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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...
	AVOID THE MATRIARCH: by Wayan; 2010/7/8; a dream of, well, avoidance I love a girl in a big Singapore clan whose matriarch hates me. But the omens say a confrontation will be disastrous...
	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...
	THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR: by Wayan; 1995/8/8, a dream on body image. It's the Vietnam era; my draft board tolerates only a secret quota of COs. I decide not to tolerate THEM...
	THE DARII: by Wayan; 1994/8/15, a psychic dream of another life . I'm trying to prevent a race war, but can I kill someone I admire? And if so, can I live with it? CAUTION: VIOLENCE, RACISM, GUILT
	A DATE IN MINSK: by Wayan; 2009/8/23, a possibly psychic dream of adaptability A spacetime traveler inadvertently strands his pacifist vegetarian date in a gun-crazy mob-run town... CAUTION: DEFAMES BYELORUSSIANS
	THE DEER PARTY: by Wayan; 1986. A magical dream, Chapter 1 of a nine-story series: UNICORN TAG. A sentient factory shows me a genetic future where the Deer Party agitates for liberty, equality and fertility. Where I learn that I too may not be human...
	AN ELK SHOWED ME A SIGN OF PEACE: by Georganna Malloff; 1985?, painting of a vision In the Rockies, in winter, I was freezing until I found hot springs. In the steam rising, I saw a vision of an elk...
	GANDHI RUNS: by Wayan; 1997/8/1, a fusion dream. Gandhi and I must run barefoot across a burning racetrack miles wide... the Ascetic Desert?
	THE GREAT PEACE: by George Antheil; early 1922; two dreams of the future, one seemingly psychic, that transform a pianist's life I dream it's after a great war; I hear the music I must write, and meet the girl I must marry...
	GUARD ON THE BEACH: by Wayan; 1980/9/17, a dream of moral suasion Very nearly a nightmare, till the guard on the beach relented in the face of people power...
	HELL-BOUND TRAIN: by Franz Jaegerstetter, summer 1938; a political dream I was ordered to join Hitler's army. I dreamt a booming voice proclaimed, "This train is going to Hell!" So I...
	HOP TO THE SHAH: by Wayan; 2010/5/18, a flying political dream Diplomacy's failed. To stop the impending Iranian War single-handed, I hop like a monster flea across Iran to corner the New Shah...
	HOW TO SURVIVE NUCLEAR WAR: by Maxine Kumin; early 1980s, a dream poem. In Japan, sick in bed, reading a book on radiation sickness, I dream of a restorative ritual for trees... CAUTION: GRUESOME
	I FIGHT FOR BEAUTY: by Wayan; 125K, 6 illus, 1990/1/1, an incubated dream within a dream within a dream. From Hawaii to Wyoming, I fight for beauty, always waking to find I'm someone new...
	THE INVESTOR DREAMS A WOLF: by Wayan; 1983/10/30, a dream poem. My dream characters aged and tamed until they sit in a genteel Victorian flat. Then a wolf rappels in...
	THE ISLAND FURIES: by Wayan; summer 1975, a dream of self-control. When warring Greek isles kill a peacemaker, her three best friends start a vendetta! But she wanted peace... CAUTION: HATE NURSED TOO LONG
	JOSEPHUS, LET GO: by Josephus Flavius; c.65 AD, vague predictive dreams Resistance fighter Josephus, cornered, took a hard look at his prophetic dreams and decided to make peace...
	MAYAN FORCE: by Wayan; 1992/12/6, a political dream-fable. First, sf writer Heinlein advocates a strong army; then I see one in action--turned against the people...
	NEW LEVEL!: by "Julian"; 2006/5/22, 3 gamelike dreams in one night, two of them epic My mom and I road-duel an alien beetle, then investigate a deepspace Marie Celeste; then I spy for the Angevin Empire to protect the Crown Jewels...
	NIXON NOSE: by Wayan; 1997/12/10, a short psychic dream. A dream girl with a giant ski-jump nose turns out to be more literal than she seemed...
	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
	PRAISE THE DANCING GOONS: by Wayan; 2008/10/16, a dream-poem: Dreamverse 34 Three big tap-dancing kidnappers is too many to fight. So I try admiring their kidnapping technique...
	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
	WHY PROGRESS IS SLOW: by Wayan; 1991/1/26 and 2/16, a sociological dreamtale. Time-hopping through centuries, I learn how slow deep social change is. How we cling to our worldviews!
	SERRANA: by Wayan; 2MB, Oct-Dec 2004, a sculpture/webtour with 60 maps, photos and sketches A dry little world with many small seas, Serrana has at least six intelligent species and an anarchist culture. It's a tribute to Ursula Le Guin's anarchist utopia, "The Dispossessed", and Kropotkin's theories of biological cooperation... CAUTION: ANARCHIST POLITICS, ALIEN NUDITY
	SLUG ETHICS: by Wayan; 1974/10/7, an undream tale. A man who wants to love and respect all life has unwanted kitchen guests: a wave of slugs...
	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...
	SORB TRUCE: by Wayan; 2008/9/1, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #20 In a desert crawling with aliens who can absorb your mind, I propose a truce, and gain...
	STEALTH: by Wayan; 1992/1/15; digital painting of political dream. I dreamed the Stealth Bomber wasn't a machine, but a gigantic Owl-god. And Stealth was worshiped... CAUTION: CREEPING PACIFISM
	THARN: by Wayan; 8.3MB (45 p, 200+ ill.), 2006, a nondream virtual world: maps, photos, portraits, tours Tour a rugged, spectacular moon with air and water in deep canyons sheltering a dozen intelligent species CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, SCIENCE
	THIRTEEN PEACE SIGNS IN A TIME OF WAR: by Wayan; early 2002, acrylic sgraffito on wood. The animal goddess of peace, stubbornly raising her sign, my sign, as you all slide into your nice holy war...
	WE MARCHED THROUGH THE CITY OF SAINT FRANCIS: by Wayan; 1982/5/1?, a dream-influenced poem. After a peace march in San Francisco, I saw us as deer, and Americans as dogs. Yet WE frighten THEM...
	WHITE-KNUCKLE FAIRNESS: by Wayan; 1999/3/23, a dream of not being me. I'm a saurian forced to duel with a volatile friend. Wanting to fight fair, I don't just file down my spurs...
	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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