Hey Justin,
Of course, I don't know you well enough to make a truly insightful comment, but I do love to discuss dreams. Could it be that the cats represent some part of you that is transforming. It might even be a transformation in relation to how you relate with your cats. Yes, I'm trying to be as wordy and redundant as possible.

My girlfriend had a cat when we first got together, but I don't have a lot of experience with them.

Maybe the cats represented something else that you care for in a similar way. Good luck on your quest.

Hi Justin,

How would you describe the cats?  Then--how do you see those characteristics in yourself?  Are you good to those aspects in yourself and others?
You don't have to answer her.  It's just a method for looking at the dream.
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas,
Bets

Hi Justin,

Looking at my own dreams, I sometimes consider cats or kittens (sometimes my own, sometimes unfamiliar cats) as symbolizing concerns or worries I am having. Do you know the expression "don't have a kitten" meaning "take it easy", something like that? (as kids, we used to also say "Don't have a cow" so maybe I'm confusing the expressions).

Cats can represent feminine aspects of self. And cats have 9 lives, so dreaming of inadvertently killing your cats could be your self getting your attention in a big way about the passing of some aspect of your life that you haven't yet realized, something you are attached to, perhaps. An upsetting or emotional dream , in my opinion, is an attention getter and worth looking at from many perspectives.

To be "catty" is to be hurtful to others with ones words, spiteful. To be "petty" is to be mean or spiteful also. Maybe this dream is about something upsetting in that way, you were hurt, and this injury to your loving innocent cats could be a way of recognizing this?

Cats having a psychic connection, or symbolism. They can communicate in very subtle ways, and move quietly, and are quite observant.

When I am really stumped with a dream that I want to understand, I sometimes dialogue with the dream characters, writing, and give them a voice, and let them explain what happened and why.

What are your cats names? Could that symbolize something else as well?

Love, Carolyn

Another possibility is that for whatever reason, i was strongly tuning into another Disk and more specifically another individual personality from same around that time.  I've thought a lot about Bob Monroe here and there, so maybe i have merged consciousness with him at some point.

A little while after having had the dream, i remembered that in the somewhat early OBE days Monroe accidentally killed two of his cats, and was pretty upset about the whole thing, and felt bad about it for awhile (even many years after). 

  Considering that i've had a few dreams about Moen, whom is strongly related to Monroe, the whole merging with another consciousness or general Disk and being influenced by that is possible.  But the above explanation still doesn't explain why i would remember a dream about it, how does that influence or pertain to me?