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ALTHEA'S MONEY DREAMS: by Althea; 1999/1/22, financial dreams provoked by... financial dreams? After reading a booklet of dreams about money by Wayan, Althea has four such dreams of her own challenging family ideas of class, gender, inheritance... and then practical investment advice!... |
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AMATERASU'S MIRROR: by Lady Sarashina and an unnamed priest, c. 1035/3/22, two dreams of a life-choice Sarashina dreams (again) she needs to leave court life and a spiritual path. Her skeptical mom sends a priest to the temple to dream for her! But he too dreams the Goddess shows two life-choices--happy or sad... |
| ANAGRAMMAGIC: by Robert Graves, 1938 or 39, a possibly telepathic dream 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... |
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ANSWERING JUNG: by Wayan; 2005/7/5, a dream parodying one of Jung's key dreams After reading Jung's dreams, I have an anti-Jungian dream of sexy nightmare-statues waiting to come alive, like the tree I draw & bring to life with my literally magic marker... CAUTION: NUDE STATUES |
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A DATE IN MINSK: by Wayan; 2009/8/23, a possibly psychic dream of adaptability A spacetime traveler inadvertently strands his pacifist vegetarian date in a gun-crazy mob-run town... CAUTION: DEFAMES BYELORUSSIANS |
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DATIN' DEMON: by Mark Varitz and Wayan; 1989/12/3; Mark's dream triggers one by Wayan. I meet my personal demon, and discover it has a personal demon: me! Am I worse than my Shadow? CAUTION: LANGUAGE, NUDE MONSTERS |
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ELLIS CRITIQUE: by Wayan; 2008/12/10, 4 comic dreams explore Havelock Ellis's dream-theory! Pa warns me to protect my paws. Then gilt wounds my sole. Then a lioness eats a tasty drumstick. Then a bus crashes on our corner--for real! |
| FAKE IT!: by Electra Johannes and Patagia; 2007/9/22 and 2007/9/23, linked dreams. Patagia dreams she fakes a Hindu rite, causing Electra to dream she fakes leadership in a refugee band. But are they faking? |
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FETAL PAUSE: by Wayan; 2008/8/31, a nightmare-poem, Dreamverse #17 As I write a sad sex dream, a madman curls up fetally in the road outside my window. I'm slow to call 9-1-1, and... |
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FIRST DREAMFLIGHT: by Wayan; 1969/11/11, two dreams from my first experiment. Schoolmates talked about flying dreams, but I'd never had one. I felt cheated! So I set out to create dream-flight... |
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FREUD'S UNDERWORLD: by Wayan; 2024/1/4; a comical book-review nightmare DAY: I reread Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams. His own dreams feel petty, devious, status-obsessed... dull. DREAM: I find Freud's bought my childhood home! I spelunk the Freudian underworld--a dark complex of tunnels, sewers and rats. Cross the rivers of muck on stepping stones. Emerge into sun at last, swearing "Never again..." |
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GENDERBENT LUCID DREAMS: by JHM Whiteman, pre-1961, compared to Wayan, 1979/8/29 Celia Green, lucid dream expert, claims nearly all lucid dreamers keep their waking bodies, their self-image. But Whiteman & Wayan both have genderbent lucid dreams... |
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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... |
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I MIST MY SISTER: by Cory and Wayan; 1992/9/20; a dream-comic. Cory's healing dream triggers one by Wayan My friend Cory's sore back is healed by a dream. So I ask for the same, and get this dream of incest... CAUTION: KARMA, SEX/NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES |
| INVADE GREECE, OR ELSE!: by Xerxes I and his uncle Artabanus; 480 BCE, three linked, deceitful dreams. Xerxes twice dreams a god orders him to attack Greece. So he asks his uncle to dream of the god to confirm... |
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JESSICA THE MERMAID: by Jessica, mid-1977, a dream-provoked dream At a dream workshop for kids, James's trickster dream-figures provoked Jessica to dream one chased her; fleeing, she jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge, became a mermaid, and married the trickster... |
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KARMA AND HER SISTERS: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/27, a sexy dream that turns 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 |
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KOLCHEC: by Al Davison (Jan.1977-1978) & Sara Welponer 2000, sketches of a shared dream-figure AL repeatedly drew a bizarre, recurring dream-guide named Kolchec; years later he met SARA, who'd painted her dream-guide, a distinctive spook named--oh, take a guess... CAUTION: WILL DISTURB ESP SKEPTICS |
| KUBLA KHAN: by Samuel Coleridge; summer 1797, an interrupted dream-poem In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree (at least till that visitor from Porlock barged in) CAUTION: POET ON PAIN MEDS |
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| LAING: by R.D. Laing; 1983/2/18, two excerpts from a talk on transpersonal dreams. R.D. Laing gives two examples of dream-spillage suggesting it's not passive but playful... |
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LAMIA by Wayan, 1988/11/1 with a nightmare by John Ruskin, 1869/11/1 I ask my dreams about sex, and get... sex on a beach with a sea-serpent girl--a lamia. But she gets queasy-- landsick! Too hot for her up here. Help her back in the sea. What a contrast with Ruskin's lamia nightmare... CAUTION: SCALY SEX |
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LIZARD HUSBAND: by Xanthe, 1990/8/30; a nightmare marriage. I visit the underworld court of the Lizard King, but I can't leave: he makes me Queen... CAUTION: MARITAL RAPE (NON-GRAPHIC) |
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LORD OF THE UNDERWORLD by Wayan, 1989/2/11; a chthonic transformation dream While spelunking, I blunder into the Lord of the Underworld's court where dragons swim--and become one! My human friends stare at me, coiled with my two mates. Do they even know me now? CAUTION: SCALY THREESOME |
| MAJOR F.'S EXPERIMENT: by Major F., Nov/Dec 1920, dream experiment urged by J.W. Dunne DREAM 1: On green grass, a red & blue boat with a net draped atop. Predictive. DREAM 2: Climbing a ladder with square rungs in a space w/o walls. Predictive. DREAM 3: A small boy with a toy boat. A sail's laid out flat for washing. Predictive... |
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| MISTRESS TOOTHSMOOTH: by Yves Delage, 1915/1/20, an early anima dream I'm in the cellar, petting a tiger-cat. She speaks inside my head: "I'm tired of living on bread. I need meat." I make excuses--it's pricy--then see big hanging quarters of meat. I hide them! She says "Call me Mistress Touttmouss"--well, something like that--I know it's English, but can't make it out til I wake, when I see... |
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MONKEY WITH A GUN: by Wayan; 2010/8/7, a predictive nightmare A monkey who stole a handgun aims at a troopmate and fires, ignorant of the consequences. The next evening I hear gunfire for real, and... |
| THE MOWER by Iris Murdoch, 1993 or 4, and AS Byatt, June 1996; one spiritual dream provoking a second. MURDOCH'S DREAM: I sat on a terrace. An angel flew by. I asked if God existed. He said "Certainly"... BYATT'S DREAM: I sat on a terrace with Iris. A whirlwind flew across the lawn, roaring like a power mower. I said "He's in there. I love him." She said "So he is. So do I." As I woke, I knew he was Death, the Mower... CAUTION: SPIRITUALITY AND PUNS |
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| MUTANT WEDDING: by Lisa Shea; 1991/8/3; an epic Jungian action dream! I hide a chip of secrets from thugs, fight a running light-gun battle, and hide in my workplace's crawlways, amid live cables and pipes. As the factory burns, I run a gauntlet of goons. A girl leads me into the underworld. Fires glow and mutants dance. I marry the leader of the pack. |
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MY MOTHER'S CLOSET: by Rachel Hadas, c. 2000; a dream-poem provoking a 2008/9/16 dream by Chris Wayan I was in my mother's closet, trying on her outfits, and trapped in Hamlet, too... |
| PONDICHERRY: by Toni Emrich, 1991/6/6, and Margaret Thomas, 1991/7/??, linked asynchronous dreams EMRICH: I'm in a conference center in "Pondecherry", even though it feels nothing like India... THOMAS: A woman picks fruit off a tree by a pond and calls them "pondicherries--with an 'i'"... CAUTION: WILL ANNOY E.S.P. DENIERS |
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ROADIE: by Wayan, 2025/4/6, a surreal cryptomnesic dream A singer in a nightgown knocks on my door. Opening a briefcase, she says "Here are my sisters." Inside, a wooden maze--where a rat and a mouse nest. Her sisters! And what's her animal form? CAUTION: NUDITY |
| SAY YOUR NAME: by Ouspensky pre-1931, Green pre-'68, Garfield pre-'74, & LaBerge pre-1990; dream experiments 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 |
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| SĪRĪN'S INITIATION: by Ibn Sīrīn, c.700, a shamanic dream Sirin hungered to understand dreams. He dreamt he met Joseph (who interpreted Pharaoh's dreams). Joseph made Sirin peer down his throat, deeper and deeper, until Sirin could see Joseph's heart... |
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| SNOT-BIRD FORGERY!: a dream by Samuel Pepys, 1667/6/29, & a nightmare by Thomas Macaulay, c.1857 Samuel Pepys dreamt of kidneystones, pee, come, & snot--or did he? Thomas Macauley dreams his niece confesses... |
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THREE DREAMS & A COINCIDENCE: by Rick Veitch, c.1996, predictive shamanic dreams Three dreams set on Abenaki holy ground, of weird shamans--one ashen, one pumpkin-headed, the third goofy-faced--lead me to visit the site. Where I find the river's washed up that third shaman's face... CAUTION: WILL BOTHER E.S.P. SKEPTICS |
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TORNADO FADE: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; a time-travel nightmare We escape tornadoes by fading out and rematerializing in a future dream... But one of the tornadoes manages to follow us from the old dream to new... |
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TRAIL OF POGS: by Wayan; 2004/9/6, my dreams' response to the first Burning Man dream-workshop A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us... |
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TRESPASSERS IN MALANCHAI: by Hyal; Feb 1996, an epic dream with a psychic intrusion. A maneless lion-boy wins his people's respect. While training, he sees weird trespassers who seem to be from someone else's dream... and ten years later, he finds that dreamer. |
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WERTZ!: by Wayan; 2023/10/14, a night of cartoonist-inspired dreams After seeing Julia Wertz's cartoon history of her entire dreamlife (on one big page!) I dream Wertz style all night! I don't mind the nightmares--what gets me down is comics' black & white... CAUTION: NIGHTMARES, SEX |
| YOU REALLY AREN'T LUNCH; 2012/6/11 by Maia Spencer; a cledonic dream of facing fears Hiding in the woods I meet a Cyclops. But I'm not me, I'm the editor of the World Dream Bank... |
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