ABSTRACT
Dreams like stories meander and mediate the personal and the collective, and in their situated and reflexive (re)assembling and (re)telling, they are further mediated while revealing glimpses into the socio-psychological, cultural and political dimensions of an individual's life. Journeys online upped the ante for superhuman imaginaries where and when the internet was available. In a parallel to the euphoric publicity for the technology in its early days, it afforded a scope for the making of multiple dreams and creative identities. When it came to sexual fantasies, heterosexual young men monopolised the discourse, not least because they were the predominant readers of superhero comics. Whether it be dreams to conquer America, set up successful corporations, defy schoolyard and campus 'enemies', find out exam paper questions, become invisible to enter off-limit areas, or enter into flirtatious liasions, superheroes as well as supervillains became Himalayan fonts of inspiration.
