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ALL THE ANIMALS: by Sharon Lynn Pugh; c.1986, an epic, species-bent, funny, feminist dream-within-a-dream I'm a fox-woman. A human man courts me--insultingly. I dream my brain grows till my head hurts, till it splits open, till light gets in. I rant at the last dragon. Strange but kindly, he gives me a picnic... |
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ART TAKES GUTS: by Wayan; 1982/12/26, ink, 11x14", a confessional doodle. Why this site? Because if I'm around when you see my dream art, I feel like THIS... |
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BAND-AIDS: by Bagheera Pardus; c.1985, a lucid re-entered nightmare turned to joy. Giant snakes chased me. I go lucid, turn & slay one. As I woke, the snakes cried. So I re-entered... CAUTION: SNAKES, BEHEADING, REHEADING |
BAT AND UMBRELLA: by David Small; c. 1960/3/1, a nightmare exposing deadly child neglect |
I'm an orphaned bat in an alley in a storm. I mistake a broken old umbrella's ribs & flaps for... my Mom! I unfold Mom, and discover... CAUTION: LIFE-THREATENING CHILD NEGLECT |
BLOODLINES: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2005/7/30, 9/1 and 9/3; a compound dream-painting |
A man obsessed with blood and death disturbs me, but I have to admit I share his interests... Next the blood comes home; a surgeon wants to flay my tongue... Next, witch-children rebel against a bloody flossing ritual and fly away on broomsticks... |
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... |
CAT-SNAKE: by Wayan; 1993/3/6, a short dream fable. |
I glue cat-legs on my snaky friend, despite the scare talk from Christians sure that snakes never change... |
CRICKET GOT IN: by Wayan; 1988/8/25, a dream of troubling gods. |
A cricket actress I know makes it into the Dynasty of the Gods! Or is it the TV soap "Dynasty"?... |
DETACHABLE PENISES: by Wayan; 2012/8/9, a brain-mapping conundrum dream |
I don't have an erection. I have two. But how can my brain register feelings from an extra organ it's not built for? CAUTION: PHALLIC SYMBOLISM? OR SOMETHING ELSE? |
DREAMING TO SURVIVE: by Christoph Gassmann, 2001/8/13 & 2003/9/2: two lifesaving dreams |
A spot on my elbow triggers a dream of being in a suicide clinic, getting the injection, starting to die. Yet for two years, I put off having that spot checked! Only after a second warning dream do I go in to find... |
DRUGGED, SHRUNK AND DAUBED: by Wayan; 2008/11/1, a dream-poem (Dreamverse #38) |
I'm worried an alien charity is brainwashing an ex-prostitute. When I wake, she's still there--at 2/5 scale!... |
ECTOPIC: by Wayan; 1996/7/3, a tragic transsexual dream. |
My stomach ache is an ectopic pregnancy. The embryo's doomed. Surgery. And I'm a man... |
EMBER IN THE BRAIN: by Wayan; 1983/3/31, a dream about old anger. |
I'm the Incredible Hulk, forced to do emergency brain surgery. For the patient's burning from within... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND UNLICENSED MEDICINE |
THE EVEREST MARATHON: by Wayan; 1986/4/12, a wild dream epic, part 3 of Unicorn Tag. |
In the great race up Everest, I become an e-snake, cross 3 eco-bubbles, beg a wary deer-taur to splice my spine, help Ariane my childhood crush, and solve the Dream Equations. Climbing Everest takes not strength but... trust? |
EXPERIMENT WITH TIME by Nancy Price; 1948, a shamanic-initiation dream declined? |
I meet a girl who's 16 and 61, who tells me dreams are lives, not messages. But then I must fly over a sinister parade... |
EYEBOLT: by Wayan; 2005/10/1, a squeamish advisory dream |
I’m on a train in Britain, sitting across from a respectable-looking woman with a large bolt sticking in her eye... |
FLANNAN PREPARATION: by Wayan, 2023/4/12-13, twin mystical dreamlets |
4/12: I get a mysterious energy node implanted in my belly. After convalescing I'll have new talents... 4/13: I'm altering my home to host two flannan, bird-girl spirits swift to hunt down the truth... CAUTION: WITCHCRAFT, NUDE SPIRITS |
FRANKENSTEIN'S ORIGIN: by Mary Shelley; 1816/6/16, the (hypnogogic?) dream inspiring a famous book |
I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together; I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out... |
FREAKY DREAM, or, HEART IN MY STOMACH: by Ratiries Steelclaw; c. 2004/3/30, a dream comic |
I felt like my heart was in my stomach. My friend Lyx opened me up & said "It is." She scolded me for eating it... CAUTION: URP |
THE GLOWING CLIT: by "Allison Skywalker"; 2009/6/21, a bizarre dream-surgery fragment |
I'm a revolutionary hiding in the woods. I wake to find an erect penis crudely stitched onto my crotch... |
GRAVITREE: by Wayan; 2008/3/21, a character-evaluation dream. |
Just singing about the antigravitree lightens me. I bound around town. But then I find a diseased antigravitree is holding me down. It's become a gravitree! Gotta clear out that deadwood, no matter how messy, if I want to fly... |
THE HEAD FACTORY: by Wayan; 2014/8/24, a dream-poem on changing your mind |
I toured the factory where they make the spare heads you put on and take off to change your mind. Nothing creepy about it, nothing at all... |
I AM THREE: by Wayan; 1956-58, my three earliest dreams. |
My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child... |
I DO, WE DO: by Victor Henderson; 1982/2/16, a dream & painting on swapping faces |
A surgeon persuaded me to swap my face with another man's. But I found I felt compelled to carry on his life, not mine--to pass for him. And when I demanded my face back... |
IRONY: by Wayan; 2007/6/15. A vertical comicstrip burned into (naturally) an ironing board |
I’m so sick of irony I decide to get my sense of irony surgically removed and replace it with... CAUTION: PLAYING WITH FIRE |
JAPAN, 4:34 A.M.: by Laura Atkinson, 2011/3/11, a dream warning of the Fukushima disaster |
My Japanese friend Kotaro looks at me sternly and shoves his phone inside my chest. In my dreams, a phone can mean ESP, so when I wake I check the news. A huge quake and tsunami have devastated Japan... |
THE KEYRING OF ATTACHMENTS: by Wayan; 1974/5/31, a dream gone too far. |
Swayed by sinister surgeons, I go all Buddhist and give up my attachments, including various organs... CAUTION: DIVESTABLE GENITALIA |
KOKO'S LOSSES: by Wayan; 1999/10/9, an elliptically predictive dream. |
Koko the gorilla has had some terrible setbacks lately... the double amputation, especially... |
MAFIA DENTIST: by Wayan, 2007/7/10; a predictive comic nightmare. |
My dentist (a Haitian Mafia leader) sends a message to my dad (also a Mafia don) by dental cruelty.... |
MARTIAN AIRLOCK and JAGUAR MASK: by Wayan, 2015/6/22, twin shamanic near-nightmares |
Jaguar Mask: a were-jaguar stuck in human form asks me to sew a new jaguar face on."But won't it hurt?... Martian Airlock: I'm suitless on Mars. Freezing, choking, I dive into an airlock & slam the switch--but it's sabotaged... |
MINOR SURGERY: by Wayan; 1999/2/25, a dream misinterpreted. |
A man goes in for minor surgery and wakes up changed. I feel creepy, but for all the wrong reasons... |
MOLLY'S PROSTHETIC: by Wayan, 1994/9/22, a dream predicting a mood drug will fail |
My dad's new wife is a collie. Naturally, she wants a prosthetic arm. But she has no site to bind it to... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, LEERING BUSINESSMAN, DOG WIFE |
MY SPLEEN: by Ned, as told by Gayle Delaney, 1979 or before, a diagnostic dream-pun |
DAY: I write, exploring my jealousy toward my wife, though I know she's not cheating on me. DREAM: Doctors remove my spleen and wake it up! Now my spleen is out to do me in... |
NEW BODIES: by Dreamy; around 2007/1/25, a transformation dream |
My best friend and I qualify for new bodies. The new me is taller, but poor Ken may take years adjusting to his new... |
NIGHT-BLIND: by Wayan, 2023/9/14, a dream incubated for another |
My sister Miriel asks me to ask my dreams if it's safe for her to get cataracts removed. I find myself in her body, biking at night--near-blind. Surgery has risks, but this is riskier! |
NOT THROES; RECOVERY: by Wayan; 2013/6/1, a telepathic, diagnostic dream |
In a grassy depression, a small animal is thrashing. Death-throes? No. Calisthenics! But not under the animal's control. Someone's testing... |
OTTER MEDICINE: by The-Fringe, a Crow healer, early 1850s; a shamanic dream with physical effects |
I slept on an island in a scalding hot spring, praying for a dream. I got one--and woke up on the shore... |
OTTER NERD FROM TITAN: by Wayan; 2012/4/15 & sequel-dream (2013/2/9), a dream-poem on social skills |
A suspicious exobiologist warns me that otter from Titan may not be the amiable, nerdy celebrity it seems. But... |
OVARIES: by "Ann", as told by Gayle Delaney, 1979 or before, a curative dream | Ann had inflamed ovaries and faced surgery. She asked her dreams for a second opinion. She dreamt of voices and images saying "there's plenty of time for all this." She bathed peacefully in a river, meditated, gave easy birth to an infant, climbed a ladder to her law degree. She woke cured. Her next doctor said "you must've been misdiagnosed; you just thought you were in pain." CAUTION: SEXIST GASLIGHTING
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PAY CUT: by Sara, 1973/6/23, a surgery nightmare with practical advice |
DREAM: Surgeons cut off both my breasts--without my consent! I feel resigned, but the staff is upset... DAY: I'm interviewing for a job offering $2,000 less than I make now. Told myself it's OK, but... CAUTION: MALPRACTICE, MUTILATION |
PIXY CONCUSSION: by Wayan; 2006/3/11, a diagnostic sex-dream comic, 9 p. (or illus. text) |
Janet's obsessed with a creepy guy till her pixy friend Kay decides to "knock some sense into her cunt"--literally... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, NASTY LOVE SPELL, PIXIE NUDITY |
POKEY?: by Wayan; 1993/4/15, a dreamtale on my soul. |
My lover's turned into a tiny living pull-toy, trapped ankle-deep in a wheeled platform. Can I free her? |
SAW HER IN HALF?: by Wayan; 2008/8/28, a warning dream-poem, Dreamverse #15 |
A sorceror's apprentice describes a medical procedure her teacher plans. Yow! I sure wouldn't trust anyone to try that on ME... CAUTION: TALK OF BLOOD AND SEX |
SELF-MADE COW: by Wayan; 2013/4/10, a surreal psychic dream. |
I'm in Santa Cruz with my friend, a shocking-pink stuffed toy cow with sewed-on accessories: big red lips, a floral wig, and a third eye. I wake, draw the dreamcow--and my sister calls from Santa Cruz to sing me a song about... |
SNAKE PACKAGE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2007/5/27 |
I am given a dehydrated package of dried snake to insert in my vagina. Inside it will unfold and come to life... CAUTION: KIDS, DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME! |
SUSHI CIRCUS: by Wayan; 1982/2/17, an illustrated psychic dream. |
To avoid being stabbed, I flee the Psychodrama Circus. Wisely--the place explodes! But it's the filling of the sushi roll that really upsets me... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MAKI |
TERRIBLE DREAM, TACTILE DREAM (EVENING ESPRONCEDA): by S. Ramón y Cajal, c.1930; a nightmare |
Doctors remove my upper skull and sew my scalp over my brain. I can get around, if I stay upright, but I'm terribly vulnerable... CAUTION: NIGHTMARE REFLECTS REALITY |
THYROID: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 1985; a set of life-saving diagnostic nightmares |
In 1985 I was flooded with nightmares about heads and necks. They had an unparalleled intensity... |
TWO-HEADED BEAST: by Wayan; 1997/7/31, a 5-page Gothic dream-comic (or as illus. text) |
In Castle Frankenstein, will Mary Shelley wed Elmer Fudd? His two-headed monster has marital advice... |
TWO WITCHES: by Melissa McClanahan, 2013/9/8, a short painted dream-comic |
Two witches, maiden and crone, ride a flying monster made of two magically fused trolls. But I know somehow that the two are really just aspects of a single powerful sorceress... |
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) |
UNICORN SURGERY: by Wayan; 1996/5/2, a warning dream. |
After over-editing a weird poem to Silky, my night mare, I dream that well-meaning surgeons think a unicorn's a defective horse, and try to dehorn her... |
VOLCANIC OATH: by Wayan; 1972/5/20; poem of a teenage Tolkien nightmare. |
DAY: our ex-cat comes back, needing surgery. Dad doesn't want to pay. Big quarrel. DREAM: Cats, birds, elf-girls; in their asteroid library, a tale of oath-breaking... Now I'm the one who stole a tooth of jade from the volcano hall. Greed... erupts! CAUTION: NUDE BIRD-ELF, DEATH BY LAVA |
WEAVING MATS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/3/15; a predictive dream from the Box of Dreams |
In a camp, women wove mats. I was tempted to try. But it was months before I learned what they'd really been weaving.. |
WHAT'S IN THE BASKET?: by Ceridwens_Descent; 2007/8/4, a dream of embarrassing head loss |
I cut off my own head! But I grew a new one. Only what to do with the old one? It's starting to rot... CAUTION: SELF-DISMEMBERMENT |
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 there are romantic complications. Some things never change... |
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