Bridges
Bridges, tightropes, anchor cables, fallen trees... ways across.
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ARCH: by Wayan; dreamed 1998/8/10, painted 1999, acrylic on wood. I dreamed that as a kid I saw two girls making love in the bushes, awakening my own sexual orientation. Later, I saw the bigger picture, which wasn't about sex at all... CAUTION: SEX |
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ARISTOTLE'S WIVES: by Wayan, 1984/5/20, a dueling-philosopher dream. Aristotle keeps marrying my friends and fucking them up. So I challenge Mr. Logic to a shamanic duel... CAUTION: THE F-WORD. OOPS, TOO LATE! LESBIAN FISH, TOO. |
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THE ARMS POLICY: by Wayan; 2000/4/7, a nightmare. The government has a harsh policy on armed dissidents. Not the kind of arms you think... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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BELLOWS BRIDGE: by Rick Veitch, Dec 1973, a dream of a battle on the border of dreaming On the bridge between waking and dreaming, a jet plane duels a T. Rex. But the jet strays into dream space, becoming a pterosaur--and soon, Rex lunch... |
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BLESS MY PHOBIA: by Wayan; dreamed 1992/8/15; story + silk painting. I was Eve's guardian angel the second time round, and I blew it again. But this time, it came out right.... CAUTION: BREASTS AND BEASTS |
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THE BRIDGE: by Wayan; a 3-page comic from two linked dreams, 1989/5/28 & 1989/10/1. The Hunt of the Unicorn (yeah, guess who I am), as I fly through the worlds fighting Reaganism... CAUTION: MOCKS THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR |
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BRIDGE-GUARD: by Alfred Maury, early 1861?; one of the first cryptomnesic dreams recorded I found myself in childhood again, in a village where my dad was building a bridge. A man in a guard's uniform introduced himself as C--. Awake I could recall no such person, but research revealed... |
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BRIDGE, MOON, PROFESSOR, SHOES: by Dorothea Tanning; 2003? Poem of a flying dream The moon invites me to go flying, but I get tired of magic and just want to go shopping... |
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CABIN IN THE SKY: by Wayan; 2005/7/25, a nervous, guilty dreamlet of escape Bart Simpson leads me down from the Cabin in the Sky back to being... grounded? |
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CRIMECON 90: by Wayan; 1990/3/27, a dream about capitalism. I did what I love. The money didn't follow. So now I have to guard a crimeboss at a theft convention... CAUTION: INEVITABLE CHEKHOVIAN SHOOTOUT |
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THE DEVIL BY C.S. LEWIS: by Wayan; 1975/12/2, an epic dream on ethics After I die, I join with others to catch the Devil, who's a bag full of bitter, angry souls. But he infects some kids. To free the world of evil, we'd have to kill them. Making us evil... CAUTION: FRUSTRATING AFTERLIFE |
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EMADRO: by Wayan; 1983/6/4, a wild dream on clinging--and letting go. An elephant sinks in the North Sea, and the Oracle Mink says a wizard did it. Can old Lady Gandalf help? |
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THE EVEREST MARATHON: by Wayan; 1986/4/12, a wild dream epic, part 3 of Unicorn Tag. In the great race up Everest, I become an e-snake, cross 3 eco-bubbles, beg a wary deer-taur to splice my spine, help Ariane my childhood crush, and solve the Dream Equations. Climbing Everest takes not strength but... trust? |
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EXIT THROUGH THE DUNGEON: by Wayan, 1982/5/23, trance-drawing experiment with surprise advice I turned off my conscious judgment and just drew. Two paths appeared--one led to psychodrama, then parental prison; the other, into the underworld of dreamwork... CAUTION: NUDE DREAM-SELVES |
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EXUBERANT BALLOONS: by Pauline Ramsey, c. 1985, a sudden joyful dream image. I stood on a bridge in winter. A skater shot out from the arch beneath, trailing a rainbow of balloons... |
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FOUR DRAGONS: by 'Rasselon'; 2009/11/24, a dream of aerial duels By a lake I've seen in many dreams, four dragons attack. I become one too, and duel them in mid-air... |
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FROM GLIDING TO FLIGHT: by Wayan; 1993/11/15, a gradualistic dream. Hypnotherapy is hopeless with these blind architects flopping all over the cafe, but my flying has improved... |
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GIANT'S HANDS: by Wayan; dreamed 1981/12/23, a split-consciousness nightmare I was a giant carefully & guiltlessly flattening San Francisco--just following orders to recycle it! Killing how many? While my mind inside the giant's mind was appalled... |
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GUNTRAM'S SNAKE by King Guntram, c.570 CE; a profitable out-of-body dream On a hunt, Guntram took a nap. His courtier saw a snake emerge from his mouth; it tried to cross a creek. The courtier lay his sword out like a bridge, and the snake crossed, climbed a hill, and went in a hole. It returned and crawled in Guntram's mouth. He woke and said "I was crossing a river on a great iron bridge..." |
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THE HACKER: by Wayan; 1993/11/23, a psychic nightmare. Who's the demon? Mom, the Dragon, the Smiler, the Rubber Ax Murderer, the Doll Princess or the Tiger?... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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HANGING CAR: by Frank Whitaker, Jan. 1935, three coincidences, synchronicities or psychic hits I grope for the name of an island. I dream I crash a car on a bridge; it hangs with one wheel over. I wake & recall a friend who moved to Canada. Breakfast. That island's on the front page. Inside's a photo of that hanging car. A letter comes--the first from my Canadian friend in years. Each might be coincidence, but what do we call it when coincidence goes on and on? |
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HICKOPHOBIA: by Wayan; 1996/5/13; 2-page dream-comix (or plain text version) Whenever I run out of ballet class to Japanese without asking my classmate Wendy out, I change sex... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
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HIDDEN INTENT: by Wayan, 1978/10/21, a possibly predictive, self-flagging dream A huge bridge spans the Pacific; my depth perception reaches miles instead of mere yards. A crowd worships a guru hidden in a tent on a pier. I don't trust him! He has hidden in tent... CAUTION: THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE |
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I CAN'T JOIN THE TRIBE: by Wayan; 1997/8/12, a nightmare on madness. After the eco-crash, I try to join a tribe in the jungle that was Oakland. But they reject me, for good reason... |
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THE ILL-FORMED TALE: by Wayan; 160K, 1981/4/7, a wild dream anti-epic. To reach the Peak of Happiness on the Isle of Dreams, I must pass four Perils--but they're all backwards... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS NUTS, KNIVES, NUDE ALIENS, BACKWARD PLOT... |
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IT WASN'T EASY: by Wayan; 1983/2/24, a dream of escaping my family's unrealism An Arabian prince kidnaps my girlfriend and me. We eventually escape his flying palace, but she gets trapped in Victorian underwear, while I escape feuding politicians by turning myself into a truck tire. NOT a smart move... CAUTION: BOGUS VICTORIAN SEX-EUPHEMISMS |
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JESSICA THE MERMAID: by Jessica, mid-1977, dream-provoked dream At a dream workshop for kids, James's trickster dream-figures provoked Jessica to dream one chased her; fleeing, she jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge, became a mermaid, and married the trickster... |
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LIES!: by Wayan; 1992/7/10, a dream that thinks it's a two-page novel. To investigate a criminal couple, I have to lie. And that's hard, since all my lies turn true... CAUTION: NEW AGE AND FILM NOIR DON'T MIX |
MAHAKALA, MOZART, AND THE CRIPPLED BIRD: by Wayan; 1985/4/17, a dream on facing shadows |
The Christian God vs Mahakala, Buddhist god of right anger! War in Middle Earth, as Pink Floyd sings... |
MANTA MOTHS: by Wayan; 1990/10/3, a transcendental nightmare echoing a dream 8 years before, (1982/1/22) |
Manta Moths pick us off us explorers... or do they? An old scroll spoke of fear leading to transformation... |
MEGALITHIC BREAKOUT: by Wayan, 2019/8/29; a half-lucid dream that needed to be |
I'm a kid imprisoned in an empty stone castle. Squeeze through a stone slit, and prepare to drop ten feet down the face of a great stone gate. But I go lucid, and my dream and waking body-senses conflict... |
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 |
ORBITING THE CRYSTAL PALACE: by Wayan; 1998/1/12, a dream of making a home. |
A wild flying dream lands me among feral children fighting to live in a glass conservatory of lost flowers... |
ORDEAL BY INFRASTRUCTURE: by Wayan; 1987/11/22, a Clintonian dreamtale--before Clinton! |
I want to join the inner circle of America's political elite. But to do that I have to survive the Ordeal by Infrastructure... |
THE OWLS OF THE GATEKEEPER ON THE FOREST BRIDGE: by Brian Quinn; 2009/7/15, a shamanic invite |
I'm pulling a cart in the woods. At a bridge over a canyon, owls urge me to climb down into the misty abyss, but... |
PARLOR GAME: by a bridge builder's wife; pre-1961, a party game interrupted by a real premonition |
I had fun playing fortuneteller, until David. My hands turned icy. I asked "Where are you going?" |
PRECOG TUNNEL : by Wayan; 1984/1/1, a small psychic dreamtale. |
I'm riding a train through a tunnel in Marin full of symbolism. I wake, interpret it all, and open the paper...
| RAINBOW TUNNEL: by Wayan; 1995/4/9 (MP3+lyrics), a global-warming nightmare song |
In our steamy future, after the cities drown, I'm hiking through Rainbow Tunnel, when I meet a holy man... |
SALIA AND CHUR: by Wayan; 1989/2/25, a psychic Star Trek dream. |
Our starship signs up a strange new woman whose quirks turn out to be fallout from slavery... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES |
SILKY'S BRIDGE: by Wayan, with brief parallel dream by Liz; 1987/5/7, apparent shared dreams |
WAYAN: I'm a cat climbing on sea-cliffs. Fear I'll fall. Run into Silky, an archer firing a line across to an islet. Now the Deer People can build their gossamer bridge... LIZ: I was hiking along a trail atop sea-cliffs. But I feared I'd fall... |
SING TO SUMMON COURAGE: by Wayan, 2019/4/21, a surreal dreampoem |
Day: an exhibitionist teen uses sex to sell charity cupcakes, while her mom glares... Dream: I date the exhibitionist, but her dad imposes weird trials, as I sing for courage... |
SPACE PIE: by Wayan; 1999/4/8, a sociological jungle-gym dream. |
I'm a Latina crossing the border at a nightmare bridge, while an Anglo rants at me about the Space Race... |
A SPHINX'S SKETCHBOOK: by Wayan; dreamed 1994/7/2 & 7/19; a 23-page dream-comic |
I find the sketch-journal of a beautiful winged sphinx who left her mythic isle to explore a great city of crazy bipeds, called San Francisco... CAUTION: SPHINX SEX, SPHINX ATTITUDE |
SPLIT THREE WAYS: by Wayan; 2010/8/24, a quantum dream of overwhelm |
On the freeway, my car and I split into quantum possibilities. I steer both entangled cars till I split again--now I have to steer three cars with just one pair of hands and eyes... |
STEREO TREE-BRIDGE: by Wayan; 2023/1/27, a surreal predictive dreamlet |
DREAM: a weird footbridge of twisting tree-branches; with steps made of wood-cased stereo equipment! NEXT EVE: a birthday potluck with a twisting papier-maché trees. Steps lead up to a treehouse full of... |
STICK IT BACK ON: by Wayan; 1980/7/15, a scattered dream still hiding a point. |
The tollman on the new bridge to the Land of the Dead revives a beheaded woman by RANDOM action... |
THE STONE BRIDGE: by JL; 1968, as told to Georges Perec; a surreal, haiku-ish dreamlet. Dream #39 |
A stone bridge, at the crossing of a road and a river. A signal sign indicates the name of the place: (YOU)... |
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... |
THE SWAFFHAM TINKER: by John Chapman and a London shopkeeper; c.1454, two interlocked dreams |
Chapman dreams he must walk 100 miles to London Bridge; on the bridge, a stranger says "dreams are nonsense! Why, I dreamt of buried treasure 100 miles away, in some town called..." |
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 |
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 |
UNDER THE HEIRESS'S SPELL: by Wayan; 1997/7/30, a wish-fulfilment fable. |
A glamorous heiress casts a spell that spills over, so I can have anyone I see! But who DO I see?... |
VRILLASSA'S ONLY PRIEST: by Jo; 2007/2/10, a dream of meeting God |
A job as the only priest on an island colony sounded perfect, only I'm the wrong religion... CAUTION: DOGMATISTS AND DEAD BIRDS TALKING |
WHOSE DREAM WAS IT?: by Wayan; 2008/10/18, a nested-dream poem, Dreamverse #35. |
I'm a Chinese kid fleeing the Japanese Occupation in 1938. As we near San Francisco, I wake to find it's all my dad's dream. Wait--he's alive again? But he was never a refugee. Is it a pastlife memory? If so, whose--his or mine? |
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