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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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| ALPINE GUINEA PIG & SEXLESS CHILD, or, I’M EITHER A GREAT MOM OR A TERRIBLE MOM: by “Veronica Franco”; 2006/8/19, a dream of penned creatures and those who love them. Alpine deer-hamsters, pigs, birds, children, even fundamentalists’ daughters grow up and want to fly free... |
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ANDROMEDA: by Wayan; dreamed 1987/12/30, crayon, 14x17" I dream of the legendary maiden chained to a rock, and the dragon--but they weren't as advertised... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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APOLOGETIC OGRE: by Wayan; 1990/3/1, a nightmare. I walk into a bar in ancient Greece and this woman's guardian angel acts racist. OK, I'm an ogre. So? CAUTION: ANOTHER HANDGUN TRAGEDY |
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ARMLESS: by Wayan; pencil tinted digitally, 1997; dream figures, but not a dream scene A strange, horny, frustrated being, part human part horse, who lacks hands to hold the centaurs... CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL TENSION |
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ASK NOT WHAT YOUR CUNT CAN DO FOR YOU: by Wayan; 1991. A mad digital poster. JFK and Marilyn as our gender archetypes, and their effect on the real gender gap: lifespan, not votes! CAUTION: LANGUAGE, BUT I GUESS IT'S TOO LATE NOW |
| AWAKENING HURTS: by Wayan; 1993/7/4, a dreamtale. An old friend's awakening from anorexic asexuality. Puberty at 30? And wait a minute... is she me? |
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BANANA SLUG: by Wayan; 1994/6/9, a stupid little dreamtale. After a day of enduring reverse sexism, a silly dream about giant banana slugs turns out to be psychic... CAUTION: ANTIMALE SEXISM |
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BATMAN'S LOVE: by Wayan; 1996/3/26, a dream-epic of love and time. A New Age graduation party spurs a wild dream of the spiritual odyssey of Catwoman, starring Alexander the Great, Batman, God, and Rumi the poet (played by Frank Zappa)... CAUTION: MORAL RELATIVITY |
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BEAGLE'S SONG: by Wayan; 1994/1/18, essay on Peter Beagle's work. Beagle's fantasies, from The Last Unicorn to The Innkeeper's Song, closely resemble my dreams. The ways we differ say more about our spiritual orientation than about our art... |
| BERYL'S DOG DAYS: by Wayan; 1988/1/25, a psychic dream farce. My friend Beryl wants me to help rob a bank, so she can cut off her breasts and be a great opera singer... |
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BLOOD RUNAWAY: by Wayan; 8K, 1994/8/8, a non-nightmare. Some men get squeamish about menstrual blood, but this girl's plight was extreme... CAUTION: EWWWW! |
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BOX: by Wayan; 1991? Digital self-portrait as dreamer trapped on the Web.. So exactly how is posting all these dreams different from crawling naked inside your screen?. CAUTION: NUDITY |
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BOY TRANCE: by Wayan; 1989, a digital sex change. Boys still get portrayed as businesslike in sex, girl as floating orgasmic jellyfish. Time for a sex change... CAUTION: SEX AND LIMP RUBBER ARMS |
| BOYS: by Wayan; 1993-99, a gender-equity poem. When girls get their clits cut, even the UN takes notice. But mutilate boy genitals, and... big yawn! CAUTION: TALK ABOUT SEX AND VIOLENCE--BUT HEY, IT'S ONLY BOYS |
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CELEBRATE BOTH: by Henry Sultan, 2005/6/26, a painting that blends two dreams At a snake-weaving party I flirt with my anima, who tells me how the cake fell off the roof. I think “At last we’re really connecting!”... |
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CENTAUR: PAULINA AT SUNSET: by Wayan; 210K, 1988? Dream-influenced life studies Worried you're anorexic? Gain weight, yet stay slender! Become a centaur, like model Paulina Porizkova... CAUTION: NUDITY and BODY IMAGE/ANOREXIA ISSUES |
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"CRY, BABY!": by Wayan, 1985/8/17, dream-farce with a warning. The only man in the Miss America Japanese Tea Ceremony Swimsuit Pageant, I learn a tearful lesson... CAUTION: DYSFUNCTIONAL FLIRTING |
| THE CULT OF DIRTY LAUNDRY: by Wayan; 1993/10/2, a dream-critique. I find the feminist principle "the personal is political" leads to some alarming consequences for privacy... CAUTION: POLITICS |
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| THE DRAGON'S TEETH: by Wayan; 1994/6/23; a real-life nightmare, a dream mapping out life. I'm dancing on stage, in behavioral space. But right in the middle of the stage, erupt these... teeth? |
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| DREAM ON DREAMS: by Wayan; 1994/5/31, a dream in a dream in a dream. I'm the composer Schumann, till a nightmare jumps me and I wake. And wake. And wake... |
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| EGG RIVER: by Wayan; 1992/6/1, a dream parable. I have to care for two gigantic eggs. But I'm at a party where people crack eggs for Slime Races... |
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EIGHT TO A HORN: by Wayan; 1986/4/25, a magical dream, Chapter 7 of UNICORN TAG. In the middle of Nowhere Desert, I meet a telepathic unicorn who's stuck with a false safety-tag... |
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ELBERETH PAUSES: by Wayan; 1989/6/26, a dream on postwar ethics. After the Lord of the Rings falls, Elbereth herself is sent to heal the land. But she has a troubling neighbor... |
| EMPEROR OF THE GALAXY: by Wayan; 1988/1/31, a political dreamtale. The Emperor of the Galaxy can't publish his anti-slavery book as himself, so he quits to become a slave... |
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FASCION: by Wayan; 1992. Digital poster on gender A sardonic little poster on dating-role reversal with helpful advice... CAUTION: NUDITY AND INTRUSIVE PHALLUS |
| THE FIREBREAK OF MEN: by Wayan; 1997/2/13, a herstorical dream. The Europeans have another great war, killing off their men. Will that break the cycle of violence? Like a... |
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| FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 1.5M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic. I had a spectacular dream one night, that lasted many days in dream-time--a true other life. It wasn't Earth, and we weren't human. I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. I woke on deck deep in the night, my friends curled around me, and realized I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a grown woman, marry and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right... If 1500K is too big to load, try it in parts: 1: HOME, 450K, 2: VOYAGE, 680K, 3: BACK 400K. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
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FISHERGIRL IN WATERCOLOR; OVAL: by Wayan; 1996, watercolor of a 1996/7/15 dream scene. A watercolor portrait of Leaf and me on our boat in the lost city, from the dream FISHERGIRL... CAUTION: TRIBAL NUDITY |
| FRAMED!: by Wayan; 2006/10/18, a political nightmare. To fight the drug trade, cute little blonde cops plant packets on men in the park. And when I resist... CAUTION: BAD COPS |
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(ON THE OLD) GENDER TRAIL: by Wayan; 161K, 1995, digital picture-poem with dream intrusions. For me, the path to love is difficult, elusive, convoluted... |
| GENDER-SKEW IN DREAMS: by Wayan; 1998/2/2, a brief essay on dream-differences In older studies at least, women dream of both sexes but men dream largely of men. Just like TV, huh? CAUTION: YOU'LL NEVER WATCH TV AGAIN |
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| GERRYMANDERING DESIRE: by Wayan; 1994/1/20, a modest sexual orientation proposal The two commonest sexual orientations have no names, or even concepts! Yet they're obvious, once... CAUTION: THE TRUTH THAT DARE NOT BE TOLD |
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GREENBIRD SAVIOR: by Wayan; 1983/6/2, a divine comedy. Time-travel the Navaho way! But our bread-pipe gets hijacked, so we call the Bird. Who shows up, all right... CAUTION: NON-STANDARD SAVIOR, EVIL DREAM PUNS |
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HICKOPHOBIA: by Wayan; 320K, 1996/5/13; dream-comix (or plain text version) Whenever I run out of ballet class to Japanese without asking my classmate Wendy out, I change sex... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
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HOLD HEAD: by Wayan; 1993; nondream digital sketch. This started as an exercise in dramatic figure-drawing and shifted round into an exorcise in guilt... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL CONFESSIONS |
| HOT, BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED: by Wayan; 1981/5/8, a dreamtale. In a club, a new genderbending band. One singer gets me hot, but completely confused--for good reason... CAUTION: SEXUAL SITUATIONS, GENDERBENDING |
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HOUSTON: by Wayan; 1992; automatic writing experiment. A poster playing with superimposed messsages. How strangely the mind sorts out different layers! |
| HYDROGEN INITIATION: by Wayan; 1981/1/6, a shamanic nightmare. I'm an initiate in a Sung Dynasty monastery. But I have no idea how far the hazing can go... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
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I GOT OUT: by Wayan; 1992/1/4, a psychic dream; 9-page comic, 500K (or open page by page: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9) I flee our love triangle when Abe turns mean. He's telepathic, but I have a plan: the goldfish, the snakepit, the underworld... CAUTION: THREESOME, SCARY BOYFRIEND, SNAKE HEADACHES, MOTORCYCLE FATALITY |
| I WANT MY INHERITANCE: by Wayan; 1989/12/18, an obsessive dream. My relatives call me a blonde bimbo and won't give me my inheritance, so I take drastic steps... CAUTION: MORAL HAIRSPLITTING |
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I WAS A SEX SLAVE: by Wayan; 1994/11/20, a dream on isolation I'm a slave dancer. I run for it, and make it over the border. But my owner comes looking for me... CAUTION: NUDITY, SLAVE SOCIETY |
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I'LL TRY: by Wayan; 1990. Nondream picture-poem. From a paleolithic doodle--an early self-portrait rebelling against my gender, and trying on beauty... |
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I'M ALL EARS, DR. ESTES: by Wayan; 1995/6/7, not a dream, a portrait of a radio-trance. Clarisa Pinkola Estes (who runs with the wolves) was on the radio, and this popped out of my mouse... |
| I'M AN INTERSEX AND I'M OKAY: by Wayan; 1992/11/7, a body-image dream. I discover I'm not exactly a man OR a woman; so why not throw out their standards and roles and be me? CAUTION: SEXUAL SELF-EXAM |
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INACTION PAINTING: by Wayan; 102K, 1995-6. Digital dream-figure collage When I see that grim museum shit I start giggling "Boy art!" The guards glare, so I go home and paint like this. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX TALK, LUST FAIRIES AND FLYING TEENY WEENIES |
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THE ISLAND FURIES: by Wayan; summer 1975, a dream of self-control. When warring Greek isles kill a peacemaker, her three best friends start a vendetta! But she wanted peace... CAUTION: HATE NURSED TOO LONG |
| IT DOESN'T ADD UP: by Wayan; 1995/6/26, an arithmetical dream. Dream math often seems bad, but I think the discrepancies are a signal, not noise... |
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| JOVE'S LIMBO: by Wayan; 1994/11/27, a dream of astral muckraking. Half elvish, rejected, I wander the worlds, and find a limbo built by Zeus--but do the inmates deserve it? |
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THE KEROUAC TREE: by Wayan; 2 ill., 1983/3/18, a dream of fame and time. The true story of the very first tree-hugger. Not Kerouac! You'll never guess. In fact, you'll say it's impossible... |
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THE KEYRING OF ATTACHMENTS: by Wayan; 1974/5/31, a dream gone too far. Swayed by sinister surgeons, I go all Buddhist and give up my attachments, including various organs... CAUTION: DIVESTABLE GENITALIA |
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KICK HER: by Wayan; 1994/8/9, a gameshow nightmare. I'm a blonde gameshow bimbo. Each week, I'm beaten up. Ha ha ha! But my bruises are real. At last, I... CAUTION: GAMESHOW FROM HELL |
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KLIMT'S GIRL FRIENDS: by Wayan; 1998/7/4, a short art rant Klimt did a deep portrait of a lesbian couple back when most folks hardly saw gays as human... |
| LOVING A COP: by Wayan; 1981/5/5, a dream on initiative. I'm a cop's wife, having trouble with his need to protect me. He's hurt if I take too much initiative... |
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LUCID LIVING: by Wayan; 125K, 2007/4/8, a quasi-lucid dream of the future, with 6 illustrations Honesty induces a joyful state with lucidlike powers. So I bike across the Lake of Time, open the book of my future, and see... CAUTION: SEXY SKETCHES FROM THE FUTURE |
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MAGIC SCHOOL: by Wayan, 1982/1/26: a waking event and replying dream. Phyllis Schlafly, who killed the Equal Rights Amendment, provokes a dream of being Captain Kirk trapped in a magic school with no way out but the graduate exam... Can I learn the lesson of the tree? CAUTION: POLITICAL JOURNALISM BEFORE THE DREAM. OH NO! |
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MAKING PROGRESS STANDING STILL: by Wayan; 1990; digital comic of a dream. A dream that climbed from guilty longing to an exciting climax on the Escalator of Love... CAUTION: CARTOON SEX, NUDITY, GENDER POLITICS |
| MATILDA, or, HITLER'S GIRLFRIEND MULTIPLIES: by Wayan; 1998/10/1, a dream of math and courage. I'm Hitler's girlfriend. Not Eva Braun, just me--gentle, weak, thrown in among killers. What can I do? |
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MATISSE: by Wayan; 1988? early digital daydream. An early piece about Matisse, and his models, and quilting, and disembodied heads... |
| MATRONIZED: by Wayan; 1996/5/25, a real-life vignette. An older woman I know nags me about food. Suddenly my mind flips our genders and weights... |
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| MINOR SURGERY: by Wayan; 1999/2/2, a dream misinterpreted. A man goes in for minor surgery and wakes up changed. I feel creepy, but for all the wrong reasons... |
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| MORAL MINNOWS: by Wayan; 1992/9/15, a dream of deep politics. A dream explaining why everyone with any moral vision gets filtered out of politics now... |
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MY WILDCAT WOUND: by Wayan; 1994/7/8, a dream on gender trauma. I'm a wildcat in a cat/fox team led by a woman who wants us to merge with a man/wolf team... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
| THE OBSERVER EFFECT, OR, WATCH THE WATCH: by Wayan; 1997/1/21, a dream of time and opticks. After seeing an Einstein biography I find myself in the bathrooms of Thought-Experiment High, and... CAUTION: DARK SIDE OF AN ICON |
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| OTTO SUGGESTION TO A HORSE IN DRAG: by Wayan; 1995/8/8, a dream on body image. My uncle mocks the racehorse he rides! Smears lipstick on this stallion, calls him a wimp... Why? |
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| PIG YOYO: by Wayan; 1987/11/21, a dreamtale on self-torture. A hog is tied so it bounces in a fountain, and at the bottom of each bounce, a fork jabs it! How to free the pig yoyo? CAUTION: OW! |
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PUNKZINE UNDERWEAR: by Wayan; 1995/4/25, a short dream with self-portrait. Am I a punk dyke or a shy ballerina? Both! And they're complementary facets. Underwear never lies... |
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PUPPY: by Wayan; 1990; digital picture from a set of dreamlets... A picture that freaks out even my friends. But its crudeness hid an unexpectedly subtle message... CAUTION: SEX, BESTIALITY |
| 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 |
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| 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... |
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| SLAVE’S CHOICE: by Emily Joy; 2007/4/8; a dream of a rock and a hard place. At boot camp for sex slaves, a rapist makes me a surprisingly tempting offer. But it’s really not about sex at all, is it? CAUTION: ORAL SEX, OUTRAGEOUS COMPARISON |
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SOCK PUPPETS OF THE GODS: by Dee and Wayan; 100K, 1994/4/14. Parallel shamanic dreams!. A dance classmate asks a bizarre question that haunts me. That night I dream I'm suicidal--nearly kill myself. Then I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern, from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but each time, the challenges get more spiritual. I wake up stunned. Then I learn what a shaman I know just dreamed... and now I'm unsure whose dream this is.. CAUTION: IDEAS |
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SPECKLED EGGS: by 1stargirl; 2008/6/16, a dream of intrigue. I dreamed of speckled eggs, Caribbean drug traffickers and of almost drowning near a sinking boat... |
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SQUEEZE LEGS FOR THAT LOVELY FEELING: by Wayan; crayon, 14 x 17", 1990? Nondream sex fantasy I couldn't find the motivation to do enough figure studies unless they were sexy, so... CAUTION: SEX |
| STICKY FINGERS: by Wayan; 1997/4/18, a dream on self-judgment A woman masturbates constantly at work, then greets businessmen with her hot sticky handshake... CAUTION: SEX |
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STILL DWARFED: by Wayan; 1991? Digital portrait of dream-selves, body-images. When I start feeling worthless, I paint myself. But which me? CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM |
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SUCK MY CONE!: by Wayan, 1995/1/11, a bluesy dream. Nerds built the blues. Rick Moranis, famous blues-nerd, makes a groupie suck his ice cream cone... CAUTION: MOCKS MUSIC, RACE, VANILLA ICE (CREAM)... |
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TAROT: THE LOVERS: by Wayan; 290 x 500. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. The card of love. I'm not sure what genders the lovers are, but no matter... |
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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 |
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TEST: by Wayan; 1994. Dream-inspired digital poster/quiz. I dreamed I had to take a bewildering test on who is allowed in the military. I flunked. So will you... CAUTION: MOCKS HOMOPHOBES |
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THEA'S HOUSE: by Wayan; 1987/3/23, a life-changing dream. I dreamed the Earth Goddess invited me to live with her. She was lonely to be seen for who she was... |
| THE VACUUM CLEANER POEMS: by Wayan; 1981, four bizarre poems. All I know about humans, I learned in psychodrama. I gawked as caterpillars grew wings. Except me... |
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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 |
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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... |
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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? |
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WHILE THE MEN WERE HUNTING by Wayan, 1981; a crayon-ink-Xerox art-prayer. In cave times, while the men were out hunting, it was the women who learned to paint the cave walls to summon... |
| 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... |
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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 |
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