Ok I'm new here and this is my first post. I'm 22, female and just graduated college. This isn't the weirdest dream I've ever had but I feel like there's something significant about it. I'll add little background stuff about me that may be relevant and parentheses throughout my description.

So I'm in Old Navy and there's a sale going on
(I have recurring dreams about being in stores and shopping- grocery stores, department stores, etc., and I have not been able to figure out why).

I was riffling through clothing and I noticed a pair of jeans on the floor from a different store that I had tried on a while ago and remember feeling in my dream that it was very odd that they were there just lying on the floor. I noticed a few of my friends enter the store and instead of going over to greet them, I got anxious that they were going to get all the good stuff before I could.
(I don't know if this is related at all, but I think I can be pretty reclusive sometimes and have a hard time opening up to people, and a lot of people wear me out, so maybe this is like I'm hoarding my inner resources? Or is that over-analytical?)

I picked up the pair of jeans that was on the floor and remembered that they didn't look good on me so I went to a stand that had a bunch of shelves. One shelf had a stack of pillow cases in on (fully-equipped with pillow inside as well). A lot of them looked used, which I remember thinking, "this is kind of gross." In fact one of them looked exactly like a pillow case that I had (it had hearts and stripes). I remember thinking, "I wonder how the store got this."

Anyway, I was digging through the pillow cases and then all of a sudden I was in an attic above the store. Then I looked up and there was a little door on the wall high up leading to another attic (probably sounds pretty weird, but we had these attics the house I grew up in). I opened it and it looked like there were a bunch of bags or something in it. But I heard a meow. And then I saw a cat emerge (who looks just like my cat, except in the dream, I knew it wasn't her). I felt very happy, yet sad, at the same time that I had found her because she had been trapped in there for a while. Then at some point the cat became a man, which is my dream seemed completely normal. I didn't see the transformation, but I knew that the cat was the man and vice-versa.

The man appeared on the news to be interviewed. His mother was also shown on the news, the news said that the attic that I had found him in (the one above Old Navy) was an old church. Then they showed his mother (who looked like an unpleasant woman) and said they weren't ruling out abuse. Then the man was shown again, being interviewed by the news. His eyes were kind of red and bloodshot and his hair was black and he was outside near a wooded area. Red letters at the bottom of the screen said "THIS WILL NOT BE MADE INTO A MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE" (I've had dreams before about beaten down men-comes from issues in my family, I'm wondering if this is just a continuation of this?)

Haha, I knew that dream was pretty ridiculous, but writing makes it looks even more comical.
Well, if you have any input feel free to share it! Thanks!