Recovery - When we are driving or watching someone else drive they are always making small or large adjustments to the vehicle. They constantly use their eyes to check and use their body to make changes. If they stopped doing this there could be real and dangerous consequences.
Of course the story is to illustrate what we do or fail to do to ourselves. Many people eat so much that they are dangerously over weight, or take in stuff, or live in such a way that they end up ill, physically or psychologically - because they didn’t keep their eye in the road and didn’t make small or large adjustments. For example a person I know has frequent headaches and immediately takes a powerful pain killer. If he had his eye in the road he would have noticed the connections.
I didn’t write this about you, but to illustrate that dreams always keep their eyes on the road of our life, and point out adjustments. If you have read
http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/lifes-little-secrets/ you would understand how such adjustments are made.
Your cat, don’t forget, is not about any outward animal, but about the poor mammal inside you. We have such strange human personalities that we often forget that we are mammals, with all the needs of any other mammal. In your dream you treated a part of yourself badly, in a way you would never treat an outer animal. See
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/brain-levels-and-dreams/#mammalbrainI don’t know exactly what you are doing to yourself, but it is like saying, “This part of me gets on my nerves, and I am going to drop it out of the window so I will not be bothered by it anymore”. So try being the cat by using
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPersonTony