Light and Color
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| AFTER A LONG ILLNESS: by Nicholas Christopher; 1990?, a dream poem A surreal dream of a levitating man reeled in like a kite, the night after I’d flown from New York to Hawai’i... |
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| | AIRACUDA: by Wayan; 2008/9/9, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #25 The jeweled fish over San Francisco grew and grew until it landed and they spoke the secret code to me... |
| ANIMAL TRANSFIGURATION: by Edwin Muir; c.1920, a dream of an animal Resurrection A man with luminous hair leads Edwin out to a field where all the world’s animals gaze at heaven--except one... |
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| ANOCHE / LAST NIGHT: by Antonio Machado; c. 1900; a joyful dream poem Last night, as I slept, I dreamt--illusion blessed!--that I had a beehive, here in my heart... |
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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. |
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ASTEROID STRIKES: by Ben Bamber; Sept.-Dec. 2001, four dreams predicting three meteor strikes in southern England I witnessed strikes in Brighton and Devon through the eyes of others; but I felt the Cheltenham impact in my own body... |
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THE BEAR'S RIP: by Xanthe; 100K, 4 illus., dreamed 1990 or 1991; a quasi-lucid dream A bear rips open my wall and guides me into a psychedelic space where I learn to see with new eyes... |
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BLUE SOUP, NO SPARK: by Wayan; 115K, 1985/6/1, a dream epic. A visit to a world where they fear blue soup ends in death and resurrection, so I'm pissed at my boss--God. CAUTION: DEATH, REBIRTH, SACRILEGE, JOB BURNOUT |
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BREAK FREE: by Emily Joy; 2006/5/11, an encouraging dream on the price of safety. I search for family skeletons, but then a talking plant on TV inspires me to seek the sun and fly free. But certain velociraptors and barbarian swordswomen object... CAUTION: DUELS, FISH ABUSE, THE F-WORD |
| "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... |
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DANCING ROBBANE: by Emily Joy; 2007/8/1, sculpture of a dream sculpture. The clay came alive, shaped itself, started dancing...and mutating. |
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ECCENTRIC: by Wayan; 100K, a two-page comic of a 1990/5/17 dream. I'm a small planet in an eccentric orbit: a one-day summer, a two-day winter. Rest and hibernate, or... CAUTION: SLACKER ETHIC |
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ENLIGHTENMENT: by Brenda Ferrimani; 1999/3/9, painting of a non-apocalyptic dream A crowd watches from shore as a great glowing meteor descends into the sea. I fear a tsunami, but... |
| 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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EXUBERANT BALLOONS: by Pauline Ramsey, c. 1985, a sudden joyful dream image. I stood on a bridge in winter. A skater shot out from the arch beneath, trailing a rainbow of balloons... |
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FIGURE DRAWING: EYES SHUT IN SUN: by Wayan; 1995 crayon sketch from photo. Just a startling moment when a woman with backlit hair turned incandescent... |
| 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 |
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MY FLUORESCENT WORLD: by Wayan; 1997/8/16, a psychedelic dream. I always thought I saw differently than others, but when someone builds the Goggles... |
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FORGET THE FLEURS DU MAL: by Wayan; 1983/1/1?, a poem on nightmares. In the richest regions of the sea, dead stuff wells up to meet the light. Do we have similar zones? |
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A GOLDEN KEY IN A CHEAP LIGHT: by Wayan; 200K, 1996/7/9, a subtle dream lesson I was so lonely the potheads on Haight looked good. I dreamed I had the Golden Key, but under a cheap sodium streetlamp, ALL my keys looked gold! Then I met true gold: a woman meditating until she shone... CAUTION: NUDITY, HAIGHT ST DECADENCE AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE |
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HELP YOUR NEIGHBOR: by Wayan; 2 illus., 1994/2/18, a comic nightmare. I'm an organic almond grower who's solved the Luminous Snail problem. But my neighbor has an agenda... |
| HILLARY AND TEAL: by "A 24-Year-Old Californian Woman"; around 2008/2/28, an absurd political dream Hillary Clinton hid her cancer, but the GOP found out. So a monster kidnaps Rainbow Brite, and... |
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LASERBOMB: by Wayan, 1995/7/3, a dream on paralysis. I'm on Mars. The terraforming is going well. Then saboteurs set off a laserbomb in the street near me... CAUTION: TERRORISM |
| LIGHTEN UP, ROADS!: by Wayan; 1994/6/28, a dreamed eco-proposal. Recycling used paint to lighten pavements could lower continental temperatures a fraction of a degree... |
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| LONG ROAD TO HEAVEN: by Edwin Muir; 1920, an epic hypnogogic shamanic initiation Creatures in the primal sea touch my third eye, dragons cry their eyes out, I fight the Sphinx, and arrive at last in... |
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MELTDOWN VALLEY: by Wayan; 1993/2/13, a dream of scrupulous balance. A park in San Francisco has melted into a bizarre mutation-zone. Its guardian is a lonely elf-woman... CAUTION: ELF NUDITY |
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A NEW MERMAID DISH: by Wayan; 1994/11/13, a parabolic dream A mermaid friend invites me to see an underwater experiment in the Golden Gate... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS |
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IN THE MERMAID'S DRESSING ROOM: by Wayan; 100K, 1993/12/18; an evolutionary dream. At Sea-Dragon State Park, I climbed down to the sea serpent's dressing room after the show, and found... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS |
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MY GATE: by Wayan; 500K, 8 illus., 1996/5/29; a breakthrough dream. The full moon rose, I turned into Weregirl, did the Moondance, and gnawed open the lock on my heart... CAUTION: NUDITY |
| NEUTRINO EYES: by Wayan; 1983, a poem on dark matters. ESP is like having neutrino detectors for eyes: what radiates from people's cores blinds you to their surfaces... |
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OISIN: by Wayan; 200K, 2005, 4 maps and images; a nondream virtual world A model of a Europa-like moon with life under thinly ice-covered seas... |
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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 |
| A PILGRIM DREAMING: by Denise Levertov; 1977? a dream poem A man I loved goes into the Jungian depths, but when his anima appears in the mirror-pool, his nerve fails... |
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PRISONS AND STRIPES: by Emily Joy; 2007/10/4, a lucid dream. In a museum full of spacetime-bubbles holding lost souls, the museum-goers are as weird as the exhibits... |
| PYRAMID POWER: by Wayan; 1981/2/2, a dream of love and time. We drive into a zone of perpetual night to see Sweet Melinda, but our time-path splits! Two lives at once? |
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| QUOD VITAE: by Rene Descartes; 1619/11/11, three mystical dreams. In one night Descartes had three dreams convincing him he had to change the course of his life... |
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(THE MOON IS PROPELLED BY) REELS OF LIGHT: by Wayan; 2000/11/17. Digital painting of the dream-process. The moon's a sailing ship propelled not by wind but light: the light of night-movies. Dreams... |
| REVELATION: by Anna Kingsford; 1885/11/27, a prophetic, almost messianic, dream. Dreams and other revelations shouldn't be dissected--they need to be reveiled, not revealed... CAUTION: INTENSE MYSTICISM |
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| RIBBING: by Wayan; 1992/12/25, an assertive dreamtale. After seeing 150 years of family photos, I dream of being teased by time-traveling cheerleaders, and... |
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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... |
| SLEDDING NEAR C: by Albert Einstein; around 1890-95; a transcendent career-advice dream Sledding at night, I approached the speed of light, and the stars turned colors I'd never seen... |
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THE SOLE FISHER OF THE EIGHTH NODE: by Wayan; 1986/9/25, a prescriptive dream. The pier jutting into the sea of dreams has an 8th chakra at the end, where a lonely woman fishes for sole... |
| SPLAT!: by Wayan; 1995/12/11, a science-fiction dream. Our physics project is top secret, but a stranger strolls into a meeting and opens a can of green light... |
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STARGIRL: by Wayan; 1993. Digital image of altered state I squabble with my body so much! But sometimes, at the moment of orgasm, we dissolve into stars, and become... CAUTION: SEX POETRY |
| STEPHENSON AND BELL: by Matthew Talbot; 1768, a recurring predictive dream. A man in a blue coat on a white horse delivered papers from a nearby wrecked ship, signed Stephenson and Bell. I awoke, and... |
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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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| THE SWORDSMEN: by T.A. Williams; late 1930s, a surreal dream. Dusk. A plain. A troop of swordsmen approach me, draw their weapons... and toss their spinning, shining swords to the stars... |
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TAROT: THE SOLAR REVOLUTION: by Wayan; 42K. Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1979. The card of revolution! The old towers of strength come down, not through war but obsolescence... |
| THYROID: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 1985; a set of life-saving diagnostic nightmares In 1985 I was flooded with nightmares about heads and necks. They had an unparalleled intensity... |
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TORNADO AND STARSHOWER: by Dream Junkee; 2008/8/15, a nightmare that goes lucid A killer tornado has us trapped in the cellar. I bite my finger and it's boneless--I'm dreaming! I summon a... |
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UNSHADE TREES: by Wayan; 1981/7/18, an advice-dream. Unshade trees are ugly. But my friends list their uses: casting shadows lighter than sunlight, keeping land clear of other trees, and the fruit. Fruit? WHAT fruit? Am I blind? |
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WINGVOW: by Wayan; 101K, 1994. Digital collage of dream figures Here's an incantation to induce flying dreams. "Bring me wings NOW, or forever hold your peace..." |
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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... |
| WONDERFUL SPECTACLES: by Anna Kingsford; 1877/1/31, a clairvoyant advisory dreamlet with a time-twist A mystic postman delivers a letter on the world's best glasses and a reply in my own hand, telling how to find and clean them... |
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