Suddenly, out of the clouds, a man came shooting down, head first, at a terrific pace. He landed on his head with a sickening...
CAUTION: GRISLY
A large airship crashed onto a hilltop and burst into flame, silhouetting people who tried to escape, but...
DREAM: the storm was strange and fierce. A voice warned me the clouds were somehow dangerous.
DAY: I got caught out in a fierce storm. I dismounted and sheltered under a tree. Lightning struck, and...
A joyous day with a strange woman who seems not to be his wife, until he touches her hand and knows...
DREAM: I find a huge spider in my home. It talks about its mother. I fight to drive it out, but it keeps..
CAYCE: the dreamer's having an affair at work that risks wrecking his marriage and home...
CAUTION: AFFAIR LED TO DIVORCE
Doctors remove my upper skull and sew my scalp over my brain.
I can get around, if I stay upright, but I'm terribly vulnerable...
CAUTION: NIGHTMARE REFLECTS REALITY
PD Ouspensky gets thrown out of lucid dreams when he says his name; Celia Green's test subject gets dizzy;
Patricia Garfield carves her name and causes a dreamquake; but Stephen LaBerge frames a clear hypothesis...
CAUTION: SLOPPY VERSUS GOOD SCIENCE
Stalin's police held my fiancée incommunicado. But I dreamt of her prison, cellmate, and the odd game they played...
My friend F. saw a child whose every move was controlled by a weird figure behind her...
A woman dreamed of a gunman terrorizing the town. Cayce urged her to curb her own rage; the Bugaboo was herself...
CAUTION: MYSTIC SOUNDS FREUDIAN!
My friend put an ad on her gown, so I try one on our house. I have big ideas for more, but a pickpocket...
Giant worms put me on trial for wearing a nameless hat, but I like their punishment so I taunt the judge...
Sally needed a pricy operation. Insurance refused to pay. But she dreamed of three numbers.
Gave a friend three bucks, asked him to play her numbers, and went under the knife...
CAUTION: EVIL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
A newsreel showed a flier for the Schneider Trophy Air Race. I felt a violent shock and said "He's going to die..."
I looked into a narrow stream that was quite clear yet inky black. It made no sense at the time...
Other Dalí dream-paintings are flashy, but here he paints the prerequisites for
dreamwork: quiet, dusk, a bed. The calm making elbow-room for the storm...
My friend Mr D. studied psychic research but was skeptical of telekinesis. But 24 hours after his own death...
I dream I play 7 and win three times at Monte Carlo. I wake and head for the casino with witnesses...
I was walking on 42nd Street. On a whim I tried to predict
what was in the window of a shop up the block. I pictured
turkey tracks on red snow. When I came up to the window...
I'm a sailor on an ocean liner. She catches fire. I'm forced to jump--and I can't swim.
As Joan, I see him land on a tropical island. I have to prove to him that he's dead...
CAUTION: FIRST-HAND DROWNING
I'm carried off by a crane to meet birdfish, singing sheep, fell-spirits, mad shopkeepers and devil-bulls...
DREAM: A strange tour of underground churches, a banquet table, coffee cups and thorn-branches.
DAWN: My wife left a breakfast tray--with teacups and thistle branches! Not quite my dream, but...
By a pool, toads the size of chimpanzees. The finest is bottle-green, with huge eyes like frosted lightbulbs.
It occurs to me if I dressed in knickerbockers and wore a felt green cap, I might look like such a toad...
I was nineteen again, riding my horse down a bad road in Virginia. After three hours, my horse spoke up...
1933: I promised to box in the ring to benefit our museum, but as I face that I'm going to get pulped...
1947: In front of the museum, I duel a bull with wings. But soon I realize it's just an inflatable toy...
I'm at my favorite opera, The Magic Flute. When I hear the line 'That is the devil certainly,' I think
of Hitler. The Gestapo have a device that reads my thought, and come for me. Bystanders spit on me...
CAUTION: NATIONAL NIGHTMARE
Balthus paints a real street in Paris, but populated with bizarre figures
dreamily going about their business, ignoring us and each other...
CAUTION: ASSAULT
A little girl flirts with me as she grows into a teenage ballerina. We join an orgy, but my spinster
sister-in-law disrupts it. The sailors don't resent her, but they shoot at the voyeurs in the closet...
CAUTION: PEDOPHILIA, ORGY, GUN-HAPPY SAILORS
four death-omen dreamlets, one predictive
Every decade or so, I dream a loved one says farewell and walks
down an avenue of trees. I wake to find that person's dying...
My girlfriend and I are fans of a picture story in a kids' magazine.
The installments show our future life--all we'll be doing this week...
CAUTION: ESP TALK
I overhear workmen talking of the devastation of 1914-1918. Pause. Then: "Just so they don't start..."
CAUTION: ANOTHER WAR
Joyce, in Paris, dreamed he was attacked by three madmen, Minos, Eaque and Rhadamanthe. Three weeks later,
a madman mailed explosive packages around Paris--signed Minos, Eaque and Rhadamanthe, the Judges of Hell...
I suddenly knew I had to get off the bus and wait for the next. We passed the first bus, on fire...
I was at Thanksgiving dinner when I felt my mother dying two thousand miles away...
The engine pinned a young man under it. A crowd gathered, but no one saw the girl on the far side of the tracks...
I was having dinner with friends when I saw on the wall a huge skullbone
spider. But I lost the word for spider, and my friends seemed not to see it...
A guitar tutor strips her student, playing her like a guitar. The girl somehow forgot to wear panties;
someone's either dreaming or acting out a fantasy, but is it teacher, student, painter... all three?
CAUTION: RAPE FANTASY?
I grope for the name of an island. I dream I crash a car on a bridge; it hangs with one wheel over. I wake & recall a friend who moved to Canada.
Breakfast. That island's on the front page. Inside's a photo of that hanging car. A letter comes--the first from my Canadian friend in years.
Each might be coincidence, but what do we call it when coincidence piles up and up and up?
I was sketching our archeological finds at Tel Asmar when a deadly dust storm settled in.
Trapped, feverish, I summoned rain. We lived when many in Baghdad died, but the dig...
CAUTION: DUST KILLS 100 IN BAGHDAD
Will and El each dreamed of gold buried under a walnut tree near Tulpehocken. They didn't talk about it, just
walked up there and dug. They never said how much they found, but they were rich for the rest of their lives...
I often dream of words forming on a page as their images dance around me. Here's an example...
She was headed for a rock wall. The brakes faded; she smelled burning.
Then she woke. Her friends laughed, but she asked a neighbor what to do if...
Gloom clung to me & I skipped the dance. I begged Frances to ride in a safe car, but coming home...
Cayce bought a house while broke! He dreamed he and Jesus were in a Paris cafe. They owed
$13.75. Jesus covered it, and promised Cayce's finances would resolve when the Duke of Windsor
married Wally Simpson. On their wedding day, a letter from Paris arrived, containing $1375...
CAUTION: VERY PRECISE MIRACLE!
Arp dreamt of these 'biomorphic' surreal/abstract shapes
over decades and sculpted them in bronze...
I'm at a garden-party when They attack. I flee through a garden of swords, but a guard with a bayonet...
This man comes into the chapel, makes a fascist salute, catches fire, and burns right down to his shoes...
As a child, Paul Nash dreamt he flew over rural southern England.
As an adult surrealist painter...
Dusk. A plain. A troop of swordsmen approach me, draw their weapons...
and toss their spinning, shining swords up to the stars...
I'm walking up a churchyard path. My hair clings to me, damp. Horses wander. I'm drawn to one graveside...
I watched her dive into the lake... and fail to come up. Her golden cloak
floated on the water. I hesitated just a moment, and...
I was ordered to join Hitler's army. I dreamt a booming voice proclaimed, "This train is going to Hell!" So I...
I dreamt I stepped on my engagement ring and crushed its pearl. Next I dreamt ink stained it.
Then I dreamt it fell in the sea, and the brine dissolved it. Then the telegram came: my fiancé...
I looked into a narrow stream that was quite clear yet inky black. It made no sense at the time...
Dream: wild animals race across Paris, but in my hotel lobby, a small creature on my shoulder murmurs "Je t'aime."
Awake, I know those racers from the themepark where I work. But the creature takes me way back--to Paris, 1918...
CAUTION: ONE-NIGHT STAND
I dreamed of an explosion--a stabbing pain in my left thigh, right fore-arm, and left eye.
Two years later, in World War Two, a grenade...
DAY: Friends described JW Dunne's experiments with time. I decide to look for dream elements from the future.
DREAM: I meet Oscar Wilde & other writers I dislike. A nonsense word like TELPOE or PELTOE appears...
DAY: A letter arrives full of anagrams (based on my poetry) about Oscar Wilde & other writers I dislike...
Yesterday, Hitler marched into town. I was born before the Industrial Revolution, and am now about 200 years old...
I held the strangest and most entrancing object I have ever seen: the very citadel of life itself!...
I dreamt I could clearly see the sun's corona, like a lion-mane of fire. But the
corona dwindled; then the very sun dimmed, shrank, and went out. I thought...
CAUTION: POLITICAL?
Khodasevich (1939): I dreamt a call announced my friend was dead. Really he was still alive--but not for long...
Sergey (1945): My brother died in January but the news took months to reach us. Just before it did, I dreamed...
I dream World War Two's begun. I always felt war was just rivalry between ruling elites, but now I find
I'll even back Imperial Britain against the Nazis. The next day, Hitler and Stalin announce a pact...
CAUTION: GRIM TIME FOR IDEALISTS
"I am the Volcano!" the red-bearded man said. His family was certainly hot-tempered enough.
Leiris landed on the growing islet of the vent. Lava flowed, the sea was hot, the ground shook...
She dreamed she'd written a wise and beautiful poem. Half asleep she scribbled it down. Awake, she found...
CAUTION: HOGGEREL