Diagnostic Dreams
RELATED TOPICS: healing advice: dream prescriptions, as opposed to simple diagnosis - weird dream diseases - shamanic dreams - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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ALAN'S OFFICE: by Wayan, 1992/4/28; , a dream advising a different therapist I had a chronic illness doctors said was psychosomatic. So I called Alan, a therapist... I dream I'm in his office. It's a nook in a basement. No windows, no door, no privacy. I was so desperate I went to him for six months, while he ignored everything I said... |
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ANNABEL ROSE: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/14, a ghostbusting dream on... love? sex? what? Edgar Allen Poe confronts his dead girlfriend, who wants to drag him into the grave with her... CAUTION: HUNGRY GHOST, SEX TALK |
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ARCHANGEL: by Wayan; 1997/10/19, a dream-farce--or is it? Sure I've been through hell, but how the hell did that get me elected archangel? And why's my butt itch? CAUTION: ITCHY BUTT |
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ARIEL and THE UNICORN COMMITMENT: by Wayan; 1983/12/26-27, an epic psychic dream & sequel DREAM: to stop an idiotic bout of war-fever, I have to take on the power of the Goddess herself... NEXT DAY: I stumble on a fantasy book, Ariel, full of details straight out of the dream... THAT NIGHT: I sign the Unicorn Commitment, but personalize the magical contract... CAUTION: DISSES REAGAN & SOUTHERN MASCULINITY |
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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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AWAKENING HURTS: by Wayan; 1993/7/4, a dreamtale. An old friend's awakening from anorexic asexuality. Puberty at 30? And wait a minute... is she me? |
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THE AXE OF DEATH: by Catherine McDiarmid Paton; c. 1830, a grisly predictive nightmare. She dreamt Death attacked her but her youngest kids bravely fought back--and died. 3 months later... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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BACKACHE DIALOGUES: by Wayan; 1993/12/10, four bizarre diagnostic dreamlets. I asked my dreams why my back hurt. They told me: pregnancy, marsupial pouches, snapping turtles... |
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BAD NANCY!: by "Nancy"; March 1985, a prodromal/diagnostic dream A second me punches me in the breast. I fight back, yelling "Bad Nancy! Bad Nancy!" Five months later I find a malignancy... |
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BAD SECTORS OF THE PSYCHE: by Anonymous #43; 1996?; a (sarcastic?) dream-diagnosis I'm in psychoanalysis. A diagnostic chart maps which areas of my psyche are bad: nearly all of them. My therapist says "My God, how did your parents raise you?" |
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BAGHEERA SUGGESTS LOVAGE: by Wayan; 1993/7/31, a Jungle Book dream The panther in the Jungle Books was really female. I grew up with her cub... |
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BEAST BIRTHS: by Wayan; 1989/9/19, a predictive dream of family secrets. My family has a hidden gene for incest--and griffins. When I bring the family skeleton from the closet... CAUTION: RAPE, INCEST |
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THE BEES' ANSWER: by Wayan; 1994/8/2, a diagnostic dream. A bee-doctor in the city of Propolopolis diagnoses me as having a rare syndrome, Ambition Denied... |
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BEHIND THE SCREENS: by Wayan; 1984/2/12, a vivid sex dream that hid a warning I hide a catgirl behind Japanese screens. We have hot sex now & then--but usually I ignore her... CAUTION: SEX; NEGLECT |
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THE BEST HOTEL: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; an escalating surrealist dream Rajiv keeps trying to convince me it's the best hotel in India: the orgy of biters, the bowls of twitching fingers. But it's only the oracular spirits that really impress me... CAUTION: CREEPY FINGERS |
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BEWARE OF OVERSTIMULATION: by Wayan; 1980/12/30, odd dream advice. A sex-ghost appears in my bed, but when overstimulated, she tends to fade out. Bad reception!... CAUTION: SEX |
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BIKE FROM A BOMB: by Wayan; 1981/3/14, a bikemare. Idiotically, I bet I can escape an atomic bomb on my bike. Maybe if I ignore stoplights... CAUTION: IRRESPONSIBLE WEAPONS USE |
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BIRD-SENSE: by Wayan; 2013/7/20; Shakespeare improv provokes a dream of having seven senses I dream I have sixth and seventh senses--and wake to realize I do! Just denied them, explained them away... CAUTION: SHAKESPEAREAN HEFT |
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BLONDIE AND CRAZY: by Wayan; 1984/12/25, a bloody warning dream Quiet Blondie seemed sane enough, especially compared to her driven, talkative friend Crazy, until... CAUTION: NUDITY, A LITTLE BLOOD |
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THE BOSS'S GUTS: by Wayan; 1993/6/3, a dream on health-sabotage.. Flu. Ow, cramps! But that night I dream of a miner's rebellion against our fat-cat boss. Which side am I on? |
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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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BRICK AND SKIN: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a dream of spiritual stretching. I'm analog myself, but in Tibet, I meet a digital shaman whose body's a sort of ... |
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BRUSHWOOD BELLY: by An the Black; Easter 1003, a bizarre predictive dream. An dreams a scary woman pulls his guts out and fills him up with brush! He wakes, gets gutted in a feud, and then... CAUTION: BLOODY VIKINGS! |
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CAEDMON'S DREAM: by Caedmon, c.657, as told by the Venerable Bede; a dream music-tutorial Caedmon can't sing. But he dreams an angel makes him try. Soon he's the first great English poet and singer... |
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CITY OF BEES: by Wayan; 1994/8/2, a diagnostic dream-comic. A bee-doctor in the city of Propolopolis diagnoses me as having a rare syndrome, Ambition Denied... |
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CLAIRAGONY: by a Philadelphia woman, Aug 1951, a sympathetic heart attack her mind misattributes I had a heart attack--but it faded in minutes! The phone rang. I knew at once my dying mother was gone... |
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CROSSTIME HEALTH RISK: by Wayan; 1999/7/23, a warning dream of parallel worlds. A man learns to hop between time-branches, but like all transportation, this has epidemiological risks... |
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DEER AND SANDSTORM: by Wayan; 1993/3/17, a pre-fever dream. I'm in a hotel by the Great Salt Lake. Deer roam the halls and lap at the drinking fountain... |
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MY DEWCLAW: by Wayan; 1997/6/30; dreams within dreams within dreams Body after body is peeled away revealing truth inside truth... CAUTION: GROTESQUE |
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DIAGNOSTIC BATTERY: by Wayan; 1988/4/20, a nightmare of backstabbing that came true My sister & her new guru tests me psychologically--only it looks like a test to destruction... CAUTION: EMOTIONAL CRUELTY |
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A DINNER WITH DEATH: by Wayan; 1979/2/12, an optimistic nightmare. The dinner went badly. Power outages, alarming transformations, murderous minions. Still, I'm here to tell you! So Death is weakening... |
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DIPHTHERIA SPECK: by an Outback man; pre-1961, a diagnostic dream with a tight deadline I dreamed our physician said our son had diphtheria. When I woke, we found only a tiny white spot in his throat. But by the time the doctor arrived... |
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DISEASE OF THE HEART: by Virginia Woolf; 1929/11/2, a false diagnostic dream--or is it? I dream I have just six months to live. I go through a dozen phases and moods, preparing for death... |
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THE DOCTOR'S ADVICE: by Wayan; 2011/5/23, a tricky double-diagnostic dream that changed my life. My doctor says (no exam, no tests) "hidden desires inflame you." I'm skeptical--suspect an infection. Awake, I test both hints--repression and infection. Antibiotics work! I'm still weird--but not sick. |
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DREAMING TO SURVIVE: by Christoph Gassmann, 2001/8/13 & 2003/9/2: two lifesaving dreams A spot on my elbow triggers a dream of being in a suicide clinic, getting the injection, starting to die. Yet for two years, I put off having that spot checked! Only after a second warning dream do I go in to find... |
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THE DREAMSUIT: by Wayan; 1992/7/12, a dream on unconscious programming. An experimental helmet knocks me out. I'm groggy, miserable, till I learn what it did to others... |
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EIGHT ELFLOCKS: by Wayan; 2007/8/11, an absurd psychic sex dream. I learn weird sex positions from an abused elf, have calligraphic orgasms, and then I, uh, turn on my stereo... CAUTION: SEX, ESP, ANORGASMIA, PAST LIVES, ABUSE ISSUES |
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EMBER IN THE BRAIN: by Wayan; 1983/3/31, a dream about old anger. I'm the Incredible Hulk, forced to do emergency brain surgery. For the patient's burning from within... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND UNLICENSED MEDICINE |
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ENGINE GENIUS: by Wayan; 2005/2/4, a health-warning dream. At my mechanic's garage, a child prodigy rebuilds a car engine. Gawking, I nearly plow into the crowd... |
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FAMILY JESTERS: by Wayan; 2017/3/15, a dream mixing Kurt Vonnegut and My Little Pony Coastal unicorns are slender; inlanders bloat. Genes, diet, both? Inland bosses enslave their gracile minority. Performing pets! Jesters caged, chained & handicapped to heighten the wonder they can do their art at all... CAUTION: TROUBLING SOCIAL ANALOGIES |
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FATHER LOOMS: by Wayan; 1983/?, a nonliteral diagnostic nightmare. I was a 30ish woman discovering that my chronic pelvic inflammation was from childhood molestation... CAUTION: MOLESTATION IN DREAM-PAST |
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FETAL SLIDESHOW: by Rachel; c.1973, a misinterpreted recurrent diagnostic dream I dreamed at least weekly I had to view a slide showing something wrong with my fetus. I assumed the dreams expressed doubts about motherhood--until my miscarriage... |
FIGHTING A VIRUS: by Wayan, 1998/11/21, a diagnostic nightmare. |
Coming down with a virus, I dream of a guy who INSISTS we must fight, it's just so FUN... |
FILM STARS by Nancy Price; 1948, a surreal predictive/diagnostic dream |
I'm a film actress, but the producer isn’t happy with my legs, so make-up takes them away to be redone... |
FIREBIRD AND MINOTAUR: by Wayan; 1996/9/29, 4 images; a diagnostic dreamtale. |
I'm a cripple watching a sexy Greek Opera starring Whoopi Goldberg. Then I realize I'm in it... |
FIREBOWL: by Wayan; 2013/9/14; a diagnostic/climatological/futurological dream |
I'm in the High Plains, at a huge powwow on climate change. This could become, not a new dustbowl, but a firebowl. As I wake, I find I'm running a fever! And the dream hints what caused it... |
FIVE HOUNDS, FIVE DEFENSES: by Wayan; 2015/9/18, an explicit advisory dream |
Five agents hound me. Literal hounds--in trenchcoats. They stand for my five worst life-troubles. Luckily, they can't cooperate--they're from rival agencies! And the dream spells out what works against each one... |
FOOD CAME BETWEEN US: by Wayan, 1993/4/25, an incubated epic diagnostic dream. |
The terror of Navy breakfast, the joy of filterfeeding, how to marry pudding, and a sniper lunch with kisses... |
GINSBERG UNMASKED: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; a diagnostic dream |
Comics character Doctor Blasphemy, on stilts, bares his secret identity: poet Allen Ginsberg! But who chopped off his missing fingers? CAUTION: BLOODY FINGERS |
HALF'S HARD: by Wayan; 2014/11/24, a frustration dream hiding a diagnosis and prescription |
Night. Broken metal sculptures, a welder too horny to weld safely, and a steel panther longing to be whole and loved... CAUTION: KINKY SCULPTUROPHILIA |
HEART-SWING: by Havelock Ellis; c.1920? a dream-conversation with a heart |
A young woman and I swing one another into the air. I asked her to swing me more slowly and regularly... |
THE HEDGEHOG DISPENSARY: by Wayan; 2004/10/2, furtopian watercolor 12-page dreamcomic (or text + pics) |
A rabbit shaman makes his student drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. How to free her? CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR |
HER FIRST INCARNATION: by Wayan; 1983/11/10, a dream of a surreal shamanic duel |
Forced into a duel, I let my spirit fight for me using Boomerang Blades. But my enemy becomes giant floating sticky lips! My spirit finds incarnation confusing... |
HIDE IN THE REEDS: by Wayan, 2023/2/5, a punning health-advice dream |
In the park, long lines of worshipers wait to meet a guru. But I'm naked, so I hide in the reeds... CAUTION: NUDE SUNBATHING |
HILLBILLY ECO-REVOLT: by Wayan; 1985/6/12, a diagnostic eco-dream. |
A poor planet with one city. Urban technocrats and hick ecologists have conflicting development models... CAUTION: TOO REAL TO BE FUN |
HOLY ZEN MONK: by Wayan; 1978/4/24, a dream of suicide as political protest |
I'm a Zen monk riddled with holes from a weird disease the government denies is real. So as a protest, I stand naked atop a wall and let the air-sharks take me... CAUTION: SURREAL SUICIDE |
I MIST MY SISTER: by Cory and Wayan; 1992/9/20; a dream-comic. Cory's healing dream triggers one by Wayan |
My friend Cory's sore back is healed by a dream. So I ask for the same, and get this dream of incest... CAUTION: KARMA, SEX/NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES |
I TOSSED MUSIC: by Wayan; 1997/9/19, an advisory dream. |
I asked my dreams "should I return to school?" They replied with this bizarre tale of sabotage... CAUTION: VIOLENCE TO DUMB INSTRUMENTS |
INDUSTRY'S SHORE: by Wayan; 2008/9/24, a dream poem; Dreamverse #30 |
In the hills above a polluted shore, I find hidden valleys with huge rare trees, and realize it's my choice... |
"IT WAS MY BABY": by Janie Legge; 1927/1/15, a nightmare after the flu? |
I admire a baby, and talk the tired mother into washing it. I go get some clean baby clothes and return to find she's roasting her baby in the oven... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, DENIAL |
JELLY REBELLION: by Wayan; 2008/8/19, a poem of a diagnostic dream, Dreamverse #9 |
I interview my own metabolism. Trouble in Cellville! I've got strikers and usurpers. But at least no invaders... |
JILL'S CONTRASTING DREAMS: by Jill, 1990s (several years apart), two diagnostic dreams |
Jill, pregnant, got a high fever. She dreamt her child's soul was locked out of the house. That fetus died. Jill, pregnant again, got a high fever, but dreamt a chorus of children happily sang. That fetus lived... |
JUANA'S ROCKET: by Wayan; 2010/9/4; a dream on how facing abuse can fan inflammation |
DAY: I find old photos showing my dad ogled my sister, the Lee girls, and teens he met at the beach. DREAM: Juana Lee wants to fire a rocket launcher--indoors. The house'll burn! But she won't relent... CAUTION: INCESTUOUS & PEDOPHILIC DAD-VIBES |
LATER IN THE DAY, WE'LL CROSS OVER: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/7/16; painting in the Box of Dreams |
I know we will cross the water surrounding the heart of Jerusalem, but not yet... |
LOSE YOUR TEMPER!: by Emily Joy; 2007/8/30, a tough-love dream. |
My mom hires a therapist who really goes for my throat! Why is she so desperate to make me lose my... CAUTION: OVER-THE-TOP CONFRONTATION |
THE MAN WITH THE GUITAR: by Wayan; 1992/7/4, a psychic dream-comic (or illus. text)) |
A volcano erupts in San Francisco! No human could survive the blast, but one researcher does--what IS he? |
MARTIAN AIRLOCK and JAGUAR MASK: by Wayan, 2015/6/22, twin shamanic near-nightmares |
Jaguar Mask: a were-jaguar stuck in human form asks me to sew a new jaguar face on."But won't it hurt?... Martian Airlock: I'm suitless on Mars. Freezing, choking, I dive into an airlock & slam the switch--but it's sabotaged... |
MEGALITHIC BREAKOUT: by Wayan, 2019/8/29; a half-lucid dream that needed to be |
I'm a kid imprisoned in an empty stone castle. Squeeze through a stone slit, and prepare to drop ten feet down the face of a great stone gate. But I go lucid, and my dream and waking body-senses conflict... |
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN: by Wayan; 1992/9/5-6, a literary/diagnostic dream. |
I'm in a tribe of post-Crash kids with psychic powers, trying to keep nukes from rising again... CAUTION: CHILD SOLDIERS |
MOA: by Wayan; 1995/9/9, a dream on assertion. |
I was an avian Mr Niceguy with sore knees, till I got some advice from my supposedly extinct big brother... |
MOLLY'S PROSTHETIC: by Wayan, 1994/9/22, a dream predicting a mood drug will fail |
My dad's new wife is a collie. Naturally, she wants a prosthetic arm. But she has no site to bind it to... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, LEERING BUSINESSMAN, DOG WIFE |
THE MOONS OF THE NEXT TEN DAYS: by Wayan, 1983/3/7, an otherworldly predictive dream |
Two moons rise. From one unpeels a sort of rind; on it I see the future tracks of these moons' shadows and tidal sway on Earth, predicting ... |
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... |
MY SPLEEN: by Ned, as told by Gayle Delaney, 1979 or before, a diagnostic dream-pun |
DAY: I write, exploring my jealousy toward my wife, though I know she's not cheating on me. DREAM: Doctors remove my spleen and wake it up! Now my spleen is out to do me in... |
THE NESS MAN, or, HOW TO HEAL: by Wayan; 1994/4/13, a mytho-musical dream. |
Mythic creatures round a woodland pool want to heal a businessman. Do too many cooks spoil the soup? |
NEW BODIES: by Dreamy; around 2007/1/25, a transformation dream |
My best friend and I qualify for new bodies. The new me is taller, but poor Ken may take years adjusting to his new... |
NIETZSCHE EATS A TOAD: by Frederick Nietzsche; c.1867; a (prodromal?) nightmare |
At a party, Nietzsche told a young woman "my hand was transparent as glass; and a fat toad sat on my hand. I felt compelled to swallow it, and did..." CAUTION: CREEPY DREAM, CREEPY FOLLOW-UP |
NIGHT-BLIND: by Wayan, 2023/9/14, a dream incubated for another |
My sister Miriel asks me to ask my dreams if it's safe for her to get cataracts removed. I find myself in her body, biking at night--near-blind. Surgery has risks, but this is riskier! |
NIP OFF HIS NOSE: by Wayan, 2020/2/20, four surreal dreamlets about Covid? or... overwork? |
1: I sketch two deer-girls making videos. 2: I pull a man's nose off, and milk the scene for drama before... 3: My old boss is convicted of murder! 4: I wake and two friends interpret #3 as "Overwork is killing you..." I wake again. My dream-notebook's blank. No friends here; their interpretation was a dream too.... CAUTION: NUDE DEER |
NO ONE'S OUT TO GET ME: by Wayan; 1993/12/14, a subtle nightmare. |
I always thought learning no one's out to get me would be a good thing. But No One turns out to be a deadly opponent... |
NOT OUR HAWAI'I: by Wayan; 2008/8/20, a dream poem; Dreamverse #10 |
My sister & I swim round a weirdly shrunken Pacific. Near Fiji, we blunder too close to the drain... |
NOT THROES; RECOVERY: by Wayan; 2013/6/1, a telepathic, diagnostic dream |
In a grassy depression, a small animal is thrashing. Death-throes? No. Calisthenics! But not under the animal's control. Someone's testing... |
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... |
THE OLD YOUNG MAN: by Anna Kingsford; 1880/2/21, a dream of a step-in soul |
Malaria nearly kills a talented young artist; he must retrain from scratch. Why? Well, he's not exactly himself... |
OVARIES: by "Ann", as told by Gayle Delaney, 1979 or before, a curative dream | Ann had inflamed ovaries and faced surgery. She asked her dreams for a second opinion. She dreamt of voices and images saying "there's plenty of time for all this." She bathed peacefully in a river, meditated, gave easy birth to an infant, climbed a ladder to her law degree. She woke cured. Her next doctor said "you must've been misdiagnosed; you just thought you were in pain." CAUTION: SEXIST GASLIGHTING
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PARANOID HABITS: by Wayan; 1994/10/4, a hypnotic diagnosis. |
A hypnotist elicits a personality inside me who says he obliges my paranoia by giving me weird luck... |
THE PEAK WHERE I DIED: by Wayan; 1983/1/16. A dark dream-comic. |
I froze to death trying to climb an icy peak. But I try again, and this time, no holds barred. Wow, am I selfish! But alive... |
I DREAMED MY PILLS WERE TAKING ME: by Wayan; 2004/3/13, a dirty lie. |
A dream that'd explain why I quit taking Western medicines-- (and why haven't you?) Only I didn't dream it. Just lived it. |
PIPES AND TIME: by Wayan; 2017/12/21, a dream of the far future that came true next day |
A timetraveler shows me a hotspring shrunk to a quarter of its old flow. Valves? Pipes? Or drought, from climate change? This IS the future. A day later, a local main breaks, and our water flow shrinks to a quarter of normal... |
PIXY CONCUSSION: by Wayan; 2006/3/11, a diagnostic sex-dream comic, 9 p. (or illus. text) |
Janet's obsessed with a creepy guy till her pixy friend Kay decides to "knock some sense into her cunt"--literally... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, NASTY LOVE SPELL, PIXIE NUDITY |
THE PLAGUE-CURE: by Wayan; 1996/1/1, a diagnostic dream that worked. |
After weeks of headaches I dream of a fatal, mosquito-borne plague. Humanity looks doomed till my friends devise a folk remedy... |
PLESIOSAUR: by Wayan; 1985/9/5, a comic medical nightmare. |
An itchy patient of mine insists he's turning into a four- headed, man-eating plesiosaur. He left one thing out... |
POISONED!: by Wayan; 1994/6/20, three linked diagnostic dreams. |
Poison takes many forms, from attitudes to environmental by-products to actions done deliberately... |
POLYGON DREAMS: by Wayan; 2007/4/23, a 32-page comic on the effects of shapes |
What if comics panels and layouts weren't so square? I try triangles, pentagons, hexagons, circles, spirals--and some serious stuff pops out... CAUTION: IDEAS, OCCASIONAL NUDITY, MENTIONS ABUSE |
POWER DRAIN: by Wayan; 1996/10/20, a psychic dreamlet. |
DREAM: our car's been acting funny. Turns out it's a severe electrical drain. NEXT DAY: my housemate discovers what's been making our car act funny... |
POWER OFF: by Wayan; 1997/6/17, a dream of brainwashing. |
Captain Kirk (Starfleet, retired) saves us all from terrorists at a powerplant, but he forgot something... |
PREEMIE; 1951/10/30 by an Oklahoma woman; a predictive dream |
We were looking at our three-pound premature baby girl. Though tiny she was bright-eyed, active, perfect... |
PROBLEMATIC ASSUMPTION: by Wayan; 1992/3/3, four sexy dreamlets exposing a delusion. |
DAY: In yoga class, a sexist teacher and angry student don't question assumptions I know are false... DREAMS: I flee sexy but underage Easter bunnies, fox-girl marathoners, a witch and a wolf in love... and a horde of single girls of all ages & species! I run away, because MY problematic assumption is... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, REVERSE SEXISM |
PRODROMAL DREAMLETS: by Arnaud de Villeneuve, c.1300; Conrad Gessner, 1565/12/8; |
M. Teste, 1830-1848, and Maurice Macario, early 1850s? four dreams predicting illness Dog bites doctor's leg. Snake bites scholar's chest. Apoplexy kills a government minister. Tonsillitis flattens a sleep and dream researcher... |
PSYCHO-EGG: by Wayan; 1994/8/31, a diagnostic dreamlet. |
I'm shown a crystal egg with a model of my mind in it. The mapping is unmistakable. How embarrassing!: |
RABID DOGS: by Lila, before 1994 as told by Gayle Delaney; an incubated warning dream |
I asked my dreams why I had no more sexual desire for my rage-prone boyfriend. I dream a nature show says "Rabid dogs can't be cured" and shows the horrible wounds they inflict... CAUTION: THERAPIST TRIVIALIZES URGENT DREAM-WARNING |
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 |
THE ROAD TO HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1987/5/12, a recurring shamanic dream |
The Rem Road I climb every night, from flesh to spirit, earth to sky. Though tonight, all these wounded skateboarders worry me! And my own bruises say I overdid it in contact improv today... |
SHARK SENSE: by Wayan; 1988/12/9, a diagnostic circus dream. |
I'm a circus tiger, then a performing shark. One day, I block my human partner's high dive... Why? |
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... |
SILKY ROMANTICIZES NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: by Wayan; 1983/3/4, a peculiar predictive dream |
I meet my anima downtown. She looks great, but admits she's still healing sexually-- "I over-romanticize." "Oh? Who or what?" "National Geographic!" An odd fixation. Then I wake & go to work; in a staff-room magazine I find a strange cartoon... |
SLOW PARK FIX: by Wayan; 1996/9/24, a diagnostic dreamtale. |
Infected glass-cuts scar the vegan alligators in the park. As part of a cleanup, I'm told to EAT one... |
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! |
SPEAK UP, RISE UP: by Wayan; 1985/5/24, a witnessing-flying advisory dream |
I bike round the ring of women on the stage. Oracles! Whoever speaks, levitates. One advises me, but I can't act on it--too ill. "Gotta heal!" I blurt. My own oracle.. |
SPONTANEOUS DUCK: by Wayan; 2010/9/14, two dreams on feeling magically inadequate |
I spy on a girl learning magic in a quilted ditch. She lets me join her telekinesis lesson! Can my mind move a balloon? Then I tour a witch-world where normality's shameful. One kid's not witch or normal--he keeps turning into Donald Duck! CAUTION: DISNEY = DISABILITY? |
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? |
STORM WARNING: by Wayan, 1993/3/17, surreal comic of an atmospheric dream |
Thirsty deer invade the hall. Children play in the dunes encroaching on the city. Will those ominous red clouds drop rain? Or sand? |
TAKE STOCK OF YOUR PELVIS: by Wayan; 1980/1/11, a sexual dream that isn't. |
A friend stockpiling for Armageddon shows me what I thought was lust is really a need to learn... pelvic anatomy? Why? CAUTION: NUDITY; LANGUAGE; WE FIND OUT WHY |
THE TAKEOVER: by Lee Olivier; 2004/6/28, a triple diagnostic nightmare |
An alien is taking over our world, and I feel so helpless that even when I wake I want to just forget the dream... |
THE TAPED WOUND: by Wayan; 1997/10/7, a dream on old tapes... |
My wound's taped up, but hurts bad. I peel off the bandage. Nothing! Gone. So I check my other body... |
THE TELLTALE HEART: by SAO (Shawn Allen O'Neal); 1970s, ominously prophetic nightmare |
High up a scaffold, I was beating the chaff off a huge seed, unable to stop. I was beating my own heart... |
THYROID: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 1985; a set of life-saving diagnostic nightmares |
In 1985 I was flooded with nightmares about heads and necks. They had an unparalleled intensity... |
THE TIGER'S THROAT: by Wayan; 1994/4/12, a psychic dreamtale. |
I'm walking down a tiger's throat, but it's not what you think. Diagnosis! My friend suddenly couldn't roar. She's here too, exploring her own trachea.... |
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 |
TRUSTING FOXES: by Wayan; 1997/8/20, 2-page comic of a psychic dream. |
Evicted. Lawsuit. I dream a lawyer sends me a letter full of fox-girls! In East Asia, foxes mean trouble, but these are friendly--good news is coming! I wake to find we've won a home... |
TSUNAMI: by Wayan; 2011/12/31, a feverdream, maybe predictive, definitely prescriptive |
I cling alone to the cliffs of Lands End, so when the tsunami hits, I survive. Had I been in the low, crowded Sunset district I'd be dead... |
TV DEVIL FLU: by Wayan; 1994/10/24, a comic nightmare hiding useful advice. |
A "friend" gives me her TV. No wonder! Turns out it's haunted by a small-minded devil who cheats on all his deals... |
THE 1200-STEP PROGRAM: by Wayan; 1987/12/17, an illustrated dreamtale. |
I'm climbing a tower, as my dad, Apollo, drunk, throws bottles at me from the top, breaking bones... CAUTION: DENIAL ABOUT ALCOHOLISM |
UNHAPPY CAMPERS: by Wayan; 1997/9/1, a stupid dream. |
I dream we're on a miserable camping trip. So why, when I wake, do I think it's a diagnostic dream? It's that triple pun... |
THE UNICORN MASK OF IGNORABILITY: by Wayan; 2009/10/13, a predictive dream; Dreamverse #59 |
My family home's invaded by ancient Egyptian architects. So I put on my unicorn mask and eavesdrop on their plans... |
VERITY, TOO?: by Wayan; 2000/11/5, a comic nightmare with good advice--if I avoid Freud! |
My art mentors turn on me! My mom the painter says I'm genetically inferior, and then my art teacher Verity sits on my head (ow!) and chants... |
VERITY'S WINGS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/8/21; painting in the Box of Dreams |
My friend Verity's given a beautiful set of wings. I'm envious until I consider what angel wings imply... |
WEAVING MATS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/3/15; a predictive dream from the Box of Dreams |
In a camp, women wove mats. I was tempted to try. But it was months before I learned what they'd really been weaving.. |
WELL-MEANING GRASS: by Wayan; 1982/5/17, a diagnostic Trek dream. |
On a gene-engineered world, the Prime Minister tries to assassinate the Bug Princess by tricking a well-meaning smartlawn... |
WHO SHATTERS?: by Wayan; 1995/6/18, a cryptic culinary dream. |
Dry noodles shatter when bent. Wait, not noodles--they have auras! Feel like me--parts of me? Oh! These aren't noodles or strands of my being. I'm not this brittle. They're relatives! |
WILL I BE BITTEN?: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/3/15; a predictive dream from the Box of Dreams |
A friend who's fought lymphoma invites me to sleep in a cave, but I fear a rattlesnake will bite me... |
WIZARD GIZZARD: by Wayan; 1996/8/5, a diagnostic dream. |
I have a tummy ache. Our local wizard says "no wonder, with fascists occupying your colon"... CAUTION: TREATMENT NOT A.M.A.-APPROVED |
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! |
XANTHUS: by a client of Artemidorus, c.150 CE, a prodromal dreamlet |
A man dreamed he was the River Xanthus at Troy. I interpreted it to mean he'd bleed for years, but not die of it... |
YOGA SAINT: by Wayan; 2010/12/4, an incubated, disturbing diagnostic dream |
I dream I meet my headaches! An ascetic yogi who punishes jokers, flirts and cynics for worldliness... |
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