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	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...
	NANCY AND KIT: by Wayan; 1994/1/3, a psychodramatic dream. I step between an ultra-femme girl and a butch boy, trapped in a psychodrama. But I'm bleeding...
	NATALIUS' WELTS: by Natalius the Confessor, ca. 155 AD, a dream leaving physical traces. Natalius dreamed that angels whipped him for joining a heretic cult, and woke to find welts on his back...
	NATIVE LANGUAGE: by Wayan; 1996/11/17, a dream about senses and speech. I'm at the beach, seeing it through English linguistic filters. Or do I? Is there a language under language?
	NATURE DEFIES CONTOUR: by Wayan; nondream vision, ink and acrylic dabbed on with a stick It's not nice to outline things that don't want to have outlines...
	NAVAHO HORSES: by Wayan; 1970; childhood drawing, felt pen and color pencil A sketch I made as a kid in a museum, of a Navaho painting of horses who got me hot...
	THE NEPALESE DROP: by Wayan; 2000/4/20, a predictive nightmare. I climb a crumbling slope to a cliff with a Himalayan view; I slip, and no one lifts a hand to help as I...
	THE NESS MAN, or, HOW TO HEAL: by Wayan; 50K total, 1994/4/13, a mythic dream. Mythic creatures round a woodland pool want to heal a businessman. Do too many cooks spoil the soup?
	NEST, EGGS AND LEGS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; l993/9/7, painting of a comic/transcendent dream Two friends send energy through me, transforming me. Now that my legs are detachable, I can sit comfortably on my eggs...
	NET PROFITS: by Wayan; 1998/7/14, a dream of family values and Web credit. At a family picnic, my sisters and I fish for scholarships and grants. They put down my art, my website...
	NEUTRALITY'S ROOMMATE: by Emily Joy; 2007/4/19, a spooky dream. At our commune's new house, pandemonium breaks out when our matriarch meets a spook. Can we live together in peace?
	NEUTRINO EYES: by Wayan; 1983, a poem on dark matters. ESP is like having neutrino detectors for eyes: what radiates from people's cores blinds you to their surfaces...
	NEW BODIES: by Dreamy; around 2007/1/25, a transformation dream My best friend and I qualify for new bodies. The new me is taller, but poor Ken may take years adjusting to his new...
	NEWT WEDDING: by Emily Joy; spring 1995, 100k, a six-year-old's epic dream Through wild jungles and over the Mattress Mountains, I lead a giant purple newt to love...
	NICHE: by Wayan; 1990, a poem on crashing your computer. A poem linking the dawn of digital art to early, tinny phonographs, cranky film cameras... CAUTION: IDEAS
	A NIGHT ON MOUNT DIABLO: by Wayan, 1984/6/8, an allegorical four-phase dream. I'm attacked by a narcissist firebird, a rabid rattler-manticore, a masochist bear, and a sexless succubus... CAUTION: INEPT DEMONS
	NIGHT FLIGHT: by Catherine as told to Wayan; 1985, a flying transformation dream.. My friend Catherine dreamed she was a flying mare with golden hooves. But in real life, she lost them...
	NIGHT MARE: by Wayan; 101K, 1991; digital painting inspired by a friend's dream . I dreamed I was a feral mare: gentle, affectionate, sensual, but gone wild, wary of being tamed again...
	THE NIGHTMARE EFFECT: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/14, an anti-nightmare. My own fear creates a field of time/speed distortion; can I use it against my attackers?
	NIGHTMARE'S EAGER: by Wayan; 1999/4/6, a short dream about dreams. I meet a Nightmare in heat who wants me. A human girl by me says I'll catch an equine sex-disease... CAUTION: SEX TALK
	THE NIGHT OF CHANGE: by Wayan; 1994/2/8, a dream on the order of deep changes. Festival night in a strange town, where, one night a year, dancing in the street transforms you into... CAUTION: SEX TALK
	A NIP IN THE EVENING: by Wayan; ink 1980 tinted 2000; daydream image. Like a lot of playful beasts, I like a friendly nip in the evening...
	NIXON NOSE: by Wayan; 1997/12/10, a short psychic dream. A dream girl with a giant ski-jump nose turns out to be more literal than she seemed...
	NIXON'S BLANKET POLICY: by Wayan; 1974/5/30, a political dream. After a class in nonverbal communication, I meet Richard Nixon under embarrassing circumstances...
	NO BLUE RIDER: by Wayan; 1995. Digital painting in Franz Marc style of my earliest dream. My first memory is of being a wild horse, and waking up to find I was now a human child...
	NO FINGERS: by Wayan; 1993/10/6, an indirectly predictive dream. My therapist has no fingers. A fingerless man intrudes on my session, and they use up my hour talking...
	"NOHOR!" YELLED THE NIGHTMARE: by Wayan; 1982/12/27, a passionate nightmare. I dreamed a black mare was howling "Nohor!" At first I thought she meant "I'm not just a horse", but... CAUTION: SEXUAL ISSUES
	NO "I": by Wayan; 2003/10/22, a dream of identity loss. I'm in San Francisco trying to throw Sauron's Ring into the Cracks of San Andreas. But a sexy sorcerer steals my sense of I! How can you act without a self?
	NO MAN IS ISLAND: by Wayan; 125K, 1990, poem refuting John Donne's, illustrated with dreamselves. No Man is Island. So Men say. I am not a Man...
	NO ONE'S OUT TO GET ME: by Wayan; 1993/12/14, a subtle nightmare. I always thought learning no one's out to get me would be a GOOD thing...
	NO VACATIONS?: by Wayan; 1999/8/14, a spiritual nightmare. Before I was born, I set up this life to learn loneliness, boredom and fear. Good move, soul! No vacations?
	NORASINGH: by Wayan; 1987/1/15, a Tantric Frankenstein dream. I fall in love with my sculpture of a mythical Southeast Asian creature. Then a mad yogi breaks in... CAUTION: SEX, TANTRA, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS
	HIS NORI SUIT: by Wayan; 1992/9/4, a dream on isolation. Down at the tideline, a man dressed in seaweed disproves John Donne's adage...
	NORTH FLEET OF THE RAIN: by Wayan; 1974/7/10, an early dream . A vast galactic fleet hovers around Earth, demanding Rain. What? I fight one of the aliens... and find out. CAUTION: ADOLESCENT HUMOR. IF THAT.
	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?
	NOT LOVE, BUT NOT ABUSE: by Wayan; 1996/6/6, a dream on gradualism. I dream I don't love my girlfriend, I just confuse non-abusive treatment with love....
	NOT SELF DEFENSE!: by Wayan; 1999/4/29, a warning dream. I'm Tarzan, fighting off attackers. But I kill one helpless prisoner! Am I going too far? CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	NOT THREE!: by Wayan; 1996/11/11, an encouraging nightmare I was wrong. I didn't survive three assassins. It's been seven! Why'd I forget the others?
	THE NOTE: by Wayan; 1977/1/1, a psychic nightmare. On New Year's Eve, I dream my college no longer welcomes me, and wake to find it's true...
	NOW DON'T PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH: by Wayan; 1998, pencil sketch of 3 recurring dream figures. It's hard being even mildly multiple. Here three of my least compatible personalities line up and...
	NUKING HOOVER: by Wayan; 1997/2/16, a dreamtale about illness. J. Edgar Hoover, founder of the FBI, stages a coup. Do we accept him as dictator, or nuke Washington? CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	NUMB CUNT COMES ALIVE: by Wayan; 1996/6/18, a dreamtale on flow. My lover's half-mechanical cunt wakes fully--a first. But what inspired my dream wasn't a sexual first... CAUTION: SEXUAL SYMBOLISM
	OBISPO'S OUT OF RANGE: by Wayan; 1997/2/2, a dreamtale on ESP. I move hundreds of miles away to escape my family's psychic broadcasts. Pathetic, but... does it work?
	THE OBSERVER EFFECT, OR, WATCH THE WATCH: by Wayan; 1997/1/21, a dream of time and opticks. After seeing an Einstein biography I find myself in the bathrooms of Thought-Experiment High, and... CAUTION: DARK SIDE OF AN ICON
	OCARINA, or, MILLION-YEAR SENTENCE: by Wayan; 1972/5/27, a lucid / predictive dream. I go lucid and drive my bed to the Nevada desert where I see my next million years. And so far, it's been true...
	OCTOPIA: by Wayan; 1996/3/21, a spiritual dream on play. I'm a stratospheric bat who catches a flying swastika. Is it creeping fascism, a Hindu blessing, or...?
	ODE TO SPAM: by Wayan; 2007/10/11, a poem about the wonders of email Why couldn't Adam Smith (that fool Pandora) keep our glittering greed in the box asleep?
	OH LEAD MY REM SOUL ON: by Wayan, 1991, silk painting of shamanic dream process I rise in animal form, and fly to a world as coherent as this one, guided by a greenhaired girl... CAUTION: NUDITY
	OHLONE AT THE MALL: by Wayan; 1994/2/1, a dreamfable. I see two Ohlone women around 1900, starving, naked, despised, their land stolen--and still happy...
	OISIN: by Wayan; 200K, 2005, 4 maps and images; a nondream virtual world A model of a Europa-like moon with life under thinly ice-covered seas...
	OLD AND IN THE WAY: by Wayan; 1999/5/3, a veiled predictive dream. On a dead-end street, I meet a beautiful psychic and fight a tentacled monster that's stalked me for years...
	OLD HAT: by Wayan; 1988/1/5, a "normal" (i.e. incoherent) dream. The Goddess gave birth in my workplace. Her fever-dreams become real around us... CAUTION: BIRTH SCENE, LIBRARIANS' ORGY
	THE OLD WITCH: by Wayan; 1991/8/1, a dreamtale on abandon. A Hollywood sex goddess confronts the Ingenue who's supplanting her. Just how far will she go? CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
	OMELET BEACH: by Wayan; 2007/1/15, a dream on how things look through your third eye An alien beach scene--as seen through eyes that see bodies' energy fields more than surface forms...
	ON HER FOURTH BODY: by Wayan; 1993/11/25, a psychic dream-comedy. A cute cow-singer on her fourth body-transplant solves the gravity-riddle that's stumping Mr Spock...
	ON MOLLY'S FOREHEAD: by Wayan, 1988/11/19, a spiritual sex dream. A child of radicals goes wild in Rio. When we bail her out, we find she's had a strange enlightenment... CAUTION: UNSAFE SEX
	ONCE A HERO: by Wayan; 185K total, 9 images, 1998/10/22, a raw dream-series. Sexy dreams of Chinese archeology, authorized by the fairies, make me face that my family abused me...
	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...
	OOPSPACE: by Wayan; Wayan; a daydream/tribute watercolor, 1999 The poet e.e. cummings drew a book of astral fairytales with watercolors that felt a bit like my dreams...
	OPEN THE DOOR!: by Wayan; April 2002, acrylic bas-relief of waking fantasy. I salvaged a door. When I painted it, a fox-woman wanted to open it and get out... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY
	OPEN YOUR CAGE: by Wayan; 1999; penciled collage of dream characters The cover of a collection of 11.5 dream-tales in glorious detailed Web-unfriendly black and white....
	OPENING: by Wayan, 640 x 400, 1992 Digital picture. Why don't I push for more art shows? I asked how I feel at shows of my own work, and this came out...
	OPHIDIOPHOBIA: by Wayan; 1986/2/12, a dream on race and religion. I'm a therapist with a client diagnosed paranoid--are his doctors racist? He's not just black, but scaly...
	OR... IS IT YOU?: by Wayan; 1990 nondream digital painting on marginality. When I was battered, I briefly lived on the streets. What struck me was how fragile most of us were... CAUTION: GRIM
	ORBITING MOM: by Wayan; 1997/1/7, an uh-oh dream. I'm trying to get a moontan when my mom appears. My astral body starts orbiting her like a moon. Uh-oh...
	ORBITING THE CRYSTAL PALACE: by Wayan; 1998/1/12, a dream of making home. A wild flying dream lands me among feral children fighting to live in a glass conservatory of lost flowers...
	ORCA TOWS: by Wayan; 1984/5/25, a dream with impact. I show an Ohio friend the latest California sport. Of course we haven't worked out how to land just yet...
	ORDEAL BY INFRASTRUCTURE: by Wayan; 1987/11/22, a Clintonian dreamtale. I want to join the inner circle of America's political elite. But to do that I have to survive the Ordeal...
	ORIOLE GIRL: by Wayan; 100K, 7 illus., 1992/1/23, a poem telling a psychic dream. While conducting a census of fairies in Golden Gate Park, I fall in love with an abused oriole-angel, and we try to heal each other... CAUTION: AWKWARD SEX
	ORPHEA: by Wayan; 47, 1995. Digital painting of a hole in our myths.. Krishna, Orpheus, Kokopelli...why are the mythic musicians all guys? Where's Orphea, where's her head...?
	ORPHEUS AND POOH: by Wayan; 1972/4/9, an early dream epic. I meet my true love during a coup. We go through Hell together, like Orpheus and Eurydice--only we...
	OSENTO: by Wayan; 1991/2/15. Digital painting based on a dream. Osento is a bath house that my friends all love. But women only. So I dream I change sex just to... CAUTION: NUDITY, GRATUITOUS HAPPINESS
	OTTERS DON'T FAKE: by Wayan; 125K total, a dreamtale with 2 illustrations, 1989/10/15. I'm scared to show my dream-paintings to my art class. That night I find an large otter in my bed... CAUTION: SEX
	THE OTTER'S MOM: by Wayan, 171K, a dream-comic (or 12K text version). 1996/5/29; a dream of the future. A brilliant, orphaned ottercub meets the last Tasmanian Wolf, who makes a hard choice I couldn't. Or did I?
	OTTO SUGGESTION TO A HORSE IN DRAG: by Wayan; 1995/8/8, a dream on body image. My uncle mocks the racehorse he rides! Smears lipstick on this stallion, calls him a wimp... Why?
	OUR BEST SONG: by Wayan; 1983/10/25, a decade-long dream of song and flight. The artcops search-and-destroy our flying band, and my wings are shorn. But ten years later, songless, apathetic, I climb through my TV--and the women of Vietnam show me a new way to fly... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, ATTITUDE, ALTITUDE
	OUR EYES ARE OPEN: by Wayan; 1998? Political painting of my animal anima. As new political outrages flow forth, I feel like a horse wary of a sweet-talking human, and I think...
	OUR GOVERNOR: by Wayan; 1990/3/28, an anti-death-penalty dream. I force the governor's chief aide to tour the new prisons for us artists, fags, and niggers. He's appalled--but how many more noses must I rub in the governor's racism?
	OUR LADY OF THE YOYO: by Wayan; 400 x 670, 1983, digital over acrylic over crayon. Our Lady of the Yoyo plays with our yin-yang world, trying to keep the spin going on each bounce...
	AN OUTGROWN BED: by Wayan; 1990/10/14, a dream of growth and time. I'm a girl in a Catholic school. But a chance photo and the length of my bed combine to change my life... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, CHRISTIAN-NEGATIVE
	OVERKILL: by Wayan; 640 x 680, 1991. Digital picture-poem-poster. Now the Evil Empire's dead. We're all safe, safe at last. And all the bombs are gone... right?
	OVERWHELMED YOSEMITE DAD: by Wayan; 1998/9/25, a warning dream. Mom's gone, and our writer/bohemian dad's caring for us alone, now. He's barely coping. And he's me...
	OWL AND CHEESE: by Wayan; 1986/7/8, a dreamtale of a Shadow? An alien woman makes a mess of our economy, ecology, world--but insists she wants to be my friend...
	OWL GUARDIAN: by Wayan; 1986/6/6, a short psychic dreamtale. A mysterious guardian owl makes more sense after the next day's events...
	OWLOVERS: by Wayan; 1992, digital painting of vivid daydream. This image bewilders me; my dreams mix sex with warmth, grief, even silliness, but what is THIS telling me? CAUTION: WEIRD ORGY
	OWLYCAT: by Wayan; 1983? Daydream of night being. At the time I didn't even notice the pun...
	OZETTE ANGEL: by Wayan; 1992. Dream-tinged landscape. West of Seattle, near Lake Ozette, a mudslide buried a whole Makah Indian village centuries ago...