Violence, K-Z (A-J)
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KARMA AND HER SISTERS: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/27, a sexy dream that turns tragic. One boring lonely day, I meet a cute teenage bunny who wants to play with me! But half an hour later… CAUTION: LANGUAGE, INTERSPECIES FLIRTING, AND LOSS |
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KEVIN'S CRASH: by Wayan, 2018/10/1, a politically-tinged nightmare After watching the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court, with their rape accusations, I dream of a reckless driver named Kevin who runs down a skateboarder and blames everyone else... CAUTION: KAVANAUGH SUPPORTERS WON'T LIKE THIS |
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THE KEY TO OUR INHERITANCE: by Wayan; 2010/9/12; a nightmare whose victims organize The dead treasure-hunter's will ordered us, his heirs, to convene in the wood. Attacked there by a knight in armor, we near-strangers must unite to win our... |
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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 KNIFE AT HIS THROAT: by Wayan; 1991/1/1; a political dream-cartoon-fable A courtroom hostage-drama where I'm forced to commit... tracheotomy! And then the Gulf War begins... CAUTION: CARTOON VIOLENCE |
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THE LABORATORY UNDERGROUND: by Anna Kingsford; 1880/2/2; an animal-rights nightmare. I find myself in a vault with tables where half-dissected animals writhe. Hidden in each was a human shape... CAUTION: GRUESOME |
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LASERBOMB: by Wayan, 1995/7/3, a dream on paralysis. I'm on Mars. The terraforming is going well. Then saboteurs set off a laserbomb in the street near me... CAUTION: TERRORISM |
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THE LEOPARD'S CLUE: by Wayan; 2012/3/17, an incubated advisory dream. My boyfriend, a leopard, sniffs out a clue to an old murder involving me in a past life. But did I witness, die, or kill? |
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! |
LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION DREAM: by Abraham Lincoln, ca.March 31 1865, a predictive nightmare. |
Lincoln dreamt his body was lying in state in the White House. A guard said he'd been assassinated. Two weeks later... |
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. |
THE LIZARD LESSON: by Wayan; 1996/12/12, a hard-hittin' shamanic dream. |
I'm a shaman in Nunavut who has to teach a guy in a lizard suit (and his foxy niece) that reparations have limits... |
LONG JOHNS by Ann Faraday, 1972; punning dreamlets on two consecutive nights |
DREAM 1: A man wearing long white underwear shoots me down with a machine gun. DAY: Long John Nebel interviews me; his Freudian friend calls me a penis-envying woman. DREAM 2: Long John and his buddy umpire a rough baseball game. Definitely not cricket... CAUTION: SEXISM, FREUDIANS, PUNS |
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... |
A LOVE AFFAIR: by David B.; 1993/3/23, a 11-page comic of a dark dream |
My lover's face is shadowed and we are never alone together. Things slip from film-noir to open nightmare when... CAUTION: SEX, DEATH, GUILT |
LUCID LIMITS: by Wayan; 1990/2/13, a lucid nightmare. Yes, they're possible! |
A nightmare. I go lucid as the bullets tear through me. Yet I go on with the dream! Why?... CAUTION: NIGHTMARISH VIOLENCE |
LUCID ON THE MOON: by Wayan; 1980/2/23, a long-term psychic dream. |
I'm on the run, on the moon. Cyborgs toss bombs at me. Yikes! Is this what melted Mare Orientalis? CAUTION: NUCLEAR IRRESPONSIBILITY |
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.... |
THE MAD DATER: by Mark Varitz and Wayan; 1996/10/29, linked (telepathic?) nightmares. |
Always ask permission to throw rocks at your date. No, not those big ones! Where's the nearest hospital? CAUTION: SURREAL DATE ABUSE |
THE MAN IN BLACK: by Florita Thesiger, 1930s, recurring genderbent pastlife dreams |
Each time, I'm a young Elizabethan man in a grand, new-built country house. In the main room, I find a man in black by the fire. He comes at me, and as he shoots me point-blank, I wake... |
THE MAN WHO DESERVED TO DIE: by Jim Shaw; c.1994; a dream of moral rescue |
I don't want to kill my friend, though his clothes say I must. But a sculptor lets us sit on her metal trees and drink tea instead... |
THE MAN WHO MISTOOK...: by Wayan; 1995/9/19, an insane dream. |
I'm just an ordinary guy, who beats his son so he'll grow faster, and sees tits on drinking fountains... |
MANATEE: by Wayan; 1989/5/12-1992; digital nondream painting. |
Beauty's link to status and privilege bothers me. The pretty get perks (or parks), while we uglies... CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, AND A BLOOD FLOWER |
MANDALA DURING A TIME OF WAR AND DISINTEGRATION: |
by Jenny Badger Sultan; Jan-Feb 2003, painting of a dream-series My dreams were troubled by war. So I painted them in concentric rings--lotus, fire, children, animals, and nightmares... |
MANTA-SQUID: by Wayan; 1986/3/13, a nightmare on the Senoi hoax |
DAY: I read an exposé on "Senoi dreamwork"--the Malaysian Senoi people disavow it. Some white guy just made it up! DREAM: I'm a dream researcher in Malaysia. A manta-squid attacks! Now the "Senoi" focus on my needs makes sense... CAUTION: TENTACLE-RAPE ATTEMPT |
MARJANE: by Wayan; 2005/6/3, a nightmare about... articide? Watercolor comic or illustrated text |
I'm cartoonist Marjane Satrapi. I passively tag along with friends (and a fiancé I tend to forget) in the Mission District of San Francisco. But they blunder into real trouble... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
THE MARTIAN FEUD: by Wayan; 1994/3/10, a warning dream. |
On Old Mars, before it died, two rival families' teasing finally goes too far, despite the whale's warning... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
MARTIAN VIGILANTE: by Wayan, 2006/3/25, an absurdist nightmare on inner killjoys |
After a busy exhausting day, I find myself on a dream street flirting with a really cute artist. Until this stumpy green Martian slithers up, calls us criminals, and threatens us with a raygun... CAUTION: DUMBEST INNER CRITIC EVER |
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS' JEWELS: 1845, a hypnotic experiment by a Major Buckley |
Mary Queen of Scots' will (1556) was lost for centuries. In 1845, Major Buckley hypnotized a fellow officer and had him 'read' a family heirloom. He said it was Mary's! Her lost will was found in 1854 and published in 1863. Turned out the claim in the trance was right... CAUTION: MARY'S LIFE WAS BRUTAL |
THE MEDIEVAL POISONERS: by Carla Young, 2010/1/3; illustrated non-nightmare |
Two medieval women poison one another. One dies in my arms; the other may just survive. Why did they...? CAUTION: MURDERERS |
THE MEGARA INN: by an Arcadian Greek c.200 BCE; two dreams that don't prevent a murder but do solve it |
A traveler dreams his friend's attacked, but he ignores it. Next he dreams his friend begs him to at least avenge him... |
MEMORY SNIP!: by Wayan; 1999/5/15, a dream on the cost of kindness. |
My friend Mark does something I thought impossible: removes a snippet of my memory. Disastrous! CAUTION: VIOLENCE... SORT OF |
MERLOO'S BROTHERS: by Joost Merloo, two apparent psychic nightmares, 1943 and c.1946 |
Joost Merloo escaped the Nazis, but had two neurologically impaired brothers who couldn't flee. On a troopship, he dreamed the Nazis burst into their ward... |
MERMAID VERSUS TRUMP: by Wayan, 2020/1/7, one of twin warning dreams |
Agents of Donald Trump with knives trap a mermaid. I jump one of them, and she escapes, towing me with her. She assumed humans just hate merfolk, but I know... CAUTION: HARSH WARNING ABOUT TRUMP |
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN: by Wayan; 1992/9/5-6, a literary/diagnostic dream. |
I'm in a tribe of post-Crash kids with psychic powers, trying to keep nukes from rising again... CAUTION: CHILD SOLDIERS |
MILK ADDICTS: by Wayan, 1974/6/2, an early psychic dream. |
I'm in what seems to be a village of very conservative Muslims. But they're really alien castaways... |
MINOR SURGERY: by Wayan; 1999/2/25, a dream misinterpreted. |
A man goes in for minor surgery and wakes up changed. I feel creepy, but for all the wrong reasons... |
MIRIEL, DON'T GO IN!: by Wayan; 1982/10/6, a dream of a stunted planet's stunted god. |
God offers gifts to pilgrims, so my sister enters his door. Fierce light shoots out... |
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 |
MOM THE ALIEN: by Wayan; 1981; a nightmare on family |
Many kids anxiously dream their parents aren't their real parents. I dreamed my parents ATE my real parents... CAUTION: HUNGRY MONSTERS |
MOM THE MURDERER: by Wayan; 1996/3/7, a possible psychic dream. |
My mom confesses to a killing, says tearfully she had to do it--but her reasons make no sense. When I wake.. |
MONK: by Anonymous #2323; 1945-1991 (at least); a recurrent dream of a past life |
All my life, from age three or four, I've dreamed of being a young monk named Stefan somewhere in southern Europe. And aspects of his short life have shaped my own... CAUTION: SEXUAL EXPLOITATION |
MONKEY WITH A GUN: by Wayan; 2010/8/7, a predictive nightmare |
A monkey who stole a handgun aims at a troopmate and fires, ignorant of the consequences. The next evening I hear gunfire for real, and... |
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! |
MOTHER SUPERIOR: by Wayan; 1999/2/18, a nightmare with psychic tinges. |
A creepy visit to the Leather Nuns: as fierce as Beorn in The Hobbit, but less hospitable... |
THE MOUSE: by Paul Nash; Feb. 1913, surreal bedtime experience triggers surreal nightmare |
We save a mouse from a man who claims he eats them. Later I dream I am the mouse... |
MOVING IN THE LANDSCAPES OF MY DREAMS: |
by Jenny Badger Sultan; 14 dreams (mostly Jan-Mar 2011) painted on one canvas A dream urged me to paint a big landscape with cutout movable (magnetic) dream figures and liftable flaps revealing hidden dream scenes... |
MUIR ON MARS: by Wayan; 1994/5/14, a dreamtale. |
I'm John Muir reborn on Mars, supporting Mars First against tree-cutters, who poison their enemies... |
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! |
A MUSLIM CHEETAH: by Wayan, 2004/12/2, a dream of fundamental ambivalence |
A cheetah is a saboteur for a violent Islamic group. I'm attracted, but tear into her; "You plant bombs in the name of a rulebook meant for apes not cats!" CAUTION: NUDE CHEETAH; CRITIQUES HOLY BOOKS |
THE MUMMY: by Wayan; 2003/10/13, a Rarebit Fiend nightmare. |
A horror film and Rick Veitch's dream-comix provoke a nightmare warning me that guilt about my dad is wrecking my life... |
THE MURDERS: by four Wayans! 1971/7/14; a family has simultaneous psychic nightmares. |
Nearly everyone in my family dreams of a mass murder as it happens nearby. But my dad's sure it's his own evil id, and my mom clams up, and my sister forgets. And me? I doubt the whole thing for ten years, until... CAUTION: NIGHTMARE VIOLENCE |
MURDERS IN HAYWARD: by Anonymous #5; c.2002 or 2003, a psychic nightmare. |
I dream I live in Hayward, California. One day my family's murdered. Years later I find that dream-street is real... |
MY RITUAL BEHEADING: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 1996/3/24, painting of a nightmare |
We stood meekly in line to be beheaded. I tried to accept my fate and commended myself to God... CAUTION: READ THE TITLE! |
NANCY AND KIT: by Wayan; 1994/1/3, a dream about mislabeling. |
In a psychodrama scene, I try to stop a furious guy from hitting an exhibitionist girl. But I'm bleeding... |
NATALIUS' WELTS: by Natalius the Confessor, c.155 CE (or 199?), a dream leaving physical traces. |
Natalius dreamed that angels whipped him for joining a heretic cult, and woke to find welts on his back... |
NEANDERTHAL EXTINCTION: by Wayan, 2008/7/30, an academic argument turned horribly personal |
I challenge my teacher's claim human historical patterns are universal. She challenges me by dragging us both back to the Ice Age and... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
NEW BRIGHTON MURDER: by Annie Howie Mudie; 1912/12/20, a sloppy oracular dream |
Someone said "There's been a murder in the Victoria Hotel, and the murderer slept in your house." Three weeks later... |
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... |
NIGHTMARE FROM 'SISTERS': by Margarethe Von Trotta; 1979 or before, an unexamined nightmare |
A dream of body parts--maybe, impossibly, alive--hung up like drying laundry. Von Trotta inserted it in a film script to foreshadow a suicide, but seems deaf to any personal warning--as if it's not her dream at all... |
NIGHTMARE QUARTET: by Hans Rickheit; before May 1991, four Dada nightmares |
Ow! My body parts grow & shrink... A mad orchestra leader pulverizes me for nonconformity... The Brady Bunch crams siblings into a waterpipe one by one. I'm next! My bones crunch... I'm blindfolded, perched on a miles-high needle piercing my big toe. Blood drips down... CAUTION: GLEEFULLY GROSS |
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 |
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? |
NUKING HOOVER: by Wayan; 1997/2/16, a predictive dream about... fallout. |
DREAM: a 1950s newsreel shows J. Edgar Hoover, founder of the FBI, staged a coup. So his enemies dropped a tactical nuke on his HQ, killing hundreds in the street... NEXT DAY: TV news shows clips from The Day After. My nightmare newsreel... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND POSSIBLE ESP |
THE OCCUPATION: by a patient of Peter O'Connor; 1985 or before, a therapy-guiding initial dream. |
Touring an underground maze, I meet a woman I like. But her brother bristles. Then, from a height, I see the ventilation pits of the labyrinth laid out like a map. The Japanese invade! Hide in the jungle. Women in rags butcher centipedes & mice... CAUTION: UNHAPPY MEALS; OVER-JUNGIANISM |
OLD AND IN THE WAY: by Wayan; 1999/5/3, a veiled predictive dream. |
On the street called Old And In The Way, I meet a psychic I crushed on as a kid, and then, in a hearth, fight the tentacled alien who's been stalking me... |
ON THE NIGHT RIDE HOME: by Wayan; 1971/11/8, a dream-poem on pushing past prejudice |
As I bike home at night, strange doings--a rat is sacrificed; gemstones delivered; an astronaut shows glowing alien objects; a second rat becomes a... firefighter? |
ORPHEUS AND POOH: by Wayan; 1972/4/9, a dream echoing Cocteau's film Orphee--before seeing it |
I meet my true love during a coup. We go through Hell together, like Orpheus and Eurydice--only we... |
OWL SHOT: by Wayan; 2007/2/15, a predictive dream |
DREAM: I'm hiking in a local preserve when a jay with a handgun shoots an owl... A MONTH LATER: the first owls to resettle my urban county nest in a nearby park... A MONTH LATER: they're dead. One was shot; its mate died of grief. |
PAIN-RATIONER'S STRIKE: by Wayan; 1987/1/1, a dream on self-torture. |
Three men torture my friend (or is he ME?) and try to keep me from intervening... CAUTION: FAST-TALKING BULLIES |
MR. PERCEVAL'S MURDER: by John Williams; 1812/5/2-3, a recurrent predictive dream. |
Thrice I saw the Chancellor of the Exchequer shot in the House of Commons. I nearly went to London... |
PIG YOYO: by Wayan; 1987/11/21, a dream on how to end self-torture. |
A hog is tied so it bounces in a fountain, and at the bottom of each bounce, a fork jabs it! How to free this yoyo pig? CAUTION: PAIN |
PLESIOSAUR: by Wayan; 1985/9/5, a comic medical nightmare. |
An itchy patient of mine insists he's turning into a four- headed, man-eating plesiosaur. He left one thing out... |
POISONED!: by Wayan; 1994/6/20, three linked diagnostic dreams. |
Poison takes many forms, from attitudes to environmental by-products to actions done deliberately... |
POOL ASSASSINS: by Wayan; 2017/3/1, a nightmare after hearing of a real assassination |
Four women with guns attack me at a public pool. Trapped in the water, can I survive? Only by being ruthless... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
POOL OF TRUTH: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1983/10/1; a dream of shamanic descent |
Night. A massive crash on the highway. Bodies strewn. Sickened, I descend a spiral stair to the Pool of Truth. It gives no answers. Women spout platitudes. I go on, in pain, down past the polar bears... CAUTION: THE DEAD |
PORTALS OF THE PAST: by Wayan, 2021/2/6; a timish dream. |
The time-caves under Golden Gate Park lead to supervillains, magical girls, miniphants, bamboo thugs, adorable dinosaurs, and... pandemics. But is there a way back home? |
PRAISE THE DANCING GOONS: by Wayan; 2008/10/16, a dream-poem: Dreamverse 34 |
Three big tap-dancing kidnappers is too many to fight. So I try admiring their kidnapping technique... |
A PRISONER OF ZEN: by Wayan; 1980/11/9, a dream on isolation. |
The Pope spears our Inuit captain and the Mystic, who turns solitary--a prisoner of Zen. Can I free him? |
PULL THE PLUG ON THIS WAR: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; a surreal dream |
I'm a Confederate officer. The only way to save my men is to end the war by pulling the plug at the bottom of the lake! I dive in, fighting a Yankee, who... |
PULLED UNDER: by Wayan; 1976/4/15, a nightmare. |
One by one, we're pulled under the water, the earth... eaten. That's the fate of all flesh. And we're flesh. CAUTION: HORROR |
A PULP MYSTERY: by Wayan; 1997/5/7, a nightmare. |
A detective talks all his suspects into suicide. But they still bury me in wood pulp and beat me to death... CAUTION: BAD POLICE PROCEDURE |
QUEEN KONG: by Wayan; 1986/3/17, a surreal dream of nerd defiance |
A giantess strides across the desert. The Great White Hunter fires his elephant gun, but the books she's made of stop his bullets. I think I'll join the Queen Kong Library... |
THE QUEEN'S WAR: by Marianna as told by Gayle Delaney, before 1994; 2 daddy's-curse dreams |
Marianna escaped her bossy dad, only to end up with a bossy countercultural boyfriend. In these two dreams she makes the connection, and faces that she's picking Napoleons... CAUTION: BLOODY BATTLE, BAD SEX |
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... |
RABID DOGS: by Lila, before 1994 as told by Gayle Delaney; an incubated warning dream |
I asked my dreams why I had no more sexual desire for my rage-prone boyfriend. I dream a nature show says "Rabid dogs can't be cured" and shows the horrible wounds they inflict... CAUTION: THERAPIST TRIVIALIZES URGENT DREAM-WARNING |
RAIN OF WOMEN: by Wayan; 1999/6/11, a warning nightmare. |
Women rain out of the sky. People shrug "Suicides." I don't believe it--and what if one falls on me? CAUTION: SEXIST BLINDNESS TO VIOLENCE |
THE RAPTURE OF MY DARK DREAM: by Edna St Vincent Millay; 1945?, a nightmare in free verse |
Millay dreams her lover’s attacked in the street, and wakes to realize it’s already happened; he’s lost. |
RASPUTIN CLAUS: by "Sally Anne", 1990s?; a warning dream |
Bob is at the window asking to be let into my house. He is dressed as Santa Claus; but I think he's really... CAUTION: MURDER ATTEMPT |
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 |
REBEL OWL: by Wayan; 1971/10/9, a dream so mysterious it mystified its inhabitants |
My city's invaded and occupied. I become a gigantic Owl and fight with impossible stamina. But in the end I'm dead, stuffed, on a museum wall. Can I let go NOW? CAUTION: WAR |
THE RED BARN MURDER: by Ann Marten, c. 1827/12/15 and early 1828; two possibly psychic dreams |
Ann Marten kept dreaming that her stepdaughter had not eloped but was buried under a nearby red barn... CAUTION: MURDER |
RED LIGHT by Nancy Price; 1948, a predictive dream of the past! |
I'm in my home town, but at two times at once! Murderous boys explain why: I died here in 1861... |
THE RED SPHERE: by Madeline; 2006/12/13, twin (diagnostic? psychic?) nightmares |
Calmly, I watch a girl trapped in a lab try to escape, and die; and watch a man lose his head to a hungry thing... CAUTION: GRUESOME |
REFLECTIONS IN THE POOL: by Wayan; 184K total, 2 panoramas; a 1994/7/2 dream. |
Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love. Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace? CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL |
A RETRIBUTION OF MERMAIDS: by Bruno Oliveira; summer 2011, a treasure-finding dream |
Despite corporate crooks, missiles and floods, Angelina Jolie and I find the lock of mermaid hair... |
RHINZL'S SHADOW: by Wayan; dreamed 1984/8/28; two unlikely predictive dreams. |
DREAMS: 1: I can't afford language classes. 2: A beautyqueen rigs a stargate; I kill monsters & sell their bones... NEXT DAY: I'm asked "Why don't you get a language degree?" I can't afford it! I go home & watch Dr Who... A stunning girl fixes a spacetime portal. Smugglers kill alien monsters & sell their ashes as a drug... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND CREEPY DISPOSAL OF BODIES |
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... |
RICH KILLER: by Wayan; 1994/2/1, a dream on abuse and rage. |
A rich serial killer in a sports car flaunts his virtual immunity, till I go after him in a light plane... |
RING-DUEL: by Wayan; dreamed 1988/12/21; a transformation dream on reclaiming your power |
A mad scientist sneaks me into a museum that holds the Ring of Power I made at 14. I put it on, and slip into the spirit world--as a dragon! An ice-drake sent by Sauron comes to duel me for my Ring... |
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 |
ROBO-NAG: by Wayan, 2022/8/20, a dream of fighting off two moralizing topdogs |
I'm with friends in a cafe. A robot beggar scuttles in and says I must be a saint and give, give, give. I eject the robo-nag. But it comes back in the form of an Old Testament prophet with the same spiel! This time it takes fists. At last I give the nagging saint the old heave-ho, yelling "AND STAY OUT!"... CAUTION: FUNDAMENTALIST BLASPHEMY |
RORAIMA JUMP: by Wayan; dreamed 2016/9/18, a surreal dream of deadly outrage |
I'm a Brazilian in the Olympic waterfall-jumping finals. The Russian & American cheat--threaten my family. I snap! Fight recklessly, knocking them off their ropes. We all tumble down the cliff... CAUTION: BULLYING, VIOLENT REVENGE |
RUBBISH: by Naguib Mahfouz; dreamed 2001? A dream of advice from the dead. |
My dead friend lost patience with the local dump, so I beat the trash--and out came shining people... |
SAVED TWICE: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/5/19, maddeningly brief mention of two predictive dreams. |
Swedenborg dreamt of danger on his London trip, twice. Both situations then came true, but he was prepared... CAUTION: ANNOYING TO E.S.P. SKEPTICS |
SCALDED: by Wayan; 1993/7/3, a near-nightmare. |
The feud between our magical families is getting ugly. Hawk-Head's dad throws boiling water on me, so I... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
THE SEA-HAG RIOT: by Wayan; 1989/6/5, a wild dream hiding a warning. |
Aliens, hypnotherapy, dancing molars, riots, witches, flying pianos, lettuce... yet there is a point. |
SECRET SCREEN: by Wayan; 2018/4/19 and 2018/5/16, three linked dreamlets of escape |
A friend nags me to be lookout as he steals a cult's papers. I know it'll end in murder, but foresight paralyzes me! In a videogame that keeps freezing unplayably, I find a button calling up a secret screen of second chances... I'm lost in a grim basement, but two kids show me a cobwebbed glass door you can walk through like air... |
THE SECURITY GUARD: by Wayan; 1994/12/30, a nightmare on anger. |
A crazy security guard with a squirt gun full of acid kills freely over and over, for the court system keeps paroling... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
THE SELL-FISH WITCHES: by Wayan; 1983/6/29, an epic corrective dream |
My sister and I are runaways, developing psychic powers. A cult of fish-selling witches wants to use us... CAUTION: SIBLING INCEST, SPELL ABUSE |
SET ON FIRE: by Wayan; 2017/10/15, a dream on reckless stupidity |
Yuppies with a lighter set me on fire--not even out of malice, just idly. I'm a shaman, I can survive it, but I'm not immune to pain... CAUTION: NIGHTMARE, UGLY POLITICAL COMPARISONS |
SHARONNE: by Paul Friedrich, pre-1983, a political dream (despite Freud and Jung) |
I was in a gang, but I quit. They stoned me--and the green heron, the green color I called "Sharonne". The setting (Israel), the green (Islam), and the name (Ariel Sharon?) all hint the dream's political... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, POLITICS |
SHARPSHOT: by Wayan; 1977/4/3, a surreal poem of a warning nightmare |
When I was being battered, I dreamed where it would end if I didn't leave: dead wife, shot husband... CAUTION: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE |
SHE CRASHES AND BURNS: by Wayan; 2005/5/7, a diagnostic nightmare. |
I ask my dreams how to find love. I dream of a 1920s bohemian girl teasing stuffy folk. But her pranks turn dangerous, then deadly... |
SHOCKWAVE: by Wayan; 1996/7/27, a predictive nightmare. |
My childhood home explodes into a vast pyroclastic cloud that comes boiling toward me, miles away... CAUTION: DOOM |
SHOOT ME, I'M LUCID!: by Wayan; 1997/10/17, a predictive didactic nightmare. |
I distract a mad gunman in a crowd. I suspect I'm dreaming, but it still seems a bit too noble... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS ON CRAZED KILLERS AT HOME |
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 |
SIEGFRIED MUST DIE: by Carl Jung; 1913/12/18, an archetypal (and predictive?) dream. |
Jung and a little brown man shoot down Siegfried the German Hero, riding his chariot of bones. Wait... his what? CAUTION: GRIM |
SISTERS OF THE INTERFACE: by Wayan; 1983/12/21, a shamanic dreamtale. |
My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet... |
SISTERS' PSYCHODRAMA: by Christine Downing; before 1986, recurring dream of a Hadean abduction |
In psychodrama, my sister/lover did a happy childhood scene--till the actors took her down a trap door into the underworld. And I knew I'd have to go down after her... |
SIX DREAMS: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a very busy night! |
1: A flooded bathroom becomes 2: a glass water-piano; 3: my friend strips in a restaurant, so 4: they serve me gutted dog. 5: Dolls teach prostitution, as 6: a rhino rubs up to an elephant-bear... |
SNAKE APOLOGY: by Wayan; 1972/6/24 or 25, a dream on solving communication problems |
I'm a snake being hunted by the FBI. I know English, but I can only hiss. So I need to find an indirect way to show I'm peaceable... |
SNAKES AND CENTIPEDES: by Russ Thornton; 2008/11/1, a shared/telepathic dream. |
Two snakes fight as centipedes emerge from under rocks. I tell my friend. Next day her co-worker tells her the same... |
SORB TRUCE: by Wayan; 2008/9/1, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #20 |
In a desert crawling with aliens who can absorb your mind, I propose a truce, and gain... |
SPLINTER: by Wayan; 1981/3/14, a dream of love and nagging. |
I love Splinter, but her mom insists I got BOTH of them pregnant. Then I notice I'm pregnant too... CAUTION: SEX, NAGGING |
SPOTTED FAWN DODGES ARROWS: by Amanda Strong; 1998, a dream on the power of names |
Soon after I was given the name Spotted Fawn, I dreamed I was one, fleeing faceless hunters under the full moon. There's history in this... |
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 |
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... |
STOCKDEN'S MURDER: by Elizabeth Greenwood; Dec 1695-Jan 1696, six dreams solving a murder. |
Greenwood dreamt her murdered neighbor's ghost gave her tips helping her catch his three killers... |
STOP ME!: by Wayan; 1994/2/22, a nested nightmare on guilt for simply feeling |
I kill with an angry wish, just pointing my finger! No one sees, but I secretly pray others will stop me before I snipe again. Yet when I meet a telepath who can see my guilt, I start to wonder just what my crime was--beside guilt itself... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, GUILT |
STOP OBAMA'S ASSASSINATION: by Wayan; 2012/2/10. A dream about politics? Or health? |
Two child prodigies fail to stop the killers stalking President Obama, but a geek with a homemade laser... |
STOP RESISTING; 2000/1/2 by Anonymous #37; nightmare of injustice |
I'm sentenced for a crime I didn't commit; then the bailiff beats me for "resisting", though I'm not... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, SWEARING |
SUPERHERO TRAINING KITS: by Wayan; 2006/12/17, a wise mishmash dream |
I careen from a shamanic laboratory to a shattered ring round an alien world to (gasp) an honest politican!... |
SUPERNOVA ERA: by Liu Cixin; 1989/6/4, a dream inspiring a science fiction novel |
During Tiananmen, I was in Beijing for a conference. I heard chaotic noise outside, and the muffled sounds of gunfire. I dreamed a star painted the sky an eerie purple-green. Children sang, marching over snow, rifles fitted with bayonets... |
SUSHI CIRCUS: by Wayan; 1982/2/17, an illustrated psychic dream. |
To avoid being stabbed, I flee the Psychodrama Circus. Wisely--the place explodes! But it's the filling of the sushi roll that really upsets me... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MAKI |
SWORD AND BOAR: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/4/30, a dream warning of excess. |
A boar attacks Swedenborg's late brother, alive again. He tries to help, but the pig eats his brother's head. That's what you get for drinking, partying, and gluttony... CAUTION: VIOLENT DEATH |
SWORDLESS: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/8/4, a dream warning about bragging |
Swedenborg gets in a duel, but his beautiful silver hilt has no sword attached. Uh-oh... Then he's in bed and realizes he's been sexually boasting... CAUTION: PHALLIC SYMBOLISM |
SYBIL SUE FLANNERY: by Wayan, 1986/10/29, a dream noir. |
I'm Sybil Sue, a hard-boiled shapeshifting shamus, on the track of the most wanted bankrobbers in LA: the Bad Girls... CAUTION: IN BETWEEN GUNSHOTS, THE BAD GIRLS SWEAR |
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... |
TAMALPAIS: by Anna Halprin, 1979, a dream inspiring annual healing ceremonies |
A murderer was stalking Mt Tam. I dreamed I met the murderous spirit; only by allying with small dancers from inside the mountain could we defeat it... CAUTION: NEW AGE |
TANKBUSTERS: by Wayan, 2020/5/21, a dystopian dream with political advice |
In a near-future dictatorship, Democrats are afraid to take any action. But in a suburban lot, I find a burned-out tank. I need to find these rebels who can defeat military-grade repression... CAUTION: GRIM |
TARDIS GAZEBO: by Wayan; 1993/2/17, a 3-page digital dream-comic |
Solve a pictographic riddle and you can fly, shapeshift, work magic! But someone doesn't want us solving dream-riddles... |
TAROT: THE COP (Knight of Swords): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. |
The card of force sparingly needed. The Knight says, "Sometimes ya gotta bust a few heads..." |
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--hey, I'm not bored! |
TEETH IN HIS THIGH: by Wayan; 2008/10/30, an embarrassing dream-poem: Dreamverse #37 |
The Conference on Love has two sexy speakers. One says "my teacher's stalking me" but she clings to him. Love? Hate? Both? CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM--but what are these two exhibiting? |
TEN TRIALS: by Wayan; 1976/10/2, a dream of love distracted. |
While living with violent Kay, I dream I meet a cute, gentle moth-girl. But we must undergo ten trials. Mustn't we? Mustn't we? CAUTION: RELATIONSHIP TROUBLES, BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT |
TEXANS: by Wayan, 2018/8/22, an alternate-world dream |
The Lone Star Planet--worldwide Texas--is weirdly empty. No kids at all! Instead, teens ping into existence pre-formed. An alternate Earth with no concept of change? |
THEATER HOSTAGE: by Christine M, 2002/10/22, an apparently clairvoyant dream |
Gunmen held me hostage in a grand hall; at last they shot me. Next day: the Moscow Theater hostages... |
THEY'RE HANGING THE POLITICAL TRAITOR: by Jack Kerouac, late Sept. 1953, a sad dad dream |
They're hanging the political traitor in my closet. I stand horrified. The old man's resigned--no complaint. It's my father, I now realize... |
THIEU, I'M SORRY: by Wayan, 1997/11/1, a troubling dreamtale. |
Visiting Time City, I witness the "suicide" of a woman named Thieu but suspect it was really assassination... CAUTION: SUICIDE? MURDER? |
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... |
THREE CATS: by Georges Perec; April 1972, a painful comic dreamlet. Excerpt from Dream #114 |
I go home. Our cat is there. And a small, striped new cat. Then I step on a third, much bigger cat. This is just one cat too many! "This cat's not real!" I say... The nonexistent cat leaps up and scratches my face. |
THREE DREAMS: by Al Davison and two friends, 1985, a shared nightmare |
I dreamed I checked my neighbor's flat for prowlers; I got shot and fell out a window. The same night my neighbor dreamt she asked me to check her flat, I got shot and fell out a window; the same night her best friend dreamt she came by and saw from street level the gunmen and my fall out the window... CAUTION: VIOLENT ATTACK FROM THREE VIEWPOINTS |
THREE DREAMS & A COINCIDENCE: by Rick Veitch, c.1996, predictive shamanic dreams |
Three dreams set on Abenaki holy ground, of weird shamans--one ashen, one pumpkin-headed, the third goofy-faced--lead me to visit the site. Where I find the river's washed up that third shaman's face... CAUTION: WILL BOTHER E.S.P. SKEPTICS |
THE THREE VEILS BETWEEN MAN AND GOD: by Anna Kingsford, March 1881, a messianic dream. |
I was shown what veils the God in us: Blood (violence), Idols (dogmatism), and the Curse of Eve (sexism)... CAUTION: FUNDAMENTALISTS (OF ANY FAITH) WILL SEE RED |
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... |
TIAMAT'S REBELLION: by Wayan; 1988/1/1, a dream about neoteny. |
That day: I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah. That night: I dream she leads a revolution on a starship against her elders... |
TIE MARK UP: by Wayan, 2019/2/1, three dreams warning lifelong habits demand serious change |
1: Crystal-skulled wizards, dino & lionfolk parade by. 2: I curl up with three skittish beasts. Patience! 3: My friend Mark tries to rape me. I tie him up, seek a restraining order. Will the cops believe me? CAUTION: RAPE ATTEMPT |
TIGER PODIUM; c. 2003/9/29 by Monica M; a predictive dream |
The stage curtain opens. Tigers sit on podiums. In the center is a huge one with a bloody mouth. A few days later... |
TIGER TALL: by Wayan; 1992/7/3, a marathon dream. |
I'm a tiger from Planet Cat, visiting Earth to run in San Francisco's "Bay to Breakers" race. I knew racial tensions were high, but why is William S. Burroughs out to kill me? Oh. Because... |
TIMESHOT!: by Wayan; 1999/1/2, a warning dream. |
I provoke a shooting! Wandering through time, I forget how much some cultures fear witches... |
TO HELL: by Katie Hofgard; 2003/4/19?, a nightmare of loyalty |
I loyally served a demon who punished me until at last he sent me to hell. And STILL I didn't rebel... CAUTION: BLOODY ABUSE |
TODDLER SHOT BY SPOUSE: by Gloria Reiser; 1948-49; recurring childhood nightmares |
As a toddler I repeatedly dreamed I was a married adult with a daughter of my own, but the dreams always ended with my husband shooting me... CAUTION: RECURRENT MURDER |
TOO MUCH TO BEAR: by Wayan; 1997/4/28, an alt-world 10p. dream comic or text w/pics |
I dreamed that huge nouveau-riche polar bears invaded San Francisco, evicting us locals... CAUTION: CORRUPTION, URSACIDE, MATH! |
TORTOISESHELL GUILT: by 'Monk Eye'; 2014/9/9; a nightmare on spaciness and its risks |
I was enjoying an evening with this generic guy. Although there were two cats as big as bobcats in the room, I let Poodle, my tortoiseshell, in... CAUTION: GRUESOME CATFIGHT |
THE TORTURER: by Wayan; 1997/7/13, a predictive nightmare |
A free-lance torturer chooses me for his victim. He has the right. I bluster, but when I fall asleep at last... CAUTION: NO PAIN, BUT GORE |
TREMENDOUS FAMILY SAGA: by Jack Kerouac, mid-September 1952, a tender violent dream. |
I try to protect the kitten from being strangled and girl geniuses from the depth charges; ... |
TRICERATOPS, or, THE GUY WHO SCRIPTS MY DREAMS: by Wayan, 1982/8/24; a dream on dreams |
Stuck in a horror movie, I get to meet the triceratops-headed monster who scriptwrites all my nightmares. But he's open to suggestions... |
THE TUBA MAN: by Wayan; 1982/7/8, a career-advice dream; watercolor sketch. |
Tuba Man plays from the top of a tower, even when Loveless Man opens fire; for music is life to him... |
TWILIGHT'S OVAL GAME: by Wayan; 2017/10/4, three dreams arguing "Friendship is Magic"--literal magic. |
1: I failed to save a magic tree. It fell and killed someone. I'm racked with guilt... 2: A giant pinball game on a tilted oval relief-map. But you can only win as a team of six friends... 3: A Caribbean girl with a weird aura tries to align two magic crystals to heal herself... CAUTION: BREASTS, MY LITTLE PONY AS ROLEMODEL |
TWO CENTURIES OF PROGRESS: by Edwin Muir; 1938-9, two dreams and an extraordinary mini-essay |
Yesterday, Hitler marched into town. I was born before the Industrial Revolution, and am now about 200 years old... |
TWO RESCUES: by Hervey de Saint-Denys, 1836 & '60-66?, early genderbent dreams |
A TAILOR'S APPRENTICE: I become her to fight back against his abuse... DAMSEL ON THE PYRE: I become a girl being burned alive, but get so distracted by my beautiful body I forget to escape until it's too... |
THE TYRANT'S WIFE: by Wayan; 1980/6/9, a dreamtale. |
In our plot to kill the Tyrant, we used his wife. Or... did she use us? She goes mad, but--she's HAPPY... |
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) |
VACUUM DOG: by Laura A. Dale, 1942/12/19; a surreal nightmare labeling itself psychic |
DAY: I'm an experimental subject given a drug in hopes it'll induce ESP. I just babble stupidly. Humiliation! DREAM: my vacuum cleaner comes alive to attack my terrier & me. I flee, but there's an explosion... TWO DAYS LATER: at the movies, a cartoon: a vacuum cleaner comes alive to attack a terrier. Then, BOOM... CAUTION: WILL REALLY BOTHER E.S.P. SKEPTICS |
VAGUELY IN A SICK DREAM: by Jack Kerouac, late Nov. 1953, a dream of cooperative sacrifice |
Us guys take turns getting pounded by this fist of cloud that must never hit the world. It hammers my skull and retreats; we laugh and switch positions... |
THE VAT MESSIAH: by Wayan; 1985/2/27, an epic dream of magic, flight, and sex |
In our cult, we lie in vats of goo till we grow wings. But we're feared more than we knew... CAUTION: SPECIST LYNCH MOB, NUDE IN SCHOOL, LESBIAN FEELINGS, OBSCENE CARROT |
THE VENDOR: by Georges Perec; July 1971, a nightmare of societal amorality. Dream #77 |
I murder my wife. I try to sell her body as meat to a firm that'll turn her into wine. But the transubstantiation has already happened, and the paperwork's undone... CAUTION: GRISLY |
VERY FUNNY, MR. MOSLEY: by Wayan; 2009/10/8, a comic nightmare poem; Dreamverse #58 |
Trapped in a blend of Joan of Arcadia and The Tempest Tales, I'm tired of being the pratfall sidekick... |
A VIAL CRIME: by Wayan; 1984/5/21, a cartoon dream protesting that I wasn't me today |
I'm a flying fox in England. I see a poisoning and call for help. Ugly knockoffs of Peanuts characters attack me! The real Peanuts gang defeats them; Snoopy drives the victim to the hospital, saving her. It really is vital to be... authentic. CAUTION: PUNS |
A VIOLIN DEATH: by Wayan; 2015/11/24, a nightmare (vaguely) anticipating a real-life massacre. |
A fiddler has recurring dreams warning he'll be run over with his violin. Reluctantly, He sells it to a friend, and jams with him only in the woods, away from cars. But... |
VIVISECTION: by Bob Stickgold, c.1979, a nightmare dismissed as the brain at play |
After a class where students are forced to vivisect anesthetized dogs I dreamed I'd made a mistake; I was sawing open my daughter... CAUTION: CREEPY DREAM, CREEPY DISMISSAL |
THE VOICE OF GOD: by Wayan, 1993/1/31, a psychic nightmare-epic. |
Half-mad with fear, I massacre a cult, till my gun manifests stigmata: a gory miracle. Then I'm a cultist, resisting the Voice of God pushing all us mortals to murder in His name. I woke up haunted, and wondered for weeks what this was about... until the Waco Massacre. CAUTION: CREEPY VIOLENCE, CREEPY GOD, CREEPY PREDICTION |
VOTERS GONE CRAZY: by Thomas Madden, c. 2009/2/5; a political nightmare |
It's election time in Europe, but voters have gone crazy. Nazis invade England. In my library, Sarah Palin rots... CAUTION: POLITICS GONE WACKY |
VOW, CHOP, DOOR: by Wayan; 1997/1/26, a psychic dreamtale. |
I make a weird vow--while I absent-mindedly slice up other people's cars! The next day... CAUTION: DREAM VANDALISM |
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 |
THE WAR HISTORY LIES: by Wayan; 2023/3/18, a personal dream? Or a political one? |
A TV documentary shows the history of war. Or does it? In what war did great clouds of flame swallow sailing ships? Every scene they show is a natural disaster. Why are they lying? |
WERTZ!: by Wayan; 2023/10/14, a night of cartoonist-inspired dreams |
After seeing Julia Wertz's cartoon history of her entire dreamlife (on one big page!) I dream Wertz style all night! I don't mind the nightmares--what gets me down is comics' black & white... CAUTION: NIGHTMARES, SEX |
WHARTON TOWER: by Wayan; 1985/7/24, 3 surreal dreamlets on gender & class? |
1940s reporters almost trap me in a mob shootout. I shelter in a gender-segregated hotel. The owner of Wharton Tower shakes the hotel so it swings between its butch & femme halves. I fall off the Hudson Palisades, but I land safely on the Glass Ceiling... |
WHEN BLOOD FLOWS, THE DANGER IS PAST |
by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2000/3/23 & 2000/4/19, twin dreams of carved women A woman is knifed by the sea. I cradle her, but she's probably dying... For my intitiation-ordeal, I have to cut designs in my own back! I can't reach, so... |
A WHITE-FACED MARE, 29 YEARS LATER: by an Iowa grandma; 1918, a predictive dream |
My grandmother dreamt a white-faced black mare trampled me in our orchard. We had no such mare. But 29 years later, I boarded a man's two mares... |
WHODUNIT? AND WHAT DID THEY DO?: by Derek Gullino, late 70s? Five nightmares, five years old |
1: Dad picks up Bigfoot; he bites off my ear. 2: Dad abandons me in a canyon full of wolves. 3: The man who killed my family hands me his ax. 4: Bees move into my pillow. 5: A marionette with razor-nails lures me close... CAUTION: OUCH |
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 |
WINGED BEAST: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/4/7/29, a dream of fighting one's own flaws |
Swedenborg fights a monster but lacks strength. Yet later, on a higher plane, he learns the beast did die... CAUTION: VIOLENT |
WIRES: by Wayan; 1957-1963, a recurrent childhood nightmare resolved by drawing, 1999/12/8 |
I was bodiless but trapped. All I could see were these moving wires. Whenever a knot drifted by... CAUTION: MADNESS, TORMENT, TELEPATHY, SEXUAL REBELLION |
WITH WILD AND TURQUOISE EYES: by Joan-lee Woehler; c.1950, a dream of a Jungian Shadow |
I slay the beautiful dragon attacking us, despite my regret. And then, as I sleep, glowing eyes advance on our keep AGAIN... |
WITNESS IN THE FIELD: by Wayan; 1985/7/8, an apparent predictive nightmare |
DREAM: I witness a murder on a farm. So I hide in the fields as assault-gun bullets fly... NEXT DAY: I go see a love story set on a farm. But suddenly killers show up to eliminate a witness to a murder. Assault rifles in the cornfields... CAUTION: VIOLENCE & APPARENT E.S.P. |
WIZARD VERSUS WITCH-HUNTER: by Wayan; 2023/4/16, a dueling dream |
Truce at last! We can party again. But witch-hunters burst in and try to arrest me for being a wizard. They use a box of strong-arm force; I use my wand. But their weapon's rechargeable battery overheats, while I... CAUTION: CRITIQUES SELF-STYLED RATIONALISTS |
THE WOLF DREAM: by Mr. Bai, as told by Pu Songling; before 1679, a predictive dream, or fiction? |
Mr Bai dreams his son the mandarin is a tiger leading a pack of wolves--all man-eaters, at least until two angels knock out his fangs and predict he'll get beheaded soon... CAUTION: CANNIBALS, REVENGE KILLINGS |
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... |
THE WRAITH OF KHAN: by Wayan; 1982/6/2, a dream on brains and consequences |
I'm being stalked by Ricardo Montalban, playing Khan, Captain Kirk's enemy on Star Trek. Why? Oh, I know why! |
YAKETY YAK: by Wayan; 1984/5/1, a dysfunctional dreamtale. |
I'm at a family dinner. Killer Grampa, kid-hating Ma, larcenous Dad. Then a bum offers some advice... |
YATAGHAN: by Hervey de Saint-Denys, c.1840?, a dream of rescue--and summoning |
Night street. Two masked assassins attack a woman. I intervene. But I need a weapon! I picture the Turkish sword on my mantel. The yataghan appears in my hand and I... |
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 |
YOGA SAINT: by Wayan; 2010/12/4, an incubated, disturbing diagnostic dream |
I dream I meet my headaches! An ascetic yogi who punishes jokers, flirts and cynics for worldliness... |
YOU NEED TO FIND HER: by B. Bigham; 2010/4/27, a strong psychic dream of history | I walked into a 19th century home--and family quarrel. Decades passed in seconds; then the house burned--with me in it. Two years later I learned the house and its history were real... |
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