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The Deviant Dream Archive - An Anonymous Dream and Symbol Survey

  • 7 days ago
  • 9 min read

Want to help shape this project? Let me tell you more.

Some dreams arrive dressed as desire. Others carry fear, surrender, authority, shame, tenderness, transformation, absurdity, or something that refuses to be named.


This semi private community call will help inform:


The Deviant’s Dream Archive: An Illustrated Lexicon of Kink, Power, Symbols, and Secret Desire.


I am interested in what appeared in your dream, how it felt, and what you believe its symbols meant to you.


This project does not assume that a sexual or kink-related dream reveals something you secretly want. Dreams can explore desire, fear, memory, identity, contradiction, curiosity, role reversal, and experiences that may be impossible outside the dreaming mind.


There is no single correct interpretation. I want this book to make room for the fact that the same collar, key, cage, mask, command, creature, or transformation can mean something entirely different to different people.

Please submit one dream or principal symbol per response. You are welcome to return and share another.


Most people should be able to complete this in approximately 8–12 minutes. You may skip any question marked optional.

How to participate

Copy and paste the questions below with your answers and send them to:

You may also send your response to me in a private message here.

Place an X beside any answer you select.


A note about privacy

If you respond through email or a private message, I will be able to see the email address or profile used to contact me. Therefore, the submission is private, but it is not technically anonymous to me.


I will not identify you publicly or connect your response to your email address, profile, legal name, or username unless you separately give me permission. You may choose at the end whether your response can inform themes, be quoted anonymously, or be considered for publication under a name or pseudonym.


Please do not include real names, usernames, workplaces, exact locations, or other details that could identify another person. If they are included, I will anonymize them.


Before Continuing

1. Please confirm that you are 18 years of age or older.

[ ] Yes[ ] No

If you select “No,” please stop here and do not submit a response.


2. Please confirm your agreement.

By typing I AGREE below, you confirm that:

  • You are participating voluntarily.

  • You understand that this is a creative publishing project, not therapy, diagnosis, dream treatment, or clinical research.

  • You will not include identifying information about another person.

  • You will not submit sexual content involving anyone under 18.

  • You understand that this project may become a commercially sold book and may lead to related products, posts, exhibitions, or events.

  • Your response will be used only according to the permission you select at the end.

Type “I AGREE”:


Tell Me the Dream

3. What are you sharing?

Select the closest answer.

[ ] A dream I remember having while asleep[ ] A recurring dream or dream pattern[ ] A dream experienced while falling asleep or waking[ ] A single dream symbol, image, role, or sensation[ ] A waking fantasy that has the quality of a dream[ ] Something I am not sure how to classify


4. If this dream had a title, what would you call it?

Optional.

Your answer:


5. Describe the dream as you remember it.

Begin with what happened rather than what you think it meant. Include the setting, people or roles, objects, actions, sensations, and changes that felt important.

Please leave out information that could identify real people.

Your answer:


6. What was the most important symbol, image, action, role, relationship, or sensation in the dream?

Your answer:


7. What do you believe that symbol meant to you?

There is no correct interpretation. Personal, cultural, erotic, emotional, spiritual, humorous, and contradictory meanings are all welcome.

Your answer:


8. What detail most changed the meaning of the symbol?

This might include who gave an order, whether something could be removed, who was watching, whether you chose what happened, what remained hidden, or how your body felt.

Your answer:


9. What emotions were present during or immediately after the dream?

Select all that apply.

[ ] Arousal[ ] Safety[ ] Relief[ ] Devotion[ ] Tenderness[ ] Pride[ ] Curiosity[ ] Power[ ] Vulnerability[ ] Exposure[ ] Shame[ ] Fear[ ] Grief[ ] Anger[ ] Disgust[ ] Confusion[ ] Amusement[ ] Something else[ ] I am not sure

If something else, please describe it:


10. Where did power seem to reside?

Select all that apply.

[ ] I held the power.[ ] Another person held the power.[ ] Power was shared.[ ] Power shifted during the dream.[ ] A group or audience held the power.[ ] An institution, place, creature, or object held the power.[ ] Power did not seem important.[ ] I am not sure.


11. How did you experience choice or agency within the dream?

Select all that apply.

[ ] I chose or welcomed what happened.[ ] I resisted what happened.[ ] I both wanted and resisted it.[ ] I watched without participating.[ ] I wanted to act but could not.[ ] My agency changed during the dream.[ ] I could not tell whether I had a choice.[ ] I prefer not to answer.


12. How did the dream relate to your waking desires or fears?

Choose the closest answer.

[ ] It resembled something I desire.[ ] It resembled something I fear.[ ] It contained both desire and fear.[ ] It felt more like curiosity or experimentation.[ ] It contradicted what I usually desire.[ ] It did not resemble a waking desire or fear.[ ] I am uncertain.[ ] I prefer not to answer.


13. Which themes belong to this dream?

Select all that apply.

[ ] Authority or command[ ] Surrender[ ] Service or devotion[ ] Bondage or restraint[ ] Belonging or possession[ ] Ritual or initiation[ ] Exposure or performance[ ] Watching or being watched[ ] Pain or intense sensation[ ] Care or protection[ ] Punishment or judgment[ ] Pursuit or escape[ ] Transformation[ ] Identity or role reversal[ ] Taboo or secrecy[ ] Thresholds, doors, or forbidden places[ ] Creatures, animals, or nonhuman identities[ ] Something else

If something else, please describe it:


14. Was this dream or symbol recurring?

[ ] It happened once.[ ] The dream has repeated.[ ] The same symbol appears in different dreams.[ ] It resembles a recurring waking fantasy.[ ] I am not sure.


15. Is anything about your identity, culture, body, relationships, disability, spirituality, or kink experience essential to understanding the dream?

Optional. Share only what feels relevant.

Your answer:


16. If this symbol appeared in a dream dictionary written for kink-aware adults, what would you want the entry to understand or explain?

Your answer:


17. Is there one sentence, image, or moment from your response that you would especially want preserved?

Optional. Answering this question does not automatically give permission to publish it.

Your answer:


Permission

18. How may this response be used?


If your submission meaningfully inspires an entry, interpretation, illustration concept, quotation, or other part of the project, you may remain anonymous or receive credit under a name of your choosing.


Please choose one:

[ ] Use my submission anonymously: My response may inspire themes, interpretations, entries, artwork concepts, or other project content. Brief excerpts may also be quoted or paraphrased, but my name, username, email address, and other identifying information must not be included.

[ ] Use my submission and credit me: My response may inspire themes, interpretations, entries, artwork concepts, or other project content. Brief excerpts may also be quoted or paraphrased. If my contribution is meaningfully used, please credit me under the name or pseudonym I provide below.

Name or pseudonym for credit:

[ ] Contact me before using my contribution: You may contact me to discuss how my submission might be used and how I would like to be credited. Do not publish or publicly use it until we have agreed.


19. Would you like to participate in another part of the project?

Select all that apply.

[ ] I may be interested in contributing artwork.[ ] I may be interested in being interviewed.[ ] I may be interested in contributing a longer dream narrative.[ ] I may be interested in reviewing an entry or early manuscript.[ ] I would like to hear when the book becomes available.[ ] No additional participation at this time.


If you are sharing artwork, please send only a low-resolution preview or portfolio link at this stage. Sharing a preview does not grant permission to publish it. Any selected artwork will require a separate agreement and permitted uses.


If generative AI played any role in creating your submission, please describe how it was used.


Anything else you would like me to know:

Thank you for trusting me with a part of your dreaming life and for contributing to the work.


With gratitude,


Joseph Crown

 

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