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Praise and Approval

Dreams of praise, approval, and flattery (and their effects). Also on the hunger for approval, praise and flattery, and its effects...

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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, HORRIBLE CAREER PLANNING
	ARIANE'S HONEYMOON: by Wayan; 1986/4/11, a dreamlet meant to shock; ch.2 of UNICORN TAG, a set of nine linked dreamtales. I married my childhood crush. Happy, till I overhear her tell my sister what she really thinks of... CAUTION: SEX TALK
	AUSPICIOUS TRACTOR HATE: by Wayan; 1984/4/17, a triumphant frustration dream! A party for me and my shadow, to celebrate that we haven't killed each other, just HATE each other...
	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
	DRAGON BANNERS: by Wayan; 1987/3/19, a dream on the value of inner emptiness. A dragon's daughter seeking her inheritance defies a sneaky dragon-realtor out to own the world...
	DRIVER'S TEST: by Wayan; 1984/1/8, a comical Kafka dream. It's not easy to get a California driver's license, ever since the Dept. of Motor Vehicles went Jungian...
	FOUR-ARMED SINGER: by Wayan; 1996/5/16; a dream of baring your soul . In our mutant future, a lovely horse-tailed four-armed girl sings her heart out--as clubgoers ignore her... CAUTION: NUDE CABARET
	GOOD DOG!: by Wayan; 1992/4/15; 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
	HE LOOKED SOURLY: by John Dee; 1582/11/24, a mage's dream of dying, and after. The foremost wizard of Shakespeare's age dreams he's dead. They're burning his books, but that doesn't bother him...
	HUMMINGBIRD MEME: by Althea; 2022/1/14, a dream of 15 minutes of fame I rescue a hummingbird who drinks nectar from my ear. It becomes an Internet star. But then a girl rides a waterslide with her tits showing, and my meme is over ... CAUTION: CARTOON BREASTS
	JOIN THE HUMAN RACE: by Wayan; 1985/2/11, a Gordian dream. My shortcut in a marathon bogs down in a maze full of psychoanalysts! So I climb the walls and...
	MS. TRUST: by Wayan; 1993/11/4, a dream of a guarded angel. I meet my own mistrust: an angel who can't trust ME! So she turns me into a football-playing ant...
	NIBBLING FRUITS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/2/3; a painting from an advisory dream I am given a gift of "Nibbling Fruits" which only I may eat--because I've been feeding everyone but me...
	NORASINGH: by Wayan; 1987/1/15, a Tantric Frankenstein dream. I fall in love with my sculpture of a mythical Southeast Asian creature. Then a mad yogi breaks in... CAUTION: SEX, TANTRA, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS
	PERISSA: by Wayan; 1997/9/13, a sexy dream-comic (small screen, slow loading? Illus. text) When Perissa, an exhibitionistic centaur, bares her body in a crowded Coliseum, she also bares a human-supremacist plot... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM
	PET AD, OR, RENTADOG: by Wayan; 1996/11/9, an illustrated Shakespearean singles-ad. I put a singles ad in our paper, but I just couldn't say what I really wanted to. Now, I can... CAUTION: SEX, DRUGS, AND DOGGEREL
	SATANIC LION’S WARNING: by Eldon B.; 2007/1/19, a nightmare with poltergeist activity I fled a demon into a shadowy construction zone where an even worse telepathic lion-devil lured me in with soothing flattery. I woke shaking--and then things in my room began to move... CAUTION: DEMONS, POLTERGEIST PHENOMENA
	THE SEX WORKSHOP: by Wayan; 1997/4/6, a dream on taking the next step. The teacher of our sex workshop picks me for a demonstration in front of everyone. Gulp... CAUTION: WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK?
	SHEEPISH: by Wayan; 1985/9/24, a clear but stupid psychic dream. Floundering through the snows of 1917, I fall in love with actress Linda Evans, who is a sheep teaching ballet. When I wake...
	THE SPHINX APPROVES: by Wayan; 1991/5/2, a dreamtale on growth. A great war shrinks to wrestling, then hopping from page to page! Once they were worlds to me, but now...
	SWAB'S DOG: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/4/8, a warning dream Swedenborg cuddles a talking dog who asks after its old master, Swab, and then kisses Swedenborg, grossing him out. But he wakes knowing just what his doggy pest represents...
	TAROT: DOGGY (The Hierophant or High Priest): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. Some folks are dogs, bullying underlings, fawning on superiors. But when the Wizard's a Humbug...
	WORKIN' FOR PEANUTS: by Wayan; 1990/12/11, a crude but perceptive dream. I'm an elephant working in a diner. In the bathroom, I inadvertently summon the Genie of the Urinal... CAUTION: PISSED PACHYDERM