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Reincarnation and Transmigration

Dreams of reincarnation, past lives, pre-birth memories, karma and pastlife traumas. I write this matter-of-factly, but my dreams struggled years to get me to take this stuff seriously. I was raised as a scientific materialist, and my knee-jerk reaction was to treat such dreams symbolically even if they explicitly said "No, we mean it literally"... It was actually easier to accept psychic dreaming than pastlife stuff--ESP in America is solid and respectable compared to reincarnation. A fringe science, but a science... versus froofy cultism. I'm tellin' ya, we don't get no respect! (And yet, serious research is being done on claims of pastlife memories, mostly by Ian Stevenson; his books of case histories are fascinating, and he shows an admirable caution in both data collection and theorizing. Highly recommended.)

Just don't go overboard with your skepticism until you've studied the evidence, that's all I'm saying. Occam's Razor applies! (Occam: "If many theories all fit your data, go with the simplest"). When your dreams TELL you something's literal, not symbolic, it's worth listening, that's all. No matter how many so-called friends make fun of you, no matter what some experts somewhere write... your dreams are the primary source. Experts? They're secondary.

RELATED TOPICS: astral dreams - memory - souls - fairness - healing from abuse - Hinduism - Buddhism - Shamanism - Paganism and Wicca - 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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	AFTER BIRTH: by Wayan, 2004/9/29, astral acrylic painting Never mind what happens after death! What if, before we were born, we were spirits with no idea what happens after birth?...
	ANIMAL HEAVEN: by Wayan; 2008/8/16, a dream-poem; Dreamverse #6. I fall in love with a dancing rabbit-girl doomed to be human dinner. How can I save her?
	BELLE OF THE BALL: by Bonnie; 2006/5/2, a sexy ghost dream I’ll win a house if I can survive a night in the Haunted Pavilion! But it turns out I’ve been here before--before I was born... CAUTION: GHOST ORGY
	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?
	CORPSE-BUG: by Wayan; 200K, 1994/12/1, an allegorical sex nightmare. I'm a hippie girl in San Francisco, in hard times. To escape the Four Horsemen, I lie down with Death... CAUTION: GANGS, CREEPY SEX
	CROSS THE BLACK RIVER ONE DEATH AT A TIME: by Wayan; 1990? Astral landscape Buddhism is a 12-step program; it has its pitfalls for those of us who already detach all too easily...
	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...
	DON'T WANT HIM TO SOAR: by Wayan; 1991/4/18, a dream of sabotage. In a parallel world, a visionary's building the first plane only now. I'm his assistant. But I don't WANT...
	DOPPELBRUDER: by Wayan; 1985/5/9, a dream of a self at war over... labels? Lured to a parallel, feudal world by a marriage-vow, I'm trapped in my double's arrogant, twisted mind...
	EEL TOWER: by Wayan; 1981/4/23, a dream of longing. I dreamed living in a body of flesh is like being trapped on a sinking cruise ship... CAUTION: NUDITY (but she's just crying, not giving that guy a blowjob, okay?)
	EMADRO: by Wayan; 1983/6/4, a wild dream on clinging--and letting go. An elephant sinks in the North Sea, and the Oracle Mink says a wizard did it. Can old Lady Gandalf help?
	EMISSARY: by Wayan; 2000/3/22, an astral dreamtale. I signed a prenatal agreement for weird, uneven luck to turn my life toward art and spirit. I want to broaden it, but I've lost the contract! So my spirit wife Silky sets out to find it...
	FATHER LOOMS: by Wayan; 1983/?, a nonliteral diagnostic nightmare. I was a 30ish woman discovering that my chronic pelvic inflammation was from childhood molestation... CAUTION: MOLESTATION IN DREAM-PAST
	MY GLASS BODY: by Wayan; 1993/9/16, a dream on sensitivity. After I visit the Glass People, a young glass wizard stalks me home to the Meat World, and says...
	THE HEIDEGGARIAN BARBARIAN: by Jo, 2007/02/02, a dream of hopping between two characters I was two-thirds of a love triangle, but I always lost out. Flying was some consolation... CAUTION: RAT DEATH, EVIL WHALES AND ADULTERY
	HUNTERS' FIRE: by Wayan; 1997/9/8, a nightmare that may be a memory. I'm an orphan shot at by hunters. They shoot my sister! But no one believes me... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	I AM THREE: by Wayan; 1957-60, my three earliest dreams. My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child...
	THE ISLAND FURIES: by Wayan; summer 1975, a dream of self-control. When warring Greek isles kill a peacemaker, her three best friends start a vendetta! But she wanted peace... CAUTION: HATE NURSED TOO LONG
	JADE JACKPOT, or, A HEAP O' CHANGE: by Wayan; 1990/1/7, a dream of shaking down God. I'm slipping dimes into a boulder of jade: a vending machine that fills every order wrong. Why feed it? Well...
	LIFE MATES: by Katie Hofgard; 2003/4/19?, a reincarnation-romance dream Mysterious doings on an archeological dig bring a creature back to life, but this is no Mummy...
	MY TREE: by Wayan; 170K, 12/12/2007, 2-page comic of a persistent delusion. I keep feeling I'm a reincarnated rainforest creature just passing for human. When all I want is... CAUTION: TOBACCO
	NEW BODIES: by Dreamy; around 2007/1/25, a transformation dream My best friend and I qualify for new bodies. The new me is taller, but poor Ken may take years adjusting to his new...
	ORPHEUS AND POOH: by Wayan; 1972/4/9, an early dream epic. I meet my true love during a coup. We go through Hell together, like Orpheus and Eurydice--only we...
	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...
	PASTLIFE TRAINING TRACKS: by Wayan; 1981/5/5, a bikin' buddha dream. I'm biking around a railroad switch-yard when I realize they're life-paths. People start following me out...
	SOULS IN THE MUD: by Wayan; 1981/1/14, a thoughtful dream. I'm being hunted in Reincarnation Swamp, as I wonder if the glut of human bodies creates a soul shortage... CAUTION: MYSTIC IDEAS
	SPEAKING FERN: by Wayan; 1991/3/25, a dream-prank. A dead fern in my backyard starts sending me messages in some strange language...
	STARGIRL: by Wayan; 1993. Digital image of altered state I squabble with my body so much! But sometimes, at the moment of orgasm, we dissolve into stars, and become... CAUTION: SEX POETRY
	STICK IT BACK ON: by Wayan; 1980/7/15, a scattered dream still hiding a point. The tollman on the new bridge to the Land of the Dead revives a beheaded woman by RANDOM action...
	THE STUTTER: by Wayan; 1995/9/7, a religious dreamtale. Half our religion-founders were just one guy coming back till he got it right. Well, practice makes perfect...
	SWALLOWS OF FOUR CORNERS: by Wayan, 1971, a childhood visionary feltpen drawing Navaho country felt like home--the land, the art, the animals, the language. Trapped in suburbia, I drew...
	THEY DON'T BELIEVE ME: by Wayan; 550K total, 15 illus., 1989/10/4, an unbelievable dream. My dog and I are abducted by aliens who turn us into cats. We escape, and turn feral to survive. I'm back in school now, and in therapy... but how we got back, and what happened along the way, even my own shrink won't believe... CAUTION: LEWD SQUID AND KLEPTOMANIAC BUGS
	TIBETAN DISASSEMBLY: by Wayan; 2007/7/5, a dream of a desperate ploy A woman in Tibet disassembles herself! A local god hires her spirit, but she uses the office equipment... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
	THE TORTURER: by Wayan; 1997/7/13, a predictive nightmare A traveling torturer chooses me for his victim. He has the right. I bluster, but when at last I have to sleep... CAUTION: NO PAIN, BUT GORE
	MY TUTELARY UNCLE: by Wayan; 1993/5/28, a shamanic dream. I'm half Anglo, half Kwakiutl. My uncle the shaman died, but he still wants to teach me his medicine...
	MY 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...
	VIRGINIA'S TRAIN: by Emily Joy; 2005/9/24, a psychic dream and poem We lose control of our new time machine, which seems to have its own agenda... CAUTION: CONTEMPLATION OF SUICIDE, CHRONOLOGICALLY IMPAIRED DREAMER
	ZYGOTE: by Wayan; 1999, a comic astral vision. It's true: after death, angels advise you where to go next. But what if you get an over-eager travel agent?