Cosmic Dreams
RELATED TOPICS: deep space dreams - time including time-travel, historical dreams, and parallel worlds - observer effects, Heisenberg principle, uncollapsed probability sheaves - doors between worlds - astral planes - shamanic dreams - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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THE AMBASSADOR PRO TEM OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1993/3/1, a dream about dreams. The Ambassador of Dreams was moonlighting, so I had to fill in and explain things to the waking world... |
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THE BIG CRUNCH: by Wayan; 1979/5/9, a cosmic nightmare. I'm a girl being stalked. I take drastic measures--scrunch up the universe and shake it out! And is THAT enough? CAUTION: ANXIETY, GUILT, THE POSSIBLE DESTRUCTION OF THE UNIVERSE |
| THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF AN ANT: by Walter de la Mare; 1920s, a tutelary dream. The book's first two pages showed an ant's awareness, then a human's wider grasp--both mere freckles on reality... |
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| COSMIC EGG AND ENERGY BIRD: by Wayan; 1971/12/4, an early mystical dream. A mystical vision of the Cosmic Egg gets messy when it hatches and the Bird escapes... |
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| COSMOLOGIST: by Wayan; 1994/12/2, another physicist's nightmare. A mad gunman breaks in and shoots at me, but I start him talking, and learn what's eating him... |
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CUPOLA: by Wayan; 1994/7/28, a dream of an alternate life. I live in a cupola atop a Victorian house in the Haight-Ashbury, but that's not the City out my windows... |
| DIVINE IMAGE, or, A VISION OF ADONAI: by Anna Kingsford, 1877/7/23, a waking vision Gazing at the moon, Anna suddenly finds herself touring the Solar System and meeting all the planetary guardians... CAUTION: MYSTICAL ECSTASY |
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| EGG OF POWER: by Wayan; 1980/7/4, a large-scale chase dream. I wonder how far I'll go to hide my Egg of Power.... and, I'm afraid, I find out. |
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| FUTILITY: by Wayan; 1973/11/23, a time-machine dream. I'm Liza Doolittle on Mars. With Mr. Wells's Time Machine. Lost, in fact. Can I get home? Should I? |
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GALAXY FLOWER: by Wayan; 1993. digital painting of a (nondream) vision.
My take on what Georgia O'Keeffe claimed she was up to with those giant flowers... |
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GIRL WITH A PROBLEM: by Wayan; 1997/4/12, a surreal dream. I date a girl with a mysterious syndrome, but soon I become a monkeyfaced con-man. And SHE becomes... |
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I HELD THE SUN ROSE: by Wayan; 640 x 440, 1989,
reworked 1994. Digital picture. After I drew this I dreamed I was chasing stars with a long-tailed friend, and in the end we caught the Sun... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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LARRY'S MULTIVERSE: by Wayan; 2008/2/16, a dream poem, Dreamverse #14 My shamanic teacher lures me into a labyrinth ruled by wizards whose magic-monopoly's about to fall... |
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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... |
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THE OBSERVER EFFECT, OR, WATCH THE WATCH: by Wayan; 1997/1/21, a dream of time and opticks. After seeing an Einstein biography I find myself in the bathrooms of Thought-Experiment High, and... CAUTION: DARK SIDE OF AN ICON |
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PLANETOCOPIA: by Wayan; 2006/6/3, an annex to the Dreambank with 16 nondream imaginary worlds. A mix of sculpture, drawings, travel writing... science and art. Alternate Earths, possible futures, and pure experiments in planetology, biology, sociology. Most of them teem with intelligent creatures--alien Edens! CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, COMMIES, EVOLUTION |
| REALITY LOOPS: by Wayan; 1996/12/26, a dream on the multiverse. My dreams show me how one world can be a fiction within another that's a fiction within the first! Dreams and fictions aren't simulations but windows. So be nice to your dream-figures--it turns out you ARE one... |
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MY SISTER'S GRAVITY WELL: by Wayan; 1995/4/25, a dreamtale. We play with worlds for balls, and gravity wells for goals. How do the worlds see it? Well... I find out. |
| SLEDDING NEAR C: by Albert Einstein; around 1890-95; a transcendent career-advice dream Sledding at night, I approached the speed of light, and the stars turned colors I'd never seen... |
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SLEIPNIR: by Wayan; 1987/3/31, a dumb physics dream. I'm at a physics conference. A new force has been discovered that may allow faster than light travel... |
| WORLDSTONES: fall 1895 & August 1898 by Mark Twain, and 2002/6/27 by Robert Moss; parallel dreams Mark Twain dreams we're cells inside God, and writes of Huck Finn among the microbes. A century later, unaware of Twain's dreams, Moss... |
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| YGGDRASIL COLONY: by Exarian; 2009/4/20, an Asimovian dream I dream of three colonies in the deep future. We outlived the universe itself, but can we survive each other? CAUTION: WAR, GENOCIDE, POLITICAL ALLEGORY |
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