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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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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..." |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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 |
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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..." |
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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! |
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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! |
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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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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... |
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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 |
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BAD DREAM BOOK: by Jim Shaw; late 1994?, a dream calling his dream art lame I show a friend my book of dream-art, but it's half-baked and embarrassing. I'm no good at smuggling guns, porn or cash through customs, either... CAUTION: LOW-RES SMUT IN THAT BOOK |
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BALLET CURTAIN: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, an odd double dream image Dancers in 18th Century gowns emerged from a curtain with paintings of ballerinas in the same gowns... |
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BANANA MOON: by Wayan; 1998/3/4-12/26, dream-figure painting, acrylic on wood, 3x4' My figure-painting class here in San Francisco has a diverse student body, but not THIS diverse... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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BEAR LADY: by Rachael Dutton, c.1981; a dream painting with four rearrangeable panels Bear lady, bare lady, in (or out of) a bear suit... |
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BITTER JADE: by Wayan, 1983/4/8, a dream on change. Why's Jade the bitter artist throw me at her happier, calmer daughter? Wait, is Jamie the new ME? CAUTION: SEX |
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BIVOUAC: by Richard Turner; 1981, a dreamlet with sculpture-advice A young Tibetan boy approached me with his arms full of the shapes I had been working on for the past week. To my delight I found the material, textures and colors I had been searching for... |
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BLUE RABBIT: by Stan Brakhage; 1975/5/17, a colorful dream image bogged down by theory A startling deep-blue rabbit with scarlet eyes and red veined ears, floating in colorless air... I'd been reading Watership Down, the chapter on the Black Rabbit of Inlé... CAUTION: ART THEORY CRUSHES BUNNY |
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BOX: by Wayan; 1991? Digital self-portrait as dreamer trapped on the Web. So exactly how is posting all these dreams different from crawling naked inside your screen?. CAUTION: NUDITY |
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BOXES, or, THE THRILL OF DRAWING: by Wayan; 1999/10/20, nondream pencil drawing In drawing class I was supposed to be studying perspective, but I went beyond the box... |
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BRADBURY'S DEATH IS A LONELY BUSINESS: by Wayan; 1994/1/12, a book review? Or a life review? Bradbury's Mars was based on his life in Venice, California. What worlds grow out of my San Francisco? |
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BRITISH TRIANGLE: by Wayan; 2019/8/18, a dream of another life. I'm a middle-aged British writer in a triad with a sculptor and a dairy farmer who seem happy sharing me. But it's a small town, so we must be discreet... CAUTION: TRIAD THAT WORKS |
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BURN HIS TREE: by Emily Joy; 2007/2/7; two linked nightmares on art Malevolent artwork terrorizes my baby and me! What's to be done?... |
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BURNING HOUSE: by Graciela Iturbide, 2006 or before; a Pygmalion dream My home was burning; I despaired. All my negatives would be lost. But some figures arose from their photos and walked out of the fire... |
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THE BUSINESSMAN IN ANGUISH: by Wayan; 1991/7/2. Digital dream painting. I dreamed this was in our civic museum: a painting of the central dynamo of our world finally erupting: the Businessman in Anguish. |
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THE CAT: by David B.; 1991/9/24, an eerie sculpture come alive In the woods outside a modern art museum, I'm being stalked by Giacometti's huge skeletal cat... |
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CHIRICO'S DREAM: by Giorgio di Chirico; 1904, a surreal dream prefiguring his paintings In vain I struggle with my father, with his strong arms and wary eyes... I give up... agonizing quests down darkened streets... long shadows on columns and porticos... a crowd gathers; my father may be in danger... I want to flee... |
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CIRC CERVINE: by Wayan; 2016/9/16, a dream on... how to catch difficult dreams? At a polyspecies circus, I sketch three acrobat-dancers--one deerish, one human, one... a mannequin? Fiendish to draw! I wake frustrated & sketchless. But my sketchwork in the dream helps me redraw it awake... CAUTION: DEER NUDITY |
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CIVIL AFTERMATH by Wayan, 2024/1/5, a dream I hope is not predictive A guy smashes homes with a duckbilled train; gunmen shoot up shops near the tracks. The ensuing civil war burns all. Years later, we live on hardscrabble farms. Global Texas! CAUTION: GLOBAL TEXAS! |
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CLIMB DOWN THE PINNACLES: by Jenny Badger Sultan, l995/12/24, a surreal dream and painting Decision by decision, we made our way down immense rock crags. Below, I had to put out a deadly fire, a fire as solid as wood or stone, with a white staff. What am I really trying to calm? |
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COCO CHANEL'S PUSSY: by Wayan; 2010/4/26; a film-pun-sex dream Coco Chanel's fashion workers want me to screw Coco's cat, so she'll stop screwing them financially... CAUTION: SEX KITTENS |
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COMICS & DREAMJOURNAL: by Rick Veitch, Jan 1974, a life-path dream I'm trying to jam together my dream diary and my first comics. My grandmother's skeptical. But at last, with an audible 'click', dreams and comics suddenly merge... |
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COYOTE INVADES ABSTRACTION: by Wayan; 1989/8/24, reworked 1998/7/26, nondream digital painting. Coyote invades an abstract painting to expose why the art world loves that high-concept, impersonal art... |
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CRISP: by Wayan; 1991? Digital poster on Web art. Is digital Web blather any better than old-fashioned, live, analog blather? CAUTION: STUPIDITY |
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CRITTERS OF THE MONTANA FRONT: by Wayan, 2022/5/31, a watercolor warning dream DAY: I admire Hannah Hinchman's watercolors of Montana and Vad Yakovlev's digital art of Equestria. DREAM: I meet & sketch a coyote girl, a whack-a-mole mare, and a leering herder of shadowsheep... |
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CRUMB: by Wayan; 1995/6/7; film review/essay on art-integrity Cartoonist Robert Crumb just turns off all taboos while drawing. A learnable technique... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, CARTOON SEX |
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DEADWOOD, or, MAO'S ONEIROLOGIST: by Wayan; 1976/4/2, a career-advisory dream-poem The Cultural Revolution denies me the Himalayas--the spiritual heights. So I flutter around the base of the Stairway to Heaven... |
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"DEATH! DEATH!" by William Holman Hunt; 1854/1/20 (or so); a one-year predictive dream DREAM: Hunt's mother points at a tall figure in the shadows and shrieks "Death! Death!" ONE YEAR LATER: in Jerusalem, his hostess finds her young son dead, and shrieks... CAUTION: BEWARE THE IDES OF JANUARY? |
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DOPP: by Wayan; 1988/11/5, a predictive dream DREAM: On a farm, I meet two sexy shapeshifting sisters. But mushroom clouds rise on the horizon... NEXT DAY: at SF-MOMA, Susan Marie Dopp's paintings: shapeshifting sisters, mushroom clouds... CAUTION: NUDITY; ESP |
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DRACULA'S SANDWICH: by Brenda Ferrimani; 1997/8/22, a death/rebirth nightmare-painting Dinner with Dracula goes well, considering, except for the mayonnaise. But suddenly I'm drowning! No one sees or hears me. Am I a ghost, am I dead or alive? And how would anyone notice? |
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DREAM-DENIERS: by Wayan, 2014/5/31, a dream contemplating the meaning of dreams In a museum I talk to a stained-glass artist who's a dreamworker like me. But a meme seems to be spreading that says dreams mean absolutely nothing... CAUTION: ADVANCED DREAMWORK |
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DREAM MILKING: by Wayan, 2000/6/30, a dream warning of overwork... but awake or asleep? After a hard day getting a "free" bed, I dream my milker comes to drain my dreams. Wait...did I agree to this? Or does milking drain objections, too? CAUTION: CREEPY |
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A DREAM OF HELL by Herbert Palmer, 1919; recurring nightmares of loneliness I'm in Hell. No fire, no guilt. Just endless forests under the moon. My mother paints endlessly but never gets it right. A sunny day, but I can't go out to play. Cut off... CAUTION: DEPRESSION |
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DREAMTALES: by Wayan; 1996-2006, a 250-page collection of dream comics "I've always dreamed other lives. Other bodies. Other times. Other worlds. I draw my lives..." |
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THE DREGS EFFECT: by Wayan; 1997/11/19, a waking insight on artists in therapy Artists have their own strange culture, and we can unintentionally mislead therapists unfamiliar with us... CAUTION: THERAPESE |
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EGO FACTORY: by Rick Veitch, late 1974/1, both a Jungian & career-advisory dream I go to work at the factory, clock in, strip naked, and build my... self! Myself as art. A long slow job, but when my workmates ask, I'm admit I'm happy with me at last... |
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EMISSARY: by Wayan; 2000/3/22, an astral dreamtale. I signed a prenatal agreement for weird, uneven luck to turn my life toward art and spirit. I want to broaden it, but I've lost the contract! So my spirit wife Silky sets out to find it... |
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EMOTIONAL PALETTE: by Wayan; 2000/3/22, an indescribable dream. My spirit-wife and I spend our last evening together painting. Not with colors--with emotions... |
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ENVY'S BAND: by Wayan, 2016/1/10, a dream on ambition rebelling against niceness I meet Envy, that pushy, ambitious rock singer from the Scott Pilgrim books. She's kind of sabotaging herself--but then don't I go too far the other way? |
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EYE AND I by Wayan; 1999/11/15, a drawing that shifts me into a new way of seeing I met a colorblind artist with an amazing grayscale sense. He inspire me to draw a huge eye full of abstract shapes in gray, trying to see his way... |
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FAIRY URGES A WORKTABLE: by Wayan; 2009/7/15, an advice-dream wiser than it seemed I find a long, narrow table. I have a table, but a fairy friend perches on this one and urges "Take it home! You'll do better art!" |
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FAMILY JESTERS: by Wayan; 2017/3/15, a dream mixing Kurt Vonnegut and My Little Pony Coastal unicorns are slender; inlanders bloat. Genes, diet, both? Inland bosses enslave their gracile minority. Performing pets! Jesters caged, chained & handicapped to heighten the wonder they can do their art at all... CAUTION: TROUBLING SOCIAL ANALOGIES |
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FESTIVAL OF THE MOTHERS OF RAIN: by Rachael Dutton, c.1984; a dream-based sculpture group The whole village welcomed in the Mothers of Rain. An aged deer had visions. A young mother gave birth. All the creatures and spirits danced... |
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FIGURE AND FIELD: by Wayan; May 1990, a poem on the dark side of a human ability We see patterns everywhere... but that also means we relegate nonpatterns to the background... |
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FIGURE DRAWING: ALL MUST BE PRECISE: by Wayan; crayon, 1995/2/6, sketch of studio classmate An elegant, sexy classmate of mine, a fastidious feline island in our sea of grubby manic sketchers... |
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FIGURE DRAWING: AND AT ALL TIMES BE SERIOUS: by Wayan; 1995/3/6?, figure study. She tried to find a pose so melodramatically goofy the sketchers couldn't take her seriously... but no. CAUTION: ART-SCHOOL NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: STUDIO: by Wayan; 1999/5/12; acrylic figure sketch In life drawing class, the model built a sort of green island/nest in the sea of grubby students... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: EAGER ARTIST: by Wayan; 1995/1/30, studio sketch. Rather than draw the model, I often sketch my classmates in life-drawing. They get so intent! |
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FIGURE DRAWING: NOW HOLD THAT POSE: by Wayan; 1989/11/14 digital sketch of model clowning. Shasé liked absurd, impossible poses, and she held them heroically... CAUTION: SILLY NUDITY |
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FILLY'S QUEST: by Wayan; 1981/1/31, a dream on dream-theory. Head versus... wings! The tunnel has pictures of a winged unicorn filly on a quest. But the editor of the deluxe book version is intellectual, patriarchal and heavy-handed... CAUTION: UNDERAGE ALICORN FLIRTING |
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FLOATING HORSES: by Wayan, 1972/8/10, a flying/transformation dream advising patience That day, I did bad art. That night, my friend & I get turned into levitating horses-- though some of our fellow fliers, like the mummified Inuit, are kinda creepy... |
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FLOATING WOLF AND BUTTERFLY: by Wayan; 2010/12/21; a furry advisory dream The city museum's new levitating sculpture shows a space reef explored by a floating wolf who needs no spacesuit--vacuum adapted! |
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FLOWERHEADED CAT: by Wayan; 2005/8/17, two bizarre, sexy, advisory dreamlets My co-worker flashes a lot. Her boyfriend helps--flaps her skirt up to bare her pussy. What's their agenda? In a dream-sculptor's studio, I pet her lily-headed cat, who purrs. I think "At least her pussy likes me..." CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, PUNS, PETTING |
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FLY WITH ME?: by Wayan; 2024/1/7; a flying dream of course! But an odd one. DAY: I research a weird Salvador Dalí dream-painting mingling, flight, tigers and sex. DREAM: I flirt with a talking cat. Want her to fly with me. But she wants something earthier... |
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FLYING UNICORNS' GIFTS: by Lily Michaud; 2007/9/5, an advice-dream inside a flying dream Flying unicorns hang out with me and my friends, sending us dreams full of useful advice--and more concrete gifts... |
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FOOD CAME BETWEEN US: by Wayan, 1993/4/25, an incubated epic diagnostic dream. The terror of Navy breakfast, the joy of filterfeeding, how to marry pudding, and a sniper lunch with kisses... |
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FOUR ELEMENTALS: by Wayan, four recurrent 2009 dream-figures, 2010/1/1 to 1/14 For the New Year, I draw a group portrait of the old year's main dream-figures. Four needs came up constantly... |
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FRESH BLOOD: A DREAM MORPHOLOGY: by Carolee Schneemann, Aug. 1980; menstruation-triggered dream I'm with an Englishman in a taxi who seems rather calm about the fresh blood welling from his crotch... I find a famous European Veterinarian, but his waiting room's too crowded, so I just leave a bouquet of dolls... ...and wake to find blood on my own thighs. Why does menstruation always come to me as a surprise? |
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FURRY TRINITY: by Wayan; 2021/3/1, a dream painting three facets of... me? Or of dreaming? Three furry people show off their collected art & pets. But then they dissolve into their art & pets! The room itself dissolves into a river-raft. A unicorn girl in a gauze ritual robe studies a map... CAUTION: MILD FURRY NUDITY |
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GALLERY GAWKERS: by Wayan; 2003-5; sketches of San Francisco characters
For two years, I sat at the desk in our co-op gallery, and secretly sketched our bewildered, art-assaulted customers... |
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GO YOUR OWN WAY: by Peter Birkhäuser; 1942-45?, three advisory dreams plus a realist painting, '44. Peter draws painstaking realism til his tense hand turns into a horn! An anima urges him to walk into a blue light. He & Sybelle struggle against a crowd walking the wrong way... |
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HAND US THE FRENCHMAN!: by Wayan; 2004/10/24, a comic dreamlet on hippiedom's last gasp The Feds order my friend Mike to hand them a Frenchman we haven't seen in years. Mike substitutes a junk VW... |
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HAPPY HUNDERTWASSER: by Wayan; 1991-1999, nondream digital picture-poem. As the bland lead the blind... who knows their own mind? I'll tell you who.... |
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A HAUNTED HOUSE INDEED!: by Anna Kingsford; 1887/4/12, an epic ghost dream I was warned about soul-devouring art in the haunted house, but I didn't expect to find an entire art salon... CAUTION: ABSORBING ARTWORK |
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HEAD ON MY TABLE: by Lauren Watley; 2011/2/16, a creepy dream-image with depth After a day of troubling conflicts over race & art, I dream I'm handed a hot, heavy, mossy head--is it art, or alive? |
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HERSELF IN REVERSE: by Wayan; 2013/6/13, three surreal future-prompting dreamlets 1: In a theater I meet weird big-eyed ballerinas, & realize I'll choreograph for them soon... 2: A sorcery student & her powerful future self flying back through time meet & fuse... 3: A squirrel-mage meets his future self too. He gives us a mild fever to protect us against a deadly plague... CAUTION: NOT FOR TOTAL SKEPTICS ABOUT PREDICTIVE DREAMS |
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HOMAGE TO CAMILLE: by Wayan, spring 2003. Portrait of a half an anima A portrait of my dream-friend Silky, using a technique learned from artist Camille Porter. |
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HORSE-DOG: by Wayan, 1982/2/1, a rambling, scattered but predictive dream I cross the Mushroom Desert, meet a blue-tailed squirrel & a horse-size dog, then zombie-vampire suburbanites. NEXT DAY: an artist sends me a flyer with a new dream painting--a huge dog whose fur-patterns depict a horse... CAUTION: SYNCHRONICITY |
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IF YOUR HEART IS BEAT: by Wayan; 1989/6/30. Nondream digital graffiti-picture-poem. When your brain-cops are edgy, you're getting warm! |
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IMMOLATION MAZE: by Richard Turner; 1973, a nightmare expanded into both sculpture & story Saigon, 1973. Lost in a fabric maze. I find, wearing Buddhist robes, the skeleton of a dog. Years later I write of Buddhist monks burning themselves, and build an ominous maze... CAUTION: SUICIDES BY FIRE |
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IN THE VAULT: by Wayan; 1983/4/6, a dream of treasure. I was a sheltered girl till I entered my family's secret ancestral vault. I didn't expect to meet... |
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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..." |
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JEAN ARP'S OCTOPUS: by Wayan; 2001/2/26; a surreal dream of my surreal reaction to a surrealist and his... lunch A library shows me surrealist Jean Arp's sketchbook. One Eschery sketch with repeated focal points is hypnotic. But they also show me his lunch, and I try to eat it! I fail. Head & gut disagree. Stuck Arp-way... CAUTION: NEVER EAT 12-YEAR-OLD SUSHI |
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KLIMT'S GIRL FRIENDS: by Wayan; 1998/7/4, a short art rant Klimt did a deep portrait of a lesbian couple back when most folks hardly saw gays as human... |
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LAKOTA TRAINSCAPES: by Wayan; 2018/10/30, art seen in an anti-lucid dream In a general store on a High Plains rez, I find two surreal collaged postcards. If only this were a dream they'd qualify for the World Dream Bank, but sadly, it isn't. Right? CAUTION: STUPID, STUPID CONSCIOUS! |
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LIGHTING THE TORCH: by Peter Birkhäuser; dreamed June 1974, painted Sept. '74. In the dark, a dragonlike god of fire stretched out one claw to courteously light my own small torch... |
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MAGENTA SQUARES: by Wayan; 1991/1/27, a predictive art dream. My bedroom's full of magenta squares with stuff glued on. The room glows pink. A girl who's an expert on the marketing of such installation art gives me advice... Then I wake to find my housemate Sarah filling our flat with an installation of magenta... CAUTION: APPARENT E.S.P. |
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MAGICAL GRADUATION: by Wayan, 2018/4/22, twin dreamlets on letting go and being yourself I befriend author Andre Norton--an ageless high-school kid writing enthused fan fiction, forever... I find my Niche--the stone nook that decides if I'm a journeyman mage! Here comes my prophecy... |
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MAJOR F.'S EXPERIMENT: by Major F., Nov/Dec 1920, dream experiment urged by J.W. Dunne DREAM 1: On green grass, a red & blue boat with a net draped atop. Predictive. DREAM 2: Climbing a ladder with square rungs in a space w/o walls. Predictive. DREAM 3: A small boy with a toy boat. A sail's laid out flat for washing. Predictive... |
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MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES: by Wayan, 2017/9/14, a reassuring dream. Sort of. I worry I'm overworking, but my dream says life's so crash-prone you should let creative frenzy happen... |
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MARJANE: by Wayan; 2005/6/3, a nightmare about... articide? Watercolor comic or illustrated text I'm cartoonist Marjane Satrapi. I passively tag along with friends (and a fiancé I tend to forget) in the Mission District of San Francisco. But they blunder into real trouble... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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MARTIAN VIGILANTE: by Wayan, 2006/3/25, an absurdist nightmare on inner killjoys After a busy exhausting day, I find myself on a dream street flirting with a really cute artist. Until this stumpy green Martian slithers up, calls us criminals, and threatens us with a raygun... CAUTION: DUMBEST INNER CRITIC EVER |
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MARVIN, CRASH: by Rick Veitch; Feb 1974; a predictive/warning dream My "friends" pull me away from the girl of my dreams, push booze & pot at me, and won't even try to climb the rope to success. But Marvin saves Evel Knievel from a motorcycle crash. Sounds good--until, ten years later, I hear how Marvin died... CAUTION: GRIM AFTERMATH |
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MARY MCBRIDE AND THE SPIRITUAL EARTH MOVEMENT: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2011/11/26, dream of a kindred artist I met a woman whose art (and her love for the Earth) inspired me to start a series of paintings with creatures hidden in landscapes... |
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MATISSE: by Wayan; 1988? early digital daydream. An early piece about Matisse, and his models, and quilting, and disembodied heads... |
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MEAD'S ADVICE: by Beverly O'Neill; c.1977? 78? a dream on seeking a female rolemodel I try hard not to invade Margaret Mead's privacy, but I need her advice; after I find a fruit true growing in a forgotten room, she unbends... |
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MEETING CARAVAGGIO: by Phyllis Davidson, 1978, a dream earned the hard way While painting a tribute to my hero/mentor Caravaggio, I dream we meet. He talks of his art as we walk a dark space full of living chiaroscuro scenes we can circle, see from all angles... |
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MOON-STRIPED TIGER PROWLING: by Sylvia Rosen, 1975/6/29; dream poem The foul old fossil woman had carved and burnt her own flesh in the name of art; we washed her till she was reborn young. It was my turn next to enter the water... |
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MOVING IN THE LANDSCAPES OF MY DREAMS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 14 dreams (mostly Jan-Mar 2011) painted on one canvas A dream urged me to paint a big landscape with cutout movable (magnetic) dream figures and liftable flaps revealing hidden dream scenes... |
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MY FLUORESCENT WORLD: by Wayan; 1997/8/16, a psychedelic dream. I always thought I saw differently than others, but when someone builds the Goggles... |
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MY FUTURE ART: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995; a self-fulfilling dream prophecy This woman shows me a book of my art. I'm not sure I want to see them--some pieces are from my future... |
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NAZIS BURN MY ART: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; the primal art-nightmare Nazis call my simple architectural drawing a social protest, take it at gunpoint, and toss it in the ovens. The commander mocks me with its ashes... |
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NEOLITHIC: by Wayan; 1992/9/21; a time-travel dream on the roots of art I'm at a Neolithic art show. A Stone Age critic says "Viewers struggle to interpret signs as the signified." I think they're just baffled how those animals can be stuck on a cave wall yet still be running around... |
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A NEVADAN ASS: by Wayan, 2007/5/17, a dream-poem on sabotage in art AND love DREAM: on a Nevada ranch, I'm a were-horse into mares--when I'm human. And when I'm a stallion? Why, cowgirls! Always date the wrong species--just to be sure of rejection. NEXT DAY: I let a class of commercial artists critique my dream-comix. Just to be sure of rejection... CAUTION: FURRYPHILIA, SELF-SABOTAGE |
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NIC'S THOUSAND PAINTINGS: by Wayan, 2017/7/9, a dream with creative advice My friend Nic vows to paint two pictures a day, and, impossibly, does. Meanwhile, I'm blocked. Can she show me how to get unstuck? |
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NO BLUE RIDER: by Wayan; 1956-8 recurring dreams; a 1987/6/22 dream brought them back; painted 1996/1/21 My first memory is of being a wild horse, and waking up to find I was now a human child. Franz Marc's "Blue Rider" paintings felt like my dreams; but as I learned of his life... |
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ODE TO NOT WRITING ODES: by Wayan; 2019/7/17; a nondream non-ode In an Oakland literary salon (no, not an oxymoron) I'm supposed to write an ode. But it's so hot, and I have surreal dreams to sketch... |
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THE OLD YOUNG MAN: by Anna Kingsford; 1880/2/21, a dream of a step-in soul Malaria nearly kills a talented young artist; he must retrain from scratch. Why? Well, he's not exactly himself... |
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ONE FRUIT REMAINS UNEATEN: by Catshall; November 1983, a journal dotted with dreams My day life as an artist and explorer of the San Francisco underground scene gets regularly commented on by my dreamlife... CAUTION: SEX, BONDAGE |
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OTTERS DON'T FAKE: by Wayan; 1989/10/15, a sex dream that's not about sex at all. I'm scared to show my dream-paintings to my art class. That night I find an large otter in my bed... CAUTION: SEX |
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THE PAINT KIDS: by Wayan; 1996/11/23, an apparent predictive dream. Two child artists mail themselves to me in their paint kit, and start a painting orgy that gets messy in more ways than one... CAUTION: PEDOPHILIA, OR MAYBE PEDOPHOBIA |
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PALAIS IDÉAL: by Ferdinand Cheval; dreamed 1864, built 1879-1912, a life-defining dream I dreamed I built a palace, but for fifteen years I kept silent, ashamed. Then I tripped over a beautiful stone. I took it home. Next day I collected more... |
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PATH: by Wayan; figures from 1989/10/12 dreamlet invade a waking landscape. My art teacher said "Draw a spiritual experience." I tried, but that night, I dreamed of sharp-toothed... CAUTION: TOPLESS MEDITATORS |
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PESCADERO MONET: by Wayan; 1983/11/4, a happy art-cult dream. Monet is over 100 now, living in an art colony. I visit him, but my parents come along. Bad idea... |
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PINKIE CLEANS THE WINDOWS OF PERCEPTION: by Wayan; 2017/2/5, an advisory dream fusing Aldous Huxley & My Little Pony. My new housemate Pinkie is a party animal, but she's really nice. She climbs a high ladder to help wash my Windows of Perception. Then our unicorn friend Rarity walks in. She warns me to pace this renovation project... CAUTION: PONIES |
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PLANET-SCULPTING APE: by "AE" (George Russell); mid-1870s, a childhood characterological dream. On a cloud in space I met an ape molding a model of Earth, glancing at the original far below. We were much alike... |
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THE POLYGAMOUS PILOT: by Wayan; 1990/9/25, an unlikely predictive dream. My friend the Polygamous Pilot is up in an ice-storm, hanging powerlines on the sky, when... |
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THE POWER OF ART: by Wayan; 2016/8/29, a dream-poem about the longtern effect of dreamwork? At a museum, a weird art project shows me how observing and documenting life in art can improve that life--just from being taken seriously... |
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PUT TWICE AS MUCH IN: by Wayan; 2003/9/22, a dream warning how much it takes to change All the claymation figures I made in my teens are gone but one. And the centauress has a broken hip and spindly leg. I start to mend her, but I need TWICE the clay I thought... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY |
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QUADRUPLE WEDDING: by Wayan; 1995/5/15, a unifying dream. Day: Why did I get sick from figure-sketching? Guilt? Dream: I'm at a group wedding; shall I wed a dwarf, a feral boy or a horse? |
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RAVENNA: by Wayan; 1994/12/25, a predictive Jungian dream on art & body-image. In a church-tent, I find glowing pictures of mine I've never seen awake. One's half-done; I work on it. I wake, and read how Jung, in a Ravenna church, saw luminous images he later learned burned centuries ago! CAUTION: NUDE STAINED GLASS |
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RAZI AND THE HOLY WINO OF SHASTA: by Wayan; 1994/9/1, a redemptive epic dream 20,000 years from now, a deer-harpist named Razi finds the Holy Wino's not quite the ruin he seems... CAUTION: BAD PENGUINS, DEER NUDITY, RUDE DRUNK |
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REBEL OWL: by Wayan; 1971/10/9, a dream so mysterious it mystified its inhabitants My city's invaded and occupied. I become a gigantic Owl and fight with impossible stamina. But in the end I'm dead, stuffed, on a museum wall. Can I let go NOW? CAUTION: WAR |
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REVELATION: by Anna Kingsford; 1885/11/27, a prophetic, almost messianic, dream. Dreams and other revelations shouldn't be dissected--they need to be reveiled, not revealed... CAUTION: INTENSE MYSTICISM |
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SCULPTOR OR WRITER?: by Lucian of Samosata, c.135 CE, a career-advice dream As a boy, my family urged me to aim low and follow our trade: stonecarving. I dreamt two strong women fought over me, a grubby sculptor and an elegant writer. I sided with the writer, and she let me ride in her flying chariot... |
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SELF-POSSESSED: by Wayan; a 2000/7/10 dream of a ghost (representing the World Dream Bank itself?) In a pizzeria, customers walk blindly through a ghost; briefly possessed, they echo his moods. But for such an insubstantial figure, he seems strangely stable... |
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SELL THE GODS, AND RAISE HELL!: by Wayan; 1994/1/26, a dream riddle. Reactionaries smash a paper. To rebuild, the editor must sell the sacred tiki carvings! But gods don't LIKE being sold... CAUTION: MORAL QUANDARY |
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SHARONNE: by Paul Friedrich, pre-1983, a political dream (despite Freud and Jung) I was in a gang, but I quit. They stoned me--and the green heron, the green color I called "Sharonne". The setting (Israel), the green (Islam), and the name (Ariel Sharon?) all hint the dream's political... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, POLITICS |
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SHY SPHINX: by Wayan; 2009/11/27, a dream of indirect advice I find a shy sphinx hiding in the corner of a painting in a dull art class. But maybe she's right to hide... |
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SILKY SHIELDS A VANDAL: by Wayan; 1994/8/6, a cautionary dream. I'm a kid in a classroom someone's trashed. Our teacher goes ballistic. But was the gypsy girl framed? |
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SILKY THE PEGASUS: by Wayan; 1984/12/11; a guided flying dream My anima, a pegasus mare, leaps out of a girl's book and teaches us to fly up to an astral land... CAUTION: FLIRTY PEGASUS |
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SING TO MY ALIEN FRIEND: by Wayan; 2017/3/7, a dream-poem on... alienation? From a crowd in a gym, I sing to my wolflike alien friend. But she can't recognize my voice-- too convincing a falsetto! I slide deeper, but once she heard a girl, she can't imagine... |
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SKUNK SEEKS THAILAND: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a dreamlet of shamanic kindness One night I meet a giant talking skunk and its pup, who asks how to walk to Thailand... |
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SO GUARDED A SKIN: by Wayan; dreamed 1983/6/11, a dream of a Freudian... blurt? An art critic asks me what I think of a sexually explicit nude, and I find myself blurting nearly the opposite of my conscious opinion... CAUTION: NUDE SKETCH |
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SPEAKING ABOUT ART WITH THE AFRICAN BEINGS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2002/1/19, a dream-painting of a dream about dream-painting! I'm teaching an art class full of strange masklike beings. We debate art as spontaneous process, versus art as planned product... |
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A SPHINX'S SKETCHBOOK: by Wayan; dreamed 1994/7/2 & 7/19; a 23-page dream-comic I find the sketch-journal of a beautiful winged sphinx who left her mythic isle to explore a great city of crazy bipeds, called San Francisco... CAUTION: SPHINX SEX, SPHINX ATTITUDE |
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STREAMLINING: by Wayan; 2004/11/10, a dream within a dream I dream I'm an otter, and wake into a dream about sculpture--and learn my style's due to my species... |
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SURF THE SAN ANDREAS: by Wayan; 2008/8/21, 3 short dreampoems, Dreamverse #11 Through twin gates of dream--not ivory and horn any more, but fear and trust... Three castles on the sea: a Mock Kremlin, a Ship of Toiletpaper, and a Ship of Brick and Beer... A mad old surfer of the San Andreas Fault, impossibly riding earth-change... |
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TAROT: THE PIANIST (Knight of Wands?): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. The knight of creative fire who takes over when you've mastered technique and can let go... |
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TAROT: THE QUEEN OF FLUTES: by Wayan; 1981/6/19, a brief dream image. I dream I'm giving a friend a Tarot reading, and the card she picks for herself is one I've never seen: |
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TEETH IN HIS THIGH: by Wayan; 2008/10/30, an embarrassing dream-poem: Dreamverse #37 The Conference on Love has two sexy speakers. One says "my teacher's stalking me" but she clings to him. Love? Hate? Both? CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM--but what are these two exhibiting? |
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TERESA'S BILLBOARDS: by Wayan; 1988/5/1, a dream about trust. Teresa mistrusts men. Her best friend Sabina comes on to me in front of Teresa, who blames me... CAUTION: NUDITY, BETRAYAL, GENDER PARANOIA |
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THAT'S NOT ART! THAT'S ART!: by Wayan; 1995/3/19, a true story An artist I know dismisses her (gorgeous) art as just therapy... while the museums are full of trash. Why? |
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THERAPIST GARBLES "I" & "YOU": by Wayan, 1987/12/28, a dream warning of bad therapy In therapy, I'm wrestling with sex. But workmen invade--hammer & hang pictures. MY pictures! And my therapist keeps confusing me and her, and our sexual orientations! She means well, but... CAUTION: NUDE PORTRAIT |
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THIEF OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1996/11/29, a sexy soul-swap dream; a 22-page comic (or text w/pics) I was a mermaid trying to find Count Coyote's stolen dreams, so I could marry my human girlfriend... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, LESBIAN MARRIAGE, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
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THROATS and SLOT MACHINE: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995, two odd dreamlets THROATS: Men put babies into giant throats inset in a funhouse wall; SLOT MACHINE: I see a slot machine generating random art-speak phrases... |
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TRAIL OF POGS: by Wayan; 2004/9/6, my dreams' response to the first Burning Man dream-workshop A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us... |
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TRUST YOUR CANOE: by Wayan; 2012/8/16, two diagnostic dreamlets I ride a magical self-guiding canoe, seeking the right beach and cove for me. Even when the boat climbs hills so I can explore inland, I expect it to fail... |
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12 SWALLOWS, 700 DAUGHTERS: by Wayan; 1972/10/14, a dream poem on compassion; Dreamverse #5 Alchemy demands I kill ten swallows. I refuse! Instead, twelve birds and I fuse and fly over a magic wood... |
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TWILIGHT ANIMA RISING: by Mardi Storm, 2005, a dream leading to artistic defiance I dreamed of a unicorn rearing in the desert. I wanted to sculpt it and applied to Burning Man but was rejected. So I sculpted the unicorn anyway, out of playa mud. It was a hit... |
TWILIGHT'S OVAL GAME: by Wayan; 2017/10/4, three dreams arguing "Friendship is Magic"--literal magic. |
1: I failed to save a magic tree. It fell and killed someone. I'm racked with guilt... 2: A giant pinball game on a tilted oval relief-map. But you can only win as a team of six friends... 3: A Caribbean girl with a weird aura tries to align two magic crystals to heal herself... CAUTION: BREASTS, MY LITTLE PONY AS ROLEMODEL |
TWIN GODDESSES, or, LOGA-SHANA: by Patricia Garfield, 1980/12/26, a self-flagging psychic dream |
DREAM: at a dreamgroup, I tell a predictive dream that my artist friend's front tooth will get infected. Then we all chant "Loga-Shana!" THREE WEEKS LATER: my artist friend's front tooth gets a serious abcess... CAUTION: WILL TROUBLE E.S.P. SKEPTICS |
UNDERSECRETARY FOR THE ARTS: by Wayan; 2022/2/13, an advisory dream |
I'm named the Undersecretary for the Arts. I sift through all the grant applications. But I'm a webtroll; I hang furry pastel pinups in my office. The humans see postmodern irony... CAUTION: FURRY PINUPS; UTTER LACK OF IRONY |
UNICORN MENTALITY: by Wayan; dreamed 2008/7/16, a dream of unicorn art spilling over into reality |
Dreamworkers gawk at sexy unicorn drawings all over my bed. One friend's part unicorn. The other? I wonder... Ten years later, having learned I have a rare mutation making me not too human, the dream feels half-predictive... CAUTION: UNIPORN? |
UNICORN STAIN-GLASS WINDOW: by Wayan; 1983/4/28, subliminal or predictive dream |
The stained-glass unicorns were stunning, sexy... but veiled by a bland, tasteful, flowery inner stained-glass window. 18 months later I saw the dream window... |
UTOPIA: by Wayan; 37 p, 3.9 MB, 2007/5/9, a painted improv exploring... wishes? |
An improvised painting-series exploring my obsession for Utopia--and your deafening silence... CAUTION: IDEAS, FURRY NUDITY, THAT GOSH-DARN MODERN ABSTRACT ART |
A VALLEY NEAR HOPE: by Wayan; 1984/10/17-19, an epic dream. |
I wander a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who love unicorns but fear cyborgs, who love ants but fear unicorns! And while the Three Tribes squabble, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four aspects of my tetrahedral soul... CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING |
THE VAT MESSIAH: by Wayan; 1985/2/27, an epic dream of magic, flight, and sex |
In our cult, we lie in vats of goo till we grow wings. But we're feared more than we knew... CAUTION: SPECIST LYNCH MOB, NUDE IN SCHOOL, LESBIAN FEELINGS, OBSCENE CARROT |
VERITY, TOO?: by Wayan; 2000/11/5, a comic nightmare with good advice--if I avoid Freud! |
My art mentors turn on me! My mom the painter says I'm genetically inferior, and then my art teacher Verity sits on my head (ow!) and chants... |
WATERMELON MINE: by Wayan; 2023/6/18, a surreal dream with long-term advice |
I'm the new manager of the watermelon mine. And to free the trapped minors-- oops, miners!--I have to plan. So I cover the floor with My Little Pony post-its... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY |
WAYAN'S STUDIO: Wayan, 1999/10/6, ink sketches of workspace |
These sketches bare my work process: I multitask, but without planning, in a flow state. I really do just follow my bliss. Works better for me than logic. |
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.. |
WHILE THE MEN WERE HUNTING by Wayan, 1981/11/3; a crayon-ink-Xerox art-prayer. |
In cave times, while the men were all out hunting, it was the women who learned to paint the cave walls to summon... |
WHO'LL BE MY LOVE?: by Wayan; 1986/4/14, a dream noir farce; part 4 of UNICORN TAG. |
I'm a hardboiled detective wincing as I grill a meek little psychic (probably me) about squish-softboiled topics like unicorns and love... CAUTION: SMUTTY UNICORN MAKES EVEN COPS BLUSH |
WILD MAGIC: by Wayan, 2018/1/8, a dream on finding a place |
A teacher drafts me into her magic class to shake up her sheltered wizard-wannabes. My magic's wild, ignoring spells and rules. I don't think I realized how wild... CAUTION: NUDITY |
WING IT: by Wayan, 1995/12/29-1996/2/14, a 9-page improv comic. |
An art experiment--the only rule is DRAW without preconceptions-- no models, no ideas, no plans, not even dreams. Drawing from the void! |
WOODCUT: by Wayan; 1998/8/13. Digital "woodblock print" of dream-self. |
Cartoony self-portrait as I paint with Persephone's pomegranate paintbrush. A mock woodblock print... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY |
THE WOODRING LAYER: by Wayan; 2008/7/7. A dream questioning art's job. |
Great towers rise into a fog zone--or is it another world with other rules? And how to draw both levels? |
THE WORLD'S WOUND: by Peter Birkhäuser; 1949-53, a recurrent dream painted '53. |
This picture of a split man was in no sense a product of my conscious will. I simply bowed to compulsion after four years of being haunted by that face in my dreams... |
A WRITER'S MUSE: by Wayan, 1996/12/7, a dreamfable on creativity. |
A writer's found in his office mating with an ash-covered creature! But could she be his muse? CAUTION: NUDITY OR NOT? SEX OR NOT? NO ONE QUITE KNOWS... |
THE WRITING CLASS: by Wayan; 1984/3/27, a grumpy dream. |
Most writers search for their unique style. Not me--I struggle to convey unique EXPERIENCES... |
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