I dreamt that I was someplace in Africa. I remember seeing slides of aerial shots of the countryside taken by some friends, who were anthropologists, I guess, and who had traveled extensively in the region. Maybe they actually showed me a film, because I remember small clouds gliding over shallow rolling hills covered with parched grass and punctuated by sparse trees. But the thing that fascinated me most was something I had seen myself in a housing development I once visited. On the ground floor of a row of attached houses, which looked like a low-rise apartment block, all rooms were covered with green ceramic tiles. The tiles ran up to a narrow ledge that was shoulder high. As I was walking past one of these houses, all of which were open on the ground, I saw a leopard creeping along the tiled wall perpendicular to the dirt road, holding with the claws of its left legs onto the grooves between tiles and onto the ledge with the claws of its right legs. It was moving away from me. I was amazed at the agility and gracefulness of the animal, which avoided the floor for some reason. However, a few houses down the row I saw another leopard creeping along a tiled wall in exactly the same way, also moving away from the road. This was something all of them could apparently do. Perhaps the tiles reminded them of the tree canopy, where they would move along branches quite easily? Later on, when I told my friends about this experience, they said that it was even more amazing to see female leopards climb tiled walls with their cubs on their backs. They would usually have two, and the larger and dominant ones would perch by the neck, where there was a better foothold. The leopards were not exactly domesticated, but they were not dangerous, either. Both people and domestic animals were quite safe around them. One time I actually saw a leopard stroll past a domestic cat, which slunk out of the way, but did not run away at the sight of a much larger cat.