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Dream doubles

Dreams of twins, doubles, alter egos, clones, and multiple selves. Maybe I shouldn't have grouped these; they can mean so many things!

The World Dream Bank has 1500 dreams and dream images plus 500 other pages on dreamwork and shamanism, creativity, genius, art, surrealism and fantasy. Unless otherwise noted, all material copyright Chris Wayan, 2001-2006.

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	THE BLACK EGG: by Wayan; 1999/3/25, a psychic dreamtale. My crazy friend Wayne goes bowling for busses with a black egg. Wait! Crazy? Or... predictive? CAUTION: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE BEHAVES DISGRACEFULLY
	THE BORIS BADENOV SOLUTION: by Wayan; 1989/2/10, a dream of puns. My evil twin, Boris Badenov, wants $8000 or else. I ask my dreams for a solution, and get one...
	THE BOSS'S GUTS: by Wayan; 1993/6/3, a dream on health-sabotage.. Flu. Ow, cramps! But that night I dream of a miner's rebellion against our fat-cat boss. Which side am I on?
	BREAK FREE: by Emily Joy; 2006/5/11, an encouraging dream on the price of safety. I search for family skeletons, but then a talking plant on TV inspires me to seek the sun and fly free. But certain velociraptors and barbarian swordswomen object... CAUTION: DUELS, FISH ABUSE, THE F-WORD
	CATCH-UP: by Wayan; 2001/3/14, a dream on maturation Revelations about my mom put my shyness in a new light. That night I dream twin sisters suddenly zoom through puberty in hours... CAUTION: VERY SUDDEN BREASTS
	CLONE BREAKUP: by Wayan; 1994/2/27, a very specific psychic dream. I work with ten cloned models who want to be seen as individuals, so they're breaking up the set...
	DETECTIVE DEE: by Wayan; 1992/2/1, a dream on MPD . The clues point toward my own anima as the murderer, but Detective Dee finds the even odder truth...
	A DINNER WITH DEATH: by Wayan; 1979/2/12, an optimistic nightmare. The dinner didn't go well. Still, I'm here to tell you! So Death is weakening...
	A DRY DREAM: by Wayan; 1999/8/30, the opposite of a wet dream. A nightmare turns to a sex dream turns to a weird demonstration just how out-of-body a dream can get... CAUTION: PUZZLING SEX
	ELEVEN CENT ORACLE: by Wayan; 1998/11/12, an epic future dream. I'm a migratory girl who's lost my tribe. I find eleven coins, cross the world, and pay the Oracle...
	FIGHT GOD!: by Wayan; 1979/12/25, a Christmas fight dream. I'm in Heaven, but... it's full of Christians! I fight 30,000 angels, but I wanna go right to the top, and... CAUTION: PAGANISM AND PUGILISM
	FIGURE IN BLUE TANKTOP LOOKS IN MIRROR: by Wayan; 525 x 680, 1995 After a workout, she looks at herself in the mirror, and for once, she LIKES herself... CAUTION: SHE LIKES HERSELF, AND WE CAN'T HAVE THAT!
	FIREBIRD AND MINOTAUR: by Wayan; 1996/9/29, 4 images; a diagnostic dreamtale. I'm a cripple watching a sexy Greek Opera starring Whoopi Goldberg. Then I realize I'm in it...
	FISHEL AND FRISH AND FIREBIRD: by Wayan, 2003/12/4, a seven-year dream. Why do the guests arriving for our seven-year reunion include part-time giants and dog-headed gods? They tell me...
	FOINBREK THE MOOSE: by Wayan; 1993/12/4, a dreamtale on love and work. My lesbian twin, who lives in the unemployment line, falls in love with a pushy moose from Brooklyn... CAUTION: INEPT SEX
	FOUR EYES!: by Wayan; 1984/5/28, a metaphoric dreamlet. I started life as twins, but slowly we fused. I still have four eyes, though. Then, one day...
	GAFTA: by Wayan; 1996/5/9, a pro-sabotage dream. The aliens offer us a Galactic Free Trade Agreement, but my friends and I think it's a disastrous deal... CAUTION: MORAL AMBIGUITY
	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?
	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...
	IN IO: by Wayan, 2 ill., 1981/8/7, a wild otherworldly dream. I live on Io. It's nicer than its photos. At least inside, where the oceans are--where I grow a second head...
	LILY OXYGEN: by Wayan; 500K, 16 illus.; dreamed 1984/1/19, drawn 2000; a strong psychic dream. I'm Emily Dickinson reborn in 2100 as a peaceful breeder of hydroponic lilies, till my dad drafts me as an Arctic energy-prospector, where I meet a ghost, a fiery Beast, a new me, and the girl of my dreams... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, NUDE PROSPECTORS, GNOMIC DICKINSON QUOTES
	MENTOR: by Wayan; 2001/6/13, six advisory dreamlets. I meet a shapeshifting dream-mentor who warns of plague and war (note the date). Then a sentient book, "The Art of War," gets intimately involved... CAUTION: ELECTRODES, LIBROPHILIA
	METEOR OR STAR?: by Wayan; 2007/9/17, a dream of uncertainty I'm an anima. We rarely walk the day-world for long. When will I fade? Ignorance isn't bliss, it's paralysis...
	MODELING A ME: by Wayan, 1994/8/29, a mirroring dream I find a 3D program that shows your true self, the self that can love, IS love. And my wireframe is...
	MULTIPLEX: by Wayan; 1987/1/9, a dream on multiple dreamselves. Inside my brain's a fractured legislature--a hive-mind where all de beez disagreez...
	MY SINE-FRIEND: by Wayan; 1984/3/6, an emotional dream of time and rebirth. An animal-girl I know lives like a sine-wave, first forward in time, then backwards, dying at every zero...
	MY THREE HUSBANDS: by Wayan; 745K (15 p), a digital comic drawn 1991 from a 1981 dream. Or view page by page: Cover, p.1, p.2, p.3, p.4, p.5, p.6, p.7, p.8, p.9, p.10, p.11, p.12, p.13, p. 14. I'm three women who marry a unicorn, a goat philosopher, and a magic cat.. We form a commune, but the police quarantine us... CAUTION: INTERSPECIES MARRIAGE, UNDERAGE SEX, and BAD COPS
	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
	NOW WE ARE 48: by Laurel Blossom, 1991; a dream-poem of a rescue. At the beach I dive into deep water to save my drowning friend Kathy, and find it’s not so clear who’s who...
	PAIN-RATIONER'S STRIKE: by Wayan; 1987/1/1, a dream on self-torture. Three men torture my friend (or is he ME?) and try to keep me from intervening... CAUTION: FAST-TALKING BULLIES
	THE PAINT KIDS: by Wayan; 1996/11/23, a possibly psychic dream. Two child artists mail themselves to me in their paint kit, and start a painting orgy that gets messy... CAUTION: PEDOPHILIA, OR MAYBE PEDOPHOBIA
	PERSONAL CHAOS THEORY: by Wayan; 1994/12/4, a spiritual math dream. My life is a mess, so I take a class on the four flavors of chaos, and find my Strange Attractors are shifting...
	A PILGRIM DREAMING: by Denise Levertov; 1977? a dream poem A man I loved goes into the Jungian depths, but when his anima appears in the mirror-pool, his nerve fails...
	THE PIRATE TWINS: by Wayan; 1996/7/25, a dreamtale on intrigue. I love the Twins. They love intrigue. So when a hired crocodile sabotages our Egyptian treasure-hunt... CAUTION: BAD GIRLS
	PSYCHO-EGG: by Wayan; 1994/8/31, a diagnostic dreamtale. I'm shown a crystal egg with a model of my mind in it. The mapping is unmistakable. How embarrassing!:
	THE RIFT ZONE: by Wayan; 1987/11/27, a long-term psychic dream. 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!...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	SMALL MIRACLES: by Wayan; 2008/9/7, two dream-poems, Dreamverse #23 Things start materializing in my house: first three tiny naked scientists and then an impossible fruit...
	THE SPARE: by Wayan; 1998/6/9, a disorienting dreamtale. I wake to find I have two penises, one connected, one free-floating! How do its sensations reach my brain? CAUTION: WANDERING WEENIES!
	SPLIT SEVEN WAYS: by Wayan; 1992, a digital self-portrait. I feel split into warring impulses who argue, advise, ignore, and snipe at each other...
	STARHAWK THE WITCH: by Wayan; 1983/8/19, an epic dream. I'm forced to become Time Pilgrim, warning history of the dangers of community--indeed, of unity...
	STEAMROLLER: by Richard Wilbur, late 20th Century; an embarrassing dream. As the steamroller flattened me I tried to rise above it all and my body became quite a lovely stained-glass window...
	SURF THE SAN ANDREAS: by Wayan; 2008/8/21, three short dreampoems, Dreamverse #11. Through twin gates of dream -- Dream-castles on the sea, lovely and lame -- A surfer of the San Andreas Fault
	TERESA'S BILLBOARDS: by Wayan; 1988/5/1, a dream about trust. Teresa mistrusts men. Her best friend Sabina comes on to me in front of Teresa, who blames me... CAUTION: NUDITY, BETRAYAL, GENDER PARANOIA
	THE THIEF OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 200K, an illustrated dream-play, 1996/11/29. I was a mermaid trying to find Count Coyote's stolen dreams, so I could marry my human girlfriend... CAUTION: GAY MARRIAGE, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
	TOES: by Wayan; 7K, 1990 Digital nondream image My foot is a torso and my toes sprout conflicting personalities... CAUTION: STUPID CARTOON NUDITY
	TRAVEL: by "SchlofM"; 2008/2/10, a dream about protection I'm on a wild trip to who knows where, with my young-again mom and my dead dad... and who's that other guy?
	TWO-HEADED BEAST: by Wayan; 333K total, 12 images, 1997/7/31, a Gothic dream. In Castle Frankenstein, will Mary Shelley wed Elmer Fudd? His two-headed monster has marital advice...
	A VALLEY NEAR HOPE: by Wayan; 155K, illustrated, 1984/10/17-19, an epic dream. I'm lost in a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who adore unicorns but hate cyborgs, who think ants are cute, but dread unicorns! And while the Three Tribes love and hate, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four vertices of my tetrahedral soul, but what if I get what I want? Peace, love... transformation? What if those aren't cute and New Age? CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING
	VERA AND HER PRIDE: by Bethany Sellers; 2005, a dream-portrait of an inner feline family. I found myself in a whole pride of cat-people like me, each one representing some side of me...
	VIRGINIA'S TRAIN: by Emily Joy; 2005/9/24, a psychic dream and poem We lose control of our new time machine, which seems to have its own agenda... CAUTION: CONTEMPLATION OF SUICIDE, CHRONOLOGICALLY IMPAIRED DREAMER
	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:
	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