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ALICE'S LETTERS: by "Alice"; late 1960s?, a dream of spiritual advice I mail some letters that will solve everyone's problems, but a man argues we need problems... |
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ALIENS, MONSTERS, WITCH: by Judy Landaiche; 1991/11/8, a dream on judging by appearances Our starship crashed on an alien world. Humanoid aliens attack us. A witch saves us. A second kind of alien attacks; again she saves us. A third--ugly, monstrous--and the witch goes off with them! Turns out they're friendly... |
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ALL THE ANIMALS: by Sharon Lynn Pugh; c.1986, an epic, species-bent, funny, feminist dream-within-a-dream I'm a fox-woman. A human man courts me--insultingly. I dream my brain grows till my head hurts, till it splits open, till light gets in. I rant at the last dragon. Strange but kindly, he gives me a picnic... |
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ANCIENT RUINS, AND A GIFT FROM DEEP OCEAN: by Jenny Badger Sultan; two dreams (2016/11/19, 2017/1/18) on dreamwork, memory & amnesia 1: Ruins in India. Fascinating but age-blurred; wish I could see the carvings better... 2: Giving presents at a party, I hand a girl a vertebra from the abyss, encrusted with jewel-like barnacles... |
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ANOCHE / LAST NIGHT: by Antonio Machado; c. 1900; a joyful dream poem Last night, as I slept, I dreamt--illusion blessed!--that I had a beehive, here inside my heart... |
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ANTS AT A PICNIC: by Wayan; 1984/11/16, dream-poem from predictive dreamlet DREAM: Ants invite me to a picnic. But one of the dishes they serve is--other ants! NEXT DAY: I'm invited to a picnic. And my friend, munching, says... CAUTION: BUG-EAT-BUG WORLD |
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BAND-AIDS: by Bagheera Pardus; c.1985, a lucid re-entered nightmare turned to joy. Giant snakes chased me. I go lucid, turn & slay one. As I woke, the snakes cried. So I re-entered... CAUTION: SNAKES, BEHEADING, REHEADING |
BONE CARVINGS: by Larry Vigon; c.1999; a numinous dream with silly illustrations |
At the beach, a deaf boy with a strong aura asks "Are you here for the coin?" He buries horse skeletons in the sand; the bones are carved with symbols... |
BRAID OF SILENCE: by Wayan; 1989/1/24, a brief dream-poem |
We're slaves on the moon. But we're slowly stretching our freedom in the shadows, undoing the Braid of... |
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!"... |
BROKEN GLASS by Nancy Price; 1948, a dream of working to death. |
Helping out talking animals until I'm exhausted, I suffer a fatal accident. What am I being warned of? |
BYE-BYE, OLD FILM!: by Wayan; 1981/1/24, a psychic dream, with a 2015/5/22 follow-up. |
My friends destroy all my old films and give me a 'new' one--but it's from 1900! Then I wake to find... |
CATFISH RESCUE: by Nick Munford, art by Jesse Reklaw; pre-2000; a dream of shamanic kindness |
I run away. A car nearly hits me and I fall into the lake. But a kindly catfish drags me to an underwater phone booth... |
CHUNKS, or, BABEZILLA!: by Wayan; two dreams 1990/10/4 and 1991/9/4 told as digital comics. |
I meet a giant psychic baby feared by 12-step people. So I go to the beach and find I'm a shark-bit girl who can have her missing chunks sewn back in--if I still have room for them... |
COME FLY WITH ME: by Lilian Verkins; 2012, painting of a joyful if secretive flying dream |
I flew over a beautiful park where I taught others how to fly. But there were people who I didn't want to see me flying. I stood mid-air above them, and they didn't spot me... |
CORVI AND FEY: by Wayan; 2016/6/14, a shamanic dream of reuniting estranged symbiotes |
I visit a world of ravenish people, the Corvi, who banished their longtime partners, the wish-granting Fey, calling them parasites. I decide to meddle... | THE CRANE SPOKE: by Thomas Takashi Tanemori; 1945/8/5, a child's dream foreseeing Hiroshima |
A crane came and spoke to me, reassuring me "I'll be back" even as a great fire burned it. It returned as a white butterfly. Next morning, as we played hide and go seek, I shut my eyes and counted to... CAUTION: CIVILIANS MASSACRED |
CRUISE: by "Michelle", 1990s; a recurrent predictive dream |
I never go on cruise ships but I keep dreaming I'm on one and meet the same man, and marry him..... |
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... |
DICKENS AND CAFTAN: by Anonymous #55, 1970/12/24 & 29, predictive dreams |
CAFTAN: My ultra-conservative brother wears a caftan. No way! I woke amused. But later that day, he gave me a Christmas present... DICKENS: A voice rants "I love Dickens! It has to be Dickens!" Next evening on Night Gallery, Agnes Moorehead begs for... |
DOG BITES CAT: by Wayan; 2015/2/17; a grating dream-poem |
I get bullied into dogwalking. A biter--leaves a cat bloody. You'd think a talking dog'd listen. But Cheney... |
DRAGGED TO HER HEART'S DESIRE: by Wayan; 1997/9/16, a dream with a lesson. |
The friends of a touchy aviator have to kidnap her just to give her a present... and WHAT a present... |
DREAM MILKING: by Wayan, 2000/6/30, a dream warning of overwork... but awake or asleep? |
After a hard day getting a "free" bed, I dream my milker comes to drain my dreams. Wait...did I agree to this? Or does milking drain objections, too? CAUTION: CREEPY |
DRILL TO FLOW: by Wayan; 2011/4/8, an anti-frustration dream |
A panel of argumentative gods grant me a spare lifetime of piano practice. It takes that long, but... |
EFFECTIVENESS: by Wayan; dreamed 2008/6/13, an advisory dreamlet |
I'm forced to retake a course labeled Logic. It's not logic. The teacher says "I teach Effectiveness." And proves it: I lack a prospectus, so he folds the sheet into a paper airplane and sails it perfectly across the room to me... |
EMISSARY: by Wayan; 2000/3/22, an astral dreamtale. |
I signed a prenatal agreement for weird, uneven luck to turn my life toward art and spirit. I want to broaden it, but I've lost the contract! So my spirit wife Silky sets out to find it... |
ERICEPAEUS: by a multilingual woman, c.1918/12/25; a psychic dream told to Jung |
Jung's patient dreamed of a strange name, Ericipaeus. She didn't know Jung had been studying a minor god named, he thought, "Ericapaeus". He'd misread the manuscript; the name was actually spelled a third way... |
ESCAPE: by Harriet Tubman; 1848?-49, recurring dreams of freedom |
I dreamed of flying like a bird over beautiful meadows to a border or river I couldn't cross. But ladies in white helped pull me over. After I did escape, I met some of those ladies and knew by their faces who I could trust... |
FALADA: The Goose Girl's Best Friend: by Mardi Storm, recurring predictive dreams c.1975-79, sculpted c.2000 |
I had recurring dreams in which a talking horse’s head was nailed to a tree. Strangely, this was before I read "The Goose Girl" in Grimm's fairytales... CAUTION: GRIMM ALL AROUND |
FALCON AND FÜHRER: by Miriel; 1985/7/31, an epic flying/transformation dream |
A mysterious "Führer" hypnotized all my companions. So I become a human-sized falcon and hunt him... |
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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FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 2.6M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic. |
I had an epic dream lasting subjective weeks--a true other life. It wasn't Earth and we weren't human. I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. One night, my friends curled round me, I saw I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a woman, marry, and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right... 2600K loads slowly? Try it in parts: 1: HOME, 650K, 2: VOYAGE, 1200K, 3: BACK 750K. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
FISHERGIRL IN WATERCOLOR; OVAL: by Wayan; 1996/7/26 pencil & watercolor |
Leaf and me, on our boat in the lost city, from the epic dream FISHERGIRL. My first sketch of the dream... CAUTION: TRIBAL NUDITY |
FLOATING HORSES: by Wayan, 1972/8/10, a flying/transformation dream advising patience |
That day, I did bad art. That night, my friend & I get turned into levitating horses-- though some of our fellow fliers, like the mummified Inuit, are kinda creepy... |
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? |
FLYING UNICORNS' GIFTS: by Lily Michaud; 2007/9/5, an advice-dream inside a flying dream |
Flying unicorns hang out with me and my friends, sending us dreams full of useful advice--and more concrete gifts... |
THE GEYSER: by Wayan; 2014/3/22, a mock Dickinson poem on a dream telling us what to be |
I dream my sister has an epiphany--we should relax, blur our boundaries, and just be sloppy old Geysers of Good. Surprisingly, my financier mentor agrees... CAUTION: DECLARES CAPITALISM OBSOLETE |
THE GHOSTMASTER: by Wayan; 1992/6/16, a dreamtale of the Shadow. |
I win a starship from the hostile Ghostmaster; in space I gain the confidence to confront him, and find... |
GIRAFFE MISSION, or, THE 17TH FOOT: by Wayan, 2017/1/30, a Seussy dreampoem on breadth of view |
I was in the Mission with friends. A giraffe saw me as narrowminded, and lifted me up to show me HIS viewpoint. No insights--till we topped the roofline... |
THE GIVE-AWAY: by Wayan; 1982/6/7, a career nightmare. |
My parents pray for my success, and arrange a great learning opportunity for me. Really. |
GOLD EGG: by James Russell Lowell: 1850s? a dream-poem |
I dreamt a couple toss out a shabby old hen. But it lays golden eggs! She becomes an eagle and carries me off to... |
GOLD NECKLACE: by Elaine, c.1970, told to Ann Faraday; a subliminal or psychic warning dream |
DREAM: My husband was slipping a gold necklace onto a slim, dark girl I'd never met. I woke and sketched it... AFTER: He was having an affair with the girl, and gave her the necklace the night of my dream--her birthday... |
GREEN DRAGON BANE: by Tom LogosEinTheos, 2019/5/13, a dream of an odd gift |
I'm in a cavern. A large green & brown dragon goes over to a machine and gives me a green egg. A gift. It comes to me this is "dragon bane"... |
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... |
HALF SHAMAN, HALF STATESMAN: by Wayan; 1986/4/21, a parallel-world dream: Chapter 6 of UNICORN TAG |
I get a scholarship to Shaman U. Some of my classmates are Terran, but I still don't fit in, because... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
HELP YOUR NEIGHBOR: by Wayan; 1994/2/18, a comic nightmare. |
I'm an organic almond grower who's solved the Luminous Snail problem. But my neighbor has an agenda... |
HOP: by Emily Joy, Maddie, and Kathe, 2004/3/31; three linked dreams of a single character |
Three friends in one bed dream three dreams in one night about a talking rabbit with a persistent request... |
I DREAM OF... ME: by Linda Medley; 1990 or 91, a dream-comic, the seed of Castle Waiting |
I wake in a hobbit-hole. My love looks worried. What's wrong with me? A badger takes me to see wizard Sean Connery, who gives me feathers to eat, and I become... |
JACOB'S LADDER: by Jacob, grandson of Abraham; c. 2050 BCE; a self-fulfilling prophetic dream. |
Jacob dreams of angels climbing to heaven. He meets God, who promises the Holy Land to him and his tribe. Jacob uncritically accepts... |
LIGHTING THE TORCH: by Peter Birkhäuser; dreamed June 1974, painted Sept. '74. |
In the dark, a dragonlike god of fire stretched out one claw to courteously light my own small torch... |
THE LOST RING: by Helen Fraser; 1924; an astral lost-and-found dream |
A friend in Heaven promises Helen a lost ring would return to her. Three days later it did; but its path had been strange... |
LOUSE: by Wayan; ink, 1982/5/21: an embarrassing true story. |
Getting rid of lice was easy. Harder was quelling the gossip and rumors from my co-workers and boss... CAUTION: A LOUSE OF A BOSS
| MARABOU MONSTER: by Rustling Leaves; dreamed 2014/3/15 |
I've got too many obligations, an elderly relative to care for, and now giant birds are invading my house. CAUTION: STALKING, KILLER BIRDS |
MIRIEL, DON'T GO IN!: by Wayan; 1982/10/6, a dream of a stunted planet's stunted god. |
God offers gifts to pilgrims, so my sister enters his door. Fierce light shoots out... |
MR. WILLOW AND THE LOCUSTS: by a Yi Valley magistrate, Dec. 1641?, as told by Pu Songling; a shamanic dream |
As locusts advanced on his farm district, a magistrate dreamt a Mr. Willow had advice. He took it. Bearing a gift of rice wine, he sought out the Goddess of the Locusts, and... |
MUIR ON MARS: by Wayan; 1994/5/14, a dreamtale. |
I'm John Muir reborn on Mars, supporting Mars First against tree-cutters, who poison their enemies... |
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? |
MY PRIZE: by Wayan; 1997/8/15, a short psychic dream on inner critics. |
A teen awards me prizes for art and writing. I wake to see her on TV--a gymnast after a prize herself... |
THE NEW LAND: by Lynette, c.1985, as told to Patricia Garfield, a predictive dream |
The sea pours in the house, but Lynette swims and floats in the sun. When the flood ebbs, the land blooms into paradise. An oracle says "Your mom will die, but you'll help her through it"... CAUTION: SUBLIMINALLY SENSING ILLNESS, OR PSYCHIC? |
NIBBLING FRUITS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/2/3; a painting from an advisory dream |
I am given a gift of "Nibbling Fruits" which only I may eat--because I've been feeding everyone but me... |
O LA LA, WHAT A STRANGE DREAM: by Julie Doucet; 1989, a comic space sex dream |
Mom gave me cookies for my three-year solo spaceflight. Special cookies for both ends of me... CAUTION: NUDITY, BAD SEX ADVICE |
OCTOPIA: by Wayan; 1996/3/21, a spiritual dream-comic on play; ill. text version |
I'm a stratospheric bat who finds a flying swastika. Is it creeping fascism? Or a Hindu blessing? Neither! It's an Octopian frisbee. I return it... |
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 away all to everyone--only her bodiless head is left... |
ON THE NIGHT RIDE HOME: by Wayan; 1971/11/8, a dream-poem on pushing past prejudice |
As I bike home at night, strange doings--a rat is sacrificed; gemstones delivered; an astronaut shows glowing alien objects; a second rat becomes a... firefighter? |
ONE-EYED BOY: by Roswila; 2009/4/5, a dreamku on the limits of desire |
You'd think his Christmas wish would be "a new eye"; well it was, in a way... |
OTTER MEDICINE: by The-Fringe, a Crow healer, early 1850s; a shamanic dream with physical effects |
I slept on an island in a scalding hot spring, praying for a dream. I got one--and woke up on the shore... |
PASS THE VIAL ON: by Wayan; 2000/4/18, a dream of renunciation |
A vagabond king showed me the way into Faerie, and it made my fortune. But now it’s time to pass the gift on... |
PEACOCK KINGS: by Myoe Shonin; 1196/8 or 1196/9, an ecstatic dream |
I meet two Peacock Kings bigger than human beings, who chant blessings until I wake with tears drenching my pillow... |
THE PEGASUS CHILD: by Wayan; 1982/4/4, a dream of family diversity and spiritual advice |
Dad's human, Mom's a weird owl-lynx, the kid's a baby Pegasus... and I, W.C. Fields, that fat cynical drunken old actor, am the babysitter... |
PINKIE CLEANS THE WINDOWS OF PERCEPTION: |
by Wayan; 2017/2/5, an advisory dream fusing Aldous Huxley & My Little Pony. My new housemate Pinkie is a party animal, but she's really nice. She climbs a high ladder to help wash my Windows of Perception. Then our unicorn friend Rarity walks in. She warns me to pace this renovation project... CAUTION: PONIES |
PLAYMATES: by J.S., c.1893, a childhood dream |
When I was little, two boys with strange laughs invited me to play. Their house was crowded and underground. After I came back out, I realized their home was a grave and they were ghosts. They gave me a power... |
PLUMBER'S HELPER: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1981/12/8; a punning spiritual dream |
A stopped-up mystical toilet gets cleared by an unexpectedly colorful tool; but then, you never anticipate what'll unplug your, um, "head"... |
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 |
THE QILIN'S FOOT: by Confucius, c.500 BCE; a do-unto-unicorns dream |
I saw a boy beating a qilin [Chinese unicorn] with a willow branch, hurting its left leg. I scolded him and wrapped the leg in grass. In gratitude it spat up three books! I studied them diligently... |
RAGS TO RICHES: A FIGHT FOR LOVE: by Hyal; October 2006, a dream of courage. |
I was just a street rat, but I danced with the princess at a ball, and fell in love. Three rich suitors pulled their blades... |
MY RAPPEL-MAD SISTER: by Wayan; 1984/7/14-15, twin dreams on being halfway. |
My sister hoists us up to the Goddess's country too early, or too late: the ice is thawing, treacherous... |
RECOIL: by Wayan; 1995. Digital portrait of dream figures. |
Puzzled me why I (the girl on the left) was so outraged about the gift of a perfectly nice levitating flower... CAUTION: NUDITY, INGRATITUDE, WITCHCRAFT, ELVIS |
REGEANA’S DRAGON: by Regeana; 1996/3/9, a dream of generosity |
The jewels in the hoard had strange powers, but the advice of the dragon guarding them was even stranger... |
RELIEF CARAVAN: by Marilyn Stablein; 1968, a dream while visiting Nepal... for six years |
Famine. Our Tibetan monastery's prayers are answered. A caravan of yaks comes over the pass, bearing... |
SCARAB: by a patient of Carl Jung's; c.1925? a predictive/synchronistic dream |
As she told me her dream of receiving jewelry--a golden scarab-- I heard a tapping on the window behind me. I opened it. In flew... |
SEE-THROUGH BAGS: by Marilyn Stablein; 1968, a dream while visiting Nepal... for six years |
I give plastic sandwich bags to people in Tibet. They go wild for them. Shortage! An air shipment from Delhi breaks open; Tibetans with butterfly nets... |
SKUNK SEEKS THAILAND: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a dreamlet of shamanic kindness |
One night I meet a giant talking skunk and its pup, who asks how to walk to Thailand... |
SOLOMON'S CHOICE: by King Solomon, c. 970 BCE; a god's dream-bargain | As his reign begins, King Solomon worries he's inadequate. He dreams God offers him one gift, of his choice--but what would help the most? |
SOVEREIGN: by Anonymous #62, before 1921, an oracular psychic dream |
I was a missionary in South Africa, staying overnight in a remote village high in the Drakensberg. A man rode up; Six nights ago he was told in a dream to find me here in six days. He gave me a single gold coin, and left. Why?... CAUTION: FAILURE OF IMAGINATION? |
SPHINX'S WOOD: by Wayan; 1981/11/19, a dream of puns, riddles and advice |
After my dad lets me down I dream black may be white, and white, black--if you're a Sphinx... |
THE SWEET WALL: by Wayan; 2011/5/8, a charming but mysterious dream vignette |
A lonely little girl plays on a swing in her yard. A shy young faun or satyr who has a crush on her conjures up a strange gift: a translucent wall of candy... |
THE SWORD DANCE: by Wayan; 1988/4/29, a very unlikely predictive dream. |
I visit my friend Xanthe's lungs, where I meet a swordswoman in a red bikini. I get a unicorn pendant, go lucid, and become a heron too, but next day, it's the red-bikini-swordswoman I actually meet... |
TERRIBLE HORSE: by Louise Bogan; 1941, poem of a healing dream |
A stallion reared to strike me. He was all the fear and rage I’d repressed... A woman said “offer him... |
THREE DREAMS: by Al Davison and two friends, 1985, a shared nightmare |
I dreamed I checked my neighbor's flat for prowlers; I got shot and fell out a window. The same night my neighbor dreamt she asked me to check her flat, I got shot and fell out a window; the same night her best friend dreamt she came by and saw from street level the gunmen and my fall out the window... CAUTION: VIOLENT ATTACK FROM THREE VIEWPOINTS |
THREE WAYS TO FLY: by Wayan; 2010/11/10, a dream urging the World Dream Bank to shift |
I'm shown pictures of three different magical ways to fly. But the third shows no actual flight--just someone giving away the magical means... |
TIL: by Patricia Garfield, c.1986, a mystical work-advice dream |
I'm a spirit flying over the dead, blessing them. They're in mass graves, sorted & grouped only by their life-stages--kids, adults, elders. Wait... is this how to structure my book? |
TIME WITH A NIGHTHEAD: by Barbara Gordon Paine; c.1960, a nightmare-poem on overconfidence |
A toy's delivered, unasked. A jumping jack. It tries to eat me! I defeat it but then peer in the box to be sure... |
TO SAVE HUMANITY: by Roz Chast, 2023 or before, a spit-swappin' dream |
Worldwide drought. I have a mutation making me produce lots of saliva, so to keep people alive, I drool into their open mouths. Gross, but it's take my drool or die... CAUTION: UGH |
TRANSFUSION by a New York woman; 1950s? 3 predictive dreams over a 5-year span |
I dreamt of the Du Pont lab where I'd work, and my neighbor's future coffin, and the hospital where my sister-in-law would get a transfusion... |
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 |
TUBA BEANS: by Wayan; 1996/3/24, a Star Trek dream. |
Changelings invade our orbital station, selling drugs, kidnapping teachers--but Constable Odo can handle that. What's weird are the beans pouring out of that kid's tuba... |
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... |
UMBRELLA: by "Anonymous #"17; pre-1963, a helpful cryptomnesic/predictive dream |
My wife dreamt where to find her lost umbrella; the next day she did. But the finder said word for word what she had in the dream... |
UNGIRDLE THE TREE: by Wayan; dreamed 2018/10/6, a shamanic warning dream |
I'm a girl living alone in a forest. I go patrolling after a storm and find a red cable strangling a tree. Though scared, I climb up and tear it off. But there are more... CAUTION: POLITICAL INTERPRETATION |
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.. |
WHISTLE: by Dr William Hammond, c.1865; a self-flagging predictive nightmare |
On a long steamboat voyage, a living skeleton swaps a warning for my watch; when the whistle sounds, the boiler will blow. As it does, I dive in the river and wake to discover a real whistle... CAUTION: UNCANNY SYNCHRONIZATION? |
WHITE LOON: by White Loon, 1870s?, an initiation-negotiation dream |
At ten, I fasted a long tedious time. I dreamed a bird offered me showy gifts, but I kept to my grandmother's advice: never take the first offer. At last a big, strange bird from the north, a white loon, offered me long life and health; that I accepted! So now I'm called... |
WINDFALLS IN EDEN: by Wayan, 2000/3/30, a religio-politic dream. |
I'm a part-owner of Eden, harvesting windfalls. But a renter says his Landlord promised him all the apples... |
WORKIN' FOR PEANUTS: by Wayan; 1990/12/11, a crude but perceptive dream. |
I'm an elephant working in a diner. In the bathroom, I inadvertently summon the Genie of the Urinal... CAUTION: PISSED PACHYDERM |
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