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BOILING MY FRIENDS: by Wayan; 1983/6/7, a nondream poem of letting go. Giving up a circle of friends is like the collapse of a sun--do you dry up like a raisin... or explode? |
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BRETON NUNNERY: by Mabel Morison, August 1911, a dream of a stranger's passing Touring Bretagne, I lodged in a nunnery. At 1 AM I saw by moonlight an old woman at my table. I later learned that old woman died at 1 AM that night; for many years, my room had been hers... |
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CLOCKMAN HEDGEHOG: by Wayan; 1992/10/5; digital sketch of being rejected by my own sex fantasy! I was a man made of clocks trying to get a date with a hedgehog-hair woman... CAUTION: ANOTHER HORNY GUY WHO DOESN'T GET FAR |
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CLOCKS STOP, CLOCKS START: 1953/10/3 and pre-1961; two family reports of psychokinesis Indiana: Father's favorite clock, a cuckoo clock, stopped at exactly the time he died... Florida: an old clock silent for years started up at 10:20, the time of my husband's death the day before... |
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CLOCKTOWER: by Wayan, 1986/4/2, a predictive dreamlet DREAM: a girl peers in my window & flirts with me. But why's she perched on a miniature clocktower? NEXT DAY: on campus, I spot a girl perched on a ledge of a new miniature clocktower. Oh, that's... CAUTION: CHILDHOOD TRAINING: "MEN ARE SCUM" |
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CLOCKTOWN: by Graham Donaldson, Dec. 1924, a surreal dream on time I'm lost in a labyrinth, trying to get to an appointment. What time is it? My watch is gone, and when I ask a watchman he sneers. But clock faces glare down from every wall, saying 4:10. I wake. It's... CAUTION: HOW DID I KNOW? |
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DATELINE WEDNESDAY: by Wayan; 1987/12/27, a dream of the shamanic heartland On Thursdays, in Tungusia, looking at your watch could save your life... CAUTION: DEFAMES SIBERIANS |
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DOVE GIRL: by Carl Jung; c.1912/12/25, the classic anima dream. In a castle, a white bird lands on the table and becomes a little girl who plays with Jung's kids, hugs him, then turns back into a bird, explaining "I can become human only for a few hours of the night, when... |
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FLAYED COLUMN: by Antoine Lavalette, fall 1815; a time-compressed nightmare In prison, the midnight bell chimed. I dreamt I saw a cavalry column of men and horses skinned, gory, still marching. Wagons of the dead passed for hours. As the guard changed, the gate crashed, waking me--just minutes after midnight! CAUTION: PROVES NOT ALL DREAMS ARE REALTIME |
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F--K GRIFFIN: by Wayan; 1993/9/17, an embarrassing advisory dream. It's nice hearing everyone praise my sex crimes, but I need to pull the dog from the golden horn... CAUTION: SEX, LANGUAGE (OBVIOUSLY), GENERAL WEIRDNESS |
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FUTILITY: by Wayan; 1973/11/23, a time-machine dream. I'm Liza Doolittle on Mars. With Mr. Wells's Time Machine. Lost, in fact. Can I get home? Should I? |
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THE GLASS MISSED ITS CUE: by Frederik van Eeden, 1904/9/9, a lucid dream experiment I knew I was dreaming but the world looked quite realistic. I struck a wineglass with all my strength--a risky act, if I were awake. It didn't shatter. But when I looked again, it lay broken! Like an actor who'd missed its cue... |
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GOD'S THREE DIALS: by Wayan; 1992/11/20, a heavenly dream. God built 3 dials to check: body, soul, and time. But the Holy Spirit's lazy, only checks one! It's up to us... |
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HALF PAST FOUR: by J.W. Dunne; 1899, a dream of clocks and time I say it's 4:30 PM; the waiter says 4:30 AM! I wake in the night to find my watch says 4:30, but it's stopped! I wind it, and next morning... |
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ILARYA'S MIRACLE: by Ilarya, c.1639, a suspension of reality in order to... buy a fish? A cranky nun wants fish. Ilarya, the monastery's cook, sets out to buy one--a long walk, and unsafe after dark. So Ilarya asks the sun to halt! She buys her fish, cooks, feeds her patient, and forgets to tell it to set... CAUTION: PETTY, GOOFY, COMMUNITY-BAFFLING MIRACLE |
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A LIFE IN PERCENTAGES: by Wayan; 2013/5/19, a dream about dreams--and timesharing A man I meet leads half a dozen consistent dreamlives--an experience so splintered that it's hard to figure out which life is his waking one... |
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METEOR OR STAR?: by Wayan; 2007/9/17, a dream of uncertainty I'm an anima. But we rarely walk the day-world for long. When will I fade? Ignorance isn't bliss, it's paralysis... |
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NO TRAVELER RETURNS by Nancy Price; 1948/2/2, a predictive dream I don't love my husband, so I'm stranded in the hotel between life & death, from which... |
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THE OBSERVER EFFECT, OR, WATCH THE WATCH: by Wayan; 1997/1/21, a dream of time and opticks. After seeing an Einstein biography I find myself in the bathrooms of Thought-Experiment High, and... CAUTION: DARK SIDE OF AN ICON |
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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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ORBITING MOM: by Wayan; 1997/1/7, an uh-oh dream. I'm trying to get a moontan when my mom appears. My astral body starts orbiting her like a moon. Uh-oh... |
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RAVEN AT 5 O'CLOCK: by Raven and Wayan; 1996/11/30. Shared but stupid psychic dreams. My girlfriend Raven dreams I keep poking her awake, while I dream that a giant raven gives me weird advice... |
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SWALLOWING NUMBERS: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995; a surreal eating dreamlet I was late for something, so I opened my pocket watch and swallowed a bunch of numbers... |
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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: THE MOON (Full Tide: Life): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1979. Time, tide, cycles. In the full phase, life brims over. Time for passion & action... |
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TAROT: THE MOON (Ebb Tide: Memory): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1979. Time, tide, cycles... At ebb, the hourglass drains, the tide recedes, life hides in the cracks... |
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TIME IS A CROC: by Wayan; 1993/3/29, a dream on time. Golfing in the basement with Giselle! But her ball goes through a Stargate to land on a world where the water hazards are hazards... |
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TIMER: by Robert Brust; July 1990; a clockish dream. Subliminal, circadian or psychic? In my dream I worry I'm going to wake up late, so I ask what time it is. Immediately, white digits form in the air saying 10:00. I wake, but can't read my clock until I put on my glasses. It says... |
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THE TOOTH: by SAO (Shawn Allen O'Neal), 2003?, an epic, oracular, baffling dream Psychics give me an incomprehensible reading. A book from the tree-library gives only Victorian dating advice. At last a madman gives me a treasure-box holding a tooth that unfolds into slices carved in unreadable symbols... |
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TRADING PLACES: by Wayan, 1983/6/20, an intuitive flash overriden by rational relatives My sisters want to see Trading Places in the nearest theater. I ask to go to a more distant theater but can't explain why. We arrive to find the showtime had a typo. Gotta wait an hour. At last we file in, the lights go down...and out. Totally out. Power failure! They can't fix it. I never did see that movie... |
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WHISTLE: by Dr William Hammond, c.1865; a self-flagging predictive nightmare On a long steamboat voyage, a living skeleton swaps a warning for my watch; when the whistle sounds, the boiler will blow. As it does, I dive in the river and wake to discover a real whistle... CAUTION: UNCANNY SYNCHRONIZATION? |
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WHOSE DREAM WAS IT?: by Wayan; 2008/10/18, a nested-dream poem, Dreamverse #35. I'm a Chinese kid fleeing the Japanese Occupation in 1938. As we near San Francisco, I wake to find it's all my dad's dream. Wait--he's alive again? But he was never a refugee. Is it a pastlife memory? If so, whose--his or mine? |
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ZILLIONAIRE'S TOWER: by Wayan; 2012/2/9, a financial climbing dream My mild yuppie friend Lou climbs a bank tower to reach his rich mentor, and wins an internship. But as he swears his oath to Get Rich Quick... CAUTION: DISSES CUTTHROAT CAPITALISM |
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