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| HYDROGEN INITIATION: by Wayan; 1981/1/6, a shamanic nightmare. I'm an initiate in a Sung Dynasty monastery. But I have no idea how far the hazing can go... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
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| TAKE STOCK OF YOUR PELVIS: by Wayan; 1981/1/11, a symbolic not-quite-sex dream. A friend, stockpiling for Armageddon, makes me see that I value something peculiar: the knowledge of... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
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| SOULS IN THE MUD: by Wayan; 1981/1/14, a thoughtful dream. I'm being hunted in Reincarnation Swamp, as I wonder if the glut of human bodies creates a soul shortage... CAUTION: MYSTIC IDEAS |
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I WON'T DIE TILL LOVE DIES: by Wayan; 1981/1/21, a divine dream . I meet the mermaid goddess of love in her pool, but when she advises me, I dispute one small point... |
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BYE-BYE, OLD FILM!: by Wayan; 1981/1/24, a psychic dream. My friends destroy all my old films and give me a 'new' one--but it's from 1900! Then I wake to find... |
| PYRAMID POWER: by Wayan; 1981/2/2, a dream of love and time. We drive into a zone of perpetual night to see Sweet Melinda, but our time-path splits! Two lives at once? |
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| LUNCH WITH THE STARS: by Wayan; 1981/2/2, a dream on beliefs. I'm in an animal dance troupe, but wake to find I'm alone. For consolation, I eat at The Terrace, and meet... |
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BEYOND THE BUOYS: by Wayan; 1981/2/12, a short dreamfable. I'm a fairy queen at the beach, chasing a girl who's a strong swimmer. Yep, she swims beyond the buoys... CAUTION: BAD LESBIAN PUNS |
| A MISCARRIED LIFE: by Wayan; 1981/2/12, a short dreamfable. I'm Hattie, a pregnant girl on a Lewis and Clark expedition. I miscarry, and they tell me... |
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| GORDO'S EYES: by Wayan; 1981/2/14, a dream warning. The old cartoon character Gordo has another girlfriend. But his pets say he only loves the hunt, not her... |
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| DAD ON THE BOARD: by Wayan; 1981/2/12, a dream of business as usual. How my dad got onto the board of directors and made the organization his own... |
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MOM THE ALIEN: by Wayan; 800 x 600, 1981/2/16 Many kids have nightmares that their parents AREn't their real parents. I dreamed my parents ATE my parents.. CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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SUZETTE: by Wayan; 620 x 440, digital image from ink sketch of a dream, 1981/2/20. I dreamed that I drew our dog and me mating, and then found the drawing on a gallery wall for all to see... CAUTION: CARTOON BESTIALITY |
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MY THREE HUSBANDS: by Wayan; 745K (15 p), a digital comic drawn 1991 from a 1981 dream. Or view page by page: Cover, p.1, p.2, p.3, p.4, p.5, p.6, p.7, p.8, p.9, p.10, p.11, p.12, p.13, p. 14. I'm three women who marry a unicorn, a goat philosopher, and a magic cat.. We form a commune, but the police quarantine us... CAUTION: INTERSPECIES MARRIAGE, UNDERAGE SEX, and BAD COPS |
| NOT A THING: by Wayan; 1981/3/1, a shocking dream. What if your mind doesn't think it's yours? What if it's not so sure you're even a person? |
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| A JOB WELL DONE: by Wayan; 1981/3/2; a dream-farce. The tale of a fawn named Fawn and her mom, a bank-robbing hippopotamus... CAUTION: GLAMORIZES THIS ALARMING TREND |
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| CAT AND CRAB: by Wayan; 1981/3/12, a dream about teasing?. My cat keeps going into heat and sneaking out for sex with my godmother's pet crab, and... CAUTION: SEX, BAD PUNS, CRABBINESS |
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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 |
| BIKE FROM A BOMB: by Wayan; 1981/3/14, a bikemare. Idiotically, I bet I can escape an atomic bomb on my bike. Maybe if I ignore stoplights... CAUTION: IRRESPONSIBLE WEAPONS USE |
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| TITAN, or, SATURN'S WEDDING BAND: by Wayan; 1981/3/22, a billion-mile roadtrip dream. Our band's touring Titan. Road trip blues: diners, feuds, romances. Have I been chasing the wrong girl? |
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THE ILL-FORMED TALE: by Wayan; 160K, 1981/4/7, a wild dream anti-epic . To reach the Peak of Happiness on the Isle of Dreams, I must pass four Perils--but they're all backwards... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS NUTS, KNIVES, NUDE ALIENS, BACKWARD PLOT... |
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THE WHITE KRELKIN: by Wayan; 128K total, 3 illustrations, 1981/4/21, a visual dream. I dream of a being who uses her mane and tail to hide in plain sight, by breaking her image into bits... |
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KRELKIN CAMOUFLAGE: by Wayan; 130K, 1981? 3 versions of recurring dream image A sexy dream-creature hides by splitting her body visually, her red mane and tail matching her background... |
| THE WIND FROM HELL: by Wayan; 1981/4/21, a brief dream fable. Hot air rises, right? So there's a monsoon from Hell, lifting souls. Lucky for us that gravity balances it... |
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EEL TOWER: by Wayan; 1981/4/23, a dream of longing. I dreamed living in a body of flesh is like being trapped on a sinking cruise ship... CAUTION: NUDITY (but she's just crying, not giving that guy a blowjob, okay?) |
| THE DOG PILOT PROGRAM: by Wayan; 1981/4/23, a dream of doing the impossible. I get a job in China teaching bus-driving dogs how to fly. I don't know how. Luckily, the dogs... |
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| COOLIDGE'S DUCK: by Wayan; 1981/4/29, a political dream. Calvin Coolidge takes over the White House and invites his rich fossil friends over for a bath... |
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WOMAN WITH PLANS: by Wayan; May 1981, a crayon portrait A figure study teaches me a lesson about the sexiness of brains. And about the unsexiness of no brains... CAUTION: NUDITY; LIBELS ILLINOIS |
| PASTLIFE TRAINING TRACKS: by Wayan; 1981/5/5, a bikin' buddha dream. I'm biking around a railroad switch-yard when I realize they're life-paths. People start following me out... |
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FAIRE DINOSAUR: by Wayan; 1981/5/5. A dream of forbidden love. I fall in love with a sexy T. Rex at the Renaissance Faire. Then things get weird... CAUTION: DINO ABUSE |
| LOVING A COP: by Wayan; 1981/5/5, a dream on initiative. I'm a cop's wife, having trouble with his need to protect me. He's hurt if I take too much initiative... |
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SKUNK? SWALLOW!: by Wayan; 1981/5/7, a dream-joke with a point. When I see two scary men on the trail, naturally, I swallow my skunk! I really don't recommend... |
| HOT, BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED: by Wayan; 1981/5/8, a dreamtale. In a club, a new genderbending band. One singer gets me hot, but completely confused--for good reason... CAUTION: SEXUAL SITUATIONS, GENDERBENDING |
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DEER SORCERESS: by Wayan; 1981/5/18, a dream on the virtues of chaos. A witch-girl turned to a deer flees hell-hounds who just CAN'T get organized... |
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DEER SHAMAN: by Wayan; 9x12", 1981. Faux cave-rubbing. Partly based on the ancient cave painting "Le Sorcier", but here it may be the deer putting on human guise... |
| THE DUKE OF VENICE: by Wayan; 1981/5/25, a dream on moneyphobia. The Duke complains things just aren't what they were. As I hear what he liked, I'm increasingly... |
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| SINK JOHN: by Wayan; 1981/5/25, a dreamtale on "when in Rome..." My friend sleeps with an alien. He's ugly, but I don't care. What bothers me is how he eats bits of himself... CAUTION: SEX, RECREATIONAL CANNIBALISM, PROSTITUTION, THE KITCHEN SINK |
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HAWK AND CAT: by Wayan, 1981/6/2, a dream of ethics and terror. My best friend is a cat. Problem is, I'm a rare hawk--a Cat-Eater. I never, ever would, but... |
| HUBRIS EGGS: by Wayan; 1981/6/11, a small psychic dream. I'm wrapping my heavy-metal eggs too slowly, so the Judges sink my car! I set out to get revenge... |
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HERON HAREM: by Wayan; 1981/6/14, a dream with a moral. I'm a heron working in the Civil Service. I want to blow the whistle, but then how would I support my... CAUTION: BIRD-SLAVERY? |
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TAROT: THE QUEEN OF FLUTES: by Wayan; 1981/6/19, a brief dream image. I dream I'm giving a friend a Tarot reading, and the card she picks for herself is one I've never seen: |
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ARCTIC CHANGELING: by Wayan; 1981/6/30, a dream of roots. I'm a shy woman in a truckstop town who learns why I don't fit in. But will I, among my real kin?... |
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UNSHADE TREES: by Wayan; 1981/7/18, an advice-dream. Unshade trees are ugly. But my friends list their uses: casting shadows lighter than sunlight, keeping land clear of other trees, and the fruit. Fruit? WHAT fruit? Am I blind? |
| SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE? PLEASE, MISTRESS, NO!: by Wayan; 1981/7/18, a meditation on meditation. A rant on over-disciplined Americans (NOT under; we just think we are) taking up spiritual disciplines... |
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| CURMUDGEON I: by Wayan; 1981/7/24, a silly dream. That broccoli business made the new pope controversial, but when he goes off to find his girlfriend... CAUTION: CATHOLIC SACRILEGE I'M SURE |
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IN IO: by Wayan, 2 ill., 1981/8/7, a wild otherworldly dream. I live on Io. It's nicer than its photos. At least inside, where the oceans are--where I grow a second head... |
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LIFECYCLE: by Wayan; 640 x 480, 1981?. Pencil sketch, contrast upped digitally The life-loop. A woman bears a child who grows up to become herself, who bears a child who... CAUTION: SKETCHY NUDITY |
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SHHHH!: by Wayan; 628 x 318, 1981, ink drawing. A sudden image of a woman whose other lips not only talked, they wouldn't shut up. Worse yet, they... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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NIGHT DRAGON: by Wayan; 330 x 550, 1981?, ink on 3x5" card.. Just a sketch one blue evening of a dragon in flight... |
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EVEN RAVEN: by Wayan; 530 x 340, 1981?, 3" x 5" card. If this is a scene from a dream I haven't been able to trace it... |
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BODY MESS: by Wayan; 300 x 500. 1981?, ink, 3x5" card. If artists do this with ink, what makes you think genetic engineers will do any better with real life?... CAUTION: DON'T DO THIS AT HOME |
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QUAIL TV: by Wayan; 1980s, ink, shamanic cave drawing. Quail, spelunking again, finds ancient cave paintings of the Cult of the Fossil TV... |
| THE VACUUM CLEANER POEMS: by Wayan; 1981, four bizarre poems. All I know about humans, I learned in psychodrama. I gawked as caterpillars grew wings. Except me... |
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BOND: by Wayan; 1981/10/31, a nightmare where I'm the nightmare. I'm James Bond, fighting a plot by the fiendish Eight. But I'm captured and questioned. Of course I lie to the enemy: the senators of the Committee on Intelligence Activities. Till I see myself through their eyes... CAUTION: SPY SEX, SPY MENTALITY |
| A WORLD DIES WELL: by Wayan; 1981/12/6, a dream of reconciliation. A world-mind I never really liked gets one thing right before it dies, and so I make my peace with it... |
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| TITANIA : 20K, 1981/12/7, preface-dream for a major dreamtale of half a dozen linked dreams. Clarence the sappy angel from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and Milton's Lucifer, noblest Devil of them all, land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're perfect, and the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me, and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full range of feelings. Too bad one is the feeling she's fake... |
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DALI SKETCH: by Wayan; 480 x 440, image from a 1981/12/13 dream. I dreamed I saw what looked like an ink sketch by Dali of a horse--but I was dead wrong... CAUTION: YUCK |
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THE TRAIN ON TIME CAFE: by Wayan, 1981/12/20, a major dreamtale. Silicon Valley goes enthusiastically fascist. I hide in a berry patch. They build a shining world, and then... |
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WHILE THE MEN WERE HUNTING, 1981, crayon-ink-Xerox art-as-prayer. In cave times, while the men were out hunting, it was the women who learned to paint the cave walls to summon... |
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