THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: LETTING GO

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LETTING GO

Dreams of letting go, giving in, renunciation, surrender. Not defeat; surrender--and what can arise of it.

RELATED TOPICS: miracles - I'm falling! - I'm flying! - rescues and rescue fantasies - guardians, from thugs to angels - trust and mistrust - the creative flow state - 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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	AROUND LAKE ERIE AND ACROSS THE HUDSON: by Rachel Hadas; 1997?, a dream-poem. My dead friend Charlie and his sister and I are driving around Lake Erie. We know it’s a dream and he’s dead, and yet we’re joyous...
	THE BASEBALL KISS: by Wayan; 1983/8/4, a dreamtale on choice. The Prime Minister of England breaks my nose, so I become a flock of squirrels to seek revenge. Should I let go?
	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
	CUTENESS PAGEANT: by Wayan; 2008/8/29, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #16. I'm trapped in a cutesy cartoon universe! Worse, to judge a beauty contest, I have to see past our style to our souls...
	CUTTLEBONE: by Wayan; 1999, sculpture, 7", plaster/acrylic; a nondream improv. If you can't tell what it is from the thumbnail, cheer up. It's indescribable full-size, too.
	CYCLOPS, or, THE ANSWER TO MY PRAYER: by Wayan; 1993/8/24, a spiritual nightmare. In the far future, I relive Odysseus' tale. To save my life I must give up realistic hope, and focus on... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MONSTERS
	THE DREAM POLICE: by Wayan; 1994/4/6, a dream on persecution. The police confiscate my therapist's copies of my dreams, and try me for obscenity! So why do I help?...
	EEL GIRLS: by Wayan; 1993/9/14, a tearjerker nightmare. I learn to fly, but keep it quiet. Yet aliens still find out, and tell me a truth I didn't want to know...
	ELBERETH PAUSES: by Wayan; 1989/6/26, a dream on postwar ethics. After the Lord of the Rings falls, Elbereth herself is sent to heal the land. But she has a troubling neighbor...
	A FINAL GOODBYE: by Justin Hall; dreamed summer 2001, drawn 2003; comic of a lucid dream on closure. I found myself in a cafe in Amsterdam--or was it Sevilla?--with Kevin, who I knew was dead... CAUTION: GRIEF
	FLIGHT: by Denise Levertov; 1945; a dream poem I meet William Blake! He says "The will is given us that we may know the delights of surrender." While in my bedroom...
	GARDEN OF THE GODS: by Wayan; 1995/10/6, a dream of slowth. In the Garden of the Gods, I sit through sun and rain. For the gods aren't the gardeners, but the crop...
	HALF SHAMAN, HALF STATESMAN: by Wayan; 100K, 1986/4/21, a parallel-world dream: Chapter 6 of UNICORN TAG I get a scholarship to Shaman U. Some of my classmates are Terran, but I still don't fit in, because... CAUTION: LANGUAGE
	HEADING FOR A FALL: by Wayan; 1993/11/2, a dream of drastic shortcuts. I crash my car on the way to therapy. I ask my dream why. And it tells me! Deliberate, but not suicidal...
	JAMES MERRILL REMEMBERED: by Rachel Hadas; around May 1995; two dream-poems Soon after my friend and mentor James Merrill died, I had recurring, elusive dreams about him...
	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
	THE LADY BATHES IN GRIEF: by Wayan; 1983/5/31, a long-haul psychic dream. Why'd a spirit-woman come to our reservation to mourn a drowned guy? Her mirrors & candles tell us...
	LAMPREYS: by Wayan; 1974/6/27, a dream of assimilation . Pretty much everyone in my school is a bloodsucking alien, but, come to think of it, so what? CAUTION: SEX, VAMPIRES, SEX WITH VAMPIRES, BUT NICE VAMPIRES
	LET ILLNESS GO: by Wayan; 1999. Acrylic/digital painting of a meditation not a dream. Illness is such a handy excuse when you need solitude, care, rest, or just time to think... but...
	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.
	MY SINE-FRIEND: by Wayan; 1984/3/6, an emotional dream of time and rebirth. An animal-girl I know lives like a sine-wave, first forward in time, then backwards, dying at every zero...
	PASS THE VIAL ON: by Wayan; 2000/4/18, a dream of renunciation A vagabond king showed me the way into Faerie, and it made my fortune. But now it’s time to pass the gift on...
	PISSING MEMORIES: by Wayan; 1999/5/20, a dreamtale on non-sabotage. I desperately need to pee, but my bladder's full of two kinds of emotional trauma, and each blocks the other! CAUTION: BATHROOM PSYCHOLOGY
	PUMA ORGY: by Wayan; 1988: 14 x 19", erasable crayon, illustrating a 1988/2/5 dream. I dreamed I had to go through the Animal Orgy to get to the City of the Shining Spirits on the horizon... CAUTION: STRANGE SEX
	REDUCED TO THE STUDHOUSE: by Wayan; 1980/11/16, a warning dream. I'm not a normal wolf: I'm a were-woman. When I turn wolf again, I'm in heat; but I want to be alone! So... CAUTION: SEX TALK
	A SEX KITTEN: by Wayan; 1999/1/29, an embarrassing dream. A creature that's half kitten and half baby wants me to masturbate it... I'm reluctant, but when I do... CAUTION: SEX
	A SHELLFISH EPIPHANY: by Wayan; 1996/6/14, a spiritual dream. I'm a Japanese pearldiver; our family's cast away on a coral islet. One day, lonely, scared, I cast away fear...
	THE SKIN SECEDES: by Wayan; 1990/1/30, an unappetizing dream. A baby's own skin secedes, forming a snake. It prepares to eat the skinned baby. Shall I intervene?
	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!
	SPORECOUNT: by Wayan; 105K, 1990/1/5, a dreamtale on change-phases. I'm a hot archeology student till I open the wrong tomb. A plague turns us into green moldy monsters... CAUTION: DISEASE, DEATH, GRIEF, SHAME
	THE STROKE: by Lesa; 2005/6/1, a predictive dream A vivid nightmare that turned out a week later to be devastatingly true ...
	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... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	THE TAPED WOUND: by Wayan; 1997/10/7, a dream on old tapes... My wound's taped up, but hurts bad. I peel off the bandage... nothing! Gone. So I check my other body...
	TAROT: RENUNCIATION (8 of cups): by Wayan; 41K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. Giving up a wall of material treasure for the moonlit path...
	TAROT: DEATH (Resurrection): by Wayan; 25K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. So you die, and to your secular surprise, your soul or psyche (which does after all mean butterfly) metmorphoses into...
	TAROT: THE MOON (Ebb Tide: Memory): by Wayan; 39K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. Time, tide, cycles... At ebb, the hourglass drains, the tide recedes, life hides in the cracks...
	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
	THE TRAIN ON TIME CAFE: by Wayan, 1981/12/20, a major dreamtale. Silicon Valley goes enthusiastically fascist. I hide in a berry patch. They build a shining world, and then...
	WAITING FOR PIGFALL: by Wayan; 1979/10/31, a puzzling Halloween dream. The messiah of a suicide cult prepares to ritually sacrifice me. Then a miracle occurs! But... whose?
	WHERE'S MY MUM?: by Pauline Ramsey; 1972, a possibly psychic nightmare. I find my mum under my bed, unconscious, her head cracked. And I wake knowing it means she’ll lose her mind...
	WITNESS: by Patagia, 2006/2/16, a poem of a redemptive nightmare A woman I had wronged set her pit bull on me! Hand in its jaws, I gave in, and we both began crying...
	YUPPIE BREAKUP: by Wayan; 1991/5/22, a dream on values--or the lack thereof. A yuppie idealist discovers her boyfriend's a cheerful opportunist, and they disentangle their lives... CAUTION: SEX IN REVERSE