Dream Beings: E to J
Here you'll find dream characters who aren't ordinary human beings. They're a diverse group--see below for particular types.
RELATED TOPICS: Aliens, animal people/furries (some 60 species including centaurs, cat people, dragons, foxes/kitsune, krelkins, mermaids, sphinxes, unicorns...), as well as cyborgs, demons, dryads and nature spirits, elves, energy beings, gods and goddesses, magicians, robots, shapeshifters, cliché witches, real witches, wizards - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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E PLURIBUS UNUM: by Wayan; 1998/8/13. Digital painting of allegorical orgy America isn't the Melting Pot. It's the Humping Pot... CAUTION: THE BEAST WITH 300,000,000 BACKS |
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EAR TO THE, UH, WALL: by Wayan; dreamed 1983/10/10 Granny's magic nipple helps me foil the yuppies dumping toxic waste. But does it count if I did it just to save my own... CAUTION: CRUDE TALK; STETHESCOPIC NIPPLE |
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ECCENTRIC: by Wayan; 1990/5/17, a two-page dream-comic. I'm a small planet in an eccentric orbit: a one-day summer, a two-day winter. Rest and hibernate, or... CAUTION: SLACKER ETHIC |
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EDGE: by Wayan; 1992?, digital painting of a nondream vision. A robed figure crowds a wild horse to a cliff-edge. One's my body, one's my soul. But which?... |
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THE EDUCATION OF A DREAM: by Wayan; 1998/7/7, a dream on dreams. A young, naive, ethereal dream gets an Animus to guide her through the crazy material plane... CAUTION: GRATUITOUS WILLIAM SHATNER |
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EEL GIRLS: by Wayan; 1993/9/14, a tearjerker nightmare. I learn to fly, but keep it quiet. Yet aliens still find out, and tell me a truth I didn't want to know... |
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THE EGG PROBLEM: by Wayan; 1990/3/2, digital painting of a magical dream. I'm an intellectual ballerina trying to stop zombies hatching from stone eggs, but I succeed only when I become a dragon using touch, scent and visualization to persuade the eggs... |
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THE EGYPTIAN GOD: by Wayan; 1991/12/21, a 7-year precognitive dream. Egyptian archeologists dig up a living god. He sees us as dolls to play with, but we've grown up... CAUTION: GOD AS A RAPIST |
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EIGHT TO A HORN: by Wayan; 1986/4/25, a magical dream, Chapter 7 of UNICORN TAG. In the middle of Nowhere Desert, I meet a telepathic unicorn who's stuck with a false safety-tag... |
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ELBERETH PAUSES: by Wayan; 1989/6/26, a dream on postwar ethics. After the Lord of the Rings falls, Elbereth herself is sent to heal the land. But she has a troubling neighbor... |
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AN ELECTORAL DRAGON: by Wayan; 1998/10/21, a virtual-reality-campaign-ad dream In a world of hideous haircuts (flagging your politics) I meet a dragon running for office. But is this real or a dream? Both/neither! It's... |
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THE ELEVEN CENT ORACLE: by Wayan; 1998/11/12, a dream on accumulating... change. I'm a migratory girl who's lost my tribe. I find eleven coins, cross the world, and pay the Oracle... |
ELF CIRCLE; 2011/3/19 by Wayan; a complex advisory dream. |
After trespassing in a staff-only part of Faerie, I'm cast out. Only I'm cast like a seed, meant to grow a new elf circle... |
ELF ETYMOLOGY: by Wayan; 1997/7/14, a linguistic postmodern dream. |
We escape three trolls, but then our author Tolkien breaks in to explain an Elvish word. Now we're really doomed... |
ELF EYE: by Wayan; 2002/5/20, dream figure in acrylic on wood |
A painting's a window into another world--a window opening two ways. People in paintings may be watching us... |
ELF RANGERS? NO WAY!: by Wayan; 1995/3/25, a dream on repression. |
A logging war in the northern forests is confused by subjective realities. Am I sure what I see is real? |
ELVEN DANCER: by Wayan; late 1998, 14" mixed-media sculpture of waking fantasy. |
I'd been reading Francesca Lia Block's I WAS A TEENAGE FAIRY... CAUTION: NUDITY |
EMADRO: by Wayan; 1983/6/4, a wild dream on clinging--and letting go. |
An elephant sinks in the North Sea, and the Oracle Mink says a wizard did it. Can old Lady Gandalf help? |
EMBER IN THE BRAIN: by Wayan; 1983/3/31, a dream about old anger. |
I'm the Incredible Hulk, forced to do emergency brain surgery. For the patient's burning from within... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND UNLICENSED MEDICINE |
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... |
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... |
EMPTY-EYED CREATURES: by Wayan; 1996/12/9, an animal Zen dream. |
I lose myself, but I get some startling advice from a convent-school kid with empty eyes... |
ENJOY LIFE: by Wayan; 1983/8/24 dream inspires 1990/1/31 digital painting-experiment |
This image is senseless, but I have an excuse: I was watching TV in my dreams. TV on another world... |
EQUESTRIAN NUNAVUT: by Wayan, 2017/4/27, a dream of a utopia in an unlikely place |
After a hard day in the recording studio, I dream of our wiser successors, after we drown America: the sentient equines of Greenland and Nunavut... CAUTION: SKINNYDIPPING UNICORNS |
ERECTION 2000: by Wayan, 2000/11/28; ceramic sculpture 9" tall; response to stolen 2000 election. |
A candidate glad to shake your hand... though not all you voters will want him to... CAUTION: ANOTHER PRICK RUNNING FOR OFFICE |
ERODE THE MUTING CURSE: by Wayan, 2014/8/23, a dream of... health advice? |
The Fairy Queen curses me, taking away my language. Recovery often takes years, but I practice hard, and speak full sentences--the next day. The Queen is slipping... |
EVASION: by Marie-Claude Girondé, summer 2008?, a dream painting. |
One pays for soaring high with solitude of the soul... |
EVASIVE MANEUVERS: by Wayan, 1986/9/17, a doubly predictive dream |
DREAM: Landsmen betray their mermaid lovers in a harbor full of towers that seem tilted and broken from under the sea. NEXT MORNING: My boss asks me to track down a new translation of Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid. AFTERNOON: I find a book on IQ tests that include spatial questions full of broken geometric shapes--familiar shapes... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS |
THE EVEREST MARATHON: by Wayan; 1986/4/12, a wild dream epic, part 3 of Unicorn Tag. |
In the great race up Everest, I become an e-snake, cross 3 eco-bubbles, beg a wary deer-taur to splice my spine, help Ariane my childhood crush, and solve the Dream Equations. Climbing Everest takes not strength but... trust? |
THE EX-GODDESS: by Wayan, 2010/11/9, a dream-poem on a god in hiding--in plain sight! |
I meet a forgotten goddess--outlived all her cults. Today she passes as a psychic, reads a crystalball... CAUTION: NUDE CHALK SKETCH |
EXPLOITED UNICORN: by Wayan, 2019/1/11, a disturbing dreamlet |
Night, downtown. A unicorn in tears, chained to her... barker? owner? pimp? "Just $300" he yells. But for what? Magic? Sex? Healing? CAUTION: PROSTITUTION? SLAVERY? GIG ECONOMY? |
EYEBALL MONSTERS: by Mary Ellen, 1979 or before; a helpful, self-explaining nightmare |
A gang of young men breaks in. I lure them outside and lock my door. They break in again, and this time they're scaly, tentacled monsters. But I ask why they're here, and to my surprise... |
FAERIE: by Wayan; 1995/7/18 & 95/8/6: two linked dreams of postmodern Faerie, with sketches |
I'm the daughter of a mortal doctor working in Faerie as it faces social upheaval (and I look for a decent date...) |
FAIRE DINOSAUR: by Wayan; 1981/5/5. A dream of forbidden love. |
I fall in love with a sexy T. Rex at the Renaissance Faire. Then things get weird... CAUTION: DINO ABUSE |
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!" |
FAIRY WIFE: by Wayan; 1985/1/17, an epic dream of love and choice. |
A fairy woman and a mortal man? Can't work! They're flighty, we're crude. Doomed, right? Well, some people are so sure of it they decide to help things along a bit. Or a lot... |
FALADA: The Goose Girl's Best Friend: by Mardi Storm, recurring predictive dreams c.1975-79, sculpted c.2000 |
I had recurring dreams in which a talking horse’s head was nailed to a tree. Strangely, this was before I read "The Goose Girl" in Grimm's fairytales... CAUTION: GRIMM ALL AROUND |
FAMILIARS: by Wayan; 1986/4/2, a dreamtale on the dark side of reading. |
In ancient Britain, as Christianity moves in, I'm a slave--sailing through centuries, but never free... |
FAMILIAR WOOD: by Wayan; 1994/11/10, a dream of the borderzone. |
Downtown San Francisco hides a magic wood full of crested talking tigers. And I must enter it to live a while... |
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 |
FANFOX: by Wayan; 2001, self-portrait as a fox woman. |
This foxgirl had my own uneasy mixture of exhibitionism and wariness. Baring sex, but not my face... CAUTION: NUDITY |
FANTASTIC RIDE: by Marie-Claude Girondé, spring 2007?, a dream painting. |
The dreamer overflows from her egg, spills out to become a waterfall, a stampede of horses... |
FASHOOT: by Wayan, Oct-Dec 2000; nondream ceramic sculpture 10.5" long. |
Inspired by a fashion outtake of model and director clowning. I fused the director and the camera, and... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
FATHER-IN-LAW THE WHIP: by Wayan; 2019/10/13, a Jungian dream inspired by anime? |
I wander a weird palace full of books, seeking my father-in-law, but find only a blindly-flailing whip anchored in the floor, creating a dome of pain... |
FAUNS: by Wayan; 1994/9/9 dream prompted 5 dream-portraits. |
A group of coolly shameless fauns started teaching me outrageousness in my dreams... CAUTION: FAUNS LACK INCEST TABOOS |
FAWN AND DEMON: by Wayan; 1990/7/15, twin dreams of desire. |
A doe I meet is as horny and shy as me. We're similar: torn between desire and fear... Then I meet a slacker succubus. She may just let herself get seduced toward freedom... CAUTION: SEX |
FELINE WOMAN--AN ANATOMICAL PORTRAIT: by Wayan; 1996? pencil study of recurring dream figure. |
A Leonardo style skeletal study of a cat person that grew into more of a character study. I just like her... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
FEVER DREAMS: by Wayan; 1993/9/8, a set of wild feverdreams. |
While my body expels a kidney stone, weird scenes happen on the astral plane. At least I get to dip the pope. CAUTION: PAIN, PEE, POPE |
FIBONACCI: by Wayan; 2011/4/18, a dream-poem with answers |
My friends are all computer programs. But then, so am I. But it's not so bad, because... CAUTION: DREAM-PUNS |
FIGHT GOD!: by Wayan; 1979/12/25, a Christmas fight dream. |
I'm in Heaven, but... it's full of Christians! I fight 30,000 angels, but I wanna go right to the top, and... CAUTION: PAGANISM AND PUGILISM |
FIGHTING A VIRUS: by Wayan, 1998/11/21, a diagnostic nightmare. |
Coming down with a virus, I dream of a guy who INSISTS we must fight, it's just so FUN... |
FIGURE DRAWING: BLONDE REACHES UP: by Wayan; 1995/5/15. Crayon figure study. |
From an ad. I recommend drawing photos as well as live models; some poses, models can't hold! CAUTION: NUDITY |
FIGURE DRAWING: CAT-MARE-GIRL: by Wayan; 1995/7/24; studio sketch, crayon. |
Late in life-drawing class, Evangeline got tired and snuggled into a pillow-nest. She looked so feline... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
FIGURE DRAWING: DAPPLED: by Wayan; 2000/11/29, pastel digitally tweaked. |
A pensive leonine woman resting on a tilted rock. A life drawing with certain imaginary spots. CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
FILLING THE ANCESTORS' SHOES: by Wayan; 1995/9/24, a shamanic dream. |
A dream of a shaman named Fred who tried to use a bear as a lightbulb. Fred, Fred, Fred... |
FIREBIRD AND MINOTAUR: by Wayan; 1996/9/29, 4 images; a diagnostic dreamtale. |
I'm a cripple watching a sexy Greek Opera starring Whoopi Goldberg. Then I realize I'm in it... |
FIRST DREAMFLIGHT: by Wayan; 1969/11/11, two dream-results from my first dreamwork experiment. |
I never flew in my dreams. I felt cheated. So one day I set out to CREATE dream-flight...
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FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 2.6M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic. |
I had an epic dream lasting subjective weeks--a true other life. It wasn't Earth and we weren't human. I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. One night, my friends curled round me, I saw I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a woman, marry, and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right... 2600K loads slowly? Try it in parts: 1: HOME, 650K, 2: VOYAGE, 1200K, 3: BACK 750K. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
FISHERGIRL IN WATERCOLOR; OVAL: by Wayan; 1996/7/26 pencil & watercolor |
Leaf and me, on our boat in the lost city, from the epic dream FISHERGIRL. My first sketch of the dream... CAUTION: TRIBAL NUDITY |
FIVE HEARTS: by Wayan; dreamed 1989/1/11; sexy psychic unicorn dream-comic (text only: FIVE HEARTS) |
I'm a nurse pulled through a glowing well to a world ruled by a five-hearted unicorn, who wants me to... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX FANTASIES, LONGING, MELANCHOLIA |
FLANNAN PREPARATION: by Wayan, 2023/4/12-13, twin mystical dreamlets |
4/12: I get a mysterious energy node implanted in my belly. After convalescing I'll have new talents... 4/13: I'm altering my home to host two flannan, bird-girl spirits swift to hunt down the truth... CAUTION: WITCHCRAFT, NUDE SPIRITS |
THE FLASHBACK: by Wayan; 1985/11/28, a dark dream-farce. |
I'm a monster working in a shopping mall in Stockton, California, when I smell smoke... CAUTION: FILM NOIR SEX |
FLOCK WISDOM: by Alder; 1958, a magic comic frustration dream |
My eighth grade class is a flock of birds migrating south for the winter, but we don’t migrate the easy way... |
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 |
FLU PRESCRIPTION: by Qu'lad and Togumalis, 1918 or 19, two shaman's dreams that saved lives |
Qu'lad, dying of flu in the pandemic, dreamt a wolf told him cold-water baths would save him. He staggered to the river. He lived. He told others. They lived. The shaman Togumalis dreamt his spirit helper, a squirrel, prescribed the same. A century later, hospital records show why it worked... CAUTION: ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE SHOWN AS SUPERIOR |
FLUID REALITY: by Wayan; 1983/8/8; a magical dream-sea voyage that turned out to be predictive |
On my quest I find magic portals, snarky flower-fairies, undersea redcoats, reassembling bodyparts, living chess, and Nosferatu the Cheating Vampyre... |
FLY AWAY HOME: by Wayan; 1996/12/26, a dream of flight and kindness. |
I'm an alien castaway, hiding my wings. But Earth feels like home now! If I could fly here, would I stay? |
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... |
FLYING BED, TALKING BIRDS: by Wayan; 2015/1/6, a one-word shamanic advisory dream |
My bed floats high over southwest Morocco. Giant birds come fly lazily with me, croaking "Faster, faster!" But I'm busy with anti-desert eco-planning... |
THE FLYING HART: by King Charles VI; c.1390, a flying dream. |
King Charles loses a new hawk. But a winged deer lands, bows to him, and offers him a wild ride across France after his bird... |
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... |
FOINBREK THE MOOSE: by Wayan; 1993/12/4, a dreamtale on love and work. |
My lesbian twin, who lives in the unemployment line, falls in love with a pushy moose from Brooklyn... CAUTION: INEPT SEX |
FOSSIL BARBIE: by Wayan; 1978/9/27; a dream of non-teamwork. |
I dreamed our medieval football coaches blamed the ugly Potato Person for all evil... CAUTION: NUDE POTATO |
FOUR-ARMED SINGER: by Wayan; 1996/5/16; a dream of baring your soul . |
In our mutant future, a lovely horse-tailed four-armed girl sings her heart out--as clubgoers ignore her... CAUTION: NUDE CABARET |
FOUR EYES!: by Wayan; 1984/5/28, a metaphoric dreamlet. |
I started life as twins, but slowly we fused. I still have four eyes, though. Then, one day... |
FOUR-LEGGED MONK: by Centaurquad; June 1983; a sexy transformation dream |
My boyfriend's a student in an exotic monastery. But under his robe, he's gotten a bit exotic himself... CAUTION: SEXUAL DREAM |
FOUR LOVERS: by Wayan; c.1990/11/30; digital painting based on recurrent dream |
A recurring dream of a fourway marriage of animal people. I don't think it's symbolic, but predictive... CAUTION: FURRY SEX |
FOX AND THE EYE OF GOD: by Wayan; 1984/8/14, a predictive mythic dream |
DREAM: I hike up my Career Path into the hills. On a snowfield, a bird and a fox create the eye of God, who banishes all evil! NEXT DAY: I read a novel full of images out of the dream... |
FOX-BOY: by Wayan; 1997/2/28, a dream fable. |
A boy offends his uncle the King, who transforms him into a fox. Grounded! But Fox-Boy runs away... |
FOXCOMB: by Wayan; ink 1990 tinted 2001; daydream of recurring dream character |
I visited the first bioengineered fox-person with working thumbs, to see what she thinks of hands... |
FOX COUPLE: by Wayan, 1990/2/15; poem of a warning dream |
I meet a tall bipedal talking fox. He has a human house. And a pet vixen--on a leash. But she talks too! Tells me he mounts her--yet treats her like a pet. She's never come yet. But she stays! Still, I'm as dysfunctional as either of them--if not worse... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
FOXES: by Wayan; 1989/4/12. Digital nondream painting. |
Long ago I saw a marvelous Hiroshige print of a fox convocation, lit by moon and foxfires... CAUTION: LESBIAN SPOOKS |
FOX-SHEPHERDESS AND RAVEN: by Wayan; 1998 wet-on-wet acrylic of daydream, 1999/11/29. |
I don't know if the fox-shepherdess ate all her sheep, or if she herded invisible and quite different things... |
FOX STORM: by Wayan; fractal painting of dream (date lost, but pre-1998/8/11) |
I might have been less cowed by the storm-face, if I'd seen it was made of little foxes just like me... |
FOX TEMPLE: by Wayan; 2019/11/16, a mythic dream with sharp advice |
AWAKE: I watch Okko's Inn. Little Okko sees spirits--until she grows up and quits settling for ghosts. DREAM: I explore a temple, meet a fox-spirit... and see I never was human. Time to quit settling for... CAUTION: GAUZE-ROBED PRIESTESS |
FOXY ANCESTOR: by Wayan; 1998/7/25, a subtle dream. |
A famous inventor is descended from foxes. Their faces teach me something about beauty and character... |
FRANCHISE!: by Wayan, 1995/10/12, a dream-comic (ill. text ed.) with a serious warning. |
I was the first woman made High Commissioner of Baseball. One day a team of mutants begs a franchise... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, BAD TEAMWORK, HORNY BEES |
FREDDY KRUEGER'S POLITICS: by Wayan; 1992/8/20, a dream of... ambition? |
Freddy has plans for me and Telly Savalas's daughter. But to lure us in, he must know what we want. But what does Freddy want? If we can find out, we might just lure him, too... |
FREEZE!: by Wayan; 1984/5/29, a surreal dream of asymptotic political advice |
Demons of fire invade the house, and the Voice of Truth says they can't be killed. What would you do? |
FROG: by Wayan; 120K, 2000/4/19, a narrative digital picture-poem |
I was single and tired of kissing frogs. Then I realized--I AM one. Or worse: a pretentious polliwog... |
FROG ORDERS: by Wayan; 1986/7/4, a dream on piety. |
I'm in medieval England on a mission from God, but I meet a Priestess on a mission from...well, we argue. |
A FRUGAL GHOST: by Wayan; 2000/3/12, a financial-advice dream. |
A Scottish ghost leads us on a treasure hunt, then insists we stop to pick up small change. But it adds up... |
FULL REASON: by Wayan; 1980/5/28, a dream on patience. |
At a benefit for Rock Psychiatrists, the Spirit of the Convention explains why I can't go on stage yet... |
FUNKY BUTT UGLY: by Wayan; 1993/7/26, a dream of a Shadow. |
We're interviewing new housemate-candidates. But one is my own Jungian Shadow... |
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 |
FUTILITY: by Wayan; 1973/11/23, a time-machine dream. |
I'm Liza Doolittle on Mars. With Mr. Wells's Time Machine. Lost, in fact. Can I get home? Should I? |
FUTURIANS: by Wayan; 1997/11/11, a dream on innocence. |
A time-loop introduces me to a future self full of innocent enthusiasm. Maddening! CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
GAFTA: by Wayan; 1996/5/9, a pro-sabotage dream. |
The aliens offer us a Galactic Free Trade Agreement, but my friends and I think it's a disastrous deal... CAUTION: MORAL AMBIGUITY |
GALILEO FALLS: by Wayan; 1979/11/7, a mysterious dream . |
I was a closet unicorn. SO closet, I didn't even know what a unicorn was, till I went to college and met Lindsay, who was half and could pass... |
GAMESHOW PRIZE: by Wayan; 1998/1/6, a let-down dream. |
I win a prize on a gameshow, but collecting is another story, since the show is run from Hell... |
GAMESTERS: by Wayan; 1990/8/31, a dream on slavery. |
Forced to turn gladiator, I learn these slaves think our free world outside is just another game... |
GARDEN OF THE GODS: by Wayan; 1995/10/6, a dream of slowth. |
In the Garden of the Gods, I sit through sun and rain. For gods aren't the gardeners, they're the crop... |
GARGOYLE GO-BETWEEN: by Wayan; 1996/11/22, a Hogwartish dream. |
I'm odd kid out in my wizard school till gargoyles raid us, and I puzzle out their tongue, to become... |
(ON THE OLD) GENDER TRAIL: by Wayan; late 1995, digital picture-poem with dream intrusions. |
For me, the path to love is difficult, elusive, convoluted... |
GEOMETRY OF DAWN: by Bruce Kawin, c.1983, a sexy metaphysical dream? |
My anima sends me on peculiar journeys--smoke rings, islands, conversations with a stone-- but at last it's just us. She has something more she wants to teach me. On that bed... CAUTION: ASTRAL COME-ON |
GEORGE AND WILMA: by Wayan, 2011/10/25, an animation-mashup dream done as a poem |
George Jetson is married to Wilma Flintstone--though they're both big cats. When George comes home high on mushrooms, he doubts what's on his bed... CAUTION: CARTOON ADULTERY |
HER GESTURED ROUTE: by Wayan; 1984/6/16, a dream poem. |
How's it feel to be an anima off the job? Is it lonely, when no one even believes you're a real person? |
GET YOUR BODY BACK: by Wayan; 1997/6/11, a dreamed parable. |
A man dies--his body's chopped up. He ends in Hell. But he's a stubborn guy; he wants his body back. So... |
GHOST DOGS: by Wayan; a 1993/4/2 temptation dream done as a 1-page digital comic |
I meet a wolf who invites me to join Dr Who's pack of sexy Ghost Wolves. Just one catch nobody mentioned. To be a ghost, you have to... CAUTION: FLIRTATIOUS WOLVES |
GHOST GATOR: by Wayan; 1984/10/9, a lip-reading dream. |
A child from another universe materializes--part way. Too bad we called in that expert from Stanford... |
THE GHOST IN MIRIEL'S BUG: by Miriel & Wayan; 1985/10/1, an apparently shared dream |
WAYAN: I dream a transparent ghost steals my sister Miriel's white VW bug... MIRIEL: I dream about a ghost and my old white VW bug that was stolen... CAUTION: E.S.P. CLAIM |
THE GHOST OF CREATIVE CATASTROPHE: by Wayan; 2020/3/25, a dream of Covid as... playful? |
A whimsical spook causes a chain of crashes--a pedestrian dodges an elephant, swerving a car that shoves a cyclist into a luggage-wrangler whose rolling suitcase panics a dog who runs into... |
THE GHOSTMASTER: by Wayan; 1992/6/16, a dreamtale of the Shadow. |
I win a starship from the hostile Ghostmaster; in space I gain the confidence to confront him, and find... |
GHOSTS PUSH TOWARD THE SUICIDE DOOR: by Wayan, 1997/8/7, a nightmare that wants a break. |
I live in a haunted house where ghosts push you to suicide. But they're as tired of it as I am... |
THE GIANTESS OF THVERA: by Viga-Glum Eijolfsson; early 940s?, a very public clairvoyant dream. |
Viga-Glum dreamt a giantess came to visit. "She is the spirit-guide of my grandfather in Norway. He is dead... |
GIANT'S HANDS: by Wayan; dreamed 1981/12/23, a split-consciousness nightmare |
I was a giant carefully & guiltlessly flattening San Francisco--just following orders to recycle it! Killing how many? While my mind inside the giant's mind was appalled... |
GIRAFFE MISSION, or, THE 17TH FOOT: by Wayan, 2017/1/30, a Seussy dreampoem on breadth of view |
I was in the Mission with friends. A giraffe saw me as narrowminded, and lifted me up to show me HIS viewpoint. No insights--till we topped the roofline... |
GIRAFFETAUR GROVE: by Wayan; 2009/7/27, a science-joke dream hiding serious diagnostic advice |
I meet the new improved giraffe people with hydraulic chrome skeletons-- such light, powerful jaws and stretchable necks. Wow, Lamarckianism is back! CAUTION: ANTICREATIONISM--THAT IS, ACTUAL SCIENCE |
GIRDERS AND DUST: by Wayan; 1983/10/23; a dream touring the ruins of childhood. |
I dreamed I returned to a childhood park and found mostly ruin. But one magical thing survived... |
GIRL INTO HERON: by Wayan, 2017/11/7, a dream-poem of an uncertain choice |
Four thugs stalk a gawky girl through the Everglades. She treads on a black stone and... becomes a blue heron! Her stalkers vanish--did they become birds too? Should I step up? |
GIRL WITH A PROBLEM: by Wayan; 1997/4/12, a surreal dream. |
I date a girl with a mysterious syndrome, but soon I become a monkeyfaced con-man. And SHE becomes... |
GITANA AND REX AND KIT: by Wayan; 1988/12/11, a comic nightmare. |
My friend Gitana has a grim view of men--a view that materializes, and starts chasing us... CAUTION: BURGER FRANCHISE DEMOLITION |
GIVE TRAVIS ONE MORE CHANCE: by Wayan; 1980/10/13, a desperate dream. |
I'm detective Travis McGee's lover. But we always die by the book's end! My solution is drastic... CAUTION: HARD-BOILED HANDGUNS |
(MY) GLASS BODY: by Wayan; 1993/9/16, a dream on sensitivity. |
After I visit the crystalline people, a young diamond-wizard stalks me all the way to my home in the Meat World, and says... |
GLASS EATER: by Wayan; 1982/12/10, a dream on managing ESP. |
I live in an asylum for fragile psychics. When one man over-uses his talent, he compulsively eats glass... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
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... |
GODEVILLE: by Wayan; 2013/9/1, a nightmare of that Old-Time Religion
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I'm at a vaudeville for gods. Cthulhu the squid-god nearly tramples me--and then gets horny... CAUTION: GROSS GOD, GROSS GOO |
GOD'S DANCE CLUB: by Wayan; 1995/5/2, an apocalyptic dream. |
God's dance club, the Universe, is shutting down. God broke his promise that we staff could get on stage... |
GOD'S THREE DIALS: by Wayan; 1992/11/20, a heavenly dream. |
God built 3 dials to check: body, soul, and time. But the Holy Spirit's lazy, only checks one! It's up to us... |
GOD-SHIELDS: by Wayan; 1990/8/21, a confusing dream of growth. |
I'm a fat guy hired as a temp by some unethical gods. Or are they trying to teach me something? |
GOLD EATER: by Wayan; 1993/1/15 dream drawn as 9-page comic. |
I'm an orphan shapeshifter enslaved by a gold-eating monster. But I meet a cat-girl with a hammer... CAUTION: BAD FOSTER-DAD; CAPITALIST MONSTER; VIOLENCE (TO VENDING MACHINES) |
GOLD VERSUS DIAMONDS: by Wayan; 1972/1/20, a shameful dream fable. |
We're children seeking gold in a fairy wood. We meet some elf-kids, chase them off, and dig where they played. Then their parents show up... CAUTION: INTERSPECIES BULLYING |
GOLDIE AND GRIMOIRE: by Wayan, 1987/3/2, a dream foreseeing My Little Pony? |
I get a crush on two mare-girls--sunny palomino Goldie is cute, but it's dark-silver, lunar Grimoire that really stuns me... CAUTION: EQUINE NUDITY, ESP REFERENCES |
GOLDIE'S RHINOPOTAMUS: by Wayan; 2013/4/10, a Fellini dreamjoke with advice. |
I'm in Venice. The police chief (armored) and Goldie Hawn (near-naked) ride a skittish monster. Turns out bareback works better... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
GOOD DOG!: by Wayan; 1992/4/15; sketch of inner me, doggily insecure. |
The shy, doggy need for reassurance I often crave from a lover--do I crave a mistress, an owner?... CAUTION: NUDITY, PILLOW TALK |
GORDO'S EYES: by Wayan; 1981/2/14, a dream warning. |
The old cartoon character Gordo has another girlfriend. But his pets say he only loves the hunt, not her... |
GRAMPA HAS SPOKEN: by Wayan; 1989/11/26, an oracular dream. |
In a worldwide junkyard full of warring spooks, I finally meet the one whose message I need to hear... |
GRAPE: by Wayan; 1992/2/1. Digital painting of daydream. |
There's the watermelon of passion, and then there are the little grapes of fun that foxes eat... CAUTION: NUDE DANCING |
GREEN ANGELS: by Wayan; 1985/9/2, a dream-idyll seething with politics. |
I stalk a platoon of levitating surf-bunnies who may be out to bomb a Greenpeace submarine... |
GREENBIRD SAVIOR: by Wayan; 1983/6/2, a divine comedy. |
Time-travel the Navaho way! But our bread-pipe gets hijacked, so we call the Bird. Who shows up, all right... CAUTION: NON-STANDARD SAVIOR, EVIL DREAM PUNS |
GREEN DRAGON BANE: by Tom LogosEinTheos, 2019/5/13, a dream of an odd gift |
I'm in a cavern. A large green & brown dragon goes over to a machine and gives me a green egg. A gift. It comes to me this is "dragon bane"... |
GRIFFIN: by Wayan; 1995/8/2, digital portrait of two dream-selves. |
Gryphon meets Dragon, mid-air, and they're both me--sometimes... |
THE GRIFFINS' LESSON: by Wayan, 2018/6/1, a pair of predictive dreamlets |
I live through two teens' nightmares, then "wake" with them to find they were drugged by a third party! Why? Then I'm with a cheery wagon-crew of flirting griffins & talking horses, pulling a cart made of grammar or logic. Six days later... detailed images from both dreams appear on TV! CAUTION: CREEPY, THEN SAPPY, THEN FREAKY |
GRIMOIRE AND PACT: by Wayan, 2013/8/4, twin dreams of infestations of... health? illness? sex? magic? |
Two sisters want to lick me all over, but they lick everything; weird gut-fauna make them immune to toxins... Fairy eggs infest my home--become worms, then tiny horses, then mothwinged hobbits, then adult fairies.... CAUTION: NUDE EQUINES & FAE; PARASITES (OR SYMBIOTES?) |
GROTTO OF BREASTS: by Gary Snyder, 1965/7/3, a bizarre High Sierra dream |
In Europe, I enter a cave-shrine. Rock walls with... breasts! I suck one. It gives milk. A plaque says... CAUTION: WEIRD |
THE GUARDIAN ANGEL COURSE: by Wayan; 1984/9/29, a long-term predictive dream |
I get bored with crime, and then I die. So I take a workshop: How to Find your Guardian Angel. But things go strange... CAUTION: UNEXPECTED ANGELS |
GUARDIAN ANGELS FEUD: by Wayan; 1995/10/9, an epic, heretical dream. |
You know angels feud over regional underfunding of Divine Grace. But you don't know how low they'll go... |
GUDEA'S TEMPLE: by Gudea of Lagash; c.2125 BCE: one of the first false-waking or nested dreams |
A winged god whose body's a wave urged me to do... what? I couldn't understand him! I woke... A scribe with a shining stylus listed stars; an architect gave me plans and a brick-mold. I woke again! My dream had clarified itself. So I built the temple shown me, aligned with those stars... |
GYRLFALCON: by Wayan; 1971/11/26, a genderbent, speciesbent & predictive dream |
I'm a Gyrlfalcon in a theater, fighting the Wolverine and his Morlocks with my lover the Green Lion... |
THE HACKER: by Wayan; 1993/11/23, a psychic nightmare. |
Who's the demon? Mom, the Dragon, the Smiler, the Rubber Ax Murderer, the Doll Princess or the Tiger?... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
HALF-ELF: by Wayan; 1996/2/14, a predictive dream fable. |
A biracial girl doubts her own heritage; a human friend has to confirm the obvious. So what am I blind to? |
HALF-HEARTED GHOST: by Wayan; 1994/9/28, a dream on the cruelty of shyness. |
I go invisible in my dance class and hear what the girls I like have to say about me. Uh-oh... CAUTION: PAINFUL RELATIONSHIP TRUTHS |
HALF SHAMAN, HALF STATESMAN: by Wayan; 1986/4/21, a parallel-world dream: Chapter 6 of UNICORN TAG |
I get a scholarship to Shaman U. Some of my classmates are Terran, but I still don't fit in, because... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
HARD DISK POND: by Wayan; 1989/8/27, a dream of art as a door. |
We build a huge hard disk that's a virtual pond--a gate to other worlds! But not for reptile brains... |
HARE HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1998? Digital dream sketch. |
I dreamed my friend Beryl's soul was a giant rabbit, arguing in paradise with our mutual guardian angel... |
HARPY: by Wayan; 2000/6/2, a stylized nightmare |
Day: my dad's paralyzed, and my car's stolen. Dream: a harpy made of steel, like a living Calder statue, holds three girls hostage... |
HAUNTED BUT HAPPY: by Wayan; 1990/10/13, a labyrinthine dream. |
Some Christian oneirologists barge into the Haunted Firehouse. But I pose for nude unicorn photos, and... CAUTION: DUMB CHRISTIANS, EXHIBITIONIST UNICORNS, ETC. |
HAWK AND CAT: by Wayan, 1981/6/2, a dream of ethics and terror. |
My best friend is a cat. Problem is, I'm a rare hawk--a Cat-Eater. I never, ever would, but... |
HAWK ANGEL: by Wayan; 1982/12/28; a dream on rejecting hearsay. |
I dreamed I met a sort of hawk angel, but there was this preachy guy between us... CAUTION: NUDITY |
HAWK CENSORS: by Wayan; 1988/7/7, a surreal predictive dream on censorship |
All the photos of hawk people I can find show them with bizarre genitalia: males with hawk-heads for penises, and females with nothing. Blank! Then I go to work... CAUTION: REVERSE SEXISM |
HEADEGG (Black-Eyed Bird of Pain): by Wayan; 1983/10/24; acrylic painting of a headache-trance. |
I was cartooning with a headache. It took over and started drawing for me... |
HEARN'S BEAST: by Wayan; 1986/2/18, a dream fable. |
Inside an evacuated region, the Lafcadio Hearn Zone, I meet the monster thousands fled... |
THE HEAVIEST FLYER ON EARTH: by Wayan; 1979/1/25, a dream of (clumsy) flight |
Both my friends can become birds and soar; but all I can manage is angel wings--barely enough to hold up solid-boned me... |
THE HEDGE KING: by Wayan, 1992/6/14, a gender-bent dream epic. |
I change sex to infiltrate a sinister castle, unaware its Lord can spot a shapeshifter--being one himself... CAUTION: A DISTURBING BEDSIDE MANOR. I MEAN, MANNER. |
HEDGEHOG AND WHITE RABBIT: by Wayan; 1972/12/1, a dream love story. |
Hedgehog and White Rabbit stick together, through the snipers on Broadway, through the dogs of winter, through cannibal soup... |
THE HEDGEHOG DISPENSARY: by Wayan; 2004/10/2, furtopian watercolor 12-page dreamcomic (or text + pics) |
A rabbit shaman makes his student drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. How to free her? CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR |
HELL-TORNADO: by Wayan; 1988/7/2, a dream on social engineering. |
Who built the tornado in the Heartland, that sucks anyone who opens their spirit-wings down to Hell? CAUTION: BAD THEOLOGY, WORSE PHYSICS |
HELP, NOT CURE: by Wayan; 1996/12/26, a dream on autism. |
Gay angels try to help an autistic woman. Change her past? Only if they pass the Ass-Backward Guardians! |
HELP YOUR NEIGHBOR: by Wayan; 1994/2/18, a comic nightmare. |
I'm an organic almond grower who's solved the Luminous Snail problem. But my neighbor has an agenda... |
HEPBURNING: by Wayan; 1984/8/1, a nightmare on frustration's fire |
Kat Hepburn burns inside, as fierce aliens take over our souls. But these parasites forgot they're now bound to our bodies... |
HER CUTIE MARK: by Wayan, 2016/8/7, a dream fusing Shakespeare & My Little Pony |
After seeing The Tempest with a tattooed Miranda, I dream she has a Cutie Mark on her flank-- a logo showing her life-purpose, her life-path. Except she's outgrowing it... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
HER FINAL EXAM: by Wayan; 2015/9/8, a dream of a goddess in hiding--and why |
During our final exam, my second sight tells me our dance teacher's really a Greek goddess in disguise. But she has her own final exam to face... |
HER HORSE: by Wayan; 1985/5/14, a dream fable about bodies. |
A farm girl seems to be sexually exploiting her dog and horse, but their auras tell another tale... CAUTION: SEX SYMBOLISM |
THE HERBIVORE'S EXCEPTION: by Wayan; 1999/12/6, a dream of snapping. |
A beautiful herbivore suddenly eats one of its friends! Bloody. Who or what is this warning me about?... CAUTION: YUCK, MEAT REALLY IS MURDER |
HERON HAREM: by Wayan; 1981/6/14, a dream with a moral. |
I'm a heron working in the Civil Service. I want to blow the whistle, but then how would I support my... CAUTION: BIRD-SLAVERY? |
THE HERONS' TANK: by Wayan, 2020/11/12, a sonnet telling an astral-plane dreamlet |
I climb a small-town water tower. The tank holds a reedy marsh where sentient herons live! They say the Heartland below them is a nest reserved for greedy, screechy, flightless, half-grown souls like us... CAUTION: DISSES SMALL-TOWN VALUES |
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 |
HIJACK! The Christmas Special: by Wayan; 2012/4/13, a trapped-in-bad-TV dream. |
I'm stuck on a jet full of cartoons. We get hijacked by a kid who just wants pilot practice, and then a talking cactus counter-hijacks us... CAUTION: THE F-WORD |
HINDU GOD: by Judy Landaiche; Dec 1990, a sex dream with multiple twists |
It started like a nightmare--someone behind me, a groping hand that's not human... It was a Hindu god! He made love to me. Felt great until he said: "You're taking too long!"... CAUTION: SEX WITH A SELFISH DEITY |
HIS DEER WIFE: by Wayan; 195K, 20 images, 1995/7/9, a parallel world love story. |
I'm a slave, a scribe in the house of a Captain of the New Aztec Empire, when he brings home a wife... CAUTION: DISTURBING SEX CUSTOMS, SPOUSAL ABUSE? |
HIS MINE: by Wayan; 1985/12/2, an epic Wild West dream |
I'm a hobbit seeking Henry Fonda's haunted gold mine. And find it. Or is that chocolate? But then I'm caught in a shamanic showdown in a bar where they serve real spirits... |
A HISTORY OF ENERGY: by Wayan; 2021/2/19, a dream warning we're all shortsighted |
I dream of a parade or train of energy sources--human muscle, horsepower, coal, oil, gas, solar... But the train's ultimate engine is in our future, and is impossible--a dragon riding a broomstick... |
HOBBIT ERUPTIONS: by Wayan, 1990/12/31, a counterfictional dream poem |
I contemplate Bilbo taunting Smaug, then Frodo, Sam and Gollum triggering Mt Doom to erupt, but next I "remember" other fiery catastrophes and "realize" hobbits are always causing... |
A HOBBIT IN L.A.: by Wayan; 1990/1/8, a dream on wishes. |
I'm a hobbit woman in Los Angeles, hiding a magic weapon from Sauron. No, not THAT weapon. The wishing-bucket... |
HOBBIT SNIPER: by Wayan; 1998/10/13, a dream on strategy. |
I'm a sniper in a desert battle of men against hobbits. Guilty for not fighting openly, but that'd be suicidal... CAUTION: MATH AND WAR |
THE HOMONKEYLUS: by Wayan; 1992/6/15, a looping dream about blinders. |
A smiling beauty queen on a float gives birth to a monkey with blinders, then re-absorbs the baby, then... CAUTION: NUDITY AND ODDITY |
HONESTY THE WITCH: by Wayan; 1974/6/1, a flying dream. |
A witch advocates honesty, but kids mock her; one boy tries to rape her. We fight mid-air, riding her broom... CAUTION: RAPE ATTEMPT |
HOOD: by Wayan; 1993/5/11 & 5/15, a recurring dream of a... woman? dinosaur? cape? spirit? |
An alien-heron-dino-woman left us her cape--or is it a cast-off skin? I put it on, for I was told I need the hood to ward off some evil. My human head won't fit the narrow hood. But the owner's manual says I don't need a shield, I'm immune! So skip the hood; wear the cape as a minidress... |
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 |
THE HORSE VOTERS: by Wayan; 1995/4/30, a time-travel dream on... race? |
I'm back in the 19th century, learning that horse breeders cross-bred more than the public thinks. One suggests I look hard in the mirror... CAUTION: UNSEEMLY SENATORIAL DISCOURSE |
HORSELIKE BUT NOT: by Wayan; portrait of dream figure, 1997, acrylic, 14 x 17" |
My anima Silky finds it hard to go back to classic hooves, now that she's tried opposable thumbs... |
HORTA'S EGGS: by Wayan; 1984/1/17, a dream of re-evaluation. |
I fight to save a nest of 50,000 eggs that'll hatch... psychics! But my friends want to exterminate them! Who's wrong here? |
HOT POT CAT LOT: by Wayan; 1992/8/6, a timed-release predictive dream. |
After a bad writing class, I meet a shy catgirl guarding a Mongolian Hot Pot, and discover who I am... |
HOT TO TROT or BRAIN TRAUMA or HUMPIN' THE HOG or SAD-EYED SWAN OF LOVE: |
by Wayan; 1993/8/4, a bizarre, epic dream on finding your way I'm a mare hot to trot (and get laid) in the Big City, but my gay Star Trek friend's brain trauma makes her a clueless alien with a bo(a)ring sexlife--until a sad swan enfolds her in love... CAUTION: ALIEN POSSESSION, CARTOON PIG SEX, SMOKING SWANS |
HOW THE WAYAN GOT ITS NAME: by Wayan, 1986/5/23, a predictive dream on names (& manes) |
A telepathic unicorn-lion says my true name is Wayan. And my true species? I'm like him! I wake, change my name to fit the dream, move to a new city. Near my new house, my dream-name is scratched into the concrete sidewalk... |
HUCK FINN'S WISH: by Wayan; 1995/12/8, a dream of flight and sabotage. |
A mysterious stranger offers free wishes to the kids of Hannibal, Missouri. Tom Sawyer wants to fly... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
HUNT OF THE UNICORN: by Wayan; 1989/5/18, an overlooked psychic dream. |
I marry, just to get into a clannish world where I'm seeking symbiotic unicorns. I end up fleeing... Next evening, a TV movie--Goldie Hawn marries into a clannish world and ends up... |
HYDROGEN INITIATION: by Wayan; 1981/1/6, a shamanic nightmare. |
I'm an initiate in a Sung Dynasty monastery. But I have no idea how far the hazing can go... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
I AM THREE: by Wayan; 1956-58, my three earliest dreams. |
My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child... |
I AM A SILKY IN THE SEA: by Wayan; 1983/12/12, watercolor on shapeshifting in dreams. |
"I am a man upon the land; I am a Selkie in the sea..." Silky or selkie means a were-seal... |
I AM NOT A MAN: by Wayan; 1996/11/28, a dream of Middle Earth. |
I can help slay a monster and save my friends--if I deny I'm human. My denial has grave consequences, but it's absolutely true... |
I FIGHT FOR BEAUTY: by Wayan; 1990/1/1, an incubated dream within a dream within a dream. |
From Hawaii to Wyoming, I fight for beauty, always waking to find I'm someone new... |
I GOT OUT: by Wayan; 1992/1/4, a psychic dream drawn as a 9-page digital comic |
I flee our love triangle when Abe turns mean. He's telepathic, but I have my escape all planned: the goldfish, the snakepit, the caves... CAUTION: THREESOME, SNAKES, MOTORCYCLE FATALITY |
I HELD THE SUN ROSE: by Wayan; 1989/6/18; digital painting inspiring a dream inspiring a 2nd painting. |
After I drew this I dreamed I was chasing stars with a long-tailed friend, and in the end we caught the Sun... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
I OVERSLEPT: by Wayan; 1992/6/12, a dream of loss. |
I oversleep. A lot. All my friends are dead, along with my century... |
I WON'T DIE TILL LOVE DIES: by Wayan; 1981/1/21, a divine dream . |
I meet the mermaid goddess of love in her pool, but when she advises me, I dispute one small point... |
ICK! DOGS!: by Wayan; 1990/1/3, a Star Trek dream. |
I'm Jean-Luc Picard, and my Enterprise has been taken over by a pack of brilliant, paranoid wolves... |
ID FLOWERS: by Wayan; 1989/10/8, a dream of wish and fear |
The villagers warned me not to walk in the alien graveyard; for at night, the Id flowers wake... |
THE ILL-FORMED TALE: by Wayan; 160K, 1981/4/7, a wild dream anti-epic. |
To reach the Peak of Happiness on the Isle of Dreams, I must pass four Perils--but they're all backwards... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS NUTS, KNIVES, NUDE ALIENS, BACKWARD PLOT... |
ILLUSIONISTS DON'T RULE: by Wayan; 1996/8/26, a dream on the strength of logic. |
I read Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind; I dream I'm a pilot who deduces an alien illusionist's in my plane... |
I'M A VESTA, NOT A MAN!: by Wayan; 1980/1/6, a dream of when it's over. |
I'm the animal guardian of a deep crater, but when a human girl rejects me, I set out to leave... CAUTION: ORAL SEX, UNREQUITED LOVE, SPECISM |
I'M ALL EARS, DR. ESTES: by Wayan; 1995/6/7, not a dream, a portrait of a radio-trance.
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Clarisa Pinkola Estes (who runs with the wolves) was on the radio, and this popped out of my mouse... |
I'M AN INTERSEX AND I'M OKAY: by Wayan; 1992/11/7, a body-image dream. |
I discover I'm not exactly a man OR a woman; so why not throw out their standards and roles and be me? CAUTION: SEXUAL SELF-EXAM |
IN EL RIO: by Wayan; 1994/5/14, a singles nightmare. |
My family runs a bar. I walk through, after hours. Who are all these silent figures? CAUTION: UNHEALTHY READING FOR SINGLES |
IN IO: by Wayan, 1981/8/7, a wild otherworldly dream with 3 illustrations. |
I live on Io. It's nicer than its photos. At least inside, where the oceans are--where I grow a second head... |
IN THE COURSE OF WORK: by Marie-Claude Girondé, spring 2007?, a dream sculpture |
Is that a madwoman riding a horse, or a cougar pouncing on a deer, or are these dream-creatures wildly making love? |
IN THE FOG: by Wayan; 1989/4/5, nondream (I swear!) digital landscape. |
This place isn't out of my dreams, it just looks like it. It's real real real... |
IN THE NIGHT OF 13 OCTOBER, 1942: by Peter Birkhäuser; 1942/10/13, a shamanic dream painted Sept. 1975. |
Sybelle & I climbed the cathedral spire. Bravely she kissed the monstrous guardian, exhaling blue light. My own challenge was to leap across an abyss, under the luminous eye of God... |
IN THE SHADOW OF MAN: by Wayan; 1994/3/4, a dream on how to escape the cage |
I'm a lab animal who discovers voice software and creates a personal zine, testifying for our rights... |
IN THE STAR; 1988/9/12 by Wayan; an epic, out-of-body, intrastellar quest-dream |
I tour the heart of a red supergiant, where dreaming souls explore their fears and heart's desires, unconstrained by solid matter... CAUTION: SWEDENBORGIAN VISION, UNICORN NUDITY |
INACTION PAINTING: by Wayan; 1995/10/29, digital dream-figure collage |
When I see that grim museum shit I start giggling "Boy art!" The guards glare, so I go home and paint like this. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX TALK, LUST FAIRIES AND FLYING TEENY WEENIES |
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..." |
INUIT MEDITATION: by Wayan; 1989/11/16, a comically surreal dream. |
I'm the first tuna to get a scholarship to Stanford. Naturally I sign up for a course in Inuit Meditation... |
THE INVESTOR DREAMS A WOLF: by Wayan; 1983/10/30, a dream poem. |
My dream characters aged and tamed until they sit in a genteel Victorian flat. Then a wolf rappels in... |
INVISIBLE GIRLFRIEND: by Wayan, 2023/4/11, a baffling predictive dreamlet |
DREAM: in my car, the window crank turns on its own; my invisible girlfriend is crawling out the window! She's turned so quiet & private. Have I seen the last of her? Well, not seen... NEXT DAY: I stumble on a one-off manga about an invisible girl; but the artist writes "I decided not to make her a regular--too quiet & private, & I can't draw her feelings"... CAUTION: GLASSY NUDITY, E.S.P. SPECULATION |
THE IRRATIONALITY OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1989/12/31, a New Year's dream. |
On TV, the first Jungian anima to leave the unconscious is granting an interview. But the questions are... |
IS GOD GOD?: by Wayan; 1984/6/17, a dream of the school of hard knocks. |
God watches over me--to slap me down. If God is even God. So I set out to learn about this jerk-God... |
ISIS HELPS TERI GARR: by Wayan; 1988/3/27, a meandering predictive dream. |
Actress Teri Garr and Isis the talking cat recur all night, but so does a baseball glove I haven't pulled out in years. Why? A few days later a friend asks for that glove, and I find... |
THE ISLAND FURIES: by Wayan; summer 1975, a dream of self-control. |
When warring Greek isles kill a peacemaker, her three best friends start a vendetta! But she wanted peace... CAUTION: HATE NURSED TOO LONG |
ISLE OF THE BLEST: by Wayan; 1990/11/9, painting inspired by series of fox-dreamlets |
I'm a Japanese werefox, longing to reach the Isle of the Blest; but dare I swim for it? |
JAMIE THE SORCERESS: by Wayan; 1984/11/14, a characterological dream. |
I get back from vacation to find the landlady's installed her daughter Jamie in our shared house... |
JANE GIFFORD: dreams drawn/painted by Jane Gifford 2001-'23 |
From the dream-sketchbooks of Jane Gifford: odd creatures, flying, coping with Covid, and cleaning the underworld (as one does)... |
JASHA EXPLAINS DEATH: by Wayan; ca. 1974/10/1; a 10-page painted comic with recurrent dream figures |
Deep Duck's interview with Jasha the Krelkin goes rogue, as she urges tossing out human habits like... death? CAUTION: REDWOOD-SPRITE SEX, PEEING ON TREES, DRUNK DUCK |
JETCATS: by Wayan; 1990/5/24, a surreal dream hiding a message about others |
Our black cat Purr and our new blonde kitten fly around as if jet-propelled dive-bombing the roof. Alarming, but their cat-reactions aren't like mine-- fast as a test pilot! For me it'd be suicide; for them, just playing... |
A JOB WELL DONE: by Wayan; 1981/3/2; a dream-farce with a serious warning |
The tale of a fawn named Fawn and her mom, a bank-robbing hippopotamus... CAUTION: GLAMORIZES THIS ALARMING TREND |
JOIN THE WOLVES LATER!: by Wayan; 1980/9/4, a dream of false but useful fear. |
Shepherding a group of cityfolks through an alien wilderness, I need a werewolf's help. So why do I lie? |
JOKE PILOT: by Wayan; 1995/7/15, a dream of defiance. |
Among aliens, humans are jokes. Fragile and blind, we can't fly starships. Unless we build our own... |
JOVE'S LIMBO: by Wayan; 1994/11/27, a dream of astral muckraking. |
Half elvish, rejected, I wander the worlds, and find a limbo built by Zeus--but do the inmates deserve it? |
JUDGE, FLASHER, PIG: by Wayan, 2023/10/22, two parallel, surreal dreams |
A pig-man hybrid--huge mouth, tiny body--happily eats trash, smirking as I pass... Then a woman bends over to flash me, smirking, as a censorious Judge glares... CAUTION: SCENE 1 GROSS, SCENE 2 SEXUAL |
"JUST A FEW MORE YEARS!": by Wayan; 2008/1/2, a nightmare on the coming crash |
I found myself defending humanity before an astral jury, begging them to delay the great die-back... |
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