FREUD
So instead, for your edification and delight, we present... dreams about, or starring, Sigmund Freud! Well, in one dream he changed his name to Floyd. Yep--Floyd Freud. But trust me, it was him.
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THE BLACK WAVE: by Wayan, 2016/10/18, a poem on a hypnogogic healing dream After days sick, I open myself to unseen spirits and let a black wavefront go through me--and the healing begins. But what did I let in? CAUTION: MYSTICISM & FETISHISM DON'T MIX |
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CHE FANNO GLI INGLESI?: by William Archer; 1917/7/30, a senseless dream. To help the King of Italy, I become a baker in Baluchistan-- learning Norwegian, levitating, meeting quaggas, riding landslides... |
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CHOKING A CAMEL: by Wayan, 1983 (early May?), a grotesque little dream-poem Freud explains to me why writing's so hard. His explanation is as senseless as his other theories... |
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A CREATURE: by Albert Grass, 1938? Or Zoe Beloff, c.2008? An early Freudian dream-comic--or a hoax! Dream: wild animals race across Paris, but in my hotel lobby, a small creature on my shoulder murmurs "Je t'aime." Awake, I know those racers from the themepark where I work. But the creature takes me way back--to Paris, 1918... CAUTION: ONE-NIGHT STAND |
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CUBIST CHARLIE BROWN: by Wayan; 1977/4/1, a cubist nightmare. We're Cubist cartoon characters, trapped in a strip gone mad. But my dad stays calm! Too calm... CAUTION: SEAS OF BLOOD... OR IS IT RED INK? |
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DEANNA ON THE MAYAN STEPS: by Wayan; 1992/7/8, a nightmare poem. Climbing a Mayan pyramid in Yosemite with Deanna Troy from the Starship Enterprise, we meet a gunman who wants to sacrifice... |
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DELBOEUF'S FERN by Joseph Delboeuf; 1862; the first cryptomnesic dream quoted by Freud. Delboeuf, ignorant of botany, dreams of feeding lizards a fern called Asplenium ruta muralis; years later he finds both lizards and fern in books he read and forgot years before the dream... |
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THE DILDO SHOW: by Wayan; 2010/1/24, a truly awful dream sitcom I dream of a TV sitcom with passive boytoys, dildo balloons & a relentless laughtrack... CAUTION: OH, READ THE TITLE |
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DREAM CAUSED BY THE FLIGHT OF A BEE AROUND A POMEGRANATE A SECOND BEFORE WAKING by Gala Dalí 1943? painted by Salvador Dalí 1944; a supposedly instantaneous dream. Dalí's wife Gala naps, but a bee wakes her--and her dream instantly magnifies bee into tigers! After all, both have fur, sharp bits, black & gold stripes... CAUTION: BREASTS; BAD DREAM THEORIES. |
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THE ELEVATOR PROPOSAL: by Wayan, 2004/10/15, a dream baring a subtle lifelong pattern I'm in an elevator with a giant guy with a hotel cart bearing a silver platter. On it, an erect penis. The guy tries to enlist me in his program to... what? CAUTION: CARTOON PENIS |
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FLAYED COLUMN: by Antoine Lavalette, fall 1815; a time-compressed nightmare In prison, the midnight bell chimed. I dreamt I saw a cavalry column of men and horses skinned, gory, still marching. Wagons of the dead passed for hours. As the guard changed, the gate crashed, waking me--just minutes after midnight! CAUTION: PROVES NOT ALL DREAMS ARE REALTIME |
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FLOYD FREUD: by Wayan; 1983/4/18, a short dream of longevity. After trying "the Interpretation of Dreams," I meet Floyd Freud, who's attracted to the neo-Nazis... CAUTION: INSULTS THE MEMORY OF A GREAT GUY |
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FOR THE FIRST TIME: by Jack Kerouac, Nov? 1954, a lucid dream of escaping a rut I've climbed a cliff and cower on the brink; but for for the first time I need not fall or retrace my dangerous path down. I know I'm dreaming, and wake... |
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FOUR OF TEN: by Wayan; 2021/4/3, four examples from ten dreams in one night Books are clothes, and always were. A potato makes me lie, and everyone gets it but me. Sex in a crowd disarms the Mom Squad! And a Mystic Autistic's soul explores my room... CAUTION: PUBLIC SEX? PROBABLY. |
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FREUD WAS SOME WRONG ABOUT DREAMS, and THE AUTUMN BREEZE: by John Berryman; ca. 1967. After a year of intense dreamwork, Berryman rejects Freud and accepts open-ended dreaming, and writes Dream Songs... CAUTION: SIXTIES STONER REBELLING AGAINST SPELLING... and grammar... and punctuation... |
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FREUD'S FOUR POINTS: by Wayan; 2008/11/11; a dream critiquing four of Freud's dream-theories! Freud and I argue dream-theory while we're stuck in an elevator that projects dream-examples on the walls... |
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FREUD'S UNDERWORLD: by Wayan; 2024/1/4; a comic book-review nightmare DAY: I reread Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams. His own dreams feel petty, devious, status-obsessed... dull. DREAM: I find Freud's bought my childhood home! I spelunk the Freudian underworld--a dark complex of tunnels, sewers and rats. Cross the rivers of muck on stepping stones. Emerge into sun at last, swearing "Never again..." |
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HE HAS REPENTED: by Frederick Greenwood; before 1894, a pre-Freud discovery of the unconscious A con artist fools me and a waiter. But if my dreamfolk are all me, who's fooling whom? |
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HIS MINE: by Wayan; 1985/12/2, an epic Wild West dream I'm a hobbit seeking Henry Fonda's haunted gold mine. And find it. Or is that chocolate? But then I'm caught in a shamanic showdown in a bar where they serve real spirits... |
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JUNG'S CELLARS: by Carl Jung, Aug or Sept 1909; his dream of the mind's structure--and a weird follow-up My home seemed antiquated but pleasant. I found a stair down to a darker, medieval floor. A dark stair led down to a Roman cellar. A trapdoor led down to a cave with ancient skulls... |
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JUNG'S DENIAL: by Wayan; 1994/12/16, a journal extract on Jung. Jung's dreams and interpretations show he's a thing-guy not a people-guy. All that architecture!... |
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LBJ'S CAGE: by Lyndon Baines Johnson; May-June 1924, recurring teenage nightmares I found myself in a cage, with only a bench and piles of old books. A mirror showed I was old and twisted with speckled skin. In horror I said "I must get away"... |
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LBJ'S STAMPEDE: by Lyndon Baines Johnson; 1913-14?, a childhood nightmare anticipating a presidency As a boy I dreamt I was trapped in a wooden chair, paralyzed, as a stampede rushed toward me, just as my grandmother was paralyzed and chair-bound... |
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LONG JOHNS by Ann Faraday, 1972; punning dreamlets on two consecutive nights DREAM 1: A man wearing long white underwear shoots me down with a machine gun. DAY: Long John Nebel interviews me; his Freudian friend calls me a penis-envying woman. DREAM 2: Long John and his buddy umpire a rough baseball game. Definitely not cricket... CAUTION: SEXISM, FREUDIANS, PUNS |
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MARTIAN ROBOTS DRESS LIKE FREUD: by Wayan, 1975/8/16, an absurd dream... predicting my life-path? Martian robots pester me. I flee through the Asteroids, leaving chaos, cratering Earth. Years later on my farm, a bot shows up disguised as Freud. I start mudslinging... |
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MINE BACK DOOR: by Wayan; 1979/9/7, a dream on mining the unconscious. Deep in a secret diamond mine, I see stars. A door opening to the night sky! But this shortcut's heavily guarded... |
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MOUNTING PROBLEMS: by Wayan, 2021/5/22; an anti-Freudian punning math dream. I'm a giant wolf with a human girlfriend. A formula says I must shrink until my paws are 128 times the volume of her feet. But I'll still be way too big for sex! Eight seems more like the right volume... CAUTION: HORNY WOLF, MATH, CLIMACTIC PUN |
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THE MURDERS: by four Wayans! 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 |
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ORGY BELOW THE SURFACE: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; an embarrassing dream Under the surface of my comics panels, a tiny horde is having an orgy. I can't publish this, it's too embarrassing! Wait a minute. That one is me... CAUTION: MICRO-ORGY |
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RING OF WHITE WATER: by Wayan; 1983/1/30, an epic astral dream. I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. A girl in my tour group jumps ship: she dreads the white water of rocky relationships ahead... CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS... |
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RONALD'S FORBIDDEN FIELD: by Ronald, patient of Jan Ehrenwald, before 1954, a telepathic dream? DREAM: a distinctive house with a tempting green field by it. But the field's forbidden... DAY: Ronald's analyst had rented that house--but the adjacent field was forbidden... CAUTION: E.S.P. THEORIES |
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THE SHADOW OF FREUD: by Wayan; 1982/3/28, a psychological dream. I find a lost book of Freud's admitting Jung's 'Shadow' is real. But Freud's found a Shadow-type Jung never... |
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SHOOT THE MIRROR!: by Sir Oliver Lodge; 1927/10/15, a dream of stagy twists A man frames his big brother, til their sister makes him shoot his own reflection. Neither one expects... |
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SMOKESTACKS: by "D", before 1990, told by Andrew Samuels; a dream on starting therapy "D" wants to renovate her house. A powerplant with twin stacks is ugly, but will power the tools to get the job done. But her new therapist interprets the dream very strangely... CAUTION: NEO-FREUDIAN PSYCHOBABBLE |
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SO GUARDED A SKIN: by Wayan; dreamed 1983/6/11, a dream of a Freudian... blurt? An art critic asks me what I think of a sexually explicit nude, and I find myself blurting nearly the opposite of my conscious opinion... CAUTION: NUDE SKETCH |
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WAR BETWEEN LIBERALS & REACTIONARIES: by S. Ramón y Cajal, 1929/5/26; a predictive dream? There is a war between liberals and reactionaries, but the dream makes no sense: friends claim to be hit, to be wounded, but I see no bodies, no blood... CAUTION: ANTICIPATES THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR |
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WOLVES SITTING IN A TREE: by Sergei Pankejeff; winter 1888 or '89, a nightmare Freud made famous When I was very small I dreamt a pack of wolves climbed the tree outside my window and somehow got it open. Freud told me I must have seen my parents having sex doggy style... CAUTION: REALLY, DR. FREUD? |
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