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BACKWARDS CAUSATION: by Jo; 2008/3/3, a dream where I dream a dream in which I dream No matter who I dream I am, twin secret agents dog me, eating my soup, playing my games... CAUTION: EGREGIOUS PHILOSOPHY |
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BAND-AIDS: by Bagheera Pardus; c.1985, a lucid re-entered nightmare turned to joy. Giant snakes chased me, but I went lucid, turned and slew one. As I woke, the snakes were crying. So I re-entered the dream and... CAUTION: SNAKES, BEHEADING, REHEADING |
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THE BIG CRUNCH: by Wayan; 1979/5/9, a cosmic nightmare. I'm a girl being stalked. I take drastic measures--scrunch up the universe and shake it out! And is THAT enough? CAUTION: ANXIETY, GUILT, THE POSSIBLE DESTRUCTION OF THE UNIVERSE |
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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... |
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THE BRIDGE: by Wayan; 190K total, 1990-91. A 3-page dream-comic. The Hunt of the Unicorn (yeah, guess who I am), as I fly through the worlds fighting Reaganism... CAUTION: MOCKS THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR |
| CLAY BEHEADER: by Wayan; 1983/7/28, a nightmare offer. A woman's stalked by a clay monster that eats heads. But it has a proposition for both of us... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MONSTER |
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COYOTE PAJAMAS: by Wayan; 1983/12/17, a Dantesque dream-epic. I'm Coyote, keeping the Business Prophet from taking over Dante's Peak. But it turns too personal... CAUTION: IDIOTIC VIOLENCE |
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CYCLOPS, or, THE ANSWER TO MY PRAYER: by Wayan; 1993/8/24, a spiritual nightmare. In the far future, I relive Odysseus' tale. To save my life I must give up realistic hope, and focus on... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MONSTERS |
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DEER SORCERESS: by Wayan; 1981/5/18, a dream on the virtues of chaos. A witch-girl turned to a deer flees hell-hounds who just CAN'T get organized... |
| DISSECTING PESSIMISM: by Wayan; 1997/4/14, a stubbornly educational nightmare . A serial killer stalks our office, and our bosses deny it. When we defend ourselves, things turn weird... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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| DON'T SHOOT THE IBEX: by Jane Doe; 2005/8/9, a hunting dream. My hunting license won’t let me legally shoot a giraffe or ibex, but I do bag a prime Macy’s salesman... CAUTION: LICENSE TO KILL |
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| A DREAM SESTINA: by Donald Justice, late 1950s? A nightmare-poem. "But what is wrong with my friends' faces? Why have they changed that way to wood?" |
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| THE EGYPTIAN GOD: by Wayan; 1991/12/21, a 7-year precognitive dream. Egyptian archeologists dig up a living god. He sees us as dolls to play with, but we've grown up... CAUTION: GOD AS A RAPIST |
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| EXPLORATION: by Wayan; 1998/2/27, a dreamtale. Hide and seek on an alien world ends in a sexy encounter--and a startling insight on BELIEF... CAUTION: SEX |
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FAIRY WIFE: by Wayan; 1985/1/17, an epic dream of love and choice. A fairy woman and a mortal man? Can't work! They're flighty, we're crude. Doomed, right? Well, some people are so sure of it they decide to help things along a bit. Or a lot... |
| FAKE IT!: by Electra Johannes and Patagia; 2007/9/22 and 2007/9/23, linked dreams. Patagia dreams she fakes a Hindu rite, provoking Electra to dream she fakes leadership in a band of refugees. Or are they faking? |
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THE FLASHBACK: by Wayan; 1985/11/28, a dark dream-farce. I'm a monster working in a shopping mall in Stockton, California, when I smell smoke... CAUTION: FILM NOIR SEX |
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FLY AWAY HOME: by Wayan; 1996/12/26, a dream of flight and kindness. I'm an alien castaway, hiding my wings. But Earth feels like home now! If I could fly here, would I stay? |
| FREEZE!: by Wayan; 1984/5/29, an asymptotic dream. Demons of fire invade the house, and the Voice of Truth says they can't be killed. What would you do? |
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| THE GHOSTMASTER: by Wayan; 1992/6/16, a dreamtale of the Shadow. I win a starship from the hostile Ghostmaster; in space I gain the confidence to confront him, and find... |
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GITANA AND REX AND KIT: by Wayan; 1988/12/11, a comic nightmare. My friend Gitana has a grim view of men--a view that materializes, and starts chasing us... CAUTION: BURGER FRANCHISE DEMOLITION |
| MY GLASS BODY: by Wayan; 1993/9/16, a dream on sensitivity. After I visit the Glass People, a young glass wizard stalks me home to the Meat World, and says... |
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GOSPEL GIRL: by Wayan; 1986/11/17, a stubborn dream. I'm a girl in a desert who God tells to preach a new gospel. But the locals, unlike ancient Rome, have guns... CAUTION: VIOLENT MARTYRDOM AND A KID WHO DOESN'T KNOW WHEN TO QUIT |
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HAWK AND CAT: by Wayan, 1981/6/2, a dream of ethics and terror. My best friend is a cat. Problem is, I'm a rare hawk--a Cat-Eater. I never, ever would, but... |
| HELPLESSLY LUCID: by Alder; 2007/6/23, a lucid dream in which I’m powerless! I’m a homeless elf. We’re a persecuted minority group. I know I’m dreaming and try to change it but... |
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| HEPBURNING: by Wayan; 1984/8/1, a nightmare on repression. Kat Hepburn burns inside as passionate aliens take over our souls. How can we expel them before... |
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A HOBBIT IN L.A.: by Wayan; 1990/1/8, a dream on wishes. I'm a hobbit woman in Los Angeles, hiding a magic weapon from Sauron. No, not THAT weapon... |
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HOBBIT SNIPER: by Wayan; 1998/10/13, a dream on strategy. I'm a sniper in a desert battle of men against hobbits. Guilty for not fighting openly, but that'd be suicidal... CAUTION: MATH AND WAR |
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HUNG BY ELDER: by Wayan; 1997/7/30, a nightmare. A disowned heiress and I sneak onto the family estate, but they'll go pretty far to hide their skeletons... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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HUNT OF THE UNICORN: by Wayan; 1989/5/18, an overlooked psychic dream. I marry, just to get into a clannish world where I'm seeking symbiotic unicorns. But I end up hunted too... |
| HUNTERS' FIRE: by Wayan; 1997/9/8, a nightmare that may be a memory. I'm an orphan shot at by hunters. They shoot my sister! But no one believes me... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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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 |
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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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INVISIBLE KYOKO: by Wayan; 1995/1/16, a dream on bold and shy. I'm at a party in an air-lake. We fish for a girl who's gone invisible. But... what if we catch her? |
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IS GOD GOD?: by Wayan; 1984/6/17, a dream of the school of hard knocks. God watches over me--to slap me down. If God is even God. So I set out to learn about this jerk-God... |
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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 |
| A JOB WELL DONE: by Wayan; 1981/3/2; a dream-farce. The tale of a fawn named Fawn and her mom, a bank-robbing hippopotamus... CAUTION: GLAMORIZES THIS ALARMING TREND |
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| KIDNAP LI PO!: by Wayan; 1990/1/16, a poetic dream. I dream a Chinese fable: how the poet Li Po was abucted by the gods, till they face heavenly justice... CAUTION: ABDUCTION, DRUNKS, EVIL PUN |
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A LAKE DEMON: by Wayan; 1979/11/3, an anti-lucid dream. I walk through worlds, fight a deadly lake demon, and work magic--but I mustn't go lucid... |
| THE LIZARD LESSON: by Wayan; 1996/12/12, a hard-hittin' shamanic dream. I'm a shaman in Nunavut who shows a rubber lizard and his foxy niece that reparations have limits... |
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THE LOCH NESS DANCE: by Wayan; 1987/10/14, a Zen dream. I'm chasing a guy named Will (short for Willful Conformity) through the classes of a mad dance academy... |
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LUCID ON THE MOON: by Wayan; 1980/2/23, a long-term psychic dream. I'm on the run, on the moon. Cyborgs toss bombs at me. Yikes! Is this what melted Mare Orientalis? CAUTION: NUCLEAR IRRESPONSIBILITY |
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LYIN' WAYAN: by Wayan; 1996/4/10, a warning nightmare. A mob of kids chases me chanting "Lyin' Wayan!" I get dizzy and fall off a bridge... THEN comes trouble! CAUTION: FATAL FALL |
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MAELSTROM AND BORE: by Wayan; 1995/1/23, a dream poem. An avian friend of mine researches a whirlpool. But it doesn't want to be studied, and it has friends too... |
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MANDALA DURING A TIME OF WAR AND DISINTEGRATION: by Jenny Badger Sultan; Jan-Feb 2003, painting of a dream-series My dreams were troubled by war. So I painted them in concentric rings--lotus, fire, children, animals, and nightmares... |
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THE MOUSE BANNER: by Wayan; 1986/9/4, a dream fable. I'm a mouse with a protest banner saying "FREEDOM!", having a slight argument with a cat... |
| MY EX-WIFE: by Wayan; 1982/3/23, a dream on delusions. My ex-wife breaks in, but acts like I'm the one who crawled back to her... and I don't HAVE an ex-wife! CAUTION: ADULT THEMES. REALLY, REALLY STUPID ADULT THEMES. |
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| THE NIGHTMARE EFFECT: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/14, an anti-nightmare. My own fear creates a field of time/speed distortion; can I use it against my attackers? |
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| NO ONE'S OUT TO GET ME: by Wayan; 1993/12/14, a subtle nightmare. I always thought learning no one's out to get me would be a GOOD thing... |
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| NOT THREE!: by Wayan; 1996/11/11, an encouraging nightmare I was wrong. I didn't survive three assassins. It's been seven! Why'd I forget the others? |
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| THE NOTE: by Wayan; 1977/1/1, a psychic nightmare. On New Year's Eve, I dream my college no longer welcomes me, and wake to find it's true... |
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| OLD AND IN THE WAY: by Wayan; 1999/5/3, a veiled predictive dream. On a dead-end street, I meet a beautiful psychic and fight a tentacled monster that's stalked me for years... |
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OUR BEST SONG: by Wayan; 1983/10/25, a decade-long dream of song and flight. The artcops search-and-destroy our flying band, and my wings are shorn. But ten years later, songless, apathetic, I climb through my TV--and the women of Vietnam show me a new way to fly... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, ATTITUDE, ALTITUDE |
| PARANOID HABITS: by Wayan; 1994/10/4, a diagnostic dream. I dream a hypnotist elicits a personality who says he obliges my paranoia by giving me weird luck... |
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PERISSA: by Wayan; 660K total (15 images); 1997/9/13, a sexy political dream. When Perissa, an exhibitionistic centaur, bares her body in a crowded Coliseum, she also bares a racist plot... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM |
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THE PROWLER: by Wayan; 1997/2/4, an illustrated dreamtale. My sister hears a prowler. I go out blind in the dark, and learn she's right. But what a strange intruder! |
| PSYCHIC FAMILIES ARE SO MUCH FUN: by Wayan; 1980/7/21, a true story of ESP. My sister's avoiding our nosy parents, but I sense they'll run into her soon. I just didn't know HOW soon... |
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| PULLED UNDER: by Wayan; 1976/4/15, a nightmare. One by one, we're pulled under the water, the earth... eaten. That's the fate of all flesh. And we're flesh. CAUTION: HORROR |
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| PURSUED, I RAN INTO THE BARN: by Dorothea Tanning; 2003? A nightmare-poem A monster's out to eat my dog--and maybe me. We get cornered in the barn... |
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| QUIT THAT LAB!: by Wayan; 1999/5/2, a deductive nightmare. I'm working alone in the lab at night, when the lab gear wakes up and tries to kill me... |
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RABBIT WORLD: by Wayan; 260K total, 6-page comic of a 1990/9/26 dream. I'm a telepathic rabbit defending our world from space-laser attack. We do, but do we modernize too much? CAUTION: IDEAS |
| RICH KILLER: by Wayan; 1994/2/1, a dream on abuse and rage. A rich serial killer in a sports car flaunts his virtual immunity, till I go after him in a light plane... |
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| THE RIPPLE EFFECT: by Wayan; 1992/6/19, a double dream of false judges. A dream of innocent incest turns guilty, grows into a war of ghosts versus a cult of sneaky sexy psychics... CAUTION: SEX, INCEST ISSUES, NIGHTMARE |
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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 |
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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... |
| SKIMMING TOWARD FREEDOM: by Wayan; 2002/1/18, a dream with 3 sketches. My girlfriend and I can fly, but detectives follow us around. How to lose them? By sticking to the beach and... CAUTION: BIZARRE CREATURES, FRANK LANGUAGE |
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| SNOW STALLION: by Wayan; 1994/6/4, a tangled political/spiritual dream. I'm a peace terrorist trapped in Squaw Valley, herded like a mare by a huge stallion made of snow... And then the dream shifts and I blurt out the truth behind our idiotic waking world! And wake believing it... |
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| SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: by Wayan; 1978/10/26, a dreamtale. A demigoddess and a wizard meddle with humans. But do even THEY know what they're assembling? |
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| SOULS IN THE MUD: by Wayan; 1981/1/14, a thoughtful dream. I'm being hunted in Reincarnation Swamp, as I wonder if the glut of human bodies creates a soul shortage... CAUTION: MYSTIC IDEAS |
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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... |
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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 |
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SYBIL SUE FLANNERY: by Wayan, 1986/10/29, a dream noir. I'm Sybil Sue, a hard-boiled shapeshifting shamus, on the track of the most wanted bankrobbers in LA: the Bad Girls... CAUTION: IN BETWEEN GUNSHOTS, THE BAD GIRLS SWEAR |
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THE TAO OF DENNIS THE MENACE: by Wayan; 1986/4/17, a dream of a wise mentor. Chased by purple squid from Jupiter, I seek refuge with a guru the Goddess recommends for me... |
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TELEPATH TREES: by Wayan; 125K, 1993/9/11, a how-the-other-half-lives dream. Edward Abbey shows me a secret grove of telepath trees. That night, they meet me in my dreams... |
| THAR SHE BLOWS!: by Madeline; 2008/3/27, a pirate mermaid shipwreck sex dream. On the run I meet a lycan, a pirate, and a mermaid. She causes a flood, and something floats by I just have to grab... CAUTION: IMPLIED SEX |
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THEY DON'T BELIEVE ME: by Wayan; 550K total, 15 illus., 1989/10/4, an unbelievable dream. My dog and I are abducted by aliens who turn us into cats. We escape, and turn feral to survive. I'm back in school now, and in therapy... but how we got back, and what happened along the way, even my own shrink won't believe... CAUTION: LEWD SQUID AND KLEPTOMANIAC BUGS |
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TIBETAN DISASSEMBLY: by Wayan; 2007/7/5, a dream of a desperate ploy A woman in Tibet disassembles herself! A local god hires her spirit, but she uses the office equipment... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
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TIGER TALL: by Wayan; 1992/7/3, a marathon dream. I'm a tiger from Planet Cat, visiting Earth to run in San Francisco's "Bay to Breakers" race. I knew racial tensions were high, but why is William S. Burroughs out to kill me? Oh. Because... |
| THE TIGER CUBE: by Wayan; 1996/1/19, a mysterious not-quite-nightmare. An alien tiger and his human girlfriend show me a cube of raw flesh, and herd me to a house... but why? |
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THE TORTURER: by Wayan; 1997/7/13, a predictive nightmare A traveling torturer chooses me for his victim. He has the right. I bluster, but when at last I have to sleep... CAUTION: NO PAIN, BUT GORE |
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TRUMP ON THE RUN: by Wayan; 1990/3/8, an illustrated dreamtale. The manhunt is on for Donald Trump, rich sociopath. But he too is pursuing something: happiness... |
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THE TUBA MAN: by Wayan; 1982/7/8, a career-advice dream. Tuba Man plays from the top of a tower, even when Loveless Man opens fire; for music is life to him... |
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TWO PLANES: by Wayan, 1994/9/6, a multistaged psychic dream. An assassination plot using two planes triggers an invasion of our kingdom. I'd rather be playing Frisbee... |
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THE VAT MESSIAH: by Wayan; 1985/2/27, a major dreamtale. In our cult, we lie in vats of goo till we grow wings. But we’re feared more than we knew... CAUTION: A SPECIST LYNCH MOB, NAKED IN SCHOOL, LESBIAN FEELINGS, OBSCENE CARROT |
| VELOCIRAPTORS AND BANANAS: by Wayan; 1994/2/6, a dream. After a visit from our landlady's angry, crazy son, a pack of vicious dinosaurs invades our house... |
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THE VOICE OF GOD: by Wayan, 1993/1/31, a psychic nightmare-epic. I go half-mad and massacre a whole cult, till my gun manifests stigmata: a gory miracle. Then I'm one of the cult members, struggling to ignore the Voice of God pushing all us mortals to murder in His name. I woke up haunted, and wondered for weeks what this was about... until the Waco Massacre. CAUTION: CREEPY VIOLENCE, CREEPY GOD, CREEPY PREDICTION |
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WELL-MEANING GRASS: by Wayan; 1982/5/17, a diagnostic Trek dream. On a world of designer genes, the Prime Minister tries to kill the Bug Princess by deluding an innocent lawn... |
| 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... |
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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... |
| WHO IS OUTSIDE MY WINDOW?: by Krista G.; 2008/6/25, a recurrent false-waking dream. Someone's prowling outside my window. I'm paralyzed in bed, but I force myself into action... |
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| 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! |
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| 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... |
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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 |
| 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 |
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| THE WORM: by Emily Dickinson, 1870s?, a nightmare-poem Emily Dickinson ties up a worm she mistrusts. Bad move! It grows into a talking snake with a score to settle... |
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| 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. |
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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! |
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