THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: Medicine and Surgery

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Weird Dream Medicine

"Drastic procedures" might be a better phrase. Weird medical interventions in dreams, mostly surgery, but with a scattering of other invasive, destructive, insane techniques... Until I built this page, I hadn't realized how many dreams like this I had. Looks like my dreams have a low opinion of Western medicine. Awwww.

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	ART TAKES GUTS: by Wayan; ink, 11x14", 1982, a waking confession. Why this site? Because if I'm around when you see my dream art, I feel like THIS......
	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
	A CAT AND HER GIRL: by Wayan; 1979/5/15, a deep little dream. I'm a doctor in the future, trying to heal the neurolink between a girl and her cat...
	CAT-SNAKE: by Wayan; 1993/3/6, a short dream fable. I glue cat-legs on my snaky friend, despite the warnings of Christians who don't like snakes evolving...
	CRICKET GOT IN: by Wayan; 1988/8/25, a dream of troubling gods. A cricket actress I know makes it into the Dynasty of the Gods! Or is it the TV soap "Dynasty"?...
	DRUGGED, SHRUNK AND DAUBED: by Wayan; 2008/11/1, a dream-poem on sexual politics (Dreamverse #38) I'm worried an alien charity is brainwashing an ex-prostitute. When I wake, she's still there--at 2/5 scale!...
	ECTOPIC: by Wayan; 1996/7/3, a tragic transsexual dream. My stomach ache is an ectopic pregnancy. The embryo's doomed. Surgery. And I'm a man...
	EMBER IN THE BRAIN: by Wayan; 1983/3/31, a dreamtale on anger. I'm the Incredible Hulk, forced to do emergency brain surgery. And the patient's burning from within... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND UNLICENSED MEDICINE
	THE EVEREST MARATHON: by Wayan; 1986/4/12, a wild dream epic, part 3 of Unicorn Tag. During the great race up Everest, I become an e-snake, cross three eco-bubbles, beg a wary deer-taur to splice my spine for me, help Ariane (a childhood crush on the run from sentient tanks), and solve at last the Dream Equations... I learn climbing Everest doesn't take strength, but... trust?
	EXPERIMENT WITH TIME by Nancy Price; 1948, a shamanic-initiation dream declined? I meet a girl who's 16 and 61, who tells me dreams are lives, not messages. But then I must fly over a sinister parade...
	EYEBOLT: by Wayan; 2005/10/1, a squeamish dream I’m on a train in Britain, sitting across from a respectable-looking woman with a large bolt sticking in her eye...
	FREAKY DREAM, or, HEART IN MY STOMACH: by Ratiries Steelclaw; c. 2004/3/30, a dream comic I felt like my heart was in my stomach. My friend Lyx opened me up and confirmed it was. She scolded me for eating it... CAUTION: URP
	THE GLOWING CLIT: by "Allison Skywalker"; 2009/6/21, a bizarre dream-surgery fragment I'm a revolutionary hiding in the woods. I wake to find an erect penis crudely stitched onto my crotch...
	GRAVITREE: by Wayan; 2008/3/21, a character-evaluation dream. Just singing about the antigravitree lightens me. I bound around town. But then I find a diseased antigravitree is holding me down. It's become a gravitree! Gotta clear out that deadwood, no matter how messy, if I want to fly...
	I AM THREE: by Wayan; 1957-58, my three earliest dreams. My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child...
	IRONY: by Wayan; 300K, 2007/6/15. A comic burned into (what else?) an ironing board I’m so sick of irony I decide to get my sense of irony surgically removed and replace it with... CAUTION: PLAYING WITH FIRE
	THE KEYRING OF ATTACHMENTS: by Wayan; 1974/5/31, a dream gone too far. Swayed by sinister surgeons, I go all Buddhist and give up my attachments, including various organs... CAUTION: DIVESTABLE GENITALIA
	KOKO'S LOSSES: by Wayan; 1999/10/9, an elliptically predictive dream. Koko the gorilla has had some terrible setbacks lately... the double amputation, especially...
	MINOR SURGERY: by Wayan; 1999/2/2, a dream misinterpreted. A man goes in for minor surgery and wakes up changed. I feel creepy, but for all the wrong reasons...
	MOLLY'S PROSTHETIC: by Wayan, 1994/9/22, a dream of handy advice. My dad's new wife is a collie. Naturally, she wants a prosthetic arm. But she has no site to bind it to... CAUTION: BREAST-OBSESSED BUSINESSMAN, DOG WIFE
	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...
	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...
	PIXY: by Wayan; 200K, 2006/3/25, six images; a diagnostic sex dream? Janet's obsessed with a creepy guy, until her friend Kay--a pixy--decides to knock some sense into her cunt... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, EMBARRASSING SITUATION, NASTY LOVE SPELL
	POKEY?: by Wayan; 1993/4/15, a dreamtale on my soul. My lover's turned into a tiny living pull-toy, trapped ankle-deep in a wheeled platform. Can I free her?
	SAW HER IN HALF?: by Wayan; 2008/8/28, a warning dream-poem, Dreamverse #15 A sorceror's apprentice describes a medical procedure her teacher plans. I sure wouldn't want that done to ME... CAUTION: TALK OF BLOOD AND SEX
	SNAKE PACKAGE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2007/5/27 I am given a dehydrated package of dried snake to insert in my vagina. Inside it will unfold and come to life... CAUTION: KIDS, DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!
	SUSHI CIRCUS: by Wayan; 1982/2/17, an illustrated psychic dream. When I flee the Psychodrama Circus to avoid being stabbed, it explodes! But it's the sushi that really upsets me... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MAKI
	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...
	UNCONTROLLED TIME TRAVEL: by Jo; 2007/7/13, a time-slipping dream. I’m a drug-addicted amateur dramatist. A fat balding businessman and I bring humanity back from extinction, but... CAUTION: TORTURE (brief), ADVOCACY OF WAR, HUMAN EXTINCTION (offstage)
	UNICORN SURGERY: by Wayan; 1996/5/2, a warning dream. After trimming a poem to Silky, my night mare, I dream well-meaning surgeons try to dehorn a unicorn...
	WEAVING MATS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/3/15; a predictive dreampainting from the Box of Dreams In a camp, women wove mats. I was tempted to try. But it was months until I learned what they'd really been weaving..
	WHAT'S IN THE BASKET?: by Ceridwens_Descent; 2007/8/4, a dream of embarrassing head loss I cut off my own head! But I grew a new one. Only... what do I do now with my old head? It's starting to rot... CAUTION: SELF-DISMEMBERMENT
	THE WHITE SUBMARINE: by Wayan; 1974/7/6, a dream of love and flood. My girlfriend and I ride out the Great Flood in the White Submarine, but some things never change...