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THE HACKER: by Wayan; 1993/11/23, a psychic nightmare. Who's the demon? Mom, the Dragon, the Smiler, the Rubber Ax Murderer, the Doll Princess or the Tiger?... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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HAENA TWILIT COVE: by Wayan; 1984/10/31, a predictive dream. Landing in Hawaii, I dream of a magical twilit cove I must swim across. The eve of leaving, there it is... |
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HAIL AND FAREWELL by Nancy Price; 1947/6/6, a revenant dream-message A dying colleague haunts me all night. He says "crossings are often unpleasant" but death's not bad... |
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HALF-AWAKE FOXTAURS: by Wayan; 2016/12/27, a dreamlet in FOAM FURS |
HALF-COCKED: by Larry Vigon; 2004/1/4; an alarming dream |
I'm in the army, in line for a prostitute. An earlier dream cut my cock in two. It heals, but my stodgy technique bores my assigned girl; and the cops break the legs of girls who try to leave. A riot begins--can I even escape? CAUTION: STARTS SORDID, ENDS BRUTAL |
HALF-ELF: by Wayan; 1996/2/14, a predictive dream fable. |
A biracial girl doubts her own heritage; a human friend has to confirm the obvious. So what am I blind to? |
HALF-HEARTED GHOST: by Wayan; 1994/9/28, a dream on the cruelty of shyness. |
I go invisible in my dance class and hear what the girls I like have to say about me. Uh-oh... CAUTION: PAINFUL RELATIONSHIP TRUTHS |
HALF PAST FOUR: by J.W. Dunne; 1899, a dream of clocks and time |
I say it's 4:30 PM; the waiter says 4:30 AM! I wake in the night to find my watch says 4:30, but it's stopped! I wind it, and next morning... |
HALF'S HARD: by Wayan; 2014/11/24, a frustration dream hiding a diagnosis and prescription |
Night. Broken metal sculptures, a welder too horny to weld safely, and a steel panther longing to be whole and loved... CAUTION: KINKY SCULPTUROPHILIA |
HALF SHAMAN, HALF STATESMAN: by Wayan; 1986/4/21, a parallel-world dream: Chapter 6 of UNICORN TAG |
I get a scholarship to Shaman U. Some of my classmates are Terran, but I still don't fit in, because... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
HALF-TWIN: by Wayan; 1995/7/4, a dream on the real roots of trust |
In a world obsessed with genes and pecking order, we're half-sisters-- very different, yet we support and trust one another. Our society's just wrong!... |
HAMM: by Wayan; 2008/9/26, a dream poem; Dreamverse #31 |
A lecturer tries to help the homeless founder of Hamm's Beer, robbed by bankers. But the talk may harm more than help... |
THE HAND, alternate title of THE CLARK RANGE, OR, THE HAND |
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A HAND AT CARDS: by Loomis C. Johnson; around Dec. 1916, a predictive dream. |
I dreamt of a surreal poker hand where one card changed to create a full house. Next weekend, I was losing when... |
HAND ME THE MATCHES!: by Wayan; 1984/9/25, a predictive dream. |
My sisters and I try to kill kidnappers by setting fires. Dumb, huh? The next day I fight a virus--with fever! |
THE HAND THAT WAKES: by Wayan; 1997; acrylic study of what makes us forget dreams. |
I was painting to a sad scary song by Laurie Anderson that goes "This is the hand... the hand that takes..." |
HAND US THE FRENCHMAN!: by Wayan; 2004/10/24, a comic dreamlet on hippiedom's last gasp |
The Feds order my friend Mike to hand them a Frenchman we haven't seen in years. Mike substitutes a junk VW... |
A HANDELIAN CONCERT by Samuel Butler, 1890s?; an orchestral blowout dream |
Glaciers feed a mountain lake; dust blows over a pass. Then I realize the ice is the robes of a great choir; the dust, thousands of musicians filling the cirque, singing, playing... |
HANDLER & AUTISTIC, fourth dreamlet in FOUR OF TEN |
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HANDMADE DIMENSIONS: by Wayan; 2009/3/2, a how-to dream. |
I meet an interdimensional traveler. Her navigational technique is unbelievably rough! Yet it works. Am I so sure that math and science always need to be precise? |
HANDSHAKE: by John S. Dykes, before 1986; a surreal dream-sketch |
People ride inside two levitating arms that shake hands above a desert. Do the insiders know what the deal is? |
HANGING CAR: by Frank Whitaker, Jan. 1935, three coincidences, synchronicities or psychic hits |
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 goes on and on? |
HANK AND THE BENGAL TIGER: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/2/27; painting in the Box of Dreams |
At a party, I go hunting for my husband and find him on a terrace facing a Bengal tiger... |
HAPPINESS UNBLOCKS ART: by Wayan; 1997/7/7, nondream book review |
An insight about a fictional character who unblocks her creativity changes my own life strategy... |
HAPPY HUNDERTWASSER: by Wayan; 1991-1999, nondream digital picture-poem. |
As the bland lead the blind... who knows their own mind? I'll tell you who.... |
HARD DISK POND: by Wayan; 1989/8/27, a dream of art as a door. |
We build a huge hard disk that's a virtual pond--a gate to other worlds! But not for reptile brains... |
HARE HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1998? Digital dream sketch. |
I dreamed my friend Beryl's soul was a giant rabbit, arguing in paradise with our mutual guardian angel... |
HARPOONED BY EXISTENTIALISTS alternate title of CENTAUR BY SARTRE
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HARPY: by Wayan; 2000/6/2, a stylized nightmare |
Day: my dad's paralyzed, and my car's stolen. Dream: a harpy made of steel, like a living Calder statue, holds three girls hostage... |
HARRY AND KUVYRKIN: by Vladimir Nabokov, 1916, a punning long-term predictive dream. | Nabokov's uncle left him a fortune but the Revolution took it. He dreamed his uncle said "I shall return to you as Harry & Kuvyrkin." 40 years later filmmakers Harris & Kubrick paid Nabokov a fortune for the rights to Lolita... |
HARRY AND THE HORCRUX: by J.K. Rowling; mid-December 2006, a dream of creative ferment |
People have asked me if I ever dream that I am 'in' Harry's world. The answer was 'no' until a few nights ago... |
HATCHET JOB: by Ann Faraday, 1972 or 3; a lucid shamanic predictive dream |
DREAM: I'm in the Arctic facing a hostile mob. I insist "I'm dreaming; you can't hurt me." They try! I look down at my body, stuck full of hatchets, and say "See?" They slink off, looking sheepish... TWO DAYS LATER: I'm in northern England. A reporter snaps "Dreams won't help the miners..." |
A HAUNTED HOUSE INDEED!: by Anna Kingsford; 1887/4/12, an epic ghost dream |
I was warned about soul-devouring art in the haunted house, but I didn't expect to find an entire art salon... CAUTION: ABSORBING ARTWORK |
HAUNTED BUT HAPPY: by Wayan; 1990/10/13, a labyrinthine dream. |
Some Christian oneirologists barge into the Haunted Firehouse. But I pose for nude unicorn photos, and... CAUTION: DUMB CHRISTIANS, EXHIBITIONIST UNICORNS, ETC. |
THE HAUNTED CODE: by Wayan; 2017/6/16, a warning dream about denying history |
A mail-order warehouse in Kansas sends ghost-infected software out, causing mayhem. But less than when Kansas exported the killer flu 100 years ago... CAUTION: DISSES KANSAS & CAPITALISM, FOR GOOD HISTORICAL REASONS |
HAV TOWERS: by Wayan; 2022/1/3, a predictive dreamlet |
I find my city has changed during Covid; a huge Chinese gate or folly near Fort Mason and a monstrous tower in the central hills, made of Space Needles, umbrellas & balloons... Next day I read Jan Morris's Hav... and there are my towers. |
HAVE YOUR COCK AND EAT IT TOO: by Wayan; 2007/4/14, a dream of happy autocannibalism |
I grew extra penises which bud off me like fruit. So I fry them up like sausages, and... CAUTION: GENITALIA FOR LUNCH |
HAWK AND CAT: by Wayan, 1981/6/2, a dream of ethics and terror. |
My best friend is a cat. Problem is, I'm a rare hawk--a Cat-Eater. I never, ever would, but... |
HAWK ANGEL: by Wayan; 1982/12/28; a dream on rejecting hearsay. |
I dreamed I met a sort of hawk angel, but there was this preachy guy between us... CAUTION: NUDITY |
HAWK CENSORS: by Wayan; 1988/7/7, a surreal predictive dream on censorship |
All the photos of hawk people I can find show them with bizarre genitalia: males with hawk-heads for penises, and females with nothing. Blank! Then I go to work... CAUTION: REVERSE SEXISM |
HAWK RIDGE: by Wayan; 1990/2/15; primitivist digital dream-painting |
I dreamed I was a gull in Middle Earth fighting Sauron, though he blurred my vision; but my hawk-eyed gullfriends helped me out... |
HAWKING COUNTRY: by Wayan; 1994/2/3, a quantum-level dream. |
I read Stephen Hawking, and dream I'm in the Quantum Desert, full of bridges, holes & loops-- like the microstructure of spacetime. But it's not counter-intuitive at all--it's HOME! |
HE HAS REPENTED: by Frederick Greenwood; before 1894, a pre-Freud discovery of the unconscious |
A con artist fools me and a waiter. But if my dreamfolk are all me, who's fooling whom? |
HE LOOKED SOURLY: by John Dee; 1582/11/24, a mage's dream of dying, and after. |
The foremost wizard of Shakespeare's age dreams he's dead. They're burning his books, but that doesn't bother him... |
HE REMARRIED: by an Iowa divorcee; 1907, an unlikely oracular flash |
My mother's face took on a sudden expression of astonishment--possibly agony. She said "Your father is remarrying." I laughed. 'Impossible. He'd have told me. I had a letter from him only a few days ago..." |
HE SAW: by Jeffery Beam; c.1983, a nightmare with three selves |
I, sleeping me, watch dream-me find a third me who saw too much in the kitchen. Unconscious or dead? I just don't know... |
THE HEAD FACTORY: by Wayan; 2014/8/24, a dream-poem on changing your mind |
I toured the factory where they make the spare heads you put on and take off to change your mind. Nothing creepy about it, nothing at all... |
HEAD ON MY TABLE: by Lauren Watley; 2011/2/16, a creepy dream-image with depth |
After a day of troubling conflicts over race & art, I dream I'm handed a hot, heavy, mossy head--is it art, or alive? |
HEADEGG (Black-Eyed Bird of Pain): by Wayan; 1983/10/24; acrylic painting of a headache-trance. |
I was cartooning with a headache. It took over and started drawing for me... |
HEADING FOR A FALL: by Wayan; 1993/11/2, a dream of drastic shortcuts. |
I crash my car on the way to therapy. I ask my dream why. And it tells me! Deliberate, but not suicidal... |
HEADLESS NAG: by Jules Engel; 1975/5/25, nightmare of a corpse that won't quit |
Every good party leaves a corpse or two. Cleaning up, I behead this one and drag it across the street to the empty lot where we leave them. But its throat forms a toothless mouth and starts biting--well, gumming me... |
HEADLINES: by "Anonymous #21"; 1942/8/4, 1954/1/1, and 1958/8/16, a set of psychic newsflashes |
All my life I've had sudden visions showing violent deaths accompanied by headlines naming the victims... |
HEADSHRINKER: by William S. Burroughs, c. 1990? A dream of rage against liars |
A CIA man trying to infiltrate a revolutionary group flunks a lie-detector test, so the Headshrinker... CAUTION: REAL HEADSHRINKER |
HEADSMAN: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/4/17, a cannibal nightmare prefiguring Jung |
Swedenborg meets an executioner who cooks the heads he chops off, and eats them. Yet in context, the nightmare may be constructive... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
HEAL THE WORLD!: by Wayan; 2011/8/17, a messianic-inadequacy dream (now there's a new type!) |
I can heal people with a touch. But they don't want to be merely restored, but resculpted... CAUTION: TRANNIES AND FURRIES LEAVE THE CLOSET |
HEALING DANCE: by Wayan; 1997/5/14, a dream of shamanic shop talk. |
A shaman designs a rite to focus the village's healing attention on her client; the rest is just showmanship... |
HEALING THE RING: by Wayan; 1984/8/22, a nightmare on... anger? |
I bear a Ring of Power meant to corrupt me. I cleansed it, at a cost, but can't wield it till I've read its spell... |
HEARN'S BEAST: by Wayan; 1986/2/18, a dream fable. |
Inside an evacuated region, the Lafcadio Hearn Zone, I meet the monster thousands fled... |
HEART CHAKRA: by Wayan; 2011/5/8, a dreamlet blending Indian mysticism and the movie Megamind |
I'm a digital superhero, rubbing red-orange oil into my fake skin. I have six more colors of oil to rub in, six more chakras to heal. But first things first!... |
HEART IN MY STOMACH: see FREAKY DREAM |
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HEART-SWING: by Havelock Ellis; c.1920? a dream-conversation with a heart |
A young woman and I swing one another into the air. I asked her to swing me more slowly and regularly... |
THE HEAVIEST FLYER ON EARTH: by Wayan; 1979/1/25, a dream of (clumsy) flight |
Both my friends can become birds and soar; but all I can manage is angel wings--barely enough to hold up solid-boned me... |
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? |
THE HEDGE KING: by Wayan, 1992/6/14, a gender-bent dream epic. |
I change sex to infiltrate a sinister castle, unaware its Lord can spot a shapeshifter--being one himself... CAUTION: A DISTURBING BEDSIDE MANOR. I MEAN, MANNER. |
HEDGEHOG AND WHITE RABBIT: by Wayan; 1972/12/1, a dream love story. |
Hedgehog and White Rabbit stick together, through the snipers on Broadway, through the dogs of winter, through cannibal soup... |
THE HEDGEHOG DISPENSARY: by Wayan; 2004/10/2, furtopian watercolor 12-page dreamcomic (or text + pics) |
A rabbit shaman makes his student drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. How to free her? CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR |
THE HEIDEGGARIAN BARBARIAN: by Jo, 2007/02/02, a dream of hopping between two characters |
I was two-thirds of a love triangle, but I always lost out. Flying was some consolation... CAUTION: RAT DEATH, EVIL WHALES AND ADULTERY |
HEIRESS AND MORTAL: by Wayan; 2011/2/16, a dark advisory dream |
I'm a misfit--a mortal in an immortal world. Then I meet a girl with an unpredictable illness... |
HEIST THE GOLDEN EGGS!: by Wayan; 2008/7/18, a dream of do-it-yourself tech--and ethics |
Two teens crack a bank with a homemade rocket--but forgot a crowbar! Caught, but the bank can't press charges; the kids have proof the bank uses slave labor... CAUTION: DISSES CAPITALISM |
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... |
HELL CAFE: by Wayan; 2009/10/21, a dream poem w/sketch; Dreamverse #62 |
A Buddhist scroll shows me Hell Cafe, where diners become entrees. But I read the scroll backwards! You can escape Hell just by walking out, against the traffic flow... CAUTION: CANNIBAL SOULS |
HELL HALL: by Anonymous #3; c.1920?, a dream of initiatory cannibalism |
A revival meeting goes bad--suicides, 'long pig', a hell-pit. If you sup with the devil, carry a long fork! |
HELL I SUPPOSE: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; a dream with a rockin' sense of sarcasm |
I'm gloomy about the state of the world, but my alter ego cheerfully explains we're dead and in Hell--as a demon train rolls up with Elvis Costello on the roof singing "This is Hell I suppose"... |
HELL IS HEAVEN!: by John Keats; 1819, a happy scandalous dream |
I dreamt I was in the outermost circle of Dante's Hell, among condemned lovers, floating forever, in love, in bliss... |
HELL-TORNADO: by Wayan; 1988/7/2, a dream on social engineering. |
Who built the tornado in the Heartland, that sucks anyone who opens their spirit-wings down to Hell? CAUTION: BAD THEOLOGY, WORSE PHYSICS |
HELP, NOT CURE: by Wayan; 1996/12/26, a dream on autism. |
Gay angels try to help an autistic woman. Change her past? Only if they pass the Ass-Backward Guardians! |
HELP YOUR NEIGHBOR: by Wayan; 1994/2/18, a comic nightmare. |
I'm an organic almond grower who's solved the Luminous Snail problem. But my neighbor has an agenda... |
HELPLESSLY LUCID: by Alder; 2007/6/23, a lucid dream in which I'm powerless! |
I'm a homeless elf. We're a persecuted minority group. I know I'm dreaming and try to change it but... |
HEPBURNING: by Wayan; 1984/8/1, a nightmare on frustration's fire |
Kat Hepburn burns inside, as fierce aliens take over our souls. But these parasites forgot they're now bound to our bodies... |
HER CUTIE MARK: by Wayan, 2016/8/7, a dream fusing Shakespeare & My Little Pony |
After seeing The Tempest with a tattooed Miranda, I dream she has a Cutie Mark on her flank-- a logo showing her life-purpose, her life-path. Except she's outgrowing it... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
HER DEAD BROTHER: by a Bereaved Lady, as told by Hervey de Saint-Denys, 1850s? |
Saint-Denys pushes a strange theory of dream-incompetence, using as an example a woman's dream of grief over her brother, killed in a war. But her case suggests a second explanation a 19th-century scholar isn't equipped to see ... |
HER FINAL EXAM: by Wayan; 2015/9/8, a dream of a goddess in hiding--and why |
During our final exam, my second sight tells me our dance teacher's really a Greek goddess in disguise. But she has her own final exam to face... |
HER FIRST INCARNATION: by Wayan; 1983/11/10, a dream of a surreal shamanic duel |
Forced into a duel, I let my spirit fight for me using Boomerang Blades. But my enemy becomes giant floating sticky lips! My spirit finds incarnation confusing... |
HER GESTURED ROUTE: by Wayan; 1984/6/16, a dream poem. |
How's it feel to be an anima off the job? Is it lonely, when no one even believes you're a real person? |
HER HAND ON THE MANTEL: by Frederick Greenwood; before 1894; a disowned predictive dream |
Greenwood dreams he finds a severed hand on a mantelpiece. The next day it happens! But he sees no moral, so he dismisses it... |
HER HANDS ARE TIED: by Wayan, 1992/4/17, a dream advising a different therapist |
I had a chronic illness doctors said was psychosomatic. So I saw Ani, a therapist... I dream we're prisoners. Ani leads a successful escape, but then walks around oblivious that her hands are still tied! I offer to untie her; she seems not to hear me. Great in a crisis, but oblivious to chronic stuff? To me? Not the best fit... |
HER HORSE: by Wayan; 1985/5/14, a dream fable about bodies. |
A farm girl seems to be sexually exploiting her dog and horse, but their auras tell another tale... CAUTION: SEX SYMBOLISM |
HER LOVELY AWKWARD SYNTH, by Wayan, 2009/3/9; a dream-poem, Dreamverse #43 |
A musical prodigy has a gorgeous, unplayable keyboard. But serious creativity takes a dull, regular, ergonomic instrument... |
HER ONLY FRIEND: by Wayan; 1996/7/1, a dream of worms turning. |
A sorceress trains a kid as a prostitute who'll spy on her powerful clients. But her training has side effects... CAUTION: EXPLOITED KIDS |
HER OWN WEAPON: by Wayan; 1983/8/31, a poltergeist-therapy dream. |
A woman says she's being stalked, but it's her own poltergeist! Her therapist makes her reach for it... |
HER STINGY DAD: by Wayan; 1998/7/29, a dreamtale on parental ambition-stunting |
A single dad loves his daughter, but is so pathologically cheap he's teaching her an unintended lesson... CAUTION: CHILD NEGLECT |
(THAT SEXY) HERBIVORE: by Wayan; 2015/4/28, variant title of a dreamlet in FOAM FURS | |
THE HERBIVORE'S EXCEPTION: by Wayan; 1999/12/6, a dream of snapping. |
A beautiful herbivore suddenly eats one of its friends! Bloody. Who or what is this warning me about?... CAUTION: YUCK, MEAT REALLY IS MURDER |
HERE COMES A CHOPPER: by Wayan; 1983/6/20, an absurd nightmare on families and denial |
The helicopter over our family home dipped too low. CRASH! Burning rotors in the living room. I call 9-1-1, but the pilot scolds me! "Calling over a little explosion like this!"... |
HERE IN MY IMPOVERISHED PSYCHE: by Tracey West, 1987? 88?, recurring nightmares |
I'm Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island. But the theme song repeats endlessly--not the later version with my name, but the early one dismissing me and the Professor as and the rest. I wake up screaming... |
HERM: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/9/8; painting in the Box of Dreams |
In a domed tower, we all look up bewildered by a statue like an ancient herm, floating in mid-air... |
HERMIT IN THE PIPE: by Wayan; 1999/5/2, a dream of the end. |
I'm a holy man sneaking into a sewerpipe at the beach, to pop anxiety pills in shame. Do they even work? CAUTION: CHEMICAL CRUTCHES |
HERON CATCHES ARROWS: by Wayan, 2023/3/31, a shamanic dream based on a pun |
I'm a great blue heron with hands and human speech. A hunter fires arrows at me, but I'm fast and can catch them. They're costly, so I demand a bargain with him... CAUTION: ABOUT EMOTIONAL ABUSE |
HERON HAREM: by Wayan; 1981/6/14, a dream with a moral. |
I'm a heron working in the Civil Service. I want to blow the whistle, but then how would I support my... CAUTION: BIRD-SLAVERY? |
THE HERONS' TANK: by Wayan, 2020/11/12, a sonnet telling an astral-plane dreamlet |
I climb a small-town water tower. The tank holds a reedy marsh where sentient herons live! They say the Heartland below them is a nest reserved for greedy, screechy, flightless, half-grown souls like us... CAUTION: DISSES SMALL-TOWN VALUES |
HERSELF IN REVERSE: by Wayan; 2013/6/13, three surreal future-prompting dreamlets |
1: In a theater I meet weird big-eyed ballerinas, & realize I'll choreograph for them soon... 2: A sorcery student & her powerful future self flying back through time meet & fuse... 3: A squirrel-mage meets his future self too. He gives us a mild fever to protect us against a deadly plague... CAUTION: NOT FOR TOTAL SKEPTICS ABOUT PREDICTIVE DREAMS |
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 |
HIDDEN INTENT: by Wayan, 1978/10/21, a possibly predictive, self-flagging dream |
A huge bridge spans the Pacific; my depth perception reaches miles instead of mere yards. A crowd worships a guru hidden in a tent on a pier. I don't trust him! He has hidden in tent... CAUTION: THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE |
HIDE IN THE REEDS: by Wayan, 2023/2/5, a punning health-advice dream |
In the park, long lines of worshipers wait to meet a guru. But I'm naked, so I hide in the reeds... CAUTION: NUDE SUNBATHING |
HIDE THE LIST!: by Anonymous; c. 1550, a recurrent warning dream. |
A London Protestant dreamed Bloody Mary would find the congregation's member-list and burn them all... |
HIGH IN THE MOUNTAINS: by Hélène Cixous; before 2003; a comic dream |
My little brother catches and rides a fairy goose down steep mountain slopes, demanding it grant his wishes... |
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... |
HIJACK! The Christmas Special: by Wayan; 2012/4/13, a trapped-in-bad-TV dream. |
I'm stuck on a jet full of cartoons. We get hijacked by a kid who just wants pilot practice, and then a talking cactus counter-hijacks us... CAUTION: THE F-WORD |
HILL OF FIRE: by Mike and Wayan; 2022/9/10, short parallel dreams |
MIKE'S DREAM: A volcano erupts. The lava pours into my hotel... WAYAN'S DREAM: Our hill erupts in flame from a gas explosion... |
HILLARY AND TEAL: by "A 24-Year-Old Californian Woman"; around 2008/2/28, an absurd political dream |
Hillary Clinton hid her cancer, but the GOP found out. So a monster kidnaps Rainbow Brite, and... |
HILLARY'S EYES: by Margaux Williamson; February 2008, a political romance dream |
Hillary Clinton was trying to seduce me, and doing a pretty good job, too... |
HILLBILLY ECO-REVOLT: by Wayan; 1985/6/12, a diagnostic eco-dream. |
A poor planet with one city. Urban technocrats and hick ecologists have conflicting development models... CAUTION: TOO REAL TO BE FUN |
HILLMAN ON DAIMONS: by Wayan; 1998/9/7, on Greco-Roman and Jungian ideas of a life-goal |
James Hillman and my own experience suggest we enter life with an agenda. But what if our goals are sick? |
HILLSBOROUGH CHILD: see AS A HILLSBOROUGH CHILD I NEVER COULD FIND |
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HINDU GOD: by Judy Landaiche; Dec 1990, a sex dream with multiple twists |
It started like a nightmare--someone behind me, a groping hand that's not human... It was a Hindu god! He made love to me. Felt great until he said: "You're taking too long!"... CAUTION: SEX WITH A SELFISH DEITY |
HIPPIE MISSILES: by Wayan, 1990/7/23, twin dreams of risky leaps leading to flight |
1: I try to grow feathers and fly, but half-fail, half-succeed--experience two bodies at once... 2: I fly to escape a hippie cult. They fire heat-seeking missiles! But I may be too cool to track... |
"HIS BALL IS EMPTY": by Wayan; 1982/3/23, an epistolary advice-dream. |
A letter to Miss Hornyhearts compares the writer's lover and husband. Some sharp advice for nice boys... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
HIS DEER WIFE: by Wayan; 1995/7/9, a dream of love in a parallel world. |
I'm a slave, a scribe in the house of a Captain of the New Aztec Empire, when he brings home a wife... CAUTION: SLAVE SOCIETY, SEX, SPOUSAL ABUSE/NEGLECT |
HIS MINE: by Wayan; 1985/12/2, an epic Wild West dream |
I'm a hobbit seeking Henry Fonda's haunted gold mine. And find it. Or is that chocolate? But then I'm caught in a shamanic showdown in a bar where they serve real spirits... |
HIS VISIT HOME: by Anonymous #26 as told to Louisa Rhine; 1924/5/15, a predictive hypnogogic dream |
I saw my husband come to my bedside, smile, visit our little son in his crib. Then he vanished. But at dawn, my husband, dressed exactly as in my... |
A HISA ON OLYMPUS: by Wayan; 2014/6/15, a dream on the need to slow down |
I'm a hisa, a primitive alien who solves a high-tech crime for the humans. Then I hike home, step by step, down a great shield volcano. Because shuttles leave your soul behind... |
HISTORY CHANGES: by Wayan; 1994/11/22, a dream of an alternate life. |
I'm the token Chinese guy in a jazz band in backwoods Brazil, in the old colonial days, when... |
HISTORY DEMANDS PURPLE: by Wayan, 2020/2/18, a dream warning old abuse still harms me |
I'm in a palace spinning a purple royal gown for... a non-princess! And the silk's spinning out of my fingers. What am I, a spider? Turns out it's a spell making anyone encountering a teenage girl here re-enact a royal investiture from centuries ago... CAUTION: ABUSIVE THERAPIST (non-graphic) |
A HISTORY OF ENERGY: by Wayan; 2021/2/19, a dream warning we're all shortsighted |
I dream of a parade or train of energy sources--human muscle, horsepower, coal, oil, gas, solar... But the train's ultimate engine is in our future, and is impossible--a dragon riding a broomstick... |
HIT OR MISS: by "Anonymous #20"; pre-1963, a successful warning dream |
I dreamt I hit & killed a small boy in the road. Weeks later in Manchester I swerved & just missed that boy... |
HIT ROCK: by Wayan; 1985/10/13 nightmare & picture challenging it |
I dreamed I blinded myself because mere appearances lead to racism & sexism. Only the blind know truth... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY, SEVERE IDIOCY |
HITCHCOCK BIRD: by Wayan, 1982/9/8, a shamanic little predictive dream |
I'm trapped in a Hitchcock thriller. Then one suicidal gunman turns into a songbird! Next day at lunch a bird acts crazy. Over the next year, I do change from human to... CAUTION: SUICIDAL BIRD |
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: RABID RANTING |
HITLER'S GETTING CRISPR: by Jennifer Doudma; fall 2015, a nightmare on CRISPR by one who'd know |
It was Hitler. He had a pig face, and he was taking notes. He said 'I want to understand the uses and implications of this amazing technology'... |
HITLER'S ROOST: by Wayan; 1983/2/14, a fierce dream-poem hinting at a dirty secret later bared |
I built a Bavarian treehouse with a great view, hoping Hitler'd confiscate it. He did! Now he's exposed to Allied spy planes--and assassination... CAUTION: CHILD-MOLESTING THERAPIST |
HOBBIT ERUPTIONS: by Wayan, 1990/12/31, a counterfictional dream poem |
I contemplate Bilbo taunting Smaug, then Frodo, Sam and Gollum triggering Mt Doom to erupt, but next I "remember" other fiery catastrophes and "realize" hobbits are always causing... |
A HOBBIT IN L.A.: by Wayan; 1990/1/8, a dream on wishes. |
I'm a hobbit woman in Los Angeles, hiding a magic weapon from Sauron. No, not THAT weapon. The wishing-bucket... |
HOBBIT SNIPER: by Wayan; 1998/10/13, a dream on strategy. |
I'm a sniper in a desert battle of men against hobbits. Guilty for not fighting openly, but that'd be suicidal... CAUTION: MATH AND WAR |
HOCKEY: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a flirtatious dream-scene |
I'm a hockey player. A woman strips to a bikini, wondering if she's attractive. My erection says she is... CAUTION: BRRR! |
THE HOG AND VIBRATOR SHOW: by Wayan; 2014/11/7, an obscene comic nightmare |
The gameshow has two old men humping sextoys on the floor as the audience watched. That wasn't the gross bit. It was when they released the hogs... CAUTION: OBSCENE GAMESHOW. EVEN MORE THAN USUAL. |
HOGAMUS HIGAMUS: by Mrs Amos Pinchot, or Claire MacMurray? Nov. 1939, a disavowed dream-poem. |
She dreamed she'd written a wise and beautiful poem. Half asleep she scribbled it down. Awake, she found... CAUTION: HOGGEREL |
HOLD HEAD: by Wayan; 1993; nondream digital sketch. |
This started as an exercise in dramatic figure-drawing and shifted round into an exorcise in guilt... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL CONFESSIONS |
THE HOLLOW HILL (PART 6): by Kathleen Raine, 1940; a dream elegy to a mentor |
In Ireland, in Yeats's stone tower, he leads me up the spiral stair toward a thyme-scented portal... |
THE HOLY HARP: by Wayan; 1994/3/22, a dream of musical guilt. |
The Goddess's harp, that calls in the seasons, just passed on. But the new harper has a shocking admission... |
HOLY ZEN MONK: by Wayan; 1978/4/24, a dream of suicide as political protest |
I'm a Zen monk riddled with holes from a weird disease the government denies is real. So as a protest, I stand naked atop a wall and let the air-sharks take me... CAUTION: SURREAL SUICIDE |
HOMAGE TO CAMILLE: by Wayan, spring 2003. Portrait of a half an anima |
A portrait of my dream-friend Silky, using a technique learned from artist Camille Porter. |
HOMEBOUND: by Sunshine; 2015/3/21, a dream posing an ethical dilemma |
Elves are making humans grow tree-doors back to Faerie. But are they invasion-scouts, or just going home? CAUTION: GUNFIGHT, MIND CONTROL |
HOMO REDUX: by Winston Weathers, 1988 or before, a nightmare of revenants |
All his guilty dead were coming home, begging to be let in... And then he was on the outside, looking in at the lone living man... CAUTION: GUILT, GRIEF, THE LIVING DEAD |
THE HOMONKEYLUS: by Wayan; 1992/6/15, a looping dream about blinders. |
A smiling beauty queen on a float gives birth to a monkey with blinders, then re-absorbs the baby, then... CAUTION: NUDITY AND ODDITY |
THE HONEST INMATE: by Wayan; 1997/5/8, a dreamfable on truthfulness. |
I'm a psychopath in a prison for the insane. But I fall in love, and change. Blunt honesty fuels the change... |
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 |
HOOD: by Wayan; 1993/5/11 & 5/15, a recurring dream of a... woman? dinosaur? cape? spirit? |
An alien-heron-dino-woman left us her cape--or is it a cast-off skin? I put it on, for I was told I need the hood to ward off some evil. My human head won't fit the narrow hood. But the owner's manual says I don't need a shield, I'm immune! So skip the hood; wear the cape as a minidress... |
HOP: by Emily Joy, Maddie, and Kathe, 2004/3/31; three linked dreams of a single character |
Three friends in one bed dream three dreams in one night about a talking rabbit with a persistent request... |
HOP TO THE SHAH: by Wayan; 2010/5/18, a flying political dream |
Diplomacy's failed. To stop the impending Iranian War single-handed, I hop like a monster flea across Iran to corner the New Shah... |
HOPE: by Elsie Sechrist's student; c.1973, the ultimate punning dream. |
A student of Elsie Sechrist reports a dream in which Bob Hope came jumping down the street on a pogo stick, expressing the dreamer's feeling that... |
HORSE-DOG: by Wayan, 1982/2/1, a rambling, scattered but predictive dream |
I cross the Mushroom Desert, meet a blue-tailed squirrel & a horse-size dog, then zombie-vampire suburbanites. NEXT DAY: an artist sends me a flyer with a new dream painting--a huge dog whose fur-patterns depict a horse... CAUTION: SYNCHRONICITY |
HORSE HEAD TROPHY (THE GOOSE GIRL'S BEST FRIEND): see FALADA
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HORSE IN A TAILWIND: by Wayan; 1982; study of a dream character |
It looks like a study of negative shapes, but if you happen to be a part-time horse, like me... |
HORSE THIEVES: by Plenty Coups, early 1870s?; a practical psychic or subliminal dream |
Thieves stole 100 of our horses. The tracks suggested white men, but that night my dream Helpers declared them Sioux. We tracked them across Montana... |
THE HORSE VOTERS: by Wayan; 1995/4/30, a time-travel dream on... race? |
I'm back in the 19th century, learning that horse breeders cross-bred more than the public thinks. One suggests I look hard in the mirror... CAUTION: UNSEEMLY SENATORIAL DISCOURSE |
HORSEFALL... AND WORSE: by Wayan; 1997/5/15, a political nightmare. |
Corruption in my town causes a bizarre death. But is that all? I smell smoke--will the city burn? |
HORSELIKE BUT NOT: by Wayan; portrait of dream figure, 1997, acrylic, 14 x 17" |
My anima Silky finds it hard to go back to classic hooves, now that she's tried opposable thumbs... |
HORSES OF THE AQUARIUS: by Wayan, recurring dream 1956-8, poem '72/6/24, art 82/12/11 |
My earliest memory's a recurring dream: I'm a wild horse near Shiprock, recurrently dreaming that I'm a human child! The two lives alternated for years, each a dream to the other... |
HORSESHOE MAGNET: by Wayan, 1983/12/3, a predictive dreamlet |
I'm badly disoriented because I'm seeing through walls! My sixth sense is from a high-tech helmet shaped like a horseshoe magnet. Four days later I see Brainstorm, a movie about a high-tech helmet shaped like a horseshoe magnet, recording and playing back mental experience. Talk about disorienting... |
HORTA'S EGGS: by Wayan; 1984/1/17, a dream of re-evaluation. |
I fight to save a nest of 50,000 eggs that'll hatch... psychics! But my friends want to exterminate them! Who's wrong here? |
HOT: by Roz Chast, 2023 or before, a dream from a subliminal stimulus |
I'm in a restaurant at a round table. Waiters wrap me in hot towels. I laugh "If I were chilled, I'd love this--but I'm NOT!" I wake to find I am too hot--too many blankets... |
HOT-AIR FEMINISM: by Wayan; 2019/1/3; a harsh political dream |
The latest MeToo meme is to leave a door open at night with a heater on, so a hot-air plume marks a refuge for women in danger--or, of course, burglars! So I stalk our neighborhood locking doors... CAUTION: DECRIES HOT-AIR NAÏVETÉ |
HOT, BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED: by Wayan; 1981/5/8, a dreamtale. |
In a club, a new genderbending band. One singer gets me hot, but completely confused--for good reason... CAUTION: SEXUAL SITUATIONS, GENDERBENDING |
HOT FEET: by Patient 2 of William Hammond, c.1868, a nightmare--but subliminal or mystical? |
I'm in the Rocky Mountains. Gold-hungry Mexican bandits capture me and put my feet to the fire, demanding "How do you transmute copper into gold?" I scream "I don't know!", waking to find... CAUTION: TORTURE PLAYED FOR LAUGHS |
HOT JUNGLE LOINS: by Mary Fleener; 1975, an erotic dream-comic. |
I'm in a jungle, making love with various well-endowed spirits... CAUTION: JUNGLE STEREOTYPES, OVERSIZED ERECTIONS |
HOT POT CAT LOT: by Wayan; 1992/8/6, a delayed-action psychic dream. |
After a bad writing class, I meet a shy catgirl guarding a Mongolian Hot Pot, and discover who I am... |
A HOT SKATER: by Wayan; 1997/5/8, a suggestive dream. |
A skater so hot, she tears her clothes off and starts melting the ice! I'm shy with her: thin ice, you know... CAUTION: NUDITY |
HOT TO TROT or BRAIN TRAUMA or HUMPIN' THE HOG or SAD-EYED SWAN OF LOVE: |
by Wayan; 1993/8/4, a bizarre, epic dream on finding your way I'm a mare hot to trot (and get laid) in the Big City, but my gay Star Trek friend's brain trauma makes her a clueless alien with a bo(a)ring sexlife--until a sad swan enfolds her in love... CAUTION: ALIEN POSSESSION, CARTOON PIG SEX, SMOKING SWANS |
HOT WATER KNOB: by Wayan, 1987/10/5, a punning predictive dream |
DREAM: my car has a fuel leak. Luckily, I carry around a crystal hot-water knob-- for beauty, not car repair. But I screw it in & stop the leak, fixing my 'drive'... NEXT EVENING: turn on the TV news, and there's my hot water knob... |
A HOTEL ODYSSEY: by Wayan; 1994/2/21, a Borges dream. |
I live in the Infinite Hotel, but the other guests in my wing are no fun. It's time to set sail... |
A HOUSE BY THE RIVER: by Wayan; 2011/10/10; a possibly psychic but definitely practical dreamlet. |
I find bargain homes in a hidden tract by the river. I think "My sister's house-hunting, call her!" She calls me... |
HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT: by Wayan; 1994/4/3, a dark dream. |
As my grandmother is dying, I have a dream about what really went on in her house... CAUTION: CHILD SLAVERY |
HOUSTON: by Wayan; 1992; automatic writing experiment. |
A poster playing with superimposed messsages. How strangely the mind sorts out different layers! |
HOW LONG IS ENOUGH?: by Wayan; 1994/4/24, a psychic little dream. |
Just a dance/yoga dream, warning "don't push your body till it hurts..." that came true the next day. |
HOW THE WAYAN GOT ITS NAME: by Wayan, 1986/5/23, a predictive dream on names (& manes) |
A telepathic unicorn-lion says my true name is Wayan. And my true species? I'm like him! I wake, change my name to fit the dream, move to a new city. Near my new house, my dream-name is scratched into the concrete sidewalk... |
HOW TO BE A WOLF: by Wayan; 1987/3/15, a dream of a trickster-mentor |
We're hiking in the Sangre de Cristos when a girl offers to show us how to be a wolf. We're eager--until she turns wolf, bites us and leaps off a cliff! Furious, we stupidly follow her over... CAUTION: NUDE FLYING WOLVES |
HOW TO BE HAPPY: A FABLE BY TOLKIEN: by Wayan; 1994/6/16, a dream, not by Tolkien. |
I'm a librarian in an English village hit by fads--new philosophies and lifestyles. I learn what works: |
HOW TO SURVIVE NUCLEAR WAR: by Maxine Kumin; early 1980s, a dream poem. |
In Japan, sick in bed, reading a book on radiation sickness, I dream of a restorative ritual for trees... CAUTION: GRUESOME |
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..." |
HOWL: by Wayan; June 1983, a picture-poem on a daydream of deep time |
Surely the dinosaurs were as vocal as their little cousins, the birds. But bass to the birds' soprano! So when dinos sang to the moon... |
HUBRIS EGGS: by Wayan; 1981/6/11, a short defiant psychic dream. |
I'm wrapping my heavy-metal eggs too slowly, so the Judges sink my car! I set out to get revenge... |
HUCK FINN'S WISH: by Wayan; 1995/12/8, a dream of flight and sabotage. |
A mysterious stranger offers free wishes to the kids of Hannibal, Missouri. Tom Sawyer wants to fly... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
HUGE OVOID SHAPE: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 1999/8/13 Magrittesque surreal sci-fi dream |
A huge white ovoid like a tethered cloud hangs over a city street. We enter it and search for the crew... |
THE HUMAN BUTTERFLY: by Peter Wortsman; 1986, a bizarre dream |
I wanted to be human, but Mom said "You'll always be just a lousy caterpillar." So I slipped inside a human girl. After some arguments with her boyfriend, I got born as a human-faced butterfly... CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX AND MOM |
HUMANITY'S GREATEST FEAR: by Emily Joy; 2007/4/8, a sarcastic dream on education. |
My teacher insists, "You'll be scared too, when you see it." But when he shows us humanity's greatest fear... CAUTION: UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS |
HUMBLE THREE-EYED GIRL: by Wayan; 2008/12/30, a dream on giftedness and shame |
I meet a circle of students with up to five eyes. The lone three-eyed girl is embarrassed, indeed ashamed she's merely attained enlightenment... |
HUMMINGBIRD: by Larry Vigon; 2004/4/4; a predictive dream |
A hummingbird was trapped inside my home. So beautiful. I set it free. The next Saturday, I found this hummingbird on the patio... |
HUMMINGBIRD HANDS: by Ranjit Bhatnagar, art by Jesse Reklaw; pre-2000; a freed-by-music dream |
A mind-control drug urges her to strangle her loved ones, but to beat the curse she busies her fluttering hands with bluegrass banjo... |
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 |
HUMPBACKED COAT-THIEF: by "Anonymous #15"; c.1919, an acted-on warning dream |
I dreamed of a beggar in our house who had been stealing. It was a very small man with a hump. Weeks later... |
HUMPIN' THE HOG: see under alternate title HOT TO TROT
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A HUNDRED-FOOT BEAGLE: by Wayan; 2002/3/22, an identity- and gender-bent dreamlet |
I'm my friend Dawn, at a convention for my job. But I get insulted. I walk out. Lost in endless parking lots, by a dumpster, I make a bizarre wish... CAUTION: APPARENT TELEPATHY |
HUNG BY ELDER: by Wayan; 1997/7/30, a nightmare. |
A disowned heiress and I sneak onto the family estate, but they'll go pretty far to hide their skeletons... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
HUNGER: by Robert Creeley; 1970s?, an advisory dream on keeping desire grounded |
I'm at a long table. So many stews, so much rice! Soon we're stuffed. But some people yell for more! I ask the woman next to me "How could they still be hungry?" She says... |
HUNT AND PECK: by Patagia; 1997/6/16, a dream on the creative non-struggle. |
I'm a brown sparrow scratching in the dirt, looking for bugs. Focused, tireless, I hunt and peck... |
HUNT OF THE UNICORN: by Wayan; 1989/5/18, an overlooked psychic dream. |
I marry, just to get into a clannish world where I'm seeking symbiotic unicorns. I end up fleeing... Next evening, a TV movie--Goldie Hawn marries into a clannish world and ends up... |
HUNTERS' FIRE: by Wayan; 1987/9/8, a nightmare that may be a memory. |
I'm an orphan shot at by hunters. They shoot my sister! But no one believes me... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
HYDROGEN INITIATION: by Wayan; 1981/1/6, a shamanic nightmare. |
I'm an initiate in a Sung Dynasty monastery. But I have no idea how far the hazing can go... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
HYPNOGOGIC ASSAULT: by Dr Simon Forman; 1559-63, recurring hypnogogic images. |
From age six on, Simon nightly climbs mountains and faces roaring floods in a sort of naptime bootcamp... |
THE HYPOTHALAMUS: by Georges Perec; October 1971, a dream of embarrassment. Dream #95 |
I learn my book A Void, supposedly written without the letter E, has lots of them-- crawling with errors. But at least I can spy on the neighbors... |
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