A Child's Dream

My daughter dreams often. When she awakes in fright to climb in bed with me, I often ask her to tell me her dream. As to understand their fears and thoughts sometimes the clues are hidden in these nightmares.
It is amazing, the imagination of a child.
Here is her dream.

I was in school and my teacher was reading a story, called The Lone Cat. The story frightened me, and seemed so real.
I was in a room with many different animals, a koala bear,an ostrich, a squirral, and a cat.
There were three closed door in the room, the cat was telling the animals which door to go through. All these animals were my friends.
The cat opened a door and told the koala bear to go in. As the koala went in an Eqyptian Mummy with a kings crown ate the koala bear, and as he did I could see the mummy's teeth crunching on the koala bear.
The cat tricked the koala bear and so the ostrich was angry and went to peck on the cat. As he did so the cat went through a door in the floor and excaped and all the other animals ran away.
When I woke up the rabbit wall paper in my room, was the animals from my dream, so I was scared and came to sleep with you.

I asked her if her teacher had read a scarey book like this.
No, she said, no book.

I was amazed at the details in her dream, and when I looked it up I was surprised to find out some things.

An Ostrich means to struggle with responsibility.
A Cat means conflict in human nature, one devious, one helpful.
A squirral means to be on guard.
A Koala Bear was unlisted.
Doors mean opportunities to make difficult but important decisions.
And if forced to go in, or forced open this states our own protective mechanisms have let us down.
An Egyptain Mummy is to be trapped by old beliefs or ideas from which we need to be set free.

Of course this could also be a six year olds active imagination.
Either way, I find her dreams most interesting.