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ABERFAN: by Eryl Mai Jones & others, 1966/10/20; premonitory dreams & waking flashes Some 200 Brits have dreams and premonitions of black landslides smothering children. After heavy rain, half a million tons of coal slag sweeps over two Welsh schools, killing... |
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ABJECT OBJECT: by Wayan; 1992/5/11, a nondream digital picture-prose-poem It's OK to be a sex object as long as you're also a subject. What's no fun is being an abject... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL FEARS/SHYNESS |
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ABORTION, SUICIDE, REBIRTH: by Christine Downing; 1974, a suicide dream preventing a suicide! I was pregnant with a child not my husband's. I wanted to leave him, but not to join my lover; I was done defining myself through men. Nor did I want the child. I got a knitting needle, and... CAUTION: READ THE TITLE! |
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ABOVE SOCIETY: by Jayci Ferrimani; c. 1998, painting of a flying dream with a point I flew over a forest. I noted the trees were all the same, and told myself to remember this... |
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ABOVE THE WHITE TOWER: by Wayan; 1990/1/14, a flying sex-change dream of love Flying in a wild wind, I mate mid-air with an alien, get pregnant, change sex, fight the inlaws... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
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ABREAST OF THE COMPETITION: by Wayan; dreamed 2013/10/9, a dream on appeasing others A tall busty girl's younger, part-unicorn friend starts developing breasts at last. She makes boob jokes, mocking her own body to reassure her herdmate she's no competition... CAUTION: SELF-PUTDOWNS |
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ABSTRACTION, see under full title COYOTE INVADES ABSTRACTION | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
THE ABUSE PANELISTS: by Wayan; 1997/2/6, nondream journalism A whole convention of adults abused as kids shows me how hard it is to hide the damage... CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES |
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ABYSSIA: by Wayan; started 2006/6/6, a webtour of an inverted world A nondream vision of an alternate Earth where continents are abysses, abysses continents... |
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ACCIDENT: by Jules Engel; 1970? Nightmare turns to surreal sport, inspiring animated film. A large dog was chasing me, but somehow we got turned around and began racing. As I caught up with the dog, any bit I passed went invisible--but the rest of the dog ran on unfazed. When I won the dog vanished entirely. Awake, I animated the dog running, then... |
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ACHIEVING BILUMIA: see BEATING UNCLE FESTER
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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 kidnappers, dwarf-tossers and Toulouse-Lautrec, until I become a time-traveling bunny... CAUTION: SEX, SHAMANISM, DWARF-TOSSING (LAUTREC!) |
THE ADDICTION: by Wayan; 1988/1/26, a thoughtful nightmare |
I'm addicted to faraway trains. I quit cold turkey, but I shake the house down! Junkie poltergeists... CAUTION: DRUG ADDICTION. SORT OF. |
ADDING SHELLS TO NINA: by Wayan; 1974/10/4, an absurd dream poem. |
I lay on a beach with Nina. I stuck a shell on her body and designed a fabulous line of prosthetics... |
ADJUSTABLE FURSUIT: by Wayan; 2014/4/16, a dreamlet in FOAM FURS | |
THE ADMIRAL'S DEATH: by Mary Deane; 1653/6/2, a clairvoyant warning dream. |
The wife of Admiral Richard Deane dreamt how he died two days before the news arrived... |
ADOPT A SON TO WIN A MATE: by Wayan; 2010/11/24; a dream of priorities |
I'm a big cat lonely in this human city. Wish I had a mate! But as soon as I take responsibility for an orphaned boy, in walks an older girl... |
ADORABLE CYBORGS: by Wayan; dreamed 2016/10/5, a dream-poem on inner teamwork |
A child dreamer and two different kinds of cyborg must cooperate to free the hostages imprisoned under San Francisco Bay... |
ADRENALINE HALL: by Wayan; 1992/2/3, a useful metabolic nightmare. |
A hall designed to give your fear-glands a workout, since muscles aren't the only thing we need to buff... |
ADRIAN TRIED: by Wayan, 1991/3/12, an embarrassing dream. |
Adrian and Jennifer and Michelle try very very hard to get my attention, but I'm a bit oblivious... CAUTION: SEXUAL STUPIDITY |
AELFWINE: by Wayan; 1997/12/4, dreams within dreams... about dreams. |
I go to a lucid-dreaming party, meet the Child who Dreams the World, and find the Body under the Bed... |
AFTER A LONG ILLNESS: by Nicholas Christopher; summer 1990?, a dream poem |
After I flew from New York to Hawaii, a surreal dream of a floating man reeled in like a kite... |
AFTER BIRTH: by Wayan, 2004/9/29, astral acrylic painting |
Never mind an afterlife! What if, before life, we were spirits with no idea what happens after birth?... |
AFTER HE DIED: by Jane O. Wayne, 1990?, a dream-poem fragment |
After he died, I dreamed that the phone rang and when I said "Hello"... |
AFTER THE BANG: by Wayan; 2001/5/16, a poem on the World Dream Bank. |
The Big Bang happens, you're inspired, you make something of it... then what? The Big Whimper? |
AFTER THE FLOOD & THE PIG-EARED BABY ALLIGATOR: by Skiznot; c.1995, an oracular dream |
My hometown floods. I swim after some strange fish and find a scientific community where a scaled baby tells me who I am... |
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... |
AGASSIZ'S FISH: by Louis Agassiz, ca. 1840: subliminal, psychic, or just a great guess? |
Agassiz, faced with a fossil he had to crack open, was unsure where to strike. But for three nights he dreamed... |
AHAB: by Wayan; 1994/1/10, a shamanic dream on the ethics of Moby Dick. |
When I was a kid I was already a mystic and knew what Captain Ahab was REALLY after, but... |
AI ZHONG!: by Wayan; 1989/7/21, a short psychic dream |
A small, clear, simple precognitive dream... and its un-small, un-clear, un-simple cause... |
AICORN'S BANANA: by Wayan; 2016/6/13, a dream-parable on owning your tastes |
An artificial intelligence acquires fans and has orgies with her groupies. Her creators don't care as long as the advertisers get product placement. But she has this size fetish... CAUTION: VIBRATORS |
AIDA'S TOILET BOAT: by Wayan; 1993/4/7, a short- AND long-term predictive dream. |
A sexy comedian and her troubles down the drain. A dream that turned out to be true six days later, and again in a different way six YEARS later... |
AILURA; by Wayan, 2013/8/16-2016/2/19; a soft-sculpture dream-portrait/plushie/sextoy |
Recurring dreams of loving a catgirl spur me to sew a fake-fur portrait with wood and stone bones and foam-rubber muscles giving her a will of her own... CAUTION: FURRY DREAM SEX |
AILURA NEEDS PADDING: by Wayan; 2016/2/18, a dreamlet in FOAM FURS | |
AIN'T EASY: by Wayan; 1990/2/25. Nondream digital Coyote dance poster. |
As Red Emma said, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution..." |
THE AIR BURUNDI PAINTINGS: by Wayan; 7 illus., 2007/1/20, a dream of art & courage |
Weird paintings cover a hill town in Africa, demanding I paint them when I wake. Paintings on courage, flight... and defying tradition. |
AIR OASIS: by Wayan; 1984/4/15, a dream of marginality. |
Why'd I have to get my big inspiration deep in a lake in the Land of the Lizard People high in the Andes? |
AIR PIRATES IN FAERIE: by Wayan; 1984/8/25, a complex predictive dream |
DREAM: The future. A party. A woman spills her drink on my white pants. Off to Faerie, where fruit trees are mean... NEXT DAY: I do not wear white pants to Sally's party. So? A woman spills her drink on Sally's white pants... DAY AFTER: I open a book on musicals & see a shot from The Wizard of Oz: Dorothy baiting an angry fruit tree... CAUTION: PREDICTIVE |
AIRACUDA: by Wayan; 2008/9/9, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #25 |
The jeweled fish over San Francisco grew and grew until it landed and the crew told me the secret code... |
AIRPLANE DISASTERS: by Jack Kerouac, early Aug? 1954, a helpless-witness nightmare |
An indestructible camera relentlessly shows me what passengers feel on every crashing plane... CAUTION: PAINFUL READING |
AIRPLANE WITH BORN: by Catshall; c. 2014/11/8, a dream-haiku on American politics? |
I dream of an airplane with a born-again pilot. I challenge him: "just because you're rich doesn't mean you can run things"... |
THE AIRPORT AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHY BOOTH: by Julie Doucet; 1997/11/19, a dream-comic |
At the airport, a new automatic photo booth shoots your memories! Julie can't resist... and emerges, excited, to find that... |
AL CAPP'S HORSES: by Wayan; 1988/4/12, a dream predicting an odd image, palette and painting style |
I dream cartoonist Al Capp switched late in life to painting horses in a weird expressive style; I wake, write the dream, rush to work to find a painting of horses in a weird expressive style CAUTION: CAUSTIC TO E.S.P. DENIERS |
ALAN'S OFFICE: by Wayan, 1992/4/28; , a dream advising a different therapist |
I had a chronic illness doctors said was psychosomatic. So I called Alan, a therapist... I dream I'm in his office. It's a nook in a basement. No windows, no door, no privacy. I was so desperate I went to him for six months, while he ignored everything I said... |
ALBATROSS LOVE: by Havelock Ellis; c. 1880?, a dream of unrequited love |
An albatross with beautiful eyes transformed into a woman. But her nose remained a beak! She asked... |
ALCOHOLIC CAT: by Montague Ullman's patient, 1950/2/24, an eavesdropping dream |
PATIENT: I dreamt of a dangerous cat and a mixture of cream and booze called 'appealing nausea'... THERAPIST: I heard a lecture on feeding alcohol to cats til they choose milk laced with booze... CAUTION: WILL BOTHER E.S.P. SKEPTICS |
ALERTNESS GYM: by Wayan; 1994/4/19, a strange dream date. |
I go on a date who seems bored till she takes me to the Alertness Gym... |
ALEXANDRINA: by Adela Samona, March 1910; a predictive dream plus apparent far memories |
After the death of her 5-year-old, Adela dreams Alexandrina says "Don't be sad, I'll come back." Eight months later Adela bears a child identical to the dead girl--and she recalls things Alexandrina saw... |
ALICE MILLER MONSTER MESSAGES: by Wayan; 1998/1/22-3/8, digital improv-portrait of inner selves. |
Writer Alice Miller tried painting her childhood monsters. I tried it and got surprise messages... CAUTION: FRANK LANGUAGE |
ALICE'S LETTERS: by "Alice"; late 1960s?, a dream of spiritual advice |
I mail some letters that will solve everyone's problems, but a man argues we need problems... |
ALICE'S POEM: by Lewis Carroll; 1872, a poem on dreams |
Are dreams really so ephemeral? Lewis Carroll, who built the Alice books from dream-shards, wasn't so sure... |
AN ALICORN BLADE IN THE HEART: by Wayan; 2010/12/18; a dream of a lucid flash |
A witch & I duel with blades of spiral horn. But we both just want to create an utterly truthful oracle. Can't we find a way not to fight? |
ALIEN GIRL, SACRED PEAKS: by Wayan; dreamed 2005/11/25, two dreams on long-term goals |
I'm one of a trio of swimmers in a pool, making out--under the surface only. Must we hide? I'm near Shiprock with a flying-saucer girl who sees the nearby crags and far snowy peaks as all the same size and distance... how to teach perspective? CAUTION: SKINNYDIPPING, GROPING |
ALIENS, MONSTERS, WITCH: by Judy Landaiche; 1991/11/8, a dream on judging by appearances |
Our starship crashed on an alien world. Humanoid aliens attack us. A witch saves us. A second kind of alien attacks; again she saves us. A third--ugly, monstrous--and the witch goes off with them! Turns out they're friendly... |
ALL-GENIUS CLASS: by Wayan; dreamed 2007/5/2, a dream warning it took a decade to spot |
Our gifted class is on a field trip. Our teacher happily explains we're going to wreck a freeway, tying up traffic for months, to protest crappy gifted programs... CAUTION: SLOWEST DREAM INTERPRETATION EVER |
ALL HALLOW'S EVE: by (Mrs.) D. M. Barrett; 1904, a psychic dream |
I dreamt ghosts visited us, and for each scream, a relative would die. Two of us cried out. That morning the first letter came... |
ALL-LESBIAN PICNIC: see PICNIC-ORGY
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ALL MANNER OF THINGS THAT BEGIN WITH M: by Wayan; 1995. Collaged dream images |
A painting of mountains, manes, mermaids, moons, mattresses, mouths, maples, mohawks, mice & men... CAUTION: NUDE M-THINGS |
ALL-NIGHT BUFFALO CONVENIENCE!: by Wayan; 1995/7/24, an entrepreneurial dream. |
A late-night conversation with the proud developer of a new concept in South Asian convenience dining... |
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... |
ALL THUMBS: by Wayan; 2022/9/27, a poem of an awkward dream |
I've gotten used to the second penis I grew, though it limits who'll want me. But this morning I woke with a third. And am I sure the sprouting's done? CAUTION: HORNY |
ALLEY SONG: by Wayan; 1994/4/21, a sharp little piece of dream advice. |
In a suburban alley, I learn how much of an artistic coward I've been... |
ALLORGY: by Wayan; 1983/4/1, an allergic love poem. |
In spring the young allergic longs for the lusty world but cannot join the All-Orgy... |
ALONE IN THE DARK IN THE WILD: by Wayan; 1980/7/24, a vision-quest nightmare. |
A nightmare of a killer who I let torment me because it's better than being alone... |
ALP VARK: by Wayan; 1983/11/24-25, an epic comic psychic dream.
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I'm kissed by the Holy Aardvark, but my bond with my dad is strained by ESP he can't accept... |
ALPENFLIGHT: by Wayan; 1986/4/1, a predictive flying dream |
Fleeing hunters, blocked by a cafe crowd, I fly up a long slope--but the cafe climbs on & on! At last I perch exhausted on a peak, looking down on a now-alpine cafe above a sea of clouds. Next day... |
ALPHA RALPHA BOULEVARD: by Wayan; 1997? 14"x17" watercolor of recurring dream |
I keep dreaming of this path or road arching up into the sky... |
ALPINE GUINEA PIG & SEXLESS CHILD, or, I'M EITHER A GREAT MOM OR A TERRIBLE MOM: |
by "Veronica Franco"; 2006/8/19, a dream of penned creatures and those who love them. Alpine deer-hamsters, pigs, birds, children, even fundamentalists' daughters grow up and want to fly free... |
ALTARED MANSION: by Wayan; dreamed 2004/10/18, a dream on all the world's religions |
I'm touring a gloomy, firelit Victorian mansion filled with icons and idols from every faith in the world, while this funny theme song loops in my head. What is that song? CAUTION: MUSLIM RANTER; EMBARRASSING SONG |
ALTHEA'S CHICKEN: by Wayan; 1990/3/27, a nightmare-farce. |
My sister Althea decides my house has demons, and hires an exorcist who botches things, so that... |
ALTHEA'S MONEY DREAMS: by Althea; 1999/1/22, financial dreams provoked by... financial dreams? |
After reading a booklet of dreams about money by Wayan, Althea has four such dreams of her own challenging family ideas of class, gender, inheritance... and then practical investment advice!... |
AM I EPHEMERAL?: by Wayan; 2006/7/6, a puzzling dream of alienation |
I live in a colony of long-lived observers of humanity. But am I one? Or a short-lived human pet? |
AMATERASU'S MIRROR: by Lady Sarashina and an unnamed priest, c. 1035/3/22, two dreams of a life-choice |
Sarashina dreams (again) she needs to leave court life and a spiritual path. Her skeptical mom sends a priest to the temple to dream for her! But he too dreams the Goddess shows two life-choices--happy or sad... |
AMAZEMENT PARK: by Stan Van Der Beek; 1980/12/30, a dream-proposal for a huge art installation |
The "Amazement Park", as I dubbed it, was a building long as a football field and three floors high; you fly, suspended, round an oval track, through a galaxy of images teaching that "sharing" is what matters... |
AMAZON A(U)NTS: by Wayan; 1997/10/28, a nightmare. |
I camp in the Amazon but in the morning find I slept on top of something disturbing... |
THE AMAZONS' OFFER: by Wayan; 2012/6/13, a mystical sexy dream poem. |
A horde of wild women camp in my yard and practice leaping through invisible spacetime portals. They invite me along... CAUTION: FEATHERED, PAINTED NUDITY |
THE AMBASSADOR PRO TEM OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1993/3/1, a dream about dreams. |
The real Ambassador of Dreams was moonlighting, so I had to step in and explain dreams to the waking world... |
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... |
AMBIVALENT? NO! (YES!): by Wayan; 1990/1/3. Digital panorama of dreamselves over a lifetime. |
A chronological orgy of my self-images from childhood on: horses, geeks, girls, satyrs, boys, monsters... CAUTION: CARTOON SEX |
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 |
AMERICAN FLAG: by Jasper Johns, 1954; a career-changing dream |
Johns dreamt he was painting an American flag. He woke, and did-- mixing pigment and beeswax, coating newspaper strips... |
AMERICAN TANKA: by Wayan; dreamed 1989/7/26, painting-poem-story on 30" disk, 1995. |
I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night... |
AMERICAN WIDOW: by Alissa Torres; February 2002, a dream of her husband lost on 9/11 |
High-voltage traces of our lust and love flowed through our mattress nightly... until one night when the power surged and overflowed. Then I felt you... |
AMERICANS SHOOT ANYTHING: by Wayan; 1990/5/2, a predictive dream. | Canals and locks. American soldiers find an underground village and force everyone to evacuate to a warship, "for safety". The villagers turn into birds so if it's a trap they can escape. Next morning... CAUTION: ESP, GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY |
AMIDA: by Lady Sarashina, 1055/10/13, a dream of a salvation-offer |
Three years before her husband died and she was left alone, Sarashina dreamt Amida Buddha stood in her garden and told her "Later I shall return to fetch you"... |
AMONG COLUMNS: by Wayan; 1989/6/19, digital picture of psychic dream |
A psychic dream about a New York ballet student who was a black panther. Lower case... |
AMPLIFIER: by Alder; 1999/11/13, a dream on self-underestimation |
I was always the weakest magic-worker I knew. But when demons threatened my grandchild... |
ANAGRAMMAGIC: by Robert Graves, 1938 or 39, a possibly telepathic dream |
DAY: Friends described JW Dunne's experiments with time. I decide to look for dream elements from the future. DREAM: I meet Oscar Wilde & other writers I dislike. A nonsense word like TELPOE or PELTOE appears... DAY: A letter arrives full of anagrams (based on my poetry) about Oscar Wilde & other writers I dislike... |
ANARCHIST FAIR: by Wayan; 2005/4/5, a drastic dream-song, with chords |
At an anarchist fair in San Francisco, a 13-year-old punkette genius sings some shocking advice to me... |
THE ANCIENT BOOK: by Wayan; 1993/11/11, a political dreamfable. |
I'm a schoolkid in the future who finds an ancient book the censors somehow missed... |
ANCIENT MARE-KIN GRAVEYARD: by Wayan; 2008/9/1, a dreamsong (MP3+lyrics), Dreamverse #18 |
I'm a ghost watching future archeologists dig up a site of my people--and get it so wrong... |
ANCIENT RUINS, AND A GIFT FROM DEEP OCEAN: |
by Jenny Badger Sultan; two dreams (2016/11/19, 2017/1/18) on dreamwork, memory & amnesia 1: Ruins in India. Fascinating but age-blurred; wish I could see the carvings better... 2: Giving presents at a party, I hand a girl a vertebra from the abyss, encrusted with jewel-like barnacles... |
ANDROMEDA: by Wayan; dreamed 1987/12/30; a Greek myth turns Jungian and Buddhist |
I dream of the legendary maiden chained to a rock, and the dragon coming to abduct her--but neither one is as advertised. They look strangely akin... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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. |
ANDRE NORTON'S HELP: a dreamlet in MAGICAL GRADUATION
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THE ANGEL: by William Blake; early 1790s; a gender-bending dream-poem |
Blake dreams he's a young queen with an uneasy relationship to her guardian angel... |
ANGEL ON MY SILL: by Wayan; 1993, digital portrait of spirit seen during sex |
A guardian angel who's a sort of kindly, sacred succubus... CAUTION: SEX |
ANGEL SHOWDOWN: by Wayan; 2020/4/2, a dream mixing shamanism and Barbarella |
I see parasitic spirits sickening their human hosts. Can't get rid of them, so I try to teach them how to keep their hosts healthier. An angel suspects I'm a necromancer, and shows up armed for a shootout... CAUTION: DISTURBING PREMISE, LOWBROW ANGEL |
ANGELS AND SHARKS: by Wayan; 1975/10/11, a surreal warning dream |
I was an angel slipping through matter, who, like a shark, needed to keep moving to breathe--stop and I'd drown in the world, lose myself... |
ANGELUNE: by Wayan; 1999/5/10 acrylic painting |
The joyful animal-angel I feel myself to be in my happiest dreams. |
ANGERHELM: by Wayan; 1994/11/11, a reassuring nightmare. |
In one long night I hike out of Obligation Hell all the way to Inner-Freedom Heaven... |
ANIMAL DREAMLETS: by Wayan; 1996/11/20, four dream vignettes |
A night of gorilla-guerillas, feminist backlash among wolves, and horse-ballerinas, first in chorus lines, then a sexy soloist... |
ANIMAL DREAMS: by Carolyn Tipton; a 2019 poem arguing that without animal viewpoints the world goes flat |
"What about their dreams? What if they've all been partly dreaming us, and lacking them, our world becomes as trivial and narrow as our dreams?"... |
ANIMAL HEAVEN: by Wayan; 2008/8/16, an astral dream-poem; Dreamverse #6. |
At a party in Animal Heaven, I fall for a rabbit-girl doomed to be human dinner. But how can I rescue her? I'm Fate's part-time intern! CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, INCOMPETENT ANGEL OF DEATH |
ANIMAL SPEECH, ANIMAL ESP: by Wayan; 1997/7/31, from Wayan's journal. |
When you really observe animals in language programs it's obvious WE'RE the dimwits... |
ANIMAL TRANSFIGURATION: by Edwin Muir; c.1920, a dream of an animal Resurrection |
A man with luminous hair leads me out to a field where all the world's animals but one gaze at heaven... |
ANIMANGEL: by Wayan, 1983/10/1-2010/7/22! An ink portrait-poem of my clashing guardian angels |
My loud, spiky, tailed angel of change and potential, and my calm, skeptical devil of gradualism--a star-nosed mole... |
ANIMATION TODAY: NO PEARLS, LOTSA SWINE: by Wayan; 1986/1/31, nondream thoughts on animation |
What makes so much animation all feel the same? Temptations inherent in the medium... |
ANNABEL ROSE: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/14, a ghostbusting dream on... love? sex? what? |
Edgar Allen Poe confronts his dead girlfriend, who wants to drag him into the grave with her... CAUTION: HUNGRY GHOST, SEX TALK |
ANNE GOT LOST: by Anne's friend; 1936, a warning dream wisely acted on |
She was headed for a rock wall. The brakes faded; she smelled burning. Then she woke. Her friends laughed, but she asked a neighbor what to do if... |
ANNE SEXTON: by J.D. McClatchy; 1974/10/4, a predictive dream. |
I dreamt my friend Anne Sexton's death was on the news. I woke, the phone rang, and I learned she'd... CAUTION: SUICIDE |
ANNE'S DREAM: by Anne, painted by Rita Wolff; 1981, a nightmare. |
A great storm causes flooding. I'm knee deep in the surge. Women flee and flounder, wearing different colors, forming a panicky rainbow. So much for God's promise... |
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? |
ANNOYING GODDESS: by Wayan; 1993/12/10, a dance/pregnancy/sexchange/goddess dream |
I was a pregnant dancer on the Fertility Goddess's new TV show, but I was mad at her... |
ANN-THENNATH: by Wayan; 1986/2/1, a fairytale freeway dream. |
I dream of Beren and Luthien happy and mortal in their forest, and wake to find... |
ANNUNCIATION TO THE SPHINX: by Wayan; 1995, digital painting of nondream vision. |
I think Yeats was wrong to use the Sphinx to symbolize the brutal post-Christian era he foresaw... |
ANOCHE / LAST NIGHT: by Antonio Machado; c. 1900; a joyful dream poem |
Last night, as I slept, I dreamt--illusion blessed!--that I had a beehive, here inside my heart... |
ANOREXIA NIRVANA: by Wayan; 1993, a digital picture-poem of astral temptation. |
I was anorexic for years; I only mastered it when I saw it was a hunger for the spirit world...
| ANOTHER DREAM OF BURIAL: dreamed 2009 or before, by W.S. Merwin; poem of recurring dream |
The garden varies, but I have always turned away and walked into the whole world. So far... |
THE ANSWER FLOOR: by Wayan; 1985/2/16, a dream-poem inverting a famous dream of Jung's |
I dream of a three-floor tower--but the Answer is up on Level Four! No elevator, no stair. I can't even see it. Yet it's there... |
ANSWERING JUNG: by Wayan; 2005/7/5, a dream parodying one of Jung's key dreams |
After reading Jung's dreams, I have an anti-Jungian dream of sexy nightmare-statues waiting to come alive, like the tree I draw & bring to life with my literally magic marker... CAUTION: NUDE STATUES |
THE ANT REPRESENTATIVE: by Wayan; 1996/3/18, a romantic dream of bugs. |
I fall in love with a diplomat from a hive mind. Am I luring her into dangerous individuality? |
ANTELOPE GIRLS: by Wayan; 2015/1/2, a dating-advice dream for the traumatized |
All the runaways & homeless girls in town start calling themselves antelopes. I bring home an antelope date. But my mom, who looks like my Reaganite grandma, sees a literal antelope... |
ANTIGRAVITY RESEARCH: by Mary Arnold-Forster; 1905?, a dream of teaching dreamflight |
I show the Royal Society how to fly! Confidence is the key. I teach a hesitant Fellow to lift off... |
ANTI-LUCID FLIGHT: by Wayan, 2016/8/30, a friendly nightmare begging me to go lucid. |
I fear falling? The drop increases. Want a softer surface? The rocks turn to dirt, then water. Want help? Here comes a flying dolphin. Oh, but I'm not dreaming... |
THE ANTI-SABOTEUR: by Wayan; 2013/7/19, a diagnostic dreamlet
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This giant life-coach says my friends and I aren't self-sabotaging as we suspected; we just lack certain tools and opportunities. And we're aiming high... |
THE ANTLIAN JUDGE: by Wayan; 1997/6/29, an otherworldly dream. |
On an alien world I meet a judge from the newly discovered galaxy of Antlia, and learn distance can lend objectivity... |
ANTS AT A PICNIC: by Wayan; 1984/11/16, dream-poem from predictive dreamlet |
DREAM: Ants invite me to a picnic. But one of the dishes they serve is--other ants! NEXT DAY: I'm invited to a picnic. And my friend, munching, says... CAUTION: BUG-EAT-BUG WORLD |
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 |
APOCALYPSE IN ST. JAMES'S PARK: by Robin Hardy; pre-1983, a quiet Cold War nightmare |
I find myself at a party in London observing two minutes of silence for the dead of World Wars One and Two. But then, in the park, blowing across the grass like leaves, were people. The windows imploded. Surely, I thought, there should be a flash before the wind? |
APOCALYPSE OF THE MOON: by Carl Linkhart, 1997 or before; dream poem/painting |
The far future. The moon falls to Earth. But then... the moon unfalls! Golden light nurtures a rebirth of our dying ecology & civilization... |
APOLOGETIC OGRE: by Wayan; 1990/3/1, a nightmare. |
I hop on a bus in mythical Greece, and this woman's guardian angel acts racist. OK, I'm an ogre. So? CAUTION: ANOTHER HANDGUN TRAGEDY |
APPLE-SCENTED MURDER!: one dreamlet of three in
POISONED |
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THE APPLIANCE'S EFFECT: by Wayan; 1996/8/20, a teasing little dream. |
Why has no one noticed that the side effects of a household appliance violate all known physics? |
APPLY FOR PRIORITY: by Wayan; 2000/7/11, a dream about taking yourself seriously |
While building the World Dream Bank, I dream a hacker says "certain remarkable sites get free fast access; you should apply..." |
AQUARINA PRODIGY: by Wayan; 2009/10/15, a dream poem with sketches; Dreamverse #60 |
A child prodigy stands out in a chorus line of waterdancers. Her body is a patchwork of young & old... |
ARABELLA'S ARTIFACT: see end of BIKE ODYSSEY
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ARABIAN FLYING CASTLE: alternate title of IT WASN'T EASY
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ARACHNOLYPSE, alternate title of LIZARD OR WIZARD? |
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ARAGORN'S LIVER: by Wayan; 1983/1/29, a health-warning nightmare. |
I'm a hobbit in Silicon Valley, stalking Ring-wraiths down El Camino. But one of them's stalking me... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, HYPNOTIC GASLIGHTING |
ARBORETUM CAT: by Wayan; 1999/4/14, an acrylic nondream landscape. |
Golden Gate Park's arboretum, in San Francisco, is home to feral cats, skunks, raccoons, people... |
ARCHANGEL: by Wayan; 1997/10/19, a dream-farce--or is it? |
Sure I've been through hell, but how the hell did that get me elected archangel? And why's my butt itch? CAUTION: ITCHY BUTT |
ARCH: by Wayan; dreamed 1998/8/10, painted 1999, acrylic on wood. |
I dreamed that as a kid I saw two girls making love in the bushes, awakening my own sexual orientation. Later, I saw the bigger picture, which wasn't about sex at all... CAUTION: SEX |
THE ARCS: see DREAM OF THE ARCS
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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?... |
ARCTIC UNICORN: by Wayan; 1989/8/2, a self-flagging predictive dream |
I'm in a gypsy wagon that always creeps north; to break the spell, I need an arctic unicorn. Four days later, at work at the library, a new book appears: Nancy Luenn's Arctic Unicorn... |
ARE YOU READY?: by a Minnesota woman; pre-1961, two predictive dreamlets, one useful |
The elevator man in funereal black said in a sepuchral voice "Are you ready?" I decided I'd wait... |
ARENNA, FREED: by Wayan; 1991/11/6, a magical pastlife/flying/freedom dream. |
I learn to fly from Arenna the moon-girl and Crest the dragon, in the House of Deep Memory... |
ARHATS IN A DREAM: by Guan Xiu, c.891, early dream paintings |
Guan Xiu, a painter in the late Tang Dynasty, dreamt that sixteen arhats or luohans (Buddhist sort-of-saints) asked him to paint their portraits-- not their earthly forms but their (rather peculiar) astral forms. He did... |
ARIANA'S EVENING: by Andrea McFarland; 2022/4/28, a dream of a long-lost love |
Fifty years after I drove him away with high-school idiocy, I get one last kiss before... |
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 |
ARIEL and THE UNICORN COMMITMENT: by Wayan; 1983/12/26-27, an epic psychic dream & sequel |
DREAM: to stop an idiotic bout of war-fever, I have to take on the power of the Goddess herself... NEXT DAY: I stumble on a fantasy book, Ariel, full of details straight out of the dream... THAT NIGHT: I sign the Unicorn Commitment, but personalize the magical contract... CAUTION: DISSES REAGAN & SOUTHERN MASCULINITY |
ARISTOTLE'S WIVES: by Wayan, 1984/5/20, a dueling-philosopher dream. |
Aristotle keeps marrying my friends and fucking them up. So I challenge Mr. Logic to a shamanic duel... CAUTION: THE F-WORD. OOPS, TOO LATE! LESBIAN FISH, TOO. |
ARMLESS: by Wayan; 1997 portrait of dream figures (pencil/digital) |
A strange horny frustrated being, part human part horse, who needs hands to grab the centaurs... CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL TENSION |
ARMORINE'S DRAGON: by Armorine; 2006/3/21; shaded pencil drawing of a dream-dragon |
I had a dream about a beautiful dragon. It is not easy to put something from your dream onto paper... |
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 |
THE ARMY ORGY: by Charles Scoy; late Sept. 2008, a recurrent nightmare that changed |
An Army nightmare suddenly changes--my enemy kisses me, & we start doing every kind of sex... CAUTION: GAYS IN THE ARMY? DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL! |
AROO'S ENGINEERS: by Wayan; 1984/11/9-10, a Hawaiian dream epic. |
The Engineers make Eden... logical. But the blimps go blind, and a demon goes viral. How can I escape the their ultra-efficient hell? |
AROUND LAKE ERIE AND ACROSS THE HUDSON: by Rachel Hadas; 1997? a dream-poem |
My dead friend Charlie and his sister and I are driving around Lake Erie. We know it's a dream and he's dead, and yet we're joyous... |
THE ARREST: by Georges Perec; July 1970, a dream of .... huh? Dream #16 |
I am arrested in Tunisia, essentially for being Jewish, despite my pro-Palestinian sympathies. My main regret: I face years of dirty socks... |
THE ARRIVAL: by Elizabeth Gibbons, 2014; a spiritual dream about dreams |
I'm a priestess from an island of women; I meet an angel who charges me to harvest all the dreams of the world... |
ARROW OF FIRE: by Archbishop Anselm, King William Rufus & a monk, 1100/8/1, 3 predictive dreams |
Anselm dreams God orders King William's death by an arrow of fire; the King dreams his blood covers the sun. Waking, he mocks a third man's ominous dream, goes hunting, and dies bloodily at sunset, an arrow in his heart... |
ARSON MUSIC: by Wayan; 2000/10/4, a parallel-world dream on ethics |
Driving through California farm hills with subtly different natural laws, I find social consequences. Can physics create evil? |
ARSON PATTERN: by Wayan, 2023/8/13, a troubling political dream |
Fires erupt all over the Bay Area, but people I meet (and the news) just say "global warming." No! It's no warmer than normal and those fires are in lines! Arsonists are driving around, torching... CAUTION: POLITICAL READING |
ART ENVY: by Roz Chast, before 2023/9/18, an insecurity-baring dream |
I dream I'm reading an amazing comic about a bright red geometric dog named Question, floating through surreal landscapes. I'm envious--until I wake in relief that it's just a dream! |
ART OR PROPAGANDA?: by Wayan; dreamed 2008/2/7, 3 dream-reactions to Philip Pullman's books |
There's a rare dream-type that can change reality itself. I study its EEG trace. Can I learn to do it?... I'm arguing with musicians--what's better, music that serves your goals, or purely great music... I'm bored in class. Draw sexy furries. The babydykes by me do too! Art'll summon the girls we want... CAUTION: PHILOSOPHY! OH NO! |
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... |
THE ARTERIA: by Wayan; 1994/5/24, a raw, personal tale of three nightmares. |
Hypnotherapy provokes nightmares of body-part shops, secret libelers, and madmen in space... |
ARTICHOKE PLATE: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1982 (March?); a punning dream |
I realize the artichoke plate in my lap is a pun: ART! I CHOKE! I need to peel off my thorny outer leaves of professionalism to find the heart inside... |
ARTIE SHAW: by John Wren-Lewis, 1971/8/17?, a comic predictive dream |
DREAM: I write a book involving spies and Lord Snow, but give him a cover name: Artie Shaw. TWO WEEKS LATER: My wife & I go on the Tonight Show; unexpectedly, Artie Shaw shows up! I tell him the dream. He turns pale, saying "No one knows this--I wrote a book under the name..." CAUTION: WILL BOTHER E.S.P. SKEPTICS |
THE ARTIFACT: by Wayan; 1983/1/16, a gender- & species-bent dream of the far future |
I was a reptilian archeologist, a million years from now. What I dug up at the beach threatened my marriage... |
THE ARTIST'S WAY: by Wayan; 1994/6/10, a visual-pun dream. |
I'm a parade route. A group of child artists walks all over me. But their soles are bare, so I don't mind... |
ARTSHOW IN A DREAM: by Wayan; 1983/6/28 & 9/18, twin dreams on modern art's blindspots |
Jaundiced dreams of an art show spell out just how deeply I reject the rules behind modern art... |
AS A HILLSBOROUGH CHILD: by Barbara Gordon Paine; c.1960, a poem on a child's ear for idioms |
As a Hillsborough child I never heard the crash of twentynine walled streets that fell with a force that moved us away... |
AS IF WE CARED: by Wayan; 1984/9/17, a psychological sex dream. |
A burglar-girl and I spy on the neighbors together and we learn a weird Zen lesson on commitment... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
AS OTHERS SEE US: by Wayan; 1993/12/3, a socially astute flying dream. |
We're orphans learning to fly by night, when others can't see and define us... |
ASCENT: by Wayan; spring 1997; a comix-panorama on recurrent mountaineering dreams. |
All that spring I dreamed of climbing, cold, fatigue, risk, and fear. But shamanic training involves toughening; ascent isn't always easy flight... |
THE ASHE SISTERS: by Wayan; 2010/1/26, a dream portrait. |
My two moms sell art fabrics made by grayish batwinged sisters whose newest ad is risqué... CAUTION: ADS WITH NUDE BATS |
ASHES, ASHES: by Wayan; 1996/1/29, nondream digital sketch. |
Gaea dances the children's rhyme. I just hope we don't all fall down... |
THE ASILOMAR OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1986/3/5, a dream about dreams. |
Jungian angels at a conference of dreams test my progress. But I'm all backwards! Struggle with the easy stuff; zoom through the hard stuff... |
ASK ME ANYTHING: by Wayan; 1975/1/31, a backstage dream. |
It was a dark and stormy night. I was lost, till I stumbled on God in her underground control room. God was helpful. Too helpful... |
ASK NOT WHAT YOUR CUNT CAN DO FOR YOU: by Wayan; 1989/10/24. A mad nondream digital poster. |
JFK and Marilyn as our gender archetypes point out the real gender gap: lifespan, not votes! CAUTION: LANGUAGE, BUT I GUESS IT'S TOO LATE NOW |
ASLAN SWOOPS: by Wayan; 1985/1/19, a dream of the wrath of a right-wing god |
I'm in a cafe in Narnia when the lion-god Aslan attacks a giraffe for the mortal sin of dating a zebra. And why not? Oral Roberts University just banned interracial dating... CAUTION: CRINGEWORTHY CHRISTIANS |
ASTAIRES: by Wayan; 2015/11/17, a dream about... the Web? |
A host of Fred Astaires dance mid-air in an endless spiderweb, then pound on typewriters randomly forever... |
ASTEROID: by Forrest Bess, 1946; four abstractish REM-dream paintings |
All the Asteroids were coming together at last to form something bigger. In church, the dull-eyed preacher hadn't noticed. I led a blind man on toward the new... |
ASTEROID STRIKES: by Ben Bamber; Sept.-Dec. 2001, 4 dreams predicting 3 meteor strikes |
I witnessed strikes in Brighton and Devon through the eyes of others; but I felt the Cheltenham impact in my own body... |
ASTRALNAUT: by Wayan; 1994/7/30, a reverse ghost dream. |
I have amnesia. Plus, I'm dead. But I have this great NASA job! Only there's a saboteur... CAUTION: SNOTTY ABOUT CHRISTIANS AGAIN |
ASTRID AND ME: by Wayan, 2019/12/18, a dream inspired by a film--seen after it. |
DREAM: I'm a girl in love with an underage abused girl (using me to heal?) But gossips (& the Swedish navy) won't let us be... FILM: A Swede gets his teenage assistant pregnant--and small-town gossips blame her. So she writes Pippi Longstocking... CAUTION: TEEN SEX; ESP? |
AT A BIG 'SWENSON' PARTY: by Jack Kerouac, mid-Sept? 1953, a nightmare on need |
A lovely pecan pie, but the guests are cutting pieces, dropping them, hands trembling in growing hunger desperate the dark voracious guests fighting now to freeload... CAUTION: NOT ABOUT PIE |
AT A CALIFORNIA CAMP: by Jack Kerouac, spring 1955, a nuclear testing nightmare |
My family and I are prisoners in a camp that will be H-bombed so our remains can be studied. I write a Buddhist poem preparing for death... CAUTION: GOVERNMENT ATROCITY |
AT LEAST HE'S A DOCTOR: by Wayan; 1982/4/7, a sharp warning dream. |
I'm a Puertorriqueña who falls for an Anglo doctor, but he's not what he seems... CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX, CREEPY GUY, VICIOUS FIGHT |
AT THE BISEXUAL BALL: by Wayan; 1997/6/21, a dreamtale. |
How I found out what I really wanted at the bisexual ball. Really, I'm not disappointed... CAUTION: OH COME ON, READ THE TITLE |
AT THE CENTRE: by Thom Gunn, c.1970, poem on a transcendent acid trip |
Enlightenment came to me via that shimmering, animated Hamm's Beer billboard... CAUTION: SAY YES TO DRUGS? |
AT THE DOOR: by Emily Y. Chan, 2019/3/20 or before; nightmare dream sketch |
There was a tall man wearing a mask standing at the door. At least I think it was a mask... |
ATLANTIS; c. 1993 by Mark Doty; six elegiac poems, three dream-based |
In our marshlands, tides, birds, dogs come and go; but must our friends and lovers, too? CAUTION: AIDS DEATHS |
ATMAVICTU: by Carl Jung, c.1919/12/4; portrait of dream figure in a different phase of life |
Jung's ally in killing the murderous German archetype Siegfried was Atmavictu. Here he's worn out, turning to stone, ready to manifest as a different guide... |
ATTAHUAH: by Jamie Sawyer; summer 2015, a postapocalyptic lucid dream of vengeance |
Four guys plot to enslave my girl and kill me; I have lucid powers, and kill them instead. My girlfriend Attahuah gets poisoned, but... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, DECEIT |
AUNT SQUID: see under title LESBOY |
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AURALESS: by Wayan; dreamed 2017/5/14, a sex nightmare about perfect normality |
I'm in bed with a movie star, and it's awful. Why? Because I can only feel her with FIVE senses--the sixth is missing! So disorienting it's creepy... CAUTION: NIGHTMARE, BAD SEX |
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... |
AUTUMN OF THE ANCIENTS: by Carl Linkhart, 1995 or before; dream poem/painting |
Central America. A pale sorceress has stolen the splendor of the Mayan pyramids. Is pagan power strong enough to defy the church's promises of savation & its fears of a rumored devil? |
AUTISM BOOKLIST: by Wayan; 2018/2/26-, a bibliography for aspies and autistics |
Books, films, comics etc. of interest to autistics/aspies. Please help me expand it! What's helped YOU? |
AUTISTIC & HANDLER, fourth dreamlet in FOUR OF TEN |
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AUTISTIC EDGE: by Wayan, 2023/5/16, a weird little dream-sermon |
An autistic genius gets distracted from her cosmological research, and rants about non-autistics' monkey-mind distractions, distorting their worldview... CAUTION: HARSH ON NEUROTYPICALS |
AUTISTIC THUNDER: by Wayan; 2018/2/12, a predictive shamanic dream |
DREAM: a concert by autistics admits my bandmate Mike but locks me out! I summon thunder & quakes till they open up... AWAKE: I called it metaphor--till it happened. I was sitting silent in our band's recording session and Mike asked me to leave... CAUTION: AUTISM & APPARENT E.S.P. |
THE AUTUMN BREEZE: see FREUD WAS SOME WRONG... by John Berryman |
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AVENUE OF TREES: by Anonymous #34; July 1911?, early 1924?, 1934/3/30, & Jan. 1947; |
four death-omen dreamlets, one predictive Every decade or so, I dream a loved one says farewell and walks down an avenue of trees. I wake to find that person's dying... |
AVERELL'S FLIGHT: by Sue Averell, 2005, paintings based on flying dreams |
Action-painting cityscapes, but seen from far above--in flight. But she keeps herself out of the picture, so you'd never guess, unless... |
AVOID THE MATRIARCH: by Wayan; 2011/7/8; a dream of, well, avoidance |
I love a girl in a big Singapore clan whose matriarch hates me. But the omens say confronting her will be disastrous... |
AWAKENING HURTS: by Wayan; 1993/7/4, a dreamtale. |
An old friend's awakening from anorexic asexuality. Puberty at 30? And wait a minute... is she me? |
AWK!: by Wayan; 1988?, a trance drawing of a body state |
When I met someone attractive, my head flamed, burning my body like a wax candle... |
AWKWARD ENLIGHTENMENT: by Wayan; 2010/1/13; a dream of spiritual and practical advice |
Anxious about a big party, I dream of being crowded. But a cat-centaur in the crowd attains sudden enlightenment... |
THE AXE OF DEATH: by Catherine McDiarmid Paton; c. 1830, a grisly predictive nightmare. |
She dreamt Death attacked her but her youngest kids bravely fought back--and died. 3 months later... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
AYRES: by Wayan; alarming nondream discovery 2006/5/4, and subsequent revelations |
The therapist my parents made me see as a kid got convicted of molesting his child clients. But not all. I played an evasive waiting game for three awful years under his leering scrutiny. So, can evading a molester still traumatize? Oh yes... CAUTION: CHILD NEGLECT & ABUSE |
AZOREAN PAN: by Wayan; 1988/6/3 & 6/6, two subtly predictive dreamlets on a Greek god |
1: On a mid-Atlantic islet, a farm family plays music to summon the Greek god Pan. It works! 2: A mystical picturebook shows Pan & his mermaid lover. Again I'm told music summons Pan! CAUTION: GOAT-GOD NUDITY |
THE AZTEC EMPIRE'S RESERVATIONS: by Wayan; 1998/3/19, a parallel-world dream | The modern Aztec Empire is as bad as Anglos toward other Indians, for it's not poverty that hurts...
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