THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: Deep space

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Deep Space

Dreams of deep space and interstellar travel.

Dreams about long space voyages may have parallels with some astral dreams and dreams of life-paths; they may be about long-term spiritual progress.

Also listed here: dreams of space ships and space programs. Such dreams can have several layers of meaning

Literal--your feelings about current space exploration, its politics and economics. A waste of money better spent on earth, or an essential baby step into the universe?
Anticipatory--your feelings about a future in which civilization becomes interplanetary--which involves as much social change as the present shift from tribal to global civilization.
Metaphorical--your feelings about your own deepest, wildest, "spaciest" ambitions--reaching for the sky! These vary from dreamer to dreamer, but the idealism underlying the image may be universal.

RELATED TOPICS: orbital dreams (I know, distinguishing them seems silly, but my dreams do) - other worlds - cosmic dreams - doors to other universes - astral planes - flying dreams - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

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	CLOUD OF GLORY: by Wayan, 1986/5/19, a dream on lost identity. Abducted as a kid by alien angels, raised in a luminous cloud, I find it hard to keep a human perspective...
	DIVINE IMAGE, or, A VISION OF ADONAI: by Anna Kingsford, 1877/7/23, a waking vision Gazing at the moon, Anna suddenly finds herself touring the Solar System and meeting all the planetary guardians... CAUTION: MYSTICAL ECSTASY
	DREAMKU, JUNE 2006: by Roswila; various dates up to June 2006; thirty dream-haiku Daily dream-poems in haiku style, nonstop for a month. A flood of animals, revenant ghosts, sex changes...
	DREAMKU, JANUARY 2007: by Roswila; various dates up to January 2007; 31 dream-poems--some longer forms than haiku A month of dreams full of science fiction: galactic navigation, spacedragons, oppressed fairies, alien love...
	EMPEROR OF THE GALAXY: by Wayan; 1988/1/31, a political dreamtale. The Emperor of the Galaxy can't publish his anti-slavery book as himself, so he quits to become a slave...
	THE ENTANGLED MAN; 2012/5/5 by Wayan; a singular dream On our expedition to the black hole, one researcher gets quantum-entangled with the singularity! He could become anything...
	FALL FROM A STAR: by Edwin Muir; 1920, a hypnogogic shamanic initiation Escaping the tiny red plush room inside a star, I dive back to earth. Oops. A beast eats my broken body. My soul waits...
	THE FINAL TEST: by Wayan; 1994/11/11, a reassuring nightmare. A Star Trek future. Our experimental ship is hijacked, with us aboard...
	FLOATING WOLF AND BUTTERFLY: by Wayan; 2010/12/21; a furry advisory dream The city museum's new levitating sculpture shows a space reef explored by a floating wolf who needs no spacesuit--vacuum adapted!
	FUTILITY: by Wayan; 1973/11/23, a time-machine dream. I'm Liza Doolittle on Mars. With Mr. Wells's Time Machine. Lost, in fact. Can I get home? Should I?
	GALAXY FLOWER: by Wayan; 1993. digital painting of a (nondream) vision. My take on what Georgia O'Keeffe claimed she was up to with those giant flowers...
	THE GHOSTMASTER: by Wayan; 1992/6/16, a dreamtale of the Shadow. I win a starship from the hostile Ghostmaster; in space I gain the confidence to confront him, and find...
	HOUSTON: by Wayan; 1992; automatic writing experiment. A poster playing with superimposed messsages. How strangely the mind sorts out different layers!
	I HELD THE SUN ROSE: by Wayan; 640 x 440, 1989, reworked 1994. Digital picture. After I drew this I dreamed I was chasing stars with a long-tailed friend, and in the end we caught the Sun... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	IN THE STAR; 1988/9/12 by Wayan; an epic, out-of-body, intrastellar quest-dream I tour the heart of a red supergiant, where dreaming souls explore their heart's desires unconstrained by matter... CAUTION: SWEDENBORGIAN VISON PLUS NUDE UNICORNS AND LEMURS
	JOKE PILOT: by Wayan; 1995/7/15, a dream of defiance. Among aliens, humans are jokes. Fragile and blind, we can't fly starships. Unless we build our own...
	KING KONG CRAB: by Wayan; 2008/9/20, a dream poem; Dreamverse #29 One wizardry-classmate summons strange beings; another's learned how not to. Some things should be avoided at rush hour...
	MIDWAY: by Wayan; 1994/2/4, twin shamanic dream-lessons. I'm cold and dark and disoriented! What am I doing wrong? Nothing--I'm just halfway to Alpha Centauri...
	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...
	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...
	NORTH FLEET OF THE RAIN: by Wayan; 1974/7/10, an early dream . A vast galactic fleet hovers around Earth, demanding Rain. What? I fight one of the aliens... and find out. CAUTION: ADOLESCENT HUMOR. IF THAT.
	O LA LA, WHAT A STRANGE DREAM: by Julie Doucet; 1989, a comic space sex dream Mom gave me cookies for my three-year solo spaceflight. Special cookies for both ends of me... CAUTION: NUDITY, BAD SEX ADVICE
	OOPSPACE: by Wayan; Wayan; a daydream/tribute watercolor, 1999 The poet e.e. cummings drew a book of astral fairytales with watercolors that felt a bit like my dreams...
	RADIATE SORROW: by Wayan; 1980s, a daydream poem. The rest of us heavenly bodies have each other, but from the Sun's viewpoint, we're just rubble. Alone...
	(THE MOON IS PROPELLED BY) REELS OF LIGHT: by Wayan; 2000/11/17. Digital painting of the dream-process. The moon's a sailing ship propelled not by wind but light: the light of night-movies. Dreams...
	SPACE PIE: by Wayan; 1999/4/8, a sociological jungle-gym dream. I'm a Latina crossing the border at a nightmare bridge, while an Anglo harangues me on the Space Race...
	SPLAT!: by Wayan; 1995/12/11, a science-fiction dream. Our physics project is top secret, but a stranger strolls into a meeting and opens a can of green light...
	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
	TAROT: THE YIN-YANG EARTH (the Wheel of Fortune): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1979. Earth is always shown from the side, never its axis. But from the pole, it's a vast wheel: the real Wheel of...
	TEN CHAMBERS: by Ben Bamber; Jan. 2000, a dream on free will vs. predestination I was flying through a huge space habitat with ten chambers and thousands of people unaware they were caged...
	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...
	A USED POPE: by Wayan; 1983/12/25, a Christmas dream. A friend buys a frozen used Pope, to navigate her starship with Papal infallibility. Call me a Luddite, but.. CAUTION: SACRILEGIOUS PUN
	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
	WITWEET WAYAN: by Wayan, 1979/1/10, a dream of butch and femme. Six generations in the future, I find a poodle who can defuse the bomb my rival girlfriends can't... CAUTION: MAD SCIENTIST, EXHIBITIONIST GIRLFRIEND, POODLE HUMILIATION
	THE WORLD-BIRD: by Wayan; 1985?, crayon, 11x14." Nondream dreamlike image.. The bird that carries the world through space, whose eye is the sun...
	YGGDRASIL COLONY: by Exarian; 2009/4/20, an Asimovian dream I dream of three colonies in the deep future. We outlived the universe itself, but can we survive each other? CAUTION: WAR, GENOCIDE, POLITICAL ALLEGORY