Meeting Death
The list of dreams about death was getting huge, so it's now split into four reasonable-sized ones:
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ALL HALLOW'S EVE: by (Mrs.) D. M. Barrett; 1904, a psychic dream I dreamt ghosts visited us, and for each scream, a relative would die. Two of us cried out. That morning the first letter came... |
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ARIANA'S EVENING: by Andrea McFarland; 2022/4/28, a dream of a long-lost love Fifty years after I drove him away with high-school idiocy, I get one last kiss before... |
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THE AXE OF DEATH: by Catherine McDiarmid Paton; c. 1830, a grisly predictive nightmare. She dreamt Death attacked her but her youngest kids bravely fought back--and died. 3 months later... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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BLACKBIRD: by Anna Halprin; 2002-2005?, a recurring dream of a spirit guide. At first I was afraid of the blackbird, who asked me to come away with him--I wasn't ready to die-- but now I see him as a friend and guide. One day when I'm ready, we'll fly--and I won't be back. |
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BLUE RABBIT: by Stan Brakhage; 1975/5/17, a colorful dream image bogged down by theory A startling deep-blue rabbit with scarlet eyes and red veined ears, floating in colorless air... I'd been reading Watership Down, the chapter on the Black Rabbit of Inlé... CAUTION: ART THEORY CRUSHES BUNNY |
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BOYS DON'T CRY: by Wayan; 2000/1/7, twin sex nightmares reacting to a movie seen two days later! DREAM 1: My date Lana changes to my housemate Alder to my dead friend Beryl, who talks of pastlife trauma... DREAM 2: Sexy deer-girls and ice dancers get me and my sister hot, but a ghost disrupts impending incest... TWO DAYS LATER: I see Boys Don't Cry--settings, situations, characters & even names from my dream! CAUTION: DEER BREASTS, NEAR-INCEST, FILM ON TRANNYCIDE |
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CORPSE-BUG: by Wayan; 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 |
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DEERMAN'S CHALLENGE: by Melissa McClanahan, 2002?-2007?, a recurring nightmare figure I used to dream of this violent anthropomorphic being. At times I'd put on his deer-skull head and become him, inflicting and inciting violence. Naming him gave me some control... |
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A DINNER WITH DEATH: by Wayan; 1979/2/12, an optimistic nightmare. The dinner went badly. Power outages, alarming transformations, murderous minions. Still, I'm here to tell you! So Death is weakening... |
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DOCTOR WHO AND DEATH: by Wayan; 1984/6/30, a hopeful dream of betrayal. Dr Who, that lovable BBC alien, grows a sappy flower-face and allies with Death. An alarming turn-around! What's he up to? CAUTION: GOOD DOCTOR GOES BAD? |
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GROUNDHOG DAY: by Wayan; 1994/9/2, a dream-comic (or text with pix) James Hillman is the first psychologist on the moon! He sees a shadow and panics like a groundhog--mistakes it for Death. Not his own shadow, but MINE... |
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HARE HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1998? Digital dream sketch. I dreamed my friend Beryl's soul was a giant rabbit, arguing in paradise with our mutual guardian angel... |
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LION: by Kenneth John Atchity; c.1983, a flying dream lionifying Death I fly through treetops, a lion chasing me. For him it's a game; he smiles at my tiring. And death is his name... |
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MOM THINKS I'M ON A LEASH: by Wayan, 2019/3/10; an unheeded warning dream DREAM: my late mom invades my workplace. "Check in weekly or we'll stop your allowance!" What allowance? I'm independent! MONTHS LATER: I got sick from overwork. Nearly died. NOW: I think my dead mom meant: face your limits, check in with mortality, or you'll... check out. |
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MY CHANCE: by Howard Nemerov, 1980 or before, a comic dreamlet An actor-manager type is putting on Hamlet, and he offers me a role; I'm breathless, my chance has come at last! He'd like me to play... |
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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... |
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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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SPIDER CRONE: by Wayan; 2019/12/20, a nightmare of helpful advice Lost in the rainforest of Olympic National Park, I stumble into the wrong cabin: the hut of Time herself. Or is she? She asks me to clean up, but spare her web... |
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THANOS: from Dream to Performance: by Lili Berko, 1988 or before, a dream of birth & death The ship carrying my mom to America sails on, as I drown in the sea; They strap me down to pull out the pieces of my stillborn baby Obdale; A family/gang called Thanotos invites me to join them... CAUTION: MISCARRIAGE, DEATH |
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THREE DREAMS: by Robley Wilson; July 4, 1975?; a dream-poem Dead fish in a poisoned stream, dead kittens in a pit... and advice from the woman who revives them with a touch. |
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WHISTLE: by Dr William Hammond, c.1865; a self-flagging predictive nightmare On a long steamboat voyage, a living skeleton swaps a warning for my watch; when the whistle sounds, the boiler will blow. As it does, I dive in the river and wake to discover a real whistle... CAUTION: UNCANNY SYNCHRONIZATION? |
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THE WILD HUNT: by Carl Jung; Sept. 1922, a clairvoyant dream hinting what death is A huge wolfhound tore past me. My blood froze. The Wild Hunt was carrying off a soul... |
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ZHUANGZI INTERVIEWS A SKULL: by Zhuangzi, c.310 BCE, an incubated dream on the afterlife DAY: while traveling, Zhuangzi found a skull. Wondering how it had lived and died, he slept on it. DREAM: the skull answered him! It told of death, which the skull found preferable to mortal life... |
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