THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: Blindness

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Blindness

Dreams of blindness, illusion, and delusion... By definition, that generally means dreams of warning--though I was surprised how much humor there was in this batch.

RELATED TOPICS: truth and lies - disability and deformity - trust - vision and visualization - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

The World Dream Bank has 1500 dreams and dream images plus 500 other pages on dreamwork and shamanism, creativity, genius, art, surrealism and fantasy. Unless otherwise noted, all material copyright Chris Wayan, 2001-2006.

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	ADRIAN TRIED: by Wayan, 1991/3/12, an embarrassing dream. Adrian and Jennifer and Michelle try very very hard to get my attention, but I'm a bit oblivious... CAUTION: SEXUAL STUPIDITY
	AMPLIFIER: by Alder; 1999/11/13, a dream on self-underestimation I was always the weakest magic-worker I knew. But when demons threatened my grandchild...
	ANCIENT AMERICAN GRAVEYARD: by Wayan; 2008/9/1, a dreampoem, Dreamverse #18 I'm a ghost watching future archeologists dig up a site of my people and get it so wrong...
	AROO'S ENGINEERS: by Wayan; 1984/11/9-10, a Hawaiian dream epic. The Engineers make Eden logical. But the blimps go blind, and a demon gets published. Can I escape the hell they've made?
	BLIND ANCESTORS: by Wayan; 2007/8/6, a nightmare poem about all of us While we’re off at work, blind Ancestors come smash our homes--and we all take zombie vandal relatives for granted...
	BLIND TO THE CUES: by Wayan; 1996/10/2, a dream of blinders. A sexy pool-playing friend in a short skirt leans over an invisible, virtual-reality pooltable, but I'm blind to... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, TRULY CLUELESS GUY
	DEAF TO MY SIGNS: by Wayan; 1997/6/17, a wise frustration dreamtale. Watching a slideshow, in a room of deaf women, I find no one can hear me in either English or Sign...
	DREAM CLARITY, or, the Field of Psychotherapy: by Wayan; 1996/11/27, a dream on dreams While we're making crop-circles in the field of psychotherapy, my hypnotist and I start to argue...
	EYEBOLT: by Wayan; 2005/10/1, a squeamish dream I'm on a train in Britain, sitting across from a respectable-looking woman with a large bolt sticking in her eye...
	FALLING UP: by Wayan; 1984/2/23, an unflying dream My girlfriend meets my parents. We fly up to sleep under eaves like swallows. "But what if we roll off, will we fall up into the storm, into space?" Hm. Is my girlfriend's REAL fear... something else?
	FIGURE AND FIELD: by Wayan; May 1990, a poem on the dark side of a human ability We see patterns everywhere... but that also means we relegate nonpatterns to the background...
	THE FINAL TEST: by Wayan; 1994/11/11, a reassuring nightmare. A Star Trek future. Our experimental ship is hijacked, with us aboard...
	MY FLUORESCENT WORLD: by Wayan; 1997/8/16, a psychedelic dream. I always thought I saw differently than others, but when someone builds the Goggles...
	FOUR EYES!: by Wayan; 1984/5/28, a metaphoric dreamlet. I started life as twins, but slowly we fused. I still have four eyes, though. Then, one day...
	FREE THE HICK? A Dream Left Hanging: by Wayan; 1999/9/15, a frustrating dream. Our team acquires unnoticeability, and sets out to free the Hick from the Submerged Court. But is that wise?
	THE FURNITURE: by Wayan; 1989/2/17, a physics dream. My sister Althea meditates. With her aura quiet, I mistake her for furniture! That blind to the physical...
	GLASS GAME: by Wayan; 1985/9/23, a nightmare. A swimming pool game with color-sorted broken glass. It's social! It's fun! The whole family can play! CAUTION: BLOODY IDIOTS
	MY GLASS BODY: by Wayan; 1993/9/16, a dream on sensitivity. After I visit the Glass People, a young glass wizard stalks me home to the Meat World, and says...
	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...
	THE GOLDEN KEY: by Wayan; 200K, 1996/7/9, a subtle dream lesson . I was so lonely the potheads on Haight looked good. I dreamed I had the Golden Key, but under a cheap sodium streetlamp, ALL my keys looked gold! Then I met true gold: a woman meditating until she shone... CAUTION: NUDITY, HAIGHT ST DECADENCE AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
	GORDO'S EYES: by Wayan; 1981/2/14, a dream warning. The old cartoon character Gordo has another girlfriend. But his pets say he only loves the hunt, not her...
	GOTTA BE ME, OR...: by Wayan; 1989/9/5, a dream fable. A friend tells me her sex fantasies. We try playing the roles, but not being ourselves has a weird side-effect... CAUTION: SEX GAMES
	GRAVE: by Wayan; 1999, a poem of everyday life, if this is your everyday life. So I looked out my window and saw this guy burying a tiny robed woman in a trench in the street...
	GROUNDHOG DAY: by Wayan; 140K, 3 images, 1994/9/2, an illustrated lunar dream. James Hillman is the first psychologist on the moon! Only he sees, not HIS shadow, but MINE...
	THE GUARDIAN ANGEL COURSE: by Wayan; 1984/9/29, a dream of responsibilities. I get bored with crime, so I take a course in finding my Guardian Angel. But my test results are strange... CAUTION: WEIRD ANGELS
	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
	HIT ROCK: by Wayan; 1995-98. Digital picture challenging a dream. I dreamed I blinded myself because mere appearances lead to racism and sexism. Only the blind know truth... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	THE HOMONKEYLUS: by Wayan; 1992/6/15, an illustrated dreamloop. A smiling beauty queen on a float gives birth to a monkey with blinders, then re-absorbs the baby, then... CAUTION: NUDITY AND ODDITY
	ILLUSIONISTS DON'T RULE: by Wayan; 1996/8/26, a dream on the strength of logic. I read 'The Closing of the American Mind," and dream I'm a pilot who suspects an illusionist in my plane...
	INVISIBLE KYOKO: by Wayan; 1995/1/16, a dream on bold and shy. I'm at a party in an air-lake. We fish for a girl who's gone invisible. But... what if we catch her?
	THE INVISIBLE SULKY: by Wayan; 1995/9/20, a dream on resistance. I feel a drag, and take off my safety belt. I find I've been towing an invisible buggy with two men in it...
	JUNG'S DENIAL: by Wayan; 1994/12/16, a journal extract on Jung. Jung's dreams and interpretations show he's a thing-guy not a people-guy. All that architecture!...
	LUCID GIRDERS: by Wayan; 1993/8/18, an illustrated dream about dreaming. Stayed up late, painting foreshortening. Then I saw a scene in color, motion, 3D, and knew I had to be dreaming: I was visualizing too clearly, THINKING too clearly, to be awake... CAUTION: NUDITY
	THE MUSTACHE PRAYER: by Wayan; 1983/9/11, a dream on wishes' limits. I help a mutant boy find others like him, and learn why some prayers are ungrantable...
	OTTERS DON'T FAKE: by Wayan; 125K total, a dreamtale with 2 illustrations, 1989/10/15. I'm scared to show my dream-paintings to my art class. That night I find an large otter in my bed... CAUTION: SEX
	PIG YOYO: by Wayan; 1987/11/21, a dreamtale on self-torture. A hog is tied so it bounces in a fountain, and at the bottom of each bounce, a fork jabs it! How to free the pig yoyo? CAUTION: OW!
	PIXY: by Wayan; 200K, 2006/3/25, six images; a diagnostic sex dream? Janet's obsessed with a creepy guy, until her friend Kay--a pixy--decides to knock some sense into her cunt... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, EMBARRASSING SITUATION, NASTY LOVE SPELL
	THE PROWLER: by Wayan; 1997/2/4, an illustrated dreamtale. My sister hears a prowler. I go out blind in the dark, and learn she's right. But what a strange intruder!
	HIS RACIST SON: by Wayan; 1994/1/8, a dream on family hypocrisy. Suddenly I hate and fear black kids in school! The counselor says I'm clinically paranoid: I need drugs! My dad says "How strange, how sad." And goes home to light a candle at his shrine to the Confederacy... CAUTION: INDUCED RACISM
	SHADOW PUZZLE: THE LORD AND HIS SERVANT: by Wayan; 1984/5/23, a reflective dream. A puzzle-game of eyes and mirrors and shadows starts revealing the players' deepest secrets...
	SPOON CHALLENGE: by Emily Joy; 2006/8/30, a mathemagical dreamlet. I want to drink the elixir, but negative twenty spoons block me! Can I remove them? With warped teacup logic and reciprocals…
	STAY GROUNDED!: by Wayan; 1988/2/27, an unexpectedly grounded dream. I'm playing poker with a dragon. But we barely dare move: we're both crackling with thousands of volts...
	STEPHANIE GODOT: by Wayan; 1994/12/14, a waking comedy of two dreamworkers. My unconscious sabotages a lunch date with my friend Stephanie. The tricks get weirder, till...
	TITANIA: by Wayan; 1983/1/7 and subsequent nights; an epic dream of love Clarence the sappy angel from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and Milton's Lucifer, noblest Devil of them all, land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're perfect, and the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me, and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full range of feelings. Too bad one is the feeling she's fake...
	THE TOWN THIEF FEELS CHEATED: by Wayan; 1993/7/27, a dreamtale. Long ago he cut a deal with the cops. But town's grown, and one victim fights back. Our thief is outraged...
	UNCERTAIN ONEIROMANCY: by Denise Levertov; 1993? a dream poem I led a blind man through a vast art museum underground. But focused on guiding him, I too was blind to the beauty...
	UNICORN: "STILL HERE!": by Wayan; 1994? 3x5", felt pen sketch. The 80s were rough on unicorns, but now that they're passé again, they can get back to work...
	UNKNOWING: by Wayan, 640 x 480, 1995. Digital picture of a nondream delusion. "I believe, O lord/ Help thou mine unbelief"--as a kid I thought this meant "God, keep me skeptical"...
	A VALLEY NEAR HOPE: by Wayan; 155K, illustrated, 1984/10/17-19, an epic dream. I'm lost in a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who adore unicorns but hate cyborgs, who think ants are cute, but dread unicorns! And while the Three Tribes love and hate, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four vertices of my tetrahedral soul, but what if I get what I want? Peace, love... transformation? What if those aren't cute and New Age? CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING
	VOW, CHOP, DOOR: by Wayan; 1997/1/26, a psychic dreamtale. I make a weird vow--while I absent-mindedly slice up other people's cars! The next day... CAUTION: DREAM VANDALISM
	WASTE: by Wayan; 100K, 1990/5/15, a desert singles poem, 11 images. A road trip through New Mexico mutates into a tour of my relationship disasters...
	"WHAT SHARKS?": by Wayan; 1990/4/22, a dream of multiple viewpoints. A cowgirl is driving us in circles round the dusty parking lot, fleeing the air-sharks... or is she?
	A WISE WRITER PROTECTS HER EYES: by Wayan; 1998/8/19, an advisory dreamtale. A writer I meet either starts flirting with me obscenely, or advising me about eyecare, or... both? CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
	THE WOODRING LAYER: by Wayan; 2008/7/7. A dream questioning art's job. I see great towers rising into a fog zone--or is it another universe, with different rules? How do you draw both worlds?
	WORD AND DEED: by Wayan; 1989/8/1, a embarrassing dream fable. In bed with my sister and Emmanuelle of the sex films, I learn a little something about denial... CAUTION: SEX, INCEST, INSIGHTS
	THE WORLD'S FAIR: by Wayan; 1983/3/18, an illustrated dream fable. The same night I learn of the Kerouac Tree, a wise old man shows me the world's fair. Not the event...