There are also a few waking-world pieces on language--mainly on animal language. Since talking animals have been so long relegated to the province of dreams, I thought, now that more facts are in, it's only fair to show that dreams were years ahead of the scientific mainstream.

RELATED TOPICS: specialized language: dreams of music, math and logic - crystallized language: dreams of spells and curses - poetry - the power of names - animal people - animal rights and uplift to sentience - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

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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	ANIMAL SPEECH, ANIMAL ESP: by Wayan; 1997/7/31, from Wayan's journal. When you really observe animals in language programs it's obvious WE'RE the ones missing a lot...
	DEAF TO MY SIGNS: by Wayan; 1997/6/17, a wise frustration dreamtale. Watching a slideshow, in a room of deaf women, I find no one can hear me in either English or Sign...
	ELF ETYMOLOGY: by Wayan; 1997/7/14, a linguistic postmodern dream. We escape the trolls, but then our author, Tolkien, breaks in to explain a word, and the rest of the night...
	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
	I DREAM OF DERIVERRANS: by Wayan; 1982/11/16, a Joycean dream of surrender. I must rescue Ann Soforth from righteous rapists, then Paul McCartney from a musical curse... CAUTION: ABUSED CHILD, JOYCEAN LANGUAGE
	LET ME REVISE THAT...: by Wayan; 1998/8/28, a dream of clarity. I pray to the Love Goddess for help, but then realize there's a problem with my phrasing... CAUTION: UNROMANTIC
	LIES!: by Wayan; 1992/7/10, a dream that thinks it's a two-page novel. To investigate a criminal couple, I have to lie. And that's hard, since all my lies turn true... CAUTION: NEW AGE AND FILM NOIR DON'T MIX
	NATIVE LANGUAGE: by Wayan; 1996/11/17, a dream about senses and speech. I'm at the beach, seeing it through English linguistic filters. Or do I? Is there a language under language?
	NEUTRALITY'S ROOMMATE: by Emily Joy; 2007/4/19, a spooky dream. At our commune's new house, pandemonium breaks out when our matriarch meets a spook. Can we live together in peace?
	NO “I": by Wayan; 2003/10/22, a dream of identity loss. I’m in San Francisco trying to throw Sauron’s Ring into the Cracks of San Andreas. But a sexy sorcerer steals my sense of I! How can you act without a self?
	POTLATCH SMOKE: by Wayan; 1988/5/10, a dream of shamanic responsibility. Refugees flood the spirit worlds! War looms. Wolf, Silky, Dr Who, even the Bug-Goddess of Love are alarmed. I'm just a blonde ditz, but I help inspect realities till we trace the source: a Tlingit potlatch? Why?
	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...
	THE SERMON OF CARMEN DOG: by Wayan; 1990/9/10, the ultimate public-speaking nightmare. Animal poets at an open mic. My turn! And I find... I'm one. A creature who's only just evolved speech...
	SPEAKING FERN: by Wayan; 1991/3/25, a dream-prank. A dead fern in my backyard starts sending me messages in some strange language...
	TARDIS GAZEBO: by Wayan; 230K, a 3-page digital dream-comic, 1993/2/17 Solve a hieroglyphic riddle and you can fly, shapeshift, work magic! But someone doesn’t want me solving that riddle...
	TV DEVIL FLU: by Wayan; 1994/10/24, a short dreamtale. A "friend" gives me her TV. Turns out there's a small-minded devil in it who cheats on all his deals...
	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...

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