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ALTARED MANSION: by Wayan; dreamed 2004/10/18, a dream on all the world's religions I'm touring a gloomy, firelit Victorian mansion filled with icons and idols from every faith in the world, while this funny theme song loops in my head. What is that song? CAUTION: MUSLIM RANTER; EMBARRASSING SONG |
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AMATERASU'S MIRROR: by Lady Sarashina and an unnamed priest, c. 1035/3/22, two dreams of a life-choice Sarashina dreams (again) she needs to leave court life and a spiritual path. Her skeptical mom sends a priest to the temple to dream for her! But he too dreams the Goddess shows two life-choices--happy or sad... |
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ANGELS AND SHARKS: by Wayan; 1975/10/11, a surreal warning dream I was an angel slipping through matter, who, like a shark, needed to keep moving to breathe--stop and I'd drown in the world, lose myself... |
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ANSWERING JUNG: by Wayan; 2005/7/5, a dream parodying one of Jung's key dreams After reading Jung's dreams, I have an anti-Jungian dream of sexy nightmare-statues waiting to come alive, like the tree I draw & bring to life with my literally magic marker... CAUTION: NUDE STATUES |
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ARENNA, FREED: by Wayan; 1991/11/6, a magical pastlife/flying/freedom dream. I learn to fly from Arenna the moon-girl and Crest the dragon, in the House of Deep Memory... |
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ARIEL and THE UNICORN COMMITMENT: by Wayan; 1983/12/26-27, an epic psychic dream & sequel DREAM: to stop an idiotic bout of war-fever, I have to take on the power of the Goddess herself... NEXT DAY: I stumble on a fantasy book, Ariel, full of details straight out of the dream... THAT NIGHT: I sign the Unicorn Commitment, but personalize the magical contract... CAUTION: DISSES REAGAN & SOUTHERN MASCULINITY |
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ASK ME ANYTHING: by Wayan; 1975/1/31, a backstage dream. It was a dark and stormy night. I was lost, till I stumbled on God in her underground control room. God was helpful. Too helpful... |
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ASTEROID: by Forrest Bess, 1946; four abstractish REM-dream paintings All the Asteroids were coming together at last to form something bigger. In church, the dull-eyed preacher hadn't noticed. I led a blind man on toward the new... |
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AUTUMN OF THE ANCIENTS: by Carl Linkhart, 1995 or before; dream poem/painting Central America. A pale sorceress has stolen the splendor of the Mayan pyramids. Is pagan power strong enough to defy the church's promises of savation & its fears of a rumored devil? |
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BAST SABOTAGE: by Wayan; 1995/1/22, a dream on dreams. In old Egypt, a part of me sabotages my audience with Bast, the Cat Goddess. Why? |
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BATMAN'S LOVE: by Wayan; 1996/3/26, a dream-epic of love and time. A New Age graduation party spurs a wild dream of the spiritual odyssey of Catwoman, starring Alexander the Great, Batman, God, and Rumi the poet (played by Frank Zappa)... CAUTION: MORAL RELATIVITY |
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BEFORE BED: by Mary Ruefle, ca. 1995, a dream-poem on stewardship In the cathedral, before the nation, I solemnly crown someone with my own detached head... |
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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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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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BOBCAT: by Anonymous #44; 1996?; a surreal diving dream Scuba diving, we find Atlantis. Beautiful Greek statues. But some kid painted a baseball in Aphrodite's hand. And the bobcat diving with us has been holding its breath for an hour... |
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A BODICE RIPPER: by Carla Young, 2010/2/22; epic (and episodic) dream with 5 paintings Awkward newlyweds. Not a love match! Can they co-operate to save a woman from the Nazis?... |
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BONOBO AND BEAR: by Wayan, 1999/10/14, a mystic war-dream. The gods of our cave-past and star-future fight over us--using us, of course. After I see the toll it's taking on a bonobo buddy of mine, I decide to bring the war back home, and go gunning for God--BOTH of them... CAUTION: APES AND EXPLOSIVES DON'T MIX |
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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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Tarot: THE BUILDER: by Wayan; 1974/5/19, a Tarot card illustrating a dream. I met a god. Unmistakably a god. The Builder, hard at work--making Utopia, by hand. |
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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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CALVIN'S DREAM: by Calvin, c.1960?, a teen's sex dream on family & religious abuse I'm naked in a forest where the trees talk. They want my cock. A girl materializes, and we make love, but now the treefolk are our congregation, cheering us on. Only they call her my sister! She says "Yes. But I was never born. Dad beat Mom to abort me." She fades away, a ghost! I pick up a knife to protect Mom against Dad... CAUTION: PORNY SEX, SUDDEN GRIM END |
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CARRIED UP: by Wayne Miller, 1972/3/3, epic nightmare turning transcendent I'm in a huge colonnade. An army of blood-painted men sacrifice the dove of peace. Their masked leader drinks its blood. But then I'm carried upstairs to meet... the prophet Daniel! I'm amid the angels, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel... CAUTION: BLOOD-DRINKING THUGS |
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CECY'S SUBMISSION: by Wayan; 1996/6/4, a bondage-farce dream drawn as comics. My writer-friend Cecy will do anything to get published. Anything? Oh, believe me, ANYTHING... CAUTION: BONDAGE, not to mention POSTAGE |
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CELLPHONE HEAVEN: by Alder, 2008/8/28, a dream of practical sainthood I visit a Tibetan monastery with great cellphone reception from the gods. But all their calls are messages to pass on to others--none for us... |
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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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CLOUD OF GLORY: by Wayan, 1986/5/19, a dream on identity loss. Abducted as a kid by alien angels and raised in a luminous cloud, I find it hard to keep a mortal, human perspective... |
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A CONVERSATION WITH ANOREXIA: by Wayan; 1994/6/25; two wild shamanic dreams. That day I read Hilde Bruch's "Conversations with Anorexics" and face the fact I am one. That night, in the land where anorexic horses heal, I enter the Kiva of Shamanic Pamphlets, and... |
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COSMIC MAYPOLE: by Georganna Malloff; 1976-80s, dream-based drawings and totem poles I dreamed all the creatures of the world were dancing around a maypole. My friends and I sculpted a totem pole from the dream... |
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COUNTERPOINT: by Susan Vasiljevic; 2011, a surreal dream painting I find myself in a church-like setting. Above me, couples in 18th century dress dance joyfully. It provides a wonderful, ‘curious’ moment to pause and reflect... before my journey must continue. |
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COYOTE'S VAULT: by Wayan; 1994/5/4, a shamanic dream of the future. One of the Time Vaults has opened. That means a historical crisis is at hand. Guess who gets to go in... |
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CREAM-COLOURED HORSES: by a friend of Carl Jung's; before 1951, a predictive dream He dreamed of a street with a cathedral, and round the corner, two cream horses pulling a fancy carriage. In Spain on vacation, he saw the street and the church. To test the dream, he turned the corner to see if... CAUTION: CALLS E.S.P. & SYNCHRONICITY TWO PROBLEMS NOT ONE? |
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CREATING WINGS: by Robert Southey; 1805. Beauty to nightmare to flight. Saints and devils in a sunken statuary garden turn too real for comfort; so, creating my own wings, I fly... |
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CRUSHED BY NETLEY ABBEY: by a Mr Taylor; 1704? A warning dream. A carpenter demolishes a ruined abbey despite dreams he’ll be crushed by stones falling from a window... |
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DEANNA ON THE MAYAN STEPS: by Wayan; 1992/7/8, a nightmare poem. Climbing a Mayan pyramid in Yosemite with Deanna Troy from the Starship Enterprise, we meet a gunman who wants to sacrifice... |
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DEER AND WOLF MYSTICS: by Wayan; 2015/2/1; an odd peacemaking dream The wolf and deer people are getting along well--a relief since I like both. Now, can the wolves learn from the deer how to open their third eye? |
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THE DEER'S HOLY LAKE: by Wayan; 1995/5/15, a dream of holy turf. A magic lake where deer glide on water... so I try it. And start to realize I could build such a lake... |
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DREAM-DENIERS: by Wayan, 2014/5/31, a dream contemplating the meaning of dreams In a museum I talk to a stained-glass artist who's a dreamworker like me. But a meme seems to be spreading that says dreams mean absolutely nothing... CAUTION: ADVANCED DREAMWORK |
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THE EGYPTIAN GOD: by Wayan; 1991/12/21, a 7-year precognitive dream. Egyptian archeologists dig up a living god. He sees us as dolls to play with, but we've grown up... CAUTION: GOD AS A RAPIST |
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THE ENCHANTED WOMAN: by Anna Kingsford; Feb. 1877, an epic prehistoric dream. Goaded by a green spirit of envy, an Ice Age sorceror kidnaps Adam's Eve, arresting human evolution... |
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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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FAMILIAR WOOD: by Wayan; 1994/11/10, a dream of the borderzone. Downtown San Francisco hides a magic wood full of crested talking tigers. And I must enter it to live a while... |
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FISH REMAINS: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1985/9/18; a ritual closing-dream On my 45th birthday, at the end of my eight-year dream-art project, I dream of a women's rite turning scraps of chewed flesh into a whole fish I offer to the fishbowl in the heart of the Vatican... |
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FIVE HEARTS: by Wayan; dreamed 1989/1/11; sexy psychic unicorn dream-comic (text only: FIVE HEARTS) I'm a nurse pulled through a glowing well to a world ruled by a five-hearted unicorn, who wants me to... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX FANTASIES, LONGING, MELANCHOLIA |
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THE FLYING HORSES OF MIEN MO: by Jack Kerouac, Nov/Dec? 1957, a persistent numinous image I'm in Mexico. The mountain of the gods looms over Coyacan. Around it, silhouetted on the rising moon, wheel terrifying griffinlike winged horses wearing capes... |
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FORKS AND SAUCERS: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a dream on when to quit Tibet, 1910. I find a cult whose ancestors manned a radar station that shot down flying saucers. But were the aliens really hostile? I'm not so sure... |
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FOX-MOTHER: by Wayan; 2008/8/12, a dream poem; Dreamverse #2. The goddess of the Cult of Clutter catches a little thief, and tastes her to see if she's worthy... |
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FOX TEMPLE: by Wayan; 2019/11/16, a mythic dream with sharp advice AWAKE: I watch Okko's Inn. Little Okko sees spirits--until she grows up and quits settling for ghosts. DREAM: I explore a temple, meet a fox-spirit... and see I never was human. Time to quit settling for... CAUTION: GAUZE-ROBED PRIESTESS |
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GARDEN OF THE GODS: by Wayan; 1995/10/6, a dream of slowth. In the Garden of the Gods, I sit through sun and rain. For gods aren't the gardeners, they're the crop... |
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GIRL IN THE WATER: by Wayan, 2000/10/7, twin dreams on... dreamwork? In a California with no Gold Rush, wild deer carry a girl over the San Fernando hills to a secret dream-pool... Then in a Japantown hotel lobby, that girl floats meditating in a huge aquarium, as local gossips lie about her... |
GOBLET OF GOLD: by Sophocles, between 450-406 BCE; a detective dream. |
A huge gold cup was stolen from the Temple of Hercules. Sophocles thrice dreamt Hercules named the thief... |
GRAVESTONE: by "Miss S."; late 1930s-1946, a recurring clairvoyant/predictive nightmare |
I'm walking up a churchyard path. My hair clings to me, damp. Horses wander. I'm drawn to one graveside... |
GROTTO OF BREASTS: by Gary Snyder, 1965/7/3, a bizarre High Sierra dream |
In Europe, I enter a cave-shrine. Rock walls with... breasts! I suck one. It gives milk. A plaque says... CAUTION: WEIRD |
GUDEA'S TEMPLE: by Gudea of Lagash; c.2125 BCE: one of the first false-waking or nested dreams |
A winged god whose body's a wave urged me to do... what? I couldn't understand him! I woke... A scribe with a shining stylus listed stars; an architect gave me plans and a brick-mold. I woke again! My dream had clarified itself. So I built the temple shown me, aligned with those stars... |
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 |
"I SHALL HURT YOU WORSE": by Mrs B. when young, c. 1760; a predictive dream semi-heeded |
At 14, B. dreamt a stranger attacked her and hurt her badly. She said "but I'll hurt you worse." She did: a week later that man attacked and nearly killed her. She survived to identify him--and get him hanged... CAUTION: HARSH JUSTICE |
I WON'T DIE TILL LOVE DIES: by Wayan; 1981/1/21, a divine dream . |
I meet the mermaid goddess of love in her pool, but when she advises me, I dispute one small point... |
ILARYA'S MIRACLE: by Ilarya, c.1639, a suspension of reality in order to... buy a fish? |
A cranky nun wants fish. Ilarya, the monastery's cook, sets out to buy one--a long walk, and unsafe after dark. So Ilarya asks the sun to halt! She buys her fish, cooks, feeds her patient, and forgets to tell it to set... CAUTION: PETTY, GOOFY, COMMUNITY-BAFFLING MIRACLE |
IN THE NIGHT OF 13 OCTOBER, 1942: by Peter Birkhäuser; 1942/10/13, a shamanic dream painted Sept. 1975. |
Sybelle & I climbed the cathedral spire. Bravely she kissed the monstrous guardian, exhaling blue light. My own challenge was to leap across an abyss, under the luminous eye of God... |
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 |
IN THE VAULT: by Wayan; 1983/4/6, a dream of treasure. |
I was a sheltered girl till I entered my family's secret ancestral vault. I didn't expect to meet... |
JACOB'S LADDER: by Jacob, grandson of Abraham; c. 2050 BCE; a self-fulfilling prophetic dream. |
Jacob dreams of angels climbing to heaven. He meets God, who promises the Holy Land to him and his tribe. Jacob uncritically accepts... |
KIBBLE FROM HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1986/10/13, a dream on love and money. |
I'm a dog princess, on a world where kibble falls from heaven. When I meet our species' guardian angels... CAUTION: DOG NUDITY, LAWYERS |
KORE: by Ann McCoy; 1986, a dream of the Goddess inspires an epic drawing |
My guide to the archeological site was veiled, but soon she revealed her scales and gills. A little girl led a procession in, to reconsecrate the Temple of Isis... |
THE LADY BATHES IN GRIEF: by Wayan; 1983/5/31, a long-haul psychic dream. |
Why'd a spirit-woman come to our reservation to mourn a drowned guy? Her mirrors & candles tell us... |
LATER IN THE DAY, WE'LL CROSS OVER: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/7/16; painting in the Box of Dreams |
I know we will cross the water surrounding the heart of Jerusalem, but not yet... |
LIKE NOTRE DAME: by Jack Kerouac, early April? 1953, a bizarre dream |
As the train pulled into the cathedral William Burroughs and I saw amid the pews the Hound of the Baskervilles transform into a great black bird and fly... |
LUCID LIVING: by Wayan; 2007/4/8, a quasi-lucid dream of the future with 9 illustrations |
Honesty induces a joyful state with lucidlike powers. So I bike across the Lake of Time, open the book of my future, and see... CAUTION: SEXY SKETCHES FROM THE FUTURE |
THE MADONNA SPEAKS: by Carolee Schneemann, 1971; a Goddess-encounter dream
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The Labyrinth of the Madonna's Tears provoked a dream of the Goddess telling me "My forgotten sanctuaries are all around you now. You have only to see with your own eyes... |
THE MAN-EATER: by Carl Jung, 1879; a precocious formative nightmare. |
Jung (at age three and a half) sees a terrifying god deep underground, and is told "That is the man-eater!"... |
MIGRATING BREASTS: by Wayan, 1988/11/9; a sacred-surreal-sexy-stupid dream |
A priestess guarding a Thai temple in the forest has a strange problem: her breasts rebel, escape and scurry round like hamsters under her skin; they don't like that Buddhist restraint... CAUTION: WARDROBE MALFUNCTION |
MIRIEL, DON'T GO IN!: by Wayan; 1982/10/6, a dream of a stunted planet's stunted god. |
God offers gifts to pilgrims, so my sister enters his door. Fierce light shoots out... |
MONK: by Anonymous #2323; 1945-1991 (at least); a recurrent dream of a past life |
All my life, from age three or four, I've dreamed of being a young monk named Stefan somewhere in southern Europe. And aspects of his short life have shaped my own... CAUTION: SEXUAL EXPLOITATION |
MOONCAT: by Wayan; 1995/11/14; a subtle dream-comic about sonar. text version |
Near a mysterious sculpture garden on the moon, lives the blind, bike-riding sage I seek: Moon-Cat... |
MOTHER SUPERIOR: by Wayan; 1999/2/18, a nightmare with psychic tinges. |
A creepy visit to the Leather Nuns: as fierce as Beorn in The Hobbit, but less hospitable... |
MY PAST CHANGES SO: by Wayan; 1985, a poem on healing-stages. |
It takes time to build yourself out of found objects and trash... |
ORIOLE GIRL: by Wayan; 1992/1/23, psychic dream told as illustrated poem. |
While conducting a census of fairies in Golden Gate Park, I fall in love with an abused oriole-girl, and we try to heal one another... CAUTION: AWKWARD SEX |
PALACE OF GOOD POLICY: by Wayan; 2023/11/2, an anti-cynical political dream |
One night I meet a robot and an alien staring in a shop window at a photo of a Gothic chapel. They're shocked--it's a Galactic legend, the Palace of Good Policy. Pure myth! Or is it? |
PASTLIFE MIDDEN: by Wayan; 1998/12/28, a past-life dream. |
I bike deep into Time Hall, barging through security gates of amnesia, to climb the midden of the past... |
A PILGRIM DREAMING: by Denise Levertov; 1977? a dream poem |
A man I loved goes into the Jungian depths, but when his anima appears in the mirror-pool, his nerve fails... |
PITS OF POWER: by Wayan; 2005/11/16, a dream of rival miracles |
One tribe builds earth-magic pits that can teleport you or grant wishes. But the other tribe's more powerful flow-state magic is harder to define... CAUTION: SEX FANTASY GRANTED |
PLANET CAT: by Wayan; 1995/11/12, a First Contact dream of love. |
I'm the first man on Planet Cat, falling in love with my guide. And then I'm the Cat, falling for an alien ape... CAUTION: NUDE CAT |
RAVENNA: by Wayan; 1994/12/25, a predictive Jungian dream on art & body-image. |
In a church-tent, I find glowing pictures of mine I've never seen awake. One's half-done; I work on it. I wake, and read how Jung, in a Ravenna church, saw luminous images he later learned burned centuries ago! CAUTION: NUDE STAINED GLASS |
REBORN IMMORTAL: by Reneta Scian; 2010/1/3, a three-stage flying dream |
First I try to break the sound barrier like my girlfriend. Nope! Then I fly slowly to her apartment. Nothing flashy, but I make it. Last, I zoom back to ancient China, where I find a candle-lit shrine dedicated to... me? |
REFLECTIONS IN THE POOL: by Wayan; 184K total, 2 panoramas; a 1994/7/2 dream. |
Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love. Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace? CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL |
SAINT BRIDGET: by Jenny Badger Sultan; between 1963-68, a dream on adversity's uses. |
In a Scythian church, a painting says: "Little St Bridget was bound so hard that when they released her she flew"... |
SATYR: by Wayan; 1999/4/1, a frustrating wish-fulfillment dream (yes, both). |
I'm a faun, the oracle for a Greek village. But my predecessor set up rituals I want to change... CAUTION: SEX, PAGANISM, SELF-SATYRE |
SECRETS OF THE TEETERING STUPA: by Carl Linkhart, 1998 or before; dream poem/painting |
The past. Burma. I'm shown a stupa covered in gold leaf, and given a key to a tunnel where they say a tooth of Buddha is encased in glass... |
SELL THE GODS, AND RAISE HELL!: by Wayan; 1994/1/26, a dream riddle. |
Reactionaries smash a paper. To rebuild, the editor must sell the sacred tiki carvings! But gods don't LIKE being sold... CAUTION: MORAL QUANDARY |
SHANGRI-LA: by Wayan, 1973/11/13, a teen's mystical dance-party dream |
I visit Shangri-La, the ancient Tibetan valley of refuge. Unicorns graze. We drive around on car-sheep. Robin Hood rebels against the Priestess of Gloom. Pilgrims in silly gauze robes arrive. Or are they just tourists? Oh, well. Toga party! CAUTION: GAUZE ROBES, NUDE UNICORNS |
SHARONNE: by Paul Friedrich, pre-1983, a political dream (despite Freud and Jung) |
I was in a gang, but I quit. They stoned me--and the green heron, the green color I called "Sharonne". The setting (Israel), the green (Islam), and the name (Ariel Sharon?) all hint the dream's political... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, POLITICS |
SHE LIVES TO 140: by Wayan; 2017/7/13, a dreamlet urging crankiness |
I meet a 140-year-old hermit in her black chadoor, skateboarding down a hill near her sacred dream-spring... |
THE SHRINKING POPE: by Sorcha; 2005/4/1, a Jane Bond dream |
I'm the only one who can stop the plot to kill the Pope--but if he keeps shrinking like that, will it matter? CAUTION: RECOVERING CATHOLIC |
SILKY'S WEDDING: by Wayan; 1988/1/6, a dreamtale. |
Silky, my often-animal anima, leads me into a strange pagan church where we get married at last... |
SILLA KRISTOS: by Silla Kristos, c.1634; a didactic during-death vision |
Silla Kristos angered Saint Walatta Petros, so she cursed him. He got sick and died. She knew she'd overdone it, and asked the Virgin Mary to revive him. Mary grumbled, but did. While dead, Silla Kristos got wise angelic advice... CAUTION: BRATTY SAINT, BRATTY MONK |
THE SOLE FISHER OF THE EIGHTH NODE: by Wayan; 1986/9/25, a prescriptive dream. |
The pier jutting into the sea of dreams has an 8th chakra at the end, where a lonely woman fishes for, um, sole... |
SOUL-SHARD: by Wayan; 2000/10/5, a rebellious dream |
I'm a wolf in an ashram studying astral travel with my spirit-wife. Our souls blend a bit, enraging our guru, a minor Hindu god, who sends demons to make us stop this spiritual "contamination"... |
SPIRITUAL TESTS: by Wayan; 2000/8/28, a predictive dream |
As my dad lies dying, I dream my sister and I face spiritual tests given by slacker angels who'd rather be on TV. Learn to let go! |
STEALTH: by Wayan; 1992/1/15 dream on the worship of sleek deadliness. |
I dreamed the Stealth Bomber wasn't a machine, but a gigantic Owl-god. And Stealth was worshiped... CAUTION: CREEPING PACIFISM |
STEAMROLLER: by Richard Wilbur, late 20th Century; an embarrassing dream. |
As the steamroller flattened me I became quite a lovely stained-glass window... |
THE STONE MOVES: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; a mysterious breakthrough dream |
Repeated attempts to move a gigantic, sacred, saucerlike stone all failed; but now, with the world's biggest cranes, we get it on a truck. It crawls past adoring crowds... |
STRANGE SERVICE: by Gordon B., early 2006, a transcendental dream |
The old man sang in the empty church, then looked at me and snapped his fingers. I was filled with voices... |
SUNLIGHT'S THE CURE: by Wayan; 1990/12/29, a surreal, sexy dream |
I find the cure for an alien plague, then visit its homeworld, to find it has a curious variant... CAUTION: SEX CUSTOMS OF THE NEWT PEOPLE! MY COUSIN'S GAY WEDDING! |
SURRENDER DARCY!: by Wayan; 1982/6/14, a dreamtale on pride and prejudice. |
I'm Doctor Who, being chased by an air-surfer who demands we give up a reserved, proud man named... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
SUTRO PARK: by Wayan; 1990/11/2, digital painting of nondream surreal event. |
The tale of the most truly sincerely religious revelation I've ever witnessed... CAUTION: REAL WITCHES |
THE SWORD DANCE: by Wayan; 1988/4/29, a very unlikely predictive dream. |
I visit my friend Xanthe's lungs, where I meet a swordswoman in a red bikini. I get a unicorn pendant, go lucid, and become a heron too, but next day, it's the red-bikini-swordswoman I actually meet... |
TAMALPAIS: by Anna Halprin, 1979, a dream inspiring annual healing ceremonies |
A murderer was stalking Mt Tam. I dreamed I met the murderous spirit; only by allying with small dancers from inside the mountain could we defeat it... CAUTION: NEW AGE |
TANDEM DREAM IN KATMANDU: by Clancy Cavnar; 1998, two parallel dreams not acted on |
Two of us meditation students dreamed one night that we were ice skating in Holland, helping each other... |
TAROT: THE UNICORN WELL (the Ace of Cups): by Wayan; 1991. Digital, based on Tarot card, 3x5". |
The Well of Emotion, guarded by the Black Unicorn, the shadow of all the feelings you deny... |
TELEPATH TREES: by Wayan; 1993/9/11, a how-the-other-half-lives dream with 7 pics |
I dream Edward Abbey shows me a secret grove of telepath trees. That night, in my dreams inside my dream, they meet me... |
TEMENOS: by Wayan; 1997/6/17, a psychic dream. |
I'm at a Robert Bly camp for men only. But I'm no man--not even human--some faun or satyr-like species... CAUTION: THIS 'TEMENOS' IS A SACRED PHALLIC IMAGE |
THE TEMPLE COAT: by Gayle Delaney, fall 1972, a pastlife dream |
A ship-captain insisted some castoff clothes were mine. They fit. As I put on an elegant coat, I recalled it was made in a past life to disguise me so I could enter a temple excluding women... |
TEMPLE OF DREAMWORK: by Wayan, 2006/11/13, a flying & predictive dream |
DAY: I have to read three academics who mock ancient, shamanic and modern amateur dreamwork as superstition. DREAM: I'm learning to fly in the Temple of Dreamwork, next to a cute new colleague. NEXT DAY, I meet her... CAUTION: APPARENT E.S.P.; DISSES ACADEMICS |
THEA'S HOUSE: by Wayan; 1987/3/23, a life-changing dream. |
I dreamed the Earth Goddess invited me to live with her. She was lonely to be seen for who she was... |
THOREAU'S MOUNTAIN: by Henry David Thoreau, 1857/10/29, a recurring hypnogogic dream |
I dreamt again of that mountain east of Concord where no hill exists. I ascended that long rocky ridge where wild beasts haunted, into a superterranean grandeur and sublimity... |
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 |
THE THREE VEILS BETWEEN MAN AND GOD: by Anna Kingsford, March 1881, a messianic dream. |
I was shown what veils the God in us: Blood (violence), Idols (dogmatism), and the Curse of Eve (sexism)... CAUTION: FUNDAMENTALISTS (OF ANY FAITH) WILL SEE RED |
THREE-YEAR PREGNANCY: by Ithmonike of Pellene, c.320 BCE, Two dreams of an odd god. |
I was barren. I asked Asklepios, God of Healing, to make me pregnant. Soon I was--for 3 years, until... |
TIL: by Patricia Garfield, c.1986, a mystical work-advice dream |
I'm a spirit flying over the dead, blessing them. They're in mass graves, sorted & grouped only by their life-stages--kids, adults, elders. Wait... is this how to structure my book? |
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... |
TWIN GODDESSES, or, LOGA-SHANA: by Patricia Garfield, 1980/12/26, a self-flagging psychic dream |
DREAM: at a dreamgroup, I tell a predictive dream that my artist friend's front tooth will get infected. Then we all chant "Loga-Shana!" THREE WEEKS LATER: my artist friend's front tooth gets a serious abcess... CAUTION: WILL TROUBLE E.S.P. SKEPTICS |
TWO BISHOP APPLICANTS: by Wayan; 1984/11/21, a surreal but mercilessly logical dream. |
My mind and my soul both apply for a job in Stanford Cathedral. Their rivalry grows to a shamanic duel... |
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 |
WATER BOOKS: by Marilyn Stablein; 1968, a dream while visiting Nepal... for six years |
In a Tibetan monastery on an ancient lakebed, I swim through a vast sunken library. Books open like sea anemones, letters float to the surface like kelp... |
THE WELL OF WOMEN'S WISDOM: by Wayan; 1991/3/25, a dream on gradualism. |
I find the Well of Women's Wisdom. Lucky I'm female tonight! A girl sneers "Narrow!" Is it, or her? |
WERTZ!: by Wayan; 2023/10/14, a night of cartoonist-inspired dreams |
After seeing Julia Wertz's cartoon history of her entire dreamlife (on one big page!) I dream Wertz style all night! I don't mind the nightmares--what gets me down is comics' black & white... CAUTION: NIGHTMARES, SEX |
WHILE THE MEN WERE HUNTING by Wayan, 1981/11/3; a crayon-ink-Xerox art-prayer. |
In cave times, while the men were all out hunting, it was the women who learned to paint the cave walls to summon... |
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... |
YOGI by Carl Jung, (April?) 1944; an ego-humbling dream |
Hiking, I come to a chapel where a yogi is meditating--on me. Creating me! And when he stops... |
ZELIG FLIES: by Wayan, 1984/4/29, a psychic, lucid dream epic. |
I careen from a sacrificial marriage-altar to the Oracle Harper's secret pool, into the jaws of Leviathan and the joys of lucid flight, shifting from male to female and gay to straight--till I meet the Dragonfly People themselves... CAUTION: STUPID, STUPID SEX CULT! |
ZEMMYO: by Myoe Shonin; c.1221/4/20, a spiritual Pygmalion dream. |
A doll sent from China breaks into tears over her exile here in Japan. I reassure her and she becomes real... |
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