British TV character Doctor Who often appears in my dreams, for no reason I can fathom. If you've never seen his show, Dr Who is an alien time-traveler, a tourist on Earth, who changes bodies (i.e. actors) every few years. A do-gooder, naive perhaps, but quite stubborn about obvious injustice. An archetypal geek, the mad scientist with a good heart--two of them, in fact.

If Dr. Who symbolizes pure mind, pure thinking, as Monkey does in Chinese legend, the difference is instructive--Monkey needs taming, he must serve the soul, but Dr Who proposes that clear thinking is inherently moral, that science can solve even intractable social problems. That the monkey of the mind needs no taming.

Idiotically optimistic, eh? Well, remember, I'm American...

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	DOCTOR WHO AND DEATH: by Wayan; 1984/6/30, a hopeful dream of betrayal. Dr Who, that BBC perennial, allies with Death. An alarming turn-around! What's he up to? CAUTION: NICE ALIEN GOES BAD?
	FUTILITY: by Wayan; 1973/11/23, a time-machine dream. I'm Liza Doolittle on Mars. With Mr. Wells's Time Machine. Lost, in fact. Can I get home? Should I?
	GHOST DOGS: by Wayan; 107K, digital comic of a 1993/4/2 dream of temptation. I meet a wolf who invites me to join Dr Who's pack of sexy Ghost Wolves. There's just one catch... CAUTION: FLIRTATIOUS WOLVES
	POTLATCH SMOKE: by Wayan; 1988/5/10, a dream of shamanic responsibility. Refugees flood the spirit worlds! War looms. Wolf, Silky, Dr Who, even the Bug-Goddess of Love are alarmed. I'm just a blonde ditz, but I help inspect realities till we trace the source: a Tlingit potlatch? Why?
	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.
	SURRENDER DARCY!: by Wayan; 1982/6/14, a dreamtale on pride and prejudice. I'm Doctor Who, being chased by an air-surfer who demands we give up a reserved, proud man... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	TARDIS GAZEBO: by Wayan; 230K, a 3-page digital dream-comic, 1993/2/17 Solve a hieroglyphic riddle and you can fly, shapeshift, work magic! But someone doesn’t want me solving that riddle...

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