Camouflaged octopus
An octopus matching the rock it sits on — intelligence expressed entirely as becoming invisible.
A camouflaged octopus in a dream is the dream's image of intelligence expressed entirely as becoming invisible. The octopus does not run; it changes colour and texture until the eye that was looking for it gives up. The dream brings the camouflage when a part of you — or a figure in your life — is using considerable intelligence not to act on the scene but to disappear into it. A camouflage that holds until the predator passes is the dream affirming the strategy. A camouflage that has been held so long the creature has begun to lose track of its own colour is the dream noting that the same intelligence that saved the octopus has been turned, at length, into a forgetting of what it actually was.