THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: Crashes

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Dreams of car accidents, plane crashes, train wrecks and shipwrecks.

Are these random brain-noise, as most clinical sleep and dream researchers say? Symbolic of worries, as most clinical psychologists say? Literal and predictive, as much of the public thinks but is too embarrassed to admit? In my experience, they vary. But I can no longer rule out ESP as a legitimate hypothesis. Too many, er, hits.

So it's prudent, if you dream of a crash and it's avoidable in some way, to take action. The largest study I've seen, by Sally Rhine Feather of the Rhine Institute, found that about two-thirds of those having strong premonitions (most but not all of them in dreams) that could be acted on in some way, failed to do so! Social pressure, inconvenience, embarrassment, incredulity... Of the minority who did act, two-thirds changed the outcome substantially, almost all for the better; lives were saved.

If you're in therapy or under great stress, it makes sense to look for a symbolic, emotional meaning too; but why not also fix the brakes, switch your plane ticket, refuse to get in the car with your friends who swear they're sober?

Better a live nutjob than a dead rationalist.

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	THE BLACK EGG: by Wayan; 1999/3/25, a psychic dreamtale. My crazy friend Wayne goes bowling for busses with a black egg. Wait! Crazy? Or... predictive? CAUTION: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE BEHAVES DISGRACEFULLY
	THE BLUE MILLIPEDE: by Wayan; 1996/11/5 (Election Night), a political dream. I'm a wizard chasing crooked politicians in a big city. They have a car, I hop a trolley, only on the astral plane it's a giant blue millipede, and... CAUTION: RECKLESS DRIVING, THEFT OF PUBLIC MILLIPEDE
	THE BOAT IS SINKING: by Mrs Griffiths; 1734/8/6, a recurrent warning dream Mrs Griffiths has the same nightmare three times before she asks her nephew to skip a fishing trip...
	BREEDISM: by Wayan; 1989/1/16, a snappish dream of the future. I'm a reporter interviewing survivors of a plane crash--a puma and a pit bull. Can I survive the survivors?
	CHE FANNO GLI INGLESI?: by William Archer; 1917/7/30, a senseless dream. To help the King of Italy, I become a baker in Baluchistan--learning Norwegian, levitating, meeting quaggas, riding landslides...
	CHRONOPHOBIA!: by Wayan; 1993/7/10, a physicist's nightmare. I find myself driving a speeding car down a freeway--in reverse. And I don't mean the gear...
	THE COMING DARK: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 2002/3/2; dream-paintings about one disaster averted, and another... not. I climb down from a desert cliff before night strands me; but reckless adolescent games in town lead to a crash...
	CRYSTAL AND GUNSEL: by Wayan; 1997/7/2, a nightmare--psychic or not? Gunsel kills my friend Crystal in a flaming aircar crash. But that's not enough--he comes back, and... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	CUT-RATE TREATMENT: by Wayan; 1993/8/10, a tale half-dreamed, half-lived. That day, I met a wildly neurotic therapist; that night, I met a woman forced to get discount ob/gyn exams from her stingy husband's doctor buddy... can you say "boundary violation?" CAUTION: SEXUAL HUMILIATION
	DEATH CHANTY: by E.M. Martin's friend; 1914/9/21, a psychic dream An endless parade of drowned sailors sing a dirge, the dreamer wakes in tears... and then the news arrives.
	DIURNAL AND NOCTURNAL WORLDS: by Wayan; 1993/11/8, an epic dream of the multiverse. Round the ring of twelve worlds and their twelve gods, seeking one god who's giving me grief...
	THE DOOMED TRAIN: by Anna Kingsford; Nov. 1876, a galvanizing political nightmare We were on a train headed for a crash. No one was in the engine. Rather than jump, my friend insisted we try...
	ELLIS CRITIQUE: by Wayan; 2008/12/10, four dreams comically challenge Havelock Ellis's dream-theories! Pa warns me to protect my paws. Gilt wounds my sole. A lioness eats a drumstick. Then a bus crashes on our corner--for real!
	ENGINE GENIUS: by Wayan; 2005/2/4, a health-warning dream. At my mechanic's garage, a child prodigy rebuilds a car engine. Gawking, I nearly plow into the crowd...
	FLYING MACHINE: by George B. Burgin, c.1860 on, a recurrent flying dream Whenever I'm stressed, I build a set of luna-moth wings and fly invisibly. Though once a blind man caught me by ear...
	THE GHOSTMASTER: by Wayan; 1992/6/16, a dreamtale of the Shadow. I win a starship from the hostile Ghostmaster; in space I gain the confidence to confront him, and find...
	GRAVITREE: by Wayan; 2008/3/21, a character-evaluation dream. Just singing about the antigravitree lightens me. I bound around town. But then I find a diseased antigravitree is holding me down. It's become a gravitree! Gotta clear out that deadwood, no matter how messy, if I want to fly...
	GROUND ZERO: by Al Davison; 2001/9/9, a predictive dream-comic. Two days before 9/11, I dream I'm a child at ground zero, mourning the devastation--and witnessing rebirth.
	GUDRUN'S FOUR HUSBANDS: by Gudrun Osvifsdotter; summer 988, four child's dreams predicting her life. Gudrun dreams of four treasures lost: a hood, a bracelet, a ring, and a jeweled helm. Her cousin sees four marriages...
	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...
	I TOSSED MUSIC: by Wayan; 1997/9/19, an advisory dream. I asked my dreams "should I return to school?" They replied with this bizarre tale of sabotage... CAUTION: VIOLENCE TO DUMB INSTRUMENTS
	JACK DANIELS: by Wayan; 1983/10/14, three short dreamtales. Three dream-reactions to a (real) psychic experiment that went badly awry...
	JUST BEFORE 9/11: by Patti Viscardi; 6 AM 2001/9/11, a predictive nightmare I was on a plane... It was almost graceful, the plane actually entered the building before everything dissolved into flame... CAUTION: DEATH. DEATH TWICE.
	KARMA AND HER SISTERS: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/27, a happy sexy flying dream that turned tragic. One boring lonely day, I meet a cute teenage bunny who wants to play with me! But half an hour later… CAUTION: LANGUAGE, INTERSPECIES FLIRTING, AND LOSS
	LINCH-PIN: by George Stevens; c.1895? a frustrating psychic dream George sees a cart-crash pinning a friend. He yells to bystanders to free the wheel, but they can't hear him...
	LONDON TRAFFIC: by Gheury de Bray; between 1923-1938, a warning dream. De Bray dreamed a speeding car nearly hit him; a month later, he abruptly recognized the street from his dream and paused...
	PALE BLUE: by Wayan; 1997/5/12, a dream on denial. I pray for love and promptly meet Blue, whose mom treats her like a kid. We change that, but it's messy...
	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
	PYLONS: by Louis MacNeice; Jan. 1940. A surreal political dream. I was on a steamer run amok, in a boiling yellow incredible sea out of which great pylons rose...
	SHE CRASHES AND BURNS: by Wayan; 2005/5/7, a diagnostic nightmare. I ask my dreams how to find love. I dream of a 1920s bohemian girl teasing stuffy folk. But her pranks turn dangerous, then deadly...
	SHIP OF JADE: by Wayan; 2009/11/7, an illustrated dreampoem on dreampoetry! Dreamverse #64 My dreams are made of lovely carvable jade. Too bad my tools and skills suit our plastic age...
	SILENT CRASH: by Vera and Wayan; 1992/8/14, a shared (predictive?) dream. Wayan dreams a jet crashes in dead silence. That morning his computer silently crashes. Meanwhile Vera dreams of being ON a jet that...
	SPIRITUAL TESTS: by Wayan; 2000/8/28, a predictive dream As my dad lies dying, I dream my sister and I face spiritual tests given by slacker angels who'd rather be on TV. Learn to let go!
	STARFISH: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 1985; a multileveled, doubly predictive dream A sacred starfish piloting a Cessna plane survives a crash. But can it survive a boy's clumsy rescue efforts?
	STEPHENSON AND BELL: by Matthew Talbot; 1768, a recurring predictive dream. A man in a blue coat on a white horse delivered papers from a nearby wrecked ship, signed Stephenson and Bell. I awoke, and...
	SULE SKERRY: by Wayan; 1984/8/13, a non-nightmare. My sister and I are on a ship abandoned by its crew, heading full-steam for the rocks, when...
	THIS DREAM HAUNTS THE DAY: by Roswila; 1999, a dreampoem on transference My father's trapped in a crashed car. But I'm distracted by a young man whose palm cups a living flame...
	TWAIN'S BROTHER: by Mark Twain, 1858?, a premonitory nightmare. Twain saw a coffin with white and red flowers. Inside lay his brother Henry. A few days later the riverboat Henry worked on exploded...
	TWO PLANES: by Wayan, 1994/9/6, a multistaged psychic dream. An assassination plot using two planes triggers an invasion of our kingdom. I'd rather be playing Frisbee...
	VERY FUNNY, MR. MOSLEY: by Wayan; 2009/10/8, a dream poem with sketches; Dreamverse #58 Trapped in a blend of Joan of Arcadia and The Tempest Tales, I'm tired of being the pratfall sidekick...
	THE VOICE OF GOD: by Wayan, 1993/1/31, a psychic nightmare-epic. I go half-mad and massacre a whole cult, till my gun manifests stigmata: a gory miracle. Then I'm one of the cult members, struggling to ignore the Voice of God pushing all us mortals to murder in His name. I woke up haunted, and wondered for weeks what this was about... until the Waco Massacre. CAUTION: CREEPY VIOLENCE, CREEPY GOD, CREEPY PREDICTION