CAN A DOG FROM THE PAST INSPIRE A NAP IN THE FUTURE? COULD BE POSSIBLE?

For this edition of Let Sleeping Dogs Lie & Napping Cats Nap we explore "Things You Might See As You Slide Into a Nap."
Seeing things is probably what keeps a person from actually napping -- just a confirmed insomniac's theory.
For many years, the Office Dog and Counselor at readlarrypowell.com was a poetry-writing Cocker Spaniel named Inky. That's him and his tongue when he was just a kid. Inky. A great friend. Yep, just one name. All he needed. Like famed Collie Lassie or the movie star Benji or the current star of TV, Betty, the famed Chihuahua on ABC's police & personality drama Will Trent with her costar, the great-in-the-role actor Ramon Rodriguez.
On a recent evening I was sitting in one of my nap-pronespouse Martha's comfy livingroom recliners. An odd sensation was taking over -- like my eyelids were relaxing and beginning to descend. I rarely feel that. 
I looked to the left and on the couch I saw the image of my darling Inky. Bewildered, I blinked and looked again. She the crown of his head, his nose and snout on the brink of brking, that long chin. Yes, suddenly there he was, created from the darkened shape of one of the ears that flops around on the head of Martha's great rescue dog Wendy, i.e., Wednesday Louise Wagstaff Arden, named in honor Doris Day character in 1963's Move Over Darling with James Garner as her husband. That movie was a remake of the 1940 comedy, My Favorite Wife, starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant in the wife/husband roles.

I've seen both films several times -- Neither Inky nor Wendy appears in either motion picture. And I don't usually
perceive Inky's noble profile on the top of the head of another dog. 
I've included photos that show how Inky's image might have been made visible by the way Wendy likes to twitch her ears when she's sleeping and, perhaps, when she recalls the great Inky who she met when she was a newly rescued dog that Martha hopped out of her car to save from a life -- probably short -- of being, as is sometimes a tradition in Dallas, "A dog nobody wants."
That was around 16 years ago. 
And Wendy is still sleeping in our house as if she owns it. Which, I guess, is pretty much the way the cats look at it now and then.

[DEAR READERS AND DOG AND CAT FANS: GOT AN ANIMAL THAT NODS OFF OR OWNS YOUR COUCH? Send photos of the snoozer to [email protected], tell us the stories of their lives nd we'll spotlight them in our long-running weekend feature Let Sleeping Dogs Lie & Napping Cats Nap. Thanks for reading and thanks for loving your animals, too.]