Out-of-Body Experiences
But many other dreamers make a sharp distinction between these, based on whether they feel their dream-body or spirit rise from their sleeping phsyical body, and leave it, roaming off, exploring...
What's more, an out-of-body experience can happen inside a dream--you can observe yourself. Educational, if not always comfortable.
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THE ARTERIA: by Wayan; 1994/5/24, a raw, personal tale of three nightmares. Hypnotherapy provokes nightmares of body-part shops, secret libelers, and madmen in space... |
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ATLANTIS: 3: MICHAEL'S DREAM; c. 1993 by Mark Doty; dream-based elegiac poem, one of six I dream I see the soul of my lover step out of his body, a second self of light... CAUTION: AIDS DEATH |
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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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BROWNIE: by Wayan; 1984/9/26, a sexy dreamtale. At last my girlfriend and I manage to peel off the Brown Dress of Shame, and ... CAUTION: SEXUAL HEALING |
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COSMIC ORGY: by Wayan, 1971/8/31, an early, taboo-smashing, mystical flying sex dream I've turned into my sister; and she's turned into me. We try sex. A wolf lopes by and joins us. The energy from our orgy lifts us into space. Moons planets stars swim by as we float and fuck... CAUTION: CARTOON ORGY IN SPACE |
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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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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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A DRY DREAM: by Wayan; 1999/8/30, the opposite of a wet dream. A nightmare turns to a sex dream turns to a weird demonstration just how out-of-body a dream can get... CAUTION: (PUZZLING) SEX |
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ELF CIRCLE; 2011/3/19 by Wayan; a complex advisory dream. After trespassing in a staff-only part of Faerie, I'm cast out. Only I'm cast like a seed, meant to grow a new elf circle... |
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FALL FROM A STAR: by Edwin Muir; 1920, a hypnogogic shamanic initiation Escaping the tiny red plush room inside a star, I dive back to earth. Oops. A beast eats my broken body. My soul waits... |
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FALLING INTO A TESSERACT, and Meeting a Being of Pure Energy: by Dustin Latham, 2019/11/7 I knew I was on my bed, yet I felt myself falling into a tesseract--huge, crystalline, colorful. Inside I met an energy being who explained I'm not meant to die yet; this was just training... CAUTION: UNCONVENTIONAL GOD |
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FOUR OF TEN: by Wayan; 2021/4/3, four examples from ten dreams in one night Books are clothes, and always were. A potato makes me lie, and everyone gets it but me. Sex in a crowd disarms the Mom Squad! And a Mystic Autistic's soul explores my room... CAUTION: PUBLIC SEX? PROBABLY. |
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GUNTRAM'S SNAKE by King Guntram, c.570 CE; a profitable out-of-body dream On a hunt, Guntram took a nap. His courtier saw a snake emerge from his mouth; it tried to cross a creek. The courtier lay his sword out like a bridge, and the snake crossed, climbed a hill, and went in a hole. It returned and crawled in Guntram's mouth. He woke and said "I was crossing a river on a great iron bridge..." |
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HIPPIE MISSILES: by Wayan, 1990/7/23, twin dreams of risky leaps leading to flight 1: I try to grow feathers and fly, but half-fail, half-succeed--experience two bodies at once... 2: I fly to escape a hippie cult. They fire heat-seeking missiles! But I may be too cool to track... |
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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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JUNG’S PREMONITIONS OF WORLD WAR I: by Carl Jung, 1913-1914; five ignored warnings. Jung was told in dreams and visions that Europe would soon drown in blood. But he just couldn’t believe it... |
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KINSHIP IN WINTER: by Elia Rowan; 2023/6/2, an exoclimatology dream On a scorching world not built for people like us, I find someone who seems to be a lot like me... |
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LUCID FLIGHT: by Lisa Reich; March 2003, an ecstatic lucid dream of flight. I flew as if part of the air--an otherworldly freedom so exquisite I wonder if it's attainable at all in earthly existence... |
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THE MIMI: by Robert Moss, 1955, a dream of another life As a boy in Australia I briefly died on the operating table. I found myself living among the Mimi, spirits living in rocks. I grew up, grew old, died--and woke up nine years old again... |
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MUSCLES: by Gayle Delaney and "John", before 1979, simultaneous out-of-body dreams I dreamt I was out of my body. My friend John was too, so I slipped into his to see how it felt. Big lungs, big muscles! When I woke, John told me he'd had a great out-of-body dream and was reluctant to wake... |
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MY LIPS ARE SEALED: by Wayan, 1989/6/3, a moody, psychic, epic, two-part dream. I'm a Romantic poet who defeats the curse of the fountain, to marry; but when our daughter's grown, a new curse strikes me mute, paralyzed. And I mistake this for old age! Then, in real life, my dad wakes up from a nap paralyzed... |
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MYSTERY BETWEEN: by Wayan; 1985/9/27, crayon and acrylic drawing on dreamnesia. Okay, you got your heaven, and your earth, and between, you got... CAUTION: MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE |
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NEW BODIES: by Dreamy; around 2007/1/25, a transformation dream My best friend and I qualify for new bodies. The new me is taller, but poor Ken may take years adjusting to his new... |
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OH LEAD MY REM SOUL ON: by Wayan, 1991/9/2 silk painting of shamanic dream process I rise in animal form, and fly to a world as coherent as this one, guided by a greenhaired girl... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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ORBITING MOM: by Wayan; 1997/1/7, an uh-oh dream. I'm trying to get a moontan when my mom appears. My astral body starts orbiting her like a moon. Uh-oh... |
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OUT-OF-BODY ROMANCE: by Gayle Delaney, c.1984, apparent telepathy On a trip, lonely, I induced dreams about my fiancé Steve, hoping I could visit him out-of-body. On the one night I succeeded, he abruptly felt my presence while awake... |
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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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PAT'S WARNING: by Pat, Allen and Gerry; 1947, a ghostlike warning from a living person's unconscious In occupied Germany, Pat flags down two friends just before a truck crash. Except... Pat was in England at the time. She sensed they were in danger, but... |
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POPEYE MUSCLES: by Wayan; 1986/7/14, a grotesque dreamtale. My body turns protean: big Popeye muscles pop out as needed, relaxing into stick-figureness... |
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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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REMARKABLE: by Joseph Wilkins; 1754, an out-of-body dream Wilkins visits his parents in a dream. Only they think he's a ghost, and panic--in the real world... |
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ROCHAN'S DREAM: by Rochan, c.1977, a verified out-of-body dream At 16, Rochan dreamt she rose from her body and explored outside, seeing a white car and brown bag. She woke--and checked! White car, brown bag. Now, adult, she trusts her dream intuitions about larger things... |
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THE SILVER CORD: by Wayan, 1993; digital poster of dreamwork advice.. An astral travel advisory. You'll fly better, if (before you leave your body) you... |
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SIT ON A CLOUD: by William S. Burroughs, 1990?, a big-city flying dream A thousand feet above New York. I meet two naked angels who say it's their first flight, but I got no fear of falling anymore; got no body to fall. Sit on a cloud. Just me and my shadow... |
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SKINK WEDDING: by Wayan; 2018/3/9, an out-of-lizard-body dream poem I get assigned a life as a skink. Eat flies, mate, do my lizard pushups, but behind my daily mind, my soul gets so bored it finally flies out... |
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SO AROUSAL MEANS REM?: by Wayan; 1999/5/19, a dream on dreams. My sexual orientation shifts arbitrarily, turned on one second, off the next. Who's at the controls? CAUTION: SEXUAL CONFUSION |
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STEAMROLLER: by Richard Wilbur, late 20th Century; an embarrassing dream. As the steamroller flattened me I became quite a lovely stained-glass window... |
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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... |
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TAKEN OVER: by Eileen, Jony & Kim, as told by Gayle Delaney, 1979 or before; parallel nightmares Eileen rose out of her body. A man dared her "How far away can you go?", then stole her body! Jony and their daughter Kim had nightmares of invasion too; all three woke up shaken... |
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THE TAPED WOUND: by Wayan; 1997/10/7, a dream on old tapes... My wound's taped up, but hurts bad. I peel off the bandage. Nothing! Gone. So I check my other body... |
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TAROT: DEATH (Resurrection): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1979. So you die, and to your secular surprise, your soul metamorphoses into... |
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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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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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