tom in a possible existentialist moment

here, tom tucks himself, paws and tail, and is perhaps having a deep thought experiment about whether he is a cat pretending to be a fern, or a fern which had dreamt that he was a cat.

or at least that's how dash would like to anthropomorphize tom. unless dash herself is dreaming that she is a human who is trying to force human qualities and thoughts onto tom? O_O