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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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ABOVE THE WHITE TOWER: by Wayan; 1990/1/14, a flying sex-change dream of love Flying in a wild wind, I mate mid-air with an alien, get pregnant, change sex, fight the inlaws... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
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ANNABEL ROSE: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/14, a ghostbusting dream on... love? sex? what? Edgar Allen Poe confronts his dead girlfriend, who wants to drag him into the grave with her... CAUTION: HUNGRY GHOST, SEX TALK |
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ANNIE, GET YOUR GOWN!: by Wayan; 1988/9/14, an illustrated dreamtale. I'm Annie Oakley, sharpshooter, facing something scarier than gunmen: a formal ball introducing me to my new husband's family--Austrian aristocracy! What's an American gal to do? |
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ANSWERING JUNG: by Wayan; 2005/7/5, a dream mocking one of Jung's key dreams After reading Jung's dreams, I have a counter-Jungian dream. So different from his! And mine has some pointed advice... CAUTION: NUDE STATUES |
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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? |
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A PEEL FOR APPROVAL: by Wayan; 1990/9/24, a cautionary dream Ariana's a brilliant young writer, but how she plans to escape her family is alarming... CAUTION: TEEN PREGNANCY, SKIN MAGS, BAD CAREER PLANNING |
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ARIANE'S HONEYMOON: by Wayan; 1986/4/11, a short dream; chapter 2 of UNICORN TAG, a set of nine linked dreamtales. I'm happily married to a childhood crush of mine. Till she talks to my sister, and I overhear what she really thinks of...... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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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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THE ARTIFACT: by Wayan; 1983/1/16. Narrative dream painting. I was a lizard archeologist, a million years from now. What I dug up threatened my marriage... |
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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 |
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AWK!: by Wayan; 1988?, a trance drawing of a body state When I met someone attractive, my head flamed, burning my body like a wax candle... |
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BALANCE?: by Wayan, 1984/10/10, a dream about dreams. Silky, my sentient starship, gives me a scolding about playing it safe... |
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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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BASEBALL NAGA: by Wayan; 1971/7/12, my first sexy dream. Our toy train full of nude baseball players went under the park sprinklers, so naturally our shortstop shelters her friend the outfielder snake. But in there? Isn't it just as wet in there? CAUTION: SCALY SEX |
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A BEAM OF FLIGHT: by Wayan; 135K, 1992/4/19, a dream of love and shellshock. I'm a dance teacher, I'm King Kong, I'm a shell-shocked elf, I'm a wild bird flying... CAUTION: GAY-POSITIVE ROLE MODELS, OH NO! |
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BEAR READ DUNE: by Wayan; dreamed 1981/1/28, painted 10 years later . There are many astral planes--this world's just the cellar. A cat, a bird, a bear and I guard the astral stair... |
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BEAUTY, BRAINS, WARMTH: by Wayan; 1987/11/28, a didactic dreamtale. The Goddess won't tell me who to seek, to love, just WHAT to seek--and what not to... CAUTION: DIVINELY SANCTIONED TRIGAMY? |
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THE BEE QUEEN: by Wayan; 1997/6/26, a hard-headed dream. Two time-traveling paleontologists get a gift from their friend the Bee Queen. A gift with six-inch fangs... |
| LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI: by John Keats, April 1819, a sexy nightmare poem A knight falls in love with a fey woman, until her previous victims warn him in a nightmare that she is... CAUTION: GOTH TO THE MAX |
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| 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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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 |
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BLESS MY PHOBIA: by Wayan; dreamed 1992/8/15; text and silk painting. I was Eve's guardian angel the second time round, and I blew it again. But this time, it came out right.... CAUTION: BREASTS AND BEASTS |
| BYRON’S DREAM: by Lord Byron; 1816, a dream of a love denied An epic dream on the lifelong effects of unrequited love, compressed into seven stanzas... |
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CLAN TAUR: by Wayan; 620K total, suite of tinted pencil studies of dream-family, 1998-2002. I keep dreaming I'm in a multispecies family full of centaurs and satyrs, having a reunion at the beach... CAUTION: NUDE BEACH, STRANGE RELATIVES |
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A CAT AND HER GIRL: by Wayan; 1979/5/15, a deep little dream. I'm a doctor in the future, trying to heal the neurolink between a girl and her cat... |
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CAT COUPLE: by Wayan; 13K, 1996, a digital wish. I cover my computer's desktop with this image tiled endlessly. And will, till the lesson sinks in... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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CAT PEOPLE KISSING: by Wayan; clay sculpture of dream characters, 1996, 8" tall. One of my very first sculptures... carved out of raw white clay as if it were stone. |
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CENTAUR BEACH: by Wayan; 1990. Two images from a set of recurring dreams. Me and my sisters at the beach. Strangers rarely think we're related, and you can see why... |
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CENTAUR QUARTET: by Wayan; 1980-84, a dream-series on shamanic families. Can our interracial family survive? Not just cultural conflict, but our instincts clash around sex--and incest... CAUTION: SEX, INCEST ISSUES, DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY |
| CHAPLIN: by Wayan; 1974/5/22, a dream on loneliness. I'm Charlie Chaplin doing magic tricks with the Ring of Power. And I don't even WANT power, just love... |
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| THE CHINESE PROFESSOR'S WIFE: by Wayan; 1997/2/4, a dream on abuse. My neighbor thinks I'm sleeping with his wife, who he abuses. Only I think she may be me... CAUTION: IMPLIED BATTERING |
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| CLAIRE'S NAMES: by Wayan, 1998/1/11, a dream of love and stretching. My skateboard-riding mermaid girlfriend and I bind ourselves together by the magical power of names... |
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CLOSE THE GATE: by Emily Joy; 2004/11/19, a dream of decision. My foxy lover teases and tempts, but I can't let him into the patio for fear he'll hurt the rabbits… CAUTION: UNFUNNY BUNNY PUNS |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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DALMATIAN MARE: by Wayan; 1987/8/22; a dream on hiding and showing off. I dreamed of South American musical intrigue in a grand hotel. Enter a polka-dot shapeshifter... |
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DEER SORCERESS: by Wayan; 1981/5/18, a dream on the virtues of chaos. A witch-girl turned to a deer flees hell-hounds who just CAN'T get organized... |
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DIURNAL AND NOCTURNAL WORLDS: by Wayan; 1993/11/8, an epic dream of the multiverse. Round the ring of twelve worlds and their twelve gods, seeking one god who's giving me grief... |
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DO YOU LOVE ME, JOHN?: by Wayan; 1991/7/6, a dream on the courage of the shy. I dream of a future where blondes are a too-cute endangered species. How can they survive? Like this... CAUTION: NUDITY |
| EXPLORATION: by Wayan; 1998/2/27, a dreamtale. Hide and seek on an alien world ends in a sexy encounter--and a startling insight on BELIEF... CAUTION: SEX |
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FAIRE DINOSAUR: by Wayan; 1981/5/5. A dream of forbidden love. I fall in love with a sexy T. Rex at the Renaissance Faire. Then things get weird... CAUTION: DINO ABUSE |
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FAIRY WIFE: by Wayan; 1985/1/17, an epic dream of love and choice. A fairy woman and a mortal man? Can't work! They're flighty, we're crude. Doomed, right? Well, some people are so sure of it they decide to help things along a bit. Or a lot... |
| FAMILIARS: by Wayan; 1986/4/2, a dreamtale on the dark side of reading. In ancient Britain, as Christianity moves in, I'm a slave--sailing through centuries, but never free... |
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| 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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| 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 |
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(ON THE OLD) GENDER TRAIL: by Wayan; 161K, 1995, digital picture-poem with dream intrusions. For me, the path to love is difficult, elusive, convoluted... |
| GIVE TRAVIS ONE MORE CHANCE: by Wayan; 1980/10/13, a desperate dream. I'm detective Travis McGee's lover, so I know I'm doomed. My solution is drastic... CAUTION: HARD-BOILED HANDGUNS |
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GOOD DOG!: by Wayan; 1992; sketch of inner me: doggily insecure. The shy, doggy need for reassurance I often crave from a lover--do I crave a mistress, an owner?... CAUTION: NUDITY, PILLOW TALK |
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GRAMPA GOT AIMED: by Wayan; 1987/6/17, a psychic dream. The girl I love has a family that'll stop at absolutely nothing to destroy us. But I'll fight for love... CAUTION: SEX; EMOTIONAL VIOLENCE; MOLESTATION HISTORY |
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GYRLFALCON: by Wayan; 1971/11/26, an early dream of love and battle. I'm a Gyrlfalcon in a theater, fighting the Wolverine and his Morlocks with my lover the Green Lion... |
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HALF SHAMAN, HALF STATESMAN: by Wayan; 100K, 1986/4/21, a parallel-world dream: Chapter 6 of UNICORN TAG I get a scholarship to Shaman U. Some of my classmates are Terran, but I still don't fit in, because... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
| HAPPINESS UNBLOCKS ART: by Wayan; 1997/7/7, nondream book review An insight about a fictional character who unblocks her creativity changes my own life strategy... |
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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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| "HIS BALL IS EMPTY": by Wayan; 1982/3/23, an epistolary advice-dream. A letter to Miss Hornyhearts compares the writer's lover and husband. Some sharp advice for nice boys... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
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HIS DEER WIFE: by Wayan; 195K, 20 images, 1995/7/9, a parallel world love story. I'm a slave, a scribe in the house of a Captain of the New Aztec Empire, when he brings home a wife... CAUTION: SLAVE SOCIETY, SEX, SPOUSAL ABUSE/NEGLECT |
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HOLD HEAD: by Wayan; 1993; nondream digital sketch. This started as an exercise in dramatic figure-drawing and shifted round into an exorcise in guilt... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL CONFESSIONS |
| THE HONEST INMATE: by Wayan; 1997/5/8, a dreamfable on truthfulness. I'm a psychopath in a prison for the insane. But I fall in love, and change. Blunt honesty fuels the change... |
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THE HORSE VOTERS: by Wayan; 1995/4/30, a dream on race? Or... 19th century horsebreeders crossbred more than they admit. One suggests I look hard in the mirror... CAUTION: UNSEEMLY SENATORIAL DISCOURSE |
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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 |
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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 |
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I WON'T DIE TILL LOVE DIES: by Wayan; 1981/1/21, a divine dream . I meet the mermaid goddess of love in her pool, but when she advises me, I dispute one small point... |
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THE ILL-FORMED TALE: by Wayan; 160K, 1981/4/7, a wild dream anti-epic . To reach the Peak of Happiness on the Isle of Dreams, I must pass four Perils--but they're all backwards... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS NUTS, KNIVES, NUDE ALIENS, BACKWARD PLOT... |
| IMPERSONAL ORGY: by Wayan; 1997/9/18, a temptation dream--or an un-temptation dream?. At the beach, my friends start a sleepy anonymous orgy... I'm single and frustrated, but is this what I want? CAUTION: SEX |
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| IN MY DARKEST HOUR: by Arlo Guthrie; 1967, a song heard in a dream. A man in a castle plots against his enemies, while his rebel-daughter meets her lover outside... |
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| IN WOMEN'S PRISON: by Wayan; 1994/7/23, a dream of faith. A woman in prison loves her counselor, but she's a barely literate hooker--she knows he won't love her back... |
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ISLE OF THE BLEST: by Wayan; 1990, painting inspired by series of fox-dreams I'm a Japanese werefox, longing to reach the Isle of the Blest; but dare I swim for it? |
| IT DOESN'T ADD UP: by Wayan; 1995/6/26, an arithmetical dream. Dream math often seems bad, but I think the discrepancies are a signal, not noise... |
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JUST SEX AND IDIOTS: by Wayan; 1998/2/22, a political dating dream. A sex dream warning "to find your soulmate, learn to spot the opposite: cute political and spiritual idiots..." CAUTION: SEX AND POLITICS |
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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 |
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KISS THE GLASS: by Wayan; 1979/9/23, a dream on priorities. My parents' house is now a sex club. I walk in, and meet my soulmate! But in awkward circumstances... CAUTION: SEX |
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THE LADY BATHES IN GRIEF: by Wayan; 1983/5/31, a long-haul psychic dream. Why'd a spirit-woman come to our reservation to mourn a drowned guy? Her mirrors & candles tell us... |
| LAMPREYS: by Wayan; 1974/6/27, a dream of assimilation . Pretty much everyone in my school is a bloodsucking alien, but, come to think of it, so what? CAUTION: SEX, VAMPIRES, SEX WITH VAMPIRES, BUT NICE VAMPIRES |
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LEAN ON ME: by Wayan; 120K; 1987, 1992. Recurring dream image.. This couple keeps appearing in my dreams--as equals, as mount and rider, as friends, as enemies, as lovers... CAUTION: NUDITY |
| 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 |
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LIFE MATES: by Katie Hofgard; 2003/4/19?, a reincarnation-romance dream Mysterious doings on an archeological dig bring a creature back to life, but this is no Mummy... |
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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 |
| LOVE DAY: by Wayan; 1989/3/21, a sitcom dream. On Love Day you can't mock anyone's come-on, of course; but in the bar "Cheers", Carla's mad at Diane... CAUTION: PRO-BIGAMY? |
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| LOVE OR HATE?: by Wayan; 1994/5/4, an untwisted dream. My sister and I are groping toward sex when our mom bursts in. Her scolding's not what I expect... CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES, PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY |
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| LOVE IS REAL, REAL IS LOVE, BUT...: by Wayan; 1993/5/30, a musical mystery dream. Singing a Lennon love song on a planet of giant women provokes first wonder, then disbelief. Why? |
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| LOVING A COP: by Wayan; 1981/5/5, a dream on initiative. I'm a cop's wife, having trouble with his need to protect me. He's hurt if I take too much initiative... |
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MAELEN AND ME: by Wayan; 1972/5/1, a transmigrational dream. I'm a psychic circus animal who's just managed to teleport my humanoid girlfriend. It's for our act, but... CAUTION: PETTING |
| MARINE GEOLOGY'S NOT IT: by Wayan; 1984/6/2, a dream farce. After finding marine geologists in my chocolate pudding, I'd rather be a Frenchman and insult my wife... CAUTION: DECADENCE |
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| 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 |
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| MELTDOWN BABY: by Wayan; 1996/10/13, a guilty nightmare. In a Mormon future, my baby climbs a tree and spontaneously disintegrates! I try repotting, but... CAUTION: BAD PARENTING |
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THE MERMAN'S LOVER: by Wayan; 422K total, four digital paintings, each about 640 x 480, 1991. Four versions of an undersea meeting between lovers, one terrestrial, one marine... CAUTION: ORAL SEX |
| 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 |
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MODELING A ME: by Wayan, 1994/8/29, a mirroring dream I find a 3D program that shows your true self, the self that can love, IS love. And my wireframe is... |
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MOONCAT: by Wayan; 150K, 1995/11/26; a subtle dream of sonar Near a mysterious sculpture garden on the moon, lives the blind, bike-riding sage I seek: Moon-Cat... |
| 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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| THE MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE THEORY: by Wayan; 1996/11/6, a dream on synergism. A girl and two snakes are clever but murderous. Yet, apart, they're not mean at all! Not sin--synergy... |
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| MY MUSLIM MOTHER-IN-LAW: by Wayan; 1995/3/25, a dream on repression. How exactly did I acquire a mother-in-law snooping on my phone calls, when I don't have a wife? |
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MUSTARD VAMPIRE : by Wayan; 1984/3/1, a warning dream. I love a cute vampire. She's willing to go on a diet. Even so, do I have enough blood to spare? |
| MY ALIEN ABDUCTION: by Wayan; 1989/4/6, a dream on reserving judgment. I'm on a forced march, captured by alien mercenaries. But they're nicer than you'd think--it's their human boss... |
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| MY EX-WIFE: by Wayan; 1982/3/23, a dream on delusions. My ex-wife breaks in, but acts like I'm the one who crawled back to her... and I don't HAVE an ex-wife! CAUTION: ADULT THEMES. REALLY, REALLY STUPID ADULT THEMES. |
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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 |
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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... |
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MY THREE HUSBANDS: by Wayan; 745K (15 p), a digital comic drawn 1991 from a 1981 dream. Or view page by page: Cover, p.1, p.2, p.3, p.4, p.5, p.6, p.7, p.8, p.9, p.10, p.11, p.12, p.13, p. 14. I'm three women who marry a unicorn, a goat philosopher, and a magic cat.. We form a commune, but the police quarantine us... CAUTION: INTERSPECIES MARRIAGE, UNDERAGE SEX, and BAD COPS |
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NAIAD AND GOD-DOG: by Wayan; 1980, a manipulative dream-tragedy. I love a Naiad who's lost her God. Tragedy strikes us. I'm devastated till I meet the aliens who explain... |
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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... |
| NOT LOVE, BUT NOT ABUSE: by Wayan; 1996/6/6, a dream on gradualism. I dream I don't love my girlfriend, I just confuse non-abusive treatment with love.... |
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ORIOLE GIRL: by Wayan; 100K, 7 illus., 1992/1/23, a poem telling a psychic dream. While conducting a census of fairies in Golden Gate Park, I fall in love with an abused oriole-angel, and we try to heal each other... CAUTION: AWKWARD SEX |
| ORPHEUS AND POOH: by Wayan; 1972/4/9, an early dream epic. I meet my true love during a coup. We go through Hell together, like Orpheus and Eurydice--only we... |
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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 |
| PHARAOH HOOKS: by Wayan; 1989/7/31, a deadpan joke of a dream. My sister and her friend the snake-woman tell me the facts of life: the golden hooks, the piglets... CAUTION: UNRELIABLE GYNECOLOGY |
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PIER'S END: by Wayan, 1989/2/21, a Raymond Chandler dreamtale. My detective lover warned me, "Stay away!" Now I'm trapped. Dare I follow the lion over the edge? |
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PINK CHILD AND PRESTON: by Katie Hofgard; 120K, 2005/5/7?, a sexy dream of childhood My boyfriend and I are beings with pinkish joints... CAUTION: SEXY CREATURES |
| THE POLYGAMOUS PILOT: by Wayan; 1990/9/25, a psychic dreamtale. My friend the Polygamous Pilot is up in an ice-storm, hanging powerlines on the sky, when... |
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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? |
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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 |
| PRINCESS OF PASSION: by Wayan; 1993/7/10, a chthonic dream. Led by a rebel demon into the heart of a Chinese mountain, should I wake the Sleepers in the Cave? |
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| PURE LOVE: by Wayan; 1986/10/9, a dreamtale on the truth. A tangle of time travel, as two shapeshifters meet and fight and love over the centuries... |
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RANI: by Wayan; 120K total (8 illus.), 1994/1/28, a dreamtale on choice. A Borges story of a were-tiger provokes a dream of a ranch crawling with weird women. But I LIKE them... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
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RAVEN AT 5 O'CLOCK: by Raven and Wayan; 1996/11/30. Shared but stupid psychic dreams. My girlfriend Raven dreams I keep poking her awake, while I dream that a different kind of raven gives me weird advice... |
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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! |
| 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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RIDING MY UNICORN: by Wayan; 1993? Digital picture-poem of incubated vision. I'm single and feeling shy. So I asked my dreams for an image of my true love, and got... CAUTION: SEX |
| THE RIFT ZONE: by Wayan; 1987/11/27, a long-term psychic dream. I'm not ambivalent--I'm confused! I live here by the Rift Zone and I don't. I'm single and not. Two lives!... |
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RING OF WHITE WATER: by Wayan; 350K total, 14 illustrations, 1983/1/30, a major dreamtale. I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. One of my tour group jumps ship: she's scared of the white water of rocky relationships ahead... CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS... |
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ROAD Detail: FRIENDS AND LOVERS: by Wayan; 630 x 390. Friends, and lovers, and some who got away. And the big question mark in the future... |
| SALIA AND CHUR: by Wayan; 1989/2/25, a psychic Star Trek dream. Our starship signs up a strange new woman whose quirks turn out to be the effects of slavery... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES |
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| SEX THERAPY: by Wayan; 1998/5/18, a dream on the messiness of healing. Both of us were abused as kids. Sex is hard. So we go to a therapist who has us act out sex on the floor... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES |
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SHADOW PUZZLE: THE LORD AND HIS SERVANT: by Wayan; 1984/5/23, a reflective dream. A puzzle-game of eyes and mirrors and shadows starts revealing the players' deepest secrets... |
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SHAPESHIFTER FEVER: by Wayan; 1989/1/30, a dream poem. A summer love affair with a shapeshifting alien turns awkward when she gets a high fever, and... CAUTION: UGH! |
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SILKY CROSSES THE ATLANTIC: by Wayan; dreamed 1982/8/24, painted 1994 (acrylic/ink/xerox). After I fled my batterer, I was afraid to love--afraid I'd give up my freedom again for mere kindness... |
| SILKY'S WEDDING: by Wayan; 1988/1/6, a dreamtale. Silky, my often-animal anima, leads me into a strange pagan church where we get married at last... |
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| SKIMMING TOWARD FREEDOM: by Wayan; 2002/1/18, a dream with 3 sketches. My girlfriend and I can fly, but detectives follow us around. How to lose them? By sticking to the beach and... CAUTION: BIZARRE CREATURES, FRANK LANGUAGE |
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SPLASH!: by Wayan; acrylic, 12" triangle, late 2002; dream painting. While I study how humans went extinct, my daughter happily splashes in the sea... |
| A STAB OF ANGER: by Wayan; 1997/5/24, a Jurassic Park dream. By a midnight lake, I comfort an abused girl in the mud. But then two figures with long knives appear... |
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| 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 |
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SURRENDER DARCY!: by Wayan; 1982/6/14, a dreamtale on pride and prejudice. I'm Doctor Who, being chased by an air-surfer who demands we give up a reserved, proud man... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
| 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... |
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TAROT: CARING or THE PIETA: by Wayan; 20K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. The card of caring, caregiving, and compassion... |
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TAROT: THE LOVERS: by Wayan; 290 x 500. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. The card of love. I'm not sure what genders the lovers are, but no matter... |
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TAROT: MUTUAL ATTRACTION: by Wayan; 32K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. That moment when you recognize a kindred spirit, and realize he or she feels that way too... |
| TARZAN AND JANE IN SUBURBIA: by Wayan; 1993/7/11, a dreamtale. Well, Tarzan and Jane are living in suburbia now, but though Tarzan's given up so much, Jane complains... |
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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 |
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TERESA'S BILLBOARDS: by Wayan; 1988/5/1, a dream about trust. Teresa mistrusts men. Her best friend Sabina comes on to me in front of Teresa, who blames me... CAUTION: NUDITY, BETRAYAL, GENDER PARANOIA |
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TIAMAT'S REBELLION: by Wayan; 2 ill., 1988/1/1, a dream about neoteny. I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah. I dream she leads a revolution on a starship... |
| TITAN, or, SATURN'S WEDDING BAND: by Wayan; 1981/3/22, a billion-mile roadtrip dream. Our band's touring Titan. Road trip blues: diners, feuds, romances. Have I been chasing the wrong girl? |
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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... |
| TOUGH GLOVE: by Wayan; 1999/12/4, a dreamtale. I finally find a way to safely indulge in heavy petting (as well as puns) with the cat... |
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| 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 |
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TWO-HEADED BEAST: by Wayan; 333K total, 12 images, 1997/7/31, a Gothic dream. In Castle Frankenstein, will Mary Shelley wed Elmer Fudd? His two-headed monster has marital advice... |
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UNICORN and MERMAID: by Wayan; 1988, digital; dream figures though not dream scene. A unicorn wades in the shallows to meet his girlfriend, a mermaid. Or at least they're headed that way... |
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VALENTINE: by Wayan; 1989/2/14, a nondream picture-poem A lipstick poem for that stickiest of holidays... |
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A VALLEY NEAR HOPE: by Wayan; 155K, illustrated, 1984/10/17-19, an epic dream. I'm lost in a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who adore unicorns but hate cyborgs, who think ants are cute, but dread unicorns! And while the Three Tribes love and hate, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four vertices of my tetrahedral soul, but what if I get what I want? Peace, love... transformation? What if those aren't cute and New Age? CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING |
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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... |
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VIRGIN ON THE VERGE: by Wayan; 640 x 680 tall, 1992. Digital picture/poem/rant. Ever since I was battered I feel like a virgin again: longing, but wary--scared where sex may lead... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES |
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WATERCATS: by Wayan; 170K, 1987/9/10; a psychic dream of another life. I'm a biologist who finds an 'extinct' species in a slum. But the survivors speak: they tell me I'm one of them, just hypnotized to think I'm human... And when I wake, another kind of cultural hypnosis is exposed: |
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WE MEET IN DREAMS: by Katie Hofgard; 100K, 2005?, a dream-portrait I only meet my wolf-soulmate in recurrent dreams... CAUTION: SEXY CREATURES |
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THE WHITE SUBMARINE: by Wayan; 1974/7/6, a dream of love and flood. My girlfriend and I ride out the Great Flood in the White Submarine, but some things never change... |
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WHO KNOWS WHO'S YOUR MATE? 52K, mid-1980s, acrylic on blown-up ink sketch; a nondream picture-poem. Share? And who? And WHAT? Who knows who's your mate... and who's NOT? |
| WISH AND WAKE: by Wayan; 1998/7/9, a dream within a dream. I wake up praying for love--and then realize my wish is contradictory, and revise it to... |
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| WITCH, FLY FREE!: by Wayan; 1997/5/3, a predictive dream. A castle of witches in Europe. Persecuted for centuries, they're wary. Can I find a good witch to love? CAUTION: PAGANS CRIPPLED BY SIEGE MENTALITY... |
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WOLFWALL: by Wayan; 106K, 1995-1999. Digital image of daydream/trance Drew all night in a trance and only learned at dawn what this flirting otter and wolf were trying to tell me... CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL THEME |
| WOMBERS: by Wayan; 1997/8/23, a journal entry on peace-at-any-price personalities Nancy Friday describes a certain kind of guy disturbingly like me, and I realize chronic illness has made me... |
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| WORD AND DEED: by Wayan; 1989/8/1, a embarrassing dream fable. In bed with my sister and Emmanuelle of the sex films, I learn a little something about denial... CAUTION: SEX, INCEST, INSIGHTS |
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| YOU'RE THE EAGLE: by Wayan; 2000/2/8, a dream fable. A hermit spends his life wrestling with shadows. His only disciple becomes famous. Who was happier? |
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| YUPPIE BREAKUP: by Wayan; 1991/5/22, a dream on values--or the lack thereof. A yuppie idealist discovers her boyfriend's a cheerful opportunist, and they disentangle their lives... CAUTION: SEX IN REVERSE |
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ZELIG FLIES: by Wayan, 1984/4/29, a psychic, lucid dream epic. Indescribable! I careen from a sacrificial marriage-altar to the secret pool of the Oracle Harpist, into the jaws of Leviathan and the joys of lucid flight, shifting from male to female and gay to straight--till I meet the Dragonfly People themselves... CAUTION: STUPID, STUPID SEX CULT! |
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ZENNA CAT: by Wayan; 1972/10/13, a childhood dream. My cat dissolves in the shower. I follow her to a telepathic world. I want to stay, but can I?... |
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ZERO SUM: by Wayan; 1996/5/29, a game-theory dream. I'm lecturing to a crowd: "Love's a win-win game, and abuse, lose-lose. But blame is zero-sum..." |
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