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On the other hand, it's brittle. Glass breaks. So don't get too Jungian. If you dream a tornado's gonna smash your front window, don't check your psyche--check your insurance.
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ALTHEA'S CHICKEN: by Wayan; 1990/3/27, a nightmare-farce. My sister Althea decides my house has demons, and hires an exorcist who botches things, so that... |
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BRANDY'S CURSE: by Wayan; 1996/10/23, a bizarre dream (even for me). After I saw the film "Surviving Picasso" (he's brilliant but treats women like dirt) I dream a sexy friend asks me to remove a strange curse. But can I?... |
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CAT-FOX: by Wayan, 2022/4/7, a surreal covid-frustration dream I live in a highrise. But a fox appears on our balcony! Through the glass door, he flirts with our pet cat-fox. But wild foxes can carry distemper, so I keep the door locked. Useless! This urban pioneer is talented. He steps through the glass... |
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DAPHNE THINKS: by Wayan, 2007/6/10, a dream warning of (two?) unacknowledged needs My co-worker Daphne is snappish and stressed. She meditates, seeking the cause, and becomes a half-newt-half-koi in a giant fishbowl. Up shambles a curious AI... |
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DREAM-DENIERS: by Wayan, 2014/5/31, a dream contemplating the meaning of dreams In a museum I talk to a stained-glass artist who's a dreamworker like me. But a meme seems to be spreading that says dreams mean absolutely nothing... CAUTION: ADVANCED DREAMWORK |
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(MY) GLASS BODY: by Wayan; 1993/9/16, a dream on sensitivity. After I visit the crystalline people, a young diamond-wizard stalks me all the way to my home in the Meat World, and says... |
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GLASS EATER: by Wayan; 1982/12/10, a dream on managing ESP. I live in an asylum for fragile psychics. When one man over-uses his talent, he compulsively eats glass... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
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GLASS GAME: by Wayan; 1985/9/23, a nightmare. A swimming pool game with color-sorted broken glass. It's social, it's fun! The whole family can play! CAUTION: BLOODY IDIOTS |
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THE GLASS MISSED ITS CUE: by Frederik van Eeden, 1904/9/9, a lucid dream experiment I knew I was dreaming but the world looked quite realistic. I struck a wineglass with all my strength--a risky act, if I were awake. It didn't shatter. But when I looked again, it lay broken! Like an actor who'd missed its cue... |
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I FIGHT FOR BEAUTY: by Wayan; 1990/1/1, an incubated dream within a dream within a dream. From Hawaii to Wyoming, I fight for beauty, always waking to find I'm someone new... |
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JAKE'S MAGIC CARPET; 2006/12/12 by Zhea Zarecor; a reconciliation dream that grew to something more Not long after Jake died, I dreamed he took me on a magic carpet ride. Since then, I've been flying... |
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KISS THE GLASS: by Wayan; 1979/9/23, a dream on priorities. My parents' house is now a sex club. I walk in, and meet my soulmate! But in awkward circumstances... CAUTION: SEX |
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LILY OXYGEN: by Wayan; dreamed 1984/1/19, drawn 2000; a strong psychic dream. I'm Emily Dickinson reborn in 2100 as a breeder of hydroponic lilies, till my dad drafts me as an Arctic energy-prospector, where I meet a ghost, a fiery Beast, a new me, and the girl of my dreams... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, NUDE PROSPECTORS, GNOMIC DICKINSON QUOTES |
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MS. TRUST: by Wayan; 1993/11/4, a dream of a guarded angel. I meet my own mistrust: an angel who can't trust ME! So she turns me into a football-playing ant... |
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MY GLASS HEART: by Carl Linkhart, 1998 or before; dream poem/painting My glass heart survived the rocket's blast, but I'm stranded on this barren world. Wrapped in glamor, we climb a steep forbidding stair into a rosy, fake tomorrow... |
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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 |
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RAVENNA: by Wayan; 1994/12/25, a predictive Jungian dream on art & body-image. In a church-tent, I find glowing pictures of mine I've never seen awake. One's half-done; I work on it. I wake, and read how Jung, in a Ravenna church, saw luminous images he later learned burned centuries ago! CAUTION: NUDE STAINED GLASS |
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THE RIVER: by Kathleen Raine, between 1965 & '71; two mystical dream poems on dropping the ego I tossed the crystal decanter of my self into the river, and watched it float away... |
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SECRETS OF THE TEETERING STUPA: by Carl Linkhart, 1998 or before; dream poem/painting The past. Burma. I'm shown a stupa covered in gold leaf, and given a key to a tunnel where they say a tooth of Buddha is encased in glass... |
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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... |
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SPRINTERS AND SPHINX: by Wayan; 2009/11/13, a dream poem. Divers made of ice win the Traffic-Leaping Olympics. But I think they cheated! I seek my friend the Sphinx... |
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THE THING ABOUT DREAMS: by Julia Wertz, a dream autobiography, 1980-2010 As a kid, my nightmares were of Sesame Street characters. In my teens I graduated to slasher nightmares and recurring lucid dreams. Alcohol trashed my dreams for years, but now they're not nightmares--just surreal. Hitler wrecks my sex life! What a spoilsport... CAUTION: (MOSTLY FRUSTRATED) SEX |
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TORNADO INSURANCE: by a car salesman's wife; pre-1961, a useful predictive dreamlet I dreamed a tornado loosened our showroom sign; it swung down to smash the window. I told my husband, and... |
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WHARTON TOWER: by Wayan; 1985/7/24, 3 surreal dreamlets on gender & class? 1940s reporters almost trap me in a mob shootout. I shelter in a gender-segregated hotel. The owner of Wharton Tower shakes the hotel so it swings between its butch & femme halves. I fall off the Hudson Palisades, but I land safely on the Glass Ceiling... |
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