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BALEENA'S GAME: by Wayan; 1974/1/26, a surreal dream with a practical point A whale-spirit marries a poker-player. But her sonar sees too much. Whale-spirits prefer blackjack... |
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BEGGARS IN SPAIN: by Wayan; 1994/12/10, a dream on reason & intuition's mutual mistrust Two rivals stand for reason & intuition. Why can't they cooperate, see each others' virtues? Trained insecurity... |
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BLIND TO THE CUES: by Wayan; 1996/10/2, a dream of blinders. A sexy pool-playing friend in a short skirt leans over an invisible, virtual-reality pooltable, but I'm blind to... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, TRULY CLUELESS GUY |
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BOWLING BOY BLUSHES: by Wayan; 1990/5/10, a dream of prodigy-harassment A little bowling prodigy bothers an adult team. So one sits in his lane, daring him to bowl at her crotch. He's used to kids taunting him, but what do you do when grownups gang up? CAUTION: SEXUAL SHAMING OF CHILD |
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BREAD CHESS: by Helen's fiancé; 1930-33, a detailed psychic dream Stalin's police held my fiancée incommunicado. But I dreamt of her prison, cellmate, and the odd game they played... |
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CHESS DEVIL: by Wayan; 1997/8/5, a humiliating nightmare. I try to rescue my girl friends losing a boat-chess game to a devil, but they'd rather be with bad-boy him than me... CAUTION: NUDE DEVIL |
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THE DEMON TODDLER: by Wayan, 2015/5/5, a creepy dream about... bears? demons? humans? After a nature show on bears and a horror-parody film, I dream of a man and a demon toddler in a sick relationship. At least it sickens all of us... CAUTION: DEVIL AND PEDOPHILE: WHO'S CORRUPTING WHO? |
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DINO TREASURE: by Wayan, 1996/9/1, a treasure-hunt dream. At the Psychic Faire, I'm a deer-man in a gang hunting treasure, led by a rough tough dinosaur... |
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THE DISPLAY: by Wayan; 1997/10/17, a natural history dream. I'm trapped in a nature documentary about mating displays among humans... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, PBS NARRATION, AND OTHER EMBARRASSMENTS |
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THE EQUATORIAL BET: by Wayan, 2017/7/24, a dream of a climatological game that politics intrudes on I'm playing 'Drop Me Anywhere' with a friend: I pick the latitude, he picks the longitude. Can I survive naked one day? I pick the equator as my best bet... |
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EXPLORATION: by Wayan; 1998/2/27, a dream on leaving your safe zone. Hide-and-seek on an alien world ends in a sexy encounter--and a startling insight on BELIEF... CAUTION: SEX |
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FEVER DREAMS: by Wayan; 1993/9/8, a set of wild feverdreams. While my body expels a kidney stone, weird scenes happen on the astral plane. At least I get to dip the pope. CAUTION: PAIN, PEE, POPE |
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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... |
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FLUID REALITY: by Wayan; 1983/8/8; a magical dream-sea voyage that turned out to be predictive On my quest I find magic portals, snarky flower-fairies, undersea redcoats, reassembling bodyparts, living chess, and Nosferatu the Cheating Vampyre... |
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A GAME OF CARDS: by Anna Kingsford; 1883/12/7, a god kibitzes on a Tarot game Anna trusts to luck, but her mentor urges her to plan--"Think it out!" And what are these cards? |
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A GAMER'S DREAM: by Mark Nelson; 2002/3/5; A collage of real-world events brought into dreams
I face a barrage of deadly challenges out of every action film I've seen and every game I've ever played... |
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GOD OF THE GULF: by Wayan; 2021/3/3, a dream warning piety has hazards I'm in the Gulf of Mexico watching the Creator of North America place mountains, rivers and ancestors just where they belong. I wake knowing this pious, static view is immoral... CAUTION: CRITIQUES TRADITIONALISM |
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GOLD EATER: by Wayan; 1993/1/15 dream drawn as 9-page comic. I'm an orphan shapeshifter enslaved by a gold-eating monster. But I meet a cat-girl with a hammer... CAUTION: BAD FOSTER-DAD; CAPITALIST MONSTER; VIOLENCE (TO VENDING MACHINES) |
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THE GURU OF CASH: by Wayan; 2009/7/7, a comic predictive financial dream My friend Dawn drags me to a cultish workshop. But I fall asleep! Or is that bad? The Financial Guru awards me $1250 for spiritual napping... CAUTION: RIDICULOUS UNTIL... |
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A HAND AT CARDS: by Loomis C. Johnson; around Dec. 1916, a predictive dream. I dreamt of a surreal poker hand where one card changed to create a full house. Next weekend, I was losing when... |
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THE HEDGE KING: by Wayan, 1992/6/14, a gender-bent dream epic. I change sex to infiltrate a sinister castle, unaware its Lord can spot a shapeshifter--being one himself... CAUTION: A DISTURBING BEDSIDE MANOR. I MEAN, MANNER. |
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HELL-CHESS and COMING CAUSES AMNESIA: by Wayan; 1985/3/10, twin surreal dream-poems Hell Chess isn't just black and white. Living women, from weak pawns to transcendent rainbow queens... Coming Causes Amnesia: reincarnation, 69, and plate tectonics all fuse in lava-hot orgasm... CAUTION: ORAL SEX IN DREAM TWO |
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I TURNED OFF JESUS: by Chris Baker; 2011/2/18; an "oops!" dream Playing Mario Kart, I stray into a darkness where Earth floats, burning. And then Jesus speaks up! But I carelessly hit the OFF button... |
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MOSQUITO: by Kelly McCracken, 1994?, a dream of... bloodsuckers? At first it's Michael J. Fox flirting with me, and I'm not excited, he's kind of a loser. Then it all changes, and he's a monster mosquito humping me, and I hear someone saying "Do me, do me." Him? Or me? CAUTION: SUBTITLED "THE UNSEXIEST SEX DREAM EVER" |
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THE MOUNTAIN, THE MAGPIE AND THE ROAD: dreamed 2013/3/26 by Rustling Leaves; epic nightmare
I visit a beautiful artificial mountain with loved ones--but my demons overwhelm me one by one. CAUTION: SUICIDAL FEELINGS, BODY HATE/FATPHOBIA, IMPLIED RAPE |
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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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PARLOR GAME: by a bridge builder's wife; pre-1961, a party game interrupted by a real premonition I had fun playing fortuneteller, until David. My hands turned icy. I asked "Where are you going?" |
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PINBALL SHOWDOWN: by Wayan; 1995/3/18, a flirty game-playing dream. I suspect the pinball champion of Jupiter is cheating. I try to scare her psychic confederate out of hiding... |
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PLUTO: THE NEWEST PLANET: by Lena, 2023/3; a dream warning of coming change A disintegrating board game reminds me to take time to enjoy things beyond work and activism... CAUTION: NUDITY, TRANSGENDER, ASTROLOGY |
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POKER WITH A DEMON: by Wayan; 1980/8/15; a comic predictive financial dream. I'm authorized to play high-stakes poker with a scary-looking but rather nice demon... |
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PORTALS: by Wayan; 2020/7/30, a dream about family, uh, bonding... I sneak into a mansion where a mom & daughter bond by interrogating willing victims who get off on the bondage. Later, Inquisitor Girl and I are waiting to use a teleportation gate and discover we have something in common: not just weird moms, but even weirder dads... CAUTION: KINKY FAMILY VALUES |
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RETURN FROM EXILE: by Anonymous #48, early 1994?, a fierce political dream I'm a rebel leader released from prison only to find my people beaten down and malnourished. I swear to eject our oppressors despite the price of war. ... |
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RHINE CHECKERS: by Wayan; 1970-71, a journal extract on ESP. My sister and I played games based on the Rhine Institute's ESP studies. Our scores were not random... |
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THE RULES OF THE GAME: by Wayan; 1992/11/30, a Gestaltish dream. The Inner Theater. I'm duelling someone who keeps changing the rules. But so can I... can we make a deal? |
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SECRET SCREEN: by Wayan; 2018/4/19 and 2018/5/16, three linked dreamlets of escape A friend nags me to be lookout as he steals a cult's papers. I know it'll end in murder, but foresight paralyzes me! In a videogame that keeps freezing unplayably, I find a button calling up a secret screen of second chances... I'm lost in a grim basement, but two kids show me a cobwebbed glass door you can walk through like air... |
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SEVEN SQUARED: by Wayan; 1994/2/18, a dream about the IQ closet. In our wizard-war, I've hidden my nature. At last I come out; but I can't tell the whole truth... |
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THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY: by Wayan; 1989/7/8, a comic nightmare, possibly telepathic. My sisters get bored with the game of power, so I watch TV-- until it melts, and a terrifying giant rises to chases me... |
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SHADOW PUZZLE: THE LORD AND HIS SERVANT: by Wayan; 1984/5/23, a reflective dream. A puzzle-game of eyes and mirrors and shadows starts revealing the players' deepest secrets... |
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THE SINGLE DIE: by Wayan; 1994/10/17, a dream on child prodigies. My sisters roll a single die. Miriel can influence it telekinetically, but can't shoot very well, since she hasn't grown opposable thumbs yet, as kittens do... |
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STAY GROUNDED!: by Wayan; 1988/2/27, an unexpectedly grounded dream. I'm playing poker with a dragon. But we barely dare move: we're both crackling with thousands of volts... |
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TAHOE TAROT: by Wayan; 1988/4/13, a silly mystic flying dream. My sister and I are playing cards in the air high over Lake Tahoe. The stakes? The world. But we both cheat... |
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THORHADD'S FOURTEEN DREAMS: by Thorhadd of Berufjord, c.1018; 14 warning dreams (2 predictive) Thorhadd's been slandering his enemy Thorstein. He spars publicly with a dream expert who interprets all his dreams as: "Your tongue just can't quit!" True. It can't... CAUTION: VIKING EGOS (AND BODY COUNT) |
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TIPCAT: by Anonymous #57; c.1920; a funny little dream-poem Four lines of comic nonsense composed in a dream... |
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TWENTY-SIX LETTERS, or, A Complete Summary of Poesy; by Cory & Wayan, early Aug. 1992; a haiku slam You get 26 dice with letters on every face. Roll them all. Your haiku must use every letter. Go! |
TWILIGHT'S OVAL GAME: by Wayan; 2017/10/4, three dreams arguing "Friendship is Magic"--literal magic. |
1: I failed to save a magic tree. It fell and killed someone. I'm racked with guilt... 2: A giant pinball game on a tilted oval relief-map. But you can only win as a team of six friends... 3: A Caribbean girl with a weird aura tries to align two magic crystals to heal herself... CAUTION: BREASTS, MY LITTLE PONY AS ROLEMODEL |
ZERO SUM: by Wayan; 1996/5/29, a game-theory dream. |
I'm lecturing to a crowd: "Love's a win-win game, and abuse, lose-lose. But blame is zero-sum..." |
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