Do cats dream in colour?

I'm constantly asked: do cats dream in colour?

Most certainly - unless we're dreaming about black and white cats.

Some folk ask: do cats dream?

Of course. Wouldn't be much point in having a colour brain if you couldn't get something decent to watch on it. You know when a sleeping cat twitches? He's either dreaming or got a bad case of fleas. Or maybe he's dreaming about having a bad case of fleas.

There are some cats who believe what you dream is real and the other stuff isn't, which makes sense: we sleep for 18 hours a day, afterall.

I don't believe it, though. If the other stuff is a figment of my imagination, why would I make up vets, fur balls, bloody big dogs and share a terraced house with humans. I'd probably miss out worms and fleas, too.

I have some terrible dreams, me. Last night I dreamt I was arrested for walking in some other cat's sleep. "Did you sleep well?" asked my mate Ginger when I finally stirred. "Not really," I told him, "I made a few mistakes."

In one nightmare, I was trying to swallow a two foot white mouse. When I woke, the pillow was missing.

There's a book that tells the meaning of cats' dreams. Every single one means 'we're hungry'.

When it comes to bedtime, humans have got it easy: a quick clean of their teeth and they're ready to drop off. They just take their fur off - we have to wash ours from ears to tail.

I've had some very restless nights of late crammed with dreams of hunting a lone mouse for miles. I woke up yesterday to see Kightly, the other cat in this house, staring at me. "You've been stalking in your sleep again," she said.