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AMBITION: by Wayan; 1994/5/25, an odd little dreamlike real-life experience. My intuition led me to a panel discussion of women artists, just to hear one single sentence... |
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ANNIE, GET YOUR GOWN!: by Wayan; 1988/9/14, a comic dream. 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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THE BELL CURVE: by Wayan; 1995/2/22, an essay on IQ My take on IQ, racism, Murray and Herrnstein's notorious book, and the theory of multiple intelligence. As an (ex)child prodigy it's not theoretical for me: broken hearts, broken trust, broken ribs... CAUTION: LONG WORDS, RAMPANT ELITISM, GENIUS SHOPTALK |
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BONK VERONICA: by Wayan; 1997/4/1, 9-page dream-comic on body image The world's first all-bulemic band, Veronica and the Vomits, provokes a riot at our local punk club. So I go to Anorexic Bootcamp where models learn self-defense under fire, as calories and fat jokes whiz by... CAUTION: BARF, HORNY ANOREXIC, FOOD FIGHT |
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THE CARDINAL: by Wayan; 1994/9/4, a grouchy little dream. A Holy Cardinal enters my bedroom and demands I kiss his ring. I suggest something he can kiss, and... CAUTION: CHRISTIAN MEGALOMANIA, PAGAN RUDENESS |
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CATRISE: by Wayan; 2000/2/21, a sexy flying dream; acrylic painting. I'm an alien exchange student in Palo Alto High School. I get stared at--they wear clothes, they don't fly... CAUTION: FELINE NUDITY |
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CENTAUR: PAULINA AT SUNSET: by Wayan; 1987/12/8, three dream-infused figure studies Fear anorexia? Gain weight, yet stay slender--be a centaur, like model Paulina Porizkova... CAUTION: NUDITY; BODY IMAGE/ANOREXIA ISSUES |
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CENTAUR QUARTET: by Wayan; 1982/2/26, 83/12/24 & 84/10/16, recurring dreams of my spirit family. Can our interspecies family survive? Our very instincts clash around solitude/boundaries, sex and incest CAUTION: SEX, INCEST, REPRESSION/DENIAL |
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CLIFTON: by Wayan; 1997/9/6, a journal entry on a 20th Century man rather like me. Mark Clifton wrote science fiction tales of mutant psychic geniuses--only he wrote from life... |
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CLOUD OF GLORY: by Wayan, 1986/5/19, a dream on identity loss. Abducted as a kid by alien angels, raised in a luminous cloud, I find it hard to keep a human perspective... |
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THE DOCTOR KILLS A TERN: by Wayan; 1988/9/24. A dream poem, Dreamverse #4 Dr Who kills his best friend, a huge white tern, on a whim. Furious, I demand a rewrite... CAUTION: WANTON MURDER |
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DOPPELBRUDER: by Wayan; 1985/5/9, a dream of a self at war over... labels? Lured to a parallel, feudal world by a marriage-vow, I'm trapped in my double's arrogant, twisted mind... |
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FAERIE: by Wayan; 1995/7/18 & 95/8/6: two linked dreams of postmodern Faerie, with sketches I'm the daughter of a mortal doctor working in Faerie as it faces social upheaval (and I look for a decent date...) |
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FALSE ALARM: by Wayan; 1996/5/23, a nightmare I lived as a kid. In school, I'm seen as a freak--lied to, set up for little pranks. Not just by my classmates--my teachers... |
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FALSE BOTTOM: by Edith Wharton; October 1913, a summing-up nightmare. Demons open a trunk full of the horrors I've faced this year, and lay them out, mocking me... but is that all? |
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FIGHT GOD!: by Wayan; 1979/12/25, a Christmas fight dream. I'm in Heaven, but... it's full of Christians! I fight 30,000 angels, but I wanna go right to the top, and... CAUTION: PAGANISM AND PUGILISM |
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FIGURE IN BLUE TANKTOP LOOKS IN MIRROR: by Wayan; 1995/5/15 After a workout, she looks at herself in the mirror, and for once, she LIKES herself... CAUTION: SHE LIKES HERSELF, AND WE CAN'T HAVE THAT! |
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THE GHOSTMASTER: by Wayan; 1992/6/16, a dreamtale of the Shadow. I win a starship from the hostile Ghostmaster; in space I gain the confidence to confront him, and find... |
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GIMME YOUR CAR: by Wayan; 1987/9/16, a predictive/warning dreamlet Dream: a woman wants to drive my old hippie bus. But a tire's missing! She pushes. I don't think it's safe... Next evening: my housemate wants to drive my old hippie bus. She pushes, but I don't think it's safe... |
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GOLDIE'S RHINOPOTAMUS: by Wayan; 2013/4/10, a Fellini dreamjoke with advice. I'm in Venice. The police chief (armored) and Goldie Hawn (near-naked) ride a skittish monster. Turns out bareback works better... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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GORDO'S EYES: by Wayan; 1981/2/14, a dream warning. The old cartoon character Gordo has another girlfriend. But his pets say he only loves the hunt, not her... |
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HIS DEER WIFE: by Wayan; 1995/7/9, a dream of love in a parallel world. 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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HOW TO BE HAPPY: A FABLE BY TOLKIEN: by Wayan; 1994/6/16, a dream, not by Tolkien. I'm a librarian in an English village hit by fads--new philosophies and lifestyles. I learn what works: |
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IS SOLITUDE HOLY?: by Wayan; 1998; a watercolor on dreamwork's isolation. When I compare Julia Butterfly up her tree with those hermits who sat atop columns in the desert... |
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KING-MAKERS: by Wayan; 2000/2/21, a dream of mediation. I'm a political aide to the leader of a hot-tempered, clawed, fanged alien people. And then my boss dies... |
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LION RIDER: by Jo Equinity; c. 2000?, an anticipatory consoling dream I dreamed I was riding a lion. A few days later, when my husband suddenly left me, I recalled the dream and... |
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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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MAHAKALA, MOZART, AND THE CRIPPLED BIRD: by Wayan; 1985/4/17, a dream on facing shadows The Christian God vs Mahakala, Buddhist god of right anger! War in Middle Earth, as Pink Floyd sings... |
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MISFITS ON MARS: by Wayan; 1986/11/20, an epic dream; the climax of the dreamseries UNICORN TAG. From the punk clubs of Frisco to the Safeways of Si Valley to the vermilion sands of Mars, Silky the were-nightmare fights for the Misfits against every cliche in science fiction... |
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THE MOTORCYCLE-BOOK: by Alyse and Tim, 1979 or before, complementary dreams ALYSE dreams Tim drives a motorcycle-book up a hill, but she doesn't LIKE riding so fast... TIM dreams a wise woman tested him, but found him unqualified to play teacher to Alyse... |
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S TREE: by King Nebuchadnezzar II; c. 583 BCE, a predictive dream Nebuchadnezzar dreams a voice from heaven commands a great tree be cut; Daniel interprets this as a prediction the king will go mad for 7 years... |
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ONE FRUIT REMAINS UNEATEN: by Catshall; November 1983, a journal dotted with dreams My day life as an artist and explorer of the San Francisco underground scene gets regularly commented on by my dreamlife... CAUTION: SEX, BONDAGE |
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ONE-PERCENTERS: by Wayan; 2014/5/2, a dream on how egalitarianism can drive the gifted crazy A sociologist exposes the smugness of Britain's 1%, but the writer's denial of any innate differences can be just as pernicious as elitism... CAUTION: EGALITARIANISM ON TRIAL |
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THE OUTER LIMITS: by Marianne A.; 1988/3/13, a dream that lucidly intervenes in itself! I'm trapped in the scary show The Outer Limits. A man scolds me: "You think not, but you MATTER!" I try suicide rather than face my worth! But my dream fences off the river, forcing me to confront... CAUTION: SUICIDE ATTEMPT |
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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... |
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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 |
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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 |
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PRRL: by Wayan; 1997/1/17, an intergalactic dream. I'm an ambassador from the Milky Way to the energy-beings who rule the Magellanic Clouds. Or am really just their pet? |
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REGEANA’S DRAGON: by Regeana; 1996/3/9, a dream of generosity The jewels in the hoard had strange powers, but the advice of the dragon guarding them was even stranger... |
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REJECTED! SO?: by Wayan; 2004/11/12, a dream of political AND personal advice A middle-class girl rejects me, and a newsman declares my politics irrelevant. "Liberal media" my ass... CAUTION: POLITICS |
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SHRUNKEN MEN: by Wayan; 1992/2/21, a dream on the masculinity crisis. Day: Robert Bly's book Iron John, claiming men need male mentors, annoys me. Dream: the giants co-opted Captain Picard of Star Trek, but we don't need him to rebel... CAUTION: MOCKS ROBERT BLY |
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SILKY'S SONNET: by Wayan; 1983/6/15, a love-poem to a nightmare. A love poem to the black mare I keep meeting in my dreams, who finally married me... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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MY SISTER'S GRAVITY WELL: by Wayan; 1995/4/25, a dreamtale. We play with worlds for balls, and gravity wells for goals. How do the worlds see it? Well... I find out. |
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SISTERS OF THE INTERFACE: by Wayan; 1983/12/21, a shamanic dreamtale. My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet... |
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SLAVES DON'T DANCE: by Wayan; 1999/8/1, a 17-page Shakespearean dream-comic (or ill. text) Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm forced to nurse her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is... |
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SLAVES ON RED MARS: by Wayan; 1999/8/15, a dreamfable on will. As Mars demands independence from Earth, Jovians enslave us all! Now freedom-fighting is personal... |
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SPORECOUNT: by Wayan; 1990/1/5, a dreamtale on patience through change. I'm a hot archeology student till I open the wrong tomb. A plague turns us into green moldy monsters--at first... CAUTION: DISEASE, DEATH, GRIEF, SHAME |
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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 named... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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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... |
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SWORDLESS: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/8/4, a dream warning about bragging Swedenborg gets in a duel, but his beautiful silver hilt has no sword attached. Uh-oh... Then he's in bed and realizes he's been sexually boasting... CAUTION: PHALLIC SYMBOLISM |
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TAROT: THE WINGED COYOTE (Freedom!): by Wayan; tarot card from a dream, 1979/3/14. I dreamed I was the Spirit of Mexico: a winged coyote flying around Sonora howling at the moon... |
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TIGER TALL: by Wayan; 1992/7/3, a marathon dream. I'm a tiger from Planet Cat, visiting Earth to run in San Francisco's "Bay to Breakers" race. I knew racial tensions were high, but why is William S. Burroughs out to kill me? Oh. Because... |
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THE TIGER'S THROAT: by Wayan; 1994/4/12, a psychic dreamtale. I'm walking down a tiger's throat, but it's not what you think. Diagnosis! My friend suddenly couldn't roar. She's here too, exploring her own trachea.... |
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TITANIA: by Wayan; 1981/12/7, 83/1/7 & 2/13 and 84/10/2, a dream-epic in installments Clarence the sappy angel from It's A Wonderful Life and Milton's Lucifer land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're fine as is, but the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full palette of feelings. Like the feeling she's fake... |
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TOO PROUD FOR MARS: by Wayan; 1990/6/23, a dreamtale. A hero has solved all Earth's problems. Now what? A trucker friend invites him on a road trip to Mars... |
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THE TOWN THIEF FEELS CHEATED: by Wayan; 1993/7/27, a dreamtale. Long ago he cut a deal with the cops. But town's grown, and one victim fights back. Our thief is outraged... |
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TRESPASSERS IN MALANCHAI: by Hyal; Feb 1996, an epic dream with an apparently psychic intrusion. A maneless lion-boy wins his people’s respect. While training, he sees weird trespassers who seem to be from someone else's dream... and ten years later, he finds that dreamer. |
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UNCONTROLLED TIME TRAVEL: by Jo; 2007/7/13, a time-slipping dream. I’m a drug-addicted amateur dramatist. A fat balding businessman and I bring humanity back from extinction, but... CAUTION: TORTURE (brief), ADVOCACY OF WAR, HUMAN EXTINCTION (offstage) |
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THE VAT MESSIAH: by Wayan; 1985/2/27, an epic dream of magic, flight, and sex In our cult, we lie in vats of goo till we grow wings. But we’re feared more than we knew... CAUTION: SPECIST LYNCH MOB, NUDE IN SCHOOL, LESBIAN FEELINGS, OBSCENE CARROT |
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VERTICAL PLANES: by Wayan; 1990/3/7, an astral pirate dream. We're air pirates running a music shop, till our biplanes are hijacked by cat angels! Furious, we set out... |
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VESTA ON ISIG MOUNTAIN: by Wayan; 1982/late May; crayon showing worldview of dream being. Vesta are animal guardians of the land. This isn't a portrait of a vesta, but how I see when I AM one... |
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THE VIDEOGRAPHER'S APPRENTICE: by Wayan; 1994/7/29, a predictive/warning dream. Blondie Wiggle builds a Video Igloo. But I'm allergic--TV kills me! A BAD omen for our video project... CAUTION: TV KILLS (BUT YOU KNEW THAT) |
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VIEWPOINT: by Wayan; 1991/6/9, a dream on pastlife amnesia. I ask to see my past lives, and dream of a viewpoint where I can--but this Mormon ranger... |
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VIRGIN ON THE VERGE: by Wayan, 1992/8/8. Digital picture-poem 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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THE VOICE OF GOD: by Wayan, 1993/1/31, a psychic nightmare-epic. Half-mad with fear, I massacre a cult, till my gun manifests stigmata: a gory miracle. Then I'm a cultist, resisting the Voice of God pushing all us mortals to murder in His name. I woke up haunted, and wondered for weeks what this was about... until the Waco Massacre. CAUTION: CREEPY VIOLENCE, CREEPY GOD, CREEPY PREDICTION |
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WINGED BEAST: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/4/7/29, a dream of fighting one's own flaws Swedenborg fights a monster but lacks strength. Yet later, on a higher plane, he learns the beast did die... CAUTION: VIOLENT |
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WOLVES IN THE BOOTH: by Thordhr "the Terror"; c.1000, a warning dream Thordhr dreams a pack of wolves attack him in a trade-booth! He wakes sure the trade-fair will be trouble... |
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