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KIDS

Dreams of children, or of being a child--but not always the kid you were.

The World Dream Bank has 2100 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, 2001-2010.

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	ALICE'S POEM: by Lewis Carroll; 1872, a poem on dreams Are dreams really so ephemeral? Lewis Carroll, who built the Alice books from dream-fragments, wasn't so sure...
	AMPLIFIER: by Alder; 1999/11/13, a dream on self-underestimation I was always the weakest magic-worker I knew. But when demons threatened my grandchild...
	ANARCHIST FAIR: by Wayan; 2005/4/5, a drastic dream-song, with chords At an anarchist fair in San Francisco, a 13-year-old punkette genius sings some shocking advice to me...
	AQUARINA PRODIGY: by Wayan; 2009/10/15, a dream poem with sketches; Dreamverse #60 A child prodigy stands out in a chorus line of waterdancers. Her body and energy are a patchwork of young and old...
	THE ARTIST'S WAY: by Wayan; 1994/6/10, a visual-pun dream. I'm a parade route. A group of child artists walks all over me. But their soles are bare, so I don't mind...
	THE AXE OF DEATH: by Catherine McDiarmid Paton; c. 1830, a grisly predictive nightmare. She dreamt Death attacked her but her youngest daughters bravely fought back--and died. Three months later... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	BABY, I'LL BLOW YOUR MIND: by Wayan; 1995/3/21, a surreal nightmare Allied submarines attack the giant Nazi toddler who's hunting us with sonar, occupying my playroom... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND GUILT
	THE BAR PET: by Wayan; 1994/12/4, a disorienting dreamlet. I meet a sex-kitten in the Underground Cartoonists' Bar, but her body language makes no sense to me... CAUTION: UNDERAGE FLIRTATION... OR IS IT?
	THE BIRD MARATHON: by Wayan; 120K, 1982/7/10, a half-nightmare, 3 illus. A bizarre marathon, and the Princess is the prize. But she doesn't WANT to be, so she sets out... CAUTION: BLOODY BIRD
	BLACK PUPPETEER: by Anonymous #2; 1930s, an eerie dreamlet. My friend F. was with a child in a garden, but every move the child made was controlled by a weird figure behind her...
	BODY-SWITCH: by Wayan; 2000/6/10; a dream of a castaway soul Spies kidnap a girl and move her soul into a madwoman’s body. Can she survive? Recover? Even thrive?
	BORN IN A CAVE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2007/4/20 to 2007/8/9, a painted series of rite-of-passage dreams. I keep dreaming of awkward but successful transitions into new life, and paint them all in one landscape...
	BOYS WHO RUN WITH THE SCISSORS: by Wayan; 1986/1/26, a shamanic dream-joke. Women who run with the wolves? Ha! In Mongolia, the only ones who can beat lightning-demons are...
	BRIGHT NICHES IN THE CASTLE WALL: by Jenny Badger Sultan; summer 2003. A painting of a series of dreams. Dreams warning of mania and paralyzing shame alternate with calm dreams of life and growth...
	BUFFALO PERSON: by Plenty Coups, summer 1857; a child's time-traveling, tribe-saving dream I was led into the future, where all the buffalo disappeared, to meet a frail old man by a ranch house...
	BURN: by Sierra Loucks; 1990?, a five-year-old’s nightmare I was at the beach with my friends. It was fun. But gradually they were laughing at me, not with me. Then they picked up burning sticks... CAUTION: GRUESOME
	BURN HIS TREE: by Emily Joy; 30 K, 2007/2/7; two linked nightmares on art Malevolent artwork terrorizes my baby and me! What's to be done?...
	CATRISE: by Wayan; 2000/2/21, a sexy flying dream; acrylic painting. I'm an alien exchange student in Palo Alto High School. I get stared at--they wear clothes, they don't fly... CAUTION: FELINE NUDITY
	CHANGING IDENTITIES: by Mary Arnold-Forster; 1910-14? a dream of alternating selves. I was the new girl among richer students, then my adult self among snobs, then a schoolgirl again--always craving freedom...
	CHAPERONE AND REBEL: by Wayan; 1998/5/18, a flirtatious dreamtale. A girl with a magic swimsuit flashes me, as her Iranian fundamentalist aunt glares from beyond the veil... CAUTION: NUDITY? OR ILLUSION?
	CHOREOGRAPHY: by Wayan; 2006/9/7, a nightmare of murder in plain sight. At a beach, a mob of kids stage an intricate practical joke full of coordinated “accidents.” How many of the jokers knew the end was death? CAUTION: MALICE
	CLASS HAMSTER: by Wayan; 2008/11/13, an educational nightmare I tour a middle school paralyzed by delinquents, and learn this is normal now...
	COLT TABOOS: by Wayan; 1972/3/27, a puberty dream. A castle with horse statues in the moat. Only... one of them is alive! He's my lover... CAUTION: EVERY SEX TABOO YOU CAN THINK OF
	A CRAIGSLIST BARGAIN: by Wayan; 2006/10/1. A dream of another life; possible ESP. I’m an Asian kid in Pacifica, California. My parents annoy me, so I offer them for sale on Craigslist. A cop appears...
	CUBIST CHARLIE BROWN: by Wayan; 1977/4/1, a cubist nightmare. We're Cubist cartoon characters, trapped in a strip gone mad. But my dad stays calm! Too calm... CAUTION: SEAS OF BLOOD... OR IS IT RED INK?
	DEAD, NOT STUPID: by Wayan; 2000/1/20, a (psychic?)dreamtale. My little sisters tell the detectives, "Daddy's ghost has a message for you" but they don't listen...
	A DIFFICULT PATH: by Anna Kingsford; 1877/11/3, an advisory dream. I lead my daughter up a thorny path, but she’s getting badly scratched. Shall I leave her in that fishing village? She wants to...
	DINAH’S ADVICE: by Wayan; 2007/1/14, a false-waking advisory frustration dream I struggle to write down a bizarre dream clearly and simply, but both pens and paper have mutated. Then a child prodigy explains “dreams don’t always want to be linear”...
	DIRECT ACTION SAVES THE SHIP: by Alder; 2006/11/5; a dream-fable with instant replay. A bomb's planted on our ship! But when a teen finds it, rather than fetch a responsible adult...
	DREAM LOVERS: by Wayan; 1995/9/11, a dream on shame. This dream's not about a man whose dream lovers keep materializing till the bed overflows. This dream's about who those lovers are, and what the neighbors will think... CAUTION: SEX
	DREAMKU, JUNE 2006: by Roswila; various dates up to June 2006; thirty dream-haiku Daily dream-poems in haiku style, nonstop for a month. A flood of animals, revenant ghosts, sex changes...
	DREAMKU, SEPTEMBER 2006: by Roswila; thirty dream-haiku with various dates from 1960-2006 One dream-poem in haiku style each day for a month! Ghosts, snow, penguins, yoga babies, elves who leave their tree...
	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...
	EMPTY-EYED CREATURES: by Wayan; 1996/12/9, an animal Zen dream. I lose myself, but I get some startling advice from a convent-school kid with empty eyes...
	FALSE ALARM: by Wayan; 1996/5/23, a nightmare I lived as a kid. In school, I'm seen as a freak--lied to, set up for little pranks. Not by my classmates--my teachers...
	A FEEL-BAD MOVIE: by Wayan; 2009/1/8, a dream about why dreamwork's so hard A great director alternates hits and bombs, because in half his films he sets out to trouble his viewers. Here's one...
	FLEEING KAMPUCHEA: by Laura Lawrence; early 1990s?; recurring nightmares to heal a future patient My Cambodian village was burned, my family murdered. At 12, I was the oldest survivor; I led a band of kids toward the border...
	FLOCK WISDOM: by Alder; 1958, a magic comic frustration dream My eighth grade class is a flock of birds migrating south for the winter, but we don’t migrate the easy way...
	FLUID DREAM CONNECTIONS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2003/11/8 and 2007/3/14; linked dreams of pods A pod of whales in the sky and a circle of children dressed like seed-pods both beg me to interpret them...
	FOUR-ARMED SINGER: by Wayan; 1996/5/16; a dream of baring your soul . In our mutant future, a lovely horse-tailed four-armed girl sings her heart out--as clubgoers ignore her... CAUTION: NUDE CABARET
	FOX-BOY: by Wayan; 1997/2/28, a dream fable. A boy offends his uncle the King, who transforms him into a fox. Grounded! But Fox-Boy runs away...
	FOX-MOTHER: by Wayan; 2008/8/12, a dream poem; Dreamverse #2. The goddess of the Cult of Clutter catches a little thief, and tastes her to see if she’s worthy...
	GHOST GATOR: by Wayan; 1984/10/9, a lip-reading dream. A child from another universe materializes--part way. Too bad we called in that expert from Stanford...
	GOLD EATER: by Wayan; 560K, 9-page comic of a 1993/1/15 dream. I'm an orphan shapeshifter enslaved by a gold-eating monster. But I meet a cat-girl with a hammer... CAUTION: BAD FOSTER-DAD; CAPITALIST MONSTER; VIOLENCE TO INNOCENT VENDING MACHINES
	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...
	GROUND ZERO: by Al Davison; 2001/9/9, a predictive dream-comic. Two days before 9/11, I dream I'm a child at ground zero, mourning the devastation--and witnessing rebirth.
	HER HORSE: by Wayan; 1985/5/14, a dream fable about bodies. A farm girl seems to be sexually exploiting her dog and horse, but their auras tell another tale... CAUTION: SEX SYMBOLISM
	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
	HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT: by Wayan; 1994/4/3, a dark dream. As my grandmother is dying, I have a dream about what really went on in her house... CAUTION: CHILD SLAVERY
	HYPNOGOGIC ASSAULT: by Dr Simon Forman; 1559-63, recurring hypnogogic images. From age six on, Simon nightly climbs mountains and faces roaring floods in a sort of naptime bootcamp...
	I AM THREE: by Wayan; 1957-58, my three earliest dreams. My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child...
	IN THE ENEMY MINE: by Wayan; 1986/1/11, a psychic dream. On Mars, a child-sacrificing cult of miners wants to kill me, but something strange happens....
	INVOKE THE ANIMAL POWERS (or was it PROVOKE?): by Wayan; 2008/9/9, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #24 A children's performance of "Where the Wild Things Are" turns into a riot-orgy. Why do I think it's all about politics? CAUTION: WILD THING ORGY
	IRISES: by Frederic Mistral; 1834, a four-year-old's ecstatic dream That day Frederic, craving irises, fell in the water three times. At night he swam through a warm-water iris paradise...
	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
	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?
	JUMBLE by Nancy Price; 1948, a comically exaggerated predictive dream A bewildering dream of a boy's borrowed bath, absconding renters' furniture and fly-eating turns real a few weeks later...
	KARMA AND HER SISTERS: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/27, a happy sexy flying dream that turned tragic. One boring lonely day, I meet a cute teenage bunny who wants to play with me! But half an hour later… CAUTION: LANGUAGE, INTERSPECIES FLIRTING, AND LOSS
	THE KENNERBIRD: by Wayan; 1973/5/20; a naive shamanic dream. I'm a cartoon flamingo; with my sisters, the frog and the rabbit-squirrel, I meet our Maker--the cartoonist...
	KIDS' WORLD: by Wayan; 1996/8/2, a dream on solitude. The children of some castaways refuse to go 'home': to them, this shore IS home. So what won't I leave?
	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...
	THE LABORATORY UNDERGROUND: by Anna Kingsford; 1880/2/2; an animal-rights nightmare. I find myself in a vault with tables where half-dissected animals writhe. Hidden in each was a human shape... CAUTION: GRUESOME
	THE LAST MASS: by E.M. Martin; 1914/11/23, a dream of war invading a peaceful dreamland For years Martin's dreams were all set in a peaceful parallel world. He hoped it was immune from WWI, but...
	LITTLE BAD DREAM CHARM: by Kathy Fagan; 2001? A slip-filled dream-poem Half asleep, I scrawl a nightmare of trying to rescue gasping boyfish, but my dreamwriting goes wrong too...
	LIZARD HUSBAND: by Xanthe, 1990/8/30; a nightmare marriage. I visit the underworld court of the Lizard King, but I can’t leave: he makes me Queen... CAUTION: MARITAL RAPE (NON-GRAPHIC)
	LOSE YOUR TEMPER!: by Emily Joy; 2007/8/30, a tough-love dream. My mom hires a therapist who really goes for my throat! Why is she so desperate to make me lose my... CAUTION: OVER-THE-TOP CONFRONTATION
	LUCKY STARR: by Wayan; 1964, an early, cryptomnesic dream. I fell asleep reading a book I'd read years before. I finished it in my dreams. Every word in place. How?
	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
	LYNN HALL'S "FLYAWAY": by Wayan; 1997/7/6, a journal extract on religious abuse A book that kept me up late. Ariel and Robin get abused as subtly, as deniably as me and my sisters... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS/PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE
	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...
	MARTIAN TIME-LOOP: by Wayan; 1994/5/2, a dream of the future shaping the past. I'm a small boy in a ship docking in Mars Orbital Station. I meet a strange man: myself as an adult! Uh-oh...
	MATURITY: by Wayan; 1989/1/26, a dream on bluntness. Beverly Cleary's Ramona is a popular teen, but she's having a nervous breakdown. And her best friend... CAUTION: STUDENT-TEACHER AFFAIR
	THE MERMAID TOW: by Wayan; 1994/2/17, a rescue-fantasy dream. I rescue some drowning kids by turning into a mermaid, but towing one girl has an unexpected effect...
	MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN: by Wayan; 1992/9/5-6, a diagnostic dream. I'm in a tribe of post-Crash kids with psychic powers, trying to keep nukes from rising again... CAUTION: VIOLENCE TOWARD CHILDREN
	MILK ADDICTS: by Wayan, 1974/6/2, an early psychic dream. I'm in what seems to be a village of very conservative Muslims. But they're really alien castaways...
	THE MUSTACHE PRAYER: by Wayan; 1983/9/11, a dream on wishes' limits. I help a mutant boy find others like him, and learn why some prayers are ungrantable...
	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...
	NEWT WEDDING: by Emily Joy; spring 1995, 100k, a six-year-old's epic dream Through wild jungles and over the Mattress Mountains, I lead a giant purple newt to love...
	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...
	ON MOLLY'S FOREHEAD: by Wayan, 1988/11/19, a spiritual sex dream. A child of radicals goes wild in Rio. When we bail her out, we find she's had a strange enlightenment... CAUTION: UNSAFE SEX
	ONE-EYED BOY: by Roswila; 2009/4/5, a dreamku on the limits of desire You'd think his Christmas wish would be "a new eye"; well it was, in a way...
	THE OTTER'S MOM: by Wayan, 171K, a dream-comic (or 12K text version). 1996/5/29; a dream of the future. A brilliant, orphaned ottercub meets the last Tasmanian Wolf, who makes a hard choice I couldn't. Or did I?
	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
	THE PERFECT MUSICAL GENIUS: by "Agnes"; before 1922, a Romantic romantic dream. I'm to be martyred. I ask if the man I love can strangle me. Yes! I say farewell to our hermaphroditic genius baby...
	POISONED!: by Wayan; 1994/6/20, three linked dreams. Poison takes many forms, from attitudes to environmental by-products to actions done deliberately...
	PONYBOY: by Wayan; 140K total, felt pen, acrylic, ink, illustrating a 1982/12/9 dream. The child who runs with wild horses finds the secret spy-room of dreams! But no one's watching...
	PRODIGIES' ODDITIES: by Wayan; 1994/2/2, a confession. I suspect we child prodigies and geniuses are as unlike the gifted as normal people. So here's a checklist... CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED
	THE PRODIGY-ALLERGY LINK: by Wayan; 1994/7/21, a clipping and reactions Child prodigies may develop allergies due to immunosystem damage from too much testosterone in utero...
	PRODIGY SUPPORT: by Wayan; 1994/7/21, a clipping and reactions News of a child prodigy who was given the support I wasn't, triggers a flood of envy and bitterness...
	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
	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
	RECURRING SCHOOL NIGHTMARE: by Julie Doucet; July 1995, a dream of... oh, read the title! Trapped in elementary school, Julie is forced to study the alphabet until she declares "I'm a professional cartoonist, goddammit!"...
	RED LIGHT by Nancy Price; 1948, a predictive dream of the past! I'm in my home town, but at two times at once! Murderous boys explain why: I died here in 1861...
	REQUIEM FOR GINGER: MAGNIFICAT: by Lily; 2008/1/31, a dream on facing loss. I dream I’m telling a tall tale about a cat-funeral with hung-over mice pulling the hearse. But it all turns a bit too real...
	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?
	RUNNER WITH A PORPOISE: by Wayan; 1999/10/30, a dream of spirits. A Japanese high school athlete has no friends, till she starts meeting animal spirits on her long solo runs...
	SASQUATCH FOOTPRINT: by Roswila; May 1996, a dream-poem on the loss of wildness I meet a female Bigfoot, who, to my surprise, quietly speaks my tongue. She's mourning the death of her infant son...
	SEARCHING FOR THE DEAD: by Acucena Q., 2007/3/4, a puzzling quest dream. I searched rivers and lakes around the world for someone dead. But the living people I met were as strange as ghosts...
	A SEX KITTEN: by Wayan; 1999/1/29, an embarrassing dream. A creature that's half kitten and half baby wants me to masturbate it... I'm reluctant, but when I do... CAUTION: SEX
	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...
	THE SHIP'S BOY: by Wayan; 1996/12/1, a dreamtale. Dinosaur people demand to take our Ship's Boy with them. But he knows them! They RAISED him?
	SHIRT GIRL: by Zooop and Wayan; 1993/10/17, a shared, embarrassing telepathic dream. A fictional niece acting sexy in a shirt, plus... water balloons? I woke, and a friend told me HER dream... CAUTION: DREAM INCEST, KIDS WITH GUNS, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS
	SILKY SHIELDS A VANDAL: by Wayan; 1994/8/6, a cautionary dream. I'm a kid in a classroom someone's trashed. Our teacher goes ballistic. But was the gypsy girl framed?
	SILKY SINGS WITH WEREWOLF BOY: by Wayan; 1998; dream figures on bedspread, 5'x7' My anima the singing horse was encouraging a shy werewolf boy to give it a try... CAUTION: UNCLAD HORSE CHANTEUSE
	SNOT-BIRD FORGERY!: a gross dream by Samuel Pepys, 1667/6/29, and a nightmare by Thomas Macaulay, c.1857 Samuel Pepys dreams of kidneystones, pee, come, & snot--didn't he? Thomas Macauley dreams his niece confesses...
	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...
	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...
	SPHINX UP A TREE 1 (BROWN): by Wayan; 360 x 450, sketch 1980s? Digital 2001. A preteen sphinx pleased with herself and her treebranch world...
	SPILL SPELL: by Wayan; 1995/9/30, a mini-dream. I'm a Lapp boy in northern Finland, studying shamanism. So why do I pour coffee down a driveway?
	SPIRAL LAUGHTER: by Alder; 1953, a child's feverdream The world is a whirlpool, a black and white spiral pulling me down toward a black hole, and it’s laughing...
	SPLASH!: by Wayan; acrylic, 12" triangle, late 2002; dream painting. While I study how humans went extinct, my daughter happily splashes in the sea...
	STALAGMITE VALLEY: by Maude Meagher; 1902?-07, a recurring childhood dream. I found myself upon a stone pillar in a valley. Invisible people sat on other stalagmites, but my voice couldn’t reach them...
	STARFISH: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 1985; a multileveled, doubly predictive dream A sacred starfish piloting a Cessna plane survives a crash. But can it survive a boy's clumsy rescue efforts?
	HER STINGY DAD: by Wayan; 1998/7/29, a dreamtale on ambitions. A single dad loves his daughter, but is so pathologically cheap he's teaching her an unintended lesson... CAUTION: CHILD NEGLECT
	THE STYGIAN SENTINELS: by SAO (Shawn Allen O'Neal); 1970s, a recurring astral dream. The couple guarding the bridge over the River Styx, the Crocodile King and the Geisha Queen, rarely seemed to agree...
	SUN AND MOON: by Katherine Mansfield; 1918/2/9, a dream-story I dreamed a short story--even its title. Not that I read it. No, I lived it, through the eyes of a 5-year-old. It was awfully queer...
	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!
	THE TAKEOVER: by Lee Olivier; 2004/6/28, a triple diagnostic nightmare An alien is taking over our world, and I feel so helpless that even when I wake I want to just forget the dream...
	TAROT: MINE CHILD: by Wayan; 31K. Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. Deep down in the strata inside you, gems lie waiting in the dark. Waiting for this child to dig them free...
	THE THIRTIES REVISITED: by Maxine Kumin; late 1970s; a dream-poem Dreams of my childhood--bootlegger dad, critical mom, gun-happy uncles, slaughtered squirrels, slaughtered Jews...
	THREE DREAMS: by Robley Wilson; July 4, 1975?; a dream-poem Dead fish in a poisoned stream, dead kittens in a pit... and advice from the woman who revives them with a touch.
	TORCH-BEARER: by Queen Hecuba of Troy; c. 1220 BC, an alarming dream. Hecuba dreams she gives birth, not to a child but a flaming torch! But she lets Paris live... CAUTION: MORAL NO-WIN SITUATION
	TRUE LOVE = CHOICE! by Ms. Mira; Jan. 2008, a dream-lesson on compassion and free will. I'm on an alien world inside the minds of two women and a child struggling with moral choices in a civil war... CAUTION: DEATH, LOSS
	TWO BISHOP CANDIDATES: by Wayan; 1984/11/21, a dreamtale. My mind and my soul both apply for a job in Stanford Cathedral. Their rivalry grows to a shamanic duel...
	TWO POLLYS: by Lewis Carroll; 1879/5/15, a dream of psychological splitting. With no sense of incongruity, I planned to take the child Polly with me to the theatre, to see the grown-up Polly act...
	UN-AMERICAN FANTASIES: by Wayan; 1996/7/19, a dreamtale. The All-American Family visits the fabulous Un-American Fantasy Store, where Mom is in for a shock... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY, LANGUAGE
	UNDER THE FUR: by Wayan, 700K total (5 p, 140K each), 1997/10/7; a color dream-comic (or plain text version, just 10 K) A strange creature slunk into our yard, carrying a skunk lunch. But she dropped her fur coat, and...
	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...
	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
	WHITE-FACED: by John A. Symonds; 1861/7/3, a mutation nightmare My face was leprous white like parchment; my eyes shone with a cold blue eerie light. I shrieked "Papa, don't you know me?"...
	WHY ARE WE AFRAID TO DIE?: by Hopper; summer 2008, an astral-interview dream. I meet a ghost girl and ask her about death. I figure she knows first-hand. And she tells me...
	WINTER DREAMS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; winter of late 2004/early 2005, a painted series of color-dreams. After teaching a class on color, I had a set of vivid dreams about color, and tried fusing them into one painting...
	THE WORLD TOUR: by Sharon Boyle; 1937?, a nightmare told to her mom, poet Kay Boyle This little man comes into the chapel, makes a fascist salute, and catches fire. He burns right down to his shoes...