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Lesbian Life

Lesbian dreams. Not dreams of lesbian sex specifically, but of lesbian life--sex, yes, but also realizing your difference, coming out, discrimination, relationships, queer culture, and so on...

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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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	ARISTOTLE'S WIVES: by Wayan, 1984/5/20, a dueling-philosopher dream. Aristotle keeps marrying my friends and fucking them up. So I challenge Mr. Logic to a shamanic duel... CAUTION: THE F-WORD. OOPS, TOO LATE! LESBIAN FISH, TOO.
	AT THE BISEXUAL BALL: by Wayan; 1997/6/21, a dreamtale. How I found out what I really wanted at the bisexual ball. Really, I'm not disappointed... CAUTION: OH COME ON, READ THE TITLE
	BEYOND THE BUOYS: by Wayan; 1981/2/12, a short dreamfable. I'm a fairy queen at the beach, chasing a girl who's a strong swimmer. Yep, she swims beyond the buoys... CAUTION: BAD LESBIAN PUNS
	BLAME IT ON RIO: by Wayan; 1984/4/13, a quietly psychic dreamtale. I dream a sexy softball pitcher strikes everyone out. Next day, my friend brings her home, and... CAUTION: LESBIAN DATING
	BLEEDING HEART, the SELF-HEALING CORPSE, and IN THE FUTURE DESERT: by Wayan; 250K, 10 illus., 2002/5/29 to July 2004, a diagnostic, predictive dream-series. A tree-girl moves to Hollywood to make film deals, but jealousy stabs her... CAUTION: BLOODY ASSAULT, GAY DRYADS, MUTANT NUDITY
	CHELSEA AND THE PRESIDENTIAL COMPLEX: by Wayan; 1999/12/25, an odd political (?) dream. I was hot tubbing and flirting... so how'd I end up as Chelsea Clinton running for office?
	CHINA BEACH: by Wayan; 1992. Digital poster of a waking life-shift.. That moment when you tire of your old trauma and suddenly turn to the sun. Or fun. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES
	"CLIT!": by "D'Jeanna"; 2009/9/11, a breakthrough dream after coming out The day after my mom outed me to my dad, I dream a great storm has passed through and everything's just glowing...
	COEURL: by Wayan; 1980/2/26, a dream of surprise transcendence . I'm trapped in an alien hotel, my true love has gone radioactive, and the only way out is to turn into... CAUTION: LESBIAN LUNACY
	CORPSE-BUG: by Wayan; 200K, 1994/12/1, an allegorical sex nightmare. I'm a hippie girl in San Francisco, in hard times. To escape the Four Horsemen, I lie down with Death... CAUTION: GANGS, CREEPY SEX
	DANCING WITH EMILY BRONTE: by Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree; 1943?, a lesbian literary love-dream Alli/Tip could only imagine loving the strange, intense, and unavailable--and Bronte was all three..
	DREAM SHORTAGE: by Wayan; 1985/12/1, an appropriately short dream. I meet two women in dream-prison. One's a giant, one a miniature. A fairy? She says, 'No, I'm..."
	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...
	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...
	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
	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
	FLOWERING:: by Wayan; 215K, 1996, pencil, digital tinting; nondream portraits. Sketches from a San Francisco street music festival where, after a long sleep, I woke up sexually at last... CAUTION: NYMPHETS, QUEERS, AND OTHER REAL PEOPLE
	FOINBREK THE MOOSE: by Wayan; 1993/12/4, a dreamtale on love and work. My lesbian twin, who lives in the unemployment line, falls in love with a pushy moose from Brooklyn... CAUTION: INEPT SEX
	FOXES: by Wayan; 1991. Digital dream-based painting.. Long ago I saw a marvelous Hiroshige print of a fox convocation, lit by moon and foxfires... CAUTION: LESBIAN SPOOKS
	GALLERY GAWKERS: by Wayan; 2003-5; sketches of San Francisco characters For two years, I sat at the desk in our co-op gallery, and secretly sketched our bewildered, art-assaulted customers...
	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
	GET THEIR ATTENTION: by Wayan; 1999/4/24, a queer little dream. My friend Linda and I are walking in the Castro, when a tourist girl jams her tongue in Linda's mouth... CAUTION: SERIOUS TONGUE
	THE HEDGE KING: by Wayan, 1992/6/14, a gender-bent dream epic. I change sex to infiltrate a sinister castle, unaware its Lord can spot a shapeshifter--being one himself... CAUTION: A DISTURBING BEDSIDE MANOR. I MEAN, MANNER.
	HOT TO TROT, or, BRAIN TRAUMA, or, HUMPIN' THE HOG, or, SAD-EYED SWAN OF LOVE: by Wayan; 120K, 1993/8/4, a wild dreamtale. I'm a mare, hot to trot in the Big City (and get laid), but my gay Star Trek friend's brain trauma has made her a clueless alien with a bo(a)ring sexlife--until a certain swan enfolds her in love... CAUTION: ALIEN POSSESSION, CARTOON PIG SEX, SMOKING SWANS
	I WAS AN ELEPHANT HANDLER: by Wayan; 1989/4/3, a genderbent stagestruck dream. I was an elephant trainer longing to be a star--to win the girl on the flying trapeze. Who's probably straight... CAUTION: FLIRTING LESBIANS, OR POSSIBLY ELEPHANTS, OR MAYBE LIBRARIANS
	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
	JANEWAY'S TANGO: by Wayan, 1998/10/20, a psychic Star Trek dream. Why is Captain Janeway doing the tango with another woman, in a creek, wearing a mermaid tail?
	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...
	LESBOY: by Wayan; 1996/5/20, a dream on one's identity and place. My Aunt Squid advises me to join a lesbian artists' co-op. But I'm a man! Not for long, though... CAUTION: NUDE SUNBATHING, GENDER BEWILDERMENT
	LILY OXYGEN: by Wayan; 500K, 16 illus.; dreamed 1984/1/19, drawn 2000; a strong psychic dream. I'm Emily Dickinson reborn in 2100 as a peaceful breeder of hydroponic lilies, till my dad drafts me as an Arctic energy-prospector, where I meet a ghost, a fiery Beast, a new me, and the girl of my dreams... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, NUDE PROSPECTORS, GNOMIC DICKINSON QUOTES
	MARJANE: by Wayan; 180K, 11 watercolors, 2005/6/3, a nightmare about... articide? I'm cartoonist Marjane Satrapi. I passively tag along with friends (and a fiancé I tend to forget) in the Mission District of San Francisco. But they blunder into real trouble... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	THE MATING GAME: by Wayan; 1992/3/18, a dream of spillover. A TV crew invades the house, setting up for a special. I didn't expect to see a president on the work crew...
	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...
	AN OUTGROWN BED: by Wayan; 1990/10/14, a dream of growth and time. I'm a girl in a Catholic school. But a chance photo and the length of my bed combine to change my life... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, CHRISTIAN-NEGATIVE
	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...
	REBORN IMMORTAL: by Reneta Scian; 2010/1/3, a three-stage flying dream First I try to break the sound barrier like my girlfriend. Nope! Then I fly slowly to her apartment. Nothing flashy, but I make it. Last, I flash back to ancient China, where I land at a candle-lit temple dedicated to... me?
	A RENAISSANCE WOMAN: by Wayan; 1997/7/3, a dreamtale. I'm an abused girl turning tricks to survive. But this is San Francisco: I join a prostitutes' co-op, and meet... CAUTION: PROSTITUTES WITH SELF-RESPECT, OH NO!
	RUBBERNECKER: by Wayan; dreamed 2000/4/24; a ghost comedy. I dreamed of a woman whose jeep stalls on the Antarctic ice. Along comes the ghost of a Volkswagen...
	SAX: by Wayan; 300K total, 8 pp, 1991/5/31, a digital comic--a true story. Alone in my blue room, I heard sax music. Two sunbathers were jamming outside my window... CAUTION: SEX AND SAX
	SKY AND PRESTER JOHN: by Wayan; 2009/9/30, two short dream poems with sketches; Dreamverse #57 My neurotic sister and I both lust for a girl named Sky; then I flee a gang of popes and lamas and mullahs...
	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!
	TEN TRIALS: by Wayan; 101K, 1976/10/2, a dream of love distracted. While living with violent Kay, I dream I meet a nice moth-girl. But we must undergo ten trials. Mustn't we? CAUTION: RELATIONSHIP TROUBLES, BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT
	THE THIEF OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 200K, an illustrated dream-play, 1996/11/29. I was a mermaid trying to find Count Coyote's stolen dreams, so I could marry my human girlfriend... CAUTION: GAY MARRIAGE, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
	THE VERA DREAMS: by Vera and Wayan; 1991/7/25, a pair of shared/psychic dreams. I dream my friend Vera's ordered to just study and sleep--no play, no dating, no nothing. Next night I dream Vera works with gangs, as an armed peacekeeper. Vera's shocked when I tell the dreams, because...
	WHY COWGIRLS LOVE BROCCOLI: by Wayan; 1987/8/19, a surreal dream of love. I'm a cowgirl in Nevada circa 1900. Below Haunted Mansion, I meet a green lizard-lady in distress... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE
	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
	XANTHE'S TUNNEL: by Xanthe and Wayan; 1999/6/11, two psychic little dreams. I'm a dyke playing baseball in Golden Gate Park. Some guys harass us and run into a tunnel. I follow...