Invisibility
Invisibility is a universal fantasy that dreams sometimes fulfill. But dreams cut corners, too--this list includes translucency & transparency, as in Cat and Mouse & "No one Really", unnoticeability, as in Not a Cat & The Unicorn Mask of Ignorability, and deniability, as in The Flying Horses of Mien Mo. Oh--sorry--forgettability belongs here too, but I forgot.
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ACCIDENT: by Jules Engel; 1970? Nightmare turns to surreal sport, inspiring animated film. A large dog was chasing me, but somehow we got turned around and began racing. As I caught up with the dog, any bit I passed went invisible--but the rest of the dog ran on unfazed. When I won the dog vanished entirely. Awake, I animated the dog running, then... |
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THE ANSWER FLOOR: by Wayan; 1985/2/16, a dream-poem inverting a famous dream of Jung's I dream of a three-floor tower--but the Answer is up on Level Four! No elevator, no stair. I can't even see it. Yet it's there... |
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BEWARE OF OVERSTIMULATION: by Wayan; 1980/12/30, odd dream advice. A sex-ghost appears in my bed, but when overstimulated, she tends to fade out. Bad reception!... CAUTION: SEX |
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BLIND TO THE CUES: by Wayan; 1996/10/2, a dream of blinders. A sexy pool-playing friend in a short skirt leans over an invisible, virtual-reality pooltable, but I'm blind to... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, TRULY CLUELESS GUY |
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CAT AND MOUSE: by Hervey de Saint-Denys, early 1860s?, a startling dream image A lab. The cat doesn't mind a swim in this liquid harmlessly rendering it clear as glass. It catches a transparent mouse I didn't even see! So now I faintly see a glass mouse inside the glass cat... |
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CAT SPEAKS ARMENIAN: by Wayan; 2019/5/17, a dream on the odds of finding love I meet a big cat who seems invisible to most humans. She talks in Armenian speech balloons. Too bad she already has a boyfriend! But her mere existence proves there's hope for me... |
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CHAPERONE AND REBEL: by Wayan; 1998/5/18, a flirtatious dreamtale. A girl with a magic swimsuit flashes me, as her Iranian fundamentalist aunt glares from beyond the veil... CAUTION: NUDITY? OR ILLUSION? |
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COME FLY WITH ME: by Lilian Verkins; 2012, painting of a joyful if secretive flying dream I flew over a beautiful park where I taught others how to fly. But there were people who I didn't want to see me flying. I stood mid-air above them, and they didn't spot me... |
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CRITTERS OF THE MONTANA FRONT: by Wayan, 2022/5/31, a watercolor warning dream DAY: I admire Hannah Hinchman's watercolors of Montana and Vad Yakovlev's digital art of Equestria. DREAM: I meet & sketch a coyote girl, a whack-a-mole mare, and a leering herder of shadowsheep... |
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CURSE HER IN THE OAK: by Wayan; 2009/9/28, dream poem on an odd job; Dreamverse #56 I'm a girl in rural Victorian England working as the county's magical protector. I have my hands full: a gang of thievish orphans has holed up in an invisibility tree! Showdown at the oak... |
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DESERT EYES: by Wayan; 1984/3/4, a dream of portals. We desert-hobbits break through to a world of jungle giants who see differently from us. Will they believe us about the UFOs? |
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DINOSAUR GRADE: by Wayan, 2006/1/25, a shamanic workout dream I ride a recumbent bike up an exhausting slope past browsing bears. Oh. Not bears. Dinosaurs. No wonder I'm so tired! Timetravel's hard... |
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DRACULA'S SANDWICH: by Brenda Ferrimani; 1997/8/22, a death/rebirth nightmare-painting Dinner with Dracula goes well, considering, except for the mayonnaise. But suddenly I'm drowning! No one sees or hears me. Am I a ghost, am I dead or alive? And how would anyone notice? |
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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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DRAGON'S EYE VIEW: by Wayan; 1987/3/7, a dream through other eyes. From Baffin Bay to suburbia, dragons are everywhere... if you look with a dragon's eye... |
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DREAM OF THE ARCS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 1994/7/5, a warning dream on power A nun-like figure shows me three arcs; two are forms of direct power, but the third, innermost arc can lead to secrecy and manipulation... |
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DREAM OF THE DANCING GODDESSES: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 1988/12/19, a dream-painting I sneak into a dance rehearsal. Huge colorful cloth goddesses dance, while four fat women wearing only scarves weave round them... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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FADING AWAY IN THE LIGHT: by Lilian Verkins; 2013, painting of nature-spirit dream? I was a child again, sitting on a bench, watching young maidens dance. But as I grew older, they faded away in the light of adulthood... |
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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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FLYING MACHINE: by George B. Burgin, c.1860 on, a recurrent flying dream When I'm stressed, I build a set of luna-moth wings and fly invisibly. Though once a blind man caught me by ear... |
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FREE THE HICK? A Dream Left Hanging: by Wayan; 1999/9/15, a shard still bearing a message With our ignorability spell, our team plans to free the angry Hick from the Submerged Court. But the Coyote Girls can see us! Will this really work? |
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GALILEO FALLS: by Wayan; 1979/11/7, a mysterious dream . I was a closet unicorn. SO closet, I didn't even know what a unicorn was, till I went to college and met Lindsay, who was half and could pass... |
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GIRAFFE CAMOUFLAGE: by Wayan; 2020/9/1, a dream of the anti-closet? A human and a talking giraffe fall in love. But some hunters still shoot animal people. So he camouflages her with paint. Bright paint. Now she's more visible than ever! Not that I can criticize his eccentricities. I'm in love with a unicorn songwriter... CAUTION: FURRYPHILIA |
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HALF-HEARTED GHOST: by Wayan; 1994/9/28, a dream on the cruelty of shyness. I go invisible in my dance class and hear what the girls I like have to say about me. Uh-oh... CAUTION: PAINFUL RELATIONSHIP TRUTHS |
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I LET RATS: by Wayan; 1994/4/22, a nightmare on appeasement. A bold rat comes right up to me. I don't want to provoke it, so I stay quiet. And let the rats... CAUTION: UGH! |
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IGNORABLE DRAGON: by Wayan; 2019/4/13; a dream of brain-unwashing Out my window, a dog is fighting a snake. A dog with bat wings. A dog big as a horse. A griffin! Big as a bus now. A dragon! What spell made me mistake THAT for a dog?... |
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IN A REHEARSAL ROOM: by Wayan; 1982/10/20, a sexy dreamlet on shyness. I dreamed my fears faded like ghosts, as we made love in the rehearsal room. But invisible is not gone... CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX |
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INVISIBLE GIRLFRIEND: by Wayan, 2023/4/11, a baffling predictive dreamlet DREAM: in my car, the window crank turns on its own; my invisible girlfriend is crawling out the window! She's turned so quiet & private. Have I seen the last of her? Well, not seen... NEXT DAY: I stumble on a one-off manga about an invisible girl; but the artist writes "I decided not to make her a regular--too quiet & private, & I can't draw her feelings"... CAUTION: GLASSY NUDITY, E.S.P. SPECULATION |
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INVISIBLE KYOKO: by Wayan; 1995/1/16, a dream on bold and shy. I'm at a party in an air-lake. We fish for a girl who's gone invisible. But... what if we catch her? |
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THE INVISIBLE SULKY: by Wayan; 1995/9/20, a dream on resistance. I feel a drag, and take off my safety belt. I find I've been towing an invisible buggy with two men in it... |
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KRELKIN CAMOUFLAGE: by Wayan; 1981/4/21, 3 versions of recurring dream image A sexy dream-creature hides by splitting her body visually, her red mane and tail matching her background... |
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LETTUCE HEAD: by Wayan, 1992/1/18; a predictive characterological dream I'm flying backward over Utah. In the brush on a canyon rim I spot a head of red lettuce big as a man growing as camouflage from a revolutionary warrior's head... CAUTION: APPARENT E.S.P. |
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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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MCKILLIP'S NEW BOOK: by Wayan; 2010/7/23, an epic literary dream I'm inside a magical novel by Patricia McKillip, amid tricksters, cosplayers, spooks, sex changes, levitation and (sigh) cops... CAUTION: COYOTE SEX |
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MILK ADDICTS: by Wayan, 1974/6/2, an early psychic dream. I'm in what seems to be a village of very conservative Muslims. But they're really alien castaways... |
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NIETZSCHE EATS A TOAD: by Frederick Nietzsche; c.1867; a (prodromal?) nightmare At a party, Nietzsche told a young woman "my hand was transparent as glass; and a fat toad sat on my hand. I felt compelled to swallow it, and did..." CAUTION: CREEPY DREAM, CREEPY FOLLOW-UP |
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NO FINGERS: by Wayan; 1993/10/6, an indirectly predictive dream. My therapist has no fingers. A fingerless man intrudes on my session, and they use up my hour talking... |
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"NO ONE REALLY": by Wayan; 2019/7/13; a ghostly dream of weak borders My new bedroom has huge windows, but no blinds. I pin up bedsheets for now--flimsy. A girl walking by peers in. Wait--we're 50' up! She's in my room--and transclucent. I yell "WHO ARE YOU?" She looks shocked I can see her, says "No one really" and fades... |
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NOT A CAT: by Wayan; 2022/11/27, a dream of being a sort-of-ghost I wander New York City, a homeless ageless child, unnoticed--unless I climb stairs. Then people panic--see a huge cat! But today I meet a crew lugging big paintings, who seem blind to cat or child. I think they're art thieves, mid-heist... CAUTION: SHAMANIC INTERPRETATION |
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OUT OF BODY TO THE MOON: by Hervey de Saint-Denys, 1860?-67? Early out-of-body dream I rise out of my body, find I'm invulnerable, visit the moon, with its volcanic rocks, re-enter my body, "wake" and write the dream--only to wake again and find all my notes gone!... |
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PLAYMATES: by J.S., c.1893, a childhood dream When I was little, two boys with strange laughs invited me to play. Their house was crowded and underground. After I came back out, I realized their home was a grave and they were ghosts. They gave me a power... |
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PONYBOY: by Wayan; 1982/12/9, a dream about the control room of dreams. The child who runs with wild horses finds the secret spy-room of dreams! But no one's watching... |
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RAETHE: by Wayan; 1990/4/19; a delicate follow-up dream, drawn & poemed In the Cave of the Ant Ambassador, I meet his mate, a beautiful translucent fox named Raethe. Way happier with her mate (& body!) than in that dream just two months ago... |
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RING-DUEL: by Wayan; dreamed 1988/12/21; a transformation dream on reclaiming your power A mad scientist sneaks me into a museum that holds the Ring of Power I made at 14. I put it on, and slip into the spirit world--as a dragon! An ice-drake sent by Sauron comes to duel me for my Ring... |
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THE SATURATION DIAL: by Wayan; 2015/11/7, a surreal lucid dream with a control knob! Night. Two moons. I go lucid! Find a knob adjusting the dream's color saturation. Dial it up--and meet ghosts of pure color, invisible til I luridified... |
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SELF-POSSESSED: by Wayan; a 2000/7/10 dream of a ghost (representing the World Dream Bank itself?) In a pizzeria, customers walk blindly through a ghost; briefly possessed, they echo his moods. But for such an insubstantial figure, he seems strangely stable... |
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SHAMANIC CHEW-TOY: by Wayan; 2011/3/16; nested dreams of strange women Compulsively honest spirit-women with waterjugs invade my friend's house. I wake to find my girlfriend's obsessing on hair loss. To calm her, I babble about limb loss... and wake again to find she was a dream too. |
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SILKY THE PEGASUS: by Wayan; 1984/12/11; a guided flying dream My anima, a pegasus mare, leaps out of a girl's book and teaches us to fly up to an astral land... CAUTION: FLIRTY PEGASUS |
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STALAGMITE VALLEY: by Maude Meagher; 1902?-07, a recurring childhood dream. I found myself upon a stone pillar in a valley. Invisible people sat on other stalagmites, but my voice couldn't reach them... |
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SUN AND MOON: by Katherine Mansfield; 1918/2/9, a dream-story I dreamed a short story--even its title. Not that I read it. No, I lived it, through the eyes of a 5-year-old... |
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SWIMMER IN BLUE: by Wayan; 1984/4/26 drawing of recurring dream image. I have recurring dreams of figures broken up by hair the color of the background... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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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 |
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TRUE LOVE = CHOICE! by Ms. Mira; Jan. 2008, a dream-lesson on compassion and free will. I'm on an alien world inside the minds of two women and a child struggling with moral choices in a civil war... CAUTION: DEATH, LOSS |
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UNFINISHED DREAM: by Walter de la Mare, before 1922, a dream of Faerie cast as a poem The dream land was beautiful, but seemed empty 'til I heard piping voices. An elven band! I gazed in wonder. But they could not (would not?) see me... |
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THE UNICORN MASK OF IGNORABILITY: by Wayan; 2009/10/13, a predictive dream; Dreamverse #59 My family home's invaded by ancient Egyptian architects. So I put on my unicorn mask and eavesdrop on their plans... |
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WHO ATE MY LETTUCE?: by Wayan; 1983/1/13, a short dreamfable. An invisible monster is eating my lettuce patch. It casts a huge blurry shadow, leaves footprints, but... |
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WHY PROGRESS IS SLOW: by Wayan; 1991/1/26 & 2/16, twin timetravel dreams Time-hopping through centuries, I learn how slow deep social change is. How we cling to the old horrors! |
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WITCHES, MANHUNT, TIGER AND SHARK: by Sidarta Ribeira, 1976, child's nightmares facing loss After his dad's death, a boy dreams he's an orphan facing cannibal witches--every night! Therapy helps; his recurring dreams shift to a manhunt for a criminal who hides on the ceiling. The dreams shift again, to a tiger hunt. That is, the tiger hunts you. The boy jumps in the sea. Swimming with sharks... CAUTION: INTENSE NIGHTMARES, PARENTAL LOSS |
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