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The S list was so long I split it.

	SADDLED WITH AUTISM: by Wayan; 1999/10/1, a dreamtale. I'm autistic; a TV host encourages me and another autistic kid to have sex on the air... CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX ON NATIONAL TV; SERIOUS FINGER-POINTING
	SAFETY GETS ME HOT: by Wayan; 1997/3/27, a dream on sensitivity. I'm trapped in a post-apocalypse pulp story! Fun for my readers, but not for me! How to escape?
	SAGAN: by Wayan; 1996/5/3, a psychic dream in response to Carl's challenge. Carl Sagan on the radio mocks ESP and UFOs. So I dream of a flying pewter teapot, and wake to learn...
	SALESCURVE MOUNTAINS: by Wayan; 1995. Detail of a nondream digital poster. The unemployed angel with her resume is the Goddess of Freedom...
	SALIA AND CHUR: by Wayan; 1989/2/25, a psychic Star Trek dream. Our starship signs up a strange new woman whose quirks turn out to be the effects of slavery... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES
	SAMURAI BULLET: by Wayan; 1985 automatic drawing, 3x5", ink; tinted 2001. I didn't know myself what this was about, till I had to write this note--and suddenly I got it...
	SAMURAI LIBRARIAN: by Wayan; 1990. Digital self-portrait as a dream-samurai I wrote my dreams each morning no matter what--even if I was late for work. They thought I was spacy...
	SAMURAI MARE: by Wayan; 1993/2/23, a time-travel dream. A feral mare will only let me ride her if I quit being a Japanese diplomat and become... a Samurai!
	THE SAN DIEGO CENTAURS: by Wayan; 1985/1/9, a slice-of-life dream. In San Diego, I fly around disrupting the UFO games in the junkyard, till I reconnect with a centaur friend
	SANDWORLDERS: by Wayan; 1996/1/28, a dreamtale on solitude. At the beach, I meet some gregarious desert-world aliens who think their only loner is insane...
	SAT UP CONFUSED: by Wayan; 1995? Erasable crayon, 8.5 x 11"; self-portrait of waking-up state I wake up with my head swollen, full of vivid bewildering experiences, without a clue...
	SATANAGRAM: by Wayan; 1998/8/1, a Christmas song lyric. A hard-hitting rap on Satan's dumbest disguise. Yet he's gotten away with it! The shocking truth... CAUTION: LANGUAGE! SACRILEGE! MUCILAGE! (FOR THE BIG WHITE BEARD)
	SATANIC LION'S WARNING: by Eldon B.; 2007/1/19, a nightmare with poltergeist activity I fled a demon into a shadowy construction zone where an even worse telepathic lion-devil lured me in with soothing flattery. I woke shaking--and then things in my room began to move... CAUTION: DEMONS, POLTERGEIST PHENOMENA
	SATYR: by Wayan; 1999/4/1, a frustrating wish-fulfillment dream (yes, both). I'm a faun, the oracle for a Greek village. But my predecessor set up rituals I want to change... CAUTION: SEX, PAGANISM, SELF-SATYRE
	SAURIANS: by Wayan; 155K, 1992, 4 digital dream portraits. In dreams, I kept meeting a dinosaurian person who was proud, strange, beautiful. S/he introduced me to two sisters I just had to paint...
	SAURIAN CITY: by Wayan; 1996/12/1, a dream snapshot. I visit a world of dinosaurs who fly small planes and live in glowing tree-cities...
	SAVANNAD: by Wayan; 1998; digital portrait of recurring dream figure. A sexy meadow-spirit of my California drygrass hills... CAUTION: NUDITY
	SAX: by Wayan; 300K total, 8 pp, 1991/5/31, a digital comic--a true story. Alone in my blue room, I heard sax music. Two sunbathers were jamming outside my window... CAUTION: SEX AND SAX
	SCALDED: by Wayan; 1993/7/3, a near-nightmare. The feud between our magical families is getting ugly. Hawk-Head's dad throws boiling water on me, so I... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	SCALES: by Wayan; 640 x 400, 1992. Digital sketch of a dream scene. I was on a terrace overlooking a waterfall, where a giant rabbit and a musical dragon told me...
	SCISSORS AND FOX-FLIGHT: by Wayan; 1996/8/20, a marsupial flying dream. Camping in strange mountains (Australia?), I can't sleep. So I nightwalk, and find I'm changing...
	SCONCES: by Wayan; 2 illus., 1999. Dreamlike but functional sculptures. Flame-like sculptures meant to hang on the wall and cup living plants...
	THE SEA-HAG RIOT: by Wayan; 100K, 1989/6/5, a wild dream hiding a warning. Aliens, hypnotherapy, dancing molars, riots, witches, flying pianos, lettuce... yet there is a point.
	SEA MASSAGE: by Wayan; 100K, 1995/10/3, a puzzling dreamtale. I can fly and breathe water. So I fly into art-rich mansions, though not to steal--I earn plenty from undersea massage...
	SEAMY REALITY: by Wayan; 1999/10/21, a semi-psychic dream. Sharp seams between realities cross Silicon Valley; I end up in the Dark Castle of the Oracle. When I wake...
	SEA OF TIME: by Wayan; 100K, 1989/7/26. Digital sketch of astral dream. I dreamed I was drowning in the Sea of Time, where dragons asked me questions. PAINFUL questions...
	THE SEA WOLF'S BRAIN: by Wayan; 1999/11/21, a psychic dream. For years the Sea-Wolf enslaved me. He said I had to fight him and win to be free. I'm ready at last...
	SEAPOLE: by Wayan; 450K, 12 illus, 2003, a nondream sculpture/photoessay/travelog. Tilt a globe so neither pole has land to build icecaps on, and extrapolate. Earth becomes a warm, flooded world like and unlike ours...
	THE SECURITY GUARD: by Wayan; 1994/12/30, a nightmare on anger. A crazy security guard with a deadly squirt gun kills freely over and over, for the cops keep paroling... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	SELF-MADE GIRLS: by Wayan; 2000/2/15, a public dream. Two souls coalesce from bars of light into human beings by the power of words. Words like stupid, ugly...
	SELF-PORTRAIT AS A YOUNG COYOTE: by Wayan; 1999. Acrylic on wood, 23 x 15". Portrait of a dream self. I'm more a dream artist than a realist, but one day I set up a mirror and looked in it...
	SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CONVOLUTED TONGUE: by Wayan; 1999. Pencil and charcoal mirror-drawing, 18"x24". Einstein's tongue got its own poster, why shouldn't mine? But let's see even the Ein Tongue do this one...
	THE SELL-FISH WITCHES: by Wayan; 1983/6/29, a dreamtale. My sister and I are runaways, developing psychic powers. A cult of fish-selling witches wants to use us... CAUTION: SIBLING INCEST, SPELL ABUSE
	SELL THE GODS, AND RAISE HELL!: by Wayan; 1994/1/26, a dream riddle. Reactionaries smash a paper. To rebuild, the editor must sell tiki carvings! But gods don't LIKE being sold... CAUTION: MORAL QUANDARY
	THE SEMI-INTELLIGENT ANIMAL PROBLEM: by Wayan; 1986/4/6, a dream. The army breeds smart animals. Scientists fear they'll upset ecosystems. No one speaks for the creatures... CAUTION: DIRECT ACTION
	THE SERMON OF CARMEN DOG: by Wayan; 1990/9/10, the ultimate public-speaking nightmare. Animal poets at an open mic. My turn! And I find... I'm one. A creature who's only just evolved speech...
	SERRANA: by Wayan; 2MB, Oct-Dec 2004, a sculpture/webtour with 60 maps, photos and sketches A dry little world with many small seas, Serrana has at least six intelligent species and an anarchist culture. It's a tribute to Ursula Le Guin's anarchist utopia, "The Dispossessed", and Kropotkin's theories of biological cooperation... CAUTION: ANARCHIST POLITICS, ALIEN NUDITY
	SEVEN SQUARED: by Wayan; 1994/2/18, a dream about the IQ closet. In our wizard-war, I've hidden my nature. At last I come out; but I can't tell the whole truth...
	SEWING ADVICE FROM CANNIBALS: by Elias Howe, 1845, an inventor's helpful nightmare. Howe's sewing-machine design didn't work until, one night, warriors stuck him in a soup-pot, jabbing him with needle-sharp spears... CAUTION: OUCH!
	SEX FIRST, THEN SADNESS: by Wayan; 1998/12/12, an advisory dream. At a party, a sad girl attracts me. But to reach her, I must have an affair with a sexy, frustrated writer...
	SEX FLOWER: by Wayan; 480 x 640, 1996, unfired clay sculpture painted with acrylic, 9" tall. Robe or petals? Head or lilybud? Face or tongue or clit or slit? An eerie hybrid of person and flower... CAUTION: SOMETHIN' HAPPENIN' HERE, BUT WHAT IT IS AIN'T EXACTLY CLEAR
	A SEX KITTEN: by Wayan; 1999/1/29, an embarrassing dream. A creature that's half kitten and half baby wants me to pet it... I'm reluctant, but when I do... CAUTION: SEX?
	SEX SOX: by Wayan, 730 x 600, crayon drawing, 1990? A life drawing I added a guy to, turning a piece about loneliness sex and socks into a wish fulfillment... CAUTION: SEX, SOX (BUT UNLIKE CLINTON, NO SAX)
	SEX THERAPY: by Wayan; 1998/5/18, a dream on the messiness of healing. Both of us were abused as kids. Sex is hard. So we go to a therapist who has us act out sex on the floor... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES
	THE SEX WORKSHOP: by Wayan; 1997/4/6, a dream on taking the next step. The teacher of our sex workshop picks me for a demonstration in front of everyone. Gulp... CAUTION: WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK?
	THE SHADOW OF FREUD: by Wayan; 1982/3/28, a psychological dream. I find a lost book of Freud's with a radical idea: Jung's Shadow is real, but there's a second Shadow:
	THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY: by Wayan; 1989/7/8, a psychic nightmare. My sisters get bored with the game of power, so I watch TV instead. But it melts, and a huge terrifying figure rises...
	SHADOW PUZZLE: THE LORD AND HIS SERVANT: by Wayan; 1984/5/23, a reflective dream. A puzzle-game of eyes and mirrors and shadows starts revealing the players' deepest secrets...
	SHADOWS ADMIRABLE: by Wayan; 1993/9/28, a dream on dreams. A dream-lecturer says Shadows aren't just what we hate or fear, but what we admire yet see as "not us"... CAUTION: IDEAS
	SHAKE! 66K, 640 x 480, 1995. Digital picture. I love what dancers look like, seen over time, in strobe photos. Like weird undersea growths... WARNING: NAKED CATS
	THE SHAKEN PROFESSOR: by Wayan; 1996/2/11, a dream on fear. A great teacher abruptly blanks out. Memory loss is scary, but in the empty moment, a deeper fear emerged:
	THE SHAMAN INSPECTOR: by Wayan; 1996/7/31, a dream on core values. My work as a federal shaman inspector involves judging a rainbow of traditions by a few basic principles:
	SHAMISEN: by Wayan; 450 x 500, 1985? Watercolor on wrinkled paper. Me playing the blues on a Japanese shamisen...
	SHAPESHIFTER FEVER: by Wayan; 1989/1/30, a dream poem. A summer love affair with a shapeshifting alien turns awkward when she gets a high fever, and... CAUTION: UGH!
	SHARK SENSE: by Wayan; 1988/12/9, a diagnostic dreamtale. I'm a circus tiger, then a performing shark. One day, I block my human partner's high dive... Why?
	SHASTA OCCUPATION: by Wayan; 1996/11/1, a very California dream. I'm teaching in a wizard's college near Mt Shasta when one astral world decides to occupy another...
	SHASTA STANDARDS: by Wayan; 1998/9/19, a dream of social change. In a future where we gengineer ourselves instead of others, we no longer have to choose lesser evils...
	SHE CRASHES AND BURNS: by Wayan; 2005/5/7, a diagnostic nightmare. I ask my dreams how to find love. I dream of a 1920s bohemian girl teasing stuffy folk. But her pranks turn dangerous, then deadly...
	SHEEPISH: by Wayan; 1985/9/24, a stupid psychic dream. Floundering through the snows of 1917, I fall in love with a sheep named Linda Evans, who teaches ballet...
	A SHELLFISH EPIPHANY: by Wayan; 1996/6/14, a spiritual dream. I'm a Japanese pearldiver; our family's cast away on a coral islet. One day, lonely, scared, I cast away fear...
	SHEVEK'S TIME-SLIP: by Wayan; 1996/10/14, a chronohomeostatic dream. Shevek invents time-travel and discreetly alters the past. But the future alters Shevek's present, to make his changes meaningless. Who's sabotaging him? Or should we ask... WHAT?
	SHHHH!: by Wayan; 628 x 318, 1981, ink drawing. A sudden image of a woman whose other lips not only talked, they wouldn't shut up. Worse yet, they... CAUTION: NUDITY
	SHIELDS FROM THE GODDESS: by Wayan; 38K total, 1996/8/3, a dream that's a slap in the face. A Goddess-worshiping general gets a visit from her twin daughters who bring a puzzling message...
	THE SHIP'S BOY: by Wayan; 1996/12/1, a dreamtale. Dinosaur people demand to take our Ship's Boy with them. But he knows them! They RAISED him?
	SHIRT GIRL: by Zooop and Wayan; 1993/10/17, a shared, embarrassing telepathic dream. A fictional niece acting sexy in a shirt, plus... water balloons? I woke, and a friend told me HER dream... CAUTION: DREAM INCEST, KIDS WITH GUNS, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS
	SHIVERIA: by Wayan; 840K, 25 ill., 2002-3, travelog/sculpture/sketches of an alternate Earth I tilted the Earth, and worked out its new ecology--part Mars, part steambath. Visit the Mediterranean Abyss ruled by giant ravens, Patagonia, ruled by mammoths, and Antarctica's jungles, ruled by lemurs...
	SHOCKWAVE: by Wayan; 1996/7/27, a predictive nightmare. My childhood home explodes into a vast pyroclastic cloud that comes boiling toward me, miles away... CAUTION: DOOM
	SHOOT ME, I'M LUCID!: by Wayan; 1997/10/17, a dreamtale. I distract a mad gunner in a crowd--I suspect I'm dreaming, but still... This may be noble, but is it healthy? CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS ON THE NEXT CRAZED KILLER YOU MEET
	SHOWERED WITH WISHES: by Zooop; 2007/3/12, a dream that enough is enough I took my cellphone into the shower. I couldn't find the shampoo, and idly typed SHAMPOO in, and... CAUTION: NOW YOU KNOW WHO STOLE YOUR ODD SOCKS
	THE SHRINKING POPE: by Sorcha; 2005/4/1, a Jane Bond dream I�m the only one who can stop the plot to kill the Pope--but if he keeps shrinking like that, will it matter? CAUTION: RECOVERING CATHOLIC
	SHRUNKEN MEN: by Wayan; 1992/2/21, a dream (and rant) on men. Robert Bly's books on men and mentors provoke a dream of co-opted Star Trek captains and rebellious midgets... CAUTION: IF YOU LIKE BLY...
	SHY FOX: by Wayan; 2 images, 1997. Digitally tinted pencil, spinoffs from a 1997/8/20 dream. I love to play, but I'm a shy fox. And pushing myself to be socially brave has unforeseen drawbacks...