Joey grows up, she is going to be such a pretty li'l hippo."

I have a lot of anxiety dreams with my cat, like I will be at a party, far away from home and my cat will be there. He jumps out of my hands and starts running and I can't find him. I will see him run into a room or out a door, and he is gone or just out of reach for me to get him.

Another recent one is about our new kitten. I'll come home from tour and be relaxing. I will then realise i haven't seen the li'l kitten in like 3 days and I will panic. My girlfriend would be out of town and I would be in charge of her and I lost her. Sometimes I cry in my dreams and once I was shot in the back of the head. I fell to the ground and could feel and taste the warm blood flow into my mouth.

When I had the dream about the kitten being in a baby hippo. I think it was 'cause of this photo...

Photography: Liane Eltan