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	RA CATS: by Wayan; 60K total, 2 versions of an image inspired by a cutting-board. A friend gave me a meat-cutting board, with channels for the blood. Eww. So why'd it become three cats worshiping the sun? CAUTION: NUDITY
	RABBIT WORLD: by Wayan; 260K total, 6-page comic of a 1990/9/26 dream. I'm a telepathic rabbit defending our world from space-laser attack. We do, but do we modernize too much? CAUTION: IDEAS
	RACCOON MOON: by Wayan; 1993/11/22; a short psychic dream. A precognitive dream about levitating snake girls, raccoons, and lunar eclipses. CAUTION: MY SNAKE BREASTS
	HIS RACIST SON: by Wayan; 1994/1/8, a dream on family hypocrisy. Suddenly I hate and fear black kids in school! The counselor says I'm clinically paranoid: I need drugs! My dad says "How strange, how sad." And goes home to light a candle at his shrine to the Confederacy... CAUTION: INDUCED RACISM
	RACK: by Wayan; 2006/4/4; a comic business-bondage dream My friend Chris gets tied up at the office--that's his job, looking martyred! But when the boss is away... CAUTION: NUDITY
	RADAR BEAR: by Wayan; 1983/6/17, a dream of MASH. Radar O'Reilly's teddy bear is stolen. He builds spy-planes to find it. One morning the camp wakes to find...
	RADIATE SORROW: by Wayan; 1980s, a dream poem. The rest of us heavenly bodies have each other, but from the Sun's viewpoint, we're just rubble. Alone...
	RAGS TO RICHES: A FIGHT FOR LOVE: by Hyal; October 2006, a dream of courage. I was just a street rat, but I danced with the princess at a ball, and fell in love. Three rich suitors pulled their blades...
	RAIN OF WOMEN: by Wayan; 1999/6/11, a warning nightmare. Women rain out of the sky. People shrug "Suicides." I don't believe it--and what if one falls on me? CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	THE RAINBOW SLEEPER: by Wayan; 107K, 2000/9/20, sculpture of a dream ABOUT a sculpture. In Rainbow Food Co-op, a huge statue of a sleeping woman emerged from the floor, shedding shoppers...
	RAISE YOURSELF!: by Wayan; 1998, 17" mixed media sculpture; nondream . Why wait for the Rapture when you can use a chinup machine and raise yourself off that cross?... CAUTION: NUDE PSEUDO-CRUCIFIXION, SACRILEGIOUS SELF-HELP
	RANI: by Wayan; 120K total (8 illus.), 1994/1/28, a dreamtale on choice. A Borges story of a were-tiger provokes a dream of a ranch crawling with weird women. But I LIKE them... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
	RAPID TRANSIT: by Wayan; 1999, acrylic watercolor, 14x17", nondream trance painting. I was just sitting, minding my own business when these golden wedge-birds divebombed me...
	MY RAPPEL-MAD SISTER: by Wayan; 1984/7/14-15, a dreamtale on being halfway. My sister hoists us up to the Goddess's country too early, or too late: the ice is thawing, treacherous...
	THE RAPTURE OF MY DARK DREAM: by Edna St Vincent Millay; 1945?, a nightmare in free verse Millay dreams her lover's attacked in the street, and wakes to realize it's already happened; he's lost.
	RATTLER BANQUET: by Wayan; 1993/1/29, a farcical nightmare poem. My parents invite me to dinner, but my mom chases a rattlesnake up my leg. Then I wake to find two holes in my...
	RATTLER BY THE CONTROLS: by Wayan; 1978/10/19, an anti-phallic-symbol dream. I dreamed I was on a train, a huge toy train, and a gigantic rattler was at the controls...
	RAVEN AT 5 O'CLOCK: by Raven and Wayan; 1996/11/30. Shared but stupid psychic dreams. My girlfriend Raven dreams I keep poking her awake, while I dream that a different kind of raven gives me weird advice...
	RAVENNA: by Wayan; 83K total, 4 images, 1994/12/25, a psychic Jungian dream. In a church-tent, I find glowing pictures of mine I've never seen awake. One's half-done; I work on it. I wake, and read how Jung, in a Ravenna church, saw luminous images he later learned burned centuries ago! CAUTION: NUDE STAINED GLASS
	RAZI AND THE HOLY WINO OF SHASTA: by Wayan; 270K, 16 illus., 1994/9/1, a redemptive dream 20,000 years from now, a deer-harpist named Razi finds the Holy Wino's not quite the ruin he seems... CAUTION: BAD PENGUINS, DEER NUDITY, RUDE DRUNK
	RAZOR GHOST: by Wayan; 1974/5/5, a nightmare posing a problem. A man slowly walled in by neighbors till he died, is now a mad, murderous ghost. And he's me! Can I exorcise MYSELF? CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	READABLE DREAMS: by Wayan; 1989-92; a 3-year inner debate on how to present dream-art How do we make dream narratives readable, when most readers are raised to think they're nonsense?
	REALITY LOOPS: by Wayan; 1996/12/26, a dream on the multiverse. My dreams show me how one world can be a fiction within another that's a fiction within the first! Dreams and fictions aren't simulations but windows. So be nice to your dream-figures--it turns out you ARE one...
	RECOIL: by Wayan; 1995. Digital portrait of dream figures. Puzzled me why I (the girl on the left) was so outraged about the gift of a perfectly nice levitating flower... CAUTION: NUDITY, INGRATITUDE, WITCHCRAFT, ELVIS
	RECONCILIATION: by Martha Sherwood; 2003/6/19, a dream-parable Even after the Resurrection, a mother and daughter still have issues to clean up...
	RED HAPPY BEAST: by Wayan; 1983? Psychological pastel. I was rather afraid of red before this. The first hint someone different was starting to emerge inside me...
	RED OCHRE, CLEAR LIGHT: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2003/5/1?; a painting that blends two red-rock dreams Mt Everest is snowfree and red; and next I get to color sandstone caves red with ochre. That red feels full of energy...
	THE RED SPHERE: by Madeline; 2006/12/13, twin (diagnostic? psychic?) nightmares Calmly, I watch a girl trapped in a lab try to escape, and die; and watch a man lose his head to a hungry thing... CAUTION: GRUESOME
	THE RED THING: by Wayan; 1998. Digital portrait of a song. You're looking down on a landscape at something red, scalloped and twisty. A barrier or a path to follow?
	REDUCED TO THE STUDHOUSE: by Wayan; 1980/11/16, a warning dream. I'm not a normal wolf: I'm a were-woman. When I turn wolf again, I'm in heat; but I want to be alone! So... CAUTION: SEX TALK
	(THE MOON IS PROPELLED BY) REELS OF LIGHT: by Wayan; 2000/11/17. Digital painting of the dream-process. The moon's a sailing ship propelled not by wind but light: the light of night-movies. Dreams...
	REFLECTIONS IN THE POOL: by Wayan; 184K total, 2 panoramas; a 1994/7/2 dream. Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love. Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace? CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL
	(IN THE) REHEARSAL ROOM: by Wayan; 360 x 600, 1982. A dream on shyness. I dreamed my fears faded like ghosts, as we made love in the rehearsal room. But invisible is not gone... CAUTION: SEX
	REHEARSING THE LOVE SCENE: by Wayan; 1999/9/17, a dream of advice. An insecure girl who looks like my anima is rehearsing a controversial love scene with an alien wolf...
	REINDEER FOREST: by Wayan; ca. 1985, nondream ink sketch, approx 9x14" Reindeer linked by their heads--curiously analogous to language, or culture, or the Web, isn't it...
	A RENAISSANCE WOMAN: by Wayan; 1997/7/3, a dreamtale. I'm an abused girl turning tricks to survive. But this is San Francisco: I join a prostitutes' co-op, and meet... CAUTION: PROSTITUTES WITH SELF-RESPECT, OH NO!
	REQUIEM FOR GINGER: MAGNIFICAT: by Lily; 2008/1/31, a dream on facing loss. I dream I'm telling a tall tale about a cat-funeral with hung-over mice pulling the hearse. But it all turns a bit too real...
	RESCUE FEVER: by Wayan; 1994/2/3, a dreamtale on rescue fantasies. A refugee girl crawls into my bed. We become lovers. I protect her. But over time... am I holding her back? CAUTION: ABUSE? OR NOT?
	REST TOO: by Wayan; 1999. Acrylic on 12" LP; a life-sketch with a lesson. The mysterious glyphs above the model's head are dream-language, warning me to... CAUTION: NUDITY
	REVOLUTION IS MESSY: by Emily Joy; 2006/4/26, a political dream When whites invade, two shapeshifting Native American cubs resist architecturally...
	RHAMPHORHYNCHUS: by Wayan; 1996/11/12, a waking premonition. Biking, I find myself chanting a dinosaur name. I don't even know what it is. At home I open a novel, and a Rhamphorhynchus appears, politely defined for me by our obliging universe...
	RHINE CHECKERS: by Wayan; 1970-71, a journal extract on ESP. My sister and I played games based on the Rhine Institute's ESP studies. Our scores were not random...
	RIBBING: by Wayan; 1992/12/25, an assertive dreamtale. After seeing 150 years of family photos, I dream of being teased by time-traveling cheerleaders, and...
	RICH BITCH: by Wayan; 1998, a dream on money, sex and class. I dreamed I met a wealthy werewolf. My parents were leftists and told me the rich are wicked--but... CAUTION: INDECENT T-SHIRT, INDECENT WEREWOLF
	RICH KILLER: by Wayan; 1994/2/1, a dream on abuse and rage. A rich serial killer in a sports car flaunts his virtual immunity, till I go after him in a light plane...
	RIDING MY UNICORN: by Wayan; 1993? Digital picture-poem of incubated vision. I'm single and feeling shy. So I asked my dreams for an image of my true love, and got... CAUTION: SEX
	THE RIFT ZONE: by Wayan; 1987/11/27, a dream warning. I'm not ambivalent--I'm confused! I live here by the Rift Zone and I don't. I'm single and not. Two lives!...
	THE RING'S ELBOW ROOM: by Wayan; 1997/8/17, a dreamtale. Widely held notions manifest easier. I could forge Sauron's Ring, and it'd really work! But do I want to?...
	RINGSHADOWS: by Wayan; 1985/3/7, an otherworldly ecodream. Earth has rainbow rings. They're braided like Saturn's, so their shadows create tinted microclimates...
	THE RINGMAN'S SQUIRREL: by Wayan; 1982/9/17, a dream of a time after us. One day, in the ruins of an American city whose name was lost, I met a Ringman under an oak... CAUTION: GROSS WORK, IF YOU CAN GET IT
	(THE MEANING OF) RINGS AND TURQUOISE: by Wayan; 1998/11/1, a dream on independence. I'm in the park, feeling sad, till a girl on the lawn near me semaphores a message via rings and turquoise... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
	RING OF WHITE WATER: by Wayan; 350K total, 14 illustrations, 1983/1/30, a major dreamtale. I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. One of my tour group jumps ship: she's scared of the white water of rocky relationships ahead... CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS...
	THE RIPPLE EFFECT: by Wayan; 1992/6/19, a double dream of false judges. A dream of innocent incest turns guilty, grows into a war of ghosts versus a cult of sneaky sexy psychics... CAUTION: SEX, INCEST ISSUES, NIGHTMARE
	THE ROAD OF MY LIFE: by Wayan; 1999, pencil; a life-map. The white road is my life history, told in women: friends, lovers, relatives, ancestors--and one past life...
	ROAD Detail: MY GRANDMOTHER AND MOTHER WHEN YOUNG: by Wayan; 500 x 330. They were both beauties and look rather feline to me--I'm drawn to feline beauties still, and wonder... CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES
	ROAD Detail: FRIENDS AND LOVERS: by Wayan; 630 x 390. Friends, and lovers, and some who got away. And the big question mark in the future...
	ROAD Detail: SISTERS, COUSINS, NIECES: by Wayan; 450 x 680. "Go back! Wrong way!" says the sign--not because the past is dead, because it isn't... CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES
	THE ROAD TO HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1987, 14x17"; a watercolor map of shamanic dreaming The Rem Road I travel every night, from rocks and flesh to spooks and stars...
	ROAR!: by Wayan; 2000/4/3, not exactly a nightmare... Night. A jungle full of prowling lions and leopards. So naturally, I get up on a rock and roar back...
	ROBINSON JEFFERS AS A SHAMAN: by Wayan; 1996/7/28, a little shamanic shoptalk Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism, blind to how kindness matters... CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED
	ROBOT DREAMS: by Wayan; 1985/2/5, a dream on dreamwork. I'm a robot in high school. I have my first dream, but I'm deaf to its message cuz it's not spectacular...
	ROCKET BREATH: by Wayan; 1989/2/17, a physics dream. Floating in my parents' house, I get trapped in free-fall! How can I get a grip? (Nothing symbolic here!)
	THE ROCKS OF EDEN: by Wayan; 1982-3; painting-poem, summing up a life-phase, yet not a dream. A proud angry picture-poem during a hard time, when great gifts flowed through my hands...
	ROCKY LOVE: by Wayan; 1984/1/18, a dream farce. A friend's tragic accident confines him to disco roller skates for life! Worse yet, he's in a Rocky Relationship... CAUTION: "ROCKY HORROR SHOW" REFERENCES, SEXUAL STUPIDITY
	THE ROSA PARKS EFFECT: by Wayan; 1997/7/21, a political dream. The mayor declares war on bikers, blames us for gridlock! I dream of Rosa Parks' influence and realize...
	ROSE AND THE THORN: by Wayan; 1986/7/1, a dreamtale on prayer. We're swallowed by Swamp Sofas and enslaved to The Man Who Prays on Us. Time to grow some thorns!
	ROUSSEAU: by Wayan; nondream, felt pen, 1980s. Sort of a psychedelic scribbly version of Henri Rousseau's pictures of flute players in the jungle...
	THE ROYAL NONESUCH: by Wayan; 1988/4/15, a dream on the media. My mom and sister take me to see a bondage film. But the movie steals my pants! I should have known... CAUTION: WORSE THAN PEEWEE HERMAN
	RUBBERNECKER: by Wayan; dreamed 2000/4/24; a ghost comedy. I dreamed of a woman whose jeep stalls on the Antarctic ice. Along comes the ghost of a Volkswagen...
	RUBBISH: by Naguib Mahfouz; dreamed 2001? A dream of advice from the dead. My dead friend lost patience with the local dump, so I beat the trash--and out came shining people...
	RUG-SHAG: by Wayan; 1994, digital; a sexy daydream that suddenly found a voice. I just wanted to imagine getting licked by a nice friendly escapist dog on a nice shaggy rug, but... CAUTION: BESTIALITY! SEX! METAPHYSICAL DOUBTS!
	THE RULES OF THE GAME: by Wayan; 1992/11/30, a Gestaltish dream. The Inner Theater. I'm duelling someone who keeps changing the rules. But so can I... can we make a deal?
	RUM JUNGLE: by Wayan; 1997? digital; map of the dreamworld. Think of your dreams as a rainforest, clearcut every morning--unless you make the effort to remember... CAUTION: TINY NAKED ANGELS
	RUNNER WITH A PORPOISE: by Wayan; 1999/10/30, a dream of spirits. A Japanese high school athlete has no friends, till she starts meeting animal spirits on her long solo runs...
	THE RUNNING: by Wayan; 1997/9/27, a dream on sensitivity and the reverse. I couldn't make it to Spain to see the Running of the Bulls, so I found an American equivalent...
	RUNNING BIRD: by Alder; 1953, a kinetic nightmare with double selves. I'm a flightless bird hopping down a line of marble columns rising from the sea, as they topple behind me...
	RUNNING START: by Wayan; 1989, a figure study. A rather feline runner poised for the starting gun...