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	THE HACKER: by Wayan; 1993/11/23, a psychic nightmare. Who's the demon? Mom, the Dragon, the Smiler, the Rubber Ax Murderer, the Doll Princess or the Tiger?... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	HALF-ELF: by Wayan; 1996/2/14, a predictive dream fable. A biracial girl doubts her own heritage; a human friend has to confirm the obvious. So what am I blind to?
	HALF-HEARTED GHOST: by Wayan; 1994/9/28, a dream on the cruelty of shyness. I go invisible in my dance class and hear what the girls I like have to say about me. Uh-oh... CAUTION: PAINFUL RELATIONSHIP TRUTHS
	HALF SHAMAN, HALF STATESMAN: by Wayan; 100K, 1986/4/21, a parallel-world dream: Chapter 6 of UNICORN TAG I get a scholarship to Shaman U. Some of my classmates are Terran, but I still don't fit in, because... CAUTION: LANGUAGE
	HALF-TWIN: by Wayan; 1995/7/4, a dream on the real roots of trust I'm a girl with a half-twin, in a world based on genetics and seniority. Can we learn to relax and be equals?
	HAND ME THE MATCHES!: by Wayan; 1984/9/25, a predictive dream. My sisters and I try to kill kidnappers by setting fires. Dumb, huh? The next day I fight a virus--with fever!
	THE HAND THAT WAKES: by Wayan; 1997; acrylic study of what makes us forget dreams. I was painting to a sad scary song by Laurie Anderson that goes "This is the hand... the hand that takes..."
	HAPPINESS UNBLOCKS ART: by Wayan; 1997/7/7, nondream book review An insight about a fictional character who unblocks her creativity changes my own life strategy...
	HAPPY HUNDERTWASSER: by Wayan; 1991-1999, nondream digital picture-poem. As the bland lead the blind... who knows their own mind? I'll tell you who....
	HARD DISK POND: by Wayan; 1989/8/27, a dream of art as a door. We build a huge hard disk that's a virtual pond--a gate to other worlds! But not for reptile brains...
	HARE HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1998? Digital dream sketch. I dreamed my friend Beryl's soul was a giant rabbit, arguing in paradise with our mutual guardian angel...
	HARPY: by Wayan; 2000/6/2, a stylized nightmare My dad's paralyzed, my car's stolen. So I dream a stylized harpy made of steel, like a living Calder statue, holds three girls hostage...
	HARRY AND THE HORCRUX: by J.K. Rowling; mid-December 2006, a dream of creative ferment People have asked me if I ever dream that I am 'in' Harry's world. The answer was 'no' until a few nights ago, when...
	HAUNTED BUT HAPPY: by Wayan; 1990/9/13, a labyrinthine dream. Some Christian oneirologists barge into the Haunted Firehouse. But I pose for nude unicorn photos, and... CAUTION: DUMB CHRISTIANS, EXHIBITIONIST UNICORNS, ETC.
	HAVE YOUR COCK AND EAT IT TOO: by Wayan; 2007/4/14, a dream of happy autocannibalism I grew extra penises which bud off me like fruit. So I fry them up like sausages, and... CAUTION: GENITALIA FOR LUNCH
	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...
	HAWK ANGEL: by Wayan; 1982/12/28; a dream on rejecting hearsay. I dreamed I met a sort of hawk angel, but there was this preachy guy between us... CAUTION: NUDITY
	HAWK RIDGE: by Wayan; 1988; Primitivist (and primitive) nondream digital painting Early wild and wobbly computer art, reveling in those lush luminous colors...
	HAWKING COUNTRY: by Wayan; 1994/2/3, a quantum-level dream. I read Stephen Hawking, and dream I'm in the Quantum Desert, full of bridges, holes, and loops--like the microstructure of spacetime. But it's not alien at all--it's HOME!
	HEADEGG (Black-Eyed Bird of Pain): by Wayan; 1983/10/24; acrylic painting of a headache-trance. I was cartooning with a headache. It took over and started drawing for me...
	HEADING FOR A FALL: by Wayan; 1993/11/2, a dream of drastic shortcuts. I crash my car on the way to therapy. I ask my dream why. And it tells me! Deliberate, but not suicidal...
	HEALING DANCE: by Wayan; 1997/5/14, a dream of shamanic shop talk. A shaman designs a rite to focus the village's healing attention on her client; the rest is just showmanship...
	HEALING THE RING: by Wayan; 1984/8/22, a nightmare on... anger? I bear a Ring of Power meant to corrupt me. I cleansed it, at a cost, but can't wield it till I've read its spell...
	HEARN'S BEAST: by Wayan; 1986/2/18, a dream fable. Inside an evacuated region, the Lafcadio Hearn Zone, I meet the monster thousands fled...
	THE HEAVIEST FLYER ON EARTH: by Wayan; 1979/1/25, a dream of clumsy flight I can't turn into a bird like all my friends. The most I can do is grow wings and try to fly, solid-boned...
	HEBREW RADIO RITE: by Wayan; 1997/10/12, a cynical mystical dream. An ancient rite has headgear that today picks up radio stations. What'd it pick up in ancient times?
	THE HEDGE KING: by Wayan, 1992/6/14, a gender-bent dream epic. I change sex to infiltrate a sinister castle, unaware its Lord can spot a shapeshifter--being one himself... CAUTION: A DISTURBING BEDSIDE MANOR. I MEAN, MANNER.
	HEDGEHOG AND WHITE RABBIT: by Wayan; 1972/12/1, a dream love story. Hedgehog and White Rabbit stick together, through the snipers on Broadway, through the dogs of winter, through cannibal soup...
	THE HEDGEHOG DISPENSARY: by Wayan; 440K, 27 watercolors, 2004/10/2, a dream of a furry ambitopia. A rabbit shaman orders his apprentice to drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. Ow! Why? Well... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR
	THE HEIDEGGARIAN BARBARIAN: by Jo, 2007/02/02, a dream of hopping between two characters I was two-thirds of a love triangle, but I always lost out. Flying was some consolation... CAUTION: RAT DEATH, EVIL WHALES AND ADULTERY
	HELL-TORNADO: by Wayan; 1988/7/2, a dream on social engineering. Who built the tornado in the Heartland, that sucks anyone who opens their spirit-wings down to Hell? CAUTION: BAD THEOLOGY, WORSE PHYSICS
	HELP, NOT CURE: by Wayan; 1996/12/26, a dream on autism. Gay angels try to help an autistic woman. Change her past? Only if they pass the Ass-Backward Guardians!
	HELP YOUR NEIGHBOR: by Wayan; 2 illus., 1994/2/18, a comic nightmare. I'm an organic almond grower who's solved the Luminous Snail problem. But my neighbor has an agenda...
	HELPLESSLY LUCID: by Alder; 2007/6/23, a lucid dream in which I'm powerless! I'm a homeless elf. We're a persecuted minority group. I know I'm dreaming and try to change it but...
	HEPBURNING: by Wayan; 1984/8/1, a nightmare on repression. Kat Hepburn burns inside as passionate aliens take over our souls. How can we expel them before...
	HER HORSE: by Wayan; 1985/5/14, a dream fable about bodies. A farm girl seems to be sexually exploiting her dog and horse, but their auras tell another tale... CAUTION: SEX SYMBOLISM
	HER ONLY FRIEND: by Wayan; 1996/7/1, a dream of worms turning. A sorceress trains a kid as a prostitute who'll spy on her powerful clients. But her training has side effects... CAUTION: EXPLOITED KIDS
	HER OWN WEAPON: by Wayan; 1983/8/31, a poltergeist-therapy dream. A woman says she's being stalked, but it's her own poltergeist! Her therapist makes her reach for it...
	THE HERBIVORE'S EXCEPTION: by Wayan; 1999/12/6, a dream of snapping. A beautiful herbivore suddenly eats one of its friends! Bloody. Who or what is this warning me about?... CAUTION: YUCK, MEAT REALLY IS MURDER
	HERMIT IN THE PIPE: by Wayan; 1999/5/2, a dream of the end. I'm a holy man sneaking into a sewerpipe at the beach, to pop anxiety pills in shame. Do they even work? CAUTION: CHEMICAL CRUTCHES
	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?
	HICKOPHOBIA: by Wayan; 320K, 1996/5/13; dream-comix (or plain text version) Whenever I run out of ballet class to Japanese without asking my classmate Wendy out, I change sex... CAUTION: LANGUAGE
	HILLARY AND TEAL: by "A 24-Year-Old Californian Woman"; around 2008/2/28, an absurd political dream Hillary Clinton hid her cancer, but the GOP found out. So a monster kidnaps Rainbow Brite, and...
	HILLARY'S EYES: by Margaux Williamson; February 2008, a political romance dream Hillary Clinton was trying to seduce me, and doing a pretty good job, too...
	HILLBILLY ECO-REVOLT: by Wayan; 1985/6/12, a diagnostic eco-dream. A poor planet with one city. Urban technocrats and hick ecologists have conflicting development models... CAUTION: TOO REAL TO BE FUN
	HILLMAN ON DAIMONS: by Wayan; 1998/9/7, on Greco-Roman and Jungian ideas of a life-goal James Hillman and my own experience suggest we enter life with an agenda. But what if our goals are sick?
	"HIS BALL IS EMPTY": by Wayan; 1982/3/23, an epistolary advice-dream. A letter to Miss Hornyhearts compares the writer's lover and husband. Some sharp advice for nice boys... CAUTION: LANGUAGE
	HIS DEER WIFE: by Wayan; 195K, 20 images, 1995/7/9, a parallel world love story. I'm a slave, a scribe in the house of a Captain of the New Aztec Empire, when he brings home a wife... CAUTION: SLAVE SOCIETY, SEX, SPOUSAL ABUSE/NEGLECT
	HIS MINE: by Wayan; 1985/12/2, a wild dream epic. I'm a hobbit seeking Henry Fonda's haunted gold mine, who ends up in a showdown in a shaman's bar...
	HISTORY CHANGES: by Wayan; 1994/11/22, a dream of an alternate life. I'm the token Chinese guy in a jazz band in backwoods Brazil, in the old colonial days, when...
	HIT ROCK: by Wayan; 1995-98. Digital picture challenging a dream. I dreamed I blinded myself because mere appearances lead to racism and sexism. Only the blind know truth... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	HITLER'S CAR: by Wayan; 1982/6/9, I review a creepy book. And then my dreams review ME. A book claims Hitler's circle was a cult, not a party, out to apply mystical theories--like Manson! Then I dream... CAUTION: RABID RANTING
	A HOBBIT IN L.A.: by Wayan; 1990/1/8, a dream on wishes. I'm a hobbit woman in Los Angeles, hiding a magic weapon from Sauron. No, not THAT weapon...
	HOBBIT SNIPER: by Wayan; 1998/10/13, a dream on strategy. I'm a sniper in a desert battle of men against hobbits. Guilty for not fighting openly, but that'd be suicidal... CAUTION: MATH AND WAR
	HOLD HEAD: by Wayan; 1993; nondream digital sketch. This started as an exercise in dramatic figure-drawing and shifted round into an exorcise in guilt... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL CONFESSIONS
	THE HOLY HARP: by Wayan; 1994/3/22, a dream of musical guilt. The Goddess's harp, that calls in the seasons, just passed on. But the new harper has a shocking admission...
	HOMAGE TO CAMILLE: by Wayan, spring 2003. Portrait of a half an anima A portrait of my dream-friend Silky, using a technique learned from artist Camille Porter.
	THE HOMONKEYLUS: by Wayan; 1992/6/15, an illustrated dreamloop. A smiling beauty queen on a float gives birth to a monkey with blinders, then re-absorbs the baby, then... CAUTION: NUDITY AND ODDITY
	THE HONEST INMATE: by Wayan; 1997/5/8, a dreamfable on truthfulness. I'm a psychopath in a prison for the insane. But I fall in love, and change. Blunt honesty fuels the change...
	HONESTY THE WITCH: by Wayan; 1972/6/1, a flying dream. A witch advocates honesty, but kids mock her; one boy tries to rape her. We fight mid-air, riding her broom... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	HOP: by Emily Joy, Maddie, and Kathe, 2004/3/31; three linked dreams of a single character Three friends in one bed dream three dreams in one night about a talking rabbit with a persistent request...
	HORSE IN A TAILWIND: by Wayan; 1982; study of a dream character It looks like a study of negative shapes, but if you happen to be a part-time horse, like me...
	THE HORSE VOTERS: by Wayan; 1995/4/30, a dream on race? Or... 19th century horsebreeders crossbred more than they admit. One suggests I look hard in the mirror... CAUTION: UNSEEMLY SENATORIAL DISCOURSE
	HORSEFALL... AND WORSE: by Wayan; 1997/5/15, a political nightmare. Corruption in my town causes a bizarre death. But is that all? I smell smoke--will the city burn?
	HORSELIKE BUT NOT: by Wayan; portrait of dream figure, 1997, acrylic, 14 x 17" My anima Silky finds it hard to go back to classic hooves, now that she's tried opposable thumbs...
	HORTA'S EGGS: by Wayan; 1984/1/17, a dream of re-evaluation. I fight to save 50,000 eggs that'll hatch psychics. But my friends want to exterminate them! Am I wrong?
	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
	HOT POT CAT LOT: by Wayan; 1992/8/6, a delayed-action psychic dream. After a bad writing class, I meet a shy catgirl guarding a Mongolian Hot Pot, and discover who I am...
	A HOT SKATER: by Wayan; 1997/5/8, a suggestive dream. A skater so hot, she tears her clothes off and starts melting the ice! I'm shy with her: thin ice, you know... CAUTION: NUDITY, CRUDITY
	HOT TO TROT, or, BRAIN TRAUMA, or, HUMPIN' THE HOG, or, SAD-EYED SWAN OF LOVE: by Wayan; 120K, 1993/8/4, a wild dreamtale. I'm a mare, hot to trot in the Big City (and get laid), but my gay Star Trek friend's brain trauma has made her a clueless alien with a bo(a)ring sexlife--until a certain swan enfolds her in love... CAUTION: ALIEN POSSESSION, CARTOON PIG SEX, SMOKING SWANS
	A HOTEL ODYSSEY: by Wayan; 1994/2/21, a Borges dream. I live in the Infinite Hotel, but the other guests in my wing are no fun. It's time to set sail...
	HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT: by Wayan; 1994/4/3, a dark dream. As my grandmother is dying, I have a dream about what really went on in her house... CAUTION: CHILD SLAVERY
	HOUSTON: by Wayan; 1992; automatic writing experiment. A poster playing with superimposed messsages. How strangely the mind sorts out different layers!
	HOW LONG IS ENOUGH?: by Wayan; 1994/4/24, a psychic little dream. Just a dance/yoga dream, warning "don't push your body till it hurts..." that came true the next day.
	HOW TO BE HAPPY: A FABLE BY TOLKIEN: by Wayan; 1994/6/16, a dream, not by Tolkien. I'm a librarian in an English village hit by waves of new philosophies and lifestyles. And I learn what works:
	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...
	HUCK FINN'S WISH: by Wayan; 1995/12/8, a dream of flight and sabotage. A mysterious stranger offers free wishes to the kids of Hannibal, Missouri. Tom Sawyer wants to fly, but... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	HUMANITY'S GREATEST FEAR: by Emily Joy; 2007/4/8, a sarcastic dream on education. My teacher insists, "You'll be scared too, when you see it." But when he shows us humanity's greatest fear... CAUTION: UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS
	HUNG BY ELDER: by Wayan; 1997/7/30, a nightmare. A disowned heiress and I sneak onto the family estate, but they'll go pretty far to hide their skeletons... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	HUNT AND PECK: by Patagia; 1997/6/16, a dream on the creative non-struggle. I'm a brown sparrow scratching in the dirt, looking for bugs. Focused, tireless, I hunt and peck...
	HUNT OF THE UNICORN: by Wayan; 1989/5/18, an overlooked psychic dream. I marry, just to get into a clannish world where I'm seeking symbiotic unicorns. But I end up hunted too...
	HUNTERS' FIRE: by Wayan; 1997/9/8, a nightmare that may be a memory. I'm an orphan shot at by hunters. They shoot my sister! But no one believes me... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	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