Justice
I just noticed this list looks an awful lot like the one for good and evil, right and wrong. Thinking back, I guess I never really HAD a morality other than fairness. No commandments, no divine principles, no good or evil, just... if it feels unfair, something's wrong. Primitive.
But I prefer it to religion-based moralities. Somehow they always end up sanctioning things a ten-year-old can see are unfair... injustices that stir up half the wars in the world. Sorry, I'll stick to fairness.
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THE ANT REPRESENTATIVE: by Wayan; 1996/3/18, a romantic dream of bugs. I fall in love with a diplomat from a hive mind. Am I luring her into dangerous individuality? |
| ANTLIA: by Wayan; 1997/6/29, a dreamtale. I meet a judge from the newly discovered galaxy Antlia, and learn distance can lend objectivity... |
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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 |
| THE ARMS POLICY: by Wayan; 2000/4/7, a nightmare. The government has a harsh policy on armed dissidents. Not the kind of arms you think... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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AROO'S ENGINEERS: by Wayan; 1984/11/9-10, a Hawaiian dream epic. The Engineers make Eden logical. But the blimps go blind, and a demon gets published. Can I escape the hell they've made? |
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THE ASHE SISTERS: by Wayan; 2010/1/26, a dream portrait. My two moms sell art fabrics designed by these grayish batwinged sisters whose new ad campaign pushes the edge... CAUTION: ADS WITH NUDE BATS |
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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 |
| THE AZTEC EMPIRE'S RESERVATIONS: by Wayan; 1998/3/19, a parallel-world dream The modern Aztec Empire is as bad as Anglos toward other Indians, for it's not poverty that hurts... |
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| BADGE SLANDER: by Wayan; 1993/4/18, a psychic nightmare. I dream I'm being slandered by the leaders of a dream organization! Turns out it's quite true... |
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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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THE BASEBALL KISS: by Wayan; 1983/8/4, a dreamtale on choice. The Prime Minister of England breaks my nose, so I become a flock of squirrels to seek revenge. Should I let go? |
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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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BATTERED, WITH SYRUP: by Wayan; 1998/11/21, a healing dream. I'm a battered girl who sings in a mall. The Mall Dictator (of all people) helps me start to heal, and learn to fly... CAUTION: BATTERING AND ITS CONSEQUENT DAMAGE |
| BEGGARS IN SPAIN: by Wayan; 1994/12/10, A dream on Nancy Kress's book on IQ. Two rivals stand for ways of thinking, ways of life. Why won't they cooperate, see each others' virtues? |
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BERYL BORROWED IT: by Wayan, 1986/3/8, an absurd dream. My friend Beryl borrows my ass and legs to become a centaur so she won't fall over. I want them back, so... CAUTION: CRUDE AND STUPID |
| BETRAY MY ANIMAL FRIENDS: by Wayan; 1999/11/12, a dream of brainwashing . As humans settle infospace, will we cheat other species trying to evolve into people? CAUTION: DISTURBING |
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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 |
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THE BLUE MILLIPEDE: by Wayan; 1996/11/5 (Election Night), a political dream. I'm a wizard chasing crooked politicians in a big city. They have a car, I hop a trolley, only on the astral plane it's a giant blue millipede, and... CAUTION: RECKLESS DRIVING, THEFT OF PUBLIC MILLIPEDE |
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BOND: by Wayan; 1981/10/31, a nightmare where I'm the nightmare. I'm James Bond, fighting a plot by the fiendish Eight. But I'm captured and questioned. Of course I lie to the enemy: the senators of the Committee on Intelligence Activities. Till I see myself through their eyes... CAUTION: SPY SEX, SPY MENTALITY |
| 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? |
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THE BREAST BANDIT: by Wayan, 1984/5/31, an embarrassing dream. I'm bad. I'm really bad. I know I shouldn't have done it. But my mail-order breasts were late... CAUTION: BREAST THEFT |
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CENTAUR BY SARTRE: by Wayan; 1989/3/28; an oracular dream A sea-centaur explains why some dreams don't LIKE to surface to so-called consciousness... CAUTION: WET T SHIRT, EXISTENTIALISTS, HARPOONS |
| CHEAPSHIP!: by Wayan; 1996/8/6, a nightmare on my own stinginess. I'm a crewman on a ship that's falling apart, and I do mean that literally... |
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| CHINA AND AMERICA: by Alder and Wayan; 1997/9/23, telepathic dreams. Two giants wrestle in the Chinese mountains. Who'll win, Red or Yellow? But when I wake... |
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| CHURCHES BURN WHEN YOU LEARN TO FLY: by Wayan; 1989/9/1, a didactic flying dream. I pay the price, but learn the difference between merely getting off the ground, and true mastery... |
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THE CIRCUS HUMANS' DESERTION: by Wayan; 180K, 14 images, 1988/2/19, a holy dream. I join a circus, but soon all the best carnies sail off to the Blessed Isles. The circus animals pitch in and carry on--clumsy, lonely. Then a herald arrives from the Isles--Donald Duck! He says... |
| COMYN RESTRAINT: by Wayan; 1983/3/25, a dream on abandon. I'm from a race of self-policing psychics, starting to wonder if we've created our own Inquisition... |
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| COUNTERSUE GOD: by Wayan; 1995/8/5, a sacrilegious dream. God flames me for putting pagan stuff on the Net, and we end up suing each other. Then the riots begin... CAUTION: HITMEN AND HERESY |
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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 |
| CROCODILE KING: by Christina Rossetti; 1855, a mysterious dream-poem. On the Euphrates, one crocodile eats all his kin, bloating monstrously. But when a winged ship appears, he feigns remorse... |
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CROWBOTTLE: by Wayan; 1998/1/2, a dream of a wise foolish act. It was on a beach. Inside, a black thing squirming. Despite all the tales of vengeful djinn, I pull the cork... |
| CURSES!: by Wayan; 1995/7/29, a rant on how we fear the power of wishes. Studies confirm that prayer can heal. So can curses harm? Yet fearing curses leads back to witch-hunts... CAUTION: DISTURBING IMPLICATIONS, IF TRUE |
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CURSING ISABELLA: by Wayan; 1992/8/19, a thoughtful dream of sorcery. How I cursed Isabella the sofa sorceress, cursed her with a blueberry. And why that stinks... CAUTION: UNDER THE MAGIC, IDEAS |
| CUT-RATE TREATMENT: by Wayan; 1993/8/10, a tale half-dreamed, half-lived. That day, I met a wildly neurotic therapist; that night, I met a woman forced to get discount ob/gyn exams from her stingy husband's doctor buddy... can you say "boundary violation?" CAUTION: SEXUAL HUMILIATION |
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| THE DARII: by Wayan; 1994/8/15, a psychic dream of another life . I'm trying to prevent a race war, but can I kill someone I admire? And if so, can I live with it? CAUTION: VIOLENCE, RACISM, GUILT |
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| DATIN' DEMON: by Mark Varitz and Wayan; 1989/12/3; Mark's dream triggers one by Wayan. I meet my personal demon, and discover it has a personal demon: me! Am I worse than my Shadow? CAUTION: CRUDE LANGUAGE |
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THE DEER PARTY: by Wayan; 1986. A magical dream, Chapter 1 of a nine-story series: UNICORN TAG. A sentient factory shows me a genetic future where the Deer Party agitates for liberty, equality and fertility. Where I learn that I too may not be human... |
| DIAGNOSTIC BATTERY: by Wayan; 1988/4/20, a nightmare of sorts. My sister's new guru tests me psychologically--only it looks like an engineer's test to destruction... CAUTION: EMOTIONAL CRUELTY |
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DOG ON THE RAMP: by Wayan; 1989/4/6, a dream of love in a time of bias. My friend Lisadia sneers at a dog-girl's attempts to beautify her starship. I'm shocked--she's openly specist... CAUTION: SPECISM |
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DRAGON BANNERS: by Wayan; 125K, 1987/3/19, a dream on the hollow inside. A dragon's daughter seeking her inheritance defies a sneaky dragon-realtor out to own the world... |
| DRAMATIC PARASITES: by Wayan; 1995/6/28, a dream on fear of success. I project I'll make a lot more money soon. Good, now I can support all my lazy friends! Wait... |
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| THE DUKE OF VENICE: by Wayan; 1981/5/25, a dream on moneyphobia. The Duke complains things just aren't what they were. As I hear what he liked, I'm increasingly... |
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| EARTH'S BEING MURDERED: by Wayan; 1996/7/13, a nightmare. Mute, paired images, contrasting life with the death we're spreading. And then finally the dream speaks: CAUTION: READ THE TITLE AND GO SABOTAGE SOMETHING! |
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| EL ASNO!: by Wayan; 1995/1/20, a political dreamtale. In a field in the Central Valley, I face the Terror of California... CAUTION: FIENDISH LEFTIST PROPAGANDA |
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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... |
| AN ELECTORAL DRAGON: by Wayan; 1998/10/21, a quasi-lucid dreamtale. In a world of bad haircuts, I meet a dragon running for office. But is this real, or a dream? Yes! It's... |
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| 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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| THE ETHICAL CANNIBAL: by Wayan; 1993/7/25, a health-advice dream?. I meet a man who's lived centuries on an all-cannibal diet. He has ethics, though: he sticks to roadkill! Except... CAUTION: EEEUUGH! |
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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 |
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FRANCHISE! (illustrated text version): by Wayan; 170K, or new comics version, 770K; 1995/10/12, a comic dream with a serious warning. I was the first woman made High Commissioner of Baseball. One day a team of mutants begs a franchise... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, BAD TEAMWORK, HORNY BEES |
| FREDDY KRUGER'S POLITICS: by Wayan; 1992/8/20, a dream of... ambition?. Freddy has plans for me and Telly Savalas's daughter... but what can he lure us with? What do we want? |
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| FREE THE HICK? A Dream Left Hanging: by Wayan; 1999/9/15, a frustrating dream. Our team acquires unnoticeability, and sets out to free the Hick from the Submerged Court. But is that wise? |
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| FREE WAY? DETENTION FOR YOU!: by Wayan; 1997/2/14, a dream of the wages of fun. Zooming on freeways--carless levitation! But the Principal tries to punish us. And we resist... don't we? |
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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 |
| GISLI THE OUTLAW: by Gisli the Outlaw of Iceland; 966-973, a series of at least ten life-saving dreams. Gisli had two spirit-wives who told him in dreams how to evade the bounty-hunters after him... for 13 years! |
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| THE GIVE-AWAY: by Wayan; 1982/6/7, a career nightmare. My parents pray for my success, and arrange a great learning opportunity for me. Really. |
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| GOD'S DANCE CLUB: by Wayan; 1995/5/2, an apocalyptic dream. God's dance club, the Universe, is shutting down. God broke his promise that we staff could get on stage... |
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| GOLD VERSUS DIAMONDS: by Wayan; 1972/1/20, a dream fable. We're children seeking gold in a fairy wood. We dig where the elf-kids played, but their parents show up... |
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GREEN ANGELS: by Wayan; 1985/9/2, a dream-idyll seething with politics. I stalk a platoon of levitating surf-bunnies who may be out to bomb a Greenpeace submarine... |
| GUARD ON THE BEACH: by Wayan; 1980/9/17, a dream of moral suasion Very nearly a nightmare, till the guard on the beach relented in the face of people power... |
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| HALF-HEARTED GHOST: by Wayan; 1994/9/28, a dream on the cruelty of shyness. I go invisible in my dance class and hear what the girls I like have to say about me. Uh-oh... CAUTION: PAINFUL RELATIONSHIP TRUTHS |
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| HER ONLY FRIEND: by Wayan; 1996/7/1, a dream of worms turning. A sorceress trains a kid as a prostitute who'll spy on her powerful clients. But her training has side effects... CAUTION: EXPLOITED KIDS |
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HERON HAREM: by Wayan; 1981/6/14, a dream with a moral. I'm a heron working in the Civil Service. I want to blow the whistle, but then how would I support my... CAUTION: BIRD-SLAVERY? |
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HIT ROCK: by Wayan; 1995-98. Digital picture challenging a dream. I dreamed I blinded myself because mere appearances lead to racism and sexism. Only the blind know truth... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
| HUBRIS EGGS: by Wayan; 1981/6/11, a small psychic dream. I'm wrapping my heavy-metal eggs too slowly, so the Judges sink my car! I set out to get revenge... |
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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 |
| 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 MIST MY SISTER: by Cory and Wayan; 212K, 1992/9/20; Cory's healing dream triggers one by Wayan. My housemate's sore back is healed by a dream. So I ask for the same, and get this dream of incest... CAUTION: KARMA, SEX/NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES |
| I WANT A SHILLING: Anonymous #4; c.1920?, a dream on the precise value of ideals I’m at a lecture on Art, Beauty and the Nude, but no one paid the model and he wants a drink... |
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| 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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IN THE SHADOW OF MAN: by Wayan; 850K, 3 illus., 1994/3/4, a dreamfable on needs. I'm a lab animal who discovers voice software and creates a personal zine, testifying for our rights... |
| INDIA ON THE SECURITY COUNCIL?: by Wayan; 2000/4/21, an annoying dream on peace. India wants a seat on the UN Security Council, but what of Pakistan? The UN has a modest proposal... |
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| IT MUST BE SOMEONE SHE ATE: by Sorcha; 2008/10/11 and mid-Jan. 2009, a recurring comic news-nightmare Cilda Spitzer and Hillary Clinton sentence America's bimbos to a shitty fate. But what of their cheating husbands? |
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| JACK DANIELS: by Wayan; 1983/10/14, three short dreamtales. Three dream-reactions to a (real) psychic experiment that went badly awry... |
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| JAMIE THE SORCERESS: by Wayan; 1984/11/14, a characterological dream. I get back from vacation to find the landlady's installed her daughter in our shared house... |
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| JENNIFER MONTGOMERY: by Wayan; 1995/4/24, a journal extract Her film about her teenage affair with a pedophile is troubling enough before the FBI steps in to blackmail her... CAUTION: MOLESTATION/ABUSE ISSUES |
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JERRY BROWN'S LAW: by Wayan; 2011/4/8; a dream of a political joke. Isn't it a joke? The State tests my art. I worry they'll stereotype me as another Crumb. So I tell an absurd lie about our governor. But the joke kinda makes sense... |
| 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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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 |
| THE KING OF PERSIA: by Wayan; 1990/4/1, an annoying family dream. My dad has a time machine, so he generously invites the King of Persia over. And offers him MY room... |
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| THE LEASH: by Wayan; 1995/6/26, a dreamfable. Alien abductions upset us--being studied, not greeted as people. But how do we treat animals? Do we create the gap we expect and then observe? That night, I dream one dog on a leash paralyzes a civilization... |
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THE LEMON SEA: by Wayan; 1982/2/22, a dream warning. I wake up as someone else. I go through her working day, till Captain Kirk comes to take me to... |
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LILY THE LION: by Wayan; 1991/4/7, a small psychic dream. My housemate Lily is a lion. She bursts into my room. Stare-down. And then she pounces. So I... CAUTION: VIOLENCE! MUTUAL GLARING! THE VULCAN NERVE PINCH! |
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THE LIMP: by Wayan; 1986/7/18, a dream on difference I was working for a London architect. His son thought people shunned him for his limp, but... |
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THE LION KING: by Wayan; 1995/9/15, a time-travel dream on social skills. When I wake up, animals rule the earth. How do they cope with specism? Well, it's complex... |
| 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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| 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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A KNIFE AT HIS THROAT: by Wayan; 1991/1/1; a political dream-cartoon-fable A courtroom hostage-drama where I'm forced to commit... tracheotomy! And then the Gulf War begins... CAUTION: CARTOON VIOLENCE |
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LEARNING SCALES: by Wayan; 1985/6/26, an epic dream of Chinese dragons. I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost. We need a Dragon... |
| THE LEASH: by Wayan; 1995/6/26, a dreamfable. Alien abductions upset us--being studied, not greeted as people. But how do we treat animals? Do we create the gap we expect and then observe? That night, I dream one dog on a leash paralyzes a civilization... |
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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! |
| THE MEGARA INN: by an Arcadian Greek c.200 BC; two dreams that fail to prevent but do solve a murder A traveler dreams his friend's attacked, but he discounts it. Next he dreams his friend begs him to expose the killer at least... |
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MIRYAM'S THEFT: by Wayan; 1996/9/24, a psychic dream on being used I'm a ghost dwarf in love with a Lady trapped in a magic Arabian castle. But our love is being used... CAUTION: SEX, BETRAYAL, SACRILEGE |
| A MORAL CANNIBAL: by Wayan; 1995/2/15, a dream on logic and hunger. A cannibal friend of mine is shocked at our burial customs, and argues his case in court using crabs... |
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| MORAL FIBER: by Wayan; 1997/11/10, a dream of trouble in Ecotopia. We hippies won, but now we're backward and isolated; it's time we joined the rest of our alternate Earth... |
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| THE MORAL INTELLIGENCE OF CHILDREN: by Wayan; 1999/5/24, a rant on giftedness and fragility Robert Coles wrote a book on kids' moral sense, but his examples don't tell me what they tell him... |
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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 CUBIST CONSCIENCE: by Wayan; 1983. Sketch of a cubist dream. I dreamed I was trapped in the maze of my pacifist vegetarian feminist anarchist eco-conscience... |
| NAMELESS HAT: by Elizabeth Kew; 1930s?, a comic dream. Giant worms put me on trial for wearing a nameless hat, but it turns out I like their punishment, so I taunt the judge... |
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| NOT SELF DEFENSE!: by Wayan; 1999/4/29, a warning dream. I'm Tarzan, fighting off attackers. But I kill one helpless prisoner! Am I going too far? CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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| OUR GOVERNOR: by Wayan; 1990/3/28, an anti-death-penalty dream. I force the governor's chief aide to tour the new prisons for us artists, fags, and niggers. He's appalled--but how many more noses must I rub in the governor's racism? |
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| 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 |
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THE PARABLE OF THE CAVE: by Wayan; 1993/9/18, an antisocial dream. Plato never did say what shed the light that cast those shadows on his cave wall. I find out. CAUTION: CUT-RATE APOCALYPSE |
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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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PLESIOSAUR: by Wayan; 1985/9/5, a medical dream. An itchy patient of mine insists he's turning into a four-headed man-eating plesiosaur. He left one thing out... |
| PLUSH BEAR: by Wayan; 1994/8/3, a dream poem. Two mimes terrorize our art class in a stretchable bear-suit. At least we HOPE it's a suit... |
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| THE POWER OF SUGGESTION: by Wayan; 1995/10/11, a dream on shamanic tactics. After studying assertion in dreams, I find I'm a shaman in an African village, troubled by a young rival... |
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PREGNANT WITH KRYTHA: by Wayan; 1998/2/3, a monomaniacal dream My best friend and I are shapeshifters; I seduce him, just so my daughter Krytha can be born... CAUTION: MAMMALIAN NUDITY, PHEROMONAL SEDUCTION, RECKLESS PREGNANCY |
| WHY PROGRESS IS SLOW: by Wayan; 1991/1/26 and 2/16, a sociological dreamtale. Time-hopping through centuries, I learn how slow deep social change is. How we cling to our worldviews! |
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| HIS RACIST SON: by Wayan; 1994/1/8, a dream on family hypocrisy. Suddenly I hate and fear black kids in school! The counselor says I'm clinically paranoid: I need drugs! My dad says "How strange, how sad." And goes home to light a candle at his shrine to the Confederacy... CAUTION: INDUCED RACISM |
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| RED UNCLE, RED CANYON: by JB Priestley; c.1907 and c.1925, two short dreams making long-term predictions As a boy I dreamt my uncle (a calm man) glared at me in red rage; I was terrified. A decade later, in a bar... I dreamt that over a balcony rail I saw bright-colored, spectacular scenery. Years after, I took a detour in Arizona... |
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REFLECTIONS IN THE POOL: by Wayan; 184K total, 2 panoramas; a 1994/7/2 dream. Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love. Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace? CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL |
| RESCUE FEVER: by Wayan; 1994/2/3, a dreamtale on rescue fantasies. A refugee girl crawls into my bed. We become lovers. I protect her. But over time... am I holding her back? CAUTION: ABUSE? OR NOT? |
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| A RETRIBUTION OF MERMAIDS: by Bruno Oliveira; summer 2011, a treasure-finding dream Despite corporate crooks, missiles and floods, Angelina Jolie and I find the lock of mermaid hair... |
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| ROBINSON JEFFERS AS A SHAMAN: by Wayan; 1996/7/28, a little shamanic shoptalk Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism, blind to how kindness matters... CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED |
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SELF-MADE GIRLS: by Wayan; 2000/2/15, a public dream. Two souls coalesce from bars of light into human beings by the power of words. Words like stupid, ugly... |
| SLUG ETHICS: by Wayan; 1974/10/7, an undream tale. A man who wants to love and respect all life has unwanted kitchen guests: a wave of slugs... |
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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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SPORECOUNT: by Wayan; 105K, 1990/1/5, a dreamtale on change-phases. I'm a hot archeology student till I open the wrong tomb. A plague turns us into green moldy monsters... CAUTION: DISEASE, DEATH, GRIEF, SHAME |
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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... |
| STOP RESISTING; 2000/1/2 by Anonymous #37; nightmare of injustice I'm sentenced for a crime I didn't commit; then the bailiff beats me for "resisting", though I'm not... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, SWEARING |
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| SUNLIGHT'S THE CURE: by Wayan; 1990/12/29, a dreamtale. I find the cure for an alien plague, then visit the world it came from, to find it has a curious variant... CAUTION: SEX CUSTOMS OF THE NEWT PEOPLE! MY COUSIN'S GAY WEDDING! |
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TITANIA: by Wayan; 1983/1/7 and subsequent nights; an epic dream of love Clarence the sappy angel from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and Milton's Lucifer, noblest Devil of them all, land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're perfect, and the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me, and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full range of feelings. Too bad one is the feeling she's fake... |
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TRUSTING FOXES: by Wayan; 175K, 2 big pp, 1997/8/20, a comic of a psychic dream. A lawyer sends me a letter full of fox-girls! In Asia foxes mean trouble, but instantly I know they mean... |
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UNDER THEIR MASKS: by Wayan; 2000/3/17, an ecdysiastic dream Masked champions of Good and Evil fight, peeling off layers till they're elven-thin--what's left to hide?... |
| THE UNWILLING GUIDE: by E.M. Martin; 1914/12/29, a nightmare of occupied England In a wood full of snipers, Martin has a hard moral choice: lead, leave or turn in a group of strangers who may be spies... |
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| VICARIOUS ATONEMENT: by Anna Kingsford; 1880/1/31, an anti-shamanic dream Kingsford meets a girl who burns herself as a protest. K flips out! She rants “This is wrong!” when help is what’s needed... CAUTION: RANT MIDWAY YOU'RE BETTER OFF SKIPPING |
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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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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... |
| 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... |
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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... |
| WHOSE DREAM IS THIS, ANYWAY?: by Anonymous #25 as told by Patti Allen; c. 2005, a cledonic reconciliation dream A woman in our dreamgroup had a baffling dream of being fired by a Mr Bleeden, but it made shocking sense to me. My dad... |
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| YOUR TURN: by Julian Green; 1933/10/18, a surreal but fair-minded dream. I was nineteen again, riding my horse down a bad road in Virginia. After three hours, my horse spoke up... |
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