Oracles
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AN ALICORN BLADE IN THE HEART: by Wayan; 2010/12/18; a dream of a lucid flash A witch & I duel with blades of spiral horn. But we both just want to create an utterly truthful oracle. Can't we find a way not to fight? |
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AMATERASU'S MIRROR: by Lady Sarashina and an unnamed priest, c. 1035/3/22, two dreams of a life-choice Sarashina dreams (again) she needs to leave court life and a spiritual path. Her skeptical mom sends a priest to the temple to dream for her! But he too dreams the Goddess shows two life-choices--happy or sad... |
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ASK ME ANYTHING: by Wayan; 1975/1/31, a backstage dream. It was a dark and stormy night. I was lost, till I stumbled on God in her underground control room. God was helpful. Too helpful... |
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AUSPICIOUS TRACTOR HATE: by Wayan; 1984/4/17, a triumphant frustration dream! A party for me and my shadow, to celebrate that we haven't killed each other, just HATE each other... |
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AVOID THE MATRIARCH: by Wayan; 2011/7/8; a dream of, well, avoidance I love a girl in a big Singapore clan whose matriarch hates me. But the omens say confronting her will be disastrous... |
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THE BEST HOTEL: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; an escalating surrealist dream Rajiv keeps trying to convince me it's the best hotel in India: the orgy of biters, the bowls of twitching fingers. But it's only the oracular spirits that really impress me... CAUTION: CREEPY FINGERS |
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BLUE CRYSTALS: by Wayan; 1979/5/20 dream offering guidance. Throw a dream-crystal, or dangle it by a thread, and it'll point the way to go... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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THE BOATMEN OF LAOLONG: by Viceroy Zhu, before 1679, as told by Pu Songling; an incubated dream Traders were vanishing. Newly installed Viceroy Zhu fasted, focused, and dreamt the gods sent him a riddling poem. Each line suggested one word--together, they... CAUTION: BRUTAL ORGANIZED CRIME |
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CARDANO'S DREAMS: by Girolamo Cardano, 1521 & 1547/8/15, two confusing oracular dreams 1521: I ask a talking ape how long I'll live. "Four years" he says. "No longer?" "No." 26 years later, I'm still hoping to get truth from dream-figures--two dead guys tell me... CAUTION: JUNGIANS BEHAVING BADLY |
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CAT-SCRATCH SIGNS: by Wayan; 1973/11/9, a dream on language-learning Our Star Trek team explores alien ruins covered in cat scratches. Or are they writing? I uncover Roman letters, Arabic numerals, I Ching trigrams, Chinese characters, Chumash pictographs. Reading them turns us into cats! One cat lays eggs, but two more try to smash them... CAUTION: CAT-EGG VANDALISM |
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CELLPHONE HEAVEN: by Alder, 2008/8/28, a dream of practical sainthood I visit a Tibetan monastery with great cellphone reception from the gods. But all their calls are messages to pass on to others--none for us... |
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"CLIT!": by "D'Jeanna"; 2009/9/11, a breakthrough dream after coming out The day after my mom outed me to my dad, I dream a great storm has passed and everything's just glowing... |
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COYOTE'S VAULT: by Wayan; 1994/5/4, a shamanic dream of the future. One of the Time Vaults has opened. That means a historical crisis is at hand. Guess who gets to go in... |
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CRITTERS IN THE RIFT: by Wayan; 2013/7/18, a weird dream job I'm the receptionist for a research group of small oracular animals in an Icelandic rift, who can sniff out the answer to any question... |
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DEAD, NOT STUPID: by Wayan; 2000/1/20, a (possibly predictive) ghost dream My little sisters tell the detectives, "Daddy's ghost has a message for you" but at first they don't listen... |
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THE DEATH OF ATYS: by King Croesus c.560 BCE; predictive dream, or self-fulfilling? Croesus dreamt his heir Atys was slain by an iron blade; he locked them all in the armory. But Atys went hunting; his guard Adrastus's spear went astray. Did Fate kill Atys, or superstition rattling poor Adrastus? |
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DO YOU LOVE ME, JOHN?: by Wayan; 1991/7/6, a dream on the courage of the shy. I dream of a future where blondes are a too-cute endangered species. How can they survive? Like this... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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THE DOCTOR'S ADVICE: by Wayan; 2011/5/23, a tricky double-diagnostic dream that changed my life. My doctor says (no exam, no tests) "hidden desires inflame you." I'm skeptical--suspect an infection. Awake, I test both hints--repression and infection. Antibiotics work! I'm still weird--but not sick. |
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DREAMKU, JUNE 2006: by Roswila; various dates up to June 2006; thirty dream-haiku Daily dream-poems in haiku style, nonstop for a month. A flood of animals, revenant ghosts, sex changes... |
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A DREAMKU PRIMER: by Roswila; 2007; how-to guide to dream haiku Distilling a dream to one key image can clarify it. But don't be ruled totally by traditional haiku form... |
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THE ELEVEN CENT ORACLE: by Wayan; 1998/11/12, a dream on accumulating... change. I'm a migratory girl who's lost my tribe. I find eleven coins, cross the world, and pay the Oracle... |
ELF CIRCLE; 2011/3/19 by Wayan; a complex advisory dream. |
After trespassing in a staff-only part of Faerie, I'm cast out. Only I'm cast like a seed, meant to grow a new elf circle... |
EMADRO: by Wayan; 1983/6/4, a wild dream on clinging--and letting go. |
An elephant sinks in the North Sea, and the Oracle Mink says a wizard did it. Can old Lady Gandalf help? |
THE EX-GODDESS: by Wayan, 2010/11/9, a dream-poem on a god in hiding--in plain sight! |
I meet a forgotten goddess--outlived all her cults. Today she passes as a psychic, reads a crystalball... CAUTION: NUDE CHALK SKETCH |
FAIRY WIFE: by Wayan; 1985/1/17, an epic dream of love and choice. |
A fairy woman and a mortal man? Can't work! They're flighty, we're crude. Doomed, right? Well, some people are so sure of it they decide to help things along a bit. Or a lot... |
FULL REASON: by Wayan; 1980/5/28, a dream on patience. |
At a benefit for Rock Psychiatrists, the Spirit of the Convention explains why I can't go on stage yet... |
GEOMETRY OF DAWN: by Bruce Kawin, c.1983, a sexy metaphysical dream? |
My anima sends me on peculiar journeys--smoke rings, islands, conversations with a stone-- but at last it's just us. She has something more she wants to teach me. On that bed... CAUTION: ASTRAL COME-ON |
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 |
GOD'S THREE DIALS: by Wayan; 1992/11/20, a heavenly dream. |
God built 3 dials to check: body, soul, and time. But the Holy Spirit's lazy, only checks one! It's up to us... |
GOSHEN: by Percy Konqobe; 1940s-1960s?, a lifelong recurring psychic dream |
I hear voices: "The road to success is in Kafkat, in a place called Goshen." I look back, and see seven male shadows... |
HEBREW RADIO RITE: by Wayan; 1997/10/12, a cynical mystical dream. |
An ancient rite has headgear that today picks up radio stations. What'd it pick up in ancient times? |
HELL-BOUND TRAIN: by Franz Jaegerstetter, summer 1938; a political dream |
I was ordered to join Hitler's army. I dreamt a booming voice proclaimed, "This train is going to Hell!" So I... |
HONESTY THE WITCH: by Wayan; 1974/6/1, a flying dream. |
A witch advocates honesty, but kids mock her; one boy tries to rape her. We fight mid-air, riding her broom... CAUTION: RAPE ATTEMPT |
JUNG’S PREMONITIONS OF WORLD WAR I: by Carl Jung, 1913-1914; five ignored warnings. |
Jung was told in dreams and visions that Europe would soon drown in blood. But he just couldn’t believe it... |
LEARNING SCALES: by Wayan; 1985/6/26, an epic dream of Chinese dragons. |
I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost. We need an Imperial Dragon... |
THE LIMIT OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE: by Wayan; 1974/3/13, a dream of madness. |
Deep in the caves, a Voice announces I've gone as far as the human mind can stand. But ahead, I see... |
MAGICAL GRADUATION: by Wayan, 2018/4/22, twin dreamlets on letting go and being yourself |
I befriend author Andre Norton--an ageless high-school kid writing enthused fan fiction, forever... I find my Niche--the stone nook that decides if I'm a journeyman mage! Here comes my prophecy... |
MARCO TO WIN: by Violet Tweedale, 1893 or 4; a predictive... something |
We went to visit a well-known psychic. As an afterthought I asked about an upcoming race. The answer was firm: "Marco to win..." We made a lot off her tip. But when I thanked her later, we were shocked to learn she'd never heard me! Then who had spoken?... CAUTION: WEIRD EVEN FOR SPIRITUALISTS |
MELTDOWN VALLEY: by Wayan; 1993/2/13, a dream of scrupulous balance. |
A park in San Francisco has melted into a bizarre mutation-zone. Its guardian is a lonely elf-woman... CAUTION: ELF NUDITY |
MOVING: by Roswila, 2007/10/13 and 2007/10/23; a recurring dreamku |
My dreams support a radical break from my past--to let go of possessions and friends in a cross-country move... |
NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S TREE: by King Nebuchadnezzar II; c. 583 BCE, a predictive dream |
Nebuchadnezzar dreams a voice from heaven commands a great tree be cut; Daniel interprets this as a prediction the king will go mad for 7 years... |
NERO'S TOOTH: by Vespasian, c.65 CE, an oracular dream fulfilled alarmingly soon |
Vespasian dreamed he and his family would rise only when Emperor Nero lost his teeth. The next day, a surgeon happened to show Vespasian a tooth he'd just extracted from... |
ORACULAR RAVENS: by Wayan; 2023/1/24, a genderbent, predictive/synchronistic dream |
DAY: I see Avatar: the Way of Water. Two films in one: Blue Lagoon alternates with Mad Max... DREAM: As an oracle, I have to go topless so the magic mini-ravens can perch on my nipples... CAUTION: BRR, OW!, BREASTS, and SNIPING AT JAMES CAMERON |
PALM DREAM: by Skip Renker, 1984 or earlier, a slow nightmare? or a subtle challenge? |
After lifeline and heartline, the palm-reader points to a rope ladder heading for Orion. I climb. But it goes brittle, splinters. I flail. She reads, long-distance, one more line: "Wings", she calls. "Wings." |
PARLOR GAME: by a bridge builder's wife; pre-1961, a party game interrupted by a real premonition |
I had fun playing fortuneteller, until David. My hands turned icy. I asked "Where are you going?" |
POOL OF TRUTH: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1983/10/1; a dream of shamanic descent |
Night. A massive crash on the highway. Bodies strewn. Sickened, I descend a spiral stair to the Pool of Truth. It gives no answers. Women spout platitudes. I go on, in pain, down past the polar bears... CAUTION: THE DEAD |
RIDE THE GODS OF THE HAND: by Larry Vigon; 2002/6/13; an oracular dream |
Predawn. The beach. A gypsy goddess rises from the waves. She says "Begin to ride the gods of the Hand, in London." I say "What?"... CAUTION: CRYPTIC BUT FIRM |
THE RIFT ZONE: by Wayan; 1987/11/27, a long-term psychic dream. |
I'm not ambivalent--I'm confused! I live here by the Rift Zone and I don't. I'm single and not. Two lives!... |
ROSEMARY AND FRANCES: by Rosemary; 1936/6/5, a predictive mood & flash saves one of two sisters |
Gloom clung to me & I skipped the dance. I begged Frances to ride in a safe car, but coming home... |
SATYR: by Wayan; 1999/4/1, a frustrating wish-fulfillment dream (yes, both). |
I'm a faun, the oracle for a Greek village. But my predecessor set up rituals I want to change... CAUTION: SEX, PAGANISM, SELF-SATYRE |
SEA-SPHINX: by Wayan; 2021/9/26, a nightmare? or advice on desire? |
Three successive attacks! I escape the Roadrage Nut, I withstand the mob of Angry Ghosts, but the Tsunami floods all. Strange--that angry, glowing, blue Sea-Sphinx who summoned the flood is really sexy. Why is she mad at me?... |
A SEAMY REALITY: by Wayan; 1999/10/21, a surreal predictive dream. |
Sharp seams between realities cross Silicon Valley; I end up in the Dark Castle of the Oracle. When I wake... |
SHE IS THE SNAKE: by Sharon Stricker, 1980, a warning dream from a censored goddess |
Should I try to keep Janine out of jail? But outside, she'd gotten back on drugs. That night I dreamed a huge beautiful snake bit my writing hand, and said "Don't go to court. Stay home and write"... CAUTION: JUNKIE, RESCUER |
SHEEP IN THE SKY: by Myoe Shonin; c.1220/9/20, a dream of strange advice. |
A strange transforming thing appeared in the sky--a light, a sheep, a man. It told me to stop burning my head... |
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? |
SPARK OF THE DIVINE: by Carla Young, 2010/2/2; painting of a brief oracular dream |
A voice told me, "Human beings have a spark of the divine"... |
SPEAK UP, RISE UP: by Wayan; 1985/5/24, a witnessing-flying advisory dream |
I bike round the ring of women on the stage. Oracles! Whoever speaks, levitates. One advises me, but I can't act on it--too ill. "Gotta heal!" I blurt. My own oracle.. |
THYROID: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 1985; a set of life-saving diagnostic nightmares |
In 1985 I was flooded with nightmares about heads and necks. They had an unparalleled intensity... |
TOLD IN A DREAM: by Kathleen Raine, between 1965 & '71; a mystical dream poem |
A voice tells me I have 100 months to live. I vow it'll be enough to finish my work here... CAUTION: THAT VOICE WAS WRONG |
THE TOOTH: by SAO (Shawn Allen O'Neal), 2003?, an epic, oracular, baffling dream |
Psychics give me an incomprehensible reading. A book from the tree-library gives only Victorian dating advice. At last a madman gives me a treasure-box holding a tooth that unfolds into slices carved in unreadable symbols... |
TORCH-BEARER: by Queen Hecuba of Troy; c. 1270 BCE, an alarming dream. |
Hecuba dreams she gives birth, not to a child but a flaming torch! But she lets Paris live... CAUTION: MORAL NO-WIN SITUATION |
TWO BISHOP APPLICANTS: by Wayan; 1984/11/21, a surreal but mercilessly logical dream. |
My mind and my soul both apply for a job in Stanford Cathedral. Their rivalry grows to a shamanic duel... |
TYPEWRITER: by Kevin King, before 1983, an ink-noir nightmare |
I dreamed my mouth was full of typewriter keys and a typewriter ribbon issued from the back of my head. Joan was hanging out the window by the ribbon. I reached for her, but my hands kept hitting the space bar, and down... |
A USED POPE: by Wayan; 1983/12/25, a Christmas dream. |
A friend buys a frozen used Pope, to navigate her starship with Papal infallibility. Call me a Luddite, but.. CAUTION: SACRILEGIOUS PUN |
THE VERDURE IS ACCOMPLISHED: by Jenny Badger Sultan; dreamed 1996/4/21 and 5/11 |
A dream voice announced "The verdure is accomplished." Green is a healing color for me... In the next dream we sat round a green pool, talking of healing. But the snails troubled me... |
THE VOICE OF GOD: by Wayan, 1993/1/31, a psychic nightmare-epic. |
Half-mad with fear, I massacre a cult, till my gun manifests stigmata: a gory miracle. Then I'm a cultist, resisting the Voice of God pushing all us mortals to murder in His name. I woke up haunted, and wondered for weeks what this was about... until the Waco Massacre. CAUTION: CREEPY VIOLENCE, CREEPY GOD, CREEPY PREDICTION |
THE WELL OF WOMEN'S WISDOM: by Wayan; 1991/3/25, a dream on gradualism. |
I find the Well of Women's Wisdom. Lucky I'm female tonight! A girl sneers "Narrow!" Is it, or her? |
WHY ME?: by Karen Smith; 1991/7/22; nested flying/oracular/tragic dreams |
I flew joyfully over Sun Valley. But when I landed, I wore a uniform. As I slept in our barracks, I dreamed--within my dream--of finding two friends in the lake, tangled in a net, long dead. I "woke" and told a friend my dream. She said in tears "I know someone has to die, but why me? |
WITCH AND WITTENS: by Wayan, 2012/2/20, a dream about sexual ambivalence |
I never find girls I dislike hot... so why do this smugly seductive witch and all her pointy-hat minions simultaneously attract and repel me so? CAUTION: JUST... WRONG. |
XANTHUS: by a client of Artemidorus, c.150 CE, a prodromal dreamlet |
A man dreamed he was the River Xanthus at Troy. I interpreted it to mean he'd bleed for years, but not die of it... |
"YOU'RE SO GAY!": by Wayan; 2013/1/24. A psychic dream of a time-short oracle.
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I'm in line to meet a shockingly accurate psychic. But she's running late, so as I frame my question... CAUTION: I'M NOT GAY BUT I SURE AM QUEER |
ZELIG FLIES: by Wayan, 1984/4/29, a psychic, lucid dream epic. |
I careen from a sacrificial marriage-altar to the Oracle Harper's secret pool, into the jaws of Leviathan and the joys of lucid flight, shifting from male to female and gay to straight--till I meet the Dragonfly People themselves... CAUTION: STUPID, STUPID SEX CULT! |
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