Spirits
RELATED TOPICS: other kinds of spirits with their own headings: gods and goddessess - souls (free spirits of living, individual creatures) - ghosts (lingering spirits of the dead, or psychic residues) - see also Paganism, Wicca, and Goddess worship - shamanic dreams - fauns and satyrs - mer-folk - two dreams of vesta - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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ANGEL SHOWDOWN: by Wayan; 2020/4/2, a dream mixing shamanism and Barbarella I see parasitic spirits sickening their human hosts. Can't get rid of them, so I try to teach them how to keep their hosts healthier. An angel suspects I'm a necromancer, and shows up armed for a shootout... CAUTION: DISTURBING PREMISE, LOWBROW ANGEL |
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AZOREAN PAN: by Wayan; 1988/6/3 & 6/6, two subtly predictive dreamlets on a Greek god 1: On a mid-Atlantic islet, a farm family plays music to summon the Greek god Pan. It works! 2: A mystical picturebook shows Pan & his mermaid lover. Again I'm told music summons Pan! CAUTION: GOAT-GOD NUDITY |
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BALEENA'S GAME: by Wayan; 1974/1/26, a surreal dream with a practical point A whale-spirit marries a poker-player. But her sonar sees too much. Whale-spirits prefer blackjack... |
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THE BEST HOTEL: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; an escalating surrealist dream Rajiv keeps trying to convince me it's the best hotel in India: the orgy of biters, the bowls of twitching fingers. But it's only the oracular spirits that really impress me... CAUTION: CREEPY FINGERS |
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THE BLACK WAVE: by Wayan, 2016/10/18, a poem on a hypnogogic healing dream After days sick, I open myself to unseen spirits and let a black wavefront go through me--and the healing begins. But what did I let in? CAUTION: MYSTICISM & FETISHISM DON'T MIX |
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BLEEDING HEART, the SELF-HEALING CORPSE, and IN THE FUTURE DESERT: by Wayan; 2002/5/29 - 2004/5/11, a diagnostic, predictive dream-series; Bleeding Heart as comix A tree-girl moves to Hollywood to make film deals, but jealousy stabs her... CAUTION: BLOODY ASSAULT, GAY DRYADS, MUTANT NUDITY |
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BOB THE TREE: by Catshall; c. 2013/6/21, a dream-haiku on our marriage I dreamt Bob was a tree-god enthroned in ivy. I said... |
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BOND: by Wayan; 1981/10/31, a nightmare where I'm the nightmare. I'm James Bond. Captured and questioned, I lie to the enemy: the senators of the Committee on Intelligence Activities. Till I see myself through their eyes... CAUTION: SPY SEX, SPY MENTALITY |
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BOYS WHO RUN WITH THE SCISSORS: by Wayan; 1986/1/26, a shamanic dream-joke Women who run with the wolves? Ha! In Mongolia, the only ones who can beat lightning-demons are... |
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BRANDY'S CURSE: by Wayan; 1996/10/23, a bizarre dream (even for me). After I saw the film "Surviving Picasso" (he's brilliant but treats women like dirt) I dream a sexy friend asks me to remove a strange curse. But can I?... |
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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 |
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BURN HIS TREE: by Emily Joy; 2007/2/7; two linked nightmares on art Malevolent artwork terrorizes my baby and me! What's to be done?... |
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CAIRO GIRL: by Wayan; 2008/2/18, a feverdream shifting from nightmare to joy I'm lost in the angry streets of Cairo. But I meet a goth-girl with moth-antennae: a jinni who's working for longterm change. She takes me home... CAUTION: MOTH NUDITY |
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CALIBAN IN ENGLAND: by Theodore Weiss; 1966 or 67; a dream-play never written As I wrote a poem on Caliban, I dreamt I was him: taken to Shakespeare's England, shown as a freak, I must escape to save Miranda and Prospero from assassins... |
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CALVIN'S DREAM: by Calvin, c.1960?, a teen's sex dream on family & religious abuse I'm naked in a forest where the trees talk. They want my cock. A girl materializes, and we make love, but now the treefolk are our congregation, cheering us on. Only they call her my sister! She says "Yes. But I was never born. Dad beat Mom to abort me." She fades away, a ghost! I pick up a knife to protect Mom against Dad... CAUTION: PORNY SEX, SUDDEN GRIM END |
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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"... |
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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... |
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CRAYON NAIAD: by Wayan; 1994, nondream art experiment My friend Zooop taught me to crayon onto heated paper--it's vivid, dreamlike... |
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CREATURE BECOMES CREATOR: by Wayan; 2015/2/5, three linked advisory dreams on world trends A weird little forest god bred me from an ordinary deer into a creature who can almost pass for human. But World War 2 killed my god, and now I'm growing into... CAUTION: NUDITY, CROSSBREEDING |
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DEANNA ON THE MAYAN STEPS: by Wayan; 1992/7/8, a nightmare poem. Climbing a Mayan pyramid in Yosemite with Deanna Troy from the Starship Enterprise, we meet a gunman who wants to sacrifice... |
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THE DREAM: by Pierre Puvis de Chavanne, c.1882: a temptation dream? Subtitled "In his Sleep he Saw Love, Glory and Wealth Appear to him". Is it a real pre-Freudian dream on being tempted by three powerful allies of the Id... or just allegory? I have my doubts... |
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(THEIR) DREAM HOUSE: by Wayan; 1986/1/1, a New Year's nightmare. A house with a fire-ghost infestation. Worse than termites! And the ghosts tell me it's all my fault.... |
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DREAM OF A DREAM OF NIGHT: by Robert Watson; 1960s, a dream-poem The goddess of Night is in love with me, but I'm married, and tired, and just full of excuses... |
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A DREAM SESTINA: by Donald Justice, late 1950s? A nightmare-poem. "But what is wrong with my friends' faces? Why have they changed that way to wood?" |
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THE DREAM TREE: by Roswila; May 1997, a dream-poem on roots I have no roots but those I steal--until my father leads me to a sacred tree, saying "Look to your mother"... |
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DRYAD IN WINTER: by Wayan; digital and crayon, 1992/6/2; dream-figure portraits I relate so easily to animals, it's odd how ambivalent I felt about trees... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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THE ELEMENTALS: by Kathleen Raine, between 1953 & '65; a shamanic dream of earth-spirits Giant presences; rock, hill and crag are aspects worn. Shape-shifters they are; each in as many forms as eyes behold... |
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ELEPHANT WITH A LOTUS: by Queen Maya, 564 BCE? a prophetic Buddhist dream After 20 years without a child, Maya dreams devas carry her to a holy lake, wash her... and then an elephant carrying a lotus flower enters her right side. She knows it means... CAUTION: DREAM OMITS TINY DETAIL--IMMINENT DEATH |
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FADING AWAY IN THE LIGHT: by Lilian Verkins; 2013, painting of nature-spirit dream? I was a child again, sitting on a bench, watching young maidens dance. But as I grew older, they faded away in the light of adulthood... |
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FIGHTING A VIRUS: by Wayan, 1998/11/21, a diagnostic nightmare. Coming down with a virus, I dream of a guy who INSISTS we must fight, it's just so FUN... |
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FILLING THE ANCESTORS' SHOES: by Wayan; 1995/9/24, a shamanic dream. A dream of a shaman named Fred who tried to use a bear as a lightbulb. Fred, Fred, Fred... |
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FLANNAN PREPARATION: by Wayan, 2023/4/12-13, twin mystical dreamlets 4/12: I get a mysterious energy node implanted in my belly. After convalescing I'll have new talents... 4/13: I'm altering my home to host two flannan, bird-girl spirits swift to hunt down the truth... CAUTION: WITCHCRAFT, NUDE SPIRITS |
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FLIGHT, MARGARET, MOUSE, DOG: by Paul Nash, dreamed 1895-9 + Feb. 1913; art by Dave McKean As a child, landscape artist Paul Nash dreamed of flying over the countryside of southern England. But he was threatened by the legendary Black Dog... |
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FLU PRESCRIPTION: by Qu'lad and Togumalis, 1918 or 19, two shaman's dreams that saved lives Qu'lad, dying of flu in the pandemic, dreamt a wolf told him cold-water baths would save him. He staggered to the river. He lived. He told others. They lived. The shaman Togumalis dreamt his spirit helper, a squirrel, prescribed the same. A century later, hospital records show why it worked... CAUTION: ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE SHOWN AS SUPERIOR |
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FOUR-EYED BABY: by Xanthe; 1989?, a Jungian dream I met some little hunchbacks in the woods who showed me a newborn baby growing from the moss... |
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THE FOUR WINDS: by E.M. Martin; 1915, a harsh antiwar dream poem. Three wind-gods are so revolted by humanity they want to kill us; the fourth says we'll kill ourselves soon enough... |
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FOX TEMPLE: by Wayan; 2019/11/16, a mythic dream with sharp advice AWAKE: I watch Okko's Inn. Little Okko sees spirits--until she grows up and quits settling for ghosts. DREAM: I explore a temple, meet a fox-spirit... and see I never was human. Time to quit settling for... CAUTION: GAUZE-ROBED PRIESTESS |
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FULL REASON: by Wayan; 1980/5/28, a dream on patience. At a benefit for Rock Psychiatrists, the Spirit of the Convention explains why I can't go on stage yet... |
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THE GHOST OF CREATIVE CATASTROPHE: by Wayan; 2020/3/25, a dream of Covid as... playful? A whimsical spook causes a chain of crashes--a pedestrian dodges an elephant, swerving a car that shoves a cyclist into a luggage-wrangler whose rolling suitcase panics a dog who runs into... |
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THE GIANTESS OF THVERA: by Viga-Glum Eijolfsson; early 940s?, a very public clairvoyant dream. Viga-Glum dreamt a giantess came to visit. "She is the spirit-guide of my grandfather in Norway. He is dead... |
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GOSHEN: by Percy Konqobe; 1940s-1960s?, a lifelong recurring psychic dream I hear voices: "The road to success is in Kafkat, in a place called Goshen." I look back, and see seven male shadows... |
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GRAMPA HAS SPOKEN: by Wayan; 1989/11/26, an oracular dream. In a worldwide junkyard full of warring spooks, I finally meet the one whose message I need to hear... |
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GREEN, GREEN, SPIRIT OF THE SPRING: by Jenny Badger Sultan; dreamed 1991/2/3, 1995/8/13 and 1995/11/10 I meet a girl with a plant growing out of her head... Someone prays to the spirit of a spring to heal me... I watch people practice exercises with the ritual feel of voudun or candomble... |
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HAWKING COUNTRY: by Wayan; 1994/2/3, a quantum-level dream. I read Stephen Hawking, and dream I'm in the Quantum Desert, full of bridges, holes & loops-- like the microstructure of spacetime. But it's not counter-intuitive at all--it's HOME! |
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HER FIRST INCARNATION: by Wayan; 1983/11/10, a dream of a surreal shamanic duel Forced into a duel, I let my spirit fight for me using Boomerang Blades. But my enemy becomes giant floating sticky lips! My spirit finds incarnation confusing... |
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HOOD: by Wayan; 1993/5/11 & 5/15, a recurring dream of a... woman? dinosaur? cape? spirit? An alien-heron-dino-woman left us her cape--or is it a cast-off skin? I put it on, for I was told I need the hood to ward off some evil. My human head won't fit the narrow hood. But the owner's manual says I don't need a shield, I'm immune! So skip the hood; wear the cape as a minidress... |
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HORSE THIEVES: by Plenty Coups, early 1870s?; a practical psychic or subliminal dream Thieves stole 100 of our horses. The tracks suggested white men, but that night my dream Helpers declared them Sioux. We tracked them across Montana... |
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“JUST A FEW MORE YEARS!”: by Wayan; 2008/1/2, a nightmare on the coming crash I found myself defending humanity before an astral jury, begging them to delay the great die-back... |
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KOLCHEC: by Al Davison (Jan.1977-1978) & Sara Welponer 2000, sketches of a shared dream-figure AL repeatedly drew a bizarre, recurring dream-guide named Kolchec; years later he met SARA, who'd painted her dream-guide, a distinctive spook named--oh, take a guess... CAUTION: WILL DISTURB ESP SKEPTICS |
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LEMON-EYED SPIRIT: by Wayan, 2019/10/24; a predictive dream-poem I dream I'm a woman possessed by spirits with yellow eyes that tint the whole world lemon... I wake, the sun rises, and for a single minute, the world turns that exact, strange yellow... CAUTION: APPARENT E.S.P. |
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LEONARDO'S BIRD: by Leonardo da Vinci, c.1455, a bizarre childhood dream or vision--or real memory? The black bird hovered above my cradle, and several times struck me with its tailfeathers between my opened lips... |
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LORD OF THE UNDERWORLD by Wayan, 1989/2/11; a chthonic transformation dream While spelunking, I blunder into the Lord of the Underworld's court where dragons swim--and become one! My human friends stare at me, coiled with my two mates. Do they even know me now? CAUTION: SCALY THREESOME |
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THE LOST RING: by Helen Fraser; 1924; an astral lost-and-found dream A friend in Heaven promises Helen a lost ring would return to her. Three days later it did; but its path had been strange... |
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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, amid tricksters, cosplayers, spooks, sex changes, levitation and (sigh) cops... CAUTION: COYOTE SEX |
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THE MIMI: by Robert Moss, 1955, a dream of another life As a boy in Australia I briefly died on the operating table. I found myself living among the Mimi, spirits living in rocks. I grew up, grew old, died--and woke up nine years old again... |
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MIRYAM'S THEFT: by Wayan; 1996/9/24, a psychic dream on being used I'm a ghost dwarf in love with a Lady trapped in a magic Arabian castle. But our love is being used... CAUTION: SEX, BETRAYAL, SACRILEGE |
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MR. WILLOW AND THE LOCUSTS: by a Yi Valley magistrate, Dec. 1641?, as told by Pu Songling; a shamanic dream As locusts advanced on his farm district, a magistrate dreamt a Mr. Willow had advice. He took it. Bearing a gift of rice wine, he sought out the Goddess of the Locusts, and... |
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MUSKRAT, OTTER, MINK: by J.P., c.1900, a trapper's shamanic-fistfight dream Three men chase me. I can't get away so I turn and fight, and put out one guy's eye. That makes them pause! At last they back away. As they paddle away in a boat, I realize who they are: Muskrat, Otter and Mink... CAUTION: ANTHROPOLOGISTS! |
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MY SYMBIOTES: by Wayan; 2015/2/8, a dream characterizing our sixth sense, & proposing a seventh I have symbiotes--a dragonlynx and some flannan, like micro-angels with birdfeet & moth antennae. Lynx & flannan embody my sixth and seventh senses... |
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NAIAD AND GOD-DOG: by Wayan; 1980/11/7, a manipulative dream-tragedy. I love a Naiad who's lost her God. Tragedy strikes us. I'm devastated till I meet the aliens who explain... |
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NEOLITHIC: by Wayan; 1992/9/21; a time-travel dream on the roots of art I'm at a Neolithic art show. A Stone Age critic says "Viewers struggle to interpret signs as the signified." I think they're just baffled how those animals can be stuck on a cave wall yet still be running around... |
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THE NESS MAN, or, HOW TO HEAL: by Wayan; 1994/4/13, a mytho-musical dream. Mythic creatures round a woodland pool want to heal a businessman. Do too many cooks spoil the soup? |
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"NO ONE REALLY": by Wayan; 2019/7/13; a ghostly dream of weak borders My new bedroom has huge windows, but no blinds. I pin up bedsheets for now--flimsy. A girl walking by peers in. Wait--we're 50' up! She's in my room--and transclucent. I yell "WHO ARE YOU?" She looks shocked I can see her, says "No one really" and fades... |
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NON-GHOSTS: by Wayan, 2022/2/5, a dream-poem on two... beings. I met two transparent spooks who insist "We're not ghosts! We were never human." I'm sure they're wrong; they've just forgotten. But I phone a witch, who confirms... |
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ODE TO PSYCHE: by John Keats; 1819, a poem based on a dream-encounter Keats met two winged lovers nesting in the woods: Eros and Psyche, the last Olympians, worshipless... |
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ORACULAR RAVENS: by Wayan; 2023/1/24, a genderbent, predictive/synchronistic dream DAY: I see Avatar: the Way of Water. Two films in one: Blue Lagoon alternates with Mad Max... DREAM: As an oracle, I have to go topless so the magic mini-ravens can perch on my nipples... CAUTION: BRR, OW!, BREASTS, and SNIPING AT JAMES CAMERON |
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PASSION: by Katie Hofgard; 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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PLAYMATES: by J.S., c.1893, a childhood dream When I was little, two boys with strange laughs invited me to play. Their house was crowded and underground. After I came back out, I realized their home was a grave and they were ghosts. They gave me a power... |
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PRIMAVERA: by Walter de la Mare; 1920s, a dream persisting into day I dreamt the Goddess of Spring paraded by my house. I woke and leapt to my bedroom window, and there she was... |
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RADIANCE: by Anonymous #42, 1996?, a transcendent dream backed away from In the recording studio, some background noise. Isolated and amplified, it's a chorus of inhuman voices praising an unknown deity. The song becomes a mandala pulling me in... |
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RAIN OF PLATONIC IDEALS: by Wayan; 2015/1/20, an absurd dream image done as a short poem Strange beings from the realm of Platonic Ideals rain down like meteors on San Francisco. I work as a tour guide, teaching the newbies not to step in front of a bus... CAUTION: CRUSHED IDEALS |
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ROBINSON JEFFERS AS A SHAMAN: by Wayan; 1996/7/28, a life-review, with 2016/10/22 followup Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism, blind to kindness--or is he just reporting Big Sur's true, mean spirit(s)? CAUTION: LITERARY AND MYSTICAL |
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ROSE AND THE THORN: by Wayan; 1986/7/1, a dream on those too meek to ask. We're swallowed by Swamp Sofas and enslaved to The Man Who Prays on Us. Time to grow some thorns! |
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RUBBERNECKER: by Wayan; dreamed 2000/4/24; a ghost comedy. I dreamed of a woman whose jeep stalls on the Antarctic ice. Along comes the ghost of a Volkswagen... |
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RUNNER WITH A PORPOISE: by Wayan; 1999/10/30, a dream of spirits. A Japanese high school athlete has no friends, till she starts meeting animal spirits on her long solo runs... |
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THE SATURATION DIAL: by Wayan; 2015/11/7, a surreal lucid dream with a control knob! Night. Two moons. I go lucid! Find a knob adjusting the dream's color saturation. Dial it up--and meet ghosts of pure color, invisible til I luridified... |
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SATYR: by Wayan; 1999/4/1, a frustrating wish-fulfillment dream (yes, both). I'm a faun, the oracle for a Greek village. But my predecessor set up rituals I want to change... CAUTION: SEX, PAGANISM, SELF-SATYRE |
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SAVANNAD: by Wayan; before 1998/8/11; digital sketch of recurring dream figure. A sexy meadow-spirit of my California drygrass hills... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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SEA EAGLE: by Robert Moss, 20th century, a psychic dream I dreamed a sea eagle I saw as a boy led me back to my native Australia, to a Dreaming place. Later a 'spirit man' of the Mununajali in Queensland led me to the exact place I'd seen in my dream... |
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SHAMANIC CHEW-TOY: by Wayan; 2011/3/16; nested dreams of strange women Compulsively honest spirit-women with waterjugs invade my friend's house. I wake to find my girlfriend's obsessing on hair loss. To calm her, I babble about limb loss... and wake again to find she was a dream too. |
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SHOVED OFF A CLIFF: by Wayan; 2017/9/7, a nightmare-warning (I'd asked what to do next). Atop a sea-cliff, I meet a young couple in love. One look at me and they push me off! When I see I can't save myself, I try to take them with me... CAUTION: NIGHTMARE BARING UGLY TRUTHS |
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SILKY THE PEGASUS: by Wayan; 1984/12/11; a guided flying dream My anima, a pegasus mare, leaps out of a girl's book and teaches us to fly up to an astral land... CAUTION: FLIRTY PEGASUS |
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SORTING HAT, DRUNKEN CAT: by Wayan; 2013/10/18, a steadily mutating warning-dream I discover a Sorting Hat, as in Harry Potter--and it moves in with us. Our cat crawls in and plays peekaboo. She becomes a teenager eager to get drunk at Thanksgiving--like every adult in her life. But she's not puking drunk like them, so she must be OK! Just as I think I am--I only overwork to exhaustion. CAUTION: DRUNK TEEN CAT, SEVERELY ALCOHOLIC ADULTS |
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SOUL RESTORED: by Wayan; 2016/12/4, two dreams on deep change MY SOUL RESTORED: To hide me as I grew up, someone transplanted a shard of redwood-soul into me, and part of my soul into the tree! But now I'm grown... RED ROBE OF INITIATION: I came to play music, but I'm dragged to the magic-school portal & draped in... CAUTION: MYSTICISM |
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SPACE NEEDLE: by Wayan; 1995/8/24, an erotic dream on architecture. I'm a kid again, gawking at the Space Needle. But a woman stands before it, who no one else can see: CAUTION: NUDITY, A SEXUAL PERSPECTIVE |
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SPHINX'S WOOD: by Wayan; 1981/11/19, a dream of puns, riddles and advice After my dad lets me down I dream black may be white, and white, black--if you're a Sphinx... |
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SPIRIT CHORUS: by Wayan; dreamed 2016/2/8, a curative dream I drum on an ocarina-gong in the dark. My weird music summons a choir of fierce angels, who send a wave of tingling energy surging through me... |
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SPIRITUAL TESTS: by Wayan; 2000/8/28, a predictive dream As my dad lies dying, I dream my sister and I face spiritual tests given by slacker angels who'd rather be on TV. Learn to let go! |
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SPOCK'S SPIRITS: by Wayan; 2000/3/12, a financial-advice dream. Lost in a dark maze of machine-shops, I follow Mr. Spock, who's drunk, and talks to tree-spirits... CAUTION: ALCOHOL AS INSPIRATION? |
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STRANGE SERVICE: by Gordon B., early 2006, a transcendental dream The old man sang in the empty church, then looked at me and snapped his fingers. I was filled with voices... |
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SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE OF: by John Anster Fitzgerald, 1857?, dream painting In bed asleep, the dreamer discovers this seemingly empty room hosts a fairy ball, full of luminous half-seen beings serenaded by a monstrous band... |
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SWEDENBORG'S VISIONS: as reported by Immanuel Kant, 1759-61; three solid ESP hits. Swedenborg stuns the Queen of Sweden by whispering a secret only she and a dead man knew; A widow begs him to ask her late husband to find a lost receipt. Swedenborg reveals a secret drawer; Swedenborg, at a dinner party, grows alarmed by a fire that nearly burns his home--500 km away! |
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TELEPATH TREES: by Wayan; 1993/9/11, a how-the-other-half-lives dream with 7 pics I dream Edward Abbey shows me a secret grove of telepath trees. That night, in my dreams inside my dream, they meet me... |
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THROUGH THE WIRES: by Wayan; 2007/9/16, two surreal contrasting dreams I meet some alien wolves, and see the social scene as they do--pack, status issues. But then... I cross a pasture & slip thru a barbwire fence, as I explain cows, wires & organic life to an energy-being... |
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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 to backup her memories and... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
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TRAIL OF POGS: by Wayan; 2004/9/6, my dreams' response to the first Burning Man dream-workshop A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us... |
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TRUSTING FOXES: by Wayan; 1997/8/20, 2-page comic of a psychic dream. Evicted. Lawsuit. I dream a lawyer sends me a letter full of fox-girls! In East Asia, foxes mean trouble, but these are friendly--good news is coming! I wake to find we've won a home... |
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UNCERTAIN HORIZON: by Cécile Brun; 2014/11/20, a dream-comic of a sea serpent My partner and I were hunting for spirits with a camera designed to photograph them. Warned away from the Niigata waterfront, we try to catch a bus out. But what comes isn't the bus... |
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AN UNEXPECTED SPIRIT: by Wayan; 1990/11/2. Digital sketch of a San Francisco Samhain scene When things fall apart and the center cannot hold and mere anarchy is loosed... I tend to giggle. |
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VIEWFINDER: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2000/5/31, a dream-ritual declined A friend explained she planned to be a human viewfinder, bendng into an arch for a male spirit to dive through. I didn't want to risk it... |
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THE VERIZON EXPERIMENT: by Wayan; 2014/3/31, three linked dreamlets, the last self-flagging as predictive 1: A nature spirit's physics experiment proves that time forks. But how much? How dense is the multiverse? 2: I sculpt a model of this multiverse. A physicist likes it; the nature spirit likes it more. So she swipes it... 3: A 'friend' offers refugees my bedroom, crowding me and my work into a corner. I wake. The phone rings... |
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WABOSE'S VISION: by Catherine Wabose (Ogeewyahnoquot Okwa), Feb. 1814? shamanic initiation dreams After fasting for six days, I dreamed of three spirit helpers who aided my village, guiding hunters toward game and healing others. But I lost so many loved ones... CAUTION: SPOUSE MURDERED; CAREER BURNOUT |
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WARM FUZZIES: by Wayan; 1990/2/20, an origin-myth dream. I take a shortcut with the Warm Fuzzies, boating on lava through the earth's core, and now when a volcano erupts, I know who it is that's quarreling beneath.. |
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THE WELL: by Denise Levertov; 1960?; a dream-poem I meet my own muse--the muse of all of us, perhaps--scooping water from a sacred well... |
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WIND OF SELF-HATE: by Wayan, 1976/4/4, a dream warning of family brainwashing Biking around blindfolded and half-naked, I fight winds of self-criticism and self-hatred that only I can feel... |
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WORKIN' FOR PEANUTS: by Wayan; 1990/12/11, a crude but perceptive dream. I'm an elephant working in a diner. In the bathroom, I inadvertently summon the Genie of the Urinal... CAUTION: PISSED PACHYDERM |
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XALGRIIN IN THE LAB: by Emily Joy, 2006?, odd dream scene Xalgriin is a sweet stegosaurus boy locked up in a research lab, planning to free not just himself but others... |
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YOU REALLY AREN'T LUNCH; 2012/6/11 by Maia Spencer; a cledonic dream of facing fears Hiding in the woods I meet a Cyclops. But I'm not me, I'm the editor of the World Dream Bank... |
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