Star Trek Dreams
So Star Trek's already dreamlike--after all, your dreams, considered collectively, form a similar mosaic: vast, crude, mostly consistent but with odd bits and contradictions, forming an overall structure that's hard to see from a single vantage-point. Thus Star Trek is fertile ground for dreams--the shows' lead characters are such useful archetypes of pure logic, feeling, leadership, empathy, honor, power, genius, trickiness, innocence, decency and greed...
RELATED TOPICS: other worlds - interstellar dreams - more fantasy & science fiction dreams: Tolkien and Middle Earth - Ursula Le Guin - Patricia McKillip - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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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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BATMAN'S LOVE: by Wayan; 1996/3/26, a dream-epic of love and time. A New Age graduation party spurs a wild dream of the spiritual odyssey of Catwoman, starring Alexander the Great, Batman, God, and Rumi the poet (played by Frank Zappa)... CAUTION: MORAL RELATIVITY |
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BIDENT: by Wayan; 2019/9/29, a punning political nightmare The Evil Librarians drop a 19th Century book-character on my head--a blue-skinned paranoid! He tries to kill me with a trident missing one prong... a Bident? Oh, no! He's Joe B... CAUTION: DIM VIEW OF TWO 2020 CANDIDATES |
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BUT SUCH DIFFERENT FRAUDS!: by Wayan; 1996/11/4, a moral dream. A woman who posed as a Starfleet officer discovers other frauds on board. She blows the whistle on them... |
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CAT-SCRATCH SIGNS: by Wayan; 1973/11/9, a dream on language-learning Our Star Trek team explores alien ruins covered in cat scratches. Or are they writing? I uncover Roman letters, Arabic numerals, I Ching trigrams, Chinese characters, Chumash pictographs. Reading them turns us into cats! One cat lays eggs, but two more try to smash them... CAUTION: CAT-EGG VANDALISM |
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CURSING ISABELLA: by Wayan; 1992/8/19, a thoughtful dream of sorcery. How I cursed Isabella the sofa sorceress, cursed her with a blueberry. And why that stinks... CAUTION: UNDER THE MAGIC, IDEAS |
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DEANNA ON THE MAYAN STEPS: by Wayan; 1992/7/8, a nightmare poem. Climbing a Mayan pyramid in Yosemite with Deanna Troy from the Starship Enterprise, we meet a gunman who wants to sacrifice... |
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DREAMKU, JUNE 2006: by Roswila; various dates up to June 2006; thirty dream-haiku Daily dream-poems in haiku style, nonstop for a month. A flood of animals, revenant ghosts, sex changes... |
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DREAMKU, JANUARY 2007: by Roswila; various dates up to January 2007; 31 dream-poems--mostly haiku A month of dreams full of science fiction: galactic navigation, spacedragons, oppressed fairies, alien love... |
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EDITH KEELER: by Wayan, 1975/10/8, an incubated dream giving multiple answers I asked my dreams to show me my Shadow--what I deny. It showed me at least FIVE! And in every time-branch, a runaway truck crushed me--the Truck of Ideology. Not that I seemed able to avoid it... CAUTION: RECURRING DEATHS |
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THE EDUCATION OF A DREAM: by Wayan; 1998/7/7, a dream on dreams. A young, naive, ethereal dream gets an Animus to guide her through the crazy material plane... CAUTION: GRATUITOUS WILLIAM SHATNER |
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THE EGYPTIAN GOD: by Wayan; 1991/12/21, a 7-year precognitive dream. Egyptian archeologists dig up a living god. He sees us as dolls to play with, but we've grown up... CAUTION: GOD AS A RAPIST |
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FALCON AND FÜHRER: by Miriel; 1985/7/31, an epic flying/transformation dream A mysterious "Führer" hypnotized all my companions. So I become a human-sized falcon and hunt him... |
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THE FINAL TEST: by Wayan; 1994/11/11, a reassuring nightmare. A Star Trek future. Our experimental ship is hijacked by illusionists, with us aboard... |
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FIREBIRD AND MINOTAUR: by Wayan; 1996/9/29, 4 images; a diagnostic dreamtale. I'm a cripple watching a sexy Greek Opera starring Whoopi Goldberg. Then I realize I'm in it... |
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GREENBIRD SAVIOR: by Wayan; 1983/6/2, a divine comedy. Time-travel the Navaho way! But our bread-pipe gets hijacked, so we call the Bird. Who shows up, all right... CAUTION: NON-STANDARD SAVIOR, EVIL DREAM PUNS |
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HORTA'S EGGS: by Wayan; 1984/1/17, a dream of re-evaluation. I fight to save a nest of 50,000 eggs that'll hatch... psychics! But my friends want to exterminate them! Who's wrong here? |
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HOT TO TROT or BRAIN TRAUMA or HUMPIN' THE HOG or SAD-EYED SWAN OF LOVE: by Wayan; 1993/8/4, a bizarre, epic dream on finding your way I'm a mare hot to trot (and get laid) in the Big City, but my gay Star Trek friend's brain trauma makes her a clueless alien with a bo(a)ring sexlife--until a sad swan enfolds her in love... CAUTION: ALIEN POSSESSION, CARTOON PIG SEX, SMOKING SWANS |
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ICK! DOGS!: by Wayan; 1990/1/3, a Star Trek dream. I'm Jean-Luc Picard, and my Enterprise has been taken over by a pack of brilliant, paranoid wolves... |
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I'M NOT BAD FOR A ROBOT MOM: by Wayan; 1993/11/12, an evaluatory dream. I'm an android struggling to raise a boy genius. But even human moms of prodigies share my problems! |
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JANEWAY'S TANGO: by Wayan, 1998/10/20, a psychic Star Trek dream. Why is Captain Janeway doing the tango with another woman, in a creek, wearing a mermaid tail? |
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JETPACK AND TIGER: by Wayan; 1988/3/17, a nonlucid yet lucidlike shamanic dream. After watching both Star Trek & Doctor Who, I find I'm held prisoner by the Rani and her laser-toting tiger guards. So I meditate--and manifest a jetpack and a laser gun! I never deduced I'm dreaming; it's not lucidity. It's simpler. What have I got to lose? |
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KIDS' WORLD: by Wayan; 1996/8/2, a dream on solitude. The children of some castaways refuse to go 'home': to them, this shore IS home. So what won't I leave? |
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THE LEMON SEA: by Wayan; 1982/2/22, a dream warning. I wake up as someone else. I go through her working day, till Captain Kirk comes to take me to... |
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LIZARD-BUG DISCIPLINE by Wayan, 2021/8/7; a Star Trek dream on... negotiation vs. force? I'm in an alien empire dominated by big lizard-bugs. Humanoids are second-class, but they're trusted with weapons--I witness a human squad executing a lizard for dissidence... CAUTION: REPRESSION, OR IMMUNE SYSTEM? |
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MAGIC SCHOOL: by Wayan, 1982/1/26: a waking event and replying dream. Phyllis Schlafly, killer of the Equal Rights Amendment, provokes a dream of being Captain Kirk trapped in a magic school with no way out but the graduate exam. Can I learn the lesson of the tree? CAUTION: POLITICAL JOURNALISM BEFORE THE DREAM. OH NO! |
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MARRIED TO MYSTERY: by Wayan; 1992/7/29, a dream on dream research. The starship Enterprise. A world ahead sends the Captain and the Nurse odd psychic urges. Follow or resist? |
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MISFITS ON MARS: by Wayan; 1986/11/20, an epic dream; the climax of the dreamseries UNICORN TAG. From the punk clubs of Frisco to the Safeways of Si Valley to the vermilion sands of Mars, Silky the were-nightmare fights for the Misfits against every cliche in science fiction... |
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MY SOUL: by Lee Kennedy; 1994, a spiritual dream. Aliens take me to meet my soul. It's on a pedestal in a quasi-Roman villa. I'm ashamed to see my soul's just a tribble. But it sings soulfully, and when happy, it purrs... |
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ON HER FOURTH BODY: by Wayan; 1993/11/25, a predictive dream-comedy. A gengineered singer (born a cow, became a horse, then a shark, now a sexy Mare Chanteuse) solves a mystery that stumped even Mr. Spock. Next day, I see a film--a mystery solved by a... |
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PICARDIAN ANGELS: by Wayan; 1993/1/7, a dream of time and wishes. I walk on Martinique with Captain Picard of the starship Enterprise. He's here to see a dreamy boy... |
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PICARD'S ANGELS: by Wayan; 1993/1/7, a poem; alternate treatment of the dream PICARDIAN ANGELS As a boy on Martinique, Jean-Luc Picard wished for so much so hard, his angels have to work overtime... |
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POWER OFF: by Wayan; 1997/6/17, a dream of brainwashing. Captain Kirk (Starfleet, retired) saves us all from terrorists at a powerplant, but he forgot something... |
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THE PRIME DIRECTIVE: by Wayan; 1994/3/9, a pro-meddling dream. A bunch of primitives try to trick their way into the Federation, slipping around the Prime Directive... |
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RHINZL'S SHADOW: by Wayan; dreamed 1984/8/28; two unlikely predictive dreams. DREAMS: 1: I can't afford language classes. 2: A beautyqueen rigs a stargate; I kill monsters & sell their bones... NEXT DAY: I'm asked "Why don't you get a language degree?" I can't afford it! I go home & watch Dr Who... A stunning girl fixes a spacetime portal. Smugglers kill alien monsters & sell their ashes as a drug... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND CREEPY DISPOSAL OF BODIES |
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SALIA AND CHUR: by Wayan; 1989/2/25, a psychic Star Trek dream. Our starship signs up a strange new woman whose quirks turn out to be fallout from slavery... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES |
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SHRUNKEN MEN: by Wayan; 1992/2/21, a dream on the masculinity crisis. Day: Robert Bly's book Iron John, claiming men need male mentors, annoys me. Dream: the giants co-opted Captain Picard of Star Trek, but we don't need him to rebel... CAUTION: MOCKS ROBERT BLY |
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SPOCK'S SPIRITS: by Wayan; 2000/3/12, a financial-advice dream. Lost in a dark maze of machine-shops, I follow Mr. Spock, who's drunk, and talks to tree-spirits... CAUTION: ALCOHOL AS INSPIRATION? |
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SUSHI CIRCUS: by Wayan; 1982/2/17, an illustrated psychic dream. To avoid being stabbed, I flee the Psychodrama Circus. Wisely--the place explodes! But it's the filling of the sushi roll that really upsets me... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MAKI |
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TERI GARR ("FLAMING BITCH!"): by Wayan, 1988/5/16, a nightmare-poem baffling me--then! A beer-soaked cowboy barbecue goes wrong when a dog named Teri Garr catches fire and they just laugh and won't waste beer to douse her. Then their big old hats catch fire... CAUTION: SEXIST BLAMING OF VICTIM; PROBABLE DEATHS BY FIRE |
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TRAIL OF POGS: by Wayan; 2004/9/6, my dreams' response to the first Burning Man dream-workshop A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us... |
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TRISKELION; 2011/6/21 by Wayan; a repeated false-waking dream of dating advice I wake up in a weird sexual situation. But I'm still dreaming--I wake again to find I'm in an even weirder sexual situation. But I'm still... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, (ANTI?)ROMANTICISM |
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TUBA BEANS: by Wayan; 1996/3/24, a Star Trek dream. Changelings invade our orbital station, selling drugs, kidnapping teachers--but Constable Odo can handle that. What's weird are the beans pouring out of that kid's tuba... |
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THE TUBA MAN: by Wayan; 1982/7/8, a career-advice dream; watercolor sketch. Tuba Man plays from the top of a tower, even when Loveless Man opens fire; for music is life to him... |
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TURTLE HARANGUE: by Wayan; 1997/1/29, a warning dream. A man mocks a turtle he caught, calling it "inept"--he knows adept turtles, then? I distract this fisherman-ranter while the turtle quietly tiptoes... |
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UNICORN PROFESSOR: by Wayan, 2024/4/7, a Star Trek dream DAY: the crew of the Enterprise sings about love & career(ism). DREAM: I'm taking a test at Starfleet Academy. But my teacher's a gorgeous unicorn, & my answers are filled in! I try to change one but my eraser breaks... CAUTION: MOCKS LA BERGE'S LUCID DREAMWORK? NUDE PROFESSOR, TOO |
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VAMPIRE TESTS: by Wayan; 2015/8/22, a lurid dream-response to a quiet day Captain Kirk is testing vampire myths on a world where they don't bleed you dry. At the moment, three vamps are sitting in a tent in a sunny meadow, queasy but alive... CAUTION: FINANCIAL VAMPIRES? |
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THE WRAITH OF KHAN: by Wayan; 1982/6/2, a dream on brains and consequences I'm being stalked by Ricardo Montalban, playing Khan, Captain Kirk's enemy on Star Trek. Why? Oh, I know why! |
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