Dream Advice & Warnings, K-Z (A-J)
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THE KEY TO HIS LIFE: by an English rebel's wife; 1745; a lifesaving oracular/psychic dream. Twice a condemned man's wife dreamt of a key lost in rubble below a wall. The second time she went out to find it... |
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THE KEYRING OF ATTACHMENTS: by Wayan; 1974/5/31, a dream gone too far. Swayed by sinister surgeons, I go all Buddhist and give up my attachments, including various organs... CAUTION: DIVESTABLE GENITALIA |
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KICK THE FAERIE BELL: by Wayan; 2015/8/20, a bizarre dream-poem with a practical message I'm a courier with a message for the Faerie Queen. Can I avoid all these colorful, sexy, crazy distractions, and focus on the Studio and the Gong? |
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KICK THE PRESIDENT: by Wayan; 1999/6/1, a dream on consequences. I win a free game of Kick the President. But what if everyone can see your kick-ass Prez but you? CAUTION: THIS DREAM IS MONITORED BY THE SECRET SERVICE |
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KIM SINGS, CAPOTE DIES: by Wayan; 1984/8/27, a murky telepathic dream of secrets A psychic dream revealing my co-worker's secret desire gets tangled with the death of Truman Capote... |
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LAPUTANS LECTURE BROBDINGNAG: by Wayan; 2014/10/1; a dream defying the patronizing 'conscious' We ride on a flying saucer made of stone. Atop the great cliffs, we meet a giant and warn him not to slip. He doesn't appreciate advice from little alien tourist twerps... |
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LARRY'S MULTIVERSE: by Wayan; 2008/2/16, a dream poem, Dreamverse #14 My shamanic teacher lures me into a labyrinth ruled by wizards whose magic-monopoly's about to fall... |
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LBJ'S CAGE: by Lyndon Baines Johnson; May-June 1924, recurring teenage nightmares I found myself in a cage, with only a bench and piles of old books. A mirror showed I was old and twisted with speckled skin. In horror I said "I must get away"... |
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LEOPARDESS: by Wayan, 1990/5/19; a predictive dreamlet Dream: a house-share with this leopardess might be a bit crowded. But she's so much FUN! Next day: I visit a house in the woods with the most catlike senior tenant ever... |
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LET GO THE SAFE: by Wayan; 2014/2/6; poem of a lucid flying dream I'm pushing a safe off a roof in Berkeley so it won't be pushed off the roof (yep, you read that right) but it pulls me with it! Either die, or go lucid and fly... |
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LET ME REVISE THAT...: by Wayan; 1998/8/28, a dream of clarity. I pray to the Love Goddess for help, but then realize there's a problem with my phrasing... CAUTION: UNROMANTIC |
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THE LIMIT OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE: by Wayan; 1974/3/13, a dream of madness. Deep in the caves, a Voice announces I've gone as far as the human mind can stand. But ahead, I see... |
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LINCH-PIN: by George Stevens; c.1895? a frustrating psychic dream George sees a cart-crash pinning a friend. He yells to bystanders to free the wheel, but they can't hear him... |
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LISTEN TO YOUR WIFE: by Edward Bennet's daughter, 1757/7/11; a predictive dream Bennet's daughter dreamt her husband drowned after wading too deep (he couldn't swim). He promised he'd avoid deep water, but his best friend played a prank, treading water to make it seem shallow... CAUTION: WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE... |
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LONDON TRAFFIC: by Gheury de Bray; between 1923-1938, a warning dream. De Bray dreamed a speeding car nearly hit him; a month later, he abruptly recognized the street from his dream and paused... |
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LONGEVITY PLANS!: by Wayan; 1998/8/22, a nondream speculation. Lifespans are growing, but do we incorporate that into our life-planning? Oh, hell, do I plan at ALL? |
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"LOOK IN THE WELL!": by Elizabeth Harcourt; 1777/9/15, an unheeded warning dream. Elizabeth tried to tell her dream, but her husband didn't listen. When his dad didn't show up for dinner, it was too late... |
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LOST OPAL: by Anonymous #27; pre-1961, a clairvoyant or subliminal dream The opal fell out of my ring somewhere around town. I was heartbroken at the loss. But that night my husband dreamed... |
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LUCID LIVING: by Wayan; 2007/4/8, a quasi-lucid dream of the future with 9 illustrations Honesty induces a joyful state with lucidlike powers. So I bike across the Lake of Time, open the book of my future, and see... CAUTION: SEXY SKETCHES FROM THE FUTURE |
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LUCID ON THE MOON: by Wayan; 1980/2/23, a long-term psychic dream. I'm on the run, on the moon. Cyborgs toss bombs at me. Yikes! Is this what melted Mare Orientalis? CAUTION: NUCLEAR IRRESPONSIBILITY |
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LURCH OF A BUS: by "Anonymous #16"; pre-1963, a successful warning dream I dreamed the bus lurched, cracking my skull. Next day, on the bus steps as in my dream, I braced myself, and... |
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THE M9: by David Parkinson, 1940; a dream-designed invention. 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... |
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MA HAS GONE TO FRISCO: by Jack Kerouac, late June? 1953, a back-in-school dream ending in revelation. I walk the corridors smiling, realizing for the first time that I don't have to go to high school---because I'm a great writer... |
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MAGIC FINGER: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1982 (May?); a nightmare veering into mystery Morocco. Horseback mercenaries attack a town. A boy says "Take their lifestyle, and you must remove their brains." A protective Hand of Fatima dissolves, leaving a finger, a feather, a... vagina. "What a slit!" We burst into laughter... |
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MAGICAL GRADUATION: by Wayan, 2018/4/22, twin dreamlets on letting go and being yourself I befriend author Andre Norton--an ageless high-school kid writing enthused fan fiction, forever... I find my Niche--the stone nook that decides if I'm a journeyman mage! Here comes my prophecy... |
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MARIAH: by Wayan, 1994/9/23, a mystical flying dream. An un-jealous wind lifts me above the San Francisco hills, so I can hunt for my love: the Muse... |
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MARTHA'S FALL: by Barbara, Martha, and Wayan; 1977/5/18. 3 linked warning, sex, and flying dreams
Wayan makes love to Martha's double, then sees her soul watching from the shadows... Barbara can't reach Wayan to say farewell... Martha falls off a mountain and decides to let herself die, just to see what happens... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES |
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THE MEGARA INN: by an Arcadian Greek c.200 BCE; two dreams that don't prevent a murder but do solve it A traveler dreams his friend's attacked, but he ignores it. Next he dreams his friend begs him to at least avenge him... |
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MEMORY SNIP!: by Wayan; 1999/5/15, a dream on the cost of kindness. My friend Mark does something I thought impossible: removes a snippet of my memory. Disastrous! CAUTION: VIOLENCE... SORT OF |
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MENTOR: by Wayan; 2001/6/13, six advisory dreamlets. I meet a shapeshifting mentor who warns of coming war (9/11?). Then a sentient book, "The Art of War," gets intimately involved... CAUTION: ELECTRODES, LIBROPHILIA |
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MESOPOTAMIAN RINGS: by Herman Hilprecht, Jan.-Mar. 1883; two problem-solving dreams I dreamt of a better translation of Nebuchadnezzar's name, since universally accepted... I dreamt a priest of old Nippur told me two agate pieces, long separated, formed a pair... |
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MIDWAY: by Wayan; 1994/2/4, twin shamanic dream-lessons. I'm cold and dark and disoriented! What am I doing wrong? Nothing--I'm just halfway to Alpha Centauri... |
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MR. WILLOW AND THE LOCUSTS: by a Yi Valley magistrate, Dec. 1641?, as told by Pu Songling; a shamanic dream As locusts advanced on his farm district, a magistrate dreamt a Mr. Willow had advice. He took it. Bearing a gift of rice wine, he sought out the Goddess of the Locusts, and... |
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MMM, GOOD!: by Sarah, as told to Gayle Delaney, late 1976 or early '77, a predictive dream Should I subscribe to Sundance Community Dream Journal? I dream I find a letter--yellowish paper, cryptic blue lettering, a red margin. I eat it! Best thing I ever tasted. I wake and order that journal. It arrives--and the cover is... |
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MODELING A ME: by Wayan, 1994/8/29, a mirroring dream I find a 3D program that shows your true self, the self that can love, IS love. And my wireframe is... |
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MOM IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT: by a patient of Peter O'Connor; 1985 or before, a therapy-guiding initial dream. My mom's driving me to work. A nearby car has young people in it--I'd rather be with them. My mom seems to be dawdling; I'll be late meeting my colleague! I'm furious... |
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MOM ON THE WING: by a tail gunner; 1942-45, a lifesaving warning dream 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... |
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MOM THINKS I'M ON A LEASH: by Wayan, 2019/3/10; an unheeded warning dream My late mom Marcy shows up at work. "Check in weekly or we'll stop your allowance." But my parents don't support me! I left my family and earn my own pay. No leash! I refuse. Months later, as I recover from serious work-induced illness, I see the dream wasn't about family values (ugh). What I needed to check in with was... mortality. Was death. |
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MONASTERY: by Anonymous #7; before 1986, a predictive/advisory spiritual dream I happily meditated alone in a monastery. But when I woke, I saw no way to act on the dream. Then a friend... |
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MONK: by Anonymous #2323; 1945-1991 (at least); a recurrent dream of a past life 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 |
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MOON BLOOMS: by Wayan; 1997/7/22, a dream on traces of love. Everyone has a personal moon. At first, mine disappointed me, till a bard dumped his trash on it, and... |
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MORNING DREAM: by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1926/12/12; a dream modeling the mind I dream I'm ranting about the structure of the mind, postulating four layers--odd, since I think dreams are meaningless--just neurons getting some exercise! So whence this theory? CAUTION: JARGON |
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MOVING: by Roswila, 2007/10/13 and 2007/10/23; a recurring dreamku My dreams support a radical break from my past--to let go of possessions and friends in a cross-country move... |
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MUSCULAR STUDY: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/4/14, a sexy dream of work advice (no, really) Swedenborg jokes with his cousin's new girlfriend as she grows bigger and stronger and bigger and... Oh. He needs to study the muscles! |
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MY PEGASUS: by Regina van der Poel; 2000/6/1, a dream of my Life Painting I free a friend unjustly imprisoned. On the run, we encounter our Life Paintings. Mine is a beautiful pegasus flying. But on its back is a monkey in a red suit... |
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MYRNA, LOOK AHEAD: by Myrna, drawn by her daughter Joey Epstein; before 1988, a dream of ghost advice After Myrna’s husband died, one night she felt him behind her in bed, and he whispered... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S TREE: by King Nebuchadnezzar II; c. 583 BCE, a predictive dream Nebuchadnezzar dreams a voice from heaven commands a great tree be cut; Daniel interprets this as a prediction the king will go mad for 7 years... |
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NEW LIFE: by Deena Metzger, between Sept. 1982 & Sept. 83, an apocalyptic dream Nuclear holocaust. Outside, an ashen waste. I decide to cut my wrists in the tub. But a corpse already fills it. A man drives up. A voice commands "Make a child!" I protest--the world's gone--but the voice says... |
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NIC'S THOUSAND PAINTINGS: by Wayan, 2017/7/9, a dream with creative advice My friend Nic vows to paint two pictures a day, and, impossibly, does. Meanwhile, I'm blocked. Can she show me how to get unstuck? |
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THE NIGHT MY NUMBER CAME UP: by Sir Victor Goddard, Jan. 1946, a predictive dream 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... |
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THE NIGHTMARE EFFECT: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/14, an anti-nightmare. My own fear creates a field of time/speed distortion; can I use it against my attackers? |
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NIGHTMARE FROM 'SISTERS': by Margarethe Von Trotta; 1979 or before, an unexamined nightmare A dream of body parts--maybe, impossibly, alive--hung up like drying laundry. Von Trotta inserted it in a film script to foreshadow a suicide, but seems deaf to any personal warning--as if it's not her dream at all... |
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NO VACATIONS?: by Wayan; 1999/8/14, a spiritual nightmare. Before I was born, I set up this life to learn loneliness, boredom and fear. Good move, soul! No vacations? |
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NOCTURNE: dreamed 2011 & 2013/11/19 by S---; nested, incubated advisory dreams
After asking "Am I ready to say yes to someone new?" I dreamed I met my old love... |
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NOT LOVE, BUT NOT ABUSE: by Wayan; 1996/6/6, a dream on gradualism. I dream I don't love my girlfriend, I just confuse non-abusive treatment with love.... |
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NOT SELF DEFENSE!: by Wayan; 1999/4/29, a warning dream. I'm Tarzan, fighting off attackers. But I kill one helpless prisoner! Am I going too far? CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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THE NOTE: by Wayan; 1976/12/31, a psychic nightmare. On New Year's Eve, I dream my college no longer welcomes me. New Year's Day, I wake to find it's true... |
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NUCLEUS: by Wayan, 1979/3/18, a surreal dream of character-insight, set inside an atom I dream my theatre friends are particles dancing inside an atomic nucleus-- particles that reveal their character, motivations and power. And I'm one too... |
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OBISPO'S OUT OF RANGE: by Wayan; 1997/2/2, a dreamtale on ESP. I move hundreds of miles away to escape my family's psychic broadcasts. Pathetic, but... does it work? |
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OFF BY ONE HOUR: by Wayan; 1988/3/20, a dream DREAM: my bedroom clock's late by an hour. Must have been a power failure. I'll be late for that play... AWAKE: my bedroom clock was right last evening, but now it's late by an hour. Outage! I'll be late for... CAUTION: SUBLIMINAL OR E.S.P.? |
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OIL DERRICK: by Fernando Rojas Zapata, Dec 1994-early 1995; recurring, life-saving nightmares DREAMS: I'm arguing with a worker on our oil rig when a huge piece of steel falls, crushing me instantly. MONTHS LATER: that very worker gets in an argument with me. I recall my dreams, step back, and... |
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ONE-PERCENTERS: by Wayan; 2014/5/2, a dream on how egalitarianism can drive the gifted crazy A sociologist exposes the smugness of Britain's 1%, but the writer's denial of any innate differences can be just as pernicious as elitism... CAUTION: EGALITARIANISM ON TRIAL |
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OPELS, OPALS: by Wayan; 1990/6/10; two dreamlets that turn out to be predictive I'm car-buying. My friend has an Opel, but it's sluggish AND a gas hog. How can a car be both? Then... I notice a jar of opals that my grandpa gave me has grown dull with algae! Sheesh, more opals gone bad... I wake and head to work. But at a bottleneck, I'm blocked by this loud group talking on and on about... |
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OTTERS DON'T FAKE: by Wayan; 1989/10/15, a sex dream that's not about sex at all. I'm scared to show my dream-paintings to my art class. That night I find an large otter in my bed... CAUTION: SEX |
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OTTO SUGGESTION TO A HORSE IN DRAG: by Wayan; 1995/8/8, a dream on body image. My uncle mocks the racehorse he rides! Smears lipstick on this stallion, calls him a wimp... Why? CAUTION: DREAM PUN, NUDE MARES |
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THE OUTER LIMITS: by Marianne A.; 1988/3/13, a dream that lucidly intervenes in itself! I'm trapped in the scary show The Outer Limits. A man scolds me: "You think not, but you MATTER!" I try suicide rather than face my worth! But my dream fences off the river, forcing me to confront... CAUTION: SUICIDE ATTEMPT |
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OVERLAY: by Wayan; 1984/2/11, 1995/8/26, and 2004/9/11, 3 dreams shape a 9-page comic on living with ESP Dreams of translucent fairies, centaurs, robots & gnomes prompt me to cartoon on transparent overlays to show how dreamworlds overlay ours... |
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PALM DREAM: by Skip Renker, 1984 or earlier, a slow nightmare? or a subtle challenge? After lifeline and heartline, the palm-reader points to a rope ladder heading for Orion. I climb. But it goes brittle, splinters. I flail. She reads, long-distance, one more line: "Wings", she calls. "Wings." |
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PEELING HER SKIN: by Wayan; 2020/10/20, a dream about the MeToo movement? A spacy friend rolls on the floor with me. Seduction, or play, or what? She peels off patches of clothes and skin, exposing a new realer self... CAUTION: TRUMP FANS WILL HATE IT |
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A PEGASUS-DRAGON SCRIPTS MY LIFE: by Wayan; 2017/12/4, a dream of my... creator? Turns out my life's a TV show. My scriptwriter is half pegasus, half dragon, and my own humanity has been her science-fictional imagination all along... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY |
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THE PESSIMIST HELIX: by Wayan; 1996/6/9, a dreamtale. I'm at the info desk in a futuristic library. But one question leads me into a DNA-helix, a tornado of doubt... |
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PINKIE CLEANS THE WINDOWS OF PERCEPTION: by Wayan; 2017/2/5, an advisory dream fusing Aldous Huxley & My Little Pony. My new housemate Pinkie is a party animal, but she's really nice. She climbs a high ladder to help wash my Windows of Perception. Then our unicorn friend Rarity walks in. She warns me to pace this renovation project... CAUTION: PONIES |
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POKER WITH A DEMON: by Wayan; 1980/8/15; a comic predictive financial dream. I'm authorized to play high-stakes poker with a scary-looking but rather nice demon... |
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POLES NOW, TROPICS LATER: by Wayan; 1997/3/27, a dream on the pace of change. I'm a Martian revolutionary, making the glaciers grow. The equator's still dry, but change is coming... |
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POLITICS BITES: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/4/13, a dream of... read the title! Swedenborg's in bed with a woman, but she has teeth down there. Oh, now and she's not a woman, but his political buddy Johan! Well, maybe it means not to get involved with women, or men, or... politics? CAUTION: JUST WEIRD |
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PONDICHERRY: by Toni Emrich, 1991/6/6, and Margaret Thomas, 1991/7/??, linked asynchronous dreams EMRICH: I'm in a conference center in "Pondecherry", even though it feels nothing like India... THOMAS: A woman picks fruit off a tree by a pond and calls them "pondicherries--with an 'i'"... CAUTION: WILL ANNOY E.S.P. DENIERS |
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THE POWER OF NON-VISUALIZATION: by Wayan; 2018/4/29, a mystical dream whose teaching worked I'm listening to a film-talk on Non-Visualization. "Don't wish--don't will--don't visualize. Just face what you really want, and then don't push..." CAUTION: MYSTICAL |
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THE POWER OF THE BUTTERFLY: by Lisa Gale Garrigues ("Cory"); winter 1997, a dream of flying, shapeshifting and spiritual advice. When a flood traps me in my cabin, I dream I meet an old man who warns me "Let your butterflies go"... |
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PREGNANCY FROM HELL: by Wayan; 1994/6/6, a predictive dream-farce. I'm pregnant with the Antichrist. This is going to ruin my vacation! Why do I think this is all about money? |
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A PRISONER OF ZEN: by Wayan; 1980/11/9, a dream on isolation. The Pope spears our Inuit captain and the Mystic, who turns solitary--a prisoner of Zen. Can I free him? |
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PUNKZINE BALLERINA UNDERWEAR: by Wayan; 1995/4/25, a short dream with self-portrait. Am I a punk dyke or a shy ballerina? Both! And they're complementary facets. Underwear never lies... |
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PUT TWICE AS MUCH IN: by Wayan; 2003/9/22, a dream warning how much it takes to change All the claymation figures I made in my teens are gone but one. And the centauress has a broken hip and spindly leg. I start to mend her, but I need TWICE the clay I thought... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY |
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QUEEN KONG: by Wayan; 1986/3/17, a surreal dream of nerd defiance A giantess strides across the desert. The Great White Hunter fires his elephant gun, but the books she's made of stop his bullets. I think I'll join the Queen Kong Library... |
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RAINBOW SPLASH: by Wayan, 2023/4/23, a furry-porn dream hiding art advice! I'm in an alt-world Berkeley where mythic creatures shop on College Avenue. Marigold the unicorn flirts with me. Rainbow Dash the pegasus has turned male. Very very male... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY (AND CRUDITY) |
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REVERSE MY ARMOR: by Wayan; dreamed 2008/4/14, a dream with bizarre advice I took. All I usually hide, I strip bare, & vice versa. Like that Playboy cartoon with the stockings & gloves--the Femlin! Behaviorally, too, I reverse all my habits and judgments. Perverse, self-destructive! But my life still works... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY. ALSO, A LOSER SUCCEEDS. |
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RIDE THE GODS OF THE HAND: by Larry Vigon; 2002/6/13; an oracular dream Predawn. The beach. A gypsy goddess rises from the waves. She says "Begin to ride the gods of the Hand, in London." I say "What?"... CAUTION: CRYPTIC BUT FIRM |
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ROAR!: by Wayan; 2000/4/3, a nightmare transformed by a bluff Night. A jungle full of prowling lions and leopards. So naturally, I get up on a rock and roar back... |
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ROBERT’S PLAN: by William Blake; late 1788; an advisory dream... Blake was broke. Couldn’t typeset Songs of Innocence and Experience. But in a dream, his brother advised him... |
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ROSEMARY AND FRANCES: by Rosemary; 1936/6/5, a predictive mood & flash saves one of two sisters Gloom clung to me & I skipped the dance. I begged Frances to ride in a safe car, but coming home... |
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SABOTAGED BOAT: by C. G. "Chinese" Gordon; c.1861-4, a recurrent warning dream I recognized the saboteur. If I had neglected that dream warning we all would likely have drowned... |
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SAFETY GETS ME HOT: by Wayan; 1997/3/27, a dream on sensitivity. I'm trapped in a post-apocalypse pulp story! Fun for my readers, but not for me! How to escape? |
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SATORI ACCORDING TO GHOST: by Wayan; 1998/4/11, a longterm predictive dream A Buddhist student, troubled by a corporation marketing a product called "Satori", summons the ghost of her beloved mentor for advice... |
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SATYR AND TWILIGHT: by Wayan; 2018/9/1, an epic dream perhaps foreseeing the pandemic A spell kills off nearly all humanity and mutates the rest of us. Now I'm a satyr living in a co-op home with unicorns, dryads, cattaurs, and shy vampires. Thing is, I prefer the Apocalypse to what came before... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
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SCATTERED TROVE: by Wayan; 2008/5/15; an esthetic-advisory dreamlet I find little cards all over town, each with a check for $512. A fragmented treasure! I wake and see the 512 implies a digital treasure-trove, and search my computer... |
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SCORCH: by a California woman; 1944, a lifesaving olfactory hallucination (clairsniffance?) I smelled scorching paint; my heater was about to burn the house. But I'd moved--my old house was six blocks away... |
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SECRET SCREEN: by Wayan; 2018/4/19 and 2018/5/16, three linked dreamlets of escape A friend nags me to be lookout as he steals a cult's papers. I know it'll end in murder, but foresight paralyzes me! In a videogame that keeps freezing unplayably, I find a button calling up a secret screen of second chances... I'm lost in a grim basement, but two kids show me a cobwebbed glass door you can walk through like air... |
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SELF-MADE COW: by Wayan; 2013/4/10, a surreal psychic dream. I'm in Santa Cruz with my friend, a shocking-pink stuffed toy cow with sewed-on accessories: big red lips, a floral wig, and a third eye. I wake, draw the dreamcow--and my sister calls from Santa Cruz to sing me a song about... |
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SEWING ADVICE FROM CANNIBALS: by Elias Howe, 1845, an inventor's helpful nightmare. His sewing-machine design failed--until dream-cannibals caught him & jabbed him with weird needles... CAUTION: OUCH! |
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SEX FIRST, THEN SADNESS: by Wayan; 1998/12/12, an advisory dream. At a party, a sad girl attracts me. But to reach her, I must have an affair with a sexy, frustrated writer... |
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A SEX KITTEN: by Wayan; 1999/1/29, an embarrassing dream. A creature that's half kitten and half baby wants me to masturbate it... I'm reluctant, but when I do... CAUTION: SEX |
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SEX THERAPY: by Wayan; 1998/5/18, a dream on the messiness of healing. Both of us were abused as kids. Sex is hard. So we go to a therapist who has us act out sex on the floor... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES |
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THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY: by Wayan; 1989/7/8, a comic nightmare, possibly telepathic. My sisters get bored with the game of power, so I watch TV-- until it melts, and a terrifying giant rises to chases me... |
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THE SHAKEN PROFESSOR: by Wayan; 1996/2/11, a dream explaining amnesia and memory. A great teacher abruptly blanks out. Memory loss is scary, but the empty moment bared a deeper fear: |
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SHE CRASHES AND BURNS: by Wayan; 2005/5/7, a diagnostic nightmare. I ask my dreams how to find love. I dream of a 1920s bohemian girl teasing stuffy folk. But her pranks turn dangerous, then deadly... |
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SHE IS THE SNAKE: by Sharon Stricker, 1980, a warning dream from a censored goddess Should I try to keep Janine out of jail? But outside, she'd gotten back on drugs. That night I dreamed a huge beautiful snake bit my writing hand, and said "Don't go to court. Stay home and write"... CAUTION: JUNKIE, RESCUER |
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SHEEP IN THE SKY: by Myoe Shonin; c.1220/9/20, a dream of strange advice. A strange transforming thing appeared in the sky--a light, a sheep, a man. It told me to stop burning my head... |
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SHOVED OFF A CLIFF: by Wayan; 2017/9/7, a nightmare-warning (I'd asked what to do next). Atop a sea-cliff, I meet a young couple in love. One look at me and they push me off! When I see I can't save myself, I try to take them with me... CAUTION: NIGHTMARE BARING UGLY TRUTHS |
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THE SHY ORGY: by Wayan; 1983/3/10, a sex dream with a nonsexual predictive side Swimming in Spokane, I meet two teenage girls and we have a... shy orgy? Next day I go to a play... and see the two on stage! I still dismiss the dream as a fantasy--consciously. But unconsciously I start taking action... CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX |
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SHY SPHINX: by Wayan; 2009/11/27, a dream of indirect advice I find a shy sphinx hiding in the corner of a painting in a dull art class. But maybe she's right to hide... |
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SIGNORINETTA: by Alfred Douglas; late May 1908, a predictive (and profitable) dream. I dreamt a grey filly won the Derby. My friend, a fan, said no fillies were racing this year; but he forgot one named... |
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SILKY CLEANS THE UNDERWORLD: by Wayan; 2023/5/26, a heartening surreal dream I'm lost in the underworld again. Happens a lot lately. But I run into my anima Silky, in yellow boots and a safety vest, blasting clean the walls of the land of the dead... |
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SILKY THE PEGASUS: by Wayan; 1984/12/11; a guided flying dream My anima, a pegasus mare, leaps out of a girl's book and teaches us to fly up to an astral land... CAUTION: FLIRTY PEGASUS |
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SKYLIGHT: by an Honorable Lady; before 1894, a crimesolving dream (psychic? subliminal? ghost-visit?) My dead father said a trusted servant was stealing our goods through an unlocked skylight. This proved true... |
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SNAKE PACKAGE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2007/5/27 I am given a dehydrated package of dried snake to insert in my vagina. Inside it will unfold and come to life... CAUTION: KIDS, DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME! |
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SONG FOR THE DANCE: by Roswila; 2000/11/25, a dream-poem A joyful song about ignoring your critics. The last stanza came verbatim from the dream... |
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SPLIT THREE WAYS: by Wayan; 2010/8/24, a quantum dream of overwhelm On the freeway, my car and I split into quantum possibilities. I steer both entangled cars till I split again--now I have to steer three cars with just one pair of hands and eyes... |
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STAGE FAILURE: by Dana Hughes, art by Jesse Reklaw; pre-2000; a dream of surrender I'm on stage. I have to sing. They just stare. I try dancing. Stony silence. At last, a second me leads me offstage, saying "You can only fail so many times"... |
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HER STINGY DAD: by Wayan; 1998/7/29, a dreamtale on parental ambition-stunting A single dad loves his daughter, but is so pathologically cheap he's teaching her an unintended lesson... CAUTION: CHILD NEGLECT |
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STREAMLINING: by Wayan; 2004/11/10, a dream within a dream I dream I'm an otter, and wake into a dream about sculpture--and learn my style's due to my species... |
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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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THE SWAFFHAM TINKER: by John Chapman and a London shopkeeper; c.1454, two interlocked dreams Chapman dreams he must walk 100 miles to London Bridge; on the bridge, a stranger says "dreams are nonsense! Why, I dreamt of buried treasure 100 miles away, in some town called..." |
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SWEATERPANTS FOR CHRIST!: by Wayan; 2011/6/30, a comic sartorial nightmare poem I pull my mom's sweater onto my legs but get tangled (and bits of anatomy dangle). Worse, I'm emulating Jesus. Is this any way to get a date? CAUTION: WARDROBE MALFUNCTION, GENDER MALFUNCTION, MOM MALFUNCTION |
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SYNCHRONIZED WATCHES: by Andrea McFarland; late 1998, a psychic warning dream. I dream my watch is way off and I'll be late. When I wake, I check my daughter's watch. They agree. Can't BOTH be wrong... can they? |
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TAROT: WAKING FROM A NIGHTMARE (9 of swords): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. The card confirming those silly fears are true. The nightmare is real. You're in trouble... |
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TAROT: DIRTY DISHES: by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. It's time to tackle that unpleasant task. But so what? You know how. And you have gloves... |
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THE TEACHER: by Lord Vivian, 1874; a predictive dream he bet on... for another! DREAM: a stranger tells me "The Teacher" won the Handicap. AWAKE: At the track I meet the man in my dream! He says The Teacher is now called Aldrich. But Aldrich's owner discourages me. A friend trusts my dream & wins £1,000... |
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TEN HEARTBEATS OF WILL: by Wayan; 2011/1/2, an experimental dreamflight A friend says lucid dreaming doesn't matter--you can even fly awake if you clearly will it. So I jump... |
TEN RULES OF LIFE: by Wayan, 1994/5/4, a nondream fount of wisdom. |
After reading 170 capsule biographies of famous people I conclude life-plans are a joke. But I do deduce ten negative rules--ten universal don'ts--that may be of use... CAUTION: CYNICAL, BUT 170 OBITUARIES WILL DO THAT |
TERRIBLE HORSE: by Louise Bogan; 1941, poem of a healing dream |
A stallion reared to strike me. He was all the fear and rage I’d repressed... A woman said “offer him... |
THEA'S HOUSE: by Wayan; 1987/3/23, a life-changing dream. |
I dreamed the Earth Goddess invited me to live with her. She was lonely to be seen for who she was... |
THEFT OF THE ARK: by King Solomon, c. 960 BCE; a dream acted on too late |
Ethiopian records say Solomon and Makeda, the Queen of Sheba, had a son who stole the Ark of the Covenant! Solomon dreamt of the theft but didn't check til it was too late... |
THERAPIST GARBLES "I" & "YOU": by Wayan, 1987/12/28, a dream warning of bad therapy |
In therapy, I'm wrestling with sex. But workmen invade--hammer & hang pictures. MY pictures! And my therapist keeps confusing me and her, and our sexual orientations! She means well, but... CAUTION: NUDE PORTRAIT |
THEREMIN'S NOT UP AND RUNNING: by Wayan; 1998/8/28, a dream parable. |
I'm in Theremin's lab, around 1930, trying to play one of his experimental instruments. Why won't it work? |
THREE DREAMS: by Robley Wilson; July 4, 1975?; a dream-poem |
Dead fish in a poisoned stream, dead kittens in a pit... and advice from the woman who revives them with a touch. |
THREE FLYING DREAMS: by Sharad Chandra, 1988 or before, mystical advisory dreams |
1: I ask how to fly. "Breathe air from high levels; its light and purity will wash away earth's heaviness..." 2: To join a flying game, you must cut off your own head! Players acquire new heads and can work miracles... 3: I float up to reach a book in a shop. People call the police but I defiantly soar--over Paris, up to the stars... |
THREE SEVENS: by George Antheil; summer 1932; a psychic dream in a dreamlike time |
I dream I play 7 and win three times at Monte Carlo. I wake and head for the casino with witnesses... |
THE THREE VEILS BETWEEN MAN AND GOD: by Anna Kingsford, March 1881, a messianic dream. |
I was shown what veils the God in us: Blood (violence), Idols (dogmatism), and the Curse of Eve (sexism)... CAUTION: FUNDAMENTALISTS (OF ANY FAITH) WILL SEE RED |
THUMBS: by Wayan; 1989/6/12, a dream vignette. |
Worldwide, hands have gone soft and pliable. I meet some animals evolving into people and advise them.... |
THE TIGER AND THE WOLF: by Jo; 2011/1/15; a dream of temptation |
A black dog leads me into the fairy wood. I'm curious what happens to those who walk under the tree where the Lightning Tiger lurks.... |
TIGER TALL: by Wayan; 1992/7/3, a marathon dream. |
I'm a tiger from Planet Cat, visiting Earth to run in San Francisco's "Bay to Breakers" race. I knew racial tensions were high, but why is William S. Burroughs out to kill me? Oh. Because... |
TILT THE GLOBE TO MAXIMIZE BIOMASS: by Wayan, |
1987/8/15, 1990/3/31 & 6/10, 1993/8/10, four dreams prompting Planetocopia I dreamed I took a globe off its stand, drilled new poles, and put it back on tilted, so that most continents are greener; Tokyo, Alaska and Tierra del Fuego are now all tropical... Over a decade later, dreams forgotten, I start what I think is a nondream art project, by tilting... |
TITANIC NIGHTMARES: by J. C. Middleton; 1912/4/3 and 4/4, two predictive dreams saving two lives |
I saw the Titanic go down and people struggling frantically in the water. After my second nightmare I told my wife... |
TOLD IN A DREAM: by Kathleen Raine, between 1965 & '71; a mystical dream poem |
A voice tells me I have 100 months to live. I vow it'll be enough to finish my work here... CAUTION: THAT VOICE WAS WRONG |
TORCH-BEARER: by Queen Hecuba of Troy; c. 1270 BCE, an alarming dream. |
Hecuba dreams she gives birth, not to a child but a flaming torch! But she lets Paris live... CAUTION: MORAL NO-WIN SITUATION |
TOUGH GLOVE: by Wayan; 1999/12/4, an advisory dreamlet |
I finally find a way to safely indulge in heavy petting as well as puns) with a playful but scratchy cat... |
TRI-GUARDIANS: by Wayan; 2005/8/5, a stalking nightmare that peels away layers |
Three men follow me. But they're not men; they fly. They shapeshift into teenage archeologists... then into pure energy-beings! "We don't care about you; we're watching another entity you let into your dreams." Wait--I've got FOUR foreign entities stalking through my psyche? CAUTION: ALARMING, IF TRUE |
THE TROUBLE WITH TUBAS: dreamed 1997/7/1 by Wayan; song composed in a dream
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Improv singing with my friend Mark, this bizarre songlet popped out: "It's my understanding you shouldn't make love to a tuuubaaaa." Silly, but when I woke, I realized I sorta had been... |
TWO TANKS: by "Anonymous #19"; pre-1963, a small but precise psychic dream |
Two photographic developing tanks disappear. I assumed theft until I dreamt they were in a room I'd never seen, in locker FJA 39... |
ULYANOVSK: by Wayan, 1987/11/4, a predictive & advisory dream |
DREAM: I'm a Soviet Potato Fest. Reds, grannies, food. A girl's told a life-and-death lie about a canine... NEXT DAY: I read a version of Red Riding Hood, and the dream's weird elements suddenly make sense. CAUTION: SOVIET CLICHÉS, E.S.P. SPECULATION |
UNCERTAIN HORIZON: by Cécile Brun; 2014/11/20, a dream-comic of a sea serpent |
My partner and I were hunting for spirits with a camera designed to photograph them. Warned away from the Niigata waterfront, we try to catch a bus out. But what comes isn't the bus... |
UMBRELLA: by "Anonymous #"17; pre-1963, a helpful cryptomnesic/predictive dream |
My wife dreamt where to find her lost umbrella; the next day she did. But the finder said word for word what she had in the dream... |
AN UNPRODUCTIVE SQUIRREL: by Wayan; 2013/11/27, an advisory shamanic dreamlet |
I meet a giant squirrel. But a Committee condemns the squirrel for such long periods of unproductive hibernation. The squirrel points out a teensy flaw... |
UTE RAID: by Hasteen Hon's grandmother, c.1856 or c.1873, a possibly lifesaving dream |
When my grandmother was young her husband had a prosperous ranch. She dreamed some Indians attacked. She convinced them to hide; the Utes killed or stole nearly all their sheep. But at least they were alive... |
VAMPIGS AND SMILES: by Wayan; 1991/12/9, an advisory dream. |
Our landlady was a friend, but she broke our rental agreement. Talk, compromise, or rent strike? |
VANDERMEER'S STAIR: by Jeff Vandermeer, 2013 or before,, a nightmarish creative prompt |
I was on a spiral stair. The walls had scrawled messages, not sprayed, carved or painted but living tissue--and getting fresher as I descended. Whatever was growing them was still below me, and still writing... |
VELOCIRAPTORS AND BANANAS: by Wayan; 1994/2/6, a predator-advisory dream. |
After a visit from our landlady's angry, crazy son I dream hungry velociraptors invade our house... |
WABOSE'S VISION: by Catherine Wabose (Ogeewyahnoquot Okwa), Feb. 1814? shamanic initiation dreams |
After fasting for six days, I dreamed of three spirit helpers who aided my village, guiding hunters toward game and healing others. But I lost so many loved ones... CAUTION: SPOUSE MURDERED; CAREER BURNOUT |
WALTER'S DIVE: by Walter's father; pre-1961, a predictive dream disastrously forgotten |
I dreamt my son Walter drowned in the creek by a certain tree. I woke in tears, and resolved... |
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... |
WHALE BIKES TO HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1974/5/6, a shamanic double-flying dream |
A road trip with no road--levitating over the Arctic Sea to meet the Whale Philosopher. Then it's time for us all to bike to the stars, leave this world behind... |
WHAT ARE THE ISSUES?: by Carla Young, 2010/3/16; painting of a political dream pun |
My friend's ignorant of our local Congressional race. I loathe Pombo and like his rival McNerney, but can't pronounce his name right... |
WHAT E.S.P. IS FOR: by Wayan; 2012/12/10, three dreamlets on my real nature and purpose |
I dream ESP isn't just for oneself. A romance between a wolf singer & a deer guitarist. I'm furry too, and better accept it! |
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED: by a Coon Rapids woman, early 1993; a psychic, near-lifesaving dream |
I dreamed my husband told me he'd been in a car crash and was in a frozen ditch not visible from the road near our house. I woke and called 911 who found him just twenty minutes later... |
THE WHEEL by Nancy Price; 1948, an early, intense dream of Future Shock. |
Lost in an industrial maze, my memories hopelessly outdated, I resign myself to the Wheel... |
THE WHITE DEER'S EXPERIMENT, or, FAWN OF A LESSER GOD |
by Wayan; 2013/4/13, an epic shamanic epiphany dream with tinges of ESP I meet my Creator--a were-deer. No wonder I'm a shy, horny herbivore so unlike these naked apes! She tells me my divine purpose... CAUTION: MONOTHEISTIC BLASPHEMY; E.S.P. FLASH; NUDE DEER |
WIND OF SELF-HATE: by Wayan, 1976/4/4, a dream warning of family brainwashing |
Biking around blindfolded and half-naked, I fight winds of self-criticism and self-hatred that only I can feel... |
WISH-RATIONED EARTH: by Wayan; 2015/6/19; an advisory dream on...miracles? |
I'm stranded on an alternate Earth under strict rationing--of wishes! But you need to wish a few times a year to keep the system greased... CAUTION: INSULTS BOTH CAPITALISM AND ASCETICISM |
THE WIZARD'S HORSE: by Wayan; 2018/9/3, a magical dream about... toxic waste? |
I'm a wizard's horse, trying to warn him about a toxic spell on a roadside corpse... Wake into a second dream, but try to return to being a dream-mare and warn my rider... And then wake to realize my Nightmare was warning about a home-renovation project! |
WOLVES IN THE BOOTH: by Thordhr "the Terror"; c.1000, a warning dream |
Thordhr dreams a pack of wolves attack him in a trade-booth! He wakes sure the trade-fair will be trouble... |
WONDERFUL SPECTACLES: by Anna Kingsford; 1877/1/31, a clairvoyant advisory dream |
A mystic postman delivers a letter on the world's best glasses and a reply from me, telling how to find them... |
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... |
THE WORLD NEWS: by Nathaniel Hawthorne; 1843; a dream-job (and career advice?) |
I dreamt the world itself hired me, at a generous salary, to report its great affairs exactly as they happen... |
WORM WIZARD, or, TITMAN'S CHAIR: by Wayan; 1997/4/23, a dream of bamboozlement. |
In the castle of a wizard who's a were-worm, I let myself become my businessman-friend's chair! Generous, huh? |
THE WRITING CLASS: by Wayan; 1984/3/27, a grumpy dream. |
Most writers search for their unique style. Not me--I struggle to convey unique EXPERIENCES... |
XANTHE'S TUNNEL: by Xanthe & Wayan; 1999/6/11, two possibly telepathic dreams |
I'm a dyke playing baseball in Golden Gate Park. Some guys harass us and run into a tunnel. I follow, but... |
YEW: by Mrs. Cl. of S.; 1670 or 71; a risky dream-prescription. |
In a dream, a dead friend told Mrs. Cl. how to cure her daughter's chronic illness: the yew tree. But yew is toxic... |
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. Decades passed in seconds; then the house burned--with me in it. Two years later I learned the house and its history were real... |
"YOU'LL GROW OUT OF THAT": by Graham Donaldson, spring 1924, a rescue dream |
Wading a river at night, I fall in. I'm drowning! But my friend Edward pulls me out. "But Eddie, you're dead!" "No" he says. "You'll grow out of that!"... |
ZEMMYO: by Myoe Shonin; c.1221/4/20, a spiritual Pygmalion dream. |
A doll sent from China breaks into tears over her exile here in Japan. I reassure her and she becomes real... |
ZERO SUM: by Wayan; 1996/5/29, a game-theory dream. |
I'm lecturing to a crowd: "Love's a win-win game, and abuse, lose-lose. But blame is zero-sum..." |
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