Reincarnation and past-life memories
Just don't go overboard with your skepticism until you've studied the evidence, that's all I'm saying. Occam's Razor applies! (Occam: "If many theories all fit your data, go with the simplest"). When your dreams TELL you something's literal, not symbolic, it's worth listening, that's all. No matter how many so-called friends make fun of you, no matter what some experts somewhere write... your own experiences are the primary source. Experts and theorists are secondary.
A few dreams here are of the rebirth of whole communities, civilization... worlds. If enough of these accumulate I'll split off a new subject list for them, but for now...
RELATED TOPICS: revenants (visits from dead loved ones) - memory - souls - astral dreams - healing from abuse - Hinduism - Buddhism - Shamanism - Paganism and Wicca - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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AFTER BIRTH: by Wayan, 2004/9/29, astral acrylic painting Never mind an afterlife! What if, before life, we were spirits with no idea what happens after birth?... |
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AFTER THE FLOOD & THE PIG-EARED BABY ALLIGATOR: by Skiznot; c.1995, an oracular dream My hometown floods. I swim after some strange fish and find a scientific community where a scaled baby tells me who I am... |
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ANIMAL HEAVEN: by Wayan; 2008/8/16, an astral dream-poem; Dreamverse #6. At a party in Animal Heaven, I fall for a rabbit-girl doomed to be human dinner. But how can I rescue her? I'm Fate's part-time intern! CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, INCOMPETENT ANGEL OF DEATH |
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APOCALYPSE OF THE MOON: by Carl Linkhart, 1997 or before; dream poem/painting The far future. The moon falls to Earth. But then... the moon unfalls! Golden light nurtures a rebirth of our dying ecology & civilization... |
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BELLE OF THE BALL: by Bonnie; 2006/5/2, a sexy ghost dream I’ll win a house if I can survive a night in the Haunted Pavilion! But it turns out I’ve been here before--before I was born... CAUTION: GHOST ORGY |
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BIRD ASSASSIN: by Adam Shaw, art by Jesse Reklaw; pre-2000; a no-kindness-goes-unpunished dream I'm a giant cartoon bird. I had to assassinate a friend--twelve times! Eleven times I killed him, but I spared him the twelfth. He said... |
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THE BLOOD OF CHRIST (BUT, MOM!): by Anna Kingsford; 1879/10/17, a doctrinal dream gets personal I say Christ’s “blood” is a metaphor for “spiritual perfection.” My mom says "You're killing me; please repent"... |
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BODY-SWITCH: by Wayan; 2000/6/10; a dream of a castaway soul Spies kidnap a girl and move her soul into a madwoman's body. Can she survive? Recover? Thrive? The TV dance show helps... |
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BOYS DON'T CRY: by Wayan; 2000/1/7, twin sex nightmares reacting to a movie seen two days later! DREAM 1: My date Lana changes to my housemate Alder to my dead friend Beryl, who talks of pastlife trauma... DREAM 2: Sexy deer-girls and ice dancers get me and my sister hot, but a ghost disrupts impending incest... TWO DAYS LATER: I see Boys Don't Cry--settings, situations, characters & even names from my dream! CAUTION: DEER BREASTS, NEAR-INCEST, FILM ON TRANNYCIDE |
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CHART THE GROWTH: by Brenda Ferrimani; 2004, painting of an incubated, oracular dream I asked my dreams "What's my truest purpose?" I dreamed my body was a tree, and a voice said "Chart the growth"... |
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COMING TO THE JUMPING OFF PLACE: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 92/5/1, painting of an escape dream Trapped on an island, spied on and controlled, we decide to jump off a cliff and die; but as we jump, a spirit sneaks us off be reborn... |
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CORPSE-BUG: by Wayan; 1994/12/1, an allegorical sex nightmare. I'm a hippie girl in San Francisco, in hard times. To escape the Four Horsemen, I lie down with Death... CAUTION: GANGS, CREEPY SEX |
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THE CRANE SPOKE: by Thomas Takashi Tanemori; 1945/8/5, a child's dream foreseeing Hiroshima A crane came and spoke to me, reassuring me "I'll be back" even as a great fire burned it. It returned as a white butterfly. Next morning, as we played hide and go seek, I shut my eyes and counted to... CAUTION: CIVILIANS MASSACRED |
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CREATURE BECOMES CREATOR: by Wayan; 2015/2/5, three linked advisory dreams on world trends A weird little forest god bred me from an ordinary deer into a creature who can almost pass for human. But World War 2 killed my god, and now I'm growing into... CAUTION: NUDITY, CROSSBREEDING |
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CROSS THE BLACK RIVER ONE DEATH AT A TIME: by Wayan; 1990? Astral landscape Buddhism is a 12-step program; it has its pitfalls for those of us who already detach all too easily... |
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CYCLES AGO: dream by Maud Gonne, poem by WB Yeats; late July 1891, a dream-poem We were as if brother and sister of old in the desert land; they sold us in slavery together before this life had begun... |
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DAMOCLES LODGE: by Wayan; 1998/12/22, a dream on what hangs over us. I meet a nice werewolf in a hall of past-life junk, so sharp and rusty we dare not play... |
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DON'T WANT HIM TO SOAR: by Wayan; 1991/4/18, a dream of sabotage. In a parallel world, a visionary's building the first plane only now. I'm his assistant. But I don't WANT... |
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DOPPELBRUDER: by Wayan; 1985/5/9, a dream of a self at war over... labels? Lured to a parallel, feudal world by a marriage-vow, I'm trapped in my double's arrogant, twisted mind... |
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EEL TOWER: by Wayan; 1981/4/23, a dream of longing. I dreamed living in a body of flesh is like being trapped on a sinking cruise ship... CAUTION: NUDITY (but she's just crying, not giving that guy a blowjob, okay?) |
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THE EGG CRACKS: by Carl Jung, 1914/1/10-1917/2/4; meditation-images A green monster guards the divine egg; with the right prayer, it explodes in a fountain of mad color, half grenade, half freed jinni... |
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EMADRO: by Wayan; 1983/6/4, a wild dream on clinging--and letting go. An elephant sinks in the North Sea, and the Oracle Mink says a wizard did it. Can old Lady Gandalf help? |
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EMISSARY: by Wayan; 2000/3/22, an astral dreamtale. I signed a prenatal agreement for weird, uneven luck to turn my life toward art and spirit. I want to broaden it, but I've lost the contract! So my spirit wife Silky sets out to find it... |
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FALADA: The Goose Girl's Best Friend: by Mardi Storm, recurring predictive dreams c.1975-79, sculpted c.2000 I had recurring dreams in which a talking horse’s head was nailed to a tree. Strangely, this was before I read "The Goose Girl" in Grimm's fairytales... CAUTION: GRIMM ALL AROUND |
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FATHER LOOMS: by Wayan; 1983/?, a nonliteral diagnostic nightmare. I was a 30ish woman discovering that my chronic pelvic inflammation was from childhood molestation... CAUTION: MOLESTATION IN DREAM-PAST |
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FIRE-CATS: by Wayan; 1981/10/10; twin dream-poems on over-discipline For mere disobedience, I EXECUTE a forest-fire-fighting cat! So next I'm trapped in a security-obsessed job; how do I like it? I flee... |
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(MY) GLASS BODY: by Wayan; 1993/9/16, a dream on sensitivity. After I visit the crystalline people, a young diamond-wizard stalks me all the way to my home in the Meat World, and says... |
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HEAD ON MY TABLE: by Lauren Watley; 2011/2/16, a creepy dream-image with depth After a day of troubling conflicts over race & art, I dream I'm handed a hot, heavy, mossy head--is it art, or alive? |
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HEART AND LUNGS: by Claire Sylvia, 1987-88, recurrent dreams as told by Patricia Garfield After heart-lung surgery, Claire had dreams of her donor that told his name, his appearance and some of his behaviors. She contacted the donor family and verified these. Can dreams access nonbrain cellular memory? |
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THE HEIDEGGARIAN BARBARIAN: by Jo, 2007/02/02, a dream of hopping between two characters I was two-thirds of a love triangle, but I always lost out. Flying was some consolation... CAUTION: RAT DEATH, EVIL WHALES AND ADULTERY |
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HELL-CHESS and COMING CAUSES AMNESIA: by Wayan; 1985/3/10, twin surreal dream-poems Hell Chess isn't just black and white. Living women, from weak pawns to transcendent rainbow queens... Coming Causes Amnesia: reincarnation, 69, and plate tectonics all fuse in lava-hot orgasm... CAUTION: ORAL SEX IN DREAM TWO |
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HER FIRST INCARNATION: by Wayan; 1983/11/10, a dream of a surreal shamanic duel Forced into a duel, I let my spirit fight for me using Boomerang Blades. But my enemy becomes giant floating sticky lips! My spirit finds incarnation confusing... |
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HOBBIT ERUPTIONS: by Wayan, 1990/12/31, a counterfictional dream poem I contemplate Bilbo taunting Smaug, then Frodo, Sam and Gollum triggering Mt Doom to erupt, but next I "remember" other fiery catastrophes and "realize" hobbits are always causing... |
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HUNTERS' FIRE: by Wayan; 1987/9/8, a nightmare that may be a memory. I'm an orphan shot at by hunters. They shoot my sister! But no one believes me... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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I AM THREE: by Wayan; 1956-58, my three earliest dreams. My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child... |
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INCREMENTAL HEAVENS: by Wayan; 2016/9/5, a reincarnation-frustration dream, baffling then. Not now. I keep getting reincarnated in dull heavens where all is blocked by know-nothings. After the 2016 election... CAUTION: CAUSTIC |
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THE ISLAND FURIES: by Wayan; summer 1975, a dream of self-control. When warring Greek isles kill a peacemaker, her three best friends start a vendetta! But she wanted peace... CAUTION: HATE NURSED TOO LONG |
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JADE JACKPOT, or, A HEAP O' CHANGE: by Wayan; 1990/1/7, a dream of shaking down God. I'm slipping dimes into a boulder of jade: a vending machine that fills every order wrong. Why feed it? Well... |
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THE LABORATORY UNDERGROUND: by Anna Kingsford; 1880/2/2; an animal-rights nightmare. I find myself in a vault with tables where half-dissected animals writhe. Hidden in each was a human shape... CAUTION: GRUESOME |
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THE LAST WORD: by Larry Vigon; 2001/12/5; a wistful apocalyptic dream A huge explosion knocked the earth off its orbit; it struck other planets and wrecked the whole solar system. Where will the souls ready to reincarnate all go? Or do they even need a planet?... |
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THE LAUGHING GIRL: by Gordon Wagner, c.1977; a strong anima helps heal a trauma I was one of just three to survive a roller coaster crash. I dreamed of a playful, laughing girl who drove off a cliff. Dead, she lay on a bier in a surreal cemetery. But she woke and looked at photos of her old self with curiosity... |
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THE LEOPARD'S CLUE: by Wayan; 2012/3/17, an incubated advisory dream. My boyfriend, a leopard, sniffs out a clue to an old murder involving me in a past life. But did I witness, die, or kill? |
LIFE MATES: by Katie Hofgard; 2003/4/19?, a reincarnation-romance dream | Mysterious doings on an archeological dig bring a creature back to life, but this is no Mummy... |
LOVE OF MY LIVES: by James Lyon; 2014/5/25, a life-spanning dream. |
I live two complete lives with the same woman in my dreams, then wake up next to her... |
THE MAN IN BLACK: by Florita Thesiger, 1930s, recurring genderbent pastlife dreams |
Each time, I'm a young Elizabethan man in a grand, new-built country house. In the main room, I find a man in black by the fire. He comes at me, and as he shoots me point-blank, I wake... |
A MAREOTIC QUARREL: by Wayan, 2018/10/10; a dreamlet about truth & experts |
My friend Lily misuses the word 'Mareotic'; I know, because I once saw it in a Yeats poem, thought the footnote explaining it was fishy, checked it myself, and found the editors hadn't even bothered to... |
MIDORI'S DREAM: by Midori Yamane, as told and drawn by her friend Igort, 2015. |
I see a shop in Kyoto in the early 1900s. The old woman running it is calm, with precise movements and sure hands. A voice says "That lady is Igort"... |
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 |
THE MOOMIN COMMISSIONERS OF TIME: by Wayan; 2008/9/17, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #27 |
A new Eve asks the Time Commission to send her and her baby back to Ethiopia 45,000 years ago. But they're shy Moomintrolls, not humans... |
MOON-STRIPED TIGER PROWLING: by Sylvia Rosen, 1975/6/29; dream poem |
The foul old fossil woman had carved and burnt her own flesh in the name of art; we washed her till she was reborn young. It was my turn next to enter the water...
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I visit a beautiful artificial mountain with loved ones--but my demons overwhelm me one by one. CAUTION: SUICIDAL FEELINGS, BODY HATE/FATPHOBIA, IMPLIED RAPE |
MY TREE: by Wayan; 170K, 12/12/2007, 2-page comic of a persistent delusion. |
I keep feeling I'm a reincarnated rainforest creature just passing for human. When all I want is... CAUTION: TOBACCO |
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 |
NAMED: by Kathleen Raine, between 1981 & '87; a mystical dream poem |
A voice calls to me by name--but not the name I now bear, evoking memories of another life... |
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... |
THE NEW DALAI LAMA: by Wayan; 2011/9/9; a prescriptive AND predictive dream. |
I dream the new Dalai Lama's a kind woman who gives me startling health advice AND shows me how to fly. The next day... |
THE OLD YOUNG MAN: by Anna Kingsford; 1880/2/21, a dream of a step-in soul |
Malaria nearly kills a talented young artist; he must retrain from scratch. Why? Well, he's not exactly himself... |
ORPHEUS AND POOH: by Wayan; 1972/4/9, a dream echoing Cocteau's film Orphee--before seeing it |
I meet my true love during a coup. We go through Hell together, like Orpheus and Eurydice--only we... |
THE OTHER LAND: by Walter de la Mare, c.1881-4; an episodic or "installment" dream series |
Age 7 to 11, I often dreamt I inhabited a consistent geography of mountains & deserts. I was an adult of dark complexion in non-European clothes; I spoke a tongue (and read a script) that I didn't recognize when awake... CAUTION: ADULT DRUG EXPERIMENT; PAST LIFE MEMORY? |
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... |
PASTLIFE TRAINING TRACKS: by Wayan; 1981/5/5, a bikin' buddha dream. |
I'm biking around a railroad switch-yard. Slowly realize they're life-paths. People start following me out... |
PHARAOH HOOKS: by Wayan; 1989/7/31, a deadpan joke of a dream. |
My sister and her friend the snake-woman tell me the facts of life: the golden hooks, the piglets... CAUTION: UNRELIABLE GYNECOLOGY |
PINHEAD HEAVEN: by Wayan; 2013/7/12, an absurd dream-poem |
I'm in heaven. But... what can you do up here? And it's so small. Where is everyone?... CAUTION: WE FIND OUT |
POLYGON DREAMS: by Wayan; 2007/4/23, a 32-page comic on the effects of shapes |
What if comics panels and layouts weren't so square? I try triangles, pentagons, hexagons, circles, spirals--and some serious stuff pops out... CAUTION: IDEAS, OCCASIONAL NUDITY, MENTIONS ABUSE |
REBORN AS A CAT: by Lady Sarashina's sister, April or May 1022, a dream of a friend's past life |
Sarashina adopts a stray cat with oddly refined manners. Her sister dreams the cat tells of her last life, as the daughter of a high official. The cat does seem to understand human speech... |
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? |
RED LIGHT by Nancy Price; 1948, a predictive dream of the past! |
I'm in my home town, but at two times at once! Murderous boys explain why: I died here in 1861... |
REINCARNATION, or, SUPPOSE: by Wayan; 2015/7/10, an undream poem |
These days I'm doubtful about both an afterlife AND utter extinction. Was Shakespeare wrong about what gets buried, what lives on? |
THE RICH WRECK THE WELL: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995, a dream of Heaven |
A movie version of heaven. Souls line up for rejuvenation from a great fountain. But fat old rich guys crash the line, demanding to be first... CAUTION: UGLY NUDITY, UGLY BEHAVIOR, POLITICALLY PREDICTIVE |
SATURN BEACH: by Wayan; 1990/4/18, a playful advisory dream |
Sunbathing on Saturn's rings with a girl who's preparing for reincarnation--like me. She's cute, but she chucks litter in the Bay of Rebirth. Maybe not Ms. Right, then... |
SERAFINA AND RAM DASS: by Wayan; a 2000/11/6 dream anticipating an 11/9 experience with auras |
A Finnish shaman/witch gives me a lesson in night flying; in the waking world I meet Ram Dass and sense him speak astrally before his body can get the words out... CAUTION: HIGH MYSTICAL QUOTIENT; IF ALLERGIC, AVOID |
SHOUT IN A CROWD, or, How to Survey Galactic Civilization: by Wayan; dreamed 2014/4/15, |
a dream exposing what my brain's up to when I forget my dreams! I wander the galaxy in my dreams, finding and testing crowds to see if anyone reacts to the sound of shouted English or Chinese. One in a thousand does! This implies... CAUTION: SCIENCE AND SHAMANISM DON'T MIX (or do they?) |
SINK JOHN: by Wayan; 1981/5/25, a dreamtale on "when in Rome..." |
My friend sleeps with an alien. He's ugly, but I don't care. What bothers me is, he eats bits of himself... CAUTION: SEX, RECREATIONAL CANNIBALISM, PROSTITUTION, THE KITCHEN SINK |
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... |
SOULS IN THE MUD: by Wayan; 1981/1/14, a thoughtful dream. |
I'm being hunted in Reincarnation Swamp, as I worry--the human population boom means experienced souls are scarce. Are most folks you meet really dogs, cats... rats? CAUTION: MYSTIC ELITISM |
SPEAKING FERN: by Wayan; 1991/3/25, a dream-prank. |
A dead fern in my backyard starts sending me messages in some strange language... |
STARGIRL: by Wayan; 1993. Digital image of altered state |
I squabble with my body so much! But now & then, in orgasm, we dissolve into stars and become... CAUTION: SEX POETRY |
STICK IT BACK ON: by Wayan; 1980/7/15, a scattered dream still hiding a point. |
The tollman on the new bridge to the Land of the Dead revives a beheaded woman by RANDOM action... |
THE STUTTER: by Wayan; 1995/9/7, a religious dreamtale. |
Half our religion-founders were just one guy, repeating till he got it right. Practice makes perfect! |
SWALLOWS OF FOUR CORNERS: by Wayan, (Aug?) 1971, a childhood visionary feltpen drawing |
Navaho country felt like home--the land, the art, the animals, the language. Trapped in suburbia, I drew... |
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... |
THEY DON'T BELIEVE ME: by Wayan; 1989/10/4, an unbelievable dream with 15 illus. |
My dog and I are abducted by aliens who turn us into cats. We escape & go feral to survive. How we got back, and what happened along the way, even my own shrink refuses to believe... CAUTION: LEWD SQUID AND KLEPTOMANIAC BUGS |
TIBETAN DISASSEMBLY: by Wayan; 2007/7/5, a dream of a desperate ploy |
A woman in Tibet disassembles herself! A local god hires her spirit, but she uses the office equipment to backup her memories and... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
THE TORTURER: by Wayan; 1997/7/13, a predictive nightmare |
A free-lance torturer chooses me for his victim. He has the right. I bluster, but when I fall asleep at last... CAUTION: NO PAIN, BUT GORE |
MY TUTELARY UNCLE: by Wayan; 1993/5/28, a shamanic dream. |
I'm half Anglo, half Kwakiutl. My uncle the shaman died, but he still wants to teach me his medicine... |
VIEWPOINT: by Wayan; 1991/6/9, a dream on pastlife amnesia. |
I ask to see my past lives, and dream of a viewpoint where I can--but this Mormon ranger... |
VIRGINIA'S TRAIN: by Emily Joy; 2005/9/24, a psychic dream and poem
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We lose control of our new time machine, which seems to have its own agenda... CAUTION: CONTEMPLATION OF SUICIDE, CHRONOLOGICALLY IMPAIRED DREAMER |
THE WHEEL by Nancy Price; 1948, an early, intense dream of Future Shock. |
Lost in an industrial maze, my memories hopelessly outdated, I resign myself to the Wheel... |
WHOSE DREAM WAS IT?: by Wayan; 2008/10/18, a nested-dream poem, Dreamverse #35. |
I'm a Chinese kid fleeing the Japanese Occupation in 1938. As we near San Francisco, I wake to find it's all my dad's dream. Wait--he's alive again? But he was never a refugee. Is it a pastlife memory? If so, whose--his or mine? |
ZYGOTE: by Wayan; 1999, a comic astral vision. | It's true: after death, angels advise you where to go next. But what if you get an over-eager travel agent?
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