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Dreams involving telephones. Many seem to be about difficulties in connecting with people... but by no means all. Researcher Ann Faraday found that phone messages cropped up in a lot of dreams that the dreamers subsequently felt were telepathic, so the mind may use the phone as a symbol for the picking up of distant messages by any means, technological or otherwise. On course, sometimes a phone is just a cigar...

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	AFTER HE DIED: by Jane O. Wayne, 1990?, a dream-poem fragment After he died, I dreamed that the phone rang and when I said "Hello"...
	AIDA'S TOILET BOAT: by Wayan; 1993/4/7, a short- AND long-term predictive dream. A sexy comedian and her troubles down the drain. A dream that turned out to be true six days later, and again in a different way six YEARS later...
	ALTHEA'S MONEY DREAMS: by Althea; 1999/1/22, financial dreams provoked by... financial dreams? After reading a booklet of dreams about money by Wayan, Althea has four such dreams of her own challenging family ideas of class, gender, inheritance... and then practical investment advice!...
	THE ARTERIA: by Wayan; 1994/5/24, a raw, personal tale of three nightmares. Hypnotherapy provokes nightmares of body-part shops, secret libelers, and madmen in space...
	THE ARTIFACT: by Wayan; 1983/1/16, a gender- & species-bent dream of the far future I was a reptilian archeologist, a million years from now. What I dug up at the beach threatened my marriage...
	ASTRALNAUT: by Wayan; 1994/7/30, a reverse ghost dream. I have amnesia. Plus, I'm dead. But I have this great NASA job! Only there's a saboteur... CAUTION: SNOTTY ABOUT CHRISTIANS AGAIN
	CATFISH RESCUE: by Nick Munford, art by Jesse Reklaw; pre-2000; a dream of shamanic kindness I run away. A car nearly hits me and I fall into the lake. But a kindly catfish drags me to an underwater phone booth...
	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...
	CLOTHO AND THE POOL OF DREAMS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; a 2015 painting weaving seven dreams (2014/5/4, 6/9, 7/1 & 9/4; 2015/5/23, 6/26 & 8/25) A portrait of Clotho, the Greek Fate who spins our life-threads, by a pool woven of my dreams from this time...
	COMMUTE: by a Massachusetts woman, pre-1961, a recurrent telepathic prompt I pick up my husband at the train station daily, but he never calls--I just know when he arrives...
	COMPLIANCE: by Wayan; 1984/12/20 & 2021/1/9, twin dreams 36 years apart showing cryptomnesia 2021: I dream I'm confessing to friends how I'm over-compliant. I wake, and start transcribing my 1984 journal. Turn the page and find a dream of a horny stallion who's disturbingly over-compliant... CAUTION: KINKY STALLION
	THE CRYSTALLIZERS: by Wayan, 2014/11/21, a surreal dream on the lost art of talking to strangers I'm in an airport full of aliens who, when bored, crystallize until things get fun again. My long planeflight glows like a dragon-hoard! But it's lonely...
	DAWN'S DIVORCE: by Dawn Z; 2002/3/1-21, an outrageous dream sequence While going through a painful breakup, I kept having sexy, lucid, psychic dreams...
	THE DEER PARTY: by Wayan; 1986/4/10. A magical dream Chapter 1 of a nine-story series: UNICORN TAG. A sentient factory shows me a gene-tweaked future where the Deer Party agitates for liberty, equality and fertility. In that future I learn I too may not be human...
	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
	FAREWELL: by Georges Perec; January 1969, a dream prose-poem of loss foreseen. Dream #6 Dream of a breakup I see coming but can't prevent, and the devastation it works on my lover...
	FIRST LADY: by Alder; 2008/7/2, a possibly psychic dream-within-a-dream. I'm the First Lady. I have a dream that my husband's assassinated, and wake and try to warn him...
	GALLERY GAWKERS: by Wayan; 2003-5; sketches of San Francisco characters For two years, I sat at the desk in our co-op gallery, and secretly sketched our bewildered, art-assaulted customers...
	HICKOPHOBIA: by Wayan; 1996/5/13; 2-page dream-comix (or plain text version) Whenever I run out of ballet class to Japanese without asking my classmate Wendy out, I change sex... CAUTION: LANGUAGE
	HOWARD ANY TIME NOW: by Alice; pre-1961, a predictive dream of a ghost calling. My dead father said "We're looking for Howard any time now. We'll be glad to see him..."
	I WANT MY INHERITANCE: by Wayan; 1989/12/18, a dream on family brainwashing. My family calls me a blonde bimbo and won't give me my inheritance, so I take drastic steps... CAUTION: MORAL HAIRSPLITTING
	JAPAN, 4:34 A.M.: by Laura Atkinson, 2011/3/11, a dream warning of the Fukushima disaster My Japanese friend Kotaro looks at me sternly and shoves his phone inside my chest. In my dreams, a phone can mean ESP, so when I wake I check the news. A huge quake and tsunami have devastated Japan...
	JASON: by MariNaomi; 1989, a romantic-warning nightmare The Mummy chases me, then unwraps his bandages to show the mutilated face of my boyfriend. "I'm getting out of jail!" he says. Then the phone wakes me. My boyfriend. He says "I'm getting out of..." CAUTION: CODEPENDENCE, MUTILATION, GUILT AND GRIEF
	JIM'S POWDER: by Helen; pre-1961, a telepathic warning dream I dreamt I was begging Jim not to kill himself, but when I woke, I couldn't bring myself to call. I hardly knew him... CAUTION: GUILT OVER (PREVENTABLE?) DEATH
	THE KEY IS HERE, BUT BEWARE; 2012/3/8 by Eleanor; nested nightmares of enlightenment The moment I find the Key, I'm possessed! I wake to find it's just a nightmare. Only who's broken into my house?... CAUTION: DEMONIC POSSESSION & EVERYDAY PSYCHOPATHS
	KIBBLE FROM HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1986/10/13, a dream on love and money. I'm a dog princess, on a world where kibble falls from heaven. When I meet our species' guardian angels... CAUTION: DOG NUDITY, LAWYERS
	MARJANE: by Wayan; 2005/6/3, a nightmare about... articide? Watercolor comic or illustrated text I'm cartoonist Marjane Satrapi. I passively tag along with friends (and a fiancé I tend to forget) in the Mission District of San Francisco. But they blunder into real trouble... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	MUTANT WEDDING: by Lisa Shea; 1991/8/3; an epic Jungian action dream! I hide a chip of secrets from thugs, fight a running light-gun battle, and hide in my workplace's crawlways, amid live cables and pipes. As the factory burns, I run a gauntlet of goons. A girl leads me into the underworld. Fires glow and mutants dance. I marry the leader of the pack.
	MY MUSLIM MOTHER-IN-LAW: by Wayan; 1995/3/25, a dream on repression. How exactly did I acquire a mother-in-law snooping on my phone calls, when I don't have a wife?
	MY GATE: by Wayan; 1996/5/29; a bizarre, joyful dream; 4-page comic (or ill. text version) The full moon rises: I become Weregirl, do the Moondance, and gnaw open the lock on my heart... CAUTION: MOONING
	NISROCK: by Dolores, 2001 or earlier; a predictive dream DREAM: a man tries to break into my house. I call for help; the operator says "Oh, that's Nisrock." DAYS LATER: I open a book on the unconscious. It says Nisrock was a Babylonian god of dreams... CAUTION: BAD MYTHOGRAPHY
	ONCE A HERO: by Wayan; 1998/10/22-25, 17 images, a raw dream-series. Sexy dreams of Chinese archeology, authorized by the fairies, make me face that my family abused me...
	OUR BEST SONG: by Wayan; 1983/10/25, a decade-long dream of song and flight. The artcops search-and-destroy our flying band, and my wings are shorn. But ten years later, songless, apathetic, I climb through my TV--and the women of Vietnam show me a new way to fly... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, ATTITUDE, ALTITUDE
	PAGES: by Wayan; 1993/9/2 & 9/3, punning predictive dreams. Dream-journal pages, Tarot's four Page cards, getting paged,and a girl named Page--all warn me I lie to myself about what I want...
	THE PLAY: by Georges Perec; February 1972, a dream with the attention span of a gnat. Dream #108 I'm in a play. Fear, then joyful sex, then ranching, then silly hats, as a man drones on about class struggle. Weird chairs, pingpong, coffee, impossible double utterances. At last I tell friends my dream--backwards. Then I write the dream down on slices of cheese... CAUTION: SEX ONSTAGE
	QUADRUPLE WEDDING: by Wayan; 1995/5/15, a unifying dream. Day: Why did I get sick from figure-sketching? Guilt? Dream: I'm at a group wedding; shall I wed a dwarf, a feral boy or a horse?
	RACK: by Wayan; 2006/4/4; a comic business-bondage dream My friend Chris gets tied up at the office--that's his job, looking martyred! But when the boss is away... CAUTION: NUDITY
	RECORD: by Robert Brust; July 1990; a punning, possibly psychic dream I DREAM I buy a record I've wanted. But someone warns "You'll have trouble with it; you should have gone to another store." I WAKE as my phone rings. "A clerical error in our records will delay the supplies you ordered." Wish I'd picked another store...
	RUTHIE'S CALL: by Ruthie; pre-1961, a lifesaving intuitive compulsion It was way too late to call, but an irrational urge made me wake my friend up and pester her until...
	SHOWERED WITH WISHES: by Zooop; 2007/3/12, a dream that enough is enough I took my cellphone into the shower. I couldn't find the shampoo, and idly typed SHAMPOO in, and... CAUTION: NOW YOU KNOW WHO STOLE YOUR ODD SOCKS
	SLEAZE: by Cecy and Wayan; 1991/7/28; subtle shared dreams. Wayan: A sleazy brother calls the cops, blaming us for a fire he set... Cecy: A sleazy brother calls in a fire while not even trying to put it out...
	SPEAKING FERN: by Wayan; 1991/3/25, a dream-prank. A dead fern in my backyard starts sending me messages in some strange language...
	TITANIA: by Wayan; 1981/12/7, 83/1/7 & 2/13 and 84/10/2, a dream-epic in installments Clarence the sappy angel from It's A Wonderful Life and Milton's Lucifer land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're fine as is, but the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full palette of feelings. Like the feeling she's fake...
	UNICORN AND A.I.: by Wayan, 2023/1/12, twin dreamlets on how the other half lives UNICORN EMISSARY: I meet a unicorn diplomat in Japantown. Beautiful, formidable... THE A.I. WHO RUNS THE WORLD: I meet and then briefly become our world's leader; before the strain of it wakes me, I learn she rules mostly by not meddling...
	THE VERIZON EXPERIMENT: by Wayan; 2014/3/31, three linked dreamlets, the last self-flagging as predictive 1: A nature spirit's physics experiment proves that time forks. But how much? How dense is the multiverse? 2: I sculpt a model of this multiverse. A physicist likes it; the nature spirit likes it more. So she swipes it... 3: A 'friend' offers refugees my bedroom, crowding me and my work into a corner. I wake. The phone rings...