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Dream Incubation

Dream incubation or induction. They're the same thing. Pose a question to your dreams, as you fall asleep. Or repeat an affirmation, such as the classic "Tonight, I'll fly" or "Tonight I'll have a lucid dream."

If you're new to dreamwork it may take a few nights, even a couple of weeks, before your dreams take your new interest seriously, but the odds are they'll eventually respond, as the following examples show.

Also listed: a few cases of induced non-dream answers in the form of automatic writing like Trigo, automatic drawing like Opening and hallucinatory answers like Dipsomania.

RELATED TOPICS: dreamwork and dream research - lucid dreams (dreams where you know you're dreaming) - dreams within dreams, and dreams ABOUT dreams -flying - some other dream-types induction's useful for: nightmares - dream saboteurs - frustration dreams - or try inducing advice-dreams, diagnostic dreams or dream cures and prescriptions - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

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	ALONE IN THE DARK IN THE WILD: by Wayan; 1980/7/24, a vision-quest nightmare. A nightmare of a killer who I let torment me because it's better than being alone...
	ANNABEL ROSE: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/14, a ghostbusting dream on... love? sex? what? Edgar Allen Poe confronts his dead girlfriend, who wants to drag him into the grave with her... CAUTION: HUNGRY GHOST, SEX TALK
	BACKACHE DIALOGUES: by Wayan; 1993/12/10, four bizarre diagnostic dreamlets. I asked my dreams why my back hurt. They told me: pregnancy, marsupial pouches, snapping turtles...
	BATTERED, WITH SYRUP: by Wayan; 1998/11/21, a healing dream. I'm a battered girl who sings in a mall. The Mall Dictator (of all people) helps me start to heal, and learn to fly... CAUTION: BATTERING AND ITS CONSEQUENT DAMAGE
	BEAUTY, BRAINS, WARMTH: by Wayan; 1987/11/28, a didactic dreamtale. The Goddess won't tell me who to seek, to love, just WHAT to seek--and what not to... CAUTION: DIVINELY SANCTIONED TRIGAMY?
	BITTER JADE: by Wayan, 1983/4/8, a dream on change. Why's Jade the bitter artist throw me at her happier, calmer daughter? Wait, is Jamie the new ME? CAUTION: SEX
	THE BOSS'S GUTS: by Wayan; 1993/6/3, a dream on health-sabotage.. Flu. Ow, cramps! But that night I dream of a miner's rebellion against our fat-cat boss. Which side am I on?
	CENTAUR QUARTET: by Wayan; 1980-84, a dream-series on shamanic families. Can our interracial family survive? Not just cultural conflict, but our instincts clash around sex--and incest... CAUTION: SEX, INCEST ISSUES, DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
	CHART THE GROWTH: by Brenda Ferrimani; 2004, painting of an incubated, oracular dream I asked my dreams "What's my truest purpose?" I dreamed my body was a tree, and a voice said "Chart the growth"...
	COUNT COUP!: by Plenty Coups, 1857; a child's defining dream I sought a dream of Helpers. But rather than give me gifts, they gave me a daunting challenge...
	DAMOCLES LODGE: by Wayan; 1998/12/22, a dream on what hangs over us. I meet a nice werewolf in a hall of past-life junk, so sharp and rusty we dare not play...
	A DIFFICULT PATH: by Anna Kingsford; 1877/11/3, an advisory dream. I lead my daughter up a thorny path, but she’s getting badly scratched. Shall I leave her in that fishing village? She wants to...
	THE DOOR GIRL: by Wayan; 1997/9/6, a road-not-taken dream. A doorway not taken (for the most sensible of reasons) provoked a magical dream of what I missed...
	THE DREAMSUIT: by Wayan; 1992/7/12, a dream on unconscious programming. An experimental helmet knocks me out. I'm groggy, miserable, till I learn what it did to others...
	FAMILY STORE: by Mark Ian Barasch's father, c. 2000; a subtly psychic dream healing a family I dream my son the writer's living above our old family store, the one that failed in the Depression...
	FINANCIAL PORN: by Wayan; 1980/12/24, a Christmas dream on capitalism. On Christmas eve, I ask my dreams what they think of our annual orgy, and... CAUTION: THE F WORD AND THE C WORD (CAPITALISM)
	FIRST DREAMFLIGHT: by Wayan; 1969/11/11, a formative dreamtale. I never flew in my dreams. I felt cheated. So one day I set out to CREATE dream-flight...
	FOOD CAME BETWEEN US: by Wayan, 1993/4/25, a tasty dream epic. The terror of Navy breakfast, the joy of filterfeeding, how to marry pudding, and a sniper lunch with kisses...
	GRAMPA GOT AIMED: by Wayan; 1987/6/17, a psychic dream. The girl I love has a family that'll stop at absolutely nothing to destroy us. But I'll fight for love... CAUTION: SEX; EMOTIONAL VIOLENCE; MOLESTATION HISTORY
	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 FIGHT FOR BEAUTY: by Wayan; 125K, 6 illus, 1990/1/1, an incubated dream within a dream within a dream. From Hawaii to Wyoming, I fight for beauty, always waking to find I'm someone new...
	I MIST MY SISTER: by Cory and Wayan; 212K, 1992/9/20; Cory's healing dream triggers one by Wayan. My housemate'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
	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
	I WON'T DIE TILL LOVE DIES: by Wayan; 1981/1/21, a divine dream . I meet the mermaid goddess of love in her pool, but when she advises me, I dispute one small point...
	IT STINKS: by Aleksanteri Nevalainen; 2011/8/19, an accidental dream-incubation Can dreams have taste and smell, I wonder? That night my dreams set out to show me...
	J.F., T.B. AND ME: by Dream Junkee; 2008/1/24, a lucid nightmare-comedy Lucid, I summon a sexy literary character. But he tries to take over my personality and make it his lucid dream...
	THE LEOPARD'S CLUE: by Wayan; 2012/3/17, an incubated advisory dream. My boyfriend, a leopard, sniffs out a clue to an old murder involving me in a past life. But did I witness, die, or kill?
	LUCID LIMITS: by Wayan; 1990/2/13, a lucid nightmare. Yes, they're possible! A nightmare. I go lucid as the bullets tear through me. Yet I go on with the dream! Why?... CAUTION: NIGHTMARISH VIOLENCE
	THE MAN WITH THE GUITAR: by Wayan; 233K, 7 illus., 1992/7/4, a psychic dream. A volcano erupts in San Francisco! No human could survive the blast, but one researcher does--what IS he?
	NED'S KISS by Ned's mom and sister Ethel; before 1961, cledonic dreams of a playful revenant I wished I could kiss my son farewell. That week, Ethel called. "I dreamed Ned kissed you, not me! I was hurt. He laughed like anything and kissed me too..."
	THE NEW DALAI LAMA: by Wayan; 2011/9/9; a prescriptive dream that turns out to be predictive too. I dream the new Dalai Lama's a kind woman who gives me startling health advice and shows me how to fly. The next day...
	THE NIGHTMARE EFFECT: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/14, an anti-nightmare. My own fear creates a field of time/speed distortion; can I use it against my attackers?
	OPENING: by Wayan, 1992; incubated automatic drawing Why don't I push for more art shows? I asked how I feel at shows of my own work, and this came out...
	OTTER MEDICINE: by The-Fringe, a Crow healer, early 1850s; a shamanic dream with physical effects I slept on an island in a scalding hot spring, praying for a dream. I got one--and woke up on the shore...
	OTTER NERD FROM TITAN: by Wayan; 2012/4/15 & sequel-dream 2013/2/9), a dream-poem on social skills A suspicious exobiologist warns me that otter from Titan may not be the amiable, nerdy celebrity it seems. But...
	PASTLIFE MIDDEN: by Wayan; 1998/12/28, a past-life dream. I bike deep into Time Hall, barging through security gates of amnesia, to climb the midden of the past...
	QUADRUPLE WEDDING: by Wayan; 1995/5/15, a unifying dream. Why'd I get sick from figure-sketching? Dream I'm at a mass wedding; do I marry a dwarf, a feral boy or a horse?
	QUEEN COBRA: by Wayan; 640 x 480. Digital painting of a 1987/1/15 dream. I asked "I'm still scared to date anyone. Why? What's my next step?" That night, I was answered... CAUTION: SEXUAL IMPLICATIONS
	RACK: by Wayan; 2006/4/4; a comic business-bondage dream My friend Chris gets tied up at the office--that’s his job, looking martyred! But when the boss is away... CAUTION: NUDITY
	ROBERT’S PLAN: by William Blake; late 1788; an advisory dream... Blake was broke. Couldn’t pay to typeset Songs of Innocence and Experience. But his brother showed him in a dream...
	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...
	SHRUNKEN MEN: by Wayan; 1992/2/21, a dream (and rant) on men. Robert Bly's books on men and mentors provoke a dream of co-opted Star Trek captains and rebellious midgets... CAUTION: IF YOU LIKE BLY...
	STEVENSON’S BROWNIES: by Robert Louis Stevenson; 1850s-1880s, a series of dreams Stevenson’s dreams changed over decades: from childhood nightmares to creative allies dreaming whole stories...
	TAROT: THE SPHINX (the High Priestess): by Wayan; 328 x 546. Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. The card of intuition, dreams--and asking. She knows all the secrets. And might just tell you, if...
	THEATER HOSTAGE: by Christine M, 2002/10/22, an apparently clairvoyant dream Gunmen held me hostage in a grand hall; at last they shot me. Next day came news of the Moscow Theater hostage crisis...
	THREE-YEAR PREGNANCY: by Ithmonike of Pellene, ca. 320 BC? Two dreams of meeting an odd god. I was barren. I asked Asklepios, God of Healing, to make me pregnant. Soon I was. And so I stayed--for 3 years, until...
	THYROID: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 1985; a set of life-saving diagnostic nightmares In 1985 I was flooded with nightmares about heads and necks. They had an unparalleled intensity...
	TIAMAT'S REBELLION: by Wayan; 2 ill., 1988/1/1, a dream about neoteny. I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah. I dream she leads a revolution on a starship...
	TRIGO: by Edith L. Willis; 1929/6/4, an induced automatic-writing prediction (profitable, too) In an idle moment I held a pencil and asked the air who'd win the Derby. 'Trigo' meant nothing to me, but was listed at 32 to 1, so...
	TRINARY: by Wayan; 2012/3/17, a base-3 dream. My misreading of a woman's mathematical name, "Two-oh-one-oh", turns out to be a triple message concerning Lyme disease...
	TWO-HEADED BEAST: by Wayan; 333K total, 12 images, 1997/7/31, a Gothic dream. In Castle Frankenstein, will Mary Shelley wed Elmer Fudd? His two-headed monster has marital advice...
	VIEWPOINT: by Wayan; 1991/6/9, a dream on pastlife amnesia. I ask to see my past lives, and dream of a viewpoint where I can--but this Mormon ranger...
	WERE-TROUT: by Wayan; 1997/8/2, a dating-advisory dream. I'm a one-legged hopping hermit in the ruins of LA, and my only hope for love is to conjure a girl from a...
	WINGVOW: by Wayan; 101K, 1994. Digital collage of dream figures Here's an incantation to induce flying dreams. "Bring me wings NOW, or forever hold your peace..."