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BALLOON DRUG: by Patricia Garfield, 1974/2/3, a dream on thought-forms While writing about Tibetan dreamwork, I dream I'm on drugs and see myself in a mirror, first old & scarred, then young & sexcrazed. I think "This'd scare me if I hadn't been reading up on Yoga stuff!"... |
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CLIMB FROM THE PIT: by Wayan, 1996/11/9, a dream parable. I'm in the Mideast. No wonder it's a war zone--it's a vast pit BUILT for war! But a spiral stair leads slowly out, to... |
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DIAGNOSTIC BATTERY: by Wayan; 1988/4/20, a nightmare of backstabbing that came true My sister & her new guru tests me psychologically--only it looks like a test to destruction... CAUTION: EMOTIONAL CRUELTY |
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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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FAERIE: by Wayan; 1995/7/18 & 95/8/6: two linked dreams of postmodern Faerie, with sketches I'm the daughter of a mortal doctor working in Faerie as it faces social upheaval (and I look for a decent date...) |
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FAKE IT!: by Electra Johannes and Patagia; 2007/9/22 and 2007/9/23, linked dreams. Patagia dreams she fakes a Hindu rite, causing Electra to dream she fakes leadership in a refugee band. But are they faking? |
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GABORS: by Jack Kerouac, late Jan. 1954, a dream of celebrity delusion Starlets Zaza and Eva Gabor grow old shopping, smiling, covering their fears, until... |
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GANDHI RUNS: by Wayan; 1997/8/1, a fusion dream. Gandhi and I must run barefoot across a burning racetrack miles wide... the Ascetic Desert? |
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HIGHER LEVEL: by Wayan; 2011/12/13, an absurd transcendent dream I paddle through the grim streets of Karachi on my belly, on a skateboard, with my flipper-hands, until at last I reach the border to a Higher Realm... |
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HITLER'S CAR: by Wayan; 1982/6/9, I review a creepy book. Then my dreams review ME. A book claims Hitler led not a political party but a cult out to apply mystical theories--like Manson! Then I dream... CAUTION: BIG RANT, SMALL DREAM |
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MENTOR: by Wayan; 2001/6/13, six advisory dreamlets. I meet a shapeshifting mentor who warns of coming war (9/11?). Then a sentient book, "The Art of War," gets intimately involved... CAUTION: ELECTRODES, LIBROPHILIA |
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MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN: by Wayan; 1992/9/5-6, a literary/diagnostic dream. I'm in a tribe of post-Crash kids with psychic powers, trying to keep nukes from rising again... CAUTION: CHILD SOLDIERS |
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NORASINGH: by Wayan; 1987/1/15, a Tantric Frankenstein dream. I fall in love with my sculpture of a mythical Southeast Asian creature. Then a mad yogi breaks in... CAUTION: SEX, TANTRA, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS |
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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... |
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ONE FRUIT REMAINS UNEATEN: by Catshall; November 1983, a journal dotted with dreams My day life as an artist and explorer of the San Francisco underground scene gets regularly commented on by my dreamlife... CAUTION: SEX, BONDAGE |
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PROPHETIC DREAM OF BUDDHA'S FATHER: by King Suddhodana, c.563 BCE? an uneasy dream Suddhodana dreams of great upheavals; no courtier can interpret the dream. An ascetic claims the upheaval will be for the good, then... turns into an owl?! CAUTION: PERHAPS NOT ENTIRELY ACCURATE |
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PUBLIC EVENTS vs. SNAKES FROM INDIA: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1984/6-7, a dream contrasting faiths I meet a Mormon art-educator I know. We're so different! Then I get a call from India. My friend tells of an erotic Hindu bas-relief of women and snakes... |
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RAMANUJAN: by Srinavasa Ramanujan, 1905-09, dreams of math insights from a goddess I saw a red screen, as if formed by flowing blood. On it, a hand wrote elliptical integrals. I knew they were from Lakshmi. As soon as I woke, I committed them to writing... |
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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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SERAFINA AND RAM DASS: by Wayan; a 2000/11/6 dream anticipating an 11/9 experience with auras A Finnish shaman/witch gives me a lesson in night flying; in the waking world I meet Ram Dass and sense him speak astrally before his body can get the words out... CAUTION: HIGH MYSTICAL QUOTIENT; IF ALLERGIC, AVOID |
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SOUL-SHARD: by Wayan; 2000/10/5, a rebellious dream I’m a wolf in an ashram studying astral travel with my spirit-wife. Our souls blend a bit, enraging our guru, a Hindu god, who sends demons to make us stop this spiritual “contamination”... |
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