Violence, K-Z (A-J)
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KARMA AND HER SISTERS: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/27, a sexy dream that turns tragic. One boring lonely day, I meet a cute teenage bunny who wants to play with me! But half an hour later… CAUTION: LANGUAGE, INTERSPECIES FLIRTING, AND LOSS |
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KEVIN'S CRASH: by Wayan, 2018/10/1, a politically-tinged nightmare After watching the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court, with their rape accusations, I dream of a reckless driver named Kevin who runs down a skateboarder and blames everyone else... CAUTION: KAVANAUGH SUPPORTERS WON'T LIKE THIS |
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THE KEY TO OUR INHERITANCE: by Wayan; 2010/9/12; a nightmare whose victims organize The dead treasure-hunter's will ordered us, his heirs, to convene in the wood. Attacked there by a knight in armor, we near-strangers must unite to win our... |
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KICK HER: by Wayan; 1994/8/9, a gameshow nightmare. I'm a blonde gameshow bimbo. Each week, I'm beaten up. Ha ha ha! But my bruises are real. At last, I... CAUTION: GAMESHOW FROM HELL |
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A KNIFE AT HIS THROAT: by Wayan; 1991/1/1; a political dream-cartoon-fable A courtroom hostage-drama where I'm forced to commit... tracheotomy! And then the Gulf War begins... CAUTION: CARTOON VIOLENCE |
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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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LASERBOMB: by Wayan, 1995/7/3, a dream on paralysis. I'm on Mars. The terraforming is going well. Then saboteurs set off a laserbomb in the street near me... CAUTION: TERRORISM |
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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? |
THE LEOPARD'S TURN: by a Brazilian woman, c.1990-'98; a see-both-sides dream |
I see a leopard chasing an Indian man who defends himself with a knife; then I wake. To find I'm still witnessing the same scene, only now I'm the leopard... |
LILY THE LION: by Wayan; 1991/4/7, a small psychic dream. |
My housemate Lily is a lion. She bursts into my room. Stare-down. And then she pounces. So I... CAUTION: VIOLENCE! MUTUAL GLARING! THE VULCAN NERVE PINCH! |
LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION DREAM: by Abraham Lincoln, ca.March 31 1865, a predictive nightmare. |
Lincoln dreamt his body was lying in state in the White House. A guard said he'd been assassinated. Two weeks later... |
LINSCOTT'S NIGHTMARE: by Steve Linscott, Oct. 1980; jailed for a dream! |
Linscott dreamt of a murder and woke to find it'd happened down the block. Friends nagged him to tell the dream to the investigators. He did. They tried him for murder... |
LION-MEN: by Wayan; 1995/7/9, an eye-opening dreamlet. |
I'm a traveling Zen warrior talking to a circus girl in a barn. Four guys enter--and my life changes forever. |
THE LIZARD LESSON: by Wayan; 1996/12/12, a hard-hittin' shamanic dream. |
I'm a shaman in Nunavut who has to teach a guy in a lizard suit (and his foxy niece) that reparations have limits... |
LONG JOHNS by Ann Faraday, 1972; punning dreamlets on two consecutive nights |
DREAM 1: A man wearing long white underwear shoots me down with a machine gun. DAY: Long John Nebel interviews me; his Freudian friend calls me a penis-envying woman. DREAM 2: Long John and his buddy umpire a rough baseball game. Definitely not cricket... CAUTION: SEXISM, FREUDIANS, PUNS |
LONG ROAD TO HEAVEN: by Edwin Muir; 1920, an epic hypnogogic shamanic initiation |
Creatures in the primal sea touch my third eye, dragons cry their eyes out, I fight the Sphinx, and arrive at last in... |
A LOVE AFFAIR: by David B.; 1993/3/23, a 11-page comic of a dark dream |
My lover's face is shadowed and we are never alone together. Things slip from film-noir to open nightmare when... CAUTION: SEX, DEATH, GUILT |
LUCID LIMITS: by Wayan; 1990/2/13, a lucid nightmare. Yes, they're possible! |
A nightmare. I go lucid as the bullets tear through me. Yet I go on with the dream! Why?... CAUTION: NIGHTMARISH VIOLENCE |
LUCID ON THE MOON: by Wayan; 1980/2/23, a long-term psychic dream. |
I'm on the run, on the moon. Cyborgs toss bombs at me. Yikes! Is this what melted Mare Orientalis? CAUTION: NUCLEAR IRRESPONSIBILITY |
LÜK: by Emily Y. Chan, 2022/1/8 or before; dream painting |
A blind girl had trained for years to get revenge against a winter god named Lük or Lock, who took the form of an ice wolf. By defeating the god, she would get her sight back, but she didn't know she'd also send the world into an endless winter... |
MAFIA DENTIST: by Wayan, 2007/7/10; a predictive comic nightmare. |
My dentist (a Haitian Mafia leader) sends a message to my dad (also a Mafia don) by dental cruelty.... |
THE MAD DATER: by Mark Varitz and Wayan; 1996/10/29, linked (telepathic?) nightmares. |
Always ask permission to throw rocks at your date. No, not those big ones! Where's the nearest hospital? CAUTION: SURREAL DATE ABUSE |
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... |
THE MAN WHO DESERVED TO DIE: by Jim Shaw; c.1994; a dream of moral rescue |
I don't want to kill my friend, though his clothes say I must. But a sculptor lets us sit on her metal trees and drink tea instead... |
THE MAN WHO MISTOOK...: by Wayan; 1995/9/19, an insane dream. |
I'm just an ordinary guy, who beats his son so he'll grow faster, and sees tits on drinking fountains... |
MANATEE: by Wayan; 1989/5/12-1992; digital nondream painting. |
Beauty's link to status and privilege bothers me. The pretty get perks (or parks), while we uglies... CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, AND A BLOOD FLOWER |
MANDALA DURING A TIME OF WAR AND DISINTEGRATION: |
by Jenny Badger Sultan; Jan-Feb 2003, painting of a dream-series My dreams were troubled by war. So I painted them in concentric rings--lotus, fire, children, animals, and nightmares... |
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 |
MARJANE: by Wayan; 2005/6/3, a nightmare about... articide? Watercolor comic or illustrated text |
I'm cartoonist Marjane Satrapi. I passively tag along with friends (and a fiancé I tend to forget) in the Mission District of San Francisco. But they blunder into real trouble... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
THE MARTIAN FEUD: by Wayan; 1994/3/10, a warning dream. |
On Old Mars, before it died, two rival families' teasing finally goes too far, despite the whale's warning... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
MARTIAN VIGILANTE: by Wayan, 2006/3/25, an absurdist nightmare on inner killjoys |
After a busy exhausting day, I find myself on a dream street flirting with a really cute artist. Until this stumpy green Martian slithers up, calls us criminals, and threatens us with a raygun... CAUTION: DUMBEST INNER CRITIC EVER |
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS' JEWELS: 1845, a hypnotic experiment by a Major Buckley |
Mary Queen of Scots' will (1556) was lost for centuries. In 1845, Major Buckley hypnotized a fellow officer and had him 'read' a family heirloom. He said it was Mary's! Her lost will was found in 1854 and published in 1863. Turned out the claim in the trance was right... CAUTION: MARY'S LIFE WAS BRUTAL |
THE MEDIEVAL POISONERS: by Carla Young, 2010/1/3; illustrated non-nightmare |
Two medieval women poison one another. One dies in my arms; the other may just survive. Why did they...? CAUTION: MURDERERS |
THE MEGARA INN: by an Arcadian Greek c.200 BCE; two dreams that don't prevent a murder but do solve it |
A traveler dreams his friend's attacked, but he ignores it. Next he dreams his friend begs him to at least avenge him... |
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 |
MERLOO'S BROTHERS: by Joost Merloo, two apparent psychic nightmares, 1943 and c.1946 |
Joost Merloo escaped the Nazis, but had two neurologically impaired brothers who couldn't flee. On a troopship, he dreamed the Nazis burst into their ward... |
MERMAID VERSUS TRUMP: by Wayan, 2020/1/7, one of twin warning dreams |
Agents of Donald Trump with knives trap a mermaid. I jump one of them, and she escapes, towing me with her. She assumed humans just hate merfolk, but I know... CAUTION: HARSH WARNING ABOUT TRUMP |
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN: by Wayan; 1992/9/5-6, a literary/diagnostic dream. |
I'm in a tribe of post-Crash kids with psychic powers, trying to keep nukes from rising again... CAUTION: CHILD SOLDIERS |
MILK ADDICTS: by Wayan, 1974/6/2, an early psychic dream. |
I'm in what seems to be a village of very conservative Muslims. But they're really alien castaways... |
MINOR SURGERY: by Wayan; 1999/2/25, a dream misinterpreted. |
A man goes in for minor surgery and wakes up changed. I feel creepy, but for all the wrong reasons... |
MIRIEL, DON'T GO IN!: by Wayan; 1982/10/6, a dream of a stunted planet's stunted god. |
God offers gifts to pilgrims, so my sister enters his door. Fierce light shoots out... |
MIRYAM'S THEFT: by Wayan; 1996/9/24, a psychic dream on being used |
I'm a ghost dwarf in love with a Lady trapped in a magic Arabian castle. But our love is being used... CAUTION: SEX, BETRAYAL, SACRILEGE |
MOM THE ALIEN: by Wayan; 1981; a nightmare on family |
Many kids anxiously dream their parents aren't their real parents. I dreamed my parents ATE my real parents... CAUTION: HUNGRY MONSTERS |
MOM THE MURDERER: by Wayan; 1996/3/7, a possible psychic dream. |
My mom confesses to a killing, says tearfully she had to do it--but her reasons make no sense. When I wake.. |
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 |
MONKEY WITH A GUN: by Wayan; 2010/8/7, a predictive nightmare |
A monkey who stole a handgun aims at a troopmate and fires, ignorant of the consequences. The next evening I hear gunfire for real, and... |
MONSTERS FROM MY SOUP: by Cyberwebspace; 2010/9/30, a stubborn nightmare |
How'd that spider, dragon and T. rex get in my soup? I skip lunch. Dig in the garden, but scaly heads pop out to nip at me. Persistent! |
MOTHER SUPERIOR: by Wayan; 1999/2/18, a nightmare with psychic tinges. |
A creepy visit to the Leather Nuns: as fierce as Beorn in The Hobbit, but less hospitable... |
THE MOUSE: by Paul Nash; Feb. 1913, surreal bedtime experience triggers surreal nightmare |
We save a mouse from a man who claims he eats them. Later I dream I am the mouse... |
MOVING IN THE LANDSCAPES OF MY DREAMS: |
by Jenny Badger Sultan; 14 dreams (mostly Jan-Mar 2011) painted on one canvas A dream urged me to paint a big landscape with cutout movable (magnetic) dream figures and liftable flaps revealing hidden dream scenes... |
MUIR ON MARS: by Wayan; 1994/5/14, a dreamtale. |
I'm John Muir reborn on Mars, supporting Mars First against tree-cutters, who poison their enemies... |
MUSKRAT, OTTER, MINK: by J.P., c.1900, a trapper's shamanic-fistfight dream |
Three men chase me. I can't get away so I turn and fight, and put out one guy's eye. That makes them pause! At last they back away. As they paddle away in a boat, I realize who they are: Muskrat, Otter and Mink... CAUTION: ANTHROPOLOGISTS! |
A MUSLIM CHEETAH: by Wayan, 2004/12/2, a dream of fundamental ambivalence |
A cheetah is a saboteur for a violent Islamic group. I'm attracted, but tear into her; "You plant bombs in the name of a rulebook meant for apes not cats!" CAUTION: NUDE CHEETAH; CRITIQUES HOLY BOOKS |
THE MUMMY: by Wayan; 2003/10/13, a Rarebit Fiend nightmare. |
A horror film and Rick Veitch's dream-comix provoke a nightmare warning me that guilt about my dad is wrecking my life... |
THE MURDERS: by four Wayans! 1971/7/14; a family has simultaneous psychic nightmares. |
Nearly everyone in my family dreams of a mass murder as it happens nearby. But my dad's sure it's his own evil id, and my mom clams up, and my sister forgets. And me? I doubt the whole thing for ten years, until... CAUTION: NIGHTMARE VIOLENCE |
MURDERS IN HAYWARD: by Anonymous #5; c.2002 or 2003, a psychic nightmare. |
I dream I live in Hayward, California. One day my family's murdered. Years later I find that dream-street is real... |
MY RITUAL BEHEADING: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 1996/3/24, painting of a nightmare |
We stood meekly in line to be beheaded. I tried to accept my fate and commended myself to God... CAUTION: READ THE TITLE! |
NANCY AND KIT: by Wayan; 1994/1/3, a dream about mislabeling. |
In a psychodrama scene, I try to stop a furious guy from hitting an exhibitionist girl. But I'm bleeding... |
NATALIUS' WELTS: by Natalius the Confessor, c.155 CE (or 199?), a dream leaving physical traces. |
Natalius dreamed that angels whipped him for joining a heretic cult, and woke to find welts on his back... |
NEANDERTHAL EXTINCTION: by Wayan, 2008/7/30, an academic argument turned horribly personal |
I challenge my teacher's claim human historical patterns are universal. She challenges me by dragging us both back to the Ice Age and... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
NEW BRIGHTON MURDER: by Annie Howie Mudie; 1912/12/20, a sloppy oracular dream |
Someone said "There's been a murder in the Victoria Hotel, and the murderer slept in your house." Three weeks later... |
NEW LEVEL!: by "Julian"; 2006/5/22, 3 gamelike dreams in one night, two of them epic |
My mom and I road-duel an alien beetle, then investigate a deepspace Marie Celeste; then I spy for the Angevin Empire to protect the Crown Jewels... |
NIGHTMARE FROM 'SISTERS': by Margarethe Von Trotta; 1979 or before, an unexamined nightmare |
A dream of body parts--maybe, impossibly, alive--hung up like drying laundry. Von Trotta inserted it in a film script to foreshadow a suicide, but seems deaf to any personal warning--as if it's not her dream at all... |
NIGHTMARE QUARTET: by Hans Rickheit; before May 1991, four Dada nightmares |
Ow! My body parts grow & shrink... A mad orchestra leader pulverizes me for nonconformity... The Brady Bunch crams siblings into a waterpipe one by one. I'm next! My bones crunch... I'm blindfolded, perched on a miles-high needle piercing my big toe. Blood drips down... CAUTION: GLEEFULLY GROSS |
NOT SELF DEFENSE!: by Wayan; 1999/4/29, a warning dream. |
I'm Tarzan, fighting off attackers. But I kill one helpless prisoner! Am I going too far? CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
NOT THREE!: by Wayan; 1996/11/11, an encouraging nightmare |
I was wrong. I didn't survive three assassins. It's been seven! Why'd I forget the others? |
NUKING HOOVER: by Wayan; 1997/2/16, a predictive dream about... fallout. |
DREAM: a 1950s newsreel shows J. Edgar Hoover, founder of the FBI, staged a coup. So his enemies dropped a tactical nuke on his HQ, killing hundreds in the street... NEXT DAY: TV news shows clips from The Day After. My nightmare newsreel... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND POSSIBLE ESP |
THE OCCUPATION: by a patient of Peter O'Connor; 1985 or before, a therapy-guiding initial dream. |
Touring an underground maze, I meet a woman I like. But her brother bristles. Then, from a height, I see the ventilation pits of the labyrinth laid out like a map. The Japanese invade! Hide in the jungle. Women in rags butcher centipedes & mice... CAUTION: UNHAPPY MEALS; OVER-JUNGIANISM |
OLD AND IN THE WAY: by Wayan; 1999/5/3, a veiled predictive dream. |
On the street called Old And In The Way, I meet a psychic I crushed on as a kid, and then, in a hearth, fight the tentacled alien who's been stalking me... |
ON THE NIGHT RIDE HOME: by Wayan; 1971/11/8, a dream-poem on pushing past prejudice |
As I bike home at night, strange doings--a rat is sacrificed; gemstones delivered; an astronaut shows glowing alien objects; a second rat becomes a... firefighter? |
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... |
OWL SHOT: by Wayan; 2007/2/15, a predictive dream |
DREAM: I'm hiking in a local preserve when a jay with a handgun shoots an owl... A MONTH LATER: the first owls to resettle my urban county nest in a nearby park... A MONTH LATER: they're dead. One was shot; its mate died of grief. |
PAIN-RATIONER'S STRIKE: by Wayan; 1987/1/1, a dream on self-torture. |
Three men torture my friend (or is he ME?) and try to keep me from intervening... CAUTION: FAST-TALKING BULLIES |
MR. PERCEVAL'S MURDER: by John Williams; 1812/5/2-3, a recurrent predictive dream. |
Thrice I saw the Chancellor of the Exchequer shot in the House of Commons. I nearly went to London... |
PIG YOYO: by Wayan; 1987/11/21, a dream on how to end self-torture. |
A hog is tied so it bounces in a fountain, and at the bottom of each bounce, a fork jabs it! How to free this yoyo pig? CAUTION: PAIN |
PLESIOSAUR: by Wayan; 1985/9/5, a comic medical nightmare. |
An itchy patient of mine insists he's turning into a four- headed, man-eating plesiosaur. He left one thing out... |
POISONED!: by Wayan; 1994/6/20, three linked diagnostic dreams. |
Poison takes many forms, from attitudes to environmental by-products to actions done deliberately... |
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 |
POOL OF TRUTH: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1983/10/1; a dream of shamanic descent |
Night. A massive crash on the highway. Bodies strewn. Sickened, I descend a spiral stair to the Pool of Truth. It gives no answers. Women spout platitudes. I go on, in pain, down past the polar bears... CAUTION: THE DEAD |
PORTALS OF THE PAST: by Wayan, 2021/2/6; a timish dream. |
The time-caves under Golden Gate Park lead to supervillains, magical girls, miniphants, bamboo thugs, adorable dinosaurs, and... pandemics. But is there a way back home? |
PRAISE THE DANCING GOONS: by Wayan; 2008/10/16, a dream-poem: Dreamverse 34 |
Three big tap-dancing kidnappers is too many to fight. So I try admiring their kidnapping technique... |
A PRISONER OF ZEN: by Wayan; 1980/11/9, a dream on isolation. |
The Pope spears our Inuit captain and the Mystic, who turns solitary--a prisoner of Zen. Can I free him? |
PULL THE PLUG ON THIS WAR: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; a surreal dream |
I'm a Confederate officer. The only way to save my men is to end the war by pulling the plug at the bottom of the lake! I dive in, fighting a Yankee, who... |
PULLED UNDER: by Wayan; 1976/4/15, a nightmare. |
One by one, we're pulled under the water, the earth... eaten. That's the fate of all flesh. And we're flesh. CAUTION: HORROR |
A PULP MYSTERY: by Wayan; 1997/5/7, a nightmare. |
A detective talks all his suspects into suicide. But they still bury me in wood pulp and beat me to death... CAUTION: BAD POLICE PROCEDURE |
THE QILIN'S FOOT: by Confucius, c.500 BCE; a do-unto-unicorns dream |
I saw a boy beating a qilin [Chinese unicorn] with a willow branch, hurting its left leg. I scolded him and wrapped the leg in grass. In gratitude it spat up three books! I studied them diligently... |
QUEEN KONG: by Wayan; 1986/3/17, a surreal dream of nerd defiance |
A giantess strides across the desert. The Great White Hunter fires his elephant gun, but the books she's made of stop his bullets. I think I'll join the Queen Kong Library... |
THE QUEEN'S WAR: by Marianna as told by Gayle Delaney, before 1994; 2 daddy's-curse dreams |
Marianna escaped her bossy dad, only to end up with a bossy countercultural boyfriend. In these two dreams she makes the connection, and faces that she's picking Napoleons... CAUTION: BLOODY BATTLE, BAD SEX |
QUIT THAT LAB!: by Wayan; 1999/5/2, a deductive nightmare. |
I'm working alone in the lab at night, when the lab gear wakes up and tries to kill me... |
RABID DOGS: by Lila, before 1994 as told by Gayle Delaney; an incubated warning dream |
I asked my dreams why I had no more sexual desire for my rage-prone boyfriend. I dream a nature show says "Rabid dogs can't be cured" and shows the horrible wounds they inflict... CAUTION: THERAPIST TRIVIALIZES URGENT DREAM-WARNING |
RAIN OF WOMEN: by Wayan; 1999/6/11, a warning nightmare. |
Women rain out of the sky. People shrug "Suicides." I don't believe it--and what if one falls on me? CAUTION: SEXIST BLINDNESS TO VIOLENCE |
THE RAPTURE OF MY DARK DREAM: by Edna St Vincent Millay; 1945?, a nightmare in free verse |
Millay dreams her lover’s attacked in the street, and wakes to realize it’s already happened; he’s lost. |
RASPUTIN CLAUS: by "Sally Anne", 1990s?; a warning dream |
Bob is at the window asking to be let into my house. He is dressed as Santa Claus; but I think he's really... CAUTION: MURDER ATTEMPT |
RAZOR GHOST: by Wayan; 1974/5/5, a nightmare posing a problem. |
A man slowly walled in by neighbors till he died, is now a mad, murderous ghost. And he's me! Can I exorcise MYSELF? CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
REBEL OWL: by Wayan; 1971/10/9, a dream so mysterious it mystified its inhabitants |
My city's invaded and occupied. I become a gigantic Owl and fight with impossible stamina. But in the end I'm dead, stuffed, on a museum wall. Can I let go NOW? CAUTION: WAR |
THE RED BARN MURDER: by Ann Marten, c. 1827/12/15 and early 1828; two possibly psychic dreams |
Ann Marten kept dreaming that her stepdaughter had not eloped but was buried under a nearby red barn... CAUTION: MURDER |
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... |
THE RED SPHERE: by Madeline; 2006/12/13, twin (diagnostic? psychic?) nightmares |
Calmly, I watch a girl trapped in a lab try to escape, and die; and watch a man lose his head to a hungry thing... CAUTION: GRUESOME |
REFLECTIONS IN THE POOL: by Wayan; 184K total, 2 panoramas; a 1994/7/2 dream. |
Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love. Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace? CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL |
A RETRIBUTION OF MERMAIDS: by Bruno Oliveira; summer 2011, a treasure-finding dream |
Despite corporate crooks, missiles and floods, Angelina Jolie and I find the lock of mermaid hair... |
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 |
RIB-CRUSHER: by Robert Southey; 1823/10/5, a nightmare leaving traces |
I was in the grave. Worse, a living skeleton was trying to crush my ribs. Though terrified, I fought back, and... |
RICH KILLER: by Wayan; 1994/2/1, a dream on abuse and rage. |
A rich serial killer in a sports car flaunts his virtual immunity, till I go after him in a light plane... |
RING-DUEL: by Wayan; dreamed 1988/12/21; a transformation dream on reclaiming your power |
A mad scientist sneaks me into a museum that holds the Ring of Power I made at 14. I put it on, and slip into the spirit world--as a dragon! An ice-drake sent by Sauron comes to duel me for my Ring... |
ROBINSON JEFFERS AS A SHAMAN: by Wayan; 1996/7/28, a life-review, with 2016/10/22 followup |
Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism, blind to kindness--or is he just reporting Big Sur's true, mean spirit(s)? CAUTION: LITERARY AND MYSTICAL |
ROBO-NAG: by Wayan, 2022/8/20, a dream of fighting off two moralizing topdogs |
I'm with friends in a cafe. A robot beggar scuttles in and says I must be a saint and give, give, give. I eject the robo-nag. But it comes back in the form of an Old Testament prophet with the same spiel! This time it takes fists. At last I give the nagging saint the old heave-ho, yelling "AND STAY OUT!"... CAUTION: FUNDAMENTALIST BLASPHEMY |
RORAIMA JUMP: by Wayan; dreamed 2016/9/18, a surreal dream of deadly outrage |
I'm a Brazilian in the Olympic waterfall-jumping finals. The Russian & American cheat--threaten my family. I snap! Fight recklessly, knocking them off their ropes. We all tumble down the cliff... CAUTION: BULLYING, VIOLENT REVENGE |
RUBBISH: by Naguib Mahfouz; dreamed 2001? A dream of advice from the dead. |
My dead friend lost patience with the local dump, so I beat the trash--and out came shining people... |
SAVED TWICE: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/5/19, maddeningly brief mention of two predictive dreams. |
Swedenborg dreamt of danger on his London trip, twice. Both situations then came true, but he was prepared... CAUTION: ANNOYING TO E.S.P. SKEPTICS |
SCALDED: by Wayan; 1993/7/3, a near-nightmare. |
The feud between our magical families is getting ugly. Hawk-Head's dad throws boiling water on me, so I... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
THE SEA-HAG RIOT: by Wayan; 1989/6/5, a wild dream hiding a warning. |
Aliens, hypnotherapy, dancing molars, riots, witches, flying pianos, lettuce... yet there is a point. |
SECRET SCREEN: by Wayan; 2018/4/19 and 2018/5/16, three linked dreamlets of escape |
A friend nags me to be lookout as he steals a cult's papers. I know it'll end in murder, but foresight paralyzes me! In a videogame that keeps freezing unplayably, I find a button calling up a secret screen of second chances... I'm lost in a grim basement, but two kids show me a cobwebbed glass door you can walk through like air... |
THE SECURITY GUARD: by Wayan; 1994/12/30, a nightmare on anger. |
A crazy security guard with a squirt gun full of acid kills freely over and over, for the court system keeps paroling... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
THE SELL-FISH WITCHES: by Wayan; 1983/6/29, an epic corrective dream |
My sister and I are runaways, developing psychic powers. A cult of fish-selling witches wants to use us... CAUTION: SIBLING INCEST, SPELL ABUSE |
SET ON FIRE: by Wayan; 2017/10/15, a dream on reckless stupidity |
Yuppies with a lighter set me on fire--not even out of malice, just idly. I'm a shaman, I can survive it, but I'm not immune to pain... CAUTION: NIGHTMARE, UGLY POLITICAL COMPARISONS |
SHARONNE: by Paul Friedrich, pre-1983, a political dream (despite Freud and Jung) |
I was in a gang, but I quit. They stoned me--and the green heron, the green color I called "Sharonne". The setting (Israel), the green (Islam), and the name (Ariel Sharon?) all hint the dream's political... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, POLITICS |
SHARPSHOT: by Wayan; 1977/4/3, a surreal poem of a warning nightmare |
When I was being battered, I dreamed where it would end if I didn't leave: dead wife, shot husband... CAUTION: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE |
SHE CRASHES AND BURNS: by Wayan; 2005/5/7, a diagnostic nightmare. |
I ask my dreams how to find love. I dream of a 1920s bohemian girl teasing stuffy folk. But her pranks turn dangerous, then deadly... |
SHOCKWAVE: by Wayan; 1996/7/27, a predictive nightmare. |
My childhood home explodes into a vast pyroclastic cloud that comes boiling toward me, miles away... CAUTION: DOOM |
SHOOT ME, I'M LUCID!: by Wayan; 1997/10/17, a predictive didactic nightmare. |
I distract a mad gunman in a crowd. I suspect I'm dreaming, but it still seems a bit too noble... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS ON CRAZED KILLERS AT HOME |
SHOVED OFF A CLIFF: by Wayan; 2017/9/7, a nightmare-warning (I'd asked what to do next). |
Atop a sea-cliff, I meet a young couple in love. One look at me and they push me off! When I see I can't save myself, I try to take them with me... CAUTION: NIGHTMARE BARING UGLY TRUTHS |
SIEGFRIED MUST DIE: by Carl Jung; 1913/12/18, an archetypal (and predictive?) dream. |
Jung and a little brown man shoot down Siegfried the German Hero, riding his chariot of bones. Wait... his what? CAUTION: GRIM |
SISTERS OF THE INTERFACE: by Wayan; 1983/12/21, a shamanic dreamtale. |
My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet... |
SISTERS' PSYCHODRAMA: by Christine Downing; before 1986, recurring dream of a Hadean abduction |
In psychodrama, my sister/lover did a happy childhood scene--till the actors took her down a trap door into the underworld. And I knew I'd have to go down after her... |
SIX DREAMS: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a very busy night! |
1: A flooded bathroom becomes 2: a glass water-piano; 3: my friend strips in a restaurant, so 4: they serve me gutted dog. 5: Dolls teach prostitution, as 6: a rhino rubs up to an elephant-bear... |
SNAKE APOLOGY: by Wayan; 1972/6/24 or 25, a dream on solving communication problems |
I'm a snake being hunted by the FBI. I know English, but I can only hiss. So I need to find an indirect way to show I'm peaceable... |
SNAKES AND CENTIPEDES: by Russ Thornton; 2008/11/1, a shared/telepathic dream. |
Two snakes fight as centipedes emerge from under rocks. I tell my friend. Next day her co-worker tells her the same... |
SORB TRUCE: by Wayan; 2008/9/1, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #20 |
In a desert crawling with aliens who can absorb your mind, I propose a truce, and gain... |
SPLINTER: by Wayan; 1981/3/14, a dream of love and nagging. |
I love Splinter, but her mom insists I got BOTH of them pregnant. Then I notice I'm pregnant too... CAUTION: SEX, NAGGING |
SPOTTED FAWN DODGES ARROWS: by Amanda Strong; 1998, a dream on the power of names |
Soon after I was given the name Spotted Fawn, I dreamed I was one, fleeing faceless hunters under the full moon. There's history in this... |
A SQUID STRATEGY: by Wayan; 1997/10/7, a dream warning. |
Giant squid start surfacing at popular beaches and eating people. Not the form of first contact we'd hoped... CAUTION: YOU ARE LUNCH |
STABBED ALIVE: by Roswila; 2007/10/9, a nightmare-poem |
I defeat the knife-wielder, in spite the blade in my belly I can't pull out. I may have to let it be... |
STOCKDEN'S MURDER: by Elizabeth Greenwood; Dec 1695-Jan 1696, six dreams solving a murder. |
Greenwood dreamt her murdered neighbor's ghost gave her tips helping her catch his three killers... |
STOP ME!: by Wayan; 1994/2/22, a nested nightmare on guilt for simply feeling |
I kill with an angry wish, just pointing my finger! No one sees, but I secretly pray others will stop me before I snipe again. Yet when I meet a telepath who can see my guilt, I start to wonder just what my crime was--beside guilt itself... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, GUILT |
STOP OBAMA'S ASSASSINATION: by Wayan; 2012/2/10. A dream about politics? Or health? |
Two child prodigies fail to stop the killers stalking President Obama, but a geek with a homemade laser... |
STOP RESISTING; 2000/1/2 by Anonymous #37; nightmare of injustice |
I'm sentenced for a crime I didn't commit; then the bailiff beats me for "resisting", though I'm not... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, SWEARING |
SUPERHERO TRAINING KITS: by Wayan; 2006/12/17, a wise mishmash dream |
I careen from a shamanic laboratory to a shattered ring round an alien world to (gasp) an honest politican!... |
SUPERNOVA ERA: by Liu Cixin; 1989/6/4, a dream inspiring a science fiction novel |
During Tiananmen, I was in Beijing for a conference. I heard chaotic noise outside, and the muffled sounds of gunfire. I dreamed a star painted the sky an eerie purple-green. Children sang, marching over snow, rifles fitted with bayonets... |
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 |
SWORD AND BOAR: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/4/30, a dream warning of excess. |
A boar attacks Swedenborg's late brother, alive again. He tries to help, but the pig eats his brother's head. That's what you get for drinking, partying, and gluttony... CAUTION: VIOLENT DEATH |
SWORDLESS: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/8/4, a dream warning about bragging |
Swedenborg gets in a duel, but his beautiful silver hilt has no sword attached. Uh-oh... Then he's in bed and realizes he's been sexually boasting... CAUTION: PHALLIC SYMBOLISM |
SYBIL SUE FLANNERY: by Wayan, 1986/10/29, a dream noir. |
I'm Sybil Sue, a hard-boiled shapeshifting shamus, on the track of the most wanted bankrobbers in LA: the Bad Girls... CAUTION: IN BETWEEN GUNSHOTS, THE BAD GIRLS SWEAR |
TAHOE DRAGON: by Wayan; 1980/8/16. A dream of flight and fire. |
A dragon killed a friend, and threatened worse. I had to fight. We dueled mid-air, over Lake Tahoe... |
TAMALPAIS: by Anna Halprin, 1979, a dream inspiring annual healing ceremonies |
A murderer was stalking Mt Tam. I dreamed I met the murderous spirit; only by allying with small dancers from inside the mountain could we defeat it... CAUTION: NEW AGE |
TANKBUSTERS: by Wayan, 2020/5/21, a dystopian dream with political advice |
In a near-future dictatorship, Democrats are afraid to take any action. But in a suburban lot, I find a burned-out tank. I need to find these rebels who can defeat military-grade repression... CAUTION: GRIM |
TARDIS GAZEBO: by Wayan; 1993/2/17, a 3-page digital dream-comic |
Solve a pictographic riddle and you can fly, shapeshift, work magic! But someone doesn't want us solving dream-riddles... |
TAROT: THE COP (Knight of Swords): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. |
The card of force sparingly needed. The Knight says, "Sometimes ya gotta bust a few heads..." |
TARTAN ACID SPIDER TORPEDO: by "Thomas Mountain"; 2008/1/31, a cliffhanger dream. |
I get speared by Irish warriors, slipped an LSD dose, chased by giant spiders, torpedoed--hey, I'm not bored! |
TEETH IN HIS THIGH: by Wayan; 2008/10/30, an embarrassing dream-poem: Dreamverse #37 |
The Conference on Love has two sexy speakers. One says "my teacher's stalking me" but she clings to him. Love? Hate? Both? CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM--but what are these two exhibiting? |
TEN TRIALS: by Wayan; 1976/10/2, a dream of love distracted. |
While living with violent Kay, I dream I meet a cute, gentle moth-girl. But we must undergo ten trials. Mustn't we? Mustn't we? CAUTION: RELATIONSHIP TROUBLES, BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT |
TEXANS: by Wayan, 2018/8/22, an alternate-world dream |
The Lone Star Planet--worldwide Texas--is weirdly empty. No kids at all! Instead, teens ping into existence pre-formed. An alternate Earth with no concept of change? |
THEATER HOSTAGE: by Christine M, 2002/10/22, an apparently clairvoyant dream |
Gunmen held me hostage in a grand hall; at last they shot me. Next day: the Moscow Theater hostages... |
THEY'RE HANGING THE POLITICAL TRAITOR: by Jack Kerouac, late Sept. 1953, a sad dad dream |
They're hanging the political traitor in my closet. I stand horrified. The old man's resigned--no complaint. It's my father, I now realize... |
THIEU, I'M SORRY: by Wayan, 1997/11/1, a troubling dreamtale. |
Visiting Time City, I witness the "suicide" of a woman named Thieu but suspect it was really assassination... CAUTION: SUICIDE? MURDER? |
THE THREATENERS: by Wayan; 1997/4/23, a small psychic dream. |
Two gunmen break in, call me by a strange name, and demand I repay a loan I never borrowed... |
THREE CATS: by Georges Perec; April 1972, a painful comic dreamlet. Excerpt from Dream #114 |
I go home. Our cat is there. And a small, striped new cat. Then I step on a third, much bigger cat. This is just one cat too many! "This cat's not real!" I say... The nonexistent cat leaps up and scratches my face. |
THREE DREAMS: by Al Davison and two friends, 1985, a shared nightmare |
I dreamed I checked my neighbor's flat for prowlers; I got shot and fell out a window. The same night my neighbor dreamt she asked me to check her flat, I got shot and fell out a window; the same night her best friend dreamt she came by and saw from street level the gunmen and my fall out the window... CAUTION: VIOLENT ATTACK FROM THREE VIEWPOINTS |
THREE DREAMS & A COINCIDENCE: by Rick Veitch, c.1996, predictive shamanic dreams |
Three dreams set on Abenaki holy ground, of weird shamans--one ashen, one pumpkin-headed, the third goofy-faced--lead me to visit the site. Where I find the river's washed up that third shaman's face... CAUTION: WILL BOTHER E.S.P. SKEPTICS |
THE THREE VEILS BETWEEN MAN AND GOD: by Anna Kingsford, March 1881, a messianic dream. |
I was shown what veils the God in us: Blood (violence), Idols (dogmatism), and the Curse of Eve (sexism)... CAUTION: FUNDAMENTALISTS (OF ANY FAITH) WILL SEE RED |
THYROID: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 1985; a set of life-saving diagnostic nightmares |
In 1985 I was flooded with nightmares about heads and necks. They had an unparalleled intensity... |
THUS BE: by Patricia Garfield, 1970/7/10, a worm-turns dream |
I'm overcharged at a grocery store--the checker confused my food with someone else's. I grab him, fly high up and drop him, splat. I chant "Thus be: Splat! Squashed flat..." CAUTION: DEATH PENALTY SEEMS A BIT MUCH |
TIAMAT'S REBELLION: by Wayan; 1988/1/1, a dream about neoteny. |
That day: I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah. That night: I dream she leads a revolution on a starship against her elders... |
TIE MARK UP: by Wayan, 2019/2/1, three dreams warning lifelong habits demand serious change |
1: Crystal-skulled wizards, dino & lionfolk parade by. 2: I curl up with three skittish beasts. Patience! 3: My friend Mark tries to rape me. I tie him up, seek a restraining order. Will the cops believe me? CAUTION: RAPE ATTEMPT |
TIGER PODIUM; c. 2003/9/29 by Monica M; a predictive dream |
The stage curtain opens. Tigers sit on podiums. In the center is a huge one with a bloody mouth. A few days later... |
TIGER TALL: by Wayan; 1992/7/3, a marathon dream. |
I'm a tiger from Planet Cat, visiting Earth to run in San Francisco's "Bay to Breakers" race. I knew racial tensions were high, but why is William S. Burroughs out to kill me? Oh. Because... |
TIMESHOT!: by Wayan; 1999/1/2, a warning dream. |
I provoke a shooting! Wandering through time, I forget how much some cultures fear witches... |
TO HELL: by Katie Hofgard; 2003/4/19?, a nightmare of loyalty |
I loyally served a demon who punished me until at last he sent me to hell. And STILL I didn't rebel... CAUTION: BLOODY ABUSE |
TODDLER SHOT BY SPOUSE: by Gloria Reiser; 1948-49; recurring childhood nightmares |
As a toddler I repeatedly dreamed I was a married adult with a daughter of my own, but the dreams always ended with my husband shooting me... CAUTION: RECURRENT MURDER |
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! |
TORTOISESHELL GUILT: by 'Monk Eye'; 2014/9/9; a nightmare on spaciness and its risks |
I was enjoying an evening with this generic guy. Although there were two cats as big as bobcats in the room, I let Poodle, my tortoiseshell, in... CAUTION: GRUESOME CATFIGHT |
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 |
TREMENDOUS FAMILY SAGA: by Jack Kerouac, mid-September 1952, a tender violent dream. |
I try to protect the kitten from being strangled and girl geniuses from the depth charges; ... |
TRICERATOPS, or, THE GUY WHO SCRIPTS MY DREAMS: by Wayan, 1982/8/24; a dream on dreams |
Stuck in a horror movie, I get to meet the triceratops-headed monster who scriptwrites all my nightmares. But he's open to suggestions... |
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... |
TWILIGHT'S OVAL GAME: by Wayan; 2017/10/4, three dreams arguing "Friendship is Magic"--literal magic. |
1: I failed to save a magic tree. It fell and killed someone. I'm racked with guilt... 2: A giant pinball game on a tilted oval relief-map. But you can only win as a team of six friends... 3: A Caribbean girl with a weird aura tries to align two magic crystals to heal herself... CAUTION: BREASTS, MY LITTLE PONY AS ROLEMODEL |
TWO CENTURIES OF PROGRESS: by Edwin Muir; 1938-9, two dreams and an extraordinary mini-essay |
Yesterday, Hitler marched into town. I was born before the Industrial Revolution, and am now about 200 years old... |
TWO RESCUES: by Hervey de Saint-Denys, 1836 & '60-66?, early genderbent dreams |
A TAILOR'S APPRENTICE: I become her to fight back against his abuse... DAMSEL ON THE PYRE: I become a girl being burned alive, but get so distracted by my beautiful body I forget to escape until it's too... |
THE TYRANT'S WIFE: by Wayan; 1980/6/9, a dreamtale. |
In our plot to kill the Tyrant, we used his wife. Or... did she use us? She goes mad, but--she's HAPPY... |
UNCONTROLLED TIME TRAVEL: by Jo; 2007/7/13, a time-slipping dream. |
I’m a drug-addicted amateur dramatist. A fat balding businessman and I bring humanity back from extinction, but... CAUTION: TORTURE (brief), ADVOCACY OF WAR, HUMAN EXTINCTION (offstage) |
VACUUM DOG: by Laura A. Dale, 1942/12/19; a surreal nightmare labeling itself psychic |
DAY: I'm an experimental subject given a drug in hopes it'll induce ESP. I just babble stupidly. Humiliation! DREAM: my vacuum cleaner comes alive to attack my terrier & me. I flee, but there's an explosion... TWO DAYS LATER: at the movies, a cartoon: a vacuum cleaner comes alive to attack a terrier. Then, BOOM... CAUTION: WILL REALLY BOTHER E.S.P. SKEPTICS |
VAGUELY IN A SICK DREAM: by Jack Kerouac, late Nov. 1953, a dream of cooperative sacrifice |
Us guys take turns getting pounded by this fist of cloud that must never hit the world. It hammers my skull and retreats; we laugh and switch positions... |
THE VAT MESSIAH: by Wayan; 1985/2/27, an epic dream of magic, flight, and sex |
In our cult, we lie in vats of goo till we grow wings. But we're feared more than we knew... CAUTION: SPECIST LYNCH MOB, NUDE IN SCHOOL, LESBIAN FEELINGS, OBSCENE CARROT |
THE VENDOR: by Georges Perec; July 1971, a nightmare of societal amorality. Dream #77 |
I murder my wife. I try to sell her body as meat to a firm that'll turn her into wine. But the transubstantiation has already happened, and the paperwork's undone... CAUTION: GRISLY |
VERY FUNNY, MR. MOSLEY: by Wayan; 2009/10/8, a comic nightmare poem; Dreamverse #58 |
Trapped in a blend of Joan of Arcadia and The Tempest Tales, I'm tired of being the pratfall sidekick... |
A VIAL CRIME: by Wayan; 1984/5/21, a cartoon dream protesting that I wasn't me today |
I'm a flying fox in England. I see a poisoning and call for help. Ugly knockoffs of Peanuts characters attack me! The real Peanuts gang defeats them; Snoopy drives the victim to the hospital, saving her. It really is vital to be... authentic. CAUTION: PUNS |
A VIOLIN DEATH: by Wayan; 2015/11/24, a nightmare (vaguely) anticipating a real-life massacre. |
A fiddler has recurring dreams warning he'll be run over with his violin. Reluctantly, He sells it to a friend, and jams with him only in the woods, away from cars. But... |
VIVISECTION: by Bob Stickgold, c.1979, a nightmare dismissed as the brain at play |
After a class where students are forced to vivisect anesthetized dogs I dreamed I'd made a mistake; I was sawing open my daughter... CAUTION: CREEPY DREAM, CREEPY DISMISSAL |
THE VOICE OF GOD: by Wayan, 1993/1/31, a psychic nightmare-epic. |
Half-mad with fear, I massacre a cult, till my gun manifests stigmata: a gory miracle. Then I'm a cultist, resisting the Voice of God pushing all us mortals to murder in His name. I woke up haunted, and wondered for weeks what this was about... until the Waco Massacre. CAUTION: CREEPY VIOLENCE, CREEPY GOD, CREEPY PREDICTION |
VOTERS GONE CRAZY: by Thomas Madden, c. 2009/2/5; a political nightmare |
It's election time in Europe, but voters have gone crazy. Nazis invade England. In my library, Sarah Palin rots... CAUTION: POLITICS GONE WACKY |
VOW, CHOP, DOOR: by Wayan; 1997/1/26, a psychic dreamtale. |
I make a weird vow--while I absent-mindedly slice up other people's cars! The next day... CAUTION: DREAM VANDALISM |
WABOSE'S VISION: by Catherine Wabose (Ogeewyahnoquot Okwa), Feb. 1814? shamanic initiation dreams |
After fasting for six days, I dreamed of three spirit helpers who aided my village, guiding hunters toward game and healing others. But I lost so many loved ones... CAUTION: SPOUSE MURDERED; CAREER BURNOUT |
THE WAR HISTORY LIES: by Wayan; 2023/3/18, a personal dream? Or a political one? |
A TV documentary shows the history of war. Or does it? In what war did great clouds of flame swallow sailing ships? Every scene they show is a natural disaster. Why are they lying? |
WATER, HORSE, TWO SUNS: by Dong Feng, 370s CE, a lifesaving dream |
A murder case. But the suspect had gone to an interpreter and told of an ominous dream. The investigator saw its strange images might be puns, naming the real killer--and they did... |
WERTZ!: by Wayan; 2023/10/14, a night of cartoonist-inspired dreams |
After seeing Julia Wertz's cartoon history of her entire dreamlife (on one big page!) I dream Wertz style all night! I don't mind the nightmares--what gets me down is comics' black & white... CAUTION: NIGHTMARES, SEX |
WHARTON TOWER: by Wayan; 1985/7/24, 3 surreal dreamlets on gender & class? |
1940s reporters almost trap me in a mob shootout. I shelter in a gender-segregated hotel. The owner of Wharton Tower shakes the hotel so it swings between its butch & femme halves. I fall off the Hudson Palisades, but I land safely on the Glass Ceiling... |
WHEN BLOOD FLOWS, THE DANGER IS PAST |
by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2000/3/23 & 2000/4/19, twin dreams of carved women A woman is knifed by the sea. I cradle her, but she's probably dying... For my intitiation-ordeal, I have to cut designs in my own back! I can't reach, so... |
A WHITE-FACED MARE, 29 YEARS LATER: by an Iowa grandma; 1918, a predictive dream |
My grandmother dreamt a white-faced black mare trampled me in our orchard. We had no such mare. But 29 years later, I boarded a man's two mares... |
WHODUNIT? AND WHAT DID THEY DO?: by Derek Gullino, late 70s? Five nightmares, five years old |
1: Dad picks up Bigfoot; he bites off my ear. 2: Dad abandons me in a canyon full of wolves. 3: The man who killed my family hands me his ax. 4: Bees move into my pillow. 5: A marionette with razor-nails lures me close... CAUTION: OUCH |
WILD W.I.L.D.: by Dream Junkee; 2008/1/19, an epic lucid frustration dream? |
I'm lucid but paralyzed. A weird child spies on me; is she controlling me? Then I'm having sex--but if I come, I'll wake up! Then some thugs jump me. I make sure they won't bother me again, but... is everyone in this dream out to distract me? CAUTION: SEX, MUGGER-STOMPING |
WINGED BEAST: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/4/7/29, a dream of fighting one's own flaws |
Swedenborg fights a monster but lacks strength. Yet later, on a higher plane, he learns the beast did die... CAUTION: VIOLENT |
WIRES: by Wayan; 1957-1963, a recurrent childhood nightmare resolved by drawing, 1999/12/8 |
I was bodiless but trapped. All I could see were these moving wires. Whenever a knot drifted by... CAUTION: MADNESS, TORMENT, TELEPATHY, SEXUAL REBELLION |
WITH WILD AND TURQUOISE EYES: by Joan-lee Woehler; c.1950, a dream of a Jungian Shadow |
I slay the beautiful dragon attacking us, despite my regret. And then, as I sleep, glowing eyes advance on our keep AGAIN... |
WITNESS IN THE FIELD: by Wayan; 1985/7/8, an apparent predictive nightmare |
DREAM: I witness a murder on a farm. So I hide in the fields as assault-gun bullets fly... NEXT DAY: I go see a love story set on a farm. But suddenly killers show up to eliminate a witness to a murder. Assault rifles in the cornfields... CAUTION: VIOLENCE & APPARENT E.S.P. |
WIZARD VERSUS WITCH-HUNTER: by Wayan; 2023/4/16, a dueling dream |
Truce at last! We can party again. But witch-hunters burst in and try to arrest me for being a wizard. They use a box of strong-arm force; I use my wand. But their weapon's rechargeable battery overheats, while I... CAUTION: CRITIQUES SELF-STYLED RATIONALISTS |
THE WOLF DREAM: by Mr. Bai, as told by Pu Songling; before 1679, a predictive dream, or fiction? |
Mr Bai dreams his son the mandarin is a tiger leading a pack of wolves--all man-eaters, at least until two angels knock out his fangs and predict he'll get beheaded soon... CAUTION: CANNIBALS, REVENGE KILLINGS |
WOLVES IN THE BOOTH: by Thordhr "the Terror"; c.1000, a warning dream |
Thordhr dreams a pack of wolves attack him in a trade-booth! He wakes sure the trade-fair will be trouble... |
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! |
YAKETY YAK: by Wayan; 1984/5/1, a dysfunctional dreamtale. |
I'm at a family dinner. Killer Grampa, kid-hating Ma, larcenous Dad. Then a bum offers some advice... |
YATAGHAN: by Hervey de Saint-Denys, c.1840?, a dream of rescue--and summoning |
Night street. Two masked assassins attack a woman. I intervene. But I need a weapon! I picture the Turkish sword on my mantel. The yataghan appears in my hand and I... |
YGGDRASIL COLONY: by Exarian; 2009/4/20, an Asimovian dream |
I dream of three colonies in the deep future. We outlived the universe itself, but can we survive each other? CAUTION: WAR, GENOCIDE, POLITICAL ALLEGORY |
YOGA SAINT: by Wayan; 2010/12/4, an incubated, disturbing diagnostic dream |
I dream I meet my headaches! An ascetic yogi who punishes jokers, flirts and cynics for worldliness... |
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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