Hallucinations and Visions
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BOOKSTORE ILLUSION: by Wayan; 560 x 680, erasable crayon 14x17", 1986? I was in the Stanford Bookstore and saw this strange visual pun across the room... or did I? CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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CAPITOL REEF: by Wayan; 277K, 1996. Cartooned daydream of a mid-air (or is it mid-water?) orgy News of a new national park fused with a science show on cleaner-fish spur a fantasy of dolphins, cats and... CAUTION: FISH ORGY; MOCKS THE ANGEL MORONI, TOO |
| CHOCOLATE SPILL: by "Anonymous #8"; before 1963, a nondream time-glitch of a few seconds The jug of chocolate sauce smashed on the tile floor, forming a dark pattern. Then the whole scene melted and, like a film loop, started again. I was terrified. I shouted "Don't touch it!" Screaming in horror I watched the sauce make its predestined shape on the floor... |
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| 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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| DICK, HOW WONDERFUL: by Dick and his mother; during the Korean War (1951-54), shared telepathic hallucinations As a man on shore patrol in Manila is attacked, he and his mother simultaneously see and hear each other... |
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| DIVINE IMAGE, or, A VISION OF ADONAI: by Anna Kingsford, 1877/7/23, a waking vision Gazing at the moon, Anna suddenly finds herself touring the Solar System and meeting all the planetary guardians... CAUTION: MYSTICAL ECSTASY |
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| DON'T DO THAT, MARION: by Marion; 1947, a two-way telepathic intervention? I was planning my suicide when my friend a thousand miles away "Don't do that, Marion." Next day an airmail arrived... SUICIDAL NARRATOR |
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| DOUBLE DREAM: by "Anonymous #23 & 24"; before 1963, two clearly linked false-predictive dreams--but who influenced who? Mother and daughter both dream Mum runs over a little girl. Next morning she spots the girl in the road and misses her. But bystanders seem not to see the child... |
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| EGYPT: by AE (George Russell); 1890s?, a brief telepathic vision I wondered where a friend was, and felt as if I were walking at night near the Sphinx. Months later... |
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| F.I.P: by Dr A (c.1947), a Cambridge man (1960?), a London girl (c.1916) and a Midlands mum (July 1958) Examples of inexplicable moods that appear (after the fact) to be reactions to future events... |
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| HEADLINES: by "Anonymous #21"; 1942/8/4, 1954/1/1, and 1958/8/16, a set of psychic newsflashes All my life I've had sudden visions showing violent deaths accompanied by headlines naming the victims... |
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| I SEE'D THEY DID: by a Wisconsin 4-year-old; before 1961, a waking vision (clairvoyant? telepathic?) He asked abruptly "Did Aunt Myrtle and Uncle Charles have a wreck with a train? I see'd they did..." |
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MAN OVERBOARD: by Sir Stephen King-Hall; 1916, a lifesaving premonition acted on I was officer of the watch in the Southampton. I knew that as we passed an islet a mile ahead, a man would fall overboard... |
| MISCARRIAGE: by John Donne; 1612, a clairvoyant hallucination. Donne, in Paris, was alarmed by a vision of his wife holding a dead baby. At that hour, in England, his wife... |
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| PAT'S WARNING: by Pat, Allen and Gerry; 1947, a ghostlike warning from a living person--or her unconscious? In Occupied Germany, Pat flags down two friends just before a truck crash. Only Pat was in England at the time. She sensed they were in danger, but... |
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PATCHES PAWS AT FLYING FISH-TOAST FRIENDS: by Sarah Silver; 120K, 2006/7/26, a hallucinatory image. Patches the kitten, my alter ego, paws at flying fish who are also toast-slices... |
| PETE: by Norman, a soldier on Guam; 1944, either a ghost or hallucination with a lifesaving warning. Pete warned me not to take the shortcut. Only after I'd turned the truck around did I realize Pete had died weeks ago... |
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THE POWER OF THE BUTTERFLY: by Lisa Gale Garrigues ("Cory"); winter 1997, a dream of flying, shapeshifting and spiritual advice. When a flood trapped me in my cabin, I dreamed I met an old man who warned me to let my butterflies go... |
| PRIMAVERA: by Walter de la Mare; 1920s, a dream persisting into day I dreamt the Goddess of Spring paraded by my house. I woke and leapt to my bedroom window, and there she was... |
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| SCHNEIDER TROPHY CRASH: by J. Lloyd-Owens; c. 1931/8/1, an overwhelming premonition As a newsreel showed a Navy flier for the Schneider Trophy Air Race, I felt a violent shock and said "He's going to be killed..." |
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| THE SHOP SPILLED OVER: by AE (George Russell); early 1890s, a telepathic vision I closed my eyes at work and saw an old man and a red-haired girl in a shop. My workmate was writing a letter home, and I asked... |
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| STEPHANIE GODOT: by Wayan; 1994/12/14, a waking comedy of two dreamworkers. My unconscious sabotages a lunch date with my friend Stephanie. The tricks get weirder, till... |
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SUMMONING SHADOW: by Jo Equinity; 2006. Three meditative paintings apparently cause a miracle. I had to sell my horse Shadow, but I missed him so much I painted my love for him. As I finished, a strange impulse led me... |
| TRIGO: by Edith L. Willis; 1929/6/4, an induced automatic-writing prediction (profitable, too) In an idle moment I held a pencil and asked the air who'd win the Derby. 'Trigo' meant nothing to me, but was listed at 32 to 1, so... |
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