Self-Defense
You'll notice, in the list below, that the attacks range from violent to quite subtle... fast-talking persuasion, elliptical putdowns, malicious gossip count just as much as orcs with clubs. It ain't true that "names can never hurt me."
RELATED TOPICS: nightmares - assertiveness - grasping the opportunities offered by a dream - lost opportunities - taking the initiative in dreams - lucidity - shamanic dreams - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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| AMPLIFIER: by Alder; 1999/11/13, a dream on self-underestimation I was always the weakest magic-worker I knew. But when demons threatened my grandchild... |
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| THE ANGEL: by William Blake; early 1790s; a gender-bending dream-poem Blake dreams he's a young queen with an uneasy relationship to her guardian angel... |
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AUSPICIOUS TRACTOR HATE: by Wayan; 1984/4/17, a positive frustration dream. A party for me and my shadow, to celebrate that we haven't killed each other, just HATE each other... |
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AWKWARD ENLIGHTENMENT: by Wayan; 2010/1/13; a dream of spiritual and practical advice Anxious about a big party, I dream of being crowded. But a cat-centaur in the crowd attains enlightenment... |
| BAD NANCY!: by "Nancy"; March 1985, a prodromal/diagnostic dream A second me punches me in the breast. I fight back, yelling "Bad Nancy! Bad Nancy!" Five months later I find a malignancy... |
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| BADGE SLANDER: by Wayan; 1993/4/18, a psychic nightmare. I dream I'm being slandered by the leaders of a dream organization! Turns out it's quite true... |
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BAND-AIDS: by Bagheera Pardus; c.1985, a lucid re-entered nightmare turned to joy. Giant snakes chased me, but I went lucid, turned and slew one. As I woke, the snakes were crying. So I re-entered the dream and... CAUTION: SNAKES, BEHEADING, REHEADING |
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BERYL BORROWED IT: by Wayan, 1986/3/8, an absurd dream. My friend Beryl borrows my ass and legs to become a centaur so she won't fall over. I want them back, so... CAUTION: CRUDE AND STUPID |
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THE BIG CRUNCH: by Wayan; 1979/5/9, a cosmic nightmare. I'm a girl being stalked. I take drastic measures--scrunch up the universe and shake it out! And is THAT enough? CAUTION: ANXIETY, GUILT, THE POSSIBLE DESTRUCTION OF THE UNIVERSE |
| BIRD, CAT, TREASURE: by Anna Kingsford; 1877/8/3, two warning dreams in one night Should Anna quit hiding her psychic dreams? She dreams a cat eats her bird, and burglars loot an unprotected house. Maybe not... |
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| BLACK SOLSTICE; 1978/12/23 by Wayan; a warning dream-poem It had been a weirdly mild winter day, but in my dream black storms loomed as I tried to build shelter... |
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THE BLAMMOR: by Wayan; 1984/4/20, four linked private-eye dreams. I'm a Fast-Food Detective tracking a kidnapper-sorceress. Castles, magic carpets... and unexpected love. CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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BONOBO AND BEAR: by Wayan, 1999/10/14, a mystic war movie. The gods of our cave-past and star-future fight over us--using us, of course. After I see the toll it's taking on a bonobo buddy of mine, I decide to bring the war back home, and go gunning for God--BOTH of them... CAUTION: APES AND EXPLOSIVES DON'T MIX |
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BREAK FREE: by Emily Joy; 2006/5/11, an encouraging dream on the price of safety. I search for family skeletons, but then a talking plant on TV inspires me to seek the sun and fly free. But certain velociraptors and barbarian swordswomen object... CAUTION: DUELS, FISH ABUSE, THE F-WORD |
| BREAK-IN: by Althea; 2011/4/21; a psychic warning dream A thief was breaking in. I tried to flee, but my dad got in the way. Woke up, went out to my car, and found... |
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BRIGHT NICHES IN THE CASTLE WALL: by Jenny Badger Sultan; summer 2003. A painting of a series of dreams. Dreams warning of mania and paralyzing shame alternate with calm dreams of life and growth... |
| THE BROADS: by Wayan; 1978/11/19, a dream on lowlife potential. Everyone wears a big cowboy beltbuckle. Twist it and your bodymass re-distributes! But mine... CAUTION: CRASS AND CRUDE |
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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"... |
| THE CHIANG-SHIH: by Julian Garberson; 2004/8/23, a surreal Han Dynasty nightmare A vampire wrestler on the Throne of Heaven pins me. Visualization and prayer don't free me--in fact, they get me killed... |
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| "CLIT!": by "D'Jeanna"; 2009/9/11, a breakthrough dream after coming out The day after my mom outed me to my dad, I dream a great storm has passed through and everything's just glowing... |
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| THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR: by Wayan; 1995/8/8, a dream on body image. It's the Vietnam era; my draft board tolerates only a secret quota of COs. I decide not to tolerate THEM... |
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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 |
| DISSECTING PESSIMISM: by Wayan; 1997/4/14, a stubbornly educational nightmare . A serial killer stalks our office, and our bosses deny it. When we defend ourselves, things turn weird... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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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... |
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THE DOCTOR KILLS A TERN: by Wayan; 1988/9/24. A dream poem, Dreamverse #4 Dr Who kills his best friend, a huge white tern, on a whim. Furious, I demand a rewrite... CAUTION: WANTON MURDER |
| DON JUAN AND THE FLYERS: by 'Rasselon'; 2009/12/17, a shamanic dream about focus. Little flying creatures hide in the shadows. But when I focus on them, they attack! Castaneda's teacher looks on amused... |
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| DONE FOR: by the Reverend Francis Kilvert; 1872/10/14, a nightmare within a nightmare I dreamt I dreamt a friend poisoned me. I "woke" and slew him in fury. But guilt gnawed me. I confessed and was due to hang... CAUTION: NOT A CALM GUY |
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| DRAMATIC PARASITES: by Wayan; 1995/6/28, a dream on fear of success. I project I'll make a lot more money soon. Good, now I can support all my lazy friends! Wait... |
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| DREAMKU, MARCH 2007: by Roswila; various dates up to March 2007; 31 dream-poems--some longer forms than haiku Dream poems laid out like a calendar. Themes? Horses, camels, abused girls, vampires--all want their freedom... |
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| DREAMS BLOCK VAMPIRE ARROWS: by Wayan; 1995/3/30, an encouraging nightmare. Fighting vampire archers is risky enough WITH proper armor! And all I have is dream-journals... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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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? |
| A FEEL-BAD MOVIE: by Wayan; 2009/1/8, a dream about why dreamwork's so hard A great director alternates hits and bombs, because in half his films he sets out to trouble his viewers. Here's one... |
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FEVER DREAMS: by Wayan; 1993/9/8, a set of wild feverdreams. While my body expels a kidney stone, weird scenes happen on the astral plane. At least I get to dip the pope. CAUTION: PAIN, PEE, POPE |
| FIGHT GOD!: by Wayan; 1979/12/25, a Christmas fight dream. I'm in Heaven, but... it's full of Christians! I fight 30,000 angels, but I wanna go right to the top, and... CAUTION: PAGANISM AND PUGILISM |
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| FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 2.6M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic. I had a spectacular dream one night, that lasted many days in dream-time--a true other life. It wasn't Earth, and we weren't human. I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. I woke on deck deep in the night, my friends curled around me, and realized I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a grown woman, marry and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right... If 2600K is too big to load, try it in parts: 1: HOME, 650K, 2: VOYAGE, 1200K, 3: BACK 750K. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
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| FLIRTING WITH NAPOLEON: by Wayan; 1995/1/21, a dreamtale. I'm a woman living in a space habitat. A new Napoleon invades us, and damages our life-support... |
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FORKS AND SAUCERS: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a dream on when to quit. Tibet, 1910. A cult whose ancestors manned a radar station that shot down UFOs. But were they really hostile? |
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FOUR ELEMENTALS: by Wayan, four recurrent 2009 dream-figures, 2010/1/1 to 1/14 For the New Year, I draw a group portrait of the old year's main dream-figures. This year four needs came up over & over... |
| FRACTURE SPEEDS MARRIAGE: by Wayan; 2001/1/1, a dream of advice on health and romance. A baseball star breaks her leg (with a little help from the other team). It delays her career but but speeds her marriage. Did she NEED a....break? |
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| FRAMED!: by Wayan; 2006/10/18, a political nightmare. To fight the drug trade, cute little blonde cops plant packets on men in the park. And when I resist... CAUTION: BAD COPS |
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| FREDDY KRUGER'S POLITICS: by Wayan; 1992/8/20, a dream of... ambition?. Freddy has plans for me and Telly Savalas's daughter... but what can he lure us with? What do we want? |
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| FREE WAY? DETENTION FOR YOU!: by Wayan; 1997/2/14, a dream of the wages of fun. Zooming on freeways--carless levitation! But the Principal tries to punish us. And we resist... don't we? |
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A GAMER'S DREAM: by Mark Nelson; 2002/3/5; A collage of real-world events brought into dreams
I face a barrage of deadly challenges out of every action film I've seen and every game I've ever played... |
| A GAME OF CARDS: by Anna Kingsford; 1883/12/7, a god kibitzes on a Tarot game Anna trusts to luck, but her mentor urges her to plan--"Think it out!" And what are these cards? |
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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 |
| A HAUNTED HOUSE INDEED!: by Anna Kingsford; 1887/4/12, an epic ghost dream I was warned to beware the soul-devouring art in the haunted house, but I didn't expect to find an entire modern art salon... CAUTION: ABSORBING ARTWORK |
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I GOT OUT: by Wayan; 1992/1/4, a psychic dream; 9-page comic, 500K. I flee our love triangle when Abe turns mean. He's telepathic, but I have a plan: the goldfish, the snakepit, the caves... CAUTION: THREESOME, SNAKES, MOTORCYCLE FATALITY |
| I LET RATS: by Wayan; 1994/4/22, a nightmare on appeasement. A bold rat comes right up to me. I don't want to provoke it, so I stay quiet. And let the rats... CAUTION: UGH! |
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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 |
| ILLUSIONISTS DON'T RULE: by Wayan; 1996/8/26, a dream on the strength of logic. I read 'The Closing of the American Mind," and dream I'm a pilot who suspects an illusionist in my plane... |
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I'M A VESTA, NOT A MAN!: by Wayan; 1980/1/6, a dream of when it's over. I'm the animal guardian of a deep crater, but when a human girl rejects me, I set out to leave... CAUTION: ORAL SEX, UNREQUITED LOVE, SPECISM |
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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... |
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KICK HER: by Wayan; 1994/8/9, a gameshow nightmare. I'm a blonde gameshow bimbo. Each week, I'm beaten up. Ha ha ha! But my bruises are real. At last, I... CAUTION: GAMESHOW FROM HELL |
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A LAKE DEMON: by Wayan; 1979/11/3, an anti-lucid dream. I walk through worlds, fight a deadly lake demon, and work magic--but I mustn't go lucid... |
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LILY THE LION: by Wayan; 1991/4/7, a small psychic dream. My housemate Lily is a lion. She bursts into my room. Stare-down. And then she pounces. So I... CAUTION: VIOLENCE! MUTUAL GLARING! THE VULCAN NERVE PINCH! |
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THE LION KING: by Wayan; 1995/9/15, a time-travel dream on social skills. When I wake up, animals rule the earth. How do they cope with specism? Well, it's complex... |
| LION-MEN: by Wayan; 1995/7/9, an eye-opening dreamlet. I'm a traveling Zen warrior talking to a circus girl in a barn. Four guys enter--and my life changes forever. |
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| LONG ROAD TO HEAVEN: by Edwin Muir; 1920, an epic hypnogogic shamanic initiation Creatures in the primal sea touch my third eye, dragons cry their eyes out, I fight the Sphinx, and arrive at last in... |
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LYIN' WAYAN: by Wayan; 1996/4/10, a warning nightmare. A mob of kids chases me chanting "Lyin' Wayan!" I get dizzy and fall off a bridge... THEN comes trouble! CAUTION: FATAL FALL |
| MAFIA DENTIST: by Wayan, 2007/7/10; a predictive comic nightmare. My dentist (a Haitian Mafia leader) sends a message to my dad (also a Mafia don) by dental cruelty.... |
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MARBLES: by Wayan; 1994/12/2, a dream on persecuting the gifted. A gang of humans try to rob me of what makes me able to fly... my marbles? I musn't lose my marbles! |
| MATRONIZED: by Wayan; 1996/5/25, a real-life vignette. An older woman I know nags me about food. Suddenly my mind flips our genders and weights... |
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MCKILLIP'S NEW BOOK: by Wayan; 2010/7/23, an epic literary dream I'm inside a magical novel by Patricia McKillip, full of tricksters, cosplayers, spooks, sex changes, levitation and (sigh) riot cops... CAUTION: COYOTE SEX |
| MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN: by Wayan; 1992/9/5-6, a diagnostic dream. I'm in a tribe of post-Crash kids with psychic powers, trying to keep nukes from rising again... CAUTION: VIOLENCE TOWARD CHILDREN |
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| MONSTERS FROM MY SOUP: by Cyberwebspace; 2010/9/30, a stubborn nightmare How'd that spider, dragon and T. rex get in my soup? I skip lunch. Dig in the garden, but scaly heads pop out to nip at me. Persistent! |
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MOONCAT: by Wayan; 150K, 1995/11/26; a subtle dream of sonar Near a mysterious sculpture garden on the moon, lives the blind, bike-riding sage I seek: Moon-Cat... |
| THE MOUNTAIN, THE MAGPIE AND THE ROAD: dreamed 2013/3/26 by Rustling Leaves; an issue-baring nightmare
I visit a beautiful artificial mountain with loved ones--but my demons overwhelm me one by one. CAUTION: SUICIDAL FEELINGS, BODY HATE/FATPHOBIA, IMPLIED RAPE |
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| MY EX-WIFE: by Wayan; 1982/3/23, a dream on delusions. My ex-wife breaks in, but acts like I'm the one who crawled back to her... and I don't HAVE an ex-wife! CAUTION: ADULT THEMES. REALLY, REALLY STUPID ADULT THEMES. |
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| MY PAST CHANGES SO: by Wayan; 1985, a poem on healing-stages. It takes time to build yourself out of found objects and trash... |
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NET PROFITS: by Wayan; 1998/7/14, a dream of family values and Web credit. At a family picnic, my sisters and I fish for scholarships and grants. They put down my art, my website... |
| NEW LEVEL!: by "Julian"; 2006/5/22, 3 gamelike dreams in one night, two of them epic My mom and I road-duel an alien beetle, then investigate a deepspace Marie Celeste; then I spy for the Angevin Empire to protect the Crown Jewels... |
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| 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? |
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| NO FINGERS: by Wayan; 1993/10/6, an indirectly predictive dream. My therapist has no fingers. A fingerless man intrudes on my session, and they use up my hour talking... |
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| NOT A THING: by Wayan; 1981/3/1, a shocking dream. What if your mind doesn't think it's yours? What if it's not so sure you're even a person? |
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| NOT SELF DEFENSE!: by Wayan; 1999/4/29, a warning dream. I'm Tarzan, fighting off attackers. But I kill one helpless prisoner! Am I going too far? CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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| NOT THREE!: by Wayan; 1996/11/11, an encouraging nightmare I was wrong. I didn't survive three assassins. It's been seven! Why'd I forget the others? |
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| ORBITING THE CRYSTAL PALACE: by Wayan; 1998/1/12, a dream of making home. A wild flying dream lands me among feral children fighting to live in a glass conservatory of lost flowers... |
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PASSION: by Katie Hofgard; 100K, 2006, an undream portrait of a complex woman. Talk about mixed messages! Or... is it really? CAUTION: NUDITY, SLIGHT FIRE HAZARD |
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PERISSA: by Wayan; 660K total (15 images); 1997/9/13, a sexy political dream. When Perissa, an exhibitionistic centaur, bares her body in a crowded Coliseum, she also bares a racist plot... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM |
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PIER'S END: by Wayan, 1989/2/21, a Raymond Chandler dreamtale. My detective lover warned me, "Stay away!" Now I'm trapped. Dare I follow the lion over the edge? |
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THE PIRATE TWINS: by Wayan; 1996/7/25, a dreamtale on intrigue. I love the Twins. They love intrigue. So when a hired crocodile sabotages our Egyptian treasure-hunt... CAUTION: BAD GIRLS |
| POD WAR: by Wayan; 1979/10/14, an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" dream Emotionless Pod People surround the last free humans. I fight for humanity, but I'm not human or pod--I'm... |
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| QUIT THAT LAB!: by Wayan; 1999/5/2, a deductive nightmare. I'm working alone in the lab at night, when the lab gear wakes up and tries to kill me... |
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| RAGS TO RICHES: A FIGHT FOR LOVE: by Hyal; October 2006, a dream of courage. I was just a street rat, but I danced with the princess at a ball, and fell in love. Three rich suitors pulled their blades... |
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RATTLER BY THE CONTROLS: by Wayan; 1978/10/19, an anti-phallic-symbol dream. I dreamed I was riding a huge toy train, and a gigantic rattlesnake was at the controls... |
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RAZOR GHOST: by Wayan; 1974/5/5, a nightmare posing a problem. A man slowly walled in by neighbors till he died, is now a mad, murderous ghost. And he's me! Can I exorcise MYSELF? CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
| REJECTED! SO?: by Wayan; 2004/11/12, a dream of political AND personal advice A middle-class girl rejects me. Then a newsman dismisses my political positions as irrelevant. "Liberal media" my ass... CAUTION: POLITICS |
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RIBBING: by Wayan; 1992/12/25, an assertive dreamtale. After seeing 150 years of family photos, I dream of being teased by time-traveling cheerleaders, and... |
| RIB-CRUSHER: by Robert Southey; 1823/10/5, a nightmare leaving traces I was in the grave. Worse, a living skeleton was trying to crush my ribs. Though terrified, I fought back, and... |
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ROAR!: by Wayan; 2000/4/3, not exactly a nightmare... Night. A jungle full of prowling lions and leopards. So naturally, I get up on a rock and roar back... |
| SABOTAGED BOAT: by C. G. "Chinese" Gordon; c.1861-4, a recurrent warning dream I recognized the saboteur. If I had neglected that dream warning I and probably all the men with me must have been drowned... |
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| THE SELL-FISH WITCHES: by Wayan; 1983/6/29, a dreamtale. My sister and I are runaways, developing psychic powers. A cult of fish-selling witches wants to use us... CAUTION: SIBLING INCEST, SPELL ABUSE |
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SELL THE GODS, AND RAISE HELL!: by Wayan; 1994/1/26, a dream riddle. Reactionaries smash a paper. To rebuild, the editor must sell tiki carvings! But gods don't LIKE being sold... CAUTION: MORAL QUANDARY |
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SIPHONIAN QUARTET: by Wayan; 2010/4/10, four baffling parallel-world dreams Purple squid saboteurs flood our cliffhouse; my oyster-ranching girlfriend has a snotty aunt; I wake in a stranger's bondage dream and hate it; shepherds watch for gliderwolves on the ocean floor... CAUTION: EMBARRASSING BONDAGE DREAM |
| SKIMMING TOWARD FREEDOM: by Wayan; 2002/1/18, a dream with 3 sketches. My girlfriend and I can fly, but detectives follow us around. How to lose them? By sticking to the beach and... CAUTION: BIZARRE CREATURES, FRANK LANGUAGE |
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SOUL-SHARD: by Wayan; 2000/10/5, a rebellious dream I’m a wolf in an ashram studying astral travel with my spirit-wife. Our souls blend a bit, enraging our guru, a Hindu god, who sends demons to make us stop this spiritual “contamination”... |
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SPIN-WITCH, or, THE MAGIC LIGHTER: by Wayan; 1985/8/10, a dream on defensiveness. Leona's a fighter--she rejects compromisers like her husband, her friends, that girl she's been sitting on... |
| A SQUID STRATEGY: by Wayan; 1997/10/7, a dream warning. Giant squid start surfacing at popular beaches and eating people. Not the form of first contact we'd hoped... CAUTION: YOU ARE LUNCH |
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| STABBED ALIVE: by Roswila; 2007/10/9, a nightmare-poem I defeat the knife-wielder, in spite the blade in my belly I can't pull out. I may have to let it be... |
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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... |
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STRYCHNINE FORGIVENESS: by Wayan; 2008/3/31, a diagnostic nightmare I meet a woman on an oxcart who's sure we all want to poison her--but that's made her forgiving, even noble... CAUTION: MADNESS |
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SURRENDER DARCY!: by Wayan; 1982/6/14, a dreamtale on pride and prejudice. I'm Doctor Who, being chased by an air-surfer who demands we give up a reserved, proud man named... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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SWAN: by Wayan; 225K (5 images), 1995/4/8, a stubborn dreamtale. I wake amnesic in a cabin in Alaska, in a dress printed with self-putdowns. I track down who cursed me... |
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TAHOE DRAGON: by Wayan; 1980/8/16. A dream of flight and fire. A dragon killed a friend, and threatened worse. I had to fight. We dueled mid-air, over Lake Tahoe... |
| THE TAKEOVER: by Lee Olivier; 2004/6/28, a triple diagnostic nightmare An alien is taking over our world, and I feel so helpless that even when I wake I want to just forget the dream... |
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TAROT: OUTSTANDING (The Seven of Wands): by Wayan; 22K. Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. Those of you who see or sense auras know how rare it is to meet someone with all four cylinders firing... |
| TARTAN ACID SPIDER TORPEDO: by "Thomas Mountain"; 2008/1/31, a cliffhanger dream. I get speared by Irish warriors, slipped an LSD dose, chased by giant spiders, torpedoed--but hey, I'm not bored! |
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TEN TRIALS: by Wayan; 101K, 1976/10/2, a dream of love distracted. While living with violent Kay, I dream I meet a nice moth-girl. But we must undergo ten trials. Mustn't we? CAUTION: RELATIONSHIP TROUBLES, BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT |
| THE THREATENERS: by Wayan; 1997/4/23, a small psychic dream. Two gunmen break in, call me by a strange name, and demand I repay a loan I never borrowed... |
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TORNADO AND STARSHOWER: by Dream Junkee; 2008/8/15, a nightmare that goes lucid A killer tornado has us trapped in the cellar. I bite my finger and it's boneless--I'm dreaming! I summon a... |
| TURNABOUT: by Henry James; between 1860-1912; a nightmare reversed by sheer courage. A night-fiend strove to open the door I held shut between us--until I realized I too was terrible, and opened it to find a great... CAUTION: THE DREADED PROSE OF HENRY JAMES |
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AN UNEXPECTED MOVE: by Wayan; 1998/12/17, a peripatetic dreamtale. In the Los Angeles ruins, a wizard-gang jumps us. Trapped, I try a desperate move never seen in LA: I use my feet... |
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THE UNICORN MASK OF IGNORABILITY: by Wayan; 2009/10/13, a dream poem with sketch; Dreamverse #59 My family home's invaded by ancient Egyptian architects. So I put on my unicorn mask and eavesdrop on their plans... |
| VAMPIGS AND SMILES: by Wayan; 1991/12/9, an advisory dream. Our landlady was a friend, but now breaks her word, ups our rent. Talk, compromise, or rent strike? |
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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... |
| A WHITE-FACED MARE, 29 YEARS LATER: by an Iowa grandmother; 1918, a postmortem predictive dream. My grandmother dreamt a white-faced black mare trampled me in our orchard. We had no such mare. 29 years later, I boarded a man's two mares... |
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| WHO IS OUTSIDE MY WINDOW?: by Krista G.; 2008/6/25, a recurrent false-waking dream. Someone's prowling outside my window. I'm paralyzed in bed, but I force myself into action... |
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| WHY I BECAME THE SEA: by Wayan; 1980/6/19, a dream of containment. I get so mad at a bunch of cops who harass gays, that I become the sea itself and chase them... CAUTION: UNCHARITABLE REPRESENTATION OF OUR SAINTS IN BLUE |
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WILD W.I.L.D.: by Dream Junkee; 2008/1/19, an epic lucid frustration dream? I'm lucid but paralyzed. A weird child spies on me; is she controlling me? Then I'm having sex--but if I come, I'll wake up! Then some thugs jump me. I make sure they won't bother me again, but... is everyone in this dream out to distract me? CAUTION: SEX, MUGGER-STOMPING |
| WITCH, FLY FREE!: by Wayan; 1997/5/3, a predictive dream. A castle of witches in Europe. Persecuted for centuries, they're wary. Can I find a good witch to love? CAUTION: PAGANS CRIPPLED BY SIEGE MENTALITY... |
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WITH WILD AND TURQUOISE EYES: by Joan-lee Woehler; c.1950, a dream-poem on a stubborn shadow I slay the beautiful dragon attacking us, despite my regret. And then, as I sleep, glowing eyes advance on our keep AGAIN... |
| WOLVES IN THE BOOTH: by Thordhr "the Terror"; c.1000, a warning dream Thordhr dreams a pack of wolves attack him in a trade-booth! He wakes sure the trade-fair will be trouble... |
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| WOUND-BARGAIN: by a Marine from New York; 1918/9/12-14, a prediction and possible alteration of the future I was certain I'd be wounded, but wanted not to be maimed or crippled. So I tried on injuries and settled on a flesh wound in my left shoulder... |
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| YOGA SAINT: by Wayan; 2010/12/4, a disturbing diagnostic dream I wanted a dream on my recurring headaches & bellyaches. I meet my illness--a yogic saint who punishes jokers, flirts and cynics for their worldliness... |
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