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ANOCHE / LAST NIGHT: by Antonio Machado; c. 1900; a joyful dream poem Last night, as I slept, I dreamt--illusion blessed!--that I had a beehive, here inside my heart... |
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ARROW OF FIRE: by Archbishop Anselm, King William Rufus & a monk, 1100/8/1, 3 predictive dreams Anselm dreams God orders King William's death by an arrow of fire; the King dreams his blood covers the sun. Waking, he mocks a third man's ominous dream, goes hunting, and dies bloodily at sunset, an arrow in his heart... |
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ARSON MUSIC: by Wayan; 2000/10/4, a parallel-world dream on ethics Driving through California farm hills with subtly different natural laws, I find social consequences. Can physics create evil? |
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ARSON PATTERN: by Wayan, 2023/8/13, a troubling political dream Fires erupt all over the Bay Area, but people I meet (and the news) just say "global warming." No! It's no warmer than normal and those fires are in lines! Arsonists are driving around, torching... CAUTION: POLITICAL READING |
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THE ASHE SISTERS: by Wayan; 2010/1/26, a dream portrait. My two moms sell art fabrics made by grayish batwinged sisters whose newest ad is risqué... CAUTION: ADS WITH NUDE BATS |
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BARN BURNING: by Denise Levertov; 1929?; a childhood nightmare I'm in a barn full of peaceful animals lit by a golden glow. And then they all blacken, crinkle, and corrugate like burnt paper... |
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BAYONNE: by a precognitive Floridian; 1945/8/6, a predictive dream "There is going to be an explosion of two or three million gallons of oil or gasoline..." |
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BIG FLAMING AIRPLANES TRYING TO LAND: by Jack Kerouac, late Oct. 1953, a double nightmare Two DC-6s catch burn over New York. Me? I'm a naked child in a Babylonian temple in Jersey... |
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BIRD CRASH: by Emily Joy; 2007/3/12, a set of didactic nightmares Such pressures there are on the sick to act well! I implore you, ignore them all... CAUTION: EXPLODING TEACHER |
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BIRDS ON FIRE: by Wayan; 2008/9/15, a political dream-poem, Dreamverse #26 George Bush leads a hill-tribe raid against the hill-tribe led by Osama bin Laden... and I'm stuck between... CAUTION: ANTI-HEROES, POLITICAL PREDICTION |
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BRUNO'S DREAM: by Giordano Bruno, 1578, a cosmological dream Bruno flew through space--not crystal spheres, not Heaven, not even the Copernican solar system, but interstellar space. He saw the stars were suns, those suns had planets, and those planets bore life... CAUTION: BURNED ALIVE BY THE INQUISITION |
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BURN: by Sierra Loucks; 1990?, a five-year-old's nightmare I was at the beach with my friends. It was fun. But gradually they were laughing at me, not with me. Then they picked up burning sticks... CAUTION: GRUESOME |
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BURN THE EGGS: by Wayan; 2008/1/20; a magical advisory nightmare with 15 sketches. Fighting an absolutist theocracy, my dragon-soul burns the church's dragon-nursery. The cost is terrible: a black vortex... CAUTION: ROMANTIC THREESOME GETS BURNED |
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BURN HIS TREE: by Emily Joy; 2007/2/7; two linked nightmares on art Malevolent artwork terrorizes my baby and me! What's to be done?... |
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BURNING HOUSE: by Graciela Iturbide, 2006 or before; a Pygmalion dream My home was burning; I despaired. All my negatives would be lost. But some figures arose from their photos and walked out of the fire... |
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CHURCHES BURN WHEN YOU LEARN TO FLY: by Wayan; 1989/9/1, a didactic flying dream. I finally learn the difference between just getting off the ground and the mastery of true flight--but there's a heavy price... |
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CLIMB DOWN THE PINNACLES: by Jenny Badger Sultan, l995/12/24, a surreal dream and painting Decision by decision, we made our way down immense rock crags. Below, I had to put out a deadly fire, a fire as solid as wood or stone, with a white staff. What am I really trying to calm? |
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COSMOLOGIST: by Wayan; 1994/12/2, another physicist's nightmare. A mad gunman breaks in and shoots at me, but I start him talking, and learn what's eating him... |
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THE CRANE SPOKE: by Thomas Takashi Tanemori; 1945/8/5, a child's dream foreseeing Hiroshima A crane came and spoke to me, reassuring me "I'll be back" even as a great fire burned it. It returned as a white butterfly. Next morning, as we played hide and go seek, I shut my eyes and counted to... CAUTION: CIVILIANS MASSACRED |
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DEMETRI'S DREAM: by Demetri Porphyrios, painted by Rita Wolff; 1982, a nightmare. A great quake and fire devastate Athens; I'm up on the Acropolis, as the stone columns of the Parthenon fall... |
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THE DESTRUCTION OF HAWAI'I; 2004/9/2 by Anonymous #37; a short apocalyptic nightmare I was a small boy living on Oahu. Out my front door I saw a 20-mile-tall wall of flames stretching across the horizon... |
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DOUBLE FUNERAL: by Rick Veitch; c.1995; a nightmare on the First Gulf War? Two kids I grew up with are dead. We carry their still-smoking corpses by the home of George Bush... CAUTION: BURNT BODIES |
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DRAGONFLY BUS: by Wayan, 2023/3/28; four dreams on halting runaway feelings A girl writes a whole movie to get a shy boy to hold her; I stupidly summon a monster dragonfly-bus; a devil-suited jerk hogs a musical's stage TWICE; leeches crawl from the treasure-box I opened... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, SEXUAL FEAR/GUILT |
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(THEIR) DREAM HOUSE: by Wayan; 1986/1/1, a New Year's nightmare. A house with a fire-ghost infestation. Worse than termites! And the ghosts tell me it's all my fault.... |
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THE DREAM TO LAST YEARS: by Elizabeth Church; 2004? to March 2008; repeated meetings with a guardian--in dreams & out! For five years now I've been dreaming of this guy. Many dreams, same guy... |
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A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM: by Afton Jandro; c.1983, a transcendent dream Africa. The elephant seemed attracted to a strange wave of white heat. It faded to nothingness. Suddenly we too were enveloped. I became flame. I was consumed. I was a thought center, alone in a white void. To create a new life I had only to speak the word... CAUTION: DEATH |
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ENLIGHTENMENT: by Brenda Ferrimani; 1999/3/9, painting of a non-apocalyptic dream A crowd watches from shore as a great glowing meteor descends into the sea. I fear a tsunami, but... |
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EVERLASTING AND PERPETUAL NIGHTMARE: by Shawn King; c. 2009/2/10; two bits of a lifelong nightmare Lucifer throws firebolts from a Montreal tower; monsters stalk us; next comes the flood... |
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ETNA-SHASTA, or, GROOM YOUR OWN FEATHERS: by Wayan; 2008/9/18, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #28 On a volcano's rim, watching the lava fountains, I interview a huge blue alien bird who never planned to be a monk... |
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THE FACTORY: by Sunshine; 2015/9/25, a metaphorical dream Elegant, ancient, the tower rose into the clouds. Inside? Smoke & darkness. Workers roast meat... |
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A FACTORY FIRE: by J. W. Dunne; late 1903, a predictive nightmare. Dunne dreamt of a fire with smoke so toxic it killed people on a balcony in open air! Then came the evening newspaper... |
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FIREBOWL: by Wayan; 2013/9/14; a diagnostic/climatological/futurological dream I'm in the High Plains, at a huge powwow on climate change. This could become, not a new dustbowl, but a firebowl. As I wake, I find I'm running a fever! And the dream hints what caused it... |
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FIRE-CATS: by Wayan; 1981/10/10; twin dream-poems on over-discipline For mere disobedience, I EXECUTE a forest-fire-fighting cat! So next I'm trapped in a security-obsessed job; how do I like it? I flee... |
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A FIRE ENTIRELY WITHOUT HEAT: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2008/9/11; painting in the Box of Dreams On the anniversary of 9/11, I dreamed a friend was welding nude. In his careful hands, the fire was harmless... |
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FIRST DATE: by Wayan; 1991/10/20, a true story. I have weird, bad luck around dating. Finally I go on a picnic with Page, and the Great Fire begins... |
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FLAMES: by John, c. 1973, as told by Gayle Delaney; an induced transcendent dream I asked my dreams if I should leave my alcoholic wife. I dreamt we were conjoined flames, green and blue. I awoke hopeful, and knew I'd stay. For eight months my wife struggled. Now she's been sober five years... |
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FLAMING LEAVES: by Dr. Adele A. Gleason and John R. Joslyn; 1892/1/26, a shared dream. Adele: alone & scared in a dark wood--but her friend John came & shook a tree; it burst into flame! John, the same night: found Adele scared in a dark wood. Shook a bush & it burst into flame... |
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THE FLASHBACK: by Wayan; 1985/11/28, a dark dream-farce. I'm a monster working in a shopping mall in Stockton, California, when I smell smoke... CAUTION: FILM NOIR SEX |
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FLOO PORTAL: by Wayan; 2015/12/4, a dreamlet-poem on stepping over lines I live in a huge half-hotel. The only way into the other half is through a fireplace. It's forbidden. But one woman steps through the fire--do I dare follow?... |
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FREEZE!: by Wayan; 1984/5/29, a surreal dream of asymptotic political advice Demons of fire invade the house, and the Voice of Truth says they can't be killed. What would you do? |
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FREIGHTER DROPS A NUKE: by Wayan; 2021/6/8, a health-warning nightmare Am I on this ship's bridge, or only watching on video? It matters, because that other ship half a mile ahead just exploded, and the shockwave's about to crush us like a soda can... CAUTION: NUCLEAR DISASTER |
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FURSA'S DREAM: by Fursa, c.633, as told by the Venerable Bede; a Christian shamanic dream Fursa the preacher, sick, dreams flaming devils & angels are trying his case; one failure to coax a deathbed repentance gets him scorched. He wakes with burns... CAUTION: DREAM HAS PHYSICAL EFFECTS |
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A GAMER'S DREAM: by Mark Nelson; 2002/3/5; A collage of real-world events brought into dreams
I face a barrage of deadly challenges out of every action film I've seen and every game I've ever played... |
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GOAT WITH A HUMAN HEAD: by Steve Carter, 2008/7/12; a dream image. Walking around my brother's farm, I met this goat with a human head. He'd been playing with matches... |
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GUNNHILDR’S BIRTH DREAM: by Gunnhildr; c. 1150, a surreal predictive dream. I dreamt I gave birth to a white-hot stone shedding sparks. Most folk would find my son strange... |
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HALF'S HARD: by Wayan; 2014/11/24, a frustration dream hiding a diagnosis and prescription Night. Broken metal sculptures, a welder too horny to weld safely, and a steel panther longing to be whole and loved... CAUTION: KINKY SCULPTUROPHILIA |
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HEPBURNING: by Wayan; 1984/8/1, a nightmare on frustration's fire Kat Hepburn burns inside, as fierce aliens take over our souls. But these parasites forgot they're now bound to our bodies... |
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HERE COMES A CHOPPER: by Wayan; 1983/6/20, an absurd nightmare on families and denial The helicopter over our family home dipped too low. CRASH! Burning rotors in the living room. I call 9-1-1, but the pilot scolds me! "Calling over a little explosion like this!"... |
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HILL OF FIRE: by Mike and Wayan; 2022/9/10, short parallel dreams MIKE'S DREAM: A volcano erupts. The lava pours into my hotel... WAYAN'S DREAM: Our hill erupts in flame from a gas explosion... |
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THE HOG AND VIBRATOR SHOW: by Wayan; 2014/11/7, an obscene comic nightmare The gameshow has two old men humping sextoys on the floor as the audience watched. That wasn't the gross bit. It was when they released the hogs... CAUTION: OBSCENE GAMESHOW. EVEN MORE THAN USUAL. |
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HOT WATER KNOB: by Wayan, 1987/10/5, a punning predictive dream DREAM: my car has a fuel leak. Luckily, I carry around a crystal hot-water knob-- for beauty, not car repair. But I screw it in & stop the leak, fixing my 'drive'... NEXT EVENING: turn on the TV news, and there's my hot water knob... |
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HYDROGEN INITIATION: by Wayan; 1981/1/6, a shamanic nightmare. I'm an initiate in a Sung Dynasty monastery. But I have no idea how far the hazing can go... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
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IMMOLATION MAZE: by Richard Turner; 1973, a nightmare expanded into both sculpture & story Saigon, 1973. Lost in a fabric maze. I find, wearing Buddhist robes, the skeleton of a dog. Years later I write of Buddhist monks burning themselves, and build an ominous maze... CAUTION: SUICIDES BY FIRE |
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IN THE STAR; 1988/9/12 by Wayan; an epic, out-of-body, intrastellar quest-dream I tour the heart of a red supergiant, where dreaming souls explore their fears and heart's desires, unconstrained by solid matter... CAUTION: SWEDENBORGIAN VISION, UNICORN NUDITY |
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IRONY: by Wayan; 2007/6/15. A vertical comicstrip burned into (naturally) an ironing board I’m so sick of irony I decide to get my sense of irony surgically removed and replace it with... CAUTION: PLAYING WITH FIRE |
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JUANA'S ROCKET: by Wayan; 2010/9/4; a dream on how facing abuse can fan inflammation DAY: I find old photos showing my dad ogled my sister, the Lee girls, and teens he met at the beach. DREAM: Juana Lee wants to fire a rocket launcher--indoors. The house'll burn! But she won't relent... CAUTION: INCESTUOUS & PEDOPHILIC DAD-VIBES |
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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... |
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JUST KNOWING: by a St Louis woman; summer 1934 and 1941/11/20, two very pure ESP experiences I suddenly knew I had to get off the bus and wait for the next. We passed the first bus, on fire... I was at Thanksgiving dinner when I felt my mother dying two thousand miles away... |
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THE KEROUAC TREE: by Wayan; 2 ill., 1983/3/18, a dream of fame and time. The true story of the very first tree-hugger. Not Kerouac! You'll never guess. In fact, you'll say it's impossible... |
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LIGHTING THE TORCH: by Peter Birkhäuser; dreamed June 1974, painted Sept. '74. In the dark, a dragonlike god of fire stretched out one claw to courteously light my own small torch... |
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THE LONGING TO BE SAVED: by Maxine Kumin; 1980? a poem based on recurring nightmares I save our horses from a fire, but they run back in. Then it's my family I must save from themselves. At last, it's my turn... |
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LOOKING FOR LIBRIUM: by Jim Shaw; Jan. 1995?, a mutant Biblical dream After fighting off an electrified Orson Welles, I meet the twelve vulture-pine-politicians climbing Mt Sinai, looking for librium... |
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LOON LADDER: by Wayan; 1993/5/13. A dream of rising above. I had this near-nightmare about climbing a DNA stair up to the sky, and stepping off... CAUTION: NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES |
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THE LOST DUTCHMAN BURNS: by Wayan; 2011/11/17, a smelly dream censoring itself for safety reasons! I smell smoke. I know I'm dreaming; did my sleeping body scent smoke in my home, and insert it in my dream to warn me? But the dream sees my worry, and erases the scent to clarify it's symbolic smoke! Now I can finish my nightmare in peace... |
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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 |
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THE MAN WITH THE GUITAR: by Wayan; 1992/7/4, a psychic dream-comic (or illus. text)) A volcano erupts in San Francisco! No human could survive the blast, but one researcher does--what IS he? |
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MEDITATION: by Marie-Claude Girondé, spring 2007, a dream painting. A jungle cat needs to take time out from a hard day's predation to have a quiet smoke... |
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THE MELTING POT: by Wayan; 1982/7/30, a dream warning of a conformist circle They were swimming in the glowing, molten pool of the Melting Pot, and beckoned me to join them... CAUTION: SUICIDE SOUP? |
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MEN CATCH FIRE: by Shannon Frazier; 2020/12/8, an identity-bent dream I was a South Asian teenage girl. Strange men throw rocks at our house, then explode into fire. I don't trust my dad to get my little brother out... |
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MIGRATION THROUGH FIRE: by Wayan; 1999/9/3, a dream of what matters. I'm a shaggy primitive whose tribe's outgrown our caves. We migrate, and meet two new species of people... |
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MOON AND FIRE RISING: by Jenny Badger Sultan; dreamed c.1994/3/10 (+ earlier dream images, one from 1969) A dragon-woman showed me a cache of art. When I painted her face I recalled seeing it in a dream decades ago in a mirror... CAUTION: DRAGON BREASTS |
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MOON-STRIPED TIGER PROWLING: by Sylvia Rosen, 1975/6/29; dream poem The foul old fossil woman had carved and burnt her own flesh in the name of art; we washed her till she was reborn young. It was my turn next to enter the water... |
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MUSHROOM-SHAPED ROCK: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 2000/4/14, a happy dream I climb a huge mushroom-shaped rock rising from a hotspring and prepare to dive in... |
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MUTANT WEDDING: by Lisa Shea; 1991/8/3; an epic Jungian action dream! I hide a chip of secrets from thugs, fight a running light-gun battle, and hide in my workplace's crawlways, amid live cables and pipes. As the factory burns, I run a gauntlet of goons. A girl leads me into the underworld. Fires glow and mutants dance. I marry the leader of the pack. |
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NAZIS BURN MY ART: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; the primal art-nightmare Nazis call my simple architectural drawing a social protest, take it at gunpoint, and toss it in the ovens. The commander mocks me with its ashes... |
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NEUTRINO EYES: by Wayan; 1983, a poem on dark matters. ESP is like having neutrino detectors for eyes: what radiates from people's cores blinds you to their surfaces... |
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A MERMAID DISH: by Wayan; 1994/11/13, a parabolic dream A mermaid friend invites me to see an underwater experiment in the Golden Gate... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS |
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NOT A NICE DAY: by Gladys Clarke; 1925/3/18, an aural premonition All day I expected a terrible scream, but had no idea why until I heard it. A woman in flames came out of her house... CAUTION: GRUESOME DEATH |
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OVER THE VOLCANO: by AE (George Russell); c.1900, an embarkation dream. We're spirits over a volcanic fountain of energy. And some of us prepare to ride the current up to... CAUTION: ASSUMES MYSTICAL LITERACY |
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PAD ON THE FLOOR: by Cory and Wayan; 2020/9/13, parallel, apparently telepathic dreams. CORY: I'm in a government complex. Tired, but guards harass me. At last they let me nap on a floor pad. WAYAN: I'm in the Student Union. Need to study, but guards harass me. Yet they let my friend sleep on a... CAUTION: APPARENT E.S.P. |
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THE PARABLE OF THE CAVE: by Wayan; 1993/9/18, an antisocial dream. Plato never did say what shed the light that cast those shadows on his cave wall. I find out. CAUTION: CUT-RATE APOCALYPSE |
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PASSION: by Katie Hofgard; 2006, an undream portrait of a complex woman. Talk about mixed messages! Or... is it really? CAUTION: NUDITY, SLIGHT FIRE HAZARD |
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THE PLACE OF SPROUTING CORN: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 1989/1/10 & 1989/6/28, twin initiatory dreams. I'm shown corn plants growing from skulls, and it seems like I must plant some skull-corn myself... |
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POD WAR: by Wayan; 1979/10/14, an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" dream Emotionless pod-people surround the last free humans. I fight for humanity, but I'm not human or pod--I'm... |
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POLE OF THE EMPIRE STATE: by Wayan; 2002/3/26, a 9/11 nightmare about... suspension? I find myself clinging to a pole as tall as the Empire State Building. Can I slide down without falling? Or burning from friction? And... what's down there? |
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POTLATCH SMOKE: by Wayan; 1988/5/10, a shamanic dream-inside-dream 4 levels deep! Refugees flood the spirit worlds! War looms. Wolf, Silky, Dr Who, even the Bug-Goddess of Love are alarmed. I'm just a blonde ditz, but I help inspect realities till we trace the source: a Tlingit potlatch! Why? |
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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 |
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QUOD VITAE: by Rene Descartes; 1619/11/11, three mystical dreams. In one night Descartes had three dreams convincing him he had to change the course of his life... |
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R101 AIRSHIP CRASH: by R.W. Boyd; 1930/10/3, a predictive dream A large airship crashed onto a hilltop and burst into flame, silhouetting people who tried to escape, but... |
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REBORN AS A CAT: by Lady Sarashina's sister, April or May 1022, a dream of a friend's past life Sarashina adopts a stray cat with oddly refined manners. Her sister dreams the cat tells of her last life, as the daughter of a high official. The cat does seem to understand human speech... |
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SCORCH: by a California woman; 1944, a lifesaving olfactory hallucination (clairsniffance?) I smelled scorching paint; my heater was about to burn the house. But I'd moved--my old house was six blocks away... |
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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 |
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SEVASTOPOL: by Sydney Dobell: 1855/9/8, an apocalyptic, possibly psychic dream A friend scoffed at Biblical talk of the apocalypse, but as we spoke, the evening star came down and burned all our cities. I knew it was no ordinary dream. Next day came the news: the Russians had burned the city of Sevastopol... CAUTION: WAR CRIME |
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SEXUAL DREAMS: by Felicia, Simone, Anons 60-61 & a UCSC student; 1994 or earlier, as told by Gayle Delaney Five short playful dreams exploring sex. Because too many therapists get in the habit of thinking all dreams must wrestle with unhappiness... |
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SLEAZE: by Cecy and Wayan; 1991/7/28; subtle shared dreams. Wayan: A sleazy brother calls the cops, blaming us for a fire he set... Cecy: A sleazy brother calls in a fire while not even trying to put it out... |
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SMOKING REX: by Wayan; 1989/3/29, a dream of unlikely alliance. A cigar-smoking tyrannosaur moves into our neighborhood, upsetting us bluebirds and vampire bats. So we... |
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SOUL-BOARD: by Wayan; 1989/1/12, a dream poem. Africa. My horse trusted me as we faced lions and fire, but to face the Soul-Board, he must trust himself... |
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A SQUARE IN THE HAND: by Anna Kingsford; 1887/4/12, an epic nightmare with a twist I'm a French revolutionary facing a firing squad. But palmistry predicts I'll be strangely saved... |
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A STIRRING FAILURE: by Robert's wife, pre-1961, a precise predictive nightmare I dreamed a small plane crashed and burned, but also how the pilot might be saved. I asked my husband to direct the firetruck... |
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SWEDENBORG'S VISIONS: as reported by Immanuel Kant, 1759-61; three solid ESP hits. Swedenborg stuns the Queen of Sweden by whispering a secret only she and a dead man knew; A widow begs him to ask her late husband to find a lost receipt. Swedenborg reveals a secret drawer; Swedenborg, at a dinner party, grows alarmed by a fire that nearly burns his home--500 km away! |
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TERI GARR ("FLAMING BITCH!"): by Wayan, 1988/5/16, a nightmare-poem baffling me--then! A beer-soaked cowboy barbecue goes wrong when a dog named Teri Garr catches fire and they just laugh and won't waste beer to douse her. Then their big old hats catch fire... CAUTION: SEXIST BLAMING OF VICTIM; PROBABLE DEATHS BY FIRE |
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THIS DREAM HAUNTS THE DAY: by Roswila; 1999, a dreampoem on transference My father's trapped in a crashed car. But I'm distracted by a young man whose palm cups a living flame... |
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TIME WARRIOR: by Katie Hofgard, c. 2004, a daydream on transformation She was a girl playing in the woods when she found the dying silver fox. His body transformed into a fox-mask. His spirit said "When you come of age..." |
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TORCH-BEARER: by Queen Hecuba of Troy; c. 1270 BCE, an alarming dream. Hecuba dreams she gives birth, not to a child but a flaming torch! But she lets Paris live... CAUTION: MORAL NO-WIN SITUATION |
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TORCH THE ROSE-ROT: by Wayan, 2024/7/24, surreal dream written as poem I'm a rabbit girl living in New Orleans. Humid summer. My roses all died; a rot that needs to be disinfected. So I light a torch and burn them back... CAUTION: HARSH POLITICAL INTERPRETATION |
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TOURIST TRAP: by Wayan, 2024/3/24, a nightmare of ignored warnings I bike up a Hawaiian hill toward a lava fountain. A house catches fire, but it's blocks ahead. I go a bit closer. Then a heat-shimmer shows deadly gas has crept ahead of the flames... CAUTION: FATAL MISJUDGMENT |
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TRAIL OF POGS: by Wayan; 2004/9/6, my dreams' response to the first Burning Man dream-workshop A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us... |
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TRAUMDEUTUNG; before 1983, by Charles Gullans, a cryptic warning dreampoem I was walking on an endless plain, upright and tense, walking beside you, hurrying. What were we doing on the burning plain? What war... |
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TREE OF LIGHT: by Carl Jung, mid-Nov. 1922; a vision of the World Tree The cosmic egg nests in the branches of the tree of life, glowing with Muspel-fire. But the tree must periodically burn to regenerate life... |
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TRINITY: by Nashoba Hostina; 2002? A nightmare of losing best friends to romantic love We were inseparable: the tiger, the fox, and the wolf. Together our magic lit up the darkness around us, until... |
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TWO PLANES: by Wayan, 1994/9/6, a multistaged psychic dream. An assassination plot using two planes triggers an invasion of our kingdom. Flee? Fight? I'm a peaceful hobbit who'd rather be playing Frisbee with the dryads... |
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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... |
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A VALLEY NEAR HOPE: by Wayan; 1984/10/17-19, an epic dream. I wander a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who love unicorns but fear cyborgs, who love ants but fear unicorns! And while the Three Tribes squabble, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four aspects of my tetrahedral soul... CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING |
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VICARIOUS ATONEMENT: by Anna Kingsford; 1880/1/31, an anti-shamanic dream Kingsford meets a girl who burns herself as a protest. K flips out! Rants instead of helps... CAUTION: RANT MIDWAY YOU'RE BETTER OFF SKIPPING |
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WALL TO WALL WATER: by Larry Vigon; 2003/3/18; a surreal, beautiful dreamlet The home we were to stay in was on fire. The next had a living room that was shallow water, wall to wall, where turquoise fish swam... |
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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? |
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WARM FUZZIES: by Wayan; 1990/2/20, an origin-myth dream. I take a shortcut with the Warm Fuzzies, boating on lava through the earth's core, and now when a volcano erupts, I know who it is that's quarreling beneath.. |
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THE WIND FROM HELL: by Wayan; 1981/4/21, a dream-poem. Hot air rises, right? So there's a monsoon from Hell, lifting souls. Lucky for us that gravity balances it... |
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THE WORK OF POWER: by Anna Kingsford; Dec. 1880, a wildly uncompromising dream-sermon A dream telling how to acquire mystic power: raw food, no sex, meat, or booze; just meditate in rural solitude... CAUTION: EXTREMISM |
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WORLD TOUR: by Sharon Boyle; 1937?, a nightmare told to her mom, poet Kay Boyle This man comes into the chapel, makes a fascist salute, catches fire, and burns right down to his shoes... |
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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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