Prelude: Underscoring Premises

1. Sorting Roles and Works

Play-Acting • Facing Crowds

2. Rehearsals and Rehashals

Preparing for an Event • Reciting after an Event

3. Death a Fact of Life

Requiem Mass • Three Tragedies

4. Genesis of My Creative Child

Giving Birth and Nurturing • Extraordinary Girl Child • Distorted Boy Child

5. The Dreamer as Artist

The Artist’s Milieu • Motifs • Appreciating the Artist Within

6. Challenges from Childhood

Cleansing or Purging • Cleaning up Messes • Shouting

7. Coping Strategies

Swimming and Diving • Singing

8. Wayfaring

A Back-Story to the Dream Stories • A Pilgrim’s Journey

9. A Rude Awakening

Competing • Solving Problems

10. The Give-and-Take of Dream Notes

Recording Notes • Images and Feelings • Motifs and Themes • Dream Cycles

11. In Awe of Dream Animals

Evolving • Transforming • Giving Solace

12. My Love of Flying

Modes and Vehicles • Flying for Adventure • to Escape • to Orgasmic Heights • to Spiritual Realms

13. Opposites in Play

Yay/Boo Pairings • Behaving out of Character • Paradox in Waking Life

14. Anxiety Dreams

Taking Tests Forever • Undergoing Telltale Deaths • Being Unseen/Unheard

15. Nightmares

Threat of Rape • Mayhem and Murder

16. Bedtime Stories

Household Tales • Parodies • Whodunit

Interlude: Consulting Mirrors

17. Erotic Encounters

Almosting It • Engaging in Sex Play • Enjoying Foreplay and More Play • My Playmate Lover

18. Here Comes Everybody

Personal Myths • Vignettes

19. Me and My Shadow

Dark Shadow • Bright Shadow • Collective Shadow • Foreshadow

20. A Hitch in My Get-Along

Recognizing Trickster

21. Hello, Long Time No See

Negative and Positive Male Aspects • Negative and Positive Female Aspects

22. Goodbye: God Be with You

Letting Go of Children • Marriage • Home

23. New Levels of Awareness

Reassurances on Physical • Emotional • Mental • Aesthetic • Integrative Levels

24. Wrestling with Religion

Honoring Liturgy • Rejecting Tenets

25. Precognitive Dreams

Coincidences • Warnings

26. Beyond All Boundaries

My Near-Death Experience • Comparisons and Contrasts of Lifetimes • Therapies • Reiki

27. Anniversary Dreams

28. One Template Laid on Another

Being Mentored • Projecting • Healing

29. Epiphanies

Illuminations • Ecstatic Openings • Numinous Dreams

30. And Let Perpetual Light Shine

Preview of Death and Dying • The Journey Home

31. Angels and Guides

Messengers • Counselors • Visitors • Advisors

32. The Interrelatedness of Dreams

Tripping the Light Fantastic • Night School • Graduate Courses • Final Exams

Postlude: Reckoning the Bottom Line