Dreams listed by date:
2010
My apologies. The Dreambank went on hold from April to September due to a death in my family. As of October, I'm back and eager to catch up--so send me your favorite dream!
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| GOOGLE DREAMS: by Michael Flora; early 2010, three (psychic? cryptomnesic?) dreamlets on names After an article suggests we roam the multiverse in sleep, I dream of three strange names. Awake, I google them and find... |
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THE POWER OF MOONLIGHT: by Carla Young, 2010/1/2; painting of a dream image I wish I could be as body-free as my neighbor Jenna, hiking nude under the full moon... |
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REBORN IMMORTAL: by Reneta Scian; 2010/1/3, a three-stage flying dream First I try to break the sound barrier like my girlfriend. Nope! Then I fly slowly to her apartment. Nothing flashy, but I make it. Last, I flash back to ancient China, where I land at a candle-lit temple dedicated to... me? |
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THE MEDIEVAL POISONERS: by Carla Young, 2010/1/3; illustrated non-nightmare Two medieval women poison one another. One dies in my arms; the other may just survive. Who are they, and must they die? CAUTION: MURDERERS |
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FOUR ELEMENTALS: by Wayan, four recurrent 2009 dream-figures, 2010/1/1 to 1/14 For the New Year, I draw a group portrait of the old year's main dream-figures. This year four needs came up over & over... |
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ESCAPE BY INTUITION: by Wayan; 2010/1/11; four dreams of breaking through I must see a community as a whole, and intuit my way out of a sealed room, and spot details, and join a trio in bed... CAUTION: NUDITY IN LAST DREAM |
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AWKWARD ENLIGHTENMENT: by Wayan; 2010/1/13; a dream of spiritual and practical advice Anxious about a big party, I dream of being crowded. But a cat-centaur in the crowd attains enlightenment... |
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DON'T SETTLE FOR HALF: by Wayan; 2010/1/21; an advisory dream about dreaming Struggling to recall a magical dream, I suddenly get a single, simple image. ... |
| THE DILDO SHOW: by Wayan; 2010/1/24, a truly awful dream sitcom After seeing a 1950s cowboy show, I dream of a sitcom full of dildo balloons, passive boytoys and a relentless laugh track... CAUTION: OH, READ THE TITLE |
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THE ASHE SISTERS: by Wayan; 2010/1/26, a dream portrait. My two moms sell art fabrics designed by these grayish batwinged sisters whose new ad campaign pushes the edge... CAUTION: ADS WITH NUDE BATS |
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SPARK OF THE DIVINE: by Carla Young, 2010/2/2; painting of a brief oracular dream A voice told me, "Human beings have a spark of the divine"... |
| TIME WARP: by "Erwre Qerwgeqwr"; 2010/2/5, a nightmare recurring 4 times in one night A timewarp started to swallow my house. It looked normal from outside, but inside everyone was in a trance... |
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A BODICE RIPPER: by Carla Young, 2010/2/22; epic (and episodic) dream with 5 paintings Awkward newlyweds. Not a love match! Can they learn to work together to save a woman from the Nazis?... |
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BARING THE BREAST: by Carla Young, 2010/2/27; dream painting and scene I'm half-naked at an arty dinner party, talking to a man I really think I ought to recognize... who is he? CAUTION: TOPLESS JUNGIAN |
| TAG WITH A BOUNTY HUNTER: by "Caradon"; 2010/3/3, a playful lucid dream A bounty hunter stalks me through a jungle, but lucidity turns a potential nightmare to joy... |
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SUMMON A SECOND HER: by Wayan; 2010/3/9, a time-loop dream I'm with a flutist I like, but she's busy playing. So I conjure a second her with the free time to listen to herself with me... |
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POIROT AND THE DICKHEADS: by Wayan; 2010/3/11, a comic antilucid dream I'm detective Hercule Poirot, but I'm losing my case and my brain--because my story isn't by Agatha Christie, it's a knockoff... CAUTION: PINK DILDO HATS |
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WHAT ARE THE ISSUES?: by Carla Young, 2010/3/16; painting of a punning political dream My friend's ignorant of our Congressional race. I loathe Pombo, but I can't pronounce his rival McNerney's name right... |
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PONYGIRL'S DIET: by Wayan; 2010/3/31, a furry health-advice dream I dream of a half-pony half-human girl who can't eat either hamburgers or hay. She figures out an appropriate diet... |
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SIPHONIAN QUARTET: by Wayan; 2010/4/10, four baffling parallel-world dreams Purple squid saboteurs flood our cliffhouse; my oyster-ranching girlfriend has a snotty aunt; I wake in a stranger's bondage dream and hate it; shepherds watch for gliderwolves on the ocean floor... CAUTION: EMBARRASSING BONDAGE DREAM |
| WASP: by Madellyne Waugh; 2010/4/22, a punning dream on... guilt? A giant insect chases me around our school gym. A girl reassures me it's harmless but I'm sure it's a wasp... |
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COCO CHANEL'S PUSSY: by Wayan; 2010/4/26; a film-pun-sex dream Coco Chanel's fashion workers all want me to have (public) sex with Coco's cat, so she'll stop screwing them financially... CAUTION: SEX KITTENS |
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DREAM-TAN: by Madellyne Waugh; late April 2010, a digital, institutional avatar I've been drawing a personification of the World Dream Bank. Nerdy, but most of your readers are nerds... |
| YOU NEED TO FIND HER: by B. Bigham; 2010/4/27, a strong psychic dream of history I walked into a 19th century home--and family quarrel. Suddenly decades passed in seconds, and the house burned--with me inside. Two years later I learned by chance that the house and its history were real... |
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HOP TO THE SHAH: by Wayan; 2010/5/18, a flying political dream Diplomacy's failed. To stop the impending Iranian War single-handed, I hop like a monster flea across Iran to corner the New Shah... |
| MEREDYTH AND LILLY: by Meredyth Watts; May 2010, 2010/11/14 and 2010/12/7, a set of dreams (or a recurrent episodic dream) I dream over and over of the same place, time, and woman. We have a love affair. Strangely, I'm the one who gets pregnant... |
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ANIMANGEL: by Wayan, 1980s-2010! An inky portrait-poem of my clashing guardian angels. My loud, spiky, tailed angel of change and potential, and my calm, skeptical devil of gradualism, a star-nosed mole... |
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MCKILLIP'S NEW BOOK: by Wayan; 2010/7/23, an epic literary dream I'm inside a magical novel by Patricia McKillip, full of tricksters, cosplayers, spooks, sex changes, levitation and (sigh) riot cops... CAUTION: COYOTE SEX |
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MONKEY WITH A GUN: by Wayan; 2010/8/7, a predictive nightmare A monkey who saw a murder and stole the weapon aims at a troopmate and fires. The next evening I hear gunfire, and... |
| EXPLODING SWAN: by Aleksanteri Nevalainen; 2010/9; a surreal anxiety dream In a world where ice contracts and sinks, birds freeze in winter and thaw in spring. But one swan knows better, and freezes differently... |
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THE KEY TO OUR INHERITANCE: by Wayan; 2010/9/12; a nightmare whose victims organize The dead treasure-hunter's will tells his heirs to meet in the wood. Chased by a knight in armor, we near-strangers unite... |
| MONSTERS FROM MY SOUP: by Cyberwebspace; 2010/9/30, a stubborn nightmare How'd that spider, dragon and T. rex get in my soup? I skip lunch. Dig in the garden, but scaly heads pop out to nip at me. Persistent! |
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MORTAL MIST: by Wayan; 2010/10/18, a lucid dream of a new sort for me I miss all sorts of cues I'm dreaming, but I ignore my conviction I'm awake and try to fly anyway... |
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BUSINESSMEN HAVE SNOUTS: by Wayan; 2010/11/14, a dream-poem about... the US elections? Businessmen grow short trunks and their necks stretch. They drive VW Beetles with the sunroof open. Works in summer, but... |
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FRIDA'S PRISON PAINTINGS: by Wayan; 2010/11/19, a Frida Kahlo-inspired dreamlet Frida's battered sister Cristina Kahlo dances nude and gets jailed by the Office of Homeland Security. Frida paints her in prison... |
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ADOPT A SON TO WIN A MATE: by Wayan; 2010/11/24; a dream of priorities I'm a big cat lonely in this human city. Wish I had a mate! But as soon as I take responsibility for an orphaned boy, in walks an older girl... |
| SLUGS: by Ellen Frank; 2010/11/24, a molluscan dream poem My friend and I are banana slugs on the forest floor. We wander out into chaparral, and across a bike path... |
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| YOGA SAINT: by Wayan; 2010/12/4, a disturbing diagnostic dream I wanted a dream on my recurring headaches & bellyaches. I meet my illness--a yogic saint who punishes jokers, flirts and cynics for their worldliness... |
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| THE WEEPING BRAIN: by Wayan; 2010/12/5; an anti-workaholic nightmare poem My sister just bought a biocomputer: an enslaved human brain in a box of weeping skin... |
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| MEREDYTH AND LILLY: by Meredyth Watts; May 2010, 2010/11/14 and 2010/12/7, a set of dreams (or a recurrent episodic dream) I dream over and over of the same place, time, and woman. We have a love affair. Strangely, I'm the one who gets pregnant... |
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| STRANGE GIRL STALKING ME IN MY DREAMS: by Mike Hanes; 2010/12/11, a dream pointing out an earlier lost dream This strange girl reminds me "I rode your bike recently but you've forgotten." She's right--she rode it in an earlier dream... |
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AN ALICORN BLADE IN THE HEART: by Wayan; 2010/12/18; a dream of a lucid flash--and that's all it takes A witch and I duel with blades carved of spiral horn. But we're both out to create an utterly truthful oracle. Isn't there a better way? |
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WOLF EXOGAMY: by Wayan; 2010/12/19; a furry dating-advisory dream A dream of human and wolf people intermarrying provokes both a sculpture and a slightly more wolfish attitude... |
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FLOATING WOLF AND BUTTERFLY: by Wayan; 2010/12/21; a furry advisory dream The city museum's new levitating sculpture shows a space reef explored by a floating wolf who needs no spacesuit--vacuum adapted! |
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