Hitler, Nazis and Fascism
Dreams about the archetypal Worst Guy In The World--the ultimate persecutor, psychopath, madman in power. If he hadn't been real, would we have had to invent him?
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THE ARREST: by Georges Perec; July 1970, a dream of .... huh? Dream #16 I am arrested in Tunisia, essentially for being Jewish, despite my pro-Palestinian sympathies. My main regret: I face years of dirty socks... |
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BABY HITLER'S DOG; 2012/2/7 by Wayan; a grotesque time-travel dream (of health advice?) An old actor tells me "I met Hitler when we were both babies. I knew what was coming so I wanted to kill him, but then I'd BE him..." |
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BABY, I'LL BLOW YOUR MIND: by Wayan; 1995/3/21, a surreal nightmare Allied submarines attack the giant Nazi toddler who's hunting us with sonar, occupying my playroom... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND GUILT |
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THE BRUNDIBAR SEA: by Wayan; 2005/12/18, a mystical manifestation dream Biking, I stray into the steamy Brundibar Sea. My bike dissolves! But hot-tubbers explain the Sea manifests what you visualize. Yay! Uh-oh... CAUTION: MYSTICISM AND HOLOCAUST HISTORY |
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THE CHAPARRAL OF TIME: by Wayan; 2008/10/21, a timetravel dream-poem: Dreamverse #36 I snorkel over time-reefs to an era of talking animals--but why crash on the head of rocker Suzi Quatro? |
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THE DENUNCIATION: by Georges Perec; August 1972, a dream of war-trauma finally healing? Dream #124 1941. My dad and I are denounced to the SS. We're put in with monsters; I'm a snake or fish myself. But the Nazis become a photo album, I go to a memorial, I cry, it's 1947, peace... CAUTION: HOLOCAUST MEMORIES |
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FALCON AND FÜHRER: by Miriel; 1985/7/31, an epic flying/transformation dream A mysterious "Führer" hypnotized all my companions. So I become a human-sized falcon and hunt him... |
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FLOYD FREUD: by Wayan; 1983/4/18, a short dream of longevity. After trying "the Interpretation of Dreams," I meet Floyd Freud, who's attracted to the neo-Nazis... CAUTION: INSULTS THE MEMORY OF A GREAT GUY |
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GARDEN OF SWORDS: by Louis MacNeice; 1937, a dream foreseeing World War II. I'm at a garden-party when They attack. I flee through a garden of swords, but a guard with a bayonet... |
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GESTAPO, OPERA by a 30-year-old woman, 1933; a dream of isolation & vulnerability I'm at my favorite opera, The Magic Flute. When I hear the line 'That is the devil certainly,' I think of Hitler. The Gestapo have a device that reads my thought, and come for me. Bystanders spit on me... CAUTION: NATIONAL NIGHTMARE |
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THE GRALA: by Eugene Jolas, c. 1934, a nightmare written as a surreal prose-poem I was having dinner with friends when I saw on the wall a huge skullbone spider. But I lost the word for spider, and my friends seemed not to see it... |
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HELL-BOUND TRAIN: by Franz Jaegerstetter, summer 1938; a political dream I was ordered to join Hitler's army. I dreamt a booming voice proclaimed, "This train is going to Hell!" So I... |
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HITLER'S CAR: by Wayan; 1982/6/9, I review a creepy book. Then my dreams review ME. A book claims Hitler led not a political party but a cult out to apply mystical theories--like Manson! Then I dream... CAUTION: BIG RANT, SMALL DREAM |
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HITLER'S GETTING CRISPR: by Jennifer Doudma; fall 2015, a nightmare on CRISPR by one who'd know It was Hitler. He had a pig face, and he was taking notes. He said 'I want to understand the uses and implications of this amazing technology'... |
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HITLER'S ROOST: by Wayan; 1983/2/14, a fierce dream-poem hinting at a dirty secret later bared I built a Bavarian treehouse with a great view, hoping Hitler'd confiscate it. He did! Now he's exposed to Allied spy planes--and assassination... CAUTION: CHILD-MOLESTING THERAPIST |
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IN THE CAMP (THE NAKED POEM): by Karl Patten; 1972/10/27; a death-camp poem dictated in a dream Fat Max eats with Heinrich the guard on Tuesdays. He talks too much. You and I are hungry. Tonight... The poem appeared in the dream as it appears on the page--words, even punctuation... CAUTION: DEATH CAMP, DEATH PLOT |
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JETPACK AND TIGER: by Wayan; 1988/3/17, a nonlucid yet lucidlike shamanic dream. After watching both Star Trek & Doctor Who, I find I'm held prisoner by the Rani and her laser-toting tiger guards. So I meditate--and manifest a jetpack and a laser gun! I never deduced I'm dreaming; it's not lucidity. It's simpler. What have I got to lose? |
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MALWARE IN THE BRAIN: by Wayan, 2017/12/27, a possibly predictive dream. Dream: tourists in our town use brainware to navigate & translate, but it's infected. Turns you fascist. Whaaaat?... Next day: the FBI knocks! Our web provider fingered us as a nest of internet criminals. Thanks, Comcast! Talk about malware... |
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MATILDA, or, HITLER'S GIRLFRIEND MULTIPLIES: by Wayan; 1998/10/1, a dream of math and courage. I'm Hitler's girlfriend. Not Eva Braun, just me--gentle, weak, thrown in among killers. What can I do? |
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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... |
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MINOS, EAQUE AND RHADAMANTHE: by James Joyce, c. 1934/7/8, a short, precise, predictive nightmare Joyce, in Paris, dreamed he was attacked by three madmen, Minos, Eaque and Rhadamanthe. Three weeks later, a madman mailed explosive packages around Paris--signed Minos, Eaque and Rhadamanthe, the Judges of Hell... |
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MY COUNTRY RIGHT OR LEFT: by George Orwell, 1939/8/22, a predictive dream I dream World War Two's begun. I always felt war was just rivalry between ruling elites, but now I find I'll even back Imperial Britain against the Nazis. The next day, Hitler and Stalin announce a pact... CAUTION: GRIM TIME FOR IDEALISTS |
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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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NIGHTMARE 1944: by Ira Sadoff; before 1981, a temptation-nightmare?! On my side of the fence, Austrian winter--gray skies, snow. On the other, warm sun, and a frighteningly beautiful German woman. She invites me over the border, to join her--and the terrified people being dragged off in carts to... CAUTION: HOLOCAUST HINTS |
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PYLONS: by Louis MacNeice; Jan. 1940. A surreal political dream. I was on a steamer run amok, in a boiling yellow incredible sea out of which great pylons rose... |
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SUPPORT TEAM: by Wayan; 2005/6/6, a dream-comic on what creative leaps need I'm a married couple--the cook and laundress for an English observatory in 1948. Why are we testifying to a Labor Party committee that we WANT to be servants? Well... |
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THE THING ABOUT DREAMS: by Julia Wertz, a dream autobiography, 1980-2010 As a kid, my nightmares were of Sesame Street characters. In my teens I graduated to slasher nightmares and recurring lucid dreams. Alcohol trashed my dreams for years, but now they're not nightmares--just surreal. Hitler wrecks my sex life! What a spoilsport... CAUTION: (MOSTLY FRUSTRATED) SEX |
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TITANIA: by Wayan; 1981/12/7, 83/1/7 & 2/13 and 84/10/2, a dream-epic in installments Clarence the sappy angel from It's A Wonderful Life and Milton's Lucifer land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're fine as is, but the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full palette of feelings. Like the feeling she's fake... |
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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... |
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TWO DEATH NOTICES: by Vladimir Nabokov; 1939/6/9 & Oct. 1945, two apparently predictive dreamlets Khodasevich (1939): I dreamt a call announced my friend was dead. Really he was still alive--but not for long... Sergey (1945): My brother died in January but the news took months to reach us. Just before it did, I dreamed... |
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TWO-HEADED BEAST: by Wayan; 1997/7/31, a 5-page Gothic dream-comic (or as illus. text) In Castle Frankenstein, will Mary Shelley wed Elmer Fudd? His two-headed monster has marital advice... |
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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 |
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WHERE IS MY MOTHER?: by Kelly Simon; 1992?; an epic time-traveling dream of roots I'm nine years old again. But my mom acts like a child--crawls into a hole. I follow, scared, and find my grandfather packing to leave the Old Country before the Nazis kill us all... CAUTION: FEAR & PERSECUTION |
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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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