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	WAITING FOR PIGFALL: by Wayan; 1979/10/31, a puzzling Halloween dream. The messiah of a suicide cult prepares to ritually sacrifice me. Then a miracle occurs! But... whose?
	WALDROP'S SUMMONED: by Wayan; 1994/2/2, a dream on spiritual callings. I'm in Middle Earth, interviewing hobbits who've experienced a phenomenon called Summoning...
	WAPATO BIRDS: by Wayan; 1986/2/2, a subtly psychic dream. I'm a Wapato Bird: part crane, part elk, part tree-bud. Despite shyness, I must lead our people's migration...
	WARIA: by Wayan; 640 x 450, 1989, digital image based on a 1987/3/23 dream. My life was a sex disaster. I made myself ugly and sick. But then one night I dreamed I found a healer... WARNING: NUDITY
	WARM FUZZIES: by Wayan; 1990/2/20, an origin-myth dream. I take a shortcut with the Warm Fuzzies through the center of the earth, and now I understand volcanoes...
	WARRING MOIRES: by Wayan; 1988. Abstract nondream digital picture-poem-thingy Dodging between all your -isms, I feel like a bird on a battlefield...
	WASHINGTON'S DUNE: by Wayan; 1992/1/18, a dream on perseverance. George Washington faces sniper fire, kamikaze birds and voices claiming the fight for freedom is hopeless...
	WASTE: by Wayan; 100K, 1990/5/15, a desert singles poem, 11 images. A road trip through New Mexico mutates into a tour of my relationship disasters...
	WATERCATS: by Wayan; 170K, 1987/9/10; a psychic dream of another life. I'm a biologist who finds an 'extinct' species in a slum. But the survivors speak: they tell me I'm one of them, just hypnotized to think I'm human... And when I wake, another kind of cultural hypnosis is exposed:
	WATERFALL: by Wayan; 1986, ink blown up via Xerox, with acrylic wash; nondream; nondream. A stylized waterfall, sort of a distillation of all those childhood summers camping in Yosemite...
	WATERSHIP DOWNTRODDEN: by Wayan; 1983/6/22, a dream of another life. I'm an intelligent rabbit in an alphamale's harem, organizing a feminist movement...
	WAYAN SAYS: by Wayan; 1992-94. Digital portrait of dream-self I'm a lean loose cheetah who works best in short bursts and long rests. I overwork when I get too human...
	WAYAN'S STUDIO: by guess who; 200K, art 1999, text 2007; sketches of my art workspace These sketches bare my work process: I multitask, but without planning, in a flow state. I really do "follow my bliss"!
	WE MARCHED THROUGH THE CITY OF SAINT FRANCIS: by Wayan; 1982/5/1?, a dream-influenced poem. After a peace march in San Francisco, I saw us as deer, and Americans as dogs. Yet WE frighten THEM...
	WE MEET IN DREAMS: by Katie Hofgard; 100K, 2005?, a dream-portrait I only meet my wolf-soulmate in recurrent dreams... CAUTION: SEXY CREATURES
	WE TALK IT OVER IN HIS BRAIN: by Wayan; 1989. Digital portrait of dream characters. My personality is borderline multiple: they veto and sabotage each other if not consulted first via dreams...
	THE WEB-BIRD LED ME: by Wayan; 115K, 1994. Digital sketch of a vision... of this dreamsite?. Maybe the web like a shining dove will lead me out of my lonely cave into the light. The glaring light. Wait! CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	WELL-MEANING GRASS: by Wayan; 1982/5/17, a Trek dream. On a world of designer genes, the Prime Minister tries to kill the Bug Princess by deluding an innocent lawn...
	THE WELL OF WOMEN'S WISDOM: by Wayan; 1991/3/25, a dream on gradualism. I find the well of women's wisdom. Lucky I had a sex change! A girl sneers "this wisdom's narrow." Is it?
	WELLS'S QUEST: by Wayan; 1992/7/14, a benevolent dream. I'm on a world inhabited by hobbits when H.G. Wells shows up, looking for a Ring of Power...
	WENDY NEGLECTED: by Wayan; 1996/7/22, a paradoxical dream. Ari neglects Wendy till she doubts she's sexy. I show her she is. But am I using her too? CAUTION: SEX TALK
	'WE'RE ALL HUMAN': by Wayan; 1987/3/13, a dream trial. For flirting in the astral cafeteria, we all get sentenced to group therapy--till I catch the lie in my life...
	WERE-COMPOSER: by Wayan; 1995/2/15, a trashy dream. I help a brilliant, starving composer turn his family curse into a profitable business...
	WERE-TROUT: by Wayan; 1997/8/2, a dating-advisory dream. I'm a one-legged hopping hermit in the ruins of LA, and my only hope for love is to conjure a girl from a...
	WHAT GOD BELIEVES IN: by Wayan; 1984/9/23, a dream of working for a difficult deity God's my boss, but like a bratty little brother, he's Not Speaking To Me. It's slowing down our office... CAUTION: CHRISTIANS WON'T WANT TO KNOW
	WHAT MEN HIDE BEHIND: by Wayan; 1992/11/30, an alarming comic dream The real pursuit of happiness: Happiness pursues ME, and I run in shame and hide! But she's persistent...
	WHAT! MORE?: by Wayan; 300 x 500, ink 1985, digital color 2001. The world needs Zen cards, to balance out the Tarot. Here's my Zen pack--all one of them. One too many.
	"WHAT SHARKS?": by Wayan; 1990/4/22, a dream of multiple viewpoints. A cowgirl is driving us in circles round the dusty parking lot, fleeing the air-sharks... or is she?
	WHAT STARTED THE PILLOWFIGHT: by Wayan; 1983/2/16, a strangely innocent dream. My sister and I get into an argument about different kinds of incest, in embarrassing circumstances... CAUTION: POST-ORGY HYPOCRISY
	WHAT'S IN THE BASKET?: by Ceridwens_Descent; 2007/8/4, a dream of embarrassing head loss I cut off my own head! But I grew a new one. Only... what do I do now with my old head? It's starting to rot... CAUTION: SELF-DISMEMBERMENT
	WHEN THE SPIRIT MOVES YOU: by Wayan; 1996/5/1, an alternate-world dream. An empire of creatures who go into seasonal heat has affected its human neighbors--or bred a new type...
	WHERE'S IT COME FROM?: by Wayan; 1995/3/19, a dream squared. Why am I an outsider? Can I change? Do I want to? Even my dreams don't know. Then I wake to find my meditation itself was a dream, and the answer; as much of an answer as I'm going to get.
	WHERE'S MY MUM?: by Pauline Ramsey; 1972, a possibly psychic nightmare. I find my mum under my bed, unconscious, her head cracked. And I wake knowing it means she'll lose her mind...
	WHICH ROAD? 36K, 1999/1/13. Digital sketch of a dream. I was on a path winding over grassy hills, while humans zoomed by on a freeway below...
	WHITE-KNUCKLE FAIRNESS: by Wayan; 1999/3/23, a dream of not being me. I'm a saurian forced to duel with a volatile friend. Wanting to fight fair, I don't just file down my spurs...
	THE WHITE KRELKIN: by Wayan; 128K total, 3 illustrations, 1981/4/21, a visual dream. I dream of a being who uses her mane and tail to hide in plain sight, by breaking her image into bits...
	THE WHITE MARE OF TRANSFORM RANCH: by Wayan; 1982/2/18, a dream of a dream-grown-up. I visit a dude ranch where you learn to be other species. A white mare I barely recognize says hello...
	THE WHITE SUBMARINE: by Wayan; 1974/7/6, a dream of love and flood. My girlfriend and I ride out the Great Flood in the White Submarine, but some things never change...
	WHO ATE MY LETTUCE?: by Wayan; 1983/1/13, a short dreamfable. An invisible monster is eating my lettuce patch. It casts a huge blurry shadow, leaves footprints, but...
	WHO CENSORS BIRTH?: by Wayan; 1994/5/2, a dream speculation. I'm assisting a hard birth as photos are shot for an article. Why's birth so rarely seen? What do we fear?...
	THE WHO IN HELL AM I: by Wayan; 1984/1/28, a stubborn dream. I'm Pete Townshend of the Who, climbing stubbornly out of Hell by noticing what I don't want...
	WHO KNOWS WHO'S YOUR MATE? 52K, mid-1980s, acrylic on blown-up ink sketch; a nondream picture-poem. Share? And who? And WHAT? Who knows who's your mate... and who's NOT?
	WHO'LL BE MY LOVE?: by Wayan; 1986/4/14, a dream noir farce; part 4 of UNICORN TAG. I'm a hardboiled detective wincing as I grill a meek little psychic (who might just be me) about embarrassing subjects like unicorns, and love... CAUTION: A UNICORN WHO MAKES EVEN THE COPS BLUSH
	WHO, ME?: by Wayan; 2002. Acrylic of dream figure. Some shy folks don't even know they're dragons....
	WHO SHATTERS?: by Wayan; 1995/6/18, a cryptic culinary dream. When bent, some dried noodles shatter. The strands have auras like mine! Parts of me? Or are they...
	WHO WERE THEY?: by Wayan; 1999. Digital sketch of daydream. Who were they? I don't know. But they were doing something powerful on top of that mountain.
	WHY COWGIRLS LOVE BROCCOLI: by Wayan; 1987/8/19, a surreal dream of love. I'm a cowgirl in Nevada circa 1900. Below Haunted Mansion, I meet a green lizard-lady in distress... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE
	WHY I BECAME THE SEA: by Wayan; 1980/6/19, a dream of containment. I get so mad at a bunch of cops who harass gays, that I become the sea itself and chase them... CAUTION: UNCHARITABLE REPRESENTATION OF OUR SAINTS IN BLUE
	WIDE FACE: by Wayan; Digital sketch, 1991, of hypnogogic image. A portrait of Snow White's eighth dwarf, the one Disney had to leave out...
	THE WILD HUNT: by Wayan; 1998/7/24, a dream of myth--or abuse?. We're exploring the English farm we inherited, when The Wild Hunt storms over the hill...
	A WILD WOUNDED BITCH: by Wayan; 1979/11/28, a dream of displacement. My dad steals my girlfriend! The maid and I spy on them; we get hot and do it, but it's not the same... CAUTION: SEX WITH THE WRONG PERSON
	WILLPOWER (HAPPINESS): by Wayan; 1991/1/17, a didactic dream. At age 90, the first female high-rise steelworker tells me why she did it--and why she regrets it...
	WINDBAG!: by Wayan; 1980s, ink tinted digitally; dream image I didn't even think of "windbag" since it didn't talk a bit. That bag was all action--full of flying magic...
	WINDFALLS IN EDEN: by Wayan, 2000/3/30, a religio-politic dream. I'm a part-owner of Eden, harvesting windfalls. But a renter says his Landlord promised him all the apples...
	THE WIND FROM HELL: by Wayan; 1981/4/21, a brief dream fable. Hot air rises, right? So there's a monsoon from Hell, lifting souls. Lucky for us that gravity balances it...
	WINDOW IN THE SKY: by Emily Joy; 2006/10/15, an epic, flying, disorienting, apocalyptic dream When my friends and I learn to fly, all of Middle Earth turns against us! Fleeing from Saruman's army, I bonk my head, exposing the backstage truth about our world... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, DOOM, PHYSICS! YODA IN THE TUB!
	WINGVOW: by Wayan; 101K, 1994. Digital collage of dream figures Here's an incantation to induce flying dreams. "Bring me wings NOW, or forever hold your peace..."
	WIRES: by Wayan; 1999, 14 x 17", crayon, resolving a recurrent childhood nightmare. I was bodiless but trapped. All I could see were these moving wires. Whenever a knot drifted by... CAUTION: MADNESS, TORMENT, TELEPATHY, SEXUAL REBELLION
	A WISE WRITER PROTECTS HER EYES: by Wayan; 1998/8/19, an advisory dreamtale. A writer I meet either starts flirting with me obscenely, or advising me about eyecare, or... both? CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
	WISH AND WAKE: by Wayan; 1998/7/9, a dream within a dream. I wake up praying for love--and then realize my wish is contradictory, and revise it to...
	WITCH AT THE IRON CORE: by Wayan; 1998/10/16, an engineering-proposal dream. A witch in the future invents a new way to terraform small dense moons--and it'd work!...
	WITCH, FLY FREE!: by Wayan; 1997/5/3, a predictive dream. A castle of witches in Europe. Persecuted for centuries, they're wary. Can I find a good witch to love? CAUTION: PAGANS CRIPPLED BY SIEGE MENTALITY...
	MERRY WITCHMAS!: by Wayan; 1990. Digital dreamy image Just a witchmas card spreading love and paganism to all, and to all a good night...
	WITH WILD AND TURQUOISE EYES: by Joan-lee Woehler; c.1950, a dream-poem on a stubborn shadow I slay the beautiful dragon attacking us, despite my regret. And then, as I sleep, glowing eyes advance on our keep AGAIN...
	WITNESS: by Patagia, 2006/2/16, a poem of a redemptive nightmare A woman I had wronged set her pit bull on me! Hand in its jaws, I gave in, and we both began crying...
	WITWEET WAYAN: by Wayan, 1979/1/10, a dream of butch and femme. Six generations in the future, I find a poodle who can defuse the bomb my rival girlfriends can't... CAUTION: MAD SCIENTIST, EXHIBITIONIST GIRLFRIEND, POODLE HUMILIATION
	WIZARD GIZZARD: by Wayan; 1996/8/5, a diagnostic dream. I have a tummy ache. Our local wizard says "no wonder, with fascists occupying your colon"... CAUTION: TREATMENT NOT A.M.A.-APPROVED
	WOLF AND BURROWING OWL: by Wayan; 1999/12/5, a scientific fairytale dream. A burrowing owl invites her friend the wolf over for tea. It sounds very Beatrix Potter, but...
	WOLF, NO WOLF: by Wayan; 1996/7/24, a nondream rant on place. Is there really that much difference between the rootless yuppies flooding the West, and war refugees?
	WOLFWALL: by Wayan; 106K, 1995-1999. Digital image of daydream/trance Drew all night in a trance and only learned at dawn what this flirting otter and wolf were trying to tell me... CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL THEME
	WOLVES EVOLVE: by Wayan, 1983/11/11, a Darwinian dream. After seeing 'Rear Window', Grace Kelly and I are wolf children in a pack that's quickly evolving into... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, CHILD SEXUALITY, WOLF-SLANDER
	WOMAN WITH PLANS: by Wayan; May 1981, a crayon portrait A figure study teaches me a lesson about the sexiness of brains. And about the unsexiness of no brains... CAUTION: NUDITY; LIBELS ILLINOIS
	WOMBERS: by Wayan; 1997/8/23, a journal entry on peace-at-any-price personalities Nancy Friday describes a certain kind of guy disturbingly like me, and I realize chronic illness has made me...
	A WOMEN'S WORLD: by Wayan; 1996/8/6, a psychic dream. I visit Earth during an all-female era. I'm a woman, can pass for local--so why do I lie to fit in? CAUTION: SEXIST SLUR
	WOODCUT: by Wayan; 1997-1999. Digital "woodblock print" of dream-self. Cartoony self-portrait as I paint with Persephone's pomegranate paintbrush. A mock woodblock print... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
	WORD AND DEED: by Wayan; 1989/8/1, a embarrassing dream fable. In bed with my sister and Emmanuelle of the sex films, I learn a little something about denial... CAUTION: SEX, INCEST, INSIGHTS
	WORKIN' FOR PEANUTS: by Wayan; 1990/12/11, a crude but perceptive dream. I'm an elephant working in a diner. In the bathroom, I inadvertently summon the Genie of the Urinal... CAUTION: PISSED PACHYDERM
	THE WORLD-BIRD: by Wayan; 1985?, crayon, 11x14." Nondream dreamlike image.. The bird that carries the world through space, whose eye is the sun...
	A WORLD DIES WELL: by Wayan; 1981/12/6, a dream of reconciliation. A world-mind I never really liked gets one thing right before it dies, and so I make my peace with it...
	THE WORLD'S FAIR: by Wayan; 1983/3/18, an illustrated dream fable. The same night I learn of the Kerouac Tree, a wise old man shows me the world's fair. Not the event...
	THE WORM: by Emily Dickinson, 1860-1886?, a nightmare-poem Emily Dickinson ties up a worm she mistrusts. Bad move! It grows to a talking snake with a score to settle...
	WORM WIZARD, or, TITMAN'S CHAIR: by Wayan; 1997/4/23, a dream of bamboozlement. In the castle of a wizard who's a were-worm, I let myself become my best friend's chair! Generous, huh?
	THE WRAITH OF KHAN: by Wayan; 1982/6/2, a dream on brains I'm being stalked by Ricardo Montalban, playing Khan, from Star Trek. Why him, why me? I know why.
	A WRITER'S MUSE: by Wayan, 1996/12/7, a dreamfable on creativity. A writer's found in his office mating with an ash-covered creature! But could she be his muse? CAUTION: NUDITY OR NOT? SEX OR NOT? NO ONE QUITE KNOWS...
	THE WRITING CLASS: by Wayan; 1984/3/27, a grumpy dream. Most writers search for their unique style. Not me--I struggle to convey unique EXPERIENCES...
	WYVERN: by Wayan; 1997, 22" ceramic sculpture; recurring dream figure. I dreamed of a dragon-woman on a reef. She was my guardian, but she let me drown! She had her reasons... CAUTION: SCALY NUDITY
	XANADU: by Wayan; 600K, 2006/6/6, a nondream virtual world An alternate Titan, Titan as it should have been, with ethane seas full of life...
	XANTHE'S TUNNEL: by Xanthe and Wayan; 1999/6/11, two psychic little dreams. I'm a dyke playing baseball in Golden Gate Park. Some guys harass us and run into a tunnel. I follow...
	XIE MENG!: by Wayan; 2003/1/27, digital portrait of my dream lover. A warning from my spirit wife, Silky, about the World Dream Bank. Building a cathedral of classic dreams is all very well, but what about NEW dreams? CAUTION: NUDITY
	YAKETY YAK: by Wayan; 1984/5/1, a dysfunctional dreamtale. I'm at a family dinner. Killer Grampa, kid-hating Ma, larcenous Dad. Then a bum offers some advice...
	YEATS: by Wayan; 1990/1/1, a poem wrestling with Yeats's visions. Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted?
	YELLOWBALL ABSTRACTION: by Wayan; 2001. Ink tinted digitally. Dream image unrecognized at first! Another lie from those fiendish abstractionists. Turns out it's not a yellow ball at all... CAUTION: LANGUAGE
	YELLOW SERENADE: by Wayan; 1979/2/22, an absurd dreamtale. Restrain yourself! Or you too may end up on a giraffe rollerskating down the freeway singing perverted popsongs...
	YESTERDAY: by Paul McCartney; 1965, a dream-song. "I liked the melody a lot, but because I'd dreamed it, I couldn't believe I'd written it..."
	YOU CHIPHEAD! : by Wayan, 1997/1/31, a sarcastic dream. Chips are faster than brains these days, so everyone's upgrading--everyone but me...
	YOUR DREAM LIKES YOU: by Wayan; 3 ill., 1991-2007; three maxims from my anima. You say you want to remember your dreams, but do you write down what you DO recall? And ACT on it?
	YOU'RE THE EAGLE: by Wayan; 2000/2/8, a dream fable. A hermit spends his life wrestling with shadows. His only disciple becomes famous. Who was happier?
	YUM YUM!: by Wayan; 1985/1/31, a smelly dream. At work, a toxic potluck. I say no! And dream I'm a scent-oriented alien tossing back stink-grenades...
	YUPPIE BREAKUP: by Wayan; 1991/5/22, a dream on values--or the lack thereof. A yuppie idealist discovers her boyfriend's a cheerful opportunist, and they disentangle their lives... CAUTION: SEX IN REVERSE
	ZELIG FLIES: by Wayan, 1984/4/29, a psychic, lucid dream epic. Indescribable! I careen from a sacrificial marriage-altar to the secret pool of the Oracle Harpist, into the jaws of Leviathan and the joys of lucid flight, shifting from male to female and gay to straight--till I meet the Dragonfly People themselves... CAUTION: STUPID, STUPID SEX CULT!
	ZENNA CAT: by Wayan; 1972/10/13, a childhood dream. My cat dissolves in the shower. I follow her to a telepathic world. I want to stay, but can I?...
	ZERO SUM: by Wayan; 1996/5/29, a game-theory dream. I'm lecturing to a crowd: "Love's a win-win game, and abuse, lose-lose. But blame is zero-sum..."
	ZOMBIE RUSH-HOUR: by Wayan; 1993/12/14, a predictive nightmare. I'm in an apartment co-op in Silicon Valley where people share their skills--till rush hour begins...
	ZOOOP'S MAZE: by Zooop and Wayan; 1999/1/21, apparent shared/telepathic dreams. I wander a sunken maze, meet a playful woman, find a hidden treasure. Meanwhile, my friend Zooop...
	ZUCCHINI GIRL: by Wayan; 1996/9/23, a dreamtale on acting out. I find the truth about my childhood. My parents lied! I hide for days, then dub myself Zucchini Girl and go onstage, humping squash, calling it performance art! So do my friends see a problem? CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
	ZYGOTE: by Wayan; 1999, a comic astral vision. It's true: after death, angels advise you where to go next. But what if you get an over-eager travel agent?