Empathy and Compassion
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| AMPLIFIER: by Alder; 1999/11/13, a dream on self-underestimation I was always the weakest magic-worker I knew. But when demons threatened my grandchild... |
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| ANTIGRAVITY RESEARCH: by Mary Arnold-Forster; 1905?, a dream of teaching dreamflight I’m showing the Royal Society how to levitate. Confidence is the main thing. I teach a hesitant Fellow to lift off... |
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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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BACKWARDS CAUSATION: by Jo; 2008/3/3, a dream where I dream a dream in which I dream No matter who I dream I am, twin secret agents dog me, eating my soup, playing my games... CAUTION: EGREGIOUS PHILOSOPHY |
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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 |
| BREAD CHESS: by Helen's fiancé; 1930-33, a detailed psychic dream Stalin's police held my fiancee Helen incommunicado. But I dreamt of her prison, cellmate, and the strange game they played... |
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| BREAK / FAST: by Roswila; c. 1987, a poem of a predictive dream My friend stuffs a broken feeder with birdseed. I worry it'll attract too many wild birds. He laughs "Exactly!"... |
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| BRIGHT BEAST, PATIENT BEAST: by Edwin Muir; c.1920, a dream of our primal struggle Two beasts eternally fight, the proud bright peacock-tailed beast and the sad-eyed, ever-defeated sheepdog of... |
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| BROKEN GLASS by Nancy Price; 1948, a dream of working to death. Helping out some talking animals, helping to exhaustion, I suffer a fatal accident. What am I being warned of? |
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| CELLPHONE HEAVEN: by Alder, 2008/8/28, a dream of practical sainthood I visit a Tibetan monastery with great cellphone reception from the gods. But all their calls are to help other people... |
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THE CIRCUS HUMANS' DESERTION: by Wayan; 180K, 14 images, 1988/2/19, a holy dream. I join a circus, but soon all the best carnies sail off to the Blessed Isles. The circus animals pitch in and carry on--clumsy, lonely. Then a herald arrives from the Isles--Donald Duck! He says... |
| 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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CROWBOTTLE: by Wayan; 1998/1/2, a dream of a wise foolish act. It was on a beach. Inside, a black thing squirming. Despite all the tales of vengeful djinn, I pull the cork... |
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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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EASTER HEALING: by "Clairity"; 2008/03/23, a joyful lucid dream I will a clay cat to come to life, then start healing real cats and dogs and... |
| THE EYE by Nancy Price; 1948, a nightmare of resisting torture A staring Eye tries to break me, though his birds rebel in sympathy. But the cats and robots flay me. Yet I refuse to die... |
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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... |
| FAMILY STORE: by Mark Ian Barasch's father, c. 2000; a subtly psychic dream healing a family I dream my son the writer's living above our old family store, the one that failed in the Depression... |
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FISHEL AND FRISH AND FIREBIRD: by Wayan, 2003/12/4, a seven-year dream. Why do the guests arriving for our seven-year reunion include part-time giants and dog-headed gods? They tell me... |
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FLY AWAY HOME: by Wayan; 1996/12/26, a dream of flight and kindness. I'm an alien castaway, hiding my wings. But Earth feels like home now! If I could fly here, would I stay? |
| THE GOLDENE BOOK OF VENUS: by Anna Kingsford; 1881/3/15-16, a poem read in two dreams Poem from a book on how our love can save lives and souls, memorized during two dreams of a Renaissance astrologer's library... |
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| HELP, NOT CURE: by Wayan; 1996/12/26, a dream on autism. Gay angels try to help an autistic woman. Change her past? Only if they pass the Ass-Backward Guardians! |
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THE KENNERBIRD: by Wayan; 1973/5/20; a naive shamanic dream. I'm a cartoon flamingo; with my sisters, the frog and the rabbit-squirrel, I meet our Maker--the cartoonist... |
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KIOSK: by Wayan; 250K total, 1994/5/1, a major dreamtale, 7 illustrations. I'm a sexy singing beast, the Krelkin, trying to lure the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
| LOST ANT: by William Blake; late 1780s; a dream-poem, one of his Songs of Innocence A glowworm and nightwatch beetle help out a lost crying ant-woman. It's not always a bug-eat-bug world... |
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MUSTARD VAMPIRE : by Wayan; 1984/3/1, a warning dream. I love a cute vampire. She's willing to go on a diet. Even so, do I have enough blood to spare? |
| NEW LEVEL!: by "Julian"; 2006/5/22, 3 gamelike dreams in one night, two of them epic My mom and I road-duel an alien beetle, then investigate a deepspace Marie Celeste; then I spy for the Angevin Empire to protect the Crown Jewels... |
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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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NEWT WEDDING: by Emily Joy; spring 1995, 100k, a six-year-old's epic dream Through wild jungles and over the Mattress Mountains, I lead a giant purple newt to love... |
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OCTOPIA: by Wayan; 1996/3/21, a spiritual dream on play. I'm a stratospheric bat who catches a flying swastika. Is it creeping fascism, a Hindu blessing, or...? |
| ON BEING NEEDY/NEEDED: by Roswila; February 2002, a dream-poem In her kitchen she offers me shortcake. She's short herself, for she gives her all to everyone--only a bodiless head is left... |
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PIXY CONCUSSION: by Wayan; 200K, 2006/3/25, six images; a diagnostic sex dream? Janet's obsessed with a creepy guy, until her friend Kay--a pixy--decides to knock some sense into her cunt... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, EMBARRASSING SITUATION, NASTY LOVE SPELL |
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SORB TRUCE: by Wayan; 2008/9/1, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #20 In a desert crawling with aliens who can absorb your mind, I propose a truce, and gain... |
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STUCK SNAKE: by Wayan; 2011/9/8; a set of dreams that out-Freud Freud Girls flash and strip and crawl into bed with me, but I'm blind to their agenda--till I become a snakeboy and discover the real limitations of phallic symbolism... CAUTION: NUDITY, STUPIDITY |
| TANDEM DREAM IN KATMANDU: by Clancy Cavnar; 1998, two parallel dreams not acted on Two of us meditation students dreamed the same night that we were ice skating in Holland together, helping each other... |
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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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| 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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| TWO GUITARS: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 2000; a multileveled psychic dream I dream my daughter's selling two unused guitars. They seemed symbolic until I told her the dream and learned... |
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| UNCERTAIN ONEIROMANCY: by Denise Levertov; 1993? a dream poem I led a blind man through a vast art museum underground. But focused on guiding him, I too was blind to the beauty... |
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THE VOICE OF GOD: by Wayan, 1993/1/31, a psychic nightmare-epic. I go half-mad and massacre a whole cult, till my gun manifests stigmata: a gory miracle. Then I'm one of the cult members, struggling to ignore the Voice of God pushing all us mortals to murder in His name. I woke up haunted, and wondered for weeks what this was about... until the Waco Massacre. CAUTION: CREEPY VIOLENCE, CREEPY GOD, CREEPY PREDICTION |
| WINGS by Nancy Price; 1948, two bird-people dreams, one psychic I have a long chat with two talking songbirds. Next I'm a parrot, living in rainforest. And then the mail comes... |
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| 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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