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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...
	DALI SKETCH: by Wayan; 1983/12/12; a surrealist nightmare. I dreamed I saw what looked like an ink sketch by Dali of a horse--but I was dead wrong... CAUTION: YUCK
	DALMATIAN MARE: by Wayan; 1987/8/22; a dream on hiding and showing off. I dreamed of South American musical intrigue in a grand hotel. Enter a polka-dot shapeshifter...
	DAMOCLES LODGE: by Wayan; 1998/12/22, a dream on what hangs over us. I meet a nice werewolf in a hall of past-life junk, so sharp and rusty we dare not play...
	THE DANCE REPORTERS LIE: by Wayan; 1984/6/1, a dream on glitz and reality. High school reporters spy on a college dance. But the real action's not where they say... CAUTION: MAKING OUT, AND I DON'T GET ANY
	DANCE RESISTANCE: by Wayan; 1994/4/11, a dream of sabotage--or is it?. I encounter a powerful psychic force stopping me from dancing... or is that what it's after?
	DANCING ROBBANE: by Emily Joy; 2007/8/1, sculpture of a dream sculpture. The clay came alive, shaped itself, started dancing...and mutating.
	DARE TO BE FAT!: by Wayan; spinoff picture from a 1997/8/20 dream. I was an anorexic fox-girl, till this phrase galvanized me. Now I pump iron and eat what I like, and...
	THE DARII: by Wayan; 1994/8/15, a psychic dream of another life . I'm trying to prevent a race war, but can I kill someone I admire? And if so, can I live with it? CAUTION: VIOLENCE, RACISM, GUILT
	DARUMA DOLLS: by Wayan; late 1994. Nondream digital sketch. One of Aline Kominsky's comix has her in a bar and a guy asks "Que pasa, muñeca?" and... CAUTION: CONVERSATIONAL FETUSES
	DATIN' DEMON: by Mark Varitz and Wayan; 1989/12/3; Mark's dream triggers one by Wayan. I meet my personal demon, and discover it has a personal demon: me! Am I worse than my Shadow? CAUTION: CRUDE LANGUAGE
	DATE GHOST: by Wayan; dreamed 1985? (exact date uncertain); acrylic. I tried to date a nice young butterfly but was stopped by a monster who was... my own wings? CAUTION: UNDERAGE BUG
	DATELINE WEDNESDAY: by Wayan; 1987/12/27, a dream of the shamanic heartland On Thursdays, in Tungusia, looking at your watch could save your life... CAUTION: DEFAMES SIBERIANS
	DATING WEIRDOS: by Wayan; 1996/8/12 a short rant. Normal people want someone complementary. Weirdos want someone like them. Why? Economics!...
	DAWN'S DIVORCE: by Dawn Z; 2002/3/1-21, an outrageous dream sequence While going through a painful breakup, I kept having sexy, lucid, psychic dreams...
	DAWN'S DREAM: by Dawn Z and Wayan; 2.3MB (MP3 + lyrics), 1999/4/1, a rock song telling a dream My friend Dawn dreamed she crawled into a dumpster to live, and at last felt at home, secure...
	DAWN'S TOILET: by Dawn Z and Wayan; 1999/1/6, two strongly parallel dreams Wayan dreams of surprising Dawn on the toilet while she dreams that flushing away evidence of Foul Play won't work...
	THE DEAD BABY: by Wayan; 1985/8/4 a dream of hope. My sister gives birth during a killer heatwave. The baby's dead. I play with the body, like a chimp... CAUTION: GROSS
	DEAD, NOT STUPID: by Wayan; 2000/1/20, a (psychic?)dreamtale. My little sisters tell the detectives, "Daddy's ghost has a message for you" but they don't listen...
	DEAD RIGHTS! DEAD RIGHTS!: by Wayan; 1983/10/1, a dream of the other side. I die young, to get it over with, like chickenpox. As I slowly revive, I face bias against the dead. So..
	DEAF TO MY SIGNS: by Wayan; 1997/6/17, a wise frustration dreamtale. Watching a slideshow, in a room of deaf women, I find no one can hear me in either English or Sign...
	A DEAL WITH GOD: by Wayan; 1987/10/21, a heretic dream. Evangelists pester me, until I'm so mad I make an on-the-spot deal with... CAUTION: MAD AT CHRISTIANS AGAIN
	DEANNA ON THE MAYAN STEPS: by Wayan; 1992/7/8, a nightmare poem. Deanna Troy and I meet an alarming man atop a Mayan pyramid. Who will be the sacrifice?...
	DEER AND SANDSTORM: by Wayan; 1993/3/17, a pre-fever dream. I'm in a hotel by the Great Salt Lake . Deer roam the halls and lap at the drinking fountain...
	THE DEER PARTY: by Wayan; 1986. A magical dream, Chapter 1 of a nine-story series: UNICORN TAG. A sentent factory shows me a genetic future where the Deer Party agitates for liberty, equality and fertility. Where I learn that I too may not be human...
	THE DEER'S FIRST DEED: by Wayan; 1984/10/8, a dream of gratitude. A man teaches literacy to the wild deer. But with no hands, how can they give him anything in return? CAUTION: IF YOU GOTTA ASK, YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW
	DEER JESUS: by Wayan; 1988/12/25, a revisionist Christmas dream. The Three Wise Men are a centaur, a lion-man, and a doe-girl. But there's no Christ in the manger, so... CAUTION: NUDITY
	THE DEER'S HOLY LAKE: by Wayan; 1995/5/15, a dream of holy turf. A magic lake where deer glide on water... so I try it. And start to realize I could build such a lake...
	DEER-MAN DANCING: by "Cmmndrblu"; early 2006, a shamanic dream triggers a dream-within-a-dream at least six layers deep! First I met a deer-man in the woods. Next week I go lucid, then wake up... only to find I'm still dreaming. And wake again. And wake, and wake...
	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...
	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...
	DETECTIVE DEE: by Wayan; 1992/2/1, a dream on MPD . The clues point toward my own anima as the murderer, but Detective Dee finds the even odder truth...
	DESERT EYES: by Wayan; 1984/3/4, a dream of doors. We desert-hobbits break through to a world of jungle giants. But will they believe us about the UFOs?
	THE DESERT'S PURPOSE: by Wayan; 1996/11/19, a philosophical dream. I'm in the bed of a pickup truck crossing Sonora, insisting to a farmworker "Deserts have spiritual value..."
	MY DEWCLAW: by Wayan; 1997/6/30; dreams within dreams within dreams Body after body is peeled away revealing truth inside truth... CAUTION: GROTESQUE
	DEYUPPIFIER: by Wayan; 1985/11/6 a gleeful dream fable. I built a sex-maze to reprogram businesspeople, but I only grasp its meaning when I fuck City Hall... CAUTION: SEX, LANGUAGE, POLITICS
	THE DIADEM RATIO: by Wayan; 1994/8/14, an absurd dream scene. I stumble into the middle of my own dream and struggle to figure out just what the hell I'm talking about...
	DIAGNOSTIC BATTERY: by Wayan; 1988/4/20, a nightmare of sorts. My sister's new guru tests me psychologically--only it looks like an engineer's test to destruction... CAUTION: EMOTIONAL CRUELTY
	DIANE DUANE'S DRAGON: by Wayan; digital sketch of a psychic dream image, 1994/2/27. A quiet, mysterious dream image that turned out to refer to the future, not the past...
	DIANE'S TRIANGLE: by Wayan; 1985/10/18, a psychic warning dream. A disturbing dream of my sister and her best friend turns out to be warning me of a sex secret... CAUTION: SEX, ENVY, KINKY COMPLICATIONS
	DICTY: by Wayan; 1990/5/?, a rantish poem on high-tech distraction A catalog of American addictions and the absurd distinctions we make between them.... CAUTION: EMBARRASSING DRUG LIST
	DID YOU THINK IT WOULD BE EASY?: by Wayan; 1995/1/15, a dream of slow liberation. Our Appalachian town revolts against fundamentalists, but brainwashing takes time to undo... CAUTION: SEX AND INJUSTICE
	THE DIEBACK: by Wayan; 1998/10/12, an ecological warning dream. A plague begins on terraformed Mars and spreads to Earth. Population biology made it inevitable... CAUTION: OFFSTAGE POPULATION CRASH
	THE DINOSAUR ELEVATOR: by Wayan; 1992/11/22, a paradoxical dream. The dinosaurs I meet manage to prove BOTH time-travel theories! Yet they're contradictory...
	DINOSAUR GAITS: by Wayan; 1998/11/1, a dream on independence. My paleontologist mom can scuttle like a lizard, so why can't she manage a dinosaur gait?
	DINO TREASURE: by Wayan, 1996/9/1, a treasure-hunt dream . At the Psychic Faire, I'm a deer-man in a gang hunting treasure, led by a rough tough dinosaur...
	A DINNER WITH DEATH: by Wayan; 1979/2/12, an optimistic nightmare. The dinner didn't go well. Still, I'm here to tell you! So Death is weakening...
	THE DISPLAY: by Wayan; 1997/10/17, a natural history dream. I'm trapped in a nature documentary about mating displays among humans... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, PBS NARRATION, AND OTHER EMBARRASSMENTS
	DISSECTING PESSIMISM: by Wayan; 1997/4/14, a stubbornly educational nightmare . A serial killer stalks our office, and our bosses deny it. When we defend ourselves, things turn weird... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	DIURNAL AND NOCTURNAL WORLDS: by Wayan; 1993/11/8, an epic dream of the multiverse. Round the ring of twelve worlds and their twelve gods, seeking one god who's giving me grief...
	DO YOU LOVE ME, JOHN?: by Wayan; 1991/7/6, a dream on the courage of the shy. I dream of a future where blondes are a too-cute endangered species. How can they survive? Like this... CAUTION: NUDITY
	DOCTOR VENTRIL: by Wayan; 1978/9/22, a nightmare where I'm the nightmare. A doctor lures me into his office. What he turns out to be scares me less than how I defend myself... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, ARACHNOPHOBIA
	DOCTOR WHO AND DEATH: by Wayan; 1984/6/30, a hopeful dream of betrayal. Dr Who, that BBC perennial, allies with Death. An alarming turn-around! What's he up to? CAUTION: NICE ALIEN GOES BAD?
	DOG AIRPORTS: by Wayan; 1999/5/4, a dream of misplaced worship. Okinawa in the far future, when the world is run by dogs. Except they worship us, and we aren't there...
	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...
	DOG ON THE RAMP: by Wayan; 1989/4/6, a dream of love in a time of bias. My friend Lisadia sneers at a dog-girl's attempts to beautify her starship. I'm shocked--she's openly specist... CAUTION: SPECISM
	DOME: by Wayan; 250K, 1999/1/31, a dream peeling off a lie. I'm actress Nicole Kidman, clinging to the dome of City Hall like King Kong, ripping it to shreds! Why? CAUTION: VANDALISM, REVERSE SEXISM, EXHIBITIONISM
	DOLLY'S TAROT: by Wayan; 1995/9/5, a dream on roles. Tarot with Dolly Parton. But I piss her off. "Men! You think I'm dumb, cuz of my tits!" She fixes THAT... CAUTION: STUPID BREAST HUMOR BUT AT LEAST IT'S NOT GRUESOME
	DON'T PANIC: by Wayan; 1993. Nondream self-portrait, watercolor, 14 x 17". A self-portrait, or it was going to be, till the songbird and fish upstaged me...
	DON'T SLOW FOR KITTENS: by Wayan; 1986/3/8, a pointed little dream. I'm running along a freeway, pacing a cheetah. But the kittens can't keep up...
	DON'T WANT HIM TO SOAR: by Wayan; 1991/4/18, a dream of sabotage. In a parallel world, a visionary's building the first plane only now. I'm his assistant. But I don't WANT...
	THE DOOR GIRL: by Wayan; 1997/9/6, a road-not-taken dream. A doorway not taken (for the most sensible of reasons) provoked a magical dream of what I missed...
	DOPPELBRUDER: by Wayan; 1985/5/9, a dream of a self at war over... labels? Lured to a parallel, feudal world by a marriage-vow, I'm trapped in my double's arrogant, twisted mind...
	THE DOUBT: by Wayan; 2007/2/15, an undream trance-painting Painting an abstract watercolor, I drifted into trance, and found myself climbing a thorny slope. Had I gone wrong?
	DRAGGED TO HER HEART'S DESIRE: by Wayan; 1997/9/16, a dream with a lesson. The friends of a touchy aviator have to kidnap her just to give her a present... and WHAT a present...
	DRAGON BANNERS: by Wayan; 125K, 1987/3/19, a dream on the hollow inside. A dragon's daughter seeking her inheritance defies a sneaky dragon-realtor out to own the world...
	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...
	DRAGON ME: by Preston Young and Katie Hofgard; 2005/2/14? a collaborative dream-portrait. Preston dreams he's a dragon and his girlfriend Katie drew his portrait from his account
	DRAGON'S EYE VIEW: by Wayan; 1987/3/7, a dream through other eyes. From Baffin Bay to suburbia, dragons are everywhere... if you look with a dragon's eye...
	THE DRAGON'S TEETH: by Wayan; 1994/6/23; a real-life nightmare, a dream mapping out life. I'm dancing on stage, in behavioral space. But right in the middle of the stage, erupt these... teeth?
	DRAGON WITH A SUITCASE: by Wayan; 1994/1/8, a dream on alienation. A young dragon, raised as human, is finally setting out to see the world on dragon-terms...
	DRAMATIC PARASITES: by Wayan; 1995/6/28, a dream on fear of success. I project I'll make a lot more money soon. Good, now I can support all my lazy friends! Wait...
	THE DREAM: by Henri Rousseau; 1910, a (collaborative?) dream painting Rousseau's famous painting of a woman who falls asleep on a sofa and finds herself in a glorious jungle may just be a real dream... CAUTION: NUDITY, SLACKING
	DREAM CLARITY, or, the Field of Psychotherapy: by Wayan; 1996/11/27, a dream on dreams While we're making crop-circles in the field of psychotherapy, my hypnotist and I start to argue...
	THEIR DREAM HOUSE: by Wayan; 1986/1/1, 1 illus., a New Year's nightmare. A house with a fire-ghost infestation. Worse than termites! And the ghosts tell me it's my fault....
	DREAM LOVERS: by Wayan; 1995/9/11, a dream on shame. This dream's not about a man whose dream lovers keep materializing till the bed overflows. This dream's about who those lovers are, and what the neighbors will think... CAUTION: SEX
	DREAM ON DREAMS: by Wayan; 1994/5/31, a dream in a dream in a dream. I'm the composer Schumann, till a nightmare jumps me and I wake. And wake. And wake...
	THE DREAM POLICE: by Wayan; 1994/4/6, a dream on persecution. The police confiscate my therapist's copies of my dreams, and try me for obscenity! So why do I help?...
	DREAM RECALL: by Wayan; 1998/8/1, two dreams on dreaming. Are dreamworlds grim, on average? Do our dreams just express fears, or try to SOLVE our problems?
	THE DREAM TO LAST YEARS: by Elizabeth Church; 2004? to March 2008; recurring encounters with a protector--in and out of dreams! For about five years now I have been dreaming of this guy. Different dreams, same guy...
	DREAMRIDER: by Wayan; 1986/4/15, a short, startled rant, chapter 5 of UNICORN TAG. A novel on a modern woman called to become a shaman echoes my real life too closely...
	DREAM SHORTAGE: by Wayan; 1985/12/1, an appropriately short dream. I meet two women in dream-prison. One's a giant, one a miniature. A fairy? She says, 'No, I'm..."
	THE DREAMSUIT: by Wayan; 1992/7/12, a dream on unconscious programming. An experimental helmet knocks me out. I'm groggy, miserable, till I learn what it did to others...
	DREAMS BLOCK VAMPIRE ARROWS: by Wayan; 1995/3/30, an encouraging nightmare. Fighting vampire archers is risky enough WITH proper armor! And all I have is dream-journals... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	DREAMTALES: by Wayan; 200K, 1996-2006, a dream-comics book in progress. "I've always dreamed other lives. Other bodies. Other times. Other worlds. I draw my lives..."
	THE DREGS EFFECT: by Wayan; 1997/11/19, a waking insight on artists in therapy Artists have their own strange culture, and we can unintentionally mislead therapists unfamiliar with us... CAUTION: THERAPESE
	DRESSER GUARDIAN: DRAGON: by Wayan; 1999. Dream-figure portrait, acrylic, 6x5" A guardian figure who recurs in my dreams, painted on my dresser to guard my sleep-journeys...
	DRESSER GUARDIAN: MER-ANGEL: by Wayan; 1999. Dream-figure portrait, acrylic, 5x5" A guardian figure who recurs in my dreams, painted on my dresser to guard my sleep-journeys...
	DRIVER'S TEST: by Wayan; 1984/1/8, an illustrated Kafkan dreamtale. It's not easy to get a California driver's license, ever since the Dept. of Motor Vehicles went Jungian...
	DRYAD IN WINTER: by Wayan; 132K total, digital and crayon, 1992; dream-figure portraits I relate so easily to animals, it's odd how ambivalent I felt about trees... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	A DRY DREAM: by Wayan; 1999/8/30, the opposite of a wet dream. A nightmare turns to a sex dream turns to a weird demonstration just how out-of-body a dream can get... CAUTION: PUZZLING SEX
	DUBIA: by Wayan; 800K, 20 photos, summer 2003, a nondream sculpture/prophecy/travelog. What Earth will look like 1000 years from now, with doubled CO2, flooded coasts and melted poles... CAUTION: CALLS GEORGE W. BUSH A BIG FAT LIAR
	DUCK!: by Wayan; 1988. Digital painting of a dream, 1987/6/5. I was on one of the package dream-tours, an hour here, a scene there. But then, in Patagonia... CAUTION: CREEPING PAGANISM
	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...
	DURING DREAM-DROUGHT: by Wayan; 1997/5/7, a journal exerpt. Sitting in an eviction-lawyer's waiting room, of all places, I discover my next artistic direction...