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ALEXANDRINA: by Adela Samona, March 1910; a predictive dream plus apparent far memories After the death of her 5-year-old, Adela dreams Alexandrina says "Don't be sad, I'll come back." Eight months later Adela bears a child identical to the dead girl--and she recalls things Alexandrina saw... |
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THE DREAM: dreamed by Yadwigha, painted by Henri Rousseau; 1910, collaborative dream art Rousseau's painting of a woman on a red sofa in a glorious jungle really was dream-based--just not his dream... CAUTION: NUDITY, SLACKING |
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MY MOTHER & I: by J.S. & his mother, c.1910?, shared/parallel dreams MY DREAM: I was walking a hilly road, my uncle ahead, my stepdad behind; trying to keep them in sight. My mom appeared and I woke. MY MOTHER'S: the same. She told me hers before I told her mine. She thought it meant my uncle would die first, then me, then... CAUTION: APPARENT TELEPATHY, BUT MISINTERPRETED MEANING |
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CHANGING IDENTITIES: by Mary Arnold-Forster; 1910-14? a dream of alternating selves. I was the new girl among rich students, then an adult among snobs, then a girl again--always craving freedom... |
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MIND OF A MURDERER: by Mary Arnold-Forster; between 1910 & 1920, a dream on self-justification I sink into a book on a murderer who rationalizes away all guilt, but pull out thinking "How morbid!"... |
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AVENUE OF TREES: by Anonymous #34; July 1911?, early 1924?, 1934/3/30, & Jan. 1947; four death-omen dreamlets, one predictive Every decade or so, I dream a loved one says farewell and walks down an avenue of trees. I wake to find that person's dying... |
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BRETON NUNNERY: by Mabel Morison, August 1911, a dream of a stranger's passing Touring Bretagne, I lodged in a nunnery. At 1 AM I saw by moonlight an old woman at my table. I later learned that old woman died at 1 AM that night; for many years, my room had been hers... |
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TITANIC NIGHTMARES: by J. C. Middleton; 1912/4/3 and 4/4, two predictive dreams saving two lives I saw the Titanic go down and people struggling frantically in the water. After my second nightmare I told my wife... |
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TITANIC IMAGE: by Graham Greene; 1912/4/14?, a child's nightmare as the Titanic sank One image has remained with me for more than sixty years: a man in oilskins bent double under the blow of a great wave... |
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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... |
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DOVE GIRL: by Carl Jung; c.1912/12/25, the classic anima dream. In a castle, a white bird lands on the table and becomes a little girl who plays with Jung's kids, hugs him, then turns back into a bird, explaining "I can become human only for a few hours of the night, when... |
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PLANE OVER ORAIBI: by Hosteen Hal, c.1902-13; a long-range predictive dream Before I'd ever heard of planes, I dreamed one landed near me. A white man invited me to ride, and we flew over Oraibi. I told people but they didn't believe such a thing could come true... |
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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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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... |
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FALSE BOTTOM: by Edith Wharton; October 1913, a summing-up nightmare. Demons open a trunk full of the horrors I've faced this year, and lay them out, mocking me... but is that all? |
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THE FLYING SCOTSMAN: by J.W. Dunne, fall 1913; a lucid predictive dream Just north of the Firth of Forth in Scotland, a train fell from the track to a grassy park where small groups of people wandered. I sensed it was one of those odd dreams of mine & tried to get the date--next spring. On April 14, 1914, the "Flying Scotsman" jumped the parapet 15 miles north of the Forth Bridge and fell to the golf links below... |
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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 |
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LBJ'S STAMPEDE: by Lyndon Baines Johnson; 1913-14?, a childhood nightmare anticipating a presidency As a boy I dreamt I was trapped in a wooden chair, paralyzed, as a stampede rushed toward me, just as my grandmother was paralyzed and chair-bound... |
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JUNG'S PREMONITIONS OF WORLD WAR I: by Carl Jung, 1913-1914; five ignored warnings. Jung was told in dreams and visions that Europe would soon drown in blood. But he just couldn't believe it... |
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THE EGG CRACKS: by Carl Jung, 1914/1/10-1917/2/4; meditation-images A green monster guards the divine egg; with the right prayer, it explodes in a fountain of mad color, half grenade, half freed jinni... |
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FERDINAND'S ASSASSINATION: by Joseph Lanyi; 1914/6/28, a historic predictive dream. Lanyi dreamed in detail of the assassination of his friend Archduke Franz Ferdinand hours before it happened... |
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SUPERIMPOSED: by a German photographer, as told by Carl Jung; 1914-1916, a two-year synchronistic linkage A mom in the Black Forest photographed her young son and took the film to a lab in Strassburg. War broke out; she never got back. Two years later in Frankfurt, she photographed her young daughter. The film came back with both her kids--superimposed. The film with her son's latent, invisible image had wandered across wartorn Germany to be sold mistakenly as fresh--to her. CAUTION: TWISTS "COINCIDENCE" INTO A PRETZEL |
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DEATH CHANTY: by E.M. Martin's friend; 1914/9/21, a psychic dream An endless parade of drowned sailors sing a dirge. The dreamer woke in tears. Then the news arrived. |
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A FLYING DREAM IN WAR-TIME: by Mary Arnold-Forster; Nov. 1914, a hyperrealist dream. I can always fly in my dreams, so the military command asks me to levitate across war-torn Belgium as a courier... |
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THE LAST MASS: by E.M. Martin; 1914/11/23, a dream of war invading a peaceful dreamland For years Martin's dreams were all set in a parallel world untouched by World War, until... |
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THE CHANGED RIVER: by E.M. Martin; 1914/11/25, the quietest apocalyptic dream on record Humanity slowly 'improves' a river until the stream just disappears! Ominous--since it's the river of nature, time and God... |
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THE UNWILLING GUIDE: by E.M. Martin; 1914/12/29, a nightmare of occupied England In a wood full of snipers, Martin has a hard moral choice: lead, leave or turn some possible spies... |
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EAGLE WOMAN: by Hosteen Hal, 1914, an old-friend-becomes-anima dream An eagle lands near me and turns into a woman. She says "That pet eagle you had as a child? It's me!" I'm a bit surprised. She wants a turquoise bead with a hole in it, and I look for one... |
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TIN FISH: by a ship engineer's wife; 1914-1918, a precise lifesaving dream I dreamed my husband's ship headed for India, but a 'tin fish' sank it with just one casualty--him. I rushed down to the dock... |
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SWORD IN MY BACK: by Franz Kafka; 1915/1/19, a surreal but un-Kafkaesque dream. I slept late and felt a bit stiff, but until my friends pulled it out of my neck I had no idea... |
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MISTRESS TOOTHSMOOTH: by Yves Delage, 1915/1/20, an early anima dream I'm in the cellar, petting a tiger-cat. She speaks inside my head: "I'm tired of living on bread. I need meat." I make excuses--it's pricy--then see big hanging quarters of meat. I hide them! She says "Call me Mistress Touttmouss"--well, something like that--I know it's English, but can't make it out til I wake, when I see... |
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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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THE MAN AT THE END OF THE PASSAGE: by John Hubbard c.1915? a surprise-ending dream War between a big conformist land and a small land devoted to quality. Big Land's rulers all die, but at last, sheer numbers defeat the smaller land. Now their leader, beaten and starved, awaits the sword at the end of the hall... CAUTION: POLITICAL? ACCORDING TO CARL JUNG! |
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MANDALA: by Carl Jung, c.1915; a drawing he lied about for decades Jung, in crisis, drew a complex mandala, and then wrote about its symbols & archetypes, always claiming a patient had drawn it... |
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A HAND AT CARDS: by Loomis C. Johnson; around Dec. 1916, a predictive dream. I dreamt of a surreal poker hand where one card changed to create a full house. Next weekend, I was losing when... |
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MAN OVERBOARD: by Sir Stephen King-Hall; 1916, a lifesaving premonition acted on I was officer of the watch in the Southampton. I knew that as we passed an islet a mile ahead, a man would fall overboard... |
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HARRY AND KUVYRKIN: by Vladimir Nabokov, 1916, a punning long-term predictive dream. Nabokov's uncle left him a fortune but the Revolution took it. He dreamed his uncle said "I shall return to you as Harry & Kuvyrkin." 40 years later filmmakers Harris & Kubrick paid Nabokov a fortune for the rights to Lolita... |
SUPERIMPOSED: by a German photographer, as told by Carl Jung; 1914-1916, a two-year synchronistic linkage |
A mom in the Black Forest photographed her young son and took the film to a lab in Strassburg. War broke out; she never got back. Two years later in Frankfurt, she photographed her young daughter. The film came back with both her kids--superimposed. The film with her son's latent, invisible image had wandered across wartorn Germany to be sold mistakenly as fresh--to her. CAUTION: TWISTS "COINCIDENCE" INTO A PRETZEL |
F.I.P: by Dr A (c.1947), a Cambridge man (1960?), a London girl (c.1916) and a Midlands mum (July 1958) |
Examples of inexplicable moods that appear (after the fact) to be reactions to future events... |
DREAMS IN WAR TIME: by Amy Lowell; c. 1917, a chain of seven small dream-poems |
Terse dreamlets quietly catch World War I's effect. Faith died in the trenches... |
UNDER: by John Collings Squire, c.1917; a surreal dream-poem |
She tells me there's a stream under the floor, upstairs. Peel back the carpet, pry up the boards. An icy creek. Trout. She brings me a fishing rod. But the fish say they're too young to die. I feel such guilt and grief... |
SHIP OF THE SUN: by Carl Jung, c.1917/1/10; trance image |
An version of the Egyptian Ship of the Sun with a mutant Osiris at the helm, in a monster-infested sea: image of the spark of consciousness in a sea of... |
TUCCOTINE: by William Archer; 1917/1/14, a tasteful dream. |
The innkeeper insisted I try a strange-looking liqueur, a house specialty called "Tuccotine"... |
JUNG'S DRAGONS: by Carl Jung, 1917/1/17 to mid-1922; recurring dream/trance figures |
Jung's visions of dragons evolve from fiery destroyers to thieves who can be forced to give up treasure to peacful, luminous guardians of the sacred... |
THE EGG CRACKS: by Carl Jung, 1914/1/10-1917/2/4; meditation-images |
A green monster guards the divine egg; with the right prayer, it explodes in a fountain of mad color, half grenade, half freed jinni... |
CHE FANNO GLI INGLESI?: by William Archer; 1917/7/30, a senseless dream. |
To help the King of Italy, I become a baker in Baluchistan-- learning Norwegian, levitating, meeting quaggas, riding landslides... |
SEVERED HEAD: by Dr. Walter Prince, 1917/11/27, a detailed predictive nightmare |
DREAM: a thirtyish blonde says her death is ordered. Her head's cut off. But it won't die--bites his hand! Dr. Prince feels the dream shouts "premonition!" and writes an account at the Society for Psychical Research. Next night, a thirtyish blonde nearby commits suicide, leaving a note saying her severed head will live on... CAUTION: CREEPY DREAM, CREEPIER NEWS |
"POOR MRS TIMMS!": by JD Beresford's 4-year-old son, Jan/Feb 1918 |
Our son woke in the night crying "Poor Mrs Timms; poor Mrs Timms!" We knew no such woman, but it turned out she lived nearby. That day, her son had died in France... CAUTION: IMPLIES WE'RE TRAINED OUT OF A 6TH SENSE |
SUN AND MOON: by Katherine Mansfield; 1918/2/9, a dream-story |
I dreamed a short story--even its title. Not that I read it. No, I lived it, through the eyes of a 5-year-old... |
WOUND-BARGAIN: by a Marine from New York; 1918/9/12-14, a prediction and possible alteration of the future |
I was sure I'd be wounded, but dreaded being crippled. So I tried on injuries! I settled on a flesh wound in my left shoulder... |
TOWARDS BREAK OF DAY: by WB Yeats and Georgie Yeats, Dec. 1918; |
Simultaneous dreams sharing mood & theme not images. Yeats sees but cannot touch the waterfall he loved so in childhood; Georgie, the magical white stag in King Arthur... |
ERICEPAEUS: by a multilingual woman, c.1918/12/25; a psychic dream told to Jung |
Jung's patient dreamed of a strange name, Ericipaeus. She didn't know Jung had been studying a minor god named, he thought, "Ericapaeus". He'd misread the manuscript; the name was actually spelled a third way... |
A BUSINESS MAN'S DREAMS: by A Business Man, c.1918; four predictive dreams |
A certain intensity marks some dreams as predictive, whether they foresee a death or a crisis averted; but I keep quiet about them, writing them only in a locked diary. Once I spoke up, and was shunned... CAUTION: DISTURBING ANALOGY WITH SEX-ORIENTATION CLOSET |
FOUR DAYS BEFORE THE FLU: by R.T., 1918; a predictive nightmare |
I dreamed that in four days a plague would hit our reservation and people would start dying. Four days later it happened just as I was warned---the 1918 flu. And my dream caused it... CAUTION: NOT JUST SURVIVOR'S GUILT, SEER'S GUILT |
SPY WITH A BUN: by Miss C, 1918, a dream experiment urged by J.W. Dunne |
DREAM: I meet a woman with a bun hairdo, black skirt, black & white striped blouse. I think she's a spy! TWO DAYS LATER: I meet that woman--bun, skirt, blouse. And all the hotel guests here say she's a spy... |
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... |
SURF DREAMS, DEEP DREAMS: by AE (George Russell) and Wayan; |
(1918 and 1996, twin images of our limited conception of dreaming) What you call dreams are just the surf-zone between waking and dream! Swim out past the foam to the dream-deeps and you'll find... |
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 |
MISSION TO MACEDONIA: by William Archer; 1919/7/6, a pseudo-psychic dream-within-a-dream. |
I'm offered a spy-mission to Macedonia, and recall I dreamt this last night--a prophetic dream! Then wake... |
THE GREEN GODDESS: by William Archer; 1919/9/1, a playwriting-idea dream that paid off |
I was held hostage in India by courteous revolutionaries who avoided spelling out that we were soon to die... |
ATMAVICTU: by Carl Jung, c.1919/12/4; portrait of dream figure in a different phase of life |
Jung's ally in killing the murderous German archetype Siegfried was Atmavictu. Here he's worn out, turning to stone, ready to manifest as a different guide... |
BROKE LIKE GLASS: by Katherine Mansfield; 1919/12/15, a warning-dream. |
A long terrible shiver, and my whole body broke like glass. I may live months, but in that dream I died... |
A DREAM OF HELL by Herbert Palmer, 1919; recurring nightmares of loneliness |
I'm in Hell. No fire, no guilt. Just endless forests under the moon. My mother paints endlessly but never gets it right. A sunny day, but I can't go out to play. Cut off... CAUTION: DEPRESSION |
GUARDIAN GHOST: by an Oklahoma girl; 1919, a dream (?) of ghostly advice |
I dreamed my late stepdad warned me to stand by my mom--she'd be in trouble soon--gossip & blame... |
HUMPBACKED COAT-THIEF: by "Anonymous #15"; c.1919, an acted-on warning dream |
I dreamed of a beggar in our house who had been stealing. It was a very small man with a hump. Weeks later... |
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