THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: Violence

The World Dream Bank:
Violence

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Dream violence, from emotional abuse up to anything short of full-scale war.

The World Dream Bank has 1500 dreams and dream images plus 500 other pages on dreamwork and shamanism, creativity, genius, art, surrealism and fantasy. Unless otherwise noted, all material copyright Chris Wayan, 2001-2006.

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	ACORN AND PELT: by Wayan; 1983/7/19, a simple sex dream growing to a mystical extravaganza I fall in love, defying dwarf-tossers and Toulouse-Lautrec, till I become a time-traveling bunny... CAUTION: SEX, SIZE DISCRIMINATION AND SLANDER
	AFTERIMAGE: by Wayan; 1983/8/8, a dream on dreams. A bizarre little dream proving just how physical the impact of a dream is on the body...
	AMERICAN FILM RATINGS MAKE VIOLENCE SEXY: by Wayan; 1996/4/9, a rant and a proposal. Sex-and-violence is one word in America, because our ratings system TEACHES us to link them... CAUTION: THE F-WORD AND SENSIBLE IDEAS
	AND THEN I WOKE UP: by Wayan; 1980/11/4, an illustrated dreamtale. A dream of mushrooms, flying, canyons, giant Rocs out of Sindbad--and a moral challenge.
	APOLOGETIC OGRE: by Wayan; 1990/3/1, a nightmare. I walk into a bar in ancient Greece and this woman's guardian angel acts racist. OK, I'm an ogre. So? CAUTION: ANOTHER HANDGUN TRAGEDY
	ARAGORN'S LIVER: by Wayan; 1983/1/29, a nightmare. I'm a hobbit in Silicon Valley, stalking Ring-wraiths down El Camino. But one of them's stalking me... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, MADNESS?
	THE ARMS POLICY: by Wayan; 2000/4/7, a nightmare. The government has a harsh policy on armed dissidents. Not the kind of arms you think... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	AT LEAST HE'S A DOCTOR: by Wayan; 1982/4/7, a sharp warning dream. I'm a Puertorriqueña girl. I fall for an Anglo doctor, but he's not what he seems... CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX, CREEPY GUY, VICIOUS FIGHT
	BABY, I'LL BLOW YOUR MIND: by Wayan; 1995/3/21, a surreal nightmare Allied submarines attack the giant Nazi toddler who's hunting us with sonar, occupying my playroom... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND GUILT
	BAND-AIDS: by Bagheera Pardus; c.1985, a lucid re-entered nightmare turned to joy. Giant snakes chased me, but I went lucid, turned and slew one. As I woke, the snakes were crying. So I re-entered the dream and... CAUTION: SNAKES, BEHEADING, REHEADING
	THE BASEBALL KISS: by Wayan; 1983/8/4, a dreamtale on choice. The Prime Minister of England breaks my nose, so I become a flock of squirrels to seek revenge. Should I let go?
	BATTERED, WITH SYRUP: by Wayan; 1998/11/21, a healing dream. I'm a battered girl who sings in a mall. The Mall Dictator (of all people) helps me start to heal, and learn to fly... CAUTION: BATTERING AND ITS CONSEQUENT DAMAGE
	A BEAM OF FLIGHT: by Wayan; 135K, 1992/4/19, a dream of love and shellshock. I'm a dance teacher, I'm King Kong, I'm a shell-shocked elf, I'm a wild bird flying... CAUTION: GAY-POSITIVE ROLE MODELS, OH NO!
	BEAST BIRTHS: by Wayan; 1989/9/19, a dream of family secrets. My family has a hidden gene for incest--and griffins. When I bring the family skeleton from the closet... CAUTION: MENTIONS RAPE, INCEST
	THE BIRD MARATHON: by Wayan; 120K, 1982/7/10, a half-nightmare, 3 illus. A bizarre marathon, and the Princess is the prize. But she doesn't WANT to be, so she sets out... CAUTION: BLOODY BIRD
	BITE THE BULLET: by Wayan; 2000/1/25, a flightmare. We unearthed a sacred treasure, but now a mob of believers are out to lynch us! I better fly... CAUTION: SACRILEGE AND BAD PUNS
	THE BLACK EGG: by Wayan; 1999/3/25, a psychic dreamtale. My crazy friend Wayne goes bowling for busses with a black egg. Wait! Crazy? Or... predictive? CAUTION: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE BEHAVES DISGRACEFULLY
	BLEEDING HEART, the SELF-HEALING CORPSE, and IN THE FUTURE DESERT: by Wayan; 250K, 10 illus., 2002/5/29 to July 2004, a diagnostic, predictive dream-series. A tree-girl moves to Hollywood to make film deals, but jealousy stabs her... CAUTION: BLOODY ASSAULT, GAY DRYADS, MUTANT NUDITY
	BLONDIE AND CRAZY: by Wayan; 1984/12/25, a warning dream Quiet Blondie seemed sane enough, especially compared to her driven, talkative friend Crazy, until... CAUTION: NUDITY, A LITTLE BLOOD
	BLUE SOUP, NO SPARK: by Wayan; 115K, 1985/6/1, a dream epic. A visit to a world where they fear blue soup ends in death and resurrection, so I'm pissed at my boss--God. CAUTION: DEATH, REBIRTH, SACRILEGE, JOB BURNOUT
	BODY-SWITCH: by Wayan; 2000/6/10; a dream of a castaway soul Spies kidnap a girl and move her soul into a madwoman's body. Can she survive? Recover? Even thrive?
	BOND: by Wayan; 1981/10/31, a nightmare where I'm the nightmare. I'm James Bond, fighting a plot by the fiendish Eight. But I'm captured and questioned. Of course I lie to the enemy: the senators of the Committee on Intelligence Activities. Till I see myself through their eyes... CAUTION: SPY SEX, SPY MENTALITY
	THE BORIS BADENOV SOLUTION: by Wayan; 1989/2/10, a dream of puns. My evil twin, Boris Badenov, wants $8000 or else. I ask my dreams for a solution, and get one...
	THE BOSS'S GUTS: by Wayan; 1993/6/3, a dream on health-sabotage.. Flu. Ow, cramps! But that night I dream of a miner's rebellion against our fat-cat boss. Which side am I on?
	BREAK FREE: by Emily Joy; 2006/5/11, an encouraging dream on the price of safety. I search for family skeletons, but then a talking plant on TV inspires me to seek the sun and fly free. But certain velociraptors and barbarian swordswomen object... CAUTION: DUELS, FISH ABUSE, THE F-WORD
	BURN: by Sierra Loucks; 1990?, a five-year-old’s nightmare I was at the beach with my friends. It was fun. But gradually they were laughing at me, not with me. Then they picked up burning sticks... CAUTION: GRUESOME
	CHOREOGRAPHY: by Wayan; 2006/9/7, a nightmare of murder in plain sight. At a beach, a mob of kids stage an intricate practical joke full of coordinated “accidents.” How many of the jokers knew the end was death? CAUTION: MALICE
	CLAY BEHEADER: by Wayan; 1983/7/28, a nightmare offer. A woman's stalked by a clay monster that eats heads. But it has a proposition for both of us... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MONSTER
	CLIMB FROM THE PIT: by Wayan, 1996/11/9, a dream parable. I'm in the Mideast. No wonder it's a war zone--it's a vast pit BUILT for war! But a spiral stair leads slowly out, to...
	COSMOLOGIST: by Wayan; 1994/12/2, another physicist's nightmare. A mad gunman breaks in and shoots at me, but I start him talking, and learn what's eating him...
	COUNTERSUE GOD: by Wayan; 1995/8/5, a sacrilegious dream. God flames me for putting pagan stuff on the Net, and we end up suing each other. Then the riots begin... CAUTION: HITMEN AND HERESY
	COYOTE PAJAMAS: by Wayan; 1983/12/17, a Dantesque dream-epic. I'm Coyote, keeping the Business Prophet from taking over Dante's Peak. But it turns too personal... CAUTION: IDIOTIC VIOLENCE
	CRIMECON 90: by Wayan; 1990/3/27, a dream about capitalism. I did what I love. The money didn't follow. So now I have to guard a crimeboss at a theft convention... CAUTION: INEVITABLE CHEKHOVIAN SHOOTOUT
	CRYPTOMNESIC TROLLEY: by Wayan; 1991/4/22, a lucid dream of suicide. To prove I really am lucid-dreaming, I let a streetcar run me over. Mm, crunchy! Then I find out... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT OM...
	CRYSTAL AND GUNSEL: by Wayan; 1997/7/2, a nightmare--psychic or not? Gunsel kills my friend Crystal in a flaming aircar crash. But that's not enough--he comes back, and... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	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
	DEANNA ON THE MAYAN STEPS: by Wayan; 1992/7/8, a nightmare poem. Deanna Troy and I meet an alarming man atop a Mayan pyramid. Who will be the sacrifice?...
	DID YOU THINK IT WOULD BE EASY?: by Wayan; 1995/1/15, a dream of slow liberation. Our Appalachian town revolts against fundamentalists, but brainwashing takes time to undo... CAUTION: SEX AND INJUSTICE
	DISSECTING PESSIMISM: by Wayan; 1997/4/14, a stubbornly educational nightmare . A serial killer stalks our office, and our bosses deny it. When we defend ourselves, things turn weird... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	DIURNAL AND NOCTURNAL WORLDS: by Wayan; 1993/11/8, an epic dream of the multiverse. Round the ring of twelve worlds and their twelve gods, seeking one god who's giving me grief...
	THE EGYPTIAN GOD: by Wayan; 1991/12/21, a 7-year precognitive dream. Egyptian archeologists dig up a living god. He sees us as dolls to play with, but we've grown up... CAUTION: GOD AS A RAPIST
	EMBER IN THE BRAIN: by Wayan; 1983/3/31, a dreamtale on anger. I'm the Incredible Hulk, forced to do emergency brain surgery. And the patient's burning from within... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND UNLICENSED MEDICINE
	FAIRY WIFE: by Wayan; 1985/1/17, an epic dream of love and choice. A fairy woman and a mortal man? Can't work! They're flighty, we're crude. Doomed, right? Well, some people are so sure of it they decide to help things along a bit. Or a lot...
	A FAMILY ALBUM: by Wayan; 197K total: ink, digital tints; 1980ish; overview of family nightmares. A series of family shadows, as I saw them then. These scenes are NOT literal, do I make myself clear? But these tensions were real... CAUTION: GRIM! SEXUAL VIOLENCE, INCEST, MUTILATION
	FATHER LOOMS: by Wayan; 1983/?, a nonliteral diagnostic nightmare. I was a 30ish woman discovering that my chronic pelvic inflammation was from childhood molestation... CAUTION: MOLESTATION IN DREAM-PAST
	FERDINAND'S ASSASSINATION: by Joseph Lanyi; 1914/6/28, a historic predictive dream. Lanyi dreamed in detail of the assassination of his friend Archduke Franz Ferdinand hours before it happened...
	FEVER DREAMS: by Wayan; 1993/9/8, a set of wild feverdreams. While my body expels a kidney stone, weird scenes happen on the astral plane. At least I get to dip the pope. CAUTION: PAIN, PEE, POPE
	FIGHTING A VIRUS: by Wayan, 1998/11/21, a diagnostic nightmare. Coming down with a virus, I dream of a guy who INSISTS we must fight, it's just so FUN...
	FLIRTING WITH NAPOLEON: by Wayan; 1995/1/21, a dreamtale. I'm a woman living in a space habitat. A new Napoleon invades us, and damages our life-support...
	FORKS AND SAUCERS: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a dream on when to quit. Tibet, 1910. A cult whose ancestors manned a radar station that shot down UFOs. But were they really hostile?
	A FOUNTAIN IN THE ARMENIANS: by Pauline Ramsey; early July 2006, a clairvoyant dream? I spoke a proverb I'd never heard of when I woke. So I Googled it, and found it had meaning--dark meaning... CAUTION: TURKISH JINGOISTS WILL NOT LIKE THIS DREAM
	FRAMED!: by Wayan; 2006/10/18, a political nightmare. To fight the drug trade, cute little blonde cops plant packets on men in the park. And when I resist... CAUTION: BAD COPS
	GHOST GATOR: by Wayan; 1984/10/9, a lip-reading dream. A child from another universe materializes--part way. Too bad we called in that expert from Stanford...
	GIVE TRAVIS ONE MORE CHANCE: by Wayan; 1980/10/13, a desperate dream. I'm detective Travis McGee's lover, so I know I'm doomed. My solution is drastic... CAUTION: HARD-BOILED HANDGUNS
	GOSPEL GIRL: by Wayan; 1986/11/17, a stubborn dream. I'm a girl in a desert who God tells to preach a new gospel. But the locals, unlike ancient Rome, have guns... CAUTION: VIOLENT MARTYRDOM AND A KID WHO DOESN'T KNOW WHEN TO QUIT
	GRAMPA GOT AIMED: by Wayan; 1987/6/17, a psychic dream. The girl I love has a family that'll stop at absolutely nothing to destroy us. But I'll fight for love... CAUTION: SEX; EMOTIONAL VIOLENCE; MOLESTATION HISTORY
	GUARDIAN ANGELS FEUD: by Wayan; 1995/10/9, an epic, heretical dream. You know angels feud over regional underfunding of Divine Grace. But you don't know how low they'll go...
	MY GUINEA-BISSAU REVOLUTION: by Wayan; 1999/4/24, a dream of necessary pain. My part in the revolution in Guinea-Bissau: substantial, but not exactly planned. I just wanted out... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	THE HACKER: by Wayan; 1993/11/23, a psychic nightmare. Who's the demon? Mom, the Dragon, the Smiler, the Rubber Ax Murderer, the Doll Princess or the Tiger?... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	HELP YOUR NEIGHBOR: by Wayan; 2 illus., 1994/2/18, a comic nightmare. I'm an organic almond grower who's solved the Luminous Snail problem. But my neighbor has an agenda...
	HER OWN WEAPON: by Wayan; 1983/8/31, a poltergeist-therapy dream. A woman says she's being stalked, but it's her own poltergeist! Her therapist makes her reach for it...
	HILLMAN ON DAIMONS: by Wayan; 1998/9/7, on Greco-Roman and Jungian ideas of a life-goal James Hillman and my own experience suggest we enter life with an agenda. But what if our goals are sick?
	HOBBIT SNIPER: by Wayan; 1998/10/13, a dream on strategy. I'm a sniper in a desert battle of men against hobbits. Guilty for not fighting openly, but that'd be suicidal... CAUTION: MATH AND WAR
	HUNG BY ELDER: by Wayan; 1997/7/30, a nightmare. A disowned heiress and I sneak onto the family estate, but they'll go pretty far to hide their skeletons... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	HUNTERS' FIRE: by Wayan; 1997/9/8, a nightmare that may be a memory. I'm an orphan shot at by hunters. They shoot my sister! But no one believes me... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	I AM THREE: by Wayan; 1957-60, 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 DREAM OF DERIVERRANS: by Wayan; 1982/11/16, a Joycean dream of surrender. I must rescue Ann Soforth from righteous rapists, then Paul McCartney from a musical curse... CAUTION: ABUSED CHILD, JOYCEAN LANGUAGE
	I GOT OUT: by Wayan; 1992/1/4, a psychic dream; 9-page comic, 500K (or open page by page: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9) I flee our love triangle when Abe turns mean. He's telepathic, but I have a plan: the goldfish, the snakepit, the underworld... CAUTION: THREESOME, SCARY BOYFRIEND, SNAKE HEADACHES, MOTORCYCLE FATALITY
	ICERINK: by Wayan; 1980/8/23, a warning dream. Psychodrama seemed like a way to meet cool people. But when I dreamed they were ice-skating rioters...
	THE ILL-FORMED TALE: by Wayan; 160K, 1981/4/7, a wild dream anti-epic . To reach the Peak of Happiness on the Isle of Dreams, I must pass four Perils--but they're all backwards... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS NUTS, KNIVES, NUDE ALIENS, BACKWARD PLOT...
	IN THE ENEMY MINE: by Wayan; 1986/1/11, a psychic dream. On Mars, a child-sacrificing cult of miners wants to kill me, but something strange happens....
	INK MOUNTAIN: by Wayan; 1992/8/5, a tutelary dreamtale. A Himalayan peak boils with warring creatures, but a guru says "They're just your conflicts. Sit, watch..."
	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
	JACK DANIELS: by Wayan; 1983/10/14, three short dreamtales. Three dream-reactions to a (real) psychic experiment that went badly awry...
	JAMIE THE SORCERESS: by Wayan; 1984/11/14, a characterological dream. I get back from vacation to find the landlady's installed her daughter in our shared house...
	JOVE'S LIMBO: by Wayan; 1994/11/27, a dream of astral muckraking. Half elvish, rejected, I wander the worlds, and find a limbo built by Zeus--but do the inmates deserve it?
	KARMA AND HER SISTERS: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/27, a happy sexy flying dream that turned tragic. One boring lonely day, I meet a cute teenage bunny who wants to play with me! But half an hour later… CAUTION: LANGUAGE, INTERSPECIES FLIRTING, AND LOSS
	KICK HER: by Wayan; 1994/8/9, a gameshow nightmare. I'm a blonde gameshow bimbo. Each week, I'm beaten up. Ha ha ha! But my bruises are real. At last, I... CAUTION: GAMESHOW FROM HELL
	A KNIFE AT HIS THROAT: by Wayan; 177K, 1991; a political dream-fable. A courtroom hostage-drama where I'm forced to commit... tracheotomy! And then the Gulf War begins... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	LASERBOMB: by Wayan, 1995/7/3, a dream on paralysis. I'm on Mars. The terraforming is going well. Then saboteurs set off a laserbomb in the street near me... CAUTION: TERRORISM
	LILY THE LION: by Wayan; 1991/4/7, a small psychic dream. My housemate Lily is a lion. She bursts into my room. Stare-down. And then she pounces. So I... CAUTION: VIOLENCE! MUTUAL GLARING! THE VULCAN NERVE PINCH!
	LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION DREAM: by Abraham Lincoln, ca.March 31 1865, a predictive nightmare. Lincoln dreamed his body was lying in state in the White House. A guard said he'd been assassinated. Two weeks later, he was...
	LION-MEN: by Wayan; 1995/7/9, an eye-opening dreamlet. I'm a traveling Zen warrior talking to a circus girl in a barn. Four guys enter--and my life changes forever.
	LUCID LIMITS: by Wayan; 1990/2/13, a lucid nightmare. Yes, they're possible! A nightmare. I go lucid as the bullets tear through me. Yet I go on with the dream! Why?... CAUTION: NIGHTMARISH VIOLENCE
	LUCID ON THE MOON: by Wayan; 1980/2/23, a long-term psychic dream. I'm on the run, on the moon. Cyborgs toss bombs at me. Yikes! Is this what melted Mare Orientalis? CAUTION: NUCLEAR IRRESPONSIBILITY
	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....
	THE MAD DATER: by Mark Varitz and Wayan; 1996/10/29, linked (telepathic?) nightmares. Always ask permission to throw rocks at your date. No, not those big ones! Where's the nearest hospital? CAUTION: SURREAL DATE ABUSE
	MANATEE: by Wayan; 1992. Digital nondream painting. Beauty's link to status and privilege bothers me. The pretty get perks (or parks), while we uglies... CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, AND A BLOOD FLOWER
	THE MAN WHO MISTOOK...: by Wayan; 1995/9/19, an insane dream. I'm just an ordinary guy, who beats his son so he'll grow faster, and sees tits on drinking fountains...
	MANDALA DURING A TIME OF WAR AND DISINTEGRATION: by Jenny Badger Sultan; Jan-Feb 2003, painting of a dream-series My dreams were troubled by war. So I painted them in concentric rings--lotus, fire, children, animals, and nightmares...
	MARJANE: by Wayan; 180K, 11 watercolors, 2005/6/3, a nightmare about... articide? I'm cartoonist Marjane Satrapi. I passively tag along with friends (and a fiance I tend to forget) in the Mission District of San Francisco. But they blunder into real trouble... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	THE MARTIAN FEUD: by Wayan; 1994/3/10, a warning dream. On Old Mars, before it died, two rival families' teasing finally goes too far, despite the whale's warning... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	MEMORY SNIP!: by Wayan; 1999/5/15, a dream on the cost of kindness. My friend Mark does something I thought impossible: removes a snippet of my memory. Disastrous! CAUTION: VIOLENCE... SORT OF
	MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN: by Wayan; 1992/9/5-6, a diagnostic dream. I'm in a tribe of post-Crash kids with psychic powers, trying to keep nukes from rising again... CAUTION: VIOLENCE TOWARD CHILDREN
	MILK ADDICTS: by Wayan, 1974/6/2, an early psychic dream. I'm in what seems to be a village of very conservative Muslims. But they're really alien castaways...
	MINOR SURGERY: by Wayan; 1999/2/2, a dream misinterpreted. A man goes in for minor surgery and wakes up changed. I feel creepy, but for all the wrong reasons...
	MIRIEL, DON'T GO IN!: by Wayan; 1982/10/6, a dream of a petty god. God offers gifts to pilgrims, so my sister enters his door. Fierce light shoots out...
	MIRYAM'S THEFT: by Wayan; 1996/9/24, a psychic dream on being used I'm a ghost dwarf in love with a Lady trapped in a magic Arabian castle. But our love is being used... CAUTION: SEX, BETRAYAL, SACRILEGE
	MOM THE ALIEN: by Wayan; 1981; a nightmare on family Many kids have nightmares that their parents AREN'T their real parents. I dreamed my parents ATE my real parents... CAUTION: HUNGRY MONSTERS
	MOM THE MURDERER: by Wayan; 1996/3/7, a possible psychic dream. My mom confesses to a killing, says tearfully she had to do it--but her reasons make no sense. When I wake..
	MOTHER SUPERIOR: by Wayan; 1999/2/18, a nightmare with psychic tinges. A creepy visit to the Leather Nuns: as fierce as Beorn in The Hobbit, but less hospitable...
	MUIR ON MARS: by Wayan; 1994/5/14, a dreamtale. I'm John Muir reborn on Mars, supporting Mars First against tree-cutters, who poison their enemies...
	THE MUMMY: by Wayan; 2003/10/13, a Rarebit Fiend nightmare. A horror film and Rick Veitch's dream-comix provoke a nightmare warning me that guilt about my dad is wrecking my life...
	THE MURDERS: by four Wayans! 50K, 1971/7/14; a family has simultaneous psychic nightmares. Nearly everyone in my family dreams of a mass murder as it happens nearby. But my dad's sure it's his own evil id, and my mom clams up, and my sister forgets. And me? I doubt the whole thing for ten years, until... CAUTION: NIGHTMARE VIOLENCE
	NANCY AND KIT: by Wayan; 1994/1/3, a psychodramatic dream. I step between an ultra-femme girl and a butch boy, trapped in a psychodrama. But I'm bleeding...
	NATALIUS' WELTS: by Natalius the Confessor, ca. 155 AD, a dream leaving physical traces. Natalius dreamed that angels whipped him for joining a heretic cult, and woke to find welts on his back...
	NOT SELF DEFENSE!: by Wayan; 1999/4/29, a warning dream. I'm Tarzan, fighting off attackers. But I kill one helpless prisoner! Am I going too far? CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	NOT THREE!: by Wayan; 1996/11/11, an encouraging nightmare I was wrong. I didn't survive three assassins. It's been seven! Why'd I forget the others?
	NUKING HOOVER: by Wayan; 1997/2/16, a dreamtale about illness. J. Edgar Hoover, founder of the FBI, stages a coup. Do we accept him as dictator, or nuke Washington? CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	OLD AND IN THE WAY: by Wayan; 1999/5/3, a veiled predictive dream. On a dead-end street, I meet a beautiful psychic and fight a tentacled monster that's stalked me for years...
	ORPHEUS AND POOH: by Wayan; 1972/4/9, an early dream epic. I meet my true love during a coup. We go through Hell together, like Orpheus and Eurydice--only we...
	PAIN-RATIONER'S STRIKE: by Wayan; 1987/1/1, a dream on self-torture. Three men torture my friend (or is he ME?) and try to keep me from intervening... CAUTION: FAST-TALKING BULLIES
	PIG YOYO: by Wayan; 1987/11/21, a dreamtale on self-torture. A hog is tied so it bounces in a fountain, and at the bottom of each bounce, a fork jabs it! How to free the pig yoyo? CAUTION: OW!
	PLESIOSAUR: by Wayan; 1985/9/5, a medical dream. An itchy patient of mine insists he's turning into a four-headed man-eating plesiosaur. He left one thing out...
	POISONED!: by Wayan; 1994/6/20, three linked dreams. Poison takes many forms, from attitudes to environmental by-products to actions done deliberately...
	A PRISONER OF ZEN: by Wayan; 1980/11/19, a dream on isolation. The Pope spears our Inuit captain and the Mystic, who turns solitary--a prisoner of Zen. Can I free him?
	PULLED UNDER: by Wayan; 1976/4/15, a nightmare. One by one, we're pulled under the water, the earth... eaten. That's the fate of all flesh. And we're flesh. CAUTION: HORROR
	A PULP MYSTERY: by Wayan; 1997/5/7, a nightmare. A detective talks all his suspects into suicide. But they still bury me in wood pulp and beat me to death... CAUTION: BAD POLICE PROCEDURE
	QUIT THAT LAB!: by Wayan; 1999/5/2, a deductive nightmare. I'm working alone in the lab at night, when the lab gear wakes up and tries to kill me...
	RAIN OF WOMEN: by Wayan; 1999/6/11, a warning nightmare. Women rain out of the sky. People shrug "Suicides." I don't believe it--and what if one falls on me? CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	THE RAPTURE OF MY DARK DREAM: by Edna St Vincent Millay; 1945?, a nightmare in free verse Millay dreams her lover’s attacked in the street, and wakes to realize it’s already happened; he’s lost.
	RAZOR GHOST: by Wayan; 1974/5/5, a nightmare posing a problem. A man slowly walled in by neighbors till he died, is now a mad, murderous ghost. And he's me! Can I exorcise MYSELF? CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	THE RED SPHERE: by Madeline; 2006/12/13, twin (diagnostic? psychic?) nightmares Calmly, I watch a girl trapped in a lab try to escape, and die; and watch a man lose his head to a hungry thing... CAUTION: GRUESOME
	REFLECTIONS IN THE POOL: by Wayan; 184K total, 2 panoramas; a 1994/7/2 dream. Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love. Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace? CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL
	RICH KILLER: by Wayan; 1994/2/1, a dream on abuse and rage. A rich serial killer in a sports car flaunts his virtual immunity, till I go after him in a light plane...
	ROBINSON JEFFERS AS A SHAMAN: by Wayan; 1996/7/28, a little shamanic shoptalk Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism, blind to how kindness matters... CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED
	RUBBISH: by Naguib Mahfouz; dreamed 2001? A dream of advice from the dead. My dead friend lost patience with the local dump, so I beat the trash--and out came shining people...
	SCALDED: by Wayan; 1993/7/3, a near-nightmare. The feud between our magical families is getting ugly. Hawk-Head's dad throws boiling water on me, so I... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	THE SEA-HAG RIOT: by Wayan; 100K, 1989/6/5, a wild dream hiding a warning. Aliens, hypnotherapy, dancing molars, riots, witches, flying pianos, lettuce... yet there is a point.
	THE SECURITY GUARD: by Wayan; 1994/12/30, a nightmare on anger. A crazy security guard with a deadly squirt gun kills freely over and over, for the cops keep paroling... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	THE SELL-FISH WITCHES: by Wayan; 1983/6/29, a dreamtale. My sister and I are runaways, developing psychic powers. A cult of fish-selling witches wants to use us... CAUTION: SIBLING INCEST, SPELL ABUSE
	SHE CRASHES AND BURNS: by Wayan; 2005/5/7, a diagnostic nightmare. I ask my dreams how to find love. I dream of a 1920s bohemian girl teasing stuffy folk. But her pranks turn dangerous, then deadly...
	SHOCKWAVE: by Wayan; 1996/7/27, a predictive nightmare. My childhood home explodes into a vast pyroclastic cloud that comes boiling toward me, miles away... CAUTION: DOOM
	SHOOT ME, I'M LUCID!: by Wayan; 1997/10/17, a dreamtale. I distract a mad gunner in a crowd--I suspect I'm dreaming, but still... This may be noble, but is it healthy? CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS ON THE NEXT CRAZED KILLER YOU MEET
	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...
	SPLINTER: by Wayan; 1981/3/14, a dream of love and nagging. I love Splinter, but her mom insists I got BOTH of them pregnant. Then I notice I'm pregnant too... CAUTION: SEX, NAGGING
	A SQUID STRATEGY: by Wayan; 1997/10/7, a dream warning. Giant squid start surfacing at popular beaches and eating people. Not the form of first contact we'd hoped... CAUTION: YOU ARE LUNCH
	STOP ME!: by Wayan; 1994/2/22, a nested nightmare. I kill with an angry wish! I hide the bodies, but secretly pray someone'll catch me before I snipe again... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, GUILT
	SUSHI CIRCUS: by Wayan; 1982/2/17, an illustrated psychic dream. When I flee the Psychodrama Circus to avoid being stabbed, it explodes! But it's the sushi that really upsets me... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MAKI
	TAHOE DRAGON: by Wayan; 1980/8/16. A dream of flight and fire. A dragon killed a friend, and threatened worse. I had to fight. We dueled mid-air, over Lake Tahoe...
	TAROT: THE COP (Knight of Swords): by Wayan; 25K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. The card of force not always used wrongly. The Knight says, "Sometimes ya gotta bust a few heads..."
	TARTAN ACID SPIDER TORPEDO: by "Thomas Mountain"; 2008/1/31, a cliffhanger dream. I get speared by Irish warriors, slipped an LSD dose, chased by giant spiders, torpedoed--but hey, I'm not bored!
	TEN TRIALS: by Wayan; 101K, 1976/10/2, a dream of love distracted. While living with violent Kay, I dream I meet a nice moth-girl. But we must undergo ten trials. Mustn't we? CAUTION: RELATIONSHIP TROUBLES, BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT
	THIEU, I'M SORRY: by Wayan, 1997/11/1, a troubling dreamtale. Visiting Time City, I witness the "suicide" of a woman named Thieu but suspect it was really assassination... CAUTION: SUICIDE? MURDER?
	THE THREATENERS: by Wayan; 1997/4/23, a small psychic dream. Two gunmen break in, call me by a strange name, and demand I repay a loan I never borrowed...
	TIAMAT'S REBELLION: by Wayan; 2 ill., 1988/1/1, a dream about neoteny. I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah. I dream she leads a revolution on a starship...
	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...
	TIMESHOT!: by Wayan; 1999/1/2, a warning dream. Wandering through time, I forget how much other cultures fear witches. I think I provoke a shooting!...
	TO HELL: by Katie Hofgard; 2003/4/19?, a nightmare of loyalty I loyally served a demon who punished me until at last he sent me to hell. And STILL I didn't rebel... CAUTION: BLOODY ABUSE
	TOO MUCH TO BEAR: by Wayan; 1997/4/28, an alternate-world nightmare that knew its math. I dreamed that nouveau-riche half-ton polar bears invaded San Francisco, evicting us locals... CAUTION: VIOLENCE COMING TO YOUR TOWN SOON
	THE TORTURER: by Wayan; 1997/7/13, a predictive nightmare A traveling torturer chooses me for his victim. He has the right. I bluster, but when at last I have to sleep... CAUTION: NO PAIN, BUT GORE
	THE TUBA MAN: by Wayan; 1982/7/8, a career-advice dream. Tuba Man plays from the top of a tower, even when Loveless Man opens fire; for music is life to him...
	THE TYRANT'S WIFE: by Wayan; 1980/6/9, a dreamtale. In our plot to kill the Tyrant, we used his wife. Or... did she use us? She goes mad, but--she's HAPPY...
	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)
	THE VAT MESSIAH: by Wayan; 1985/2/27, a major dreamtale. In our cult, we lie in vats of goo till we grow wings. But we're feared more than we knew... CAUTION: A SPECIST LYNCH MOB, NAKED IN SCHOOL, LESBIAN FEELINGS, OBSCENE CARROT
	THE VOICE OF GOD: by Wayan, 1993/1/31, a psychic nightmare-epic. I go half-mad and massacre a whole cult, till my gun manifests stigmata: a gory miracle. Then I'm one of the cult members, struggling to ignore 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
	VOW, CHOP, DOOR: by Wayan; 1997/1/26, a psychic dreamtale. I make a weird vow--while I absent-mindedly slice up other people's cars! The next day... CAUTION: DREAM VANDALISM
	WIRES: by Wayan; 1999, 14 x 17", crayon, resolving a recurrent childhood nightmare. I was bodiless but trapped. All I could see were these moving wires. Whenever a knot drifted by... CAUTION: MADNESS, TORMENT, TELEPATHY, SEXUAL REBELLION
	WITH WILD AND TURQUOISE EYES: by Joan-lee Woehler; c.1950, a dream-poem on a stubborn shadow I slay the beautiful dragon attacking us, despite my regret. And then, as I sleep, glowing eyes advance on our keep AGAIN...
	THE WRAITH OF KHAN: by Wayan; 1982/6/2, a dream on brains I'm being stalked by Ricardo Montalban, playing Khan, from Star Trek. Why him, why me? I know why.
	YAKETY YAK: by Wayan; 1984/5/1, a dysfunctional dreamtale. I'm at a family dinner. Killer Grampa, kid-hating Ma, larcenous Dad. Then a bum offers some advice...