Nurses and Caretaking
For others, dream nurses may have other meanings--being pleasantly cared for, recuperation, being bossed around. And being a nurse in a dream might mean nourishing others, or being underpaid, or short on time, or caught between competing demands... Context is all.
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ATLANTIS; c. 1993 by Mark Doty; six elegiac poems, three dream-based In our marshlands, tides, birds, dogs come and go; but must our friends and lovers, too? CAUTION: AIDS DEATHS |
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BERYL'S DOG DAYS: by Wayan; 1988/1/25, a psychic dream farce. My friend Beryl wants me to help rob a bank, so she can cut off her breasts and be a great opera singer... |
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THE CHILD ANGEL by Charles Lamb, early 1823, an otherworldly dream on a worldly plight I meet a half-angel half-mortal child, fruit of an illicit affair. Constantly growing pinfeathers, but never mastering flight; ageless, but unable to grow up; at home neither in Heaven nor Earth... CAUTION: 19TH-CENTURY VERBOSITY |
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COLOSTRUM FIRST!: by Lily and Wayan; 1998/2/27; a shared dream A dream of exhibitionist girls playing with breast milk turns out not to be symbolic, but psychic... CAUTION: BREASTS |
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DREAM-CHILDREN by Charles Lamb, Nov. 1821, an early, eerie parallel-world dream. My children ask me to tell our family history, up to the death of their mother. I wake to find myself single, my late wife alive but married to another, and my beloved children, phantoms... CAUTION: 19TH-CENTURY LOGORRHEA |
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FIVE HEARTS: by Wayan; dreamed 1989/1/11; sexy psychic unicorn dream-comic (text only: FIVE HEARTS) I'm a nurse pulled through a glowing well to a world ruled by a five-hearted unicorn, who wants me to... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX FANTASIES, LONGING, MELANCHOLIA |
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THE FOREST BRIDE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 1994/7/23 & 1994/12/10; opposing solstice dreams In the midsummer dream, I'm at a wedding in the Russian forest; in winter, I dream I hold an emaciated girl as she breathes her last... |
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FOUR OF TEN: by Wayan; 2021/4/3, four examples from ten dreams in one night Books are clothes, and always were. A potato makes me lie, and everyone gets it but me. Sex in a crowd disarms the Mom Squad! And a Mystic Autistic's soul explores my room... CAUTION: PUBLIC SEX? PROBABLY. |
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HUMMINGBIRD MEME: by Althea; 2022/1/14, a dream of 15 minutes of fame I rescue a hummingbird who drinks nectar from my ear. It becomes an Internet star. But then a girl rides a waterslide with her tits showing, and my meme is over ... CAUTION: CARTOON BREASTS |
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ISIS HELPS TERI GARR: by Wayan; 1988/3/27, a meandering predictive dream. Actress Teri Garr and Isis the talking cat recur all night, but so does a baseball glove I haven't pulled out in years. Why? A few days later a friend asks for that glove, and I find... |
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LION NOW, EMANCIPATION LATER: by Wayan; 2000/5/5, two dreams as my dad lay dying We must hunt a man-eating lion to protect our village--our village full of slaves. But we can't deal with our looming social crisis now--gotta focus on the lion in front of us.. CAUTION: SLAVERY, ILLNESS, DEATH |
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MARRIED TO MYSTERY: by Wayan; 1992/7/29, a dream on dream research. The starship Enterprise. A world ahead sends the Captain and the Nurse odd psychic urges. Follow or resist? |
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SILKY THE PEGASUS: by Wayan; 1984/12/11; a guided flying dream My anima, a pegasus mare, leaps out of a girl's book and teaches us to fly up to an astral land... CAUTION: FLIRTY PEGASUS |
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STARFISH: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 1985; a multileveled, doubly predictive dream A sacred starfish piloting a Cessna plane survives a crash. But can it survive a boy's clumsy rescue efforts? |
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TAROT: CARING or THE PIETA: by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1979. The card of caring, caregiving, and compassion... |
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TAROT: GUILT TRIP: by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1979. When the card CARING comes up reversed, you get this crucified guy floating over your bed... |
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THUMBSUCKER!: by a patient of William Hammond, c.1868, an epic comic taste dream I paint my thumb with bitter aloes to break my habit of sucking it at night. I dream of wormwood, ox gall, mineral salts. I consult Dr. Save Me and even the Pope, but... |
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WARM MOTHER: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2001/3/24, 3/29, 3/30 & 4/1; dreams I dream my mother takes over caring for my sick daughter; I feel pushed aside. When I wake, I try to paint a more positive image of mothering. For a week, dream after dream has opportunities for patience and letting go of jealousy... |
WHEN BLOOD FLOWS, THE DANGER IS PAST |
by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2000/3/23 & 2000/4/19, twin dreams of carved women A woman is knifed by the sea. I cradle her, but she's probably dying... For my intitiation-ordeal, I have to cut designs in my own back! I can't reach, so... |
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