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| THE ADMIRAL'S DEATH: by Mary Deane; 1653/6/2, a clairvoyant warning dream. The wife of Admiral Richard Deane dreamt how he died two days before the news arrived... |
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| AELFWINE: by Wayan; 1997/12/4, a dream on dreams. I meet the Child who Dreams the World, go to a lucid-dreaming party, and find the Body under the Bed... |
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AIDA'S TOILET BOAT: by Wayan; 1993/4/7, a psychic dreamtale. A sexy comedian and her troubles down the drain. A dream that turned out to be true... |
| ALICE'S POEM: by Lewis Carroll; 1872, a poem on dreams Are dreams really so ephemeral? Lewis Carroll, who built the Alice books from dream-fragments, wasn't so sure... |
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| ALL HALLOW'S EVE: by (Mrs.) D. M. Barrett; 1904, a psychic dream I dreamt ghosts visited us, and for each scream, a relative would die. Two of us cried out. That morning the first letter came... |
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| AM I EPHEMERAL?: by Wayan; 2006/7/6, a puzzling dream of alienation I live in a colony of long-lived observers of humanity. But am I a human hireling--a short-lived pet--or one of them? |
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| AMAZON A(U)NTS: by Wayan; 1997/10/28, a nightmare. I camp in the Amazon but in the morning find I slept on top of something disturbing... |
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| ANNE SEXTON: by J.D. McClatchy; 1974/10/4, a predictive dream. I dreamt my friend Anne Sexton's death was on the news. I woke, the phone rang, and I learned she'd... CAUTION: SUICIDE |
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| THE ARMS POLICY: by Wayan; 2000/4/7, a nightmare. The government has a harsh policy on armed dissidents. Not the kind of arms you think... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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| ARROW OF FIRE: by Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury and others, 1100/8/1, predictive dreams. Anselm dreams God orders King William's death by an arrow of fire, as the King dreams his blood covers the sun. Waking, he mocks a third man's ominous dream, goes hunting, and dies bloodily at sunset, an arrow in his heart... |
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| THE ARTERIA: by Wayan; 1994/5/24, a raw, personal tale of three nightmares. Hypnotherapy provokes nightmares of body-part shops, secret libelers, and madmen in space... |
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| ATLANTIS; c. 1993 by Mark Doty; six elegiac poems, three dream-based In our marshlands, tides, birds, dogs come and go; but must our friends and lovers, too? CAUTION: AIDS DEATHS |
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| AVENUE OF TREES: by Anonymous #34; July 1911?, early 1924?, March 30, 1934, and January 1947; four death-omen dreams, 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... |
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BABY, I'LL BLOW YOUR MIND: by Wayan; 1995/3/21, a surreal nightmare Allied submarines attack the giant Nazi toddler who's hunting us with sonar, occupying my playroom... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND GUILT |
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BALOLOKONG: by Wayan, 1984/11/13; a Hopi time-travel dream. The Ice Hotel, where all my selves are sealed. Can we thaw Einstein? Balolokong the Rainsnake says... |
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BAND-AIDS: by Bagheera Pardus; c.1985, a lucid re-entered nightmare turned to joy. Giant snakes chased me, but I went lucid, turned and slew one. As I woke, the snakes were crying. So I re-entered the dream and... CAUTION: SNAKES, BEHEADING, REHEADING |
| BARN BURNING: by Denise Levertov; 1929?; a childhood nightmare I'm in a barn full of peaceful animals lit by a golden glow. And then they all blacken, crinkle, and corrugate like burnt paper... |
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| BAYSHORE AND CHARTER: by a Redwood City man; July 1951, a lifesaving predictive urge I burst into tears for no reason and for 15 minutes begged my brother-in-law not to go, then said "It's safe now..." CAUTION: GRUESOME |
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BERYL'S DOG DAYS: by Wayan; 1988/1/25, a psychic dream farce. My friend Beryl wants me to help rob a bank, so she can cut off her breasts and be a great opera singer... |
| BERYL'S KUNDALINI: by Wayan; 1997/8/26, a clarifying dream. My friend Beryl's ghost makes mad love to me--just long enough to swipe my Kundalini energy... CAUTION: SUCCUBISM? |
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| BETTY STOPS BY: by a Kentucky woman before 1961, a farewell visitation dream? I was moved that Betty came to see my two babies despite her illness, but shocked when her father wrote to tell me... |
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| THE BIKE KNIGHTS: by Wayan; 1992/7/6, a cautionary Jungian dreamtale. Two unarmed sisters defeated a dragon who's now slaying an army of knights on bikes. What changed? |
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| BILLIE: by Billie's Mom; 1945/1/20, a psychic warning dream 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 |
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BLACK WINTER: by Jeff Knabel; 1997, a dream-song from a possibly predictive nightmare I dreamed a large meteor had struck the Earth. I found my Dad just as the shockwave hit... CAUTION: APOCALYPSE |
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BLEEDING HEART, the SELF-HEALING CORPSE, and IN THE FUTURE DESERT:
by Wayan; 250K, 10 illus., 2002/5/29 to July 2004, a diagnostic, predictive dream-series. A tree-girl moves to Hollywood to make film deals, but jealousy stabs her... CAUTION: BLOODY ASSAULT, GAY DRYADS, MUTANT NUDITY |
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BLOODY STYX!: by Wayan; 1989; digital painting of nondream vision. What I saw in the river bordering the land of the dead... CAUTION: GORE, BUT RESTRAINED, TASTEFUL GORE |
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BLUE SOUP, NO SPARK: by Wayan; 115K, 1985/6/1, a dream epic. A visit to a world where they fear blue soup ends in death and resurrection, so I'm pissed at my boss--God. CAUTION: DEATH, REBIRTH, SACRILEGE, JOB BURNOUT |
| THE BOAT IS SINKING: by Mrs Griffiths; 1734/8/6, a recurrent warning dream Mrs Griffiths has the same nightmare three times before she asks her nephew to skip a fishing trip... |
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| BODY-SWITCH: by Wayan; 2000/6/10; a dream of a castaway soul Spies kidnap a girl and move her soul into a madwoman's body. Can she survive? Recover? Even thrive? |
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| BONES DON'T LIE: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/13, a gruesome nightmare on guilt. I know I'm a murderer; what isn't so clear is what I killed and why... CAUTION: DISMEMBERMENT, GUILT, DREAD |
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| BOTH MOURN, BOTH DIE: by "J.H., Esquire", 1694/12/9, a double premonitory dream J.H. dreamt both his mother and Queen Mary appeared in mourning. Within days, both were dying... |
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THE BOULDER DISSOLVES: by Myoe Shonin; mid Dec. 1230, an old monk's dream of liberation I was trapped inside a boulder, but as I chanted it melted around me until it resembled a discarded skin... |
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BURN THE EGGS: by Wayan; 2008/1/20; a magical advisory nightmare with 15 sketches. Fighting a theocracy, my dragon-soul burns the church's dragon-nursery. The cost is terrible: a black vortex... CAUTION: ROMANTIC THREESOME GETS BURNED |
| BUTLER'S CROSSING: by David's father; 1941/8/24, a (heeded or unheeded?) warning dream He saw a vehicle coming toward him at great speed. The light was so bright it blinded him. He screamed to his son... |
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| CALPURNIA'S DREAM: by Calpurnia, wife of Caesar; 44BC/3/14, a warning. The night before Julius Caesar's assassination, his wife dreamed of his death and tried to warn him, but politics... |
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| CART WITH HUSBAND: by Mrs. T, before 1961, a predictive nightmare I stood at my front door as a cart came by, drawn by a white horse, on its way to the hospital. In that cart was my husband.... CAUTION: ANGUISH, DEFEAT, PREDESTINATION |
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A CAT AND HER GIRL: by Wayan; 1979/5/15, a deep little dream. I'm a doctor in the future, trying to heal the neurolink between a girl and her cat... |
| CHASM by Nancy Price; 1948, a telepathic nightmare. The scenery's so lovely my mother's lured over a cliff! As I wake in my flat, someone dies of a fall out a nearby window... |
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| CLAIRAGONY: by a Philadelphia woman, August 1951, a sympathetic heart attack with one crucial error in its ESP I had a heart attack--but in minutes, it vanished! Then the phone rang. I knew at once my dying mother was gone. But... |
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| CLOCKS STOP, CLOCKS START: by an Indiana family, 1953/10/3, and a Florida family, before 1961; similar psychokinesis accounts Indiana: Father's favorite clock, a cuckoo clock, stopped at exactly the time he died... Florida: an old clock (silent for years) started ticking loudly at 10:20, the time of my husband's death the day before... |
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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 |
| COLLAR OF GOLD: a Welshman of Kemmeis District; 1180s? A recurring dream of treasure A rich man dreamt thrice that hidden in St Berner's Well near his house was a golden collar. He reached in and... CAUTION: OW |
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THE COMING DARK: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 2002/3/2; dream-paintings about one disaster averted, and another... not. I climb down from a desert cliff before night strands me; but reckless adolescent games in town lead to a crash... |
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A CONVERSATION WITH ANOREXIA: by Wayan; 1994/6/25; two wild shamanic dreams. That day I read Hilde Bruch's "Conversations with Anorexics" and face the fact I am one. That night, in the land where anorexic horses heal, I enter the Kiva of Shamanic Pamphlets, and... |
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CORPSE-BUG: by Wayan; 200K, 1994/12/1, an allegorical sex nightmare. I'm a hippie girl in San Francisco, in hard times. To escape the Four Horsemen, I lie down with Death... CAUTION: GANGS, CREEPY SEX |
| THE CREEK: by Louisa E. Rhine; c. 1925? a lifesaving predictive dream I dreamed I was camping by a creek. I went to get the soap and returned to find my baby son face-down in the water... |
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CROSS THE BLACK RIVER ONE DEATH AT A TIME: by Wayan; 1990? Astral landscape Buddhism is a 12-step program; it has its pitfalls for those of us who already detach all too easily... |
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CRYSTAL AND GUNSEL: by Wayan; 1997/7/2, a nightmare--psychic or not? Gunsel kills my friend Crystal in a flaming aircar crash. But that's not enough--he comes back, and... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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CYCLES AGO: dream by Maud Gonne, poem by WB Yeats; late July 1891, a dream-poem on reincarnation. We were as if brother and sister of old in the desert land; they sold us in slavery together before this life had begun... |
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DAD'S DATES: by Wayan; 2008/8/17, a dream poem, Dreamverse #8. After my mom's death, my dad starts dating again, while I hide out and wince. Can't I do anything positive? |
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DALI SKETCH: by Wayan; 1983/12/12; a surrealist nightmare. I dreamed I saw what looked like an ink sketch by Dali of a horse--but I was dead wrong... CAUTION: YUCK |
| THE DARII: by Wayan; 1994/8/15, a psychic dream of another life . I'm trying to prevent a race war, but can I kill someone I admire? And if so, can I live with it? CAUTION: VIOLENCE, RACISM, GUILT |
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| DEAD, ALIVE, DEAD: by a Minnesota teacher; well before 1960, a predictive... something. Mrs Brown was dead; I recalled helping at her bedside. But my mother insisted she was alive, and that I'd never met her! Then... |
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| THE DEAD BABY: by Wayan; 1985/8/4 a dream of hope. My sister gives birth during a killer heatwave. The baby's dead. I play with the body, like a chimp... CAUTION: GROSS |
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| DEAD, NOT STUPID: by Wayan; 2000/1/20, a (psychic?)dreamtale. My little sisters tell the detectives, "Daddy's ghost has a message for you" but they don't listen... |
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DEAD OR ALIVE? by Nancy Price; 1948, a surreal, poetic dream from the borderzone Troutmet the moon-pigeon, Burtra the blackbird, a talking acacia, and my dead dad and gardener give me afterworld-advice... |
| DEATH CHANTY: by E.M. Martin's friend; 1914/9/21, a psychic dream An endless parade of drowned sailors sing a dirge, the dreamer wakes in tears... and then the news arrives. |
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THE DIEBACK: by Wayan; 1998/10/12, an ecological warning dream. A plague begins on terraformed Mars and spreads to Earth. Population biology made it inevitable... CAUTION: OFFSTAGE POPULATION CRASH |
| DISSECTING PESSIMISM: by Wayan; 1997/4/14, a stubbornly educational nightmare . A serial killer stalks our office, and our bosses deny it. When we defend ourselves, things turn weird... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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THE DOCTOR KILLS A TERN: by Wayan; 1988/9/24. A dream poem, Dreamverse #4 Dr Who kills his best friend, a huge white tern, on a whim. Furious, I demand a rewrite... CAUTION: WANTON MURDER |
| DON'T SHOOT THE IBEX: by Jane Doe; 2005/8/9, a hunting dream. My hunting license won't let me legally shoot a giraffe or ibex, but I do bag a prime Macy's salesman... CAUTION: LICENSE TO KILL |
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| DOUBLE DREAM: by "Anonymous #23 & 24"; before 1963, two clearly linked false-predictive dreams--but who influenced who? Mother and daughter both dream Mum runs over a little girl. Next morning she spots the girl in the road and misses her. But bystanders seem not to see the child... |
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| DREAMKU, MARCH 2007: by Roswila; various dates up to March 2007; 31 dream-poems--some longer forms than haiku Dream poems laid out like a calendar. Themes? Horses, camels, abused girls, vampires--all want their freedom... |
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| DREAMKU, APRIL 2007: by Roswila; various dates up to April 2007; 30 dream-poems--mostly haiku but some longer Dream haiku laid out like a calendar. Roswila's favorite is the pirate, but mine is the were-salamander... |
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| DUCK HUNT: by Craig, age 4; 1950/11/18, an ignored predictive nightmare "I dreamed you were in the water, Daddy. There was tall grass all around, and you kept trying to come out of the water to me..." |
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EEL TOWER: by Wayan; 1981/4/23, a dream of longing. I dreamed living in a body of flesh is like being trapped on a sinking cruise ship... CAUTION: NUDITY (but she's just crying, not giving that guy a blowjob, okay?) |
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THE EGG PROBLEM: by Wayan; 1990/3/2, digital painting of a magical dream. I was a intellectual ballerina trying to stop zombie monsters from hatching out of the Earth... |
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EMADRO: by Wayan; 1983/6/4, a wild dream on clinging--and letting go. An elephant sinks in the North Sea, and the Oracle Mink says a wizard did it. Can old Lady Gandalf help? |
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EXPERIMENT WITH TIME by Nancy Price; 1948, a shamanic-initiation dream declined? 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... |
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FAIRY WIFE: by Wayan; 1985/1/17, an epic dream of love and choice. A fairy woman and a mortal man? Can't work! They're flighty, we're crude. Doomed, right? Well, some people are so sure of it they decide to help things along a bit. Or a lot... |
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THE FEARFUL INSECT by Nancy Price; 1948, an episodic circular nightmare unified by a leitmotif A bug with a horse-skull face reappears in scene after scene of this dream of sabotage and betrayal. I only know I feared it... |
| FERDINAND'S ASSASSINATION: by Joseph Lanyi; 1914/6/28, a historic predictive dream. Lanyi dreamed in detail of the assassination of his friend Archduke Franz Ferdinand hours before it happened... |
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| F.I.P: by Dr A (c.1947), a Cambridge man (1960?), a London girl (c.1916) and a Midlands mum (July 1958) Examples of inexplicable moods that appear (after the fact) to be reactions to future events... |
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| FLYING MACHINE: by George B. Burgin, c.1860 on, a recurrent flying dream Whenever I'm stressed, I build a set of luna-moth wings and fly invisibly. Though once a blind man caught me by ear... |
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| FOOT ON THE GAS: by Wayan; 1982/3/16, a creepy little warning dream. My car's idling too fast. After hours of diagnosis, I notice a foot's on the gas! Only it's not MY foot... |
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| A FOUNTAIN IN THE ARMENIANS: by Pauline Ramsey; early July 2006, a clairvoyant dream? I spoke a proverb I'd never heard of when I woke. So I Googled it, and found it had meaning--dark meaning... CAUTION: TURKISH JINGOISTS WILL NOT LIKE THIS DREAM |
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| FRANKLIN'S NECK: by a dying Kansas grandmother; 1953/7/5, an unheeded warning nightmare "Oh no" she moaned. "I don't want Frankie to go to that camp. He must not go there." She began to cry... |
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| FREUD WAS SOME WRONG ABOUT DREAMS, and THE AUTUMN BREEZE: by John Berryman; ca. 1967, two of his surreal Dream Songs. After a year of intense dreamwork, Berryman rejects Freud and accepts open-ended dreaming... CAUTION: SIXTIES STONER REBELLING AGAINST SPELLING... and grammar... and punctuation... |
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| GENNADIUS: by Gennadius, ca. 415 AD, apparently the first recorded lucid dream Gennadius re-dreams a previous dream, prompting him to notice he's dreaming. His guide points out the spiritual implications... |
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GET YOUR BODY BACK: by Wayan; 1997/6/11, a dreamed parable. A man dies--his body's chopped up. He ends in Hell. But he's a stubborn guy; he wants his body back. So... |
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GHOST DOGS: by Wayan; 107K, digital comic of a 1993/4/2 dream of temptation. I meet a wolf who invites me to join Dr Who's pack of sexy Ghost Wolves. There's just one catch... CAUTION: FLIRTATIOUS WOLVES |
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GHOSTS PUSH TOWARD THE SUICIDE DOOR: by Wayan, 1997/8/7, a nightmare that wants a break. I live in a haunted house where ghosts push you to suicide. But they're as tired of it as I am... |
| THE GIANTESS OF THVERA: by Viga-Glum Eijolfsson of Iceland; early 940s?, a very public clairvoyant dream. Viga-Glum dreamt a giant spirit asked to enter his home. "She must be the spirit-guide of my grandfather in Norway. He is dead... |
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| GRAVE: by Wayan; 1999, a poem of everyday life, if this is your everyday life. So I looked out my window and saw this guy burying a tiny robed woman in a trench in the street... |
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| GRAVESTONE: by "Miss S."; late 1930s-1946, a recurring clairvoyant/predictive nightmare I'm walking up a churchyard path. My long hair clings to me, damp. Horses wander aimlessly. I'm irresistably drawn to a graveside... |
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GRIEF KIVA: by Wayan; 1980/2/16, a lucid psychic dream. In a Hopi underworld, I find even lucid dreaming can't cure guilt and grief over losses yet to come... |
| HAIL AND FAREWELL by Nancy Price; 1947/6/6, a revenant dream-message A dying colleague haunts me all night. He says "crossings are often unpleasant" but death's not bad... |
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| HEAD ON MY TABLE: by Lauren Watley; 2011/2/16, a creepy dream-image with depth After a day of troubling conflicts over race and art, I dream I'm handed a hot, heavy, mossy head--is it art, or is it alive? |
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| HEADLINES: by "Anonymous #21"; 1942/8/4, 1954/1/1, and 1958/8/16, a set of psychic newsflashes All my life I've had sudden visions showing violent deaths accompanied by headlines naming the victims... |
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HEDGEHOG AND WHITE RABBIT: by Wayan; 1972/12/1, a dream love story. Hedgehog and White Rabbit stick together, through the snipers on Broadway, through the dogs of winter, through cannibal soup... |
| HEIRESS AND MORTAL: by Wayan; 2011/2/16, a dark advisory dream I'm a misfit--a mortal in an immortal world. Then I meet a girl with an unpredictable illness... |
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HELL CAFE: by Wayan; 2009/10/21, a dream poem w/sketch; Dreamverse #62 A Buddhist scroll shows me Hell Cafe, where diners become entrees. But I read the scroll backwards! You can escape Hell just by walking out, against the traffic flow... CAUTION: CANNIBAL SOULS |
| HELL HALL: by Anonymous #3; c.1920?, a dream of initiatory cannibalism A revival meeting goes bad--hell gapes, suicides jump, mutton turns out not to be. If you sup with the devil, carry a long fork... |
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HER HAND ON THE MANTEL: by Frederick Greenwood; before 1894; a disowned predictive dream Greenwood dreams he finds a severed hand on a mantelpiece. The next day it happens! But he sees no moral, so he dismisses it... |
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HORSEFALL... AND WORSE: by Wayan; 1997/5/15, a political nightmare. Corruption in my town causes a bizarre death. But is that all? I smell smoke--will the city burn? |
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HOT TO TROT, or, BRAIN TRAUMA, or, HUMPIN' THE HOG, or, SAD-EYED SWAN OF LOVE: by Wayan; 120K, 1993/8/4, a wild dreamtale. I'm a mare, hot to trot in the Big City (and get laid), but my gay Star Trek friend's brain trauma has made her a clueless alien with a bo(a)ring sexlife--until a certain swan enfolds her in love... CAUTION: ALIEN POSSESSION, CARTOON PIG SEX, SMOKING SWANS |
| HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT: by Wayan; 1994/4/3, a dark dream. As my grandmother is dying, I have a dream about what really went on in her house... CAUTION: CHILD SLAVERY |
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| HOW TO SURVIVE NUCLEAR WAR: by Maxine Kumin; early 1980s, a dream poem. In Japan, sick in bed, reading a book on radiation sickness, I dream of a restorative ritual for trees... CAUTION: GRUESOME |
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| HOWARD ANY TIME NOW: by Alice; before 1961, a predictive dream of a ghost calling. My dead father said "We are looking for Howard any time now. We'll be glad to see him but sorry for the ones he left..." |
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| HUCK FINN'S WISH: by Wayan; 1995/12/8, a dream of flight and sabotage. A mysterious stranger offers free wishes to the kids of Hannibal, Missouri. Tom Sawyer wants to fly, but... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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HUNG BY ELDER: by Wayan; 1997/7/30, a nightmare. A disowned heiress and I sneak onto the family estate, but they'll go pretty far to hide their skeletons... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
| HUNTERS' FIRE: by Wayan; 1997/9/8, a nightmare that may be a memory. I'm an orphan shot at by hunters. They shoot my sister! But no one believes me... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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| I DIED AND WALKED AMONG THE LIVING: by Starvibes, 2013/1/4, a warning dream? My one-year-old daughter and I hardly notice when a truck kills us. Unseen, I calmly observe the alarm of the living... |
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I OVERSLEPT: by Wayan; 1992/6/12, a dream of loss. I oversleep more than usual, and wake to find a friend is dead. Or more than one. Maybe... everyone? |
| IDI AMIN: by Ben Bamber; 2007/6/25, a possibly predictive dream I was teaching a class on democracy in Africa when Idi Amin walked in. The crowd turned violent, but then... |
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IN EL RIO: by Wayan; 1994/5/14, a singles nightmare. My family runs a bar. I walk through, after hours. Who are all these silent figures? CAUTION: UNHEALTHY READING FOR SINGLES |
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IN THE STAR; 1988/9/12 by Wayan; an epic, out-of-body, intrastellar quest-dream I tour the heart of a red supergiant, where dreaming souls explore their heart's desires unconstrained by matter... CAUTION: SWEDENBORGIAN VISON PLUS NUDE UNICORNS AND LEMURS |
| THE INCEST DREAM: by Maxine Kumin; 1979? a dream-poem While my brother was dying, I had a succession of vivid premonitory dreams about him...But I was in no way prepared for... |
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| INSURANCE: by a young widow; 1947, a dream of lucrative ghost advice Soon after my husband's death, I dreamed he pointed at a small black bag I'd stored unopened. I found it held insurance policies... |
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| IT'S A DEAD MAN'S PARTY: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a nightmare of identity. I find myself at a creepy party supporting a dead man who's running for office. And am I Dan Quayle? CAUTION: HORROR BEYOND HORROR. YOU ARE DAN QUAYLE. |
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| JACK DANIELS: by Wayan; 1983/10/14, three short dreamtales. Three dream-reactions to a (real) psychic experiment that went badly awry... |
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| JAKE'S MAGIC CARPET; 2006/12/12 by Zhea Zarecor; a poltergeist experience and a reconciliation dream that grew to something more Not long after Jake died, I dreamed he took me on a magic carpet ride. Since then, I've been flying... |
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JESSE'S DEATH: drawn by Joey Epstein from her father-in-law's dream; 1983/7/31, an apparent psychic dream At the exact minute Joey's infant daughter Jesse died, her father-in-law woke up 500 miles away and announced, "The baby..." |
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JOHN SAYS GOODBYE: by Mary Fleener; August 1973?, 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 |
| JUMP OVERBOARD: by Graham Greene; 1925/12/11, a possibly psychic nightmare. Wednesday night I dreamed I had to jump overboard... that night there was a wreck off the Yorkshire coast in a storm and the captain ordered his men to jump into the sea... |
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| JUST KNOWING: by a St Louis woman; summer 1934 and 1941/11/20, two very pure ESP experiences 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... |
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KARMA AND HER SISTERS: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/27, a happy sexy flying dream that turned tragic. One boring lonely day, I meet a cute teenage bunny who wants to play with me! But half an hour later… CAUTION: LANGUAGE, INTERSPECIES FLIRTING, AND LOSS |
| KELLY FIELD: by an air cadet, 1941; an almost-lifesaving dream. I dreamed a plane took off northeast, and flipped by the main hangar, killing two men. I forgot the dream until the wind swung round... |
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THE KEROUAC TREE: by Wayan; 2 ill., 1983/3/18, a dream of fame and time. The true story of the very first tree-hugger. Not Kerouac! You'll never guess. In fact, you'll say it's impossible... |
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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... |
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KING-MAKERS: by Wayan; 2000/2/21, a dream of mediation. I'm a political aide to the leader of a hot-tempered, clawed, fanged alien people. And then my boss dies... |
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THE LADY BATHES IN GRIEF: by Wayan; 1983/5/31, a long-haul psychic dream. Why'd a spirit-woman come to our reservation to mourn a drowned guy? Her mirrors & candles tell us... |
| THE LAST MASS: by E.M. Martin; 1914/11/23, a dream of war invading a peaceful dreamland For years Martin's dreams were all set in a peaceful parallel world. He hoped it was immune from WWI, but... |
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LATER IN THE DAY, WE'LL CROSS OVER: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/7/16; a painting from the Box of Dreams I know we will cross the water surrounding the heart of Jerusalem, but not yet... |
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THE LEOPARD'S CLUE: by Wayan; 2012/3/17, an incubated advisory dream. My boyfriend, a leopard, sniffs out a clue to an old murder involving me in a past life. But did I witness, die, or kill? |
| LET THERE BE LIGHT by Nancy Price; 1948, a nightmare of helplessness Snakebite! I'm hooked to a health-monitor. If a red light comes on, I'm doomed. But voices start whispering... |
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| LIFE FORCE: by Patagia; 2006/8/9 & 8/31, three career-advice dreamlets Out of a Campbell's soup can poured life force: someone's last breath... |
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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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| LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION DREAM: by Abraham Lincoln, ca.March 31 1865, a predictive nightmare. Lincoln dreamed his body was lying in state in the White House. A guard said he'd been assassinated. Two weeks later, he was... |
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A LOVE AFFAIR: by David B.; 1993/3/23, a 11-page comic of a dark dream My lover's face is shadowed and we are never alone together. Things slip from film-noir to open nightmare when... CAUTION: SEX, DEATH, GUILT |
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MARJANE: by Wayan; 180K, 11 watercolors, 2005/6/3, a nightmare about... articide? I'm cartoonist Marjane Satrapi. I passively tag along with friends (and a fiancé I tend to forget) in the Mission District of San Francisco. But they blunder into real trouble... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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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 |
| THE MEGARA INN: by an Arcadian Greek c.200 BC; two dreams that fail to prevent but do solve a murder A traveler dreams his friend's attacked, but he discounts it. Next he dreams his friend begs him to expose the killer at least... |
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| MELTDOWN BABY: by Wayan; 1996/10/13, a guilty nightmare. In a Mormon future, my baby climbs a tree and spontaneously disintegrates! I try repotting, but... CAUTION: BAD PARENTING |
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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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| MEOPHAM AIR DISASTER: by G.H.M. Holms; 1930/7/18, a surreal predictive dream Suddenly, out of the clouds, a man came shooting down, head first, at a terrific pace. He landed on his head with a sickening... CAUTION: GRISLY |
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MICMAC TOWERS: by Wayan; 2011/6/12, a quietly predictive surreal dream I dream squatters build surreal towers in a city of junk. I wake, go to a movie, and see... |
| MISCARRIAGE: by John Donne; 1612, a clairvoyant hallucination. Donne, in Paris, was alarmed by a vision of his wife holding a dead baby. At that hour, in England, his wife... |
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MOM THE ALIEN: by Wayan; 1981; a nightmare on family Many kids have nightmares that their parents AREN'T their real parents. I dreamed my parents ATE my real parents... CAUTION: HUNGRY MONSTERS |
| MOM THE MURDERER: by Wayan; 1996/3/7, a possible psychic dream. My mom confesses to a killing, says tearfully she had to do it--but her reasons make no sense. When I wake.. |
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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... |
| 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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| A MORAL CANNIBAL: by Wayan; 1995/2/15, a dream on logic and hunger. A cannibal friend of mine is shocked at our burial customs, and argues his case in court using crabs... |
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| MOTHER SUPERIOR: by Wayan; 1999/2/18, a nightmare with psychic tinges. A creepy visit to the Leather Nuns: as fierce as Beorn in The Hobbit, but less hospitable... |
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THE MUMMY: by Wayan; 2003/10/13, a Rarebit Fiend nightmare. A horror film and Rick Veitch's dream-comix provoke a nightmare warning me that guilt about my dad is wrecking my life... |
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THE MURDERS: by four Wayans! 50K, 1971/7/14; a family has simultaneous psychic nightmares. Nearly everyone in my family dreams of a mass murder as it happens nearby. But my dad's sure it's his own evil id, and my mom clams up, and my sister forgets. And me? I doubt the whole thing for ten years, until... CAUTION: NIGHTMARE VIOLENCE |
| MURDERS IN HAYWARD: by Anonymous #5; c.2002 or 2003, a psychic nightmare. I dream I live in Hayward, California. One day my family's murdered. A few years later I find that dream-street is real... |
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| MY HUSBAND'S DEATH: by Gertude Pritchard; 1922, a predictive dream I dreamed I made my way through a great crowd to find my husband lying dead behind velvet curtains. Two years later... |
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MY SINE-FRIEND: by Wayan; 1984/3/6, an emotional dream of time and rebirth. An animal-girl I know lives like a sine-wave, first forward in time, then backwards, dying at every zero... |
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MYRNA, LOOK AHEAD: by Myrna, drawn by her daughter Joey Epstein; before 1988, a dream of a revenant ghost’s advice After Myrna’s husband gave up diabetes treatments to die at home, one night she felt him behind her in bed, and he whispered... |
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MYSTERY BETWEEN: by Wayan; 1980s, crayon and acrylic drawing on dreamnesia. Okay, you got your heaven, and your earth, and between, you got... |
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NAIAD AND GOD-DOG: by Wayan; 1980/11/7, a manipulative dream-tragedy. I love a Naiad who's lost her God. Tragedy strikes us. I'm devastated till I meet the aliens who explain... |
| NED'S KISS by Ned's mom and sister Ethel; before 1961, cledonic dreams of a playful revenant I wished I could kiss my son farewell. That week, Ethel called. "I dreamed Ned kissed you, not me! I was hurt. He laughed like anything and kissed me too..." |
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| NEW BRIGHTON MURDER: by Annie Howie Mudie; 1912/12/20, a sloppily oracular dream Someone said "There's been a murder in the Victoria Hotel, and the murderer slept in your house." Three weeks later... |
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| NEWS AT ELEVEN: by a widow-in-process; 1948/10/27, a somatized empathic waking nightmare My heart suddenly began beating like a sledge hammer. I couldn't imagine what was happening, and got very frightened... |
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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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| NOT A NICE DAY: by Gladys Clarke; 1925/3/18, an aural premonition All day I expected a terrible scream, but had no idea why until I heard it. A woman in flames came out of her house... |
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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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| NOT THREE!: by Wayan; 1996/11/11, an encouraging nightmare I was wrong. I didn't survive three assassins. It's been seven! Why'd I forget the others? |
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| NUKING HOOVER: by Wayan; 1997/2/16, a dreamtale about illness. J. Edgar Hoover, founder of the FBI, stages a coup. Do we accept him as dictator, or nuke Washington? CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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| OLD AND IN THE WAY: by Wayan; 1999/5/3, a veiled predictive dream. On a dead-end street, I meet a beautiful psychic and fight a tentacled monster that's stalked me for years... |
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ORIOLE GIRL: by Wayan; 100K, 7 illus., 1992/1/23, a poem telling a psychic dream. While conducting a census of fairies in Golden Gate Park, I fall in love with an abused oriole-angel, and we try to heal each other... CAUTION: AWKWARD SEX |
| ORPHEUS AND POOH: by Wayan; 1972/4/9, an early dream epic. I meet my true love during a coup. We go through Hell together, like Orpheus and Eurydice--only we... |
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| THE OTHER ROOM by Nancy Price; 1948, a predictive dream 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... |
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| THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS by Anonymous #35; summer 1934, a psychic dream The engine pinned a young man under it and a crowd gathered. But no one noticed the girl on the other side of the tracks... |
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| OUR GOVERNOR: by Wayan; 1990/3/28, an anti-death-penalty dream. I force the governor's chief aide to tour the new prisons for us artists, fags, and niggers. He's appalled--but how many more noses must I rub in the governor's racism? |
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| PARLOR GAME: by a bridge builder's wife; before 1961, a party game interrupted by a real premonition I had fun playing fortuneteller, until David. My hands turned icy and my whole body tensed. I asked "Where are you going?"... |
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PEGGY'S CAKE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; l998/10/26 , a nightmare plus surrealist painting. At a party I meet a friend I thought was dead. She's become a small talking rabbit made of cake, and I... CAUTION: UGH |
| MR. PERCEVAL'S MURDER: by John Williams; 1812/5/2-3, a recurrent predictive dream. Thrice I saw the Chancellor of the Exchequer shot in the House of Commons. I nearly went to London to warn him, but... |
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| POISONED!: by Wayan; 1994/6/20, three linked dreams. Poison takes many forms, from attitudes to environmental by-products to actions done deliberately... |
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| THE POLYGAMOUS PILOT: by Wayan; 1990/9/25, a psychic dreamtale. My friend the Polygamous Pilot is up in an ice-storm, hanging powerlines on the sky, when... |
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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... |
| PULLED UNDER: by Wayan; 1976/4/15, a nightmare. One by one, we're pulled under the water, the earth... eaten. That's the fate of all flesh. And we're flesh. CAUTION: HORROR |
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| R101 AIRSHIP CRASH: by R.W. Boyd; 1930/10/3, a predictive dream A large airship crashed onto a hilltop and burst into flame, silhouetting people who tried to escape, but... |
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RAZOR GHOST: by Wayan; 1974/5/5, a nightmare posing a problem. A man slowly walled in by neighbors till he died, is now a mad, murderous ghost. And he's me! Can I exorcise MYSELF? CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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THE RED BARN MURDER: by Ann Marten, c. 1827/12/15 and early 1828; two possibly psychic dreams Ann Marten kept dreaming that her stepdaughter had not eloped but was buried under a nearby red barn... CAUTION: MURDER |
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THE RED SPHERE: by Madeline; 2006/12/13, twin (diagnostic? psychic?) nightmares Calmly, I watch a girl trapped in a lab try to escape, and die; and watch a man lose his head to a hungry thing... CAUTION: GRUESOME |
| REQUIEM FOR GINGER: MAGNIFICAT: by Lily; 2008/1/31, a dream on facing loss. I dream I'm telling a tall tale about a cat-funeral with hung-over mice pulling the hearse. But it all turns a bit too real... |
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| RIB-CRUSHER: by Robert Southey; 1823/10/5, a nightmare leaving traces I was in the grave. Worse, a living skeleton was trying to crush my ribs. Though terrified, I fought back, and... |
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THE RINGMAN'S SQUIRREL: by Wayan; 13K, 1982/9/17, a dream of a time after us. One day, in the ruins of an American city whose name was lost, I met a Ringman under an oak... CAUTION: GROSS WORK, IF YOU CAN GET IT |
| THE ROWAN: by Graham Greene; 1921, a possibly psychic nightmare. The ship I was on going down in the Irish Sea. It was not till yesterday, looking at an old paper, I saw about the sinking of the Rowan in the Irish sea... |
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| RUBBISH: by Naguib Mahfouz; dreamed 2001? A dream of advice from the dead. My dead friend lost patience with the local dump, so I beat the trash--and out came shining people... |
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SALIA AND CHUR: by Wayan; 1989/2/25, a psychic Star Trek dream. Our starship signs up a strange new woman whose quirks turn out to be fallout from slavery... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES |
| SASQUATCH FOOTPRINT: by Roswila; May 1996, a dream-poem on the loss of wildness I meet a female Bigfoot, who, to my surprise, quietly speaks my tongue. She's mourning the death of her infant son... |
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SATANIC LION'S WARNING: by Eldon B.; 2007/1/19, a nightmare with poltergeist activity I fled a demon into a shadowy construction zone where an even worse telepathic lion-devil lured me in with soothing flattery. I woke shaking--and then things in my room began to move... CAUTION: DEMONS, POLTERGEIST PHENOMENA |
| SCHNEIDER TROPHY CRASH: by J. Lloyd-Owens; c. 1931/8/1, an overwhelming premonition As a newsreel showed a Navy flier for the Schneider Trophy Air Race, I felt a violent shock and said "He's going to be killed..." |
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| THE SEA WOLF'S BRAIN: by Wayan; 1999/11/21, a psychic dream. For years the Sea-Wolf enslaved me. He said I had to fight him and win to be free. I'm ready at last... |
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| SEARCHING FOR THE DEAD: by Acucena Q., 2007/3/4, a puzzling quest dream. I searched rivers and lakes around the world for someone dead. But the living people I met were as strange as ghosts... |
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| THE SELL-FISH WITCHES: by Wayan; 1983/6/29, a dreamtale. My sister and I are runaways, developing psychic powers. A cult of fish-selling witches wants to use us... CAUTION: SIBLING INCEST, SPELL ABUSE |
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| A SHARP CLICK: by Herbert W., 1932/5/30, apparent spirit-rapping My friend Mr D. was interested in psychic research but skeptical about psychokinesis. But 24 hours after his own death... |
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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... |
| SISTER TO LIFE: by Edwin Muir; c.1920, a dream of shamanic healing The glow seemed to come from within her, but I knew it flowed from my own breast. Her eyes fluttered... |
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THE SKULLS AND CORN: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 1989/1/10, painting of an initiatory dream. I'm shown corn plants growing from skulls, and it seems like I must plant some skull-corn myself... |
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SLEEPING BEAUTY: by Wayan, 1999/8/22, a warning dream on quitting too soon. A girl lies dreaming in the street; no one can wake her. At last I yell "Face it, she's dead!" But is she? I never try a kiss... |
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SO TIRED OF MY BONES: by Wayan; 1999/9/13. Ink painted on with cardboard wedges; acrylic wash. In my drawing class it was antlers and bones and skulls, death death death till I was tired of MY bones... |
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SPEAKING FERN: by Wayan; 1991/3/25, a dream-prank. A dead fern in my backyard starts sending me messages in some strange language... |
| A SQUARE IN THE HAND: by Anna Kingsford; 1887/4/12, an epic dream with an end-twist I'm a French revolutionary facing the firing squad. But palmistry predicted I'll face death yet be strangely saved... |
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| STARFISH: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 1985; a multileveled, doubly predictive dream A sacred starfish piloting a Cessna plane survives a crash. But can it survive a boy's clumsy rescue efforts? |
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| THE STARMONT TRIATHLON: by Wayan; 1984/7/2, a magical marathon dream. I meet the Red God of Running and Holly Golightly; we're all in the triathlon up the world's greatest peak: |
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| STAY ON THE SIDEWALK: by a Utah boy, before 1961, a flawed warning nightmare He said "Oh, Mom, I had a terrible dream. A car ran me down." I said we could not live by dreams or we live a life of horror... |
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| STICK IT BACK ON: by Wayan; 1980/7/15, a scattered dream still hiding a point. The tollman on the new bridge to the Land of the Dead revives a beheaded woman by RANDOM action... |
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| STOCKDEN'S MURDER: by Elizabeth Greenwood; Dec 1695-Jan 1696, at least six ghost-dreams solving a murder. Greenwood was repeatedly haunted by her murdered neighbor's ghost. His detailed tips helped her catch his three killers... |
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| THE STROKE: by Lesa; 2005/6/1, a predictive dream A vivid nightmare that turned out a week later to be devastatingly true ... |
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THE STYGIAN SENTINELS: by SAO (Shawn Allen O'Neal); 1970s, a recurring astral dream. The couple guarding the bridge over the River Styx, the Crocodile King and the Geisha Queen, rarely seemed to agree... |
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SUDDEN DEATH: by Cory; 2008/3/1 to 2008/3/14, a series of dreams on a friend's suicide. I've had premonitory dreams of friends' deaths, but never ones clear enough to spur action... |
| SWIMMING CATS: by Starvibes, 2012/1/20, a mysterious dream image Following two cats at night, I watched in amazement as they dove in and swam gracefully across a swimming pool... |
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TAROT: DEATH (Resurrection): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1979. So you die, and to your secular surprise, your soul or psyche (which does after all mean butterfly) metmorphoses into... |
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TED'S DEATH: drawn by Joey Epstein from her aunt's mid-1980s dream; an apparent psychic dream Ted died of CO2 poisoning in Hong Kong. His mom dreamed he came to tell her it was painless. To prove he was real, he told her... |
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TEN THOUSAND MAD GHOSTS: by Wayan; 1996/9/3, a psychic nightmare. A toxic site in Silicon Valley isn't a chemical spill, but angry ghosts, killed in a camp and forgotten... CAUTION: THE CAMP TURNS OUT TO BE REAL |
| TEN YEARS AFTER: by Anonymous #31; before 1951, a predictive dream. I dreamed I drove through snow to my parents' home where my mother lay dead. Ten years later I made an identical journey--but this time for real. |
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| 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. |
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TIBETAN DISASSEMBLY: by Wayan; 2007/7/5, a dream of a desperate ploy A woman in Tibet disassembles herself! A local god hires her spirit, but she uses the office equipment... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
| TITANIC IMAGE: by Graham Greene; 1912/4/14?, a childhood nightmare of the Titanic--before the news came. One image has remained with me for more than sixty years: a man in oilskins bent double under the blow of a great wave... |
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| TITANIC NIGHTMARES: by J. C. Middleton; 1912/4/3 and 4/4, two lifesaving predictive dreams I saw the Titanic go down and people struggling frantically in the water. After my second nightmare I told my wife. She urged me to... |
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| TOASTING FORK: by Charles Dickens, August 1843, a surreal tragicomic dream. A gentleman clad but in a sheet notified me that an old friend had died of a terrible disease. What disease? Well... |
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| TRANSFUSION by a New York woman; 1950s? (over a 5-year span), three predictive dreams I dreamt of the Du Pont lab where I'd work, then the hospital where my sister-in-law would need a transfusion, then my of neighbor's coffin... |
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| TRANSPERSONAL PUPPIES by a dog breeder; before 1961, a cledonic dream of a ghost The stranger seemed to know me. He said "Tell her about the little dogs, it will comfort her." Two weeks later... |
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| TREASURE UNDER STONE, or, OOPS: by Daniel Healy; Jan. 1774, a recurring dream of treasure Daniel thrice dreamt of money hidden under a great stone in a nearby field. He dug and found a surprise... CAUTION: IRISH HUMOR |
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| TRUE LOVE = CHOICE! by Ms. Mira; Jan. 2008, a dream-lesson on compassion and free will. I'm on an alien world inside the minds of two women and a child struggling with moral choices in a civil war... CAUTION: DEATH, LOSS |
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| TWAIN'S BROTHER: by Mark Twain, early May 1858, a premonitory nightmare. My brother Henry lay in a metal casket. He wore a suit of mine. On his breast were white roses, with one red at the centre. A few days later, the boilers of the riverboat Henry worked on exploded... |
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| VARTENA: by Wayan; 1986/9/9, a psychic nightmare. I find myself coaching a violent version of water polo called Vartena. A friend near-drowns. The next day... |
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VERITY'S WINGS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/8/21; a dreampainting from the Box of Dreams My friend Verity's given a beautiful set of wings. I feel envy--until I consider what angel wings can imply... |
| VOTERS GONE CRAZY: by Thomas Madden, c. 2009/2/5; a political nightmare It’s election time in Europe, but the voters have gone crazy. Nazis invade England. In my library, Sarah Palin rots... CAUTION: POLITICS GONE WACKY |
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| VRILLASSA'S ONLY PRIEST: by Jo; 2007/2/10, a dream of meeting God A job as the only priest on an island colony sounded perfect, only I'm the wrong religion... CAUTION: DOGMATISTS AND DEAD BIRDS TALKING |
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| WALTER'S DIVE: by Walter's father; before 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 to warn him... |
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| WAR IN THE RING: by Bruno Oliveira; May 2011, a happy nightmare War, monsters, plague and bombs are just thrills spicing up this city rising from a tropical sea on an alien world... |
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| WE GO IN PEACE: by Florence; before 1961, a telepathic dream-report of another's death experience My father-in-law looked me in the eye and said, 'Florence, the Lord is my shepherd and we go in peace'... |
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| THE WILD HUNT: by Carl Jung; Sept. 1922, a clairvoyant dream. In a dark wood, a gigantic wolfhound tore past me. My blood froze. The Wild Hunt was about to carry away a human soul... |
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WILD W.I.L.D.: by Dream Junkee; 2008/1/19, an epic lucid frustration dream? I'm lucid but paralyzed. A weird child spies on me; is she controlling me? Then I'm having sex--but if I come, I'll wake up! Then some thugs jump me. I make sure they won't bother me again, but... is everyone in this dream out to distract me? CAUTION: SEX, MUGGER-STOMPING |
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WITH WILD AND TURQUOISE EYES: by Joan-lee Woehler; c.1950, a dream-poem on a stubborn shadow I slay the beautiful dragon attacking us, despite my regret. And then, as I sleep, glowing eyes advance on our keep AGAIN... |
| A WORLD DIES WELL: by Wayan; 1981/12/6, a dream of reconciliation. A world-mind I never really liked gets one thing right before it dies, and so I make my peace with it... |
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| WORLD TOUR: by Sharon Boyle; 1937?, a nightmare told to her mom, poet Kay Boyle This little man comes into the chapel, makes a fascist salute, and catches fire. He burns right down to his shoes... |
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