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VONNEGUT: by Alan Vaughan, 1970/3/12; a psychic dreamlet VAUGHAN'S DREAM: I visit Kurt Vonnegut. Kids all over. He's going on a trip soon. Mentions of 'Jerome' and an island... VONNEGUT REPLIES: "That night, childrens' author Jerome B visited; we discussed my upcoming trip to England..." |
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BOTTLECAPS: by Anonymous #54; late June 1968,69,70? a surreal psychic dreamlet Reaching into her coat pockets, my sister pulls out fistfuls of bottlecaps. Silly dream! Then my sister visits. Reaching into her coat pockets... |
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THE ARREST: by Georges Perec; July 1970, a dream of .... huh? Dream #16 I am arrested in Tunisia, essentially for being Jewish, despite my pro-Palestinian sympathies. My main regret: I face years of dirty socks... |
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THUS BE: by Patricia Garfield, 1970/7/10, a worm-turns dream I'm overcharged at a grocery store--the checker confused my food with someone else's. I grab him, fly high up and drop him, splat. I chant "Thus be: Splat! Squashed flat..." CAUTION: DEATH PENALTY SEEMS A BIT MUCH |
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JOHN SAYS GOODBYE: by Mary Fleener; August 1970 or '71, a comic of a psychic farewell dream. After a summer apart I dream my friend John and I fly hand in hand. Bliss! Strange, he has long hair and no beard... CAUTION: OFFSTAGE MURDER |
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LOBSTER ECSTASY: by Wayan; 1970/11/1?, a teenage lobster love dream. One of my first recorded dreams--how I foolishly turned away from Lobster Love... CAUTION: CHITINOUS SEX |
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DICKENS AND CAFTAN: by Anonymous #55, 1970/12/24 & 29, predictive dreams CAFTAN: My ultra-conservative brother wears a caftan. No way! I woke amused. But later that day, he gave me a Christmas present... DICKENS: A voice rants "I love Dickens! It has to be Dickens!" Next evening on Night Gallery, Agnes Moorehead begs for... |
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BESS: by Forrest Bess, 1946, '47, '57, '67 & '70; five hypnogogic dreams Bess painted images that look like abstract symbols but actually flashed in front of him when half asleep... |
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CLAYMATES: by Wayan, 1968-70, three mythological claymation figures. By my teens I knew I wasn't human. So I sculpted, animated, loved and worshiped effigies of furs... |
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THE COUPLE AND THE MOTHER: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 1970, watercolor of a lost dream. I no longer have the text of this dream, but its image anticipated and prepared me for my actual marriage... |
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GREAT GODDESS, or, SACRIFICE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 1970; an epic painting of a troubling dream I'm a priestess standing on a stone terrace, holding a ritual axe. Before me kneels a sacrifice to the Goddess... |
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JOURNEY IX: by Gary Snyder, 1970 or before, a dream of ascending through death Ko said "Now we have come to where we die." I thought it looked just like the land we'd been traveling, and couldn't see why we should have to die. Ko grabbed me and pulled me over the cliff... CAUTION: DYING IN DREAM |
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STANDING UP CITY: by Wayan; 1970, childhood imaginary world As a kid, my Ecotopian fantasy city was hollowed out of living rock, with hanging gardens and terraces... |
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ACCIDENT: by Jules Engel; 1970? Nightmare turns to surreal sport, inspiring animated film. A large dog was chasing me, but somehow we got turned around and began racing. As I caught up with the dog, any bit I passed went invisible--but the rest of the dog ran on unfazed. When I won the dog vanished entirely. Awake, I animated the dog running, then... |
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AT THE CENTRE: by Thom Gunn, c.1970, poem on a transcendent acid trip Enlightenment came to me via that shimmering, animated Hamm's Beer billboard... CAUTION: SAY YES TO DRUGS? |
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GOLD NECKLACE: by Elaine, c.1970, told to Ann Faraday; a subliminal or psychic warning dream DREAM: My husband was slipping a gold necklace onto a slim, dark girl I'd never met. I woke and sketched it... AFTER: He was having an affair with the girl, and gave her the necklace the night of my dream--her birthday... |
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SUVY & JOHN DOE: by Shawnodese, c.1970; a precognitive warning dream I dream my friend Suvy introduces me to a man who just took a class I'm considering. Weeks later she introduces me to him--but just as in my dream, he feels a bit insipid... |
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YOU CANNOT STAY FOREVER: by Ursula Le Guin; c.1970, creepy hypnogogic verses You cannot stay forever / on this side of the river with darkness coming over / and salt has lost its savor... |
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DARK LORD BATTLE: by Gayle Delaney, 1970 or '71?, a therapist-evaluation dream I had to face the Dark Lord. But my inexperienced therapist was unprepared for the battle--he hadn't even put his shoes on! I told him the dream; he got defensive. I switched to a veteran therapist and got much better feedback... |
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RHINE CHECKERS: by Wayan; 1970-71, a journal extract on ESP. My sister and I played games based on the Rhine Institute's ESP studies. Our scores were not random... |
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A WORK OF ART: by Carla Young, early 1970s; dream painting and story I'm to be beheaded. Guards chant "It's important to enjoy what you're doing." I know my spilled blood will create a work of art... |
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SURRENDER TO THE WHITE BUFFALO: by Kathleen Sullivan, 1970s?; a nightmare turned shamanic A gigantic herd of buffalo stampede toward me. I panic, then surrender in peace to what is surely my death... |
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HUNGER: by Robert Creeley; 1970s?, an advisory dream on keeping desire grounded I'm at a long table. So many stews, so much rice! Soon we're stuffed. But some people yell for more! I ask the woman next to me "How could they still be hungry?" She says... |
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THE STYGIAN SENTINELS: by SAO (Shawn Allen O'Neal); 1970s, a recurring astral dream. The Crocodile King & the Geisha Queen, the couple who guard the bridge over the River Styx, seem to quarrel a lot... |
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THE TELLTALE HEART: by SAO (Shawn Allen O'Neal); 1970s, ominously prophetic nightmare High up a scaffold, I was beating the chaff off a huge seed, unable to stop. I was beating my own heart... |
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