THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: WORKING WITH ESP

The World Dream Bank:
Working With ESP

I nearly titled this topic LIVING WITH ESP (extrasensory perception), since it covers psychic dreams as a research topic, but also extrasensory perception as a daily experience--ESP from inside. And how do various cultures view ESP, how do they treat psychics? Answer: they run the gamut! Sane to crazy, frauds to revered, integrated to marginalized, harmful to useful...

So, for lack of a better place to put them, you'll find some dreams here that make no claim to be psychic but are about psychics and the topic of ESP.

RELATED TOPICS: For examples of ESP, mostly psychic dreams of various sorts, see psychic dreams in general - precognition or prediction - telepathy and shared dreams - pseudo-psychic dreams (dreams seeming to contain psychic hits, but the waking-world proof turns out to be a dream too!) - general dreamwork and dream research - 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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	AI ZHONG!: by Wayan; 1989/7/21, a short psychic dream A small, clear, simple precognitive dream... and its un-small, un-clear, un-simple cause...
	ALP VARK: by Wayan; 100K, 1983/11/24, an epic, intense, psychic dream. I'm kissed by the Holy Aardvark, but my bond with my dad is strained by ESP he can't accept...
	ANIMAL SPEECH, ANIMAL ESP: by Wayan; 1997/7/31, from Wayan's journal. When you really observe animals in language programs it's obvious WE'RE the ones missing a lot...
	BAD NOSE: by Wayan; 1990; digital painting of life as a psychic dreamer Having psychic dreams is awkward. People bite you for seeing their secrets...
	BODY-SWITCH: by Wayan; 2000/6/10; a dream of a castaway soul Spies kidnap a girl and move her soul into a madwoman’s body. Can she survive? Recover? Even thrive?
	CLIFTON: by Wayan; 1997/9/6, a journal entry on a 20th Century man rather like me. Mark Clifton wrote science fiction tales of mutant psychic geniuses--only he wrote from life...
	CUBIST CHARLIE BROWN: by Wayan; 1977/4/1, a cubist nightmare. We're Cubist cartoon characters, trapped in a strip gone mad. But my dad stays calm! Too calm... CAUTION: SEAS OF BLOOD... OR IS IT RED INK?
	DAWN'S TOILET: by Dawn Z and Wayan; 1999/1/6, two strongly parallel dreams Wayan dreams of surprising Dawn on the toilet while she dreams that flushing away evidence of Foul Play won’t work...
	DINO TREASURE: by Wayan, 1996/9/1, a treasure-hunt dream . At the Psychic Faire, I'm a deer-man in a gang hunting treasure, led by a rough tough dinosaur...
	DOME: by Wayan; 250K, 1999/1/31, a dream peeling off a lie. I'm actress Nicole Kidman, clinging to the dome of City Hall like King Kong, ripping it to shreds! Why? CAUTION: VANDALISM, REVERSE SEXISM, EXHIBITIONISM
	DREAMRIDER: by Wayan; 1986/4/15, a short, startled rant, chapter 5 of UNICORN TAG. A novel on a modern woman called to become a shaman echoes my real life too closely...
	DREAMWORK IN A DECADENT AGE: by Wayan; 1997/11/19, a short essay Sprague De Camp says religions seduce us with emotional comfort. Is dreamwork science or faith?
	THE EFFECTS OF PSYCHIC INVASION: by Wayan; 1999/4/17, a dreamtale on ESP. What are the psychological effects of growing up psychic, as others' thoughts and feelings invade you? When other's BODIES invade yours, it's molestation...
	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?
	GLASS EATER: by Wayan; 1982/12/10, a dream on managing ESP. I live in an asylum for fragile psychics. When one man over-uses his talent, he compulsively eats glass... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
	HALF SHAMAN, HALF STATESMAN: by Wayan; 100K, 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
	HORTA'S EGGS: by Wayan; 1984/1/17, a dream of re-evaluation. I fight to save 50,000 eggs that'll hatch psychics. But my friends want to exterminate them! Am I wrong?
	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
	JACK DANIELS: by Wayan; 1983/10/14, three short dreamtales. Three dream-reactions to a (real) psychic experiment that went badly awry...
	JOAN GRANT GETS SOME ADVICE: by Wayan; 1980/9/23, an inspirational interlude. Writer Joan Grant, who was a psychic and trance channeler, got a sort of reading herself, from H.G. Wells...
	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...
	LOSE YOUR TEMPER!: by Emily Joy; 2007/8/30, a tough-love dream. My mom hires a therapist who really goes for my throat! Why is she so desperate to make me lose my... CAUTION: OVER-THE-TOP CONFRONTATION
	LOVE IS REAL, REAL IS LOVE, BUT...: by Wayan; 1993/5/30, a musical mystery dream. Singing a Lennon love song on a planet of giant women provokes first wonder, then disbelief. Why?
	MAELSTROM AND BORE: by Wayan; 1995/1/23, a dream poem. An avian friend of mine researches a whirlpool. But it doesn't want to be studied, and it has friends too...
	MICROGRAPH: by Wayan; 1991? Illuminated page on psychic dreaming A mad experiment one night in Micrography, with a midnight rant for scripture and my girlfriend for God... CAUTION: BLASPHEMY OF SOME KIND OR OTHER
	THE MURDERS: by four Wayans! 50K, 1971/7/14; a family has simultaneous psychic nightmares. Nearly everyone in my family dreams of a mass murder as it happens nearby. But my dad's sure it's his own evil id, and my mom clams up, and my sister forgets. And me? I doubt the whole thing for ten years, until... CAUTION: NIGHTMARE VIOLENCE
	MY SINE-FRIEND: by Wayan; 1984/3/6, an emotional dream of time and rebirth. An animal-girl I know lives like a sine-wave, first forward in time, then backwards, dying at every zero...
	NEUTRINO EYES: by Wayan; 1983, a poem on dark matters. ESP is like having neutrino detectors for eyes: what radiates from people's cores blinds you to their surfaces...
	OBISPO'S OUT OF RANGE: by Wayan; 1997/2/2, a dreamtale on ESP. I move hundreds of miles away to escape my family's psychic broadcasts. Pathetic, but... does it work?
	PARANOID HABITS: by Wayan; 1994/10/4, a diagnostic dream. I dream a hypnotist elicits a personality who says he obliges my paranoia by giving me weird luck...
	PINBALL SHOWDOWN: by Wayan; 1995/3/18, a flirty game-playing dream. I suspect the pinball champion of Jupiter is cheating. I try to scare her psychic confederate out of hiding...
	PSYCHIC FAMILIES ARE SO MUCH FUN: by Wayan; 1980/7/21, a true story of ESP. My sister's avoiding our nosy parents, but I sense they'll run into her soon. I just didn't know HOW soon...
	RABBIT WORLD: by Wayan; 260K total, 6-page comic of a 1990/9/26 dream. I'm a telepathic rabbit defending our world from space-laser attack. We do, but do we modernize too much? CAUTION: IDEAS
	RHAMPHORHYNCHUS: by Wayan; 1996/11/12, a waking premonition. Biking, I find myself chanting a dinosaur name. I don't even know what it is. At home I open a novel, and a Rhamphorhynchus appears, politely defined for me by our obliging universe...
	RHINE CHECKERS: by Wayan; 1970-71, a journal extract on ESP. My sister and I played games based on the Rhine Institute's ESP studies. Our scores were not random...
	THE RIPPLE EFFECT: by Wayan; 1992/6/19, a double dream of false judges. A dream of innocent incest turns guilty, grows into a war of ghosts versus a cult of sneaky sexy psychics... CAUTION: SEX, INCEST ISSUES, NIGHTMARE
	SHASTA OCCUPATION: by Wayan; 1996/11/1, a very California dream. I'm teaching in a wizard's college near Mt Shasta when one astral world decides to occupy another...
	THE SINGLE DIE: by Wayan; 1994/10/17, a dream parable on child prodigies. My sisters play with dice. Miriel can influence them telekinetically, but she can't hold them: too young to have thumbs!
	SOCRATES'S SWAN: by Socrates, 407 BC; an early prophetic dream. The night before he met his greatest student Plato, Socrates dreamed he nursed a baby swan who grew...
	THE STACK: by Emily Joy; 2006/11/28, two small synchronicities ESP? Weird luck? Subliminal perception? Whatever it is, it kicked me right out of a bad day...
	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...
	THE STROKE: by Lesa; 2005/6/1, a predictive dream A vivid nightmare that turned out a week later to be devastatingly true ...
	SUDDEN DEATH: by Cory; 2008/3/1 to 2008/3/14, a series of dreams on a friend’s suicide. I’ve had premonitory dreams of friends’ deaths, but never ones clear enough to spur action...
	TELEPATHY VERSUS AUTISM: by Wayan; 1997/4/19, an utterly dreamlike but waking vignette A weird little identity-confusion at a dance suggests I'm simultaneously psychic, autistic, and... stupid.
	TREFIL, ON SCIENCE: by Wayan; 1994/1/26, a rant on science. In an oneirophobic society, it's easy to forget that when you do dreamwork, you're doing basic science. No funding, no team, no lab coat? Can't be science! Unless they mistaught us what science is...
	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