The Iranian hostage crisis was just background to me. I was busy at Psychodrama, starting my first job at a library, and at night researching other child prodigies and geniuses, trying to make sense of my bizarre childhood.

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	DRAGONFLY ANTENNA: by Wayan; 1980s. Ink, newsprint. A surreal memory. I'm just old enough to recall forests of fishbones and dragonflies on every roof...
	BLUE SKIES: by Georganna Malloff; 1980?, painting of a slightly predictive dream. I dreamed of a bear playing a cello concert. The next day at a local concert I was surprised to see that the cellist...
	I'M A VESTA, NOT A MAN!: by Wayan; 1980/1/6, a dream of when it's over. I'm the animal guardian of a deep crater, but when a human girl rejects me, I set out to leave... CAUTION: ORAL SEX, UNREQUITED LOVE, SPECISM
	MOTH TRAPS: by Wayan; 1980/1/11, a short dream on getting stuck. The Agile Beasts build traps to catch the Moth Monsters; but the Moths may build traps to retaliate...
	FOOTPRINT: by Wayan; 1980/1/11, a dream of the floating world. I'm jogging in Yosemite. A man tells me I'm possessed. There IS something in my shoe...
	GRIEF KIVA: by Wayan; 1980/2/16, a lucid psychic dream. In a Hopi underworld, I find even lucid dreaming can't cure guilt and grief over losses yet to come...
	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
	COEURL: by Wayan; 1980/2/26, a dream of surprise transcendence . I'm trapped in an alien hotel, my true love has gone radioactive, and the only way out is to turn into... CAUTION: LESBIAN LUNACY
	A FAMILY ALBUM: by Wayan; 197K total: ink, digital tints; 1980ish; overview of family nightmares. A series of family shadows, as I saw them then. These scenes are NOT literal, do I make myself clear? But these tensions were real... CAUTION: GRIM! SEXUAL VIOLENCE, INCEST, MUTILATION
	GIFTED CHILDREN NEED...: by Wayan; 1980, a journal extract on geniuses. Advice of a specialist on the care and feeding of child prodigies, embarrassingly relevant for adult geniuses...
	FULL REASON: by Wayan; 1980/5/28, a dream on patience. At a benefit for Rock Psychiatrists, the Spirit of the Convention explains why I can't go on stage yet...
	CLAY MAN: by Wayan; 1980/6/1, a golem dream . I fight a clay golem of resistance, until inspiration hits, and I do what it may have had in mind all along...
	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...
	WHY I BECAME THE SEA: by Wayan; 1980/6/19, a dream of containment. I get so mad at a bunch of cops who harass gays, that I become the sea itself and chase them... CAUTION: UNCHARITABLE REPRESENTATION OF OUR SAINTS IN BLUE
	EGG OF POWER: by Wayan; 1980/7/4, a large-scale chase dream. I wonder how far I'll go to hide my Egg of Power.... and, I'm afraid, I find out.
	STICK IT BACK ON: by Wayan; 1980/7/15, a scattered dream still hiding a point. The tollman on the new bridge to the Land of the Dead revives a beheaded woman by RANDOM action...
	PSYCHIC FAMILIES ARE SO MUCH FUN: by Wayan; 1980/7/21, a true story of ESP. My sister's avoiding our nosy parents, but I sense they'll run into her soon. I just didn't know HOW soon...
	ALONE IN THE DARK IN THE WILD: by Wayan; 1980/7/24, a vision-quest nightmare. A nightmare of a killer who I let torment me because it's better than being alone...
	POKER WITH A DEMON: by Wayan; 1980/8/15; a comic psychic financial dream. I'm authorized to play high-stakes poker with a scary-looking but rather nice demon...
	TAHOE DRAGON: by Wayan; 1980/8/16. A dream of flight and fire opf a dream, 1980/8/16. A dragon killed a friend, and threatened worse. I had to fight. We dueled mid-air, over Lake Tahoe...
	CHANGES, or, A WHISPER OF RESISTANCE: by Wayan; 1980/9/25, a dream of identity-chaos. An identity earthquake that just wouldn't stop. I transform half a dozen times, and so does everyone else...
	ICERINK: by Wayan; 1980/8/23, a warning dream. Psychodrama seemed like a way to meet cool people. But when I dreamed they were ice-skating rioters...
	JOIN THE WOLVES LATER!: by Wayan; 1980/9/4, a dream of false but useful fear. Shepherding a group of cityfolks through an alien wilderness, I need a werewolf's help. So why do I lie?
	THE STAIRWELL TEST: by Wayan; 1980/9/7, a pedophilic defenestration dream. An underage girl comes on to me, and then asks me to... throw her down a stairwell?! CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!
	GUARD ON THE BEACH: by Wayan; 1980/9/17, a dream of moral suasion Very nearly a nightmare, till the guard on the beach relented in the face of people power...
	THEY USE ME TO MASTURBATE: by Wayan; 1980/9/18, a two-edged dream. My sisters and their best friends all use me for sex. Sick, but I discover it's better than I USED to be... CAUTION: JUST PLAIN EMBARRASSING
	JOAN GRANT GETS SOME ADVICE: by Wayan; 1980/9/23, an inspirational interlude. Writer Joan Grant, who was a psychic and trance channeler, got a sort of reading herself, from H.G. Wells...
	GIVE TRAVIS ONE MORE CHANCE: by Wayan; 1980/10/13, a desperate dream. I'm detective Travis McGee's lover, so I know I'm doomed. My solution is drastic... CAUTION: HARD-BOILED HANDGUNS
	A NIP IN THE EVENING: by Wayan; 640 x 460, ink, 1980, touched up and tinted 2000. 14x17" Like a lot of playful beasts, I like a friendly nip in the evening...
	AND THEN I WOKE UP: by Wayan; 1980/11/4, an illustrated dreamtale. A dream of mushrooms, flying, canyons, giant Rocs out of Sindbad--and a moral challenge.
	NAIAD AND GOD-DOG: by Wayan; 1980, a manipulative dream-tragedy. I love a Naiad who's lost her God. Tragedy strikes us. I'm devastated till I meet the aliens who explain...
	A PRISONER OF ZEN: by Wayan; 1980/11/19, a dream on isolation. The Pope spears our Inuit captain and the Mystic, who turns solitary--a prisoner of Zen. Can I free him?
	REDUCED TO THE STUDHOUSE: by Wayan; 1980/11/16, a warning dream. I'm not a normal wolf: I'm a were-woman. When I turn wolf again, I'm in heat; but I want to be alone! So... CAUTION: SEX TALK
	ONLY A PIECE OF PAPER: by Wayan; 1980/12/15, a dreamsong. Kate Wolf sings that ads are way dirtier than porn. But my memory slowly twists her message...
	FINANCIAL PORN: by Wayan; 1980/12/24, a Christmas dream on capitalism. On Christmas eve, I ask my dreams what they think of our annual orgy, and... CAUTION: THE F WORD AND THE C WORD (CAPITALISM)
	BEWARE OF OVERSTIMULATION: by Wayan; 1980/12/30, odd dream advice. A sex-ghost appears in my bed, but when she's overstimulated, she tends to fade. Bad reception!... CAUTION: SEX

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