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	ABJECT OBJECT: by Wayan; 1992, a nondream digital picture-prose-poem It's OK to be a sex object as long as you're also a subject. What's no fun is being an abject... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES
	ABOVE THE WHITE TOWER: by Wayan; 1990/1/14, a flying sex-change dream of love Flying in a wild wind, I mate mid-air with an alien, get pregnant, change sex, fight the inlaws... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
	THE ABUSE PANELISTS: by Wayan; 1997/2/6, nondream journalism A whole convention of adults abused as kids shows me how hard it is to hide the damage... CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES
	ABYSSIA: by Wayan; 500K, 2006/6/6, a small virtual world A nondream vision of an alternate Earth where continents are abysses, abysses continents...
	ACORN AND PELT: by Wayan; 1983/7/19, a simple sex dream growing to a mystical extravaganza I fall in love, defying dwarf-tossers and Toulouse-Lautrec, till I become a time-traveling bunny... CAUTION: SEX, SIZE DISCRIMINATION AND SLANDER
	THE ADDICTION: by Wayan; 1988/1/26, a thoughtful nightmare I'm addicted to faraway trains. I quit cold turkey, but I shake the house down! Junkie poltergeists... CAUTION: DRUG ADDICTION. SORT OF.
	ADDING SHELLS TO NINA: by Wayan; 1974/10/4, an absurd dream poem. I lay on a beach with Nina. I stuck a shell on her body and designed a fabulous line of prosthetics...
	ADRENALINE HALL: by Wayan; 1992/2/3, a useful nightmare. A hall designed to give your fear-glands a workout, because muscles aren't the only thing to buff...
	ADRIAN TRIED: by Wayan, 1991/3/12, an embarrassing dream. Adrian and Jennifer and Michelle try very very hard to get my attention, but I'm a bit oblivious... CAUTION: SEXUAL STUPIDITY
	AELFWINE: by Wayan; 1997/12/4, a dream on dreams. I meet the Child who Dreams the World, go to a lucid-dreaming party, and find the Body under the Bed...
	AFTER BIRTH: by Wayan, 2004/9/29, astral acrylic painting Never mind what happens after death! What if, before we were born, we were spirits with no idea what happens after birth?...
	AFTER THE BANG: by Wayan; 2001/5/16, a poem on the World Dream Bank. The Big Bang happens, you're inspired, you make something of it... then what? The Big Whimper?
	AFTERIMAGE: by Wayan; 1983/8/8, a dream on dreams. A bizarre little dream proving just how physical the impact of a dream is on the body...
	AGASSIZ'S FISH: by Louis Agassiz, ca. 1840: subliminal, psychic, or just a great guess? Agassiz, faced with a fossil he had to crack open, was unsure where to strike. But for three nights he dreamed...
	AHAB: by Wayan; 1994/1/10, a shaman reviews Moby Dick. When I was a kid I was already a mystic and knew what Captain Ahab was REALLY after, but...
	AIDA'S TOILET BOAT: by Wayan; 1993/4/7, a psychic dreamtale. A sexy comedian and her troubles down the drain. A dream that turned out to be true...
	AIN'T EASY: by Wayan; 1990. Nondream digital Coyote dance poster. As Red Emma said, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution..."
	THE AIR BURUNDI PAINTINGS: by Wayan; 210K, 7 illus., 2007/1/20, a dream of art and courage Weird paintings cover a hill town in Africa, demanding I paint them when I wake. Paintings on courage, flight... and defying tradition.
	AIR OASIS: by Wayan; 1984/4/15, a dream of marginality. Why'd I have to get my big inspiration deep in a lake in the Land of the Lizard People high in the Andes?
	AI ZHONG!: by Wayan; 1989/7/21, a short psychic dream A small, clear, simple precognitive dream... and its un-small, un-clear, un-simple cause...
	ALERTNESS GYM: by Wayan; 1994/4/19, a strange dream date. I go on a date who seems bored till she takes me to the Alertness Gym...
	ALICE MILLER MONSTER MESSAGES: by Wayan; 1998-9, digital improv-portrait of inner selves . Writer Alice Miller tried painting her childhood monsters. I tried it her way and got a surprise message...
	ALICE'S POEM: by Lewis Carroll; 1872, a poem on dreams Are dreams really so ephemeral? Lewis Carroll, who built the Alice books from dream-fragments, wasn't so sure...
	ALLEY SONG: by Wayan; 1994/4/21, a sharp little piece of dream advice. In a suburban alley, I learn how much of an artistic coward I've been...
	ALL MANNER OF THINGS THAT BEGIN WITH M: by Wayan; 1995. Digital collage of dream images A painting of mountains, manes, mermaids, moons, mattresses, mouths, maples, mohawks, mice and men... CAUTION: NUDE M-THINGS
	ALLORGY: by Wayan; 1983/4/1, an allergic love poem. In spring the young allergic longs for the lusty world but cannot join the All-Orgy...
	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...
	ALP VARK: by Wayan; 100K, 1983/11/24, an epic, intense, psychic dream. I'm kissed by the Holy Aardvark, but my bond with my dad is strained by ESP he can't accept...
	ALPHA RALPHA BOULEVARD: by Wayan; 1997? Watercolor 14" x 17" A path arching up into the sky--an image that recurs in my dreams...
	ALPINE GUINEA PIG & SEXLESS CHILD, or, I'M EITHER A GREAT MOM OR A TERRIBLE MOM: by "Veronica Franco"; 2006/8/19, a dream of penned creatures and those who love them. Alpine deer-hamsters, pigs, birds, children, even fundamentalists' daughters grow up and want to fly free...
	ALTHEA'S CHICKEN: by Wayan; 120K, 1990/3/27, an illustrated nightmare-farce. My sister Althea decides my house has demons, and hires an exorcist who botches things, so that...
	AMAZON A(U)NTS: by Wayan; 1997/10/28, a nightmare. I camp in the Amazon but in the morning find I slept on top of something disturbing...
	THE AMBASSADOR PRO TEM OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1993/3/1, a dream about dreams. The Ambassador of Dreams was moonlighting, so I had to fill in and explain things to the waking world...
	AMBITION: by Wayan; 1994/5/25, an odd little dreamlike real-life experience. My intuition led me to a panel discussion of women artists, just to hear one single sentence...
	AMBIVALENT? NO! (YES): by Wayan; 108K, 1990. Digital panorama of dream-characters. A chronological orgy of my self-images from childhood on: horses, geeks, girls, satyrs, boys, monsters... CAUTION: SEX
	AMERICAN FILM RATINGS MAKE VIOLENCE SEXY: by Wayan; 1996/4/9, a rant and a proposal. Sex-and-violence is one word in America, because our ratings system TEACHES us to link them... CAUTION: THE F-WORD AND SENSIBLE IDEAS
	AMERICAN TANKA: by Wayan; 290K, eight images, 1995; acrylic on 30" disk, telling a 1989/7/26 dream. I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night...
	AMONG COLUMNS: by Wayan; 1989/6/19, digital picture of psychic dream A psychic dream about a New York ballet student who was a black panther. Lower case...
	AMPLIFIER: by Alder; 1999/11/13, a dream on self-underestimation I was always the weakest magic-worker I knew. But when demons threatened my grandchild...
	ANARCHIST FAIR: by Wayan; 2005/4/5, a drastic dream-song, with chords At an anarchist fair in San Francisco, a 13-year-old punkette genius sings some shocking advice to me...
	THE ANCIENT BOOK: by Wayan; 1993/11/11, a political dreamfable. I'm a schoolkid in the future who finds an ancient book the censors somehow missed...
	ANDROMEDA: by Wayan; dreamed 1987/12/30, crayon, 14x17" I dream of the legendary maiden chained to a rock, and the dragon--but they weren't as advertised... CAUTION: NUDITY
	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.
	ANGEL ON MY SILL: by Wayan; 1993, digital portrait of spirit seen during sex A guardian angel who's a sort of kindly, sacred succubus... CAUTION: SEX
	ANGELUNE: by Wayan; 364 x 481, 1999. Acrylic painting The joyful animal-angel I feel myself to be in my happiest dreams.
	ANGERHELM: by Wayan; 1994/11/11, a reassuring nightmare. In one long night I hike out of Frustration Hell, to Inner-Freedom Heaven...
	ANIMAL DREAMLETS: by Wayan; 1996/11/20, four dream vignettes A night of gorilla-guerillas, feminist backlash among the wolves, and hot horse-ballerinas in chorus lines...
	ANIMAL SPEECH, ANIMAL ESP: by Wayan; 1997/7/31, from Wayan's journal. When you really observe animals in language programs it's obvious WE'RE the ones missing a lot...
	ANIMATION TODAY: NO PEARLS, LOTSA SWINE: by Wayan; 1986/1/3, from Wayan's journal. What makes so much animation all feel the same? Temptations inherent in the medium...
	ANNABEL ROSE: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/14, a ghostbusting dream on... love? sex? what? Edgar Allen Poe confronts his dead girlfriend, who wants to drag him into the grave with her... CAUTION: HUNGRY GHOST, SEX TALK
	ANNIE, GET YOUR GOWN!: by Wayan; 1988/9/14, an illustrated dreamtale. I'm Annie Oakley, sharpshooter, facing something scarier than gunmen: a formal ball introducing me to my new husband's family--Austrian aristocracy! What's an American gal to do?
	ANNOYING GODDESS: by Wayan; 1993/12/10, just another dance/pregnancy/sexchange/goddess dream . I was a pregnant dancer on the Fertility Goddess's new TV show, but I was mad at her...
	ANN-THENNATH: by Wayan; 1986/2/1, a fairytale freeway dream. I dream of Beren and Luthien happy and mortal in their forest, and wake to find...
	ANNUNCIATION TO THE SPHINX: by Wayan; 1995, digital painting of nondream vision. I think Yeats was wrong to use the Sphinx to symbolize the brutal post-Christian era he foresaw...
	ANOREXIA NIRVANA: by Wayan; 106K, 1993, digital picture-poem of my astral reality. I was anorexic for years; I only mastered it when I saw it was a hunger for the spirit world...
	ANSWERING JUNG: by Wayan; 2005/7/5, a dream mocking one of Jung's key dreams After reading Jung's dreams, I have a counter-Jungian dream. So different from his! And mine has some pointed advice... CAUTION: NUDE STATUES
	ANTLIA: by Wayan; 1997/6/29, a dreamtale. I meet a judge from the newly discovered galaxy Antlia, and learn distance can lend objectivity...
	THE ANT REPRESENTATIVE: by Wayan; 1996/3/18, a romantic dream of bugs. I fall in love with a diplomat from a hive mind. Am I luring her into dangerous individuality?
	A PEEL FOR APPROVAL: by Wayan; 1990/9/24, a cautionary dream Ariana's a brilliant young writer, but how she plans to escape her family is alarming... CAUTION: TEEN PREGNANCY, SKIN MAGS, BAD CAREER PLANNING
	THE APPLIANCE'S EFFECT: by Wayan; 1996/8/20, a teasing little dream. Why has no one noticed that the side effects of a household appliance violate all known physics?
	APOLOGETIC OGRE: by Wayan; 1990/3/1, a nightmare. I walk into a bar in ancient Greece and this woman's guardian angel acts racist. OK, I'm an ogre. So? CAUTION: ANOTHER HANDGUN TRAGEDY
	ARAGORN'S LIVER: by Wayan; 1983/1/29, a nightmare. I'm a hobbit in Silicon Valley, stalking Ring-wraiths down El Camino. But one of them's stalking me... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, MADNESS?
	ARBORETUM CAT: by Wayan; acrylic nondream landscape, 1999/4/14. Golden Gate Park's arboretum, in San Francisco, is home to feral cats, skunks, raccoons, people...
	ARCHANGEL: by Wayan; 1997/10/19, a dream-farce--or is it? Sure I've been through hell, but how the hell did that get me elected archangel? And why's my butt itch? CAUTION: ITCHY BUTT
	ARCH: by Wayan; 120K, dreamed 1998/8/10, painted 1999, acrylic on wood . I dreamed that as a kid I found two girls making love in the bushes, awakening my own sexual orientation. Later, I saw the bigger picture, which wasn't about sex at all... CAUTION: SEX
	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?...
	ARENNA, FREED: by Wayan; 130K, 1991/11/6, a pastlife/flying/freedom dream. I learn to fly from Arenna the moon-girl and Crest the dragon, in the House of Deep Memory...
	ARIANE'S HONEYMOON: by Wayan; 1986/4/11, a short dream; chapter 2 of UNICORN TAG, a set of nine linked dreamtales. I'm happily married to a childhood crush of mine. Till she talks to my sister, and I overhear what she really thinks of...... CAUTION: SEX TALK
	ARISTOTLE'S WIVES: by Wayan, 1984/5/20, a dueling-philosopher dream. Aristotle keeps marrying my friends and fucking them up. So I challenge Mr. Logic to a shamanic duel... CAUTION: THE F-WORD. OOPS, TOO LATE! LESBIAN FISH, TOO.
	ARMLESS: by Wayan; pencil tinted digitally, 1997; dream figures, but not a dream scene A strange horny frustrated being, part human part horse, who needs hands to grab the centaurs... CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL TENSION
	ARMORINE'S DRAGON: by Armorine; 2006/3/21; shaded pencil drawing of a dream-dragon I had a dream about a beautiful dragon. It is not easy to put something from your dream onto paper...
	THE ARMS POLICY: by Wayan; 2000/4/7, a nightmare. The government has a harsh policy on armed dissidents. Not the kind of arms you think... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	AROO'S ENGINEERS: by Wayan; 1984/11/9-10, a Hawaiian dream epic. The Engineers make Eden logical. But the blimps go blind, and a demon gets published. Can I escape the hell they've made?
	ARSON MUSIC: by Wayan; 2000/10/4, a parallel-world dreamlet Driving through California farm hills with subtly different natural laws, I find social consequences. Can physics create evil?
	THE ARTERIA: by Wayan; 1994/5/24, a raw, personal tale of three nightmares. Hypnotherapy provokes nightmares of body-part shops, secret libelers, and madmen in space...
	ART TAKES GUTS: by Wayan; ink, 11x14", 1982, a waking confession. Why this site? Because if I'm around when you see my dream art, I feel like THIS......
	THE ARTIFACT: by Wayan; 1983/1/16. Narrative dream painting. I was a lizard archeologist, a million years from now. What I dug up threatened my marriage...
	THE ARTIST'S WAY: by Wayan; 1994/6/10, a visual-pun dream. I'm a parade route. A group of child artists walks all over me. But their soles are bare, so I don't mind...
	ARTSHOW IN A DREAM: by Wayan; 1983/9/18, a dream poem with 3 illustrations A jaundiced dream of an art show that spelled out just how deeply I reject the rules behind modern art...
	ASHES, ASHES: by Wayan; 640 x 480, 1995, nondream digital painting. Gaea dances the children's rhyme. I just hope we don't all fall down...
	AS IF WE CARED: by Wayan; 1984/9/17, a psychological sex dream. A burglar-girl and I spy on the neighbors together and we learn a weird Zen lesson on commitment... CAUTION: SEX TALK
	THE ASILOMAR OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1986/3/5, a dream about dreams. Jungian angels at a conference of dreams test my progress. But I'm all backwards: did the hard stuff first...
	ASK ME ANYTHING: by Wayan; 1975/1/31, a backstage dream. It was a dark and stormy night. I was lost, till I stumbled on God in her underground control room...
	ASK NOT WHAT YOUR CUNT CAN DO FOR YOU: by Wayan; 1991. A mad digital poster. JFK and Marilyn as our gender archetypes, and their effect on the real gender gap: lifespan, not votes! CAUTION: LANGUAGE, BUT I GUESS IT'S TOO LATE NOW
	AS OTHERS SEE US: by Wayan; 1993/12/3, a magical flying dream. We're orphans learning to fly by night, when others can't see and define us...
	ASTRALNAUT: by Wayan; 1994/7/30, a reverse ghost dream. I have amnesia. Plus, I'm dead. On the other hand, I have this great NASA job! Only there's a saboteur... CAUTION: SNOTTY ABOUT CHRISTIANS AGAIN
	AT LEAST HE'S A DOCTOR: by Wayan; 1982/4/7, a sharp warning dream. I'm a Puertorriqueña girl. I fall for an Anglo doctor, but he's not what he seems... CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX, CREEPY GUY, VICIOUS FIGHT
	AT THE BISEXUAL BALL: by Wayan; 1997/6/21, a dreamtale. How I found out what I really wanted at the bisexual ball. Really, I'm not disappointed... CAUTION: OH COME ON, READ THE TITLE
	AUSPICIOUS TRACTOR HATE: by Wayan; 1984/4/17, a positive frustration dream. A party for me and my shadow, to celebrate that we haven't killed each other, just HATE each other...
	AWAKENING HURTS: by Wayan; 1993/7/4, a dreamtale. An old friend's awakening from anorexic asexuality. Puberty at 30? And wait a minute... is she me?
	THE AZTEC EMPIRE'S RESERVATIONS: by Wayan; 1998/3/19, a parallel-world dream The modern Aztec Empire is as bad as Anglos toward other Indians, for it's not poverty that hurts...