Trains
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AIR PIRATES IN FAERIE: by Wayan; 1984/8/25, a complex predictive dream DREAM: The future. A party. A woman spills her drink on my white pants. Off to Faerie, where fruit trees are mean... NEXT DAY: I do not wear white pants to Sally's party. So? A woman spills her drink on Sally's white pants... DAY AFTER: I open a book on musicals & see a shot from The Wizard of Oz: Dorothy baiting an angry fruit tree... CAUTION: PREDICTIVE |
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AMAZEMENT PARK: by Stan Van Der Beek; 1980/12/30, a dream-proposal for a huge art installation The "Amazement Park", as I dubbed it, was a building long as a football field and three floors high; you fly, suspended, round an oval track, through a galaxy of images teaching that "sharing" is what matters... |
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THE BLUE MILLIPEDE: by Wayan; 1996/11/5 (Election Night), a political dream. I'm a wizard chasing crooked politicians in a big city. They have a car, I hop a trolley-- only on the astral plane it's a giant blue millipede, and... CAUTION: RECKLESS DRIVING, THEFT OF PUBLIC MILLIPEDE |
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BOXED IN : by Wayan; 1984/3/25, a predictive dreamlet proving I never, ever learn a thing I dream I've decided to jog to Alaska. But that Arctic wind slows me, and then a traffic-snarl boxes me in... Awake, I bike to work. Distracted by the dream, I leave my coat. An Arctic blast slows me, and then a... |
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BREAKAWAY ISLAND: by Vladimir Nabokov; 1964/11/5, a travel-anxiety dream turned predictive Hurry to the station to catch the train--or is it a sky tram? a ship? a hill? an island? Climb its flank, but fissures open--it breaks up. I'm adrift. Next day, on TV... |
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BREAK THE SCRIPT: by Wayan; 1993/6/19-20, two advisory dreams A sexy encounter with two robotic girls hopping a night train outside Portland... CAUTION: THREESOME |
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CHINA AND AMERICA: by Alder and Wayan; 1997/9/23, telepathic dreams. Two giants wrestle in the Chinese mountains. Who'll win, Red or Yellow? But when I wake... |
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CINCINNATI HUNCH: by Anonymous #56, 1969/9/8, predictive hunch & clairvoyant dream My husband had to go to Cleveland. I FOUGHT to keep him from flying out of Cincinnati; he took a night train. I dreamt I was flying, falling, and woke feeling the house shake. Later that day, my sister called to tell me... CAUTION: DID SHE SAVE HIS LIFE? WIKIPEDIA CASTS DOUBT. |
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CIVIL AFTERMATH by Wayan, 2024/1/5, a dream I hope is not predictive A guy smashes homes with a duckbilled train; gunmen shoot up shops near the tracks. The ensuing civil war burns all. Years later, we live on hardscrabble farms. Global Texas! CAUTION: GLOBAL TEXAS! |
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THE COMING DARK: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 2002/3/2; a dream on one disaster averted, and one... not. I climb down a cliff before night strands me; but in town, risky adolescent games cause a crash... |
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COMMUTE: by a Massachusetts woman, pre-1961, a recurrent telepathic prompt I pick up my husband at the train station daily, but he never calls--I just know when he arrives... |
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CRYPTOMNESIC TROLLEY: by Wayan; 1991/4/22, a lucid dream of a suicidal experiment. To prove I really am lucid-dreaming, I let a streetcar run me over. Mm, crunchy! Then I find out... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT OM... |
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DON'T YOU HEAR THAT WHISTLE BLOWIN...: by Denise Levertov; 1974/9/6; a dream poem 4 AM. A train wakes us all. We watch it pass, thinking of lost friends. And then I wake again to find... |
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THE DOOMED TRAIN: by Anna Kingsford; Nov. 1876, a galvanizing political nightmare We were on a train headed for a crash. No one was in the engine. Rather than jump, my friend insisted we try... |
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DRACONIAN VACATION: by Wayan, 2019/4/16, an alternate-Earth dream Just a dream vacation! I take a train trip up the East Coast, meeting, sketching and flirting with the locals, though they're... |
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EYEBOLT: by Wayan; 2005/10/1, a squeamish advisory dream I’m on a train in Britain, sitting across from a respectable-looking woman with a large bolt sticking in her eye... |
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THE FLYING SCOTSMAN: by J.W. Dunne, fall 1913; a lucid predictive dream Just north of the Firth of Forth in Scotland, a train fell from the track to a grassy park where small groups of people wandered. I sensed it was one of those odd dreams of mine & tried to get the date--next spring. On April 14, 1914, the "Flying Scotsman" jumped the parapet 15 miles north of the Forth Bridge and fell to the golf links below... |
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FOR THEM: by Wayan; 1995/12/1, a dream of outcasts. On the Night Train out of my small-town life, I meet the town rebel. But she's misplaced her tongue... CAUTION: PETTING; UNNERVING TONGUE |
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FOX ON THE TRAIN: by Wayan; 2015/1/9, an advisory dream painted & poemed I'm a guard on a train crossing the desert who falls in love with a refugee fox-girl, despite heavy specist peer-pressure and the archaic Railway Code... CAUTION: NUDE FOX |
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GIGANTIC SAND MOUNTAINS: by Jack Kerouac, early Sept. 1953, a dream on fun versus work Perched on a huge sandpile by the train track, I wrote. Then met a narcissistic hipster chasing happiness and sex. But this globe's austere and full of hurt... |
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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... |
GOLDEN EGG: by Larry Vigon; 1984; a real, nondream, synchronistic... summoning? |
I was on a London train. An ad had an image from "Jack and the Beanstalk" and I pondered the tale--the meaning of the golden eggs. A man got on, held out a golden egg, and opened it... |
HELL-BOUND TRAIN: by Franz Jaegerstetter, summer 1938; a political dream |
I was ordered to join Hitler's army. I dreamt a booming voice proclaimed, "This train is going to Hell!" So I... |
HELL I SUPPOSE: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; a dream with a rockin' sense of sarcasm |
I'm gloomy about the state of the world, but my alter ego cheerfully explains we're dead and in Hell--as a demon train rolls up with Elvis Costello on the roof singing "This is Hell I suppose"... |
A HISTORY OF ENERGY: by Wayan; 2021/2/19, a dream warning we're all shortsighted |
I dream of a parade or train of energy sources--human muscle, horsepower, coal, oil, gas, solar... But the train's ultimate engine is in our future, and is impossible--a dragon riding a broomstick... |
HITCHCOCK BIRD: by Wayan, 1982/9/8, a shamanic little predictive dream |
I'm trapped in a Hitchcock thriller. Then one suicidal gunman turns into a songbird! Next day at lunch a bird acts crazy. Over the next year, I do change from human to... CAUTION: SUICIDAL BIRD |
I SEE'D THEY DID: by a Wisconsin 4-year-old; pre-1961, a waking vision (clairvoyant? telepathic?) |
He asked abruptly "Did Aunt Myrtle and Uncle Charles have a wreck with a train? I see'd they did..." |
THE ICE EXPRESS: by Wayan; 1982/5/19, a dream on memory vs. expression. |
The trans-arctic Ice Express, blinded by birds, gets off-track and blocked by oddly rectangular ice floes... |
THE ILL-FORMED TALE: by Wayan; 160K, 1981/4/7, a wild dream anti-epic. |
To reach the Peak of Happiness on the Isle of Dreams, I must pass four Perils--but they're all backwards... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS NUTS, KNIVES, NUDE ALIENS, BACKWARD PLOT... |
JAPANESE RAIL CRASH: by an Air Force wife; 1927, a clairvoyant or telepathic dream |
The track gave way and many cars fell into the bay. People crawled out of the windows as waves broke on the wreckage... |
KITTEN'S QUEST: by Wayan; 2016/2/13, a dream-poem |
I met two strange sisters on a train who turn out to be half-cat. They open my eyes so I realize that my neighbor Elaine must be a shapeshifter too... CAUTION: FLIRTATIOUS UNDERAGE CAT |
LAKOTA TRAINSCAPES: by Wayan; 2018/10/30, art seen in an anti-lucid dream |
In a general store on a High Plains rez, I find two surreal collaged postcards. If only this were a dream they'd qualify for the World Dream Bank, but sadly, it isn't. Right? CAUTION: STUPID, STUPID CONSCIOUS! |
LAYANASHA'S DREAM: by Layanasha, laibon of the Maasai, c.1850, a prophecy spanning 65-70 years |
Layanasha foresaw the British would bring a great snake spanning Maasai territory, then a plague killing half the tribe, a second plague killing nearly all the cattle, and finally huge birds flying over the veldt... |
MANTA-SQUID: by Wayan; 1986/3/13, a nightmare on the Senoi hoax |
DAY: I read an exposé on "Senoi dreamwork"--the Malaysian Senoi people disavow it. Some white guy just made it up! DREAM: I'm a dream researcher in Malaysia. A manta-squid attacks! Now the "Senoi" focus on my needs makes sense... CAUTION: TENTACLE-RAPE ATTEMPT |
MEMORY SNIP!: by Wayan; 1999/5/15, a dream on the cost of kindness. |
My friend Mark does something I thought impossible: removes a snippet of my memory. Disastrous! CAUTION: VIOLENCE... SORT OF |
THE MONEYBIRD: by Wayan, 2005/3/18, a dream-poem on renunciation. Stupid renunciation. |
Inspired by a bird who weaves her nest of dollar bills, I become a sort of monk, sweeping, renouncing wealth--but my monastery's a Silicon Valley BART station... |
MY SINE-FRIEND: by Wayan; 1984/3/6, an emotional dream of time and rebirth. |
An animal-girl I know lives like a sine-wave, first forward in time, then backwards, dying at every zero... |
NO ROOM ON THE MOON!: by Wayan; 2014/7/7; poem of a frustrating surreal dream |
I want to catch a crescent moon home--our transit system's been buying up old moons and running them across town--but tourists reserved all the seats... |
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS by Anonymous #35; summer 1934, a psychic dream |
The engine pinned a young man under it. A crowd gathered, but no one saw the girl on the far side of the tracks... |
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... |
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... |
PRECOG TUNNEL : by Wayan; 1984/1/1, a small psychic dreamtale. |
I'm riding a train through a tunnel in Marin full of symbolism. I wake, interpret it all, and open the paper... |
RECUR: by Roz Chast, 2023 or before, her recurrent dream types cartooned |
Is our brain trying to tell us something that, evidently, we haven't heard the last 70 times? Or is the dream-manufacturing area feeling a little lazy? I have no idea, but here are some of my "classics"... |
RATTLER BY THE CONTROLS: by Wayan; 1978/10/19, an anti-phallic-symbol dream. |
I dreamed I was riding a huge toy train, and a gigantic rattlesnake was at the controls... |
SAMURAI BULLET: by Wayan; 1985 automatic drawing, 3x5", ink; tinted 2001. |
I didn't know myself what this was about, till I had to write this note--and suddenly I got it... |
SANTA CLUMP: by Wayan; 2009/9/16, an absurd dream-poem; Dreamverse #54 |
I find myself sitting on toy trains and fake snow as I'm told a fable: how a herd of department-store Santas got tragically lost in a blizzard... |
SEVERED HEAD: by Dr. Walter Prince, 1917/11/27, a detailed predictive nightmare |
DREAM: a thirtyish blonde says her death is ordered. Her head's cut off. But it won't die--bites his hand! Dr. Prince feels the dream shouts "premonition!" and writes an account at the Society for Psychical Research. Next night, a thirtyish blonde nearby commits suicide, leaving a note saying her severed head will live on... CAUTION: CREEPY DREAM, CREEPIER NEWS |
SLIDES: by Wayan; 2018/1/28, a surreal playful flirtation dream |
I cross San Francisco on public transit--a network of children's slides. One leads into... A wormhole full of aliens, where a goofy-haired reporter interviews a hacker... |
THEN I REVISIT SELMA CALIFORNIA: by Jack Kerouac, late Oct. 1952, a predictive dream |
I dream of strange wide brown houses on the tracks... A knock wakes me--our train's moving out. As we pass through San Mateo, I see them on the rails, ready to roll--the first prefabricated homes... |
THE TRAIN: by John Hollander; spring 1974; a poem based on a shared dream |
A couple slips in and out of sleep, dreams, one another's bodies and dreamworlds, trying to connect... CAUTION: FREUDIAN SYMBOLISM, LITERATE WRITING |
TRAINS COLLIDE: by Dudley Walker; 1928/6/27, a clairvoyant nightmare |
I've never done railway work, but here I am signaling a train to approach a station at dawn. A second train hits it head-on... CAUTION: EIGHT DEATHS |
TRAVEL: by "SchlofM"; 2008/2/10, a dream about protection |
I'm on a trip to who knows where, with my young-again mom, my dead dad, and--who's that guy? |
A WISE WRITER PROTECTS HER EYES: by Wayan; 1998/8/19, an advisory dream. |
A writer I meet is either flirting with me obscenely, or advising me about eyecare, or... are those the same? CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM |
THE WITCH-PIMPS NEXT DOOR: by Wayan, 2015/12/19, a dream on healing from abuse |
First I dream the neighbors are powerful witches offering dog-collared children to the local men. Later, on a train, I meet two kids who managed to escape... CAUTION: CHILD ABUSE, NUDITY |
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