I was on a steamer run amok, in a boiling yellow incredible sea out of which great pylons rose...
In Ireland, in Yeats's stone tower, he leads me up the spiral stair toward a thyme-scented portal...
Parkinson dreamed his new telephone device got added to an anti-aircraft gun. He told his dream;
guns with M9 units turned out to be so accurate it gave the British hope against the Luftwaffe...
I dreamed a plane took off northeast, and flipped by the main hangar, killing two men. I forgot the dream until...
A stallion reared to strike me. He was all the fear and rage I'd repressed for 35 years. I cowered til a woman said "offer him...
A black beetle insists I'm not needed or at home in the human world; my lifework is elsewhere...
He saw a vehicle coming toward him at great speed. The light was so bright it blinded him. He screamed...
I suddenly knew I had to get off the bus and wait for the next. We passed the first bus, on fire...
I was at Thanksgiving dinner when I felt my mother dying two thousand miles away...
All my life I've had sudden visions showing violent deaths accompanied by headlines naming the victims...
Sybelle & I climbed the cathedral spire. Bravely she kissed the monstrous guardian, exhaling
blue light. My own challenge was to leap across an abyss, under the luminous eye of God...
DAY: I'm an experimental subject given a drug in hopes it'll induce ESP. I just babble stupidly. Humiliation!
DREAM: my vacuum cleaner comes alive to attack my terrier & me. I flee, but there's an explosion...
TWO DAYS LATER: at the movies, a cartoon: a vacuum cleaner comes alive to attack a terrier. Then, BOOM...
CAUTION: WILL REALLY BOTHER E.S.P. SKEPTICS
I'm told "Your lives are not in order." The golden crown's too heavy. And
I win my lover's hand--only the hand. What are my dreams accusing me of?
CAUTION: SEVERED HAND, SUBTLE GUILT
I saw my mother standing on the tip of one wing of our plane. She was
dressed in white flowing robes and calling my name, warning me of danger...
Peter draws painstaking realism til his tense hand turns into a horn!
An anima urges him to walk into a blue light.
He & Sybelle struggle against a crowd walking the wrong way...
Alli/Tip could only imagine loving the strange, intense, and unavailable--and Bronte was all three..
I helped my aunt and uncle move upstairs from their rented downstairs flat. Absurd! They own a one-story house they love...
by Gala Dalí 1943? painted by Salvador Dalí 1944; a supposedly instantaneous dream.
Dalí's wife Gala naps, but a bee wakes her--and her dream instantly magnifies
bee into tigers! After all, both have fur, sharp bits, black & gold stripes...
CAUTION: BREASTS; BAD DREAM THEORIES.
Joost Merloo escaped the Nazis, but had two neurologically impaired brothers who couldn't flee.
On a troopship, he dreamed the Nazis burst into their ward...
Hiking, I come to a chapel where a yogi is meditating--on me. Creating me! And when he stops...
Jack was a parachutist on D-Day. His mom dreamt of the strafings, the ditch he hid in, the deaths of his comrades...
Peter draws painstaking realism til his tense hand turns into a horn!
An anima urges him to walk into a blue light.
He & Sybelle struggle against a crowd walking the wrong way...
Pete told me to skip the shortcut. Only after I'd turned the truck around did I realize Pete had died weeks ago...
I smelled scorching paint; my heater was about to burn the house. But I'd moved--my old house was six blocks away...
My son Billie, his Navy uniform soaking wet, cried "Oh, Mom--it's so terrible!"
and shrank into a baby again as I held him...
CAUTION: EXPLOSION
A crane came and spoke to me, reassuring me "I'll be back" even as a great fire burned it. It returned
as a white butterfly. Next morning, as we played hide and go seek, I shut my eyes and counted to...
CAUTION: CIVILIANS MASSACRED
"There is going to be an explosion of two or three million gallons of oil or gasoline..."
Khodasevich (1939): I dreamt a call announced my friend was dead. Really he was still alive--but not for long...
Sergey (1945): My brother died in January but the news took months to reach us. Just before it did, I dreamed...
Peter draws painstaking realism til his tense hand turns into a horn!
An anima urges him to walk into a blue light.
He & Sybelle struggle against a crowd walking the wrong way...
A sad, frail, very pregnant woman with dark brown hair told me she was my boyfriend's wife. The next day...
I meet William Blake! He says "The will is given us that we
may know the delights of surrender." While in my bedroom...
All my life, from age three or four, I've dreamed of being a young monk named Stefan
somewhere in southern Europe. And aspects of his short life have shaped my own...
CAUTION: SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
(by a California model, pre-1961, and by a Texas maid, 1945; two predictive dreams compared)
Predictive dreams rarely hint how far they've peered ahead; they just place you in their foreseen future...
Millay dreams her lover's attacked in the street, and wakes to realize it's already happened; he's lost.
I was dead. A weed grew from my heart; then two streams poured out--not
water or blood but experiences. I asked the weed what it was doing, and it said...
I'm walking up a churchyard path. My hair clings to me, damp. Horses wander. I'm drawn to one graveside...
Joost Merloo escaped the Nazis, but had two neurologically impaired brothers who couldn't flee.
On a troopship, he dreamed the Nazis burst into their ward...
At a party in Shanghai, I overheard a fellow RAF officer say he dreamt that my flight to Tokyo
would crash. I didn't worry much, since he'd seen seven passengers, and my flight next morning
did not... until three last-minute passengers came on board! The plane iced up, and crashed...
All the Asteroids were coming together at last to form something bigger. In church,
the dull-eyed preacher hadn't noticed. I led a blind man on toward the new...
Bess painted images that look like abstract symbols
but actually flashed in front of him when half asleep...
Four teens dream their moms are monsters: Patricia sees hers as a demonic doll, Fiona finds
her mom's a wolf, Lenore's is a grinning vampire, and Helen's is a bossy, punitive octopus...
I planned suicide. Then my friend 1000 miles away said in my ear "Don't do that, Marion." Next day an airmail...
SUICIDAL NARRATOR
Examples of inexplicable moods that appear (after the fact) to be reactions to future events...
After my husband's death, I dreamed he pointed at a small black bag I hadn't opened. It held insurance policies...
In occupied Germany, Pat flags down two friends just before a truck crash. Except...
Pat was in England at the time. She sensed they were in danger, but...
four death-omen dreamlets, one predictive
Every decade or so, I dream a loved one says farewell and walks
down an avenue of trees. I wake to find that person's dying...
A dying colleague haunts me all night. He says "crossings are often unpleasant" but death's not bad...
Bess painted images that look like abstract symbols
but actually flashed in front of him when half asleep...
My heart's desire was a new piano, as hopeless as owning a yacht. The dream: a huge space in the air, full of wonderful...
Millay, suffering from nightmares, decides to speak from Nightmare's point of view...
Helping out talking animals until I'm exhausted, I suffer a fatal accident. What am I being warned of?
Our gods demand sacrifices. I let Mother mutilate me so I'd be unfit. But the priests turn out to be blind...
CAUTION: YOU CAN FEEL PAIN IN DREAMS
The scenery's so lovely my mother walks off a cliff! As I wake, a neighbor falls out a high window...
Troutmet the moon-pigeon, Burtra the blackbird, a talking acacia,
my dead father and my dead gardener all give me afterlife-advice...
I meet a girl who's 16 and 61, who tells me dreams are lives, not messages.
But then I must fly over a sinister parade...
A staring Eye tries to break me; his cats & robots flay me. Yet his birds rebel in sympathy, & I refuse to die...
A bug with a horse-skull face reappears all through this nightmare of betrayal. I only know I feared it...
I'm a film actress, but the producer isn’t happy with my legs, so make-up takes them away to be redone...
I'm one of four mediocrities: all our efforts come to nought. Mum says "You're netted, but you can fray the ropes...
I live as a small falcon, glad I'm no longer human. But when that life ends...
A bewildering dream of a boy's borrowed bath, absconding renters' furniture and fly-eating turns real a few weeks later...
Snakebite! I'm hooked to a health-monitor. If a red light comes on, I'm doomed. But voices start whispering...
A writer I haven't seen for 40 years gives me a drink, but all I want is to find my mom in The Other Room...
I'm in my home town, but at two times at once! Murderous boys explain why: I died here in 1861...
Lost in the snow, I must give my baby to a stranger or let my dad put him in a box, safe, forever...
I dream the actors auditioning for George Bernard Shaw’s play are blends of human, avian, and lion.
Next morning I find a card from Shaw asking if I'd fancy playing a lion in his...
(A comic frustration dream hiding a warning)
Our tennis game's spoiled by rubber rackets, fierce grandmas,
Good and Evil (those identical twins) and a bully on stilts...
I have a long chat with two songbirds. Next I'm a parrot, living in rainforest. Then the mail comes...
Lost in an industrial maze, my memories hopelessly outdated, I resign myself to the Wheel...
I don't love my husband, so I'm stranded in the hotel between life & death, from which...
On the road with a poet and a philosopher, I insist we rescue an owl.
But we get lost, and the poet turns into...
My heart began beating like a sledge hammer. I couldn't imagine what was happening, and got frightened...
Numb, sunk in a trance, I only woke when I broke through a wall to light and magical birdsong...
Colette flies, sees a birdheaded turtle, wrestles a great playful cat, debates a snake, holds hands with a shy dog...
As a toddler I repeatedly dreamed I was a married adult with a daughter
of my own, but the dreams always ended with my husband shooting me...
CAUTION: RECURRENT MURDER
I hear voices: "The road to success is in Kafkat, in a place called Goshen." I look back, and see seven male shadows...
A mysterious old woman with cat-face and claws threatened me; she seemed
to be guarding a treasure. Sometimes she appeared as a praying mantis...
This picture of a split man was in no sense a product of my conscious will. I simply
bowed to compulsion after four years of being haunted by that face in my dreams...