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ARCTIC CHANGELING: by Wayan; 1981/6/30, a dream on roots. I'm a shy woman in a truckstop town who learns why I don't fit in. But will I, among my real kin?... |
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BAD NANCY!: by "Nancy"; March 1985, a prodromal/diagnostic dream A second me punches me in the breast. I fight back, yelling "Bad Nancy! Bad Nancy!" Five months later I find a malignancy... |
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BAREFOOT: by Catshall; c. 2014/12/14, a dream-haiku on the drought I dreamt I walked barefoot on newly fallen snow... |
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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? Are we already doing it? Admiring & documenting creatures we've written off as doomed? CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES; DISTURBING PREMISE |
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CATGIRL HOODED IN SNOW: by Wayan; 1982, ink sketch of daydream, 11 x 14". I was never sure where her winter cloak ended and her winter coat began... |
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THE CHUTE: by Wayan; 1993/11/10, a dream transforming fear. I'm warily crossing an avalanche chute in winter, when my worst fear happens. Then the slide speaks up... |
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CRITTERS OF THE MONTANA FRONT: by Wayan, 2022/5/31, a watercolor warning dream DAY: I admire Hannah Hinchman's watercolors of Montana and Vad Yakovlev's digital art of Equestria. DREAM: I meet & sketch a coyote girl, a whack-a-mole mare, and a leering herder of shadowsheep... |
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DELIGHT EVOLVES FLIGHT: by Wayan; 2011/12/23, an advisory dream In a parallel world, a gliding griflynx displays a brilliant evolutionary strategy: joy! It's the strongest mate magnet... |
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DONNA'S FALLOUT: by Wayan, 1972/2/6, 2/26, 2/29 & 3/4: sonnets & watercolors of 4 sex dreams. When I was 17, an older girl pushed booze at me and came on to me... in front of my parents and teachers! For months, I had ambivalent sex dreams trying to process what Donna taught me--not all of it negative... CAUTION: WEIRD SEX; ADULTS BEHAVE BADLY |
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DRAGON'S EYE VIEW: by Wayan; 1987/3/7, a dream through other eyes. From Baffin Bay to suburbia, dragons are everywhere... if you look with a dragon's eye... |
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DREAMKU, SEPTEMBER 2006: by Roswila; thirty dream-haiku with various dates from 1960-2006 One dream-poem in haiku style each day for a month! Ghosts, snow, penguins, yoga babies, elves who leave their tree... |
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THE ELEVEN CENT ORACLE: by Wayan; 1998/11/12, a dream on accumulating... change. I'm a migratory girl who's lost my tribe. I find eleven coins, cross the world, and pay the Oracle... |
THE ENCHANTED WOMAN: by Anna Kingsford; Feb. 1877, an epic prehistoric dream. |
Goaded by a green spirit of envy, an Ice Age sorceror kidnaps Adam's Eve, arresting human evolution... |
EXPLODING SWAN: by Aleksanteri Nevalainen; 2010/9; a surreal anxiety dream |
In a world where ice contracts & sinks, birds freeze in winter, thaw in spring. But one swan knows better...... |
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... |
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...) |
FALL FROM A STAR: by Edwin Muir; 1920, a hypnogogic shamanic initiation |
Escaping the tiny red plush room inside a star, I dive back to earth. Oops. A beast eats my broken body. My soul waits... |
FOX AND THE EYE OF GOD: by Wayan; 1984/8/14, a predictive mythic dream |
DREAM: I hike up my Career Path into the hills. On a snowfield, a bird and a fox create the eye of God, who banishes all evil! NEXT DAY: I read a novel full of images out of the dream... |
GRAMPA HAS SPOKEN: by Wayan; 1989/11/26, an oracular dream. |
In a worldwide junkyard full of warring spooks, I finally meet the one whose message I need to hear... |
A HANDELIAN CONCERT by Samuel Butler, 1890s?; an orchestral blowout dream |
Glaciers feed a mountain lake; dust blows over a pass. Then I realize the ice is the robes of a great choir; the dust, thousands of musicians filling the cirque, singing, playing... |
THE HEDGEHOG DISPENSARY: by Wayan; 2004/10/2, furtopian watercolor 12-page dreamcomic (or text + pics) |
A rabbit shaman makes his student drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. How to free her? CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR |
HOCKEY: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a flirtatious dream-scene |
I'm a hockey player. A woman strips to a bikini, wondering if she's attractive. My erection says she is... CAUTION: BRRR! |
HOW TO BE A WOLF: by Wayan; 1987/3/15, a dream of a trickster-mentor |
We're hiking in the Sangre de Cristos when a girl offers to show us how to be a wolf. We're eager--until she turns wolf, bites us and leaps off a cliff! Furious, we stupidly follow her over... CAUTION: NUDE FLYING WOLVES |
ICE: by Doug Montgomery; c. 1958, a surreal childhood dream |
Drops fall outside. But it's not rain! It's dripping from a gray-purple block of ice floating fifty feet above me... |
ICEBERG WRANGLERS: by Wayan; 2015/8/4, an otherworldly dream-poem |
Captain Ahab's part-whale students are better ice wranglers than I'll ever be-- wrestling icebergs of possibility round to their best outcomes, in this pea-soup sea... |
THE ICE EXPRESS: by Wayan; 1982/5/19, a dream on memory vs. expression. |
The trans-arctic Ice Express, blinded by birds, gets off-track and blocked by oddly rectangular ice floes... |
ICE-TRAY: by Anonymous #28; pre-1961, a waking intuition so unlikely it suggests ESP |
I lost two rings. Searched hours; nothing. I hadn't touched the freezer all day, yet I peered into the icecubes... |
JUNG'S DRAGONS: by Carl Jung, 1917/1/17 to mid-1922; recurring dream/trance figures |
Jung's visions of dragons evolve from fiery destroyers to thieves who can be forced to give up treasure to peacful, luminous guardians of the sacred... |
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 |
LILY OXYGEN: by Wayan; dreamed 1984/1/19, drawn 2000; a strong psychic dream. |
I'm Emily Dickinson reborn in 2100 as a 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 |
LIME FROST by Anonymous #53, Jan. 1957, a short psychic dream |
I felt dread as I peered out my parents' window into the garden. My dad lay on the frosty grass, dead... |
LINDA'S NAVAL by Linda W & Wayan, 1991/8/16; parallel surreal exhibitionist dreams |
WAYAN: My housemate Linda shows me her weird navel--and pussy, to compare... LINDA: At Christmas, I run through snowy streets, naked except for earphones... CAUTION: NUDITY & AWFUL DREAM-PUN |
MAGICAL LIGHT: by Wayan; 1985/10/8, a dream on micromania |
Linda Evans of Dynasty survives a shapeshifters' war, though her mansion's wrecked. She meets a caped superhero--and superdog, and supercat, squirrel, hamster, mouse! These micro-heroes make me see I too have been minimizing my own bravery... |
THE MÖBIUS STRIP OF GRIEF: by Ruth Stone, 2004-2008; a dream poem |
You say you're leaving me. I go to grab an ice pick to stab you, but my hand freezes to the ice block on the stair--I dare not even dream of murder. Since... CAUTION: RESPONSE TO SPOUSAL SUICIDE |
MY NEW PASSPORT: by Gayle Delaney, 1972/8/21, a life-changing dream |
Why does my passport have color photos of me ice skating? I haven't in years. Your passport must show your true face. Should I change it, or do they know me better than... CAUTION: SHAMANIC SYNCHRONICITY |
THE NEPALESE DROP: by Wayan; 2000/4/20, a predictive nightmare. |
I climb a crumbling slope to a cliff with a Himalayan view; I slip, and no one lifts a hand to help as I... |
OFF DOVER: by Wayan; 2010/9/30, a dream-based mini-sestina (poetic experiment) | I'm biking over the English Channel. So mild & easy after the Greenland-to-New-York run... |
OISIN: by Wayan; 2005-2013, 32 maps and images; a nondream virtual world |
A model of a moon, half-Europa, half-Mars, with (intelligent?) life in seas under a skin of ice... |
OVERLAY: by Wayan; 1984/2/11, 1995/8/26, and 2004/9/11, 3 dreams shape a 9-page comic on living with ESP |
Dreams of translucent fairies, centaurs, robots & gnomes prompt me to cartoon on transparent overlays to show how dreamworlds overlay ours... |
THE PEAK WHERE I DIED: by Wayan; 1983/1/16. A dark dream-comic. |
I froze to death trying to climb an icy peak. But I try again, and this time, no holds barred. Wow, am I selfish! But alive... |
PLUTO THAWS: by Wayan; 1973/1/19, a mythic dream set on Pluto. |
A quarrel between psychic adepts heats up to a war, thawing Pluto. What will the ice-tribes wish for? |
POLES NOW, TROPICS LATER: by Wayan; 1997/3/27, a dream on the pace of change. |
I'm a Martian revolutionary, making the glaciers grow. The equator's still dry, but change is coming... |
THE QUICKSTEP: by Gayle Delaney, 1976, a joyful lucid dream |
I face the Quickstep, the final test for high-level ice dancing. I do well, yet the judges fail me--for trivia. Then I realize I passed this test years ago! These judges are my nitpicking inner critics. I ignore them, and joyfully soar, spin and fly... |
MY RAPPEL-MAD SISTER: by Wayan; 1984/7/14-15, twin dreams on being halfway. |
My sister hoists us up to the Goddess's country too early, or too late: the ice is thawing, treacherous... |
RECONCILIATION: by Martha Sherwood; 2003/6/19, a dream-parable |
Even after the Resurrection, a mother and daughter still have issues to clean up... |
RING-DUEL: by Wayan; dreamed 1988/12/21; a transformation dream on reclaiming your power |
A mad scientist sneaks me into a museum that holds the Ring of Power I made at 14. I put it on, and slip into the spirit world--as a dragon! An ice-drake sent by Sauron comes to duel me for my Ring... |
RUBBERNECKER: by Wayan; dreamed 2000/4/24; a ghost comedy. |
I dreamed of a woman whose jeep stalls on the Antarctic ice. Along comes the ghost of a Volkswagen... |
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 fallout from slavery... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES |
SANTA CLUMP: by Wayan; 2009/9/16, an absurd dream-poem; Dreamverse #54 |
I find myself sitting on toy trains and fake snow as I'm told a fable: how a herd of department-store Santas got tragically lost in a blizzard... |
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... |
SHIVERIA: by Wayan; 2002-3, travelog/sculpture/sketches of an alternate Earth |
I tilted the Earth, and worked out its new ecology--part Mars, part steambath. Visit the Mediterranean Abyss ruled by giant ravens, and Patagonia, ruled by mammoths, and Antarctica's jungles, ruled by lemurs... |
SILKY'S INVERSION: by Wayan; dreamed 2014/4/24, a surrealist dream |
My anima, a black mare, is upside down, hanging on the ceiling! Rears downward. And she's changed sex! Not a mare today, a stallion! A gay, humanophilic stallion... CAUTION: VERY QUEER FLIRTATION |
SKY-THAW; 2012/6/8 by Wayan; a comic, surreal, political dream-poem |
While watching two rooftop actors (one a chicken) I noticed the icebergs in the sky were melting at last... |
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... |
SNOW by Nancy Price; 1948, a false-waking dream about living vs survival |
Lost in the snow, I must give my baby to a stranger or let my dad put him in a box, safe, forever... |
SNOWDRIFTS: by Catshall; c. 2014/11/5, a dream-haiku on the drought |
I dream of snowdrifts too deep to get back home, even though... |
SPRINTERS AND SPHINX: by Wayan; 2009/11/13, a dream poem. |
Divers made of ice win the Traffic-Leaping Olympics. But I think they cheated! I seek my friend the Sphinx... |
STATUES ON ICE: by Wayan; 2021/3/12, a dream of blue politics |
Weird blue snow covers a dump of unwanted historical statues, but they seem less political than... strange. Is that a griffin? What's really getting covered here? |
TAROT: BIRTH (the Empress): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. |
The card of fertility--and the pangs and effort of starting a new thing... |
TEN YEARS AFTER: by Anonymous #31; before 1951, a predictive dream. |
I dreamed I drove through snow to my parents' home where my mother lay dead. Ten years later... |
A THOUSAND BIRDS: by Wayan; 2008/2/28, a mystical little dream |
I watch Disney animate the Legend of the Thousand Birds, who pull a wireframe sleigh of light right through a dark, material Santa... |
THE TIGER WHEEL, by Wayan, 2009/4/25; a dream-poem, Dreamverse #44 |
A tiger-couple on an ice floe must choose: swim for land, or ride the current full circle back home, risking starvation? |
TRITONIAN FOXTAUR U.: by Wayan; 2016/9/10, a wish-fulfilling dream set on Triton |
I'm an exchange student at the Solar System's best university for the magic arts; my classmates are methane-breathing foxtaurs... |
UNCLE MAC'S SECRET GENIUS: by Andrea McFarland, 2023/1/22, a surreal dream |
My uncle Mac has a secret scheme to free us all from the Rat Race, but his dancing mouse-headed robots (and climate change) get out of hand... |
UNIVERSITY OF THE SIERRA: by Wayan; 1975/10/30, a pun-studded dream poem |
Jealous of newlyweds, I grind my teeth. But the Ice Age ground the Sierra's granite teeth, and they're lovelier for it... |
A USED POPE: by Wayan; 1983/12/25, a Christmas dream. |
A friend buys a frozen used Pope, to navigate her starship with Papal infallibility. Call me a Luddite, but.. CAUTION: SACRILEGIOUS PUN |
WABOSE'S VISION: by Catherine Wabose (Ogeewyahnoquot Okwa), Feb. 1814? shamanic initiation dreams |
After fasting for six days, I dreamed of three spirit helpers who aided my village, guiding hunters toward game and healing others. But I lost so many loved ones... CAUTION: SPOUSE MURDERED; CAREER BURNOUT |
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED: by a Coon Rapids woman, early 1993; a psychic, near-lifesaving dream |
I dreamed my husband told me he'd been in a car crash and was in a frozen ditch not visible from the road near our house. I woke and called 911 who found him just twenty minutes later... |
WOLVES SITTING IN A TREE: by Sergei Pankejeff; winter 1888 or '89, a nightmare Freud made famous |
When I was very small I dreamt a pack of wolves climbed the tree outside my window and somehow got it open. Freud told me I must have seen my parents having sex doggy style... CAUTION: REALLY, DR. FREUD? |
XANADU: by Wayan; 2006/6/6, a nondream virtual world |
An alternate Titan, Titan as it should have been, with ethane seas full of life... |
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