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	ANTIGRAVITY RESEARCH: by Mary Arnold-Forster; 1905?, a dream of teaching dreamflight I’m showing the Royal Society how to levitate. Confidence is the main thing. I teach a hesitant Fellow to lift off...
	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?
	THE BIG CRUNCH: by Wayan; 1979/5/9, a cosmic nightmare. I'm a girl being stalked. I get drastic--scrunch up the universe & shake it out! And is THAT enough? CAUTION: ANXIETY, GUILT, POSSIBLE APOCALYPSE
	CHANDELIER: by a Washington mom, pre-1961, an absurd, lifesaving dream I dreamt that at 4:35 AM the chandelier over our baby's bed fell, crushing the baby to death. I woke and...
	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...
	THE CROWS OF OZ: by Wayan; 1984/8/23, a moral dream on darkness. I learn from the crows of Oz why loneliness and even tragedy are vital for a living universe...
	THE ENTANGLED MAN; by Wayan, 2012/5/5; a singular dream On our expedition to a singularity, one researcher gets quantum-entangled with it! He could become anything...
	FUSE FOREVER: by Wayan, Late Dec. 1975 or early Jan. 1976, a cosmic/erotic dream? Cops shoot at us, but my first lover Pat and I dive down a rainbow wormhole, making love and fusing forever... CAUTION: BAD COPS, (non-explicit) SEX
	HANDMADE DIMENSIONS: by Wayan; 2009/3/2, a how-to dream. I meet an interdimensional traveler. Her navigational technique is unbelievably rough! Yet it works. Am I so sure that math and science always need to be precise?
	THE MOUSE BANNER: by Wayan; 1986/9/4, a dream fable. I'm a mouse with a protest banner saying "FREEDOM!", having a slight argument with a cat...
	THE NIGHTMARE EFFECT: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/14, an anti-nightmare. My own fear creates a field of time/speed distortion; can I use it against my attackers?
	THE OBSERVER EFFECT, OR, WATCH THE WATCH: by Wayan; 1997/1/21, a dream of time and opticks. After seeing an Einstein biography I find myself in the bathrooms of Thought-Experiment High, and... CAUTION: DARK SIDE OF AN ICON
	ORE PIRATES, by Wayan, 2009/5/29; a dream-poem, Dreamverse #45 I'm in a movie version of prehistoric Baja California, mining nuggets that howl, when pterodactyl-worshiping pirates glide in trying to snatch our ore...
	POLYGAPO: by a Washington woman, fall 1951, a detailed unlikely predictive dream I sat thinking "Now that boy will jump the fence"--and he did; "that boy will chase the dog"--and he did...
	POOL ASSASSINS: by Wayan; 2017/3/1, a nightmare after hearing of a real assassination Four women with guns attack me at a public pool. Trapped in the water, can I survive? Only by being ruthless... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	RETARDED STARS, by Wayan, 2009/2/28; a dream-poem, Dreamverse #42 A horde of demented dwarves invades Market Street, jumping up & down, shaking the skyscrapers...
	ROCKET BREATH: by Wayan; 1989/2/17, a physics dream. Floating in my parents' house, I get trapped in free-fall! How can I get a grip? (Nothing symbolic here!)
	SHEVEK'S TIME-SLIP: by Wayan; 1996/10/14, a chronohomeostatic dream. Shevek invents time-travel and discreetly alters the past. But the future alters Shevek's present, to undo his changes! Who's sabotaging him? Or... WHAT?
	SLEDDING NEAR C: by Albert Einstein; around 1890-95; a transcendent career-advice dream Sledding at night, I approached the speed of light, and the stars turned colors I'd never seen...
	SLEIPNIR: by Wayan; 1987/3/31, a dumb physics dream. I'm at a physics conference. A new force has been discovered that may just allow travel faster than light. Strange, how'd the Vikings know?...
	SPLAT!: by Wayan; 1995/12/11, a science-fiction dream. Our physics project is top secret, but a stranger strolls into a meeting and opens a can of green light...
	TOO MUCH TO BEAR: by Wayan; 1997/4/28, an alt-world 10p. dream comic or text w/pics I dreamed that huge nouveau-riche polar bears invaded San Francisco, evicting us locals... CAUTION: CORRUPTION, URSACIDE, MATH!
	THE VERIZON EXPERIMENT: by Wayan; 2014/3/31, three linked dreamlets, the last self-flagging as predictive 1: A nature spirit's physics experiment proves that time forks. But how much? How dense is the multiverse? 2: I sculpt a model of this multiverse. A physicist likes it; the nature spirit likes it more. So she swipes it... 3: A 'friend' offers refugees my bedroom, crowding me and my work into a corner. I wake. The phone rings...
	WHAT YOU IMAGINE HAPPENS: by Wayan; 1982/2/21; a dreampoem on quarks. Or spooks. I'm stuck on a runaway bus. So we decide to picture the axle falling off, and it obeys! But the bus zooms on, carried by a horde of little animals... CAUTION: ESP SKEPTICS WILL LOATHE THE AFTERWORD (true story, though)
	WINDOW IN THE SKY: by Emily Joy; 2006/10/15, an epic, flying, apocalyptic dream When my friends and I learn to fly, all of Middle Earth turns against us! Fleeing from Saruman's army, I discover the backstage truth about our world... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, DOOM, PHYSICS! YODA IN THE TUB!
	WOUND-BARGAIN: by a Marine from New York; 1918/9/12-14, a prediction and possible alteration of the future I was sure I'd be wounded, but dreaded being crippled. So I tried on injuries! I settled on a flesh wound in my left shoulder...

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