Do cats dream of tigers?

We adopted a four-month-old kitten from the shelter last weekend. The general view is that he is a Norwegian forest cat, or at least has some of that in his genes. He is very handsome, with tufted ears, white socks, tiger stripes on his legs, ocelot spots on his body, and a great black stripe down his back, culminating in a long bushy tail, that knowing cat lovers tell me is called a "panache."
     I was playing with the kitten in the middle of the night. When I went back to bed in the early hours and closed my eyes, I found myself looking, very vividly and clearly, into his eyes. 
    Ah, now I can dream like the cat, I thought. Or with the

cat, using his eyes as the portal. I gave it a try, and came out in a forest of tigers. This was not a new locale for me, but I was surprised by how I came upon it this time..

    It's been said that all cats belong to the Tribe of Tiger. 

   "For I will consider my cat Jeoffrey," wrote the eighteenth-century English poet

Christopher Smart. "For he is of the tribe of tiger."
    Do cats also dream of tigers?