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ABJECT OBJECT: by Wayan; 1992/5/11, a nondream digital picture-prose-poem It's OK to be a sex object as long as you're also a subject. What's no fun is being an abject... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL FEARS/SHYNESS |
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ADRIAN TRIED: by Wayan, 1991/3/12, an embarrassing dream. Adrian and Jennifer and Michelle try very very hard to get my attention, but I'm a bit oblivious... CAUTION: SEXUAL STUPIDITY |
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ALERTNESS GYM: by Wayan; 1994/4/19, a strange dream date. I go on a date who seems bored till she takes me to the Alertness Gym... |
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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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THE ANGEL: by William Blake; early 1790s; a gender-bending dream-poem Blake dreams he's a young queen with an uneasy relationship to her guardian angel... |
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ANNIE, GET YOUR GOWN!: by Wayan; 1988/9/14, a comic dream. I'm Annie Oakley, sharpshooter, facing something scarier than gunmen: a formal ball introducing me to my new husband's family--Austrian aristocracy! What's an American gal to do? |
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AS IF WE CARED: by Wayan; 1984/9/17, a psychological sex dream. A burglar-girl and I spy on the neighbors together and we learn a weird Zen lesson on commitment... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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AVOID THE MATRIARCH: by Wayan; 2011/7/8; a dream of, well, avoidance I love a girl in a big Singapore clan whose matriarch hates me. But the omens say confronting her will be disastrous... |
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AWK!: by Wayan; 1988?, a trance drawing of a body state When I met someone attractive, my head flamed, burning my body like a wax candle... |
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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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A BEAGLE, THREE WOLVES, AND A SETTER: by Wayan; 2009/2/6, a dream-poem; Dreamverse #50 Fresh off the Beagle, Darwin meets three wolf-girls, but has distinctly Biblical inhibitions... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM, PUNS |
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BELT-SNAKE MYOPIA: by Wayan; 1983/12/25, a dream of innocent sabotage. A shy woman's belt slowly comes alive, but like most snakes, it has weak eyes. Would glasses help?... |
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BERYL BORROWED IT: by Wayan, 1986/3/8, an absurd dream. My top-heavy friend Beryl borrows my ass and legs to become a centaur so she won't fall over. But I want them back, so... CAUTION: CRUDE AND STUPID |
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THE BEST CONVERSATIONALISTS: by Wayan; 1984/8/5, a geeky dream. I'm at an all-geek banquet! We're all shy; we just can't do smalltalk. Then the hostess explains why she chose us... |
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BILL: by Anonymous #32; c. 1950, a predictive warning dream My mother begged me to stay in. I went out with Bill--who raped me. Mom later told me she'd dreamed... CAUTION: DATE RAPE |
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BIRDSUIT: by Wayan; 1983/2/17; a 4-page dream-comic. I try to fly in my birdsuit before I have feathers! Can I? Starring the cast of Three's Company... CAUTION: LAME SEXUAL INNUENDO TYPICAL OF THREE'S COMPANY |
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BLOWN OR STEER?: by Wayan; 2006/9/16, a flying, species-bent, advisory dream I'm a shy wild cat locked in a zoo paddock with elephants and lions till I remember how to fly! But just levitate, blown about by the wind? Or can I steer my own course?... |
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BOAT PEOPLE IN THE TUB: by Carl Linkhart, 1998 or before; dream poem/painting I'm trying to bathe, but there are Boat People in the tub! And my inner Grandma's spying on me, behind her fan... |
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BOWLING BOY BLUSHES: by Wayan; 1990/5/10, a dream of prodigy-harassment A little bowling prodigy bothers an adult team. So one sits in his lane, daring him to bowl at her crotch. He's used to kids taunting him, but what do you do when grownups gang up? CAUTION: SEXUAL SHAMING OF CHILD |
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BRAID OF SILENCE: by Wayan; 1989/1/24, a brief dream-poem We're slaves on the moon. But we're slowly stretching our freedom in the shadows, undoing the Braid of... |
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BRIGHT NICHES IN THE CASTLE WALL: by Jenny Badger Sultan; summer 2003; a series of dreams. Dreams warning of mania and paralyzing shame alternate with calm dreams of life and growth... |
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BROWN DRESS: by Wayan; 1984/2/11, 9-page digital comic of a sexy healing dream. A champion swimmer tells me how she turned a sexual humiliation into excitement and liberating power... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, SHAME, PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY |
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BURROWCATS ON A HIGHER PLANE: by Wayan; 1991/10/25, a shamanic dream of levels. By twisting strangely, humans can slip into a higher plane. Ten feet higher! So unless you climb on the roof, you end up in the tunnels of the burrowcats... |
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CHESS DEVIL: by Wayan; 1997/8/5, a humiliating nightmare. I try to rescue my girl friends losing a boat-chess game to a devil, but they'd rather be with bad-boy him than me... CAUTION: NUDE DEVIL |
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CHIDI AND PONY-MISTRESS: by Wayan, 2019/9/25, a mysterious dream Ethics professor Chidi from The Good Place, painted purple, tells me he's in love with the Mistress of the Herd, a mix of Circe, Dr. Moreau & My Little Pony, who radiates spells of love & beauty... CAUTION: WEIRD IMAGERY, CRYPTIC, NUDE PONIES |
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CHRISTA'S FUR: by Wayan; 2018/6/9, a smutty spiritual dream-poem riffing on Leonardo's 'Last Supper'? In an alternate Judea, I long for a female Christ and her lesbian apostles. My lust is unrequited, till a small Sex Kitten gives me some wise advice... CAUTION: CAT NUDITY, BLASPHEMY |
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CREATURE BECOMES CREATOR: by Wayan; 2015/2/5, three linked advisory dreams on world trends A weird little forest god bred me from an ordinary deer into a creature who can almost pass for human. But World War 2 killed my god, and now I'm growing into... CAUTION: NUDITY, CROSSBREEDING |
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THE CULT OF DIRTY LAUNDRY: by Wayan; 1993/10/2, a political dream I find the feminist principle "the personal is political" leads to some alarming consequences for privacy... CAUTION: POLITICS |
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CUT-RATE TREATMENT: by Wayan; 1993/8/10, a tale half-dreamed, half-lived. That day, I met a wildly neurotic therapist; that night, I met a woman forced to get discount ob/gyn exams from her stingy husband's doctor buddy... can you say "boundary violation?" CAUTION: SEXUAL HUMILIATION |
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THE CYGNET BALL: by Wayan; 1996/3/26, a dream on assertion. At the Ball, I feel up women, who idly enjoy me like... hors d'oeuvres! Wait, is that what I wanted? CAUTION: WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS |
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DAD'S DATES: by Wayan; 2008/8/17, a dream poem, Dreamverse #8. After my mom's death, my dad starts dating again, while I hide out and wince. Can't I do anything positive? |
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DATE GHOST: by Wayan; 1983/11/26, nondream surreal painting of a shyness fit I tried to date a nice young butterfly but was stopped by a monster who was... my own wings? CAUTION: UNDERAGE BUG |
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DEER PEOPLE, BREAST-SHY: by Wayan; 2021/7/30, a dream with predictive tinges DREAM: bisexual deer-people go on dates. Despite their fur, they seem shy about breasts. WAKE: read Alison Bechdel's latest confessional comic. Bisexual phase, shy about breasts... CAUTION: POSSIBLY PREDICTIVE; TOPLESS DEER |
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DEMON-SUMMONING IS JUST A MISDEMEANOUR: by Jo; 2017/7/26, a gender-bent diagnostic nightmare I protect my friends from a demon, but the dream-guardians I summon terrify me... |
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DIAGNOSTIC BATTERY: by Wayan; 1988/4/20, a nightmare of backstabbing that came true My sister & her new guru tests me psychologically--only it looks like a test to destruction... CAUTION: EMOTIONAL CRUELTY |
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DID YOU THINK IT WOULD BE EASY?: by Wayan; 1995/1/15, a dream of slow liberation. Our Appalachian town revolts against fundamentalists, but brainwashing takes time to undo... CAUTION: SEX AND INJUSTICE |
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DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW: by Wayan; 2020/1/2, an embarrassing dream poem The guest room has a giant plush doggie. Next thing I know, I'm humping her doggie style, on the windowsill where the girl driving the backhoe can see... CAUTION: CRINGEWORTHY SEX |
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DONNA'S FALLOUT: by Wayan, 1972/2/6, 2/26, 2/29 & 3/4: sonnets & watercolors of 4 sex dreams. When I was 17, an older girl pushed booze at me and came on to me... in front of my parents and teachers! For months, I had ambivalent sex dreams trying to process what Donna taught me--not all of it negative... CAUTION: WEIRD SEX; ADULTS BEHAVE BADLY |
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DRAGONFLY BUS: by Wayan, 2023/3/28; four dreams on halting runaway feelings A girl writes a whole movie to get a shy boy to hold her; I stupidly summon a monster dragonfly-bus; a devil-suited jerk hogs a musical's stage TWICE; leeches crawl from the treasure-box I opened... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, SEXUAL FEAR/GUILT |
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DRAMA IS HELL!: by Thomas Hood; 1824?; a comic nightmare When my first play failed, I tried to console myself by reading Paradise Lost. But drama and devils don't mix... |
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DREAM HERDING: by Nancy Potter; 1978/11/8 & 11/11, two comic, surreal dreams FERRY: the crossing is rough, but I'm warned I must find my own sea-legs... BUZZ OFF: I step into a family photo, but I'm not welcome in the past... |
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DREAM LOVERS: by Wayan; 1995/9/11, a dream on shame. This dream's not about a man whose dream lovers keep materializing till the bed overflows. This dream's about who those lovers are and what the neighbors will think... CAUTION: SEX |
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DREAM OF THE DANCING GODDESSES: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 1988/12/19, a dream-painting I sneak into a dance rehearsal. Huge colorful cloth goddesses dance, while four fat women wearing only scarves weave round them... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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A DRY DREAM: by Wayan; 1999/8/30, the opposite of a wet dream. A nightmare turns to a sex dream turns to a weird demonstration just how out-of-body a dream can get... CAUTION: (PUZZLING) SEX |
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ESCAPE BY INTUITION: by Wayan; 2010/1/11; four dreams of breaking through I must see a community as a whole, and intuit my way out of a sealed room, and spot details, and join a trio in bed... CAUTION: NUDITY IN LAST DREAM |
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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 |
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FIGURE DRAWING: PEEKABOO: by Wayan; 1989/1/2, crayon based on photo Girl peers out from a satin robe hiding only her face. Look at me! Hide! I know those contradictory feelings. CAUTION: NUDITY |
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THE FINAL TEST: by Wayan; 1994/11/11, a reassuring nightmare. A Star Trek future. Our experimental ship is hijacked by illusionists, with us aboard... |
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FIVE ELVISH DREAMS: by Dolores J. Nurss; 2005/6/10-2005/6/19, an incubated lucid-dream sequence 1: I visit Elrond and Bilbo in Elvenhome, but overthinking traps me in a timeloop; 2: Elrond says he renounces seriousness for joy, and plans a great, inclusive party; 3: I feel unworthy, but set out on a desert quest with Elrond's young apprentice; 4: I meet joyful, drunken, singing elves but hide in a tree, too shy to join in; 5: I meet a nervous elven singer and a dolphin trapped in a tiny pool in my bedroom... |
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FLAMINGOS: by Wayan; 1998/3/30; nondream acrylic, 20 x 30". Part an experiment in wild textures, part a "Where's Waldo" game to see if you'd notice my self-portrait... |
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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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FORGOTTEN JOB: by Kirsten as told by Gayle Delaney, 1978 or before, recurring guidance dreams I wanted spiritual guidance. A guide appeared regularly in my dreams for months, but then vanished. I incubated a dream, and was told "you have a big job you forgot! Come back when..." |
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FOUR TABOOS: by Wayan, 2016/3/15, four dreams on inhibitions I hoped I was over. Climbing out of Childhood Abyss, I literally get a leg up from a girl seeking the Ledge of Teens. A shy girl has to hide she's a were-creature. Gay men make out in the witch-registry to rattle its homophobic guardians. My sister stripteases while scolding me for a mess I didn't make... CAUTION: DUH, SEX TABOOS! KIDS, FURS, GAYS, SIBLINGS |
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(A DREAM OF) FRANCES SPEEDWELL: by Robert Graves; 1971?, a dream-poem Decades ago, I was too shy to talk to Frances. Now I'm going upstairs with a girl who looks like her but... |
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FREUD'S UNDERWORLD: by Wayan; 2024/1/4; a comic book-review nightmare DAY: I reread Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams. His own dreams feel petty, devious, status-obsessed... dull. DREAM: I find Freud's bought my childhood home! I spelunk the Freudian underworld--a dark complex of tunnels, sewers and rats. Cross the rivers of muck on stepping stones. Emerge into sun at last, swearing "Never again..." |
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F*CK CALIFORNIA!: by Wayan; 2004/10/15, a surreal, embarrassing dream I'm trying to hump the entire State of California. In public, too. What brought THIS on? Well, actually, I know... CAUTION: OBSCENE SITUATION--AND TITLE. OOPS, TOO LATE. |
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F--K GRIFFIN: by Wayan; 1993/9/17, an embarrassing advisory dream. It's nice hearing everyone praise my sex crimes, but I need to pull the dog from the golden horn... CAUTION: SEX, LANGUAGE (OBVIOUSLY), GENERAL WEIRDNESS |
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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... |
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GEEK SHORTAGE: by Wayan; 1990/2/12. Epic primitive digital painting on body image A mural on how I became a dancer--the day I lost my old body-image, failed to recognize myself in the mirror... |
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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 |
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GOAT DARE: by Wayan; 1984/8/22, a sex nightmare. A girl and I climb a half-built tower to get some privacy from my nosy, sneering parents. But they find us during oral sex, and their scorn melts my girlfriend into a goat... CAUTION: SEX, HUMILIATION, FAMILY VALUES |
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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 |
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THE HEIDEGGARIAN BARBARIAN: by Jo, 2007/02/02, a dream of hopping between two characters I was two-thirds of a love triangle, but I always lost out. Flying was some consolation... CAUTION: RAT DEATH, EVIL WHALES AND ADULTERY |
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HELL-CHESS and COMING CAUSES AMNESIA: by Wayan; 1985/3/10, twin surreal dream-poems Hell Chess isn't just black and white. Living women, from weak pawns to transcendent rainbow queens... Coming Causes Amnesia: reincarnation, 69, and plate tectonics all fuse in lava-hot orgasm... CAUTION: ORAL SEX IN DREAM TWO |
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HERE IN MY IMPOVERISHED PSYCHE: by Tracey West, 1987? 88?, recurring nightmares I'm Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island. But the theme song repeats endlessly--not the later version with my name, but the early one dismissing me and the Professor as and the rest. I wake up screaming... |
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HOGAMUS HIGAMUS: by Mrs Amos Pinchot, or Claire MacMurray? Nov. 1939, a disavowed dream-poem. She dreamed she'd written a wise and beautiful poem. Half asleep she scribbled it down. Awake, she found... CAUTION: HOGGEREL |
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HOLD HEAD: by Wayan; 1993; nondream digital sketch. This started as an exercise in dramatic figure-drawing and shifted round into an exorcise in guilt... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL CONFESSIONS |
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THE HYPOTHALAMUS: by Georges Perec; October 1971, a dream of embarrassment. Dream #95 I learn my book A Void, supposedly written without the letter E, has lots of them-- crawling with errors. But at least I can spy on the neighbors... |
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I BLUSH TO REPORT: by Wayan; 1986/12/11, two stupid dreams. Two embarrassing dreams the same night: I learn why I don't have cancer and can't buy giant panties... CAUTION: STUPID |
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I FIND MYSELF CRYING: by Anonymous #51, before 1978, a cathartic dream of acceptance I was in a sort of commune. A girl snuggled up to me and I got an erection. I felt embarrassed and apologized. She said "NEVER apologize for THAT..." CAUTION: SEXUAL SHAME/HEALING |
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I THOUGHT HE LIKED ME: by Wayan; 1994/8/16, a dream of rejection... or worse. I join the Seattle Tribal Council, which of course means marrying them all. The husband I'm to sleep with on our Council Honeymoon seemed to like me, till he pulls that practical joke... CAUTION: GROSS! |
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ICARIAN PAIN: by Wayan; 1982/10/19, a dream of flight, shyness and pinching yourself. I meet some cute dancers, but rather than flirt, I just try ballet leaps too. I get more than I bargained for... |
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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... |
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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... |
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INCEST IMPROV: by Wayan; 2005/6/13, a flying-dream poem, Dreamverse #21 Improv-dancing with my sister, I get turned on. But then a repressed Asian girl joins our dance, and... CAUTION: INCEST MENTIONED. OOPS, TOO LATE. |
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INTERNAL SCROLL: by Carolee Schneemann, 1975, an embarrassing dream acted out on stage I dreamed I was pulling a scroll out of my vagina and reading it like a tickertape. I was reluctant to perform the dream--I knew I'd get into trouble!--but I felt compelled... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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JACUZZI JAIL: by Wayan; 1979/10/12, a dream of parental poison. My family has shackled my little sister in the dungeon in the hot tub full of carcinogenic bubble bath... CAUTION: INCEST FEELINGS, TOXIC PARENTING |
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JIM'S POWDER: by Helen; pre-1961, a telepathic warning dream I dreamt I was begging Jim not to kill himself, but when I woke, I couldn't bring myself to call. I hardly knew him... CAUTION: GUILT OVER (PREVENTABLE?) DEATH |
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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 |
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KELLY FIELD: by an air cadet, 1941; an almost-lifesaving dream. I dreamed a plane took off northeast, and flipped by the main hangar, killing two men. I forgot the dream until... |
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THE KING'S LANGUAGE: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/4/24, a dream on the language of dreams Swedenborg struggles to grasp the King's broken French. He wakes to realize he's trying to learn a greater King's difficult language. Still relevant today, for he saw the problem's twofold: the difficult language of images, but also issues the waking mind missed--or wants to deny! |
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KIOSK: by Wayan; 1994/5/1, a 4-page dreamcomic on the power of song (or illustrated text version) I'm a sexy singing beast, the Krelkin, trying to lure the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk... CAUTION: NUDITY, INTERSPECIES FLIRTATION |
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KISS THE CATS: by Wayan; 2008/8/23, a dream poem, Dreamverse #13 I have to kiss a mess of cats. Fishy, but I'm not chicken. My real beef is with the humans watching... |
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KNEADING DOUGH: by Madellyne Waugh; 2009, a punning dream on money-shame I'm in the kitchen making a mess--kneading pasta dough on the bookcase. If my mom comes in and sees... |
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KRELKIN CAMOUFLAGE: by Wayan; 1981/4/21, 3 versions of recurring dream image A sexy dream-creature hides by splitting her body visually, her red mane and tail matching her background... |
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LIKE NOTRE DAME: by Jack Kerouac, early April? 1953, a bizarre dream As the train pulled into the cathedral William Burroughs and I saw amid the pews the Hound of the Baskervilles transform into a great black bird and fly... |
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LINDA'S NAVAL by Linda W & Wayan, 1991/8/16; parallel surreal exhibitionist dreams WAYAN: My housemate Linda shows me her weird navel--and pussy, to compare... LINDA: At Christmas, I run through snowy streets, naked except for earphones... CAUTION: NUDITY & AWFUL DREAM-PUN |
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LOBSTER ECSTASY: by Wayan; 1970/11/1?, a teenage lobster love dream. One of my first recorded dreams--how I foolishly turned away from Lobster Love... CAUTION: CHITINOUS SEX |
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LOCKOUT! by Wayan, 1984/12/20; a predictive frustration dream Dream: my family carelessly locks me out of my own home. Try every window & door... A few days later: my new housemate carelessly locks me out. Try every window & door... CAUTION: PREDICTIVE |
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LONELINESS HAIKU by Anonymous #52, 1975/3/26; a haiku in a dream THAT DAY: I landed in Japan, but felt an outsider, cut off. THAT NIGHT: I dreamt a haiku expressing my loneliness... |
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LOVE OR HATE?: by Wayan; 1994/5/4, an untwisted dream. My sister and I are groping toward sex when our mom bursts in. Her scolding's not what I expect... CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES, PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY |
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MCKILLIP'S NEW BOOK: by Wayan; 2010/7/23, an epic literary dream I'm inside a magical novel by Patricia McKillip, amid tricksters, cosplayers, spooks, sex changes, levitation and (sigh) cops... CAUTION: COYOTE SEX |
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MIRRORCUNT: by Wayan; 2011/3/24, a peculiar erotic dream image After singing dream songs on stage, I dream of a girl on a talkshow displaying the strangest vagina in history... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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MISSION CARNAVAL: by Wayan, 2022/7/27; a disorienting dream I'm in a loading dock with the door pulled halfway down, so I have to look between my legs to see the mythical dancers outside--upside down. Wait, why am I hiding in here? Go join... CAUTION: MOCKS PLATO; NUDE CENTAUR, TOO |
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MONKEY WITH A GUN: by Wayan; 2010/8/7, a predictive nightmare A monkey who stole a handgun aims at a troopmate and fires, ignorant of the consequences. The next evening I hear gunfire for real, and... |
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MY LIPS ARE SEALED: by Wayan, 1989/6/3, a moody, psychic, epic, two-part dream. I'm a Romantic poet who defeats the curse of the fountain, to marry; but when our daughter's grown, a new curse strikes me mute, paralyzed. And I mistake this for old age! Then, in real life, my dad wakes up from a nap paralyzed... |
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MY POETIC LICENSE: by Wayan; 2008/10/5, a self-referencing dream poem; Dreamverse #33 Renewing one's life has its costs. What if you can't pay the price? A dreamlet of warning and shame... |
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NEWT WEDDING: by Emily Joy; spring 1995, a six-year-old's epic dream Through wild jungles and over the Mattress Mountains, I lead a giant purple newt to love... |
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NIGHTMARE'S EAGER: by Wayan; 1999/4/6, a short dream about dreams. I meet a Nightmare in heat who wants me. A human girl by me says I'll catch an equine sex-disease... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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NIP OFF HIS NOSE: by Wayan, 2020/2/20, four surreal dreamlets about Covid? or... overwork? 1: I sketch two deer-girls making videos. 2: I pull a man's nose off, and milk the scene for drama before... 3: My old boss is convicted of murder! 4: I wake and two friends interpret #3 as "Overwork is killing you..." I wake again. My dream-notebook's blank. No friends here; their interpretation was a dream too.... CAUTION: NUDE DEER |
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NIXON AND CHOU: by John Wren-Lewis, c.1973, a character-evaluation dream of Ann Faraday DREAM: I'm in the White House. Nixon blows his nose on the curtains! I think "despite his crudity, he reached out to China." DAY: my wife Ann has a cold--she's Nixon! The dream concedes she has private flaws, but she's pioneered dream research... |
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NIXON'S BLANKET POLICY: by Wayan; 1974/5/30, a political dream. After a class in nonverbal communication, I meet Richard Nixon under embarrassing circumstances... |
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"NOHOR!" YELLED THE NIGHTMARE: by Wayan; 1982/12/27, a passionate nightmare. I dreamed a black mare was howling "Nohor!" At first I thought she meant "I'm not just a horse", but... CAUTION: SEXUAL ISSUES |
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O LA LA, WHAT A STRANGE DREAM: by Julie Doucet; 1989, a comic space sex dream Mom gave me cookies for my three-year solo spaceflight. Special cookies for both ends of me... CAUTION: NUDITY, BAD SEX ADVICE |
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OPENING: by Wayan, 1992; incubated automatic drawing Why don't I push for more art shows? I asked how I feel at shows of my own work, and this came out... |
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ORACULAR RAVENS: by Wayan; 2023/1/24, a genderbent, predictive/synchronistic dream DAY: I see Avatar: the Way of Water. Two films in one: Blue Lagoon alternates with Mad Max... DREAM: As an oracle, I have to go topless so the magic mini-ravens can perch on my nipples... CAUTION: BRR, OW!, BREASTS, and SNIPING AT JAMES CAMERON |
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ORGY BELOW THE SURFACE: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; an embarrassing dream Under the surface of my comics panels, a tiny horde is having an orgy. I can't publish this, it's too embarrassing! Wait a minute. That one is me... CAUTION: MICRO-ORGY |
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OTTER MEDICINE: by The-Fringe, a Crow healer, early 1850s; a shamanic dream with physical effects I slept on an island in a scalding hot spring, praying for a dream. I got one--and woke up on the shore... |
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PIANO AND CROCODILES: by Wayan; 1987/9/6, a predictive dream with teeth. My parents host a dinner party, but squeeze us all onto a piano stool. I plink away nervously. The guests flee. My sister blames me, but I suspect it's my dad's pet crocodiles! Next day... |
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PIE HOLE: by Wayan; 2021/9/12, an Emperor's New Clothes dream with a twist I'm shyly making love with a classmate, Cynthia. Classmates gawk & point, through the pie-hole in the ceiling. But our perspective reveals that under our critics' skirts... CAUTION: UPSKIRT NUDITY |
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PIXY CONCUSSION: by Wayan; 2006/3/11, a diagnostic sex-dream comic, 9 p. (or illus. text) Janet's obsessed with a creepy guy till her pixy friend Kay decides to "knock some sense into her cunt"--literally... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, NASTY LOVE SPELL, PIXIE NUDITY |
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THE RED BEAST WAS HAPPY: by Wayan; dreamed 1981/11/16, drawn 1983/11, a subtle healing dream I was timid. Red scared me. But this huge confident dream-beast hinted at a new energy... |
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REDUCED TO THE STUDHOUSE: by Wayan; 1980/11/16, a warning dream. I'm not a normal wolf: I'm a were-woman. When I turn wolf again, I'm in heat; but I want to be alone! So... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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RIDDLE ON HER BREAST: by Wayan; dreamed 2021/3/1; a dream using sex to hide a pun I'm told a girl in an armored nutrient-bath wheechair has my shoes. I need them back. But to get them I have to answer the riddle written on her breasts. We both get a bit distracted... CAUTION: CARTOON BREASTS |
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RHINZL'S SHADOW: by Wayan; dreamed 1984/8/28; two unlikely predictive dreams. DREAMS: 1: I can't afford language classes. 2: A beautyqueen rigs a stargate; I kill monsters & sell their bones... NEXT DAY: I'm asked "Why don't you get a language degree?" I can't afford it! I go home & watch Dr Who... A stunning girl fixes a spacetime portal. Smugglers kill alien monsters & sell their ashes as a drug... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND CREEPY DISPOSAL OF BODIES |
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SADDLED WITH AUTISM: by Wayan; 1999/10/1, an embarrassing yet advisory dream. I'm autistic; a TV host encourages me and another autistic kid to have sex on the air... CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX ON NATIONAL TV; SERIOUS FINGER-POINTING |
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SAX: by Wayan; 1991/5/19, an 8-page digital comic--a true nondream story. Alone in my blue room, I heard sax music. Two sunbathers were jamming outside my window... CAUTION: SEX AND SAX |
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SEXUAL VERSUS SOCIAL SHYNESS: by Wayan; 2022/6/7, an advisory dream I meet two women: I lose my usual shyness around playful, sexy Lujenda, but I feel surprisingly shy around her brilliant cousin Lumina! I may have unfinished business... |
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THE SHAKEN PROFESSOR: by Wayan; 1996/2/11, a dream explaining amnesia and memory. A great teacher abruptly blanks out. Memory loss is scary, but the empty moment bared a deeper fear: |
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SHY FOX: by Wayan; 2 images, 1997. Digitally tinted pencil, spinoffs from a 1997/8/20 dream. I love to play, but I'm a shy fox. And pushing myself to be socially brave has unforeseen drawbacks... |
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SHY NO MORE: by Wayan; 2008/8/13. A dream poem, Dreamverse #3 I play the lovers in a teen romance: shy abused boy, insecure girl. But I get tired of the script, and... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
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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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SKUNK? SWALLOW!: by Wayan; 1981/5/7, a dream-joke with a point. When I see two scary men on the trail, naturally, I swallow my skunk! I really don't recommend... |
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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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SPONTANEOUS DUCK: by Wayan; 2010/9/14, two dreams on feeling magically inadequate I spy on a girl learning magic in a quilted ditch. She lets me join her telekinesis lesson! Can my mind move a balloon? Then I tour a witch-world where normality's shameful. One kid's not witch or normal--he keeps turning into Donald Duck! CAUTION: DISNEY = DISABILITY? |
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SPRINTERS AND SPHINX: by Wayan; 2009/11/13, a dream poem. Divers made of ice win the Traffic-Leaping Olympics. But I think they cheated! I seek my friend the Sphinx... |
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STACY BECOMES A BLUEBIRD: by Valerie McCarney, 2012 or 2013, a dream on letting your kids fly free My daughter got a tattoo that spread and became blue feathers growing from her arms. Wings start to bud... |
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SYLVIA: by Wayan; 1997/7/29, an illustrated dream. Sylvia, the fabulous Dog Singer, leads me through a spy film, a French romantic farce, Fellini's Rome... |
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THE TALE OF A MISFIT COCK: by Wayan; 1999/1/25, a media-fable dream. I'm in Japan, where Rumiko Takahashi tells me of a tragic chicken who longs to be a lounge singer... |
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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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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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THE THING ABOUT DREAMS: by Julia Wertz, a dream autobiography, 1980-2010 As a kid, my nightmares were of Sesame Street characters. In my teens I graduated to slasher nightmares and recurring lucid dreams. Alcohol trashed my dreams for years, but now they're not nightmares--just surreal. Hitler wrecks my sex life! What a spoilsport... CAUTION: (MOSTLY FRUSTRATED) SEX |
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THORHADD'S FOURTEEN DREAMS: by Thorhadd of Berufjord, c.1018; 14 warning dreams (2 predictive) Thorhadd's been slandering his enemy Thorstein. He spars publicly with a dream expert who interprets all his dreams as: "Your tongue just can't quit!" True. It can't... CAUTION: VIKING EGOS (AND BODY COUNT) |
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THREE WOMEN IN ONE: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1984/2/5; a multiple-self dream Intimidated by stylish friends, I split in three--myself, and a small child nursing at the breast of an earth-mother priestess--or Earth herself... |
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THROUGH WALLS TO SEX CLASS: by Wayan; 2017/6/22, a therapeutic/advisory dream A trusted college advisor says "Slip through cracks in the classroom walls!" There's no direct route. Yoga to taekwondo to ballet to... a sex workshop! CAUTION: ABOUT SEX |
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THE TIGER WHEEL, by Wayan, 2009/4/25; a dream-poem, Dreamverse #44 A tiger-couple on an ice floe must choose: swim for land, or ride the current full circle back home, risking starvation? |
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TITANIA: by Wayan; 1981/12/7, 83/1/7 & 2/13 and 84/10/2, a dream-epic in installments Clarence the sappy angel from It's A Wonderful Life and Milton's Lucifer land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're fine as is, but the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full palette of feelings. Like the feeling she's fake... |
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TOVE JANSSON DRAGON: by Wayan; 1999/8/23 nondream 11" sculpture: papier-maché, marbles. I kept seeing the image of a creature like someone in a Tove Jansson book... |
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TRIO IN SEPIA: by Wayan; 1992. Digital anti-fantasy. Everyone squishing away contentedly but me... watching curled up in the corner as usual... CAUTION: EXPLICIT SEX, BESTIALITY |
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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 |
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THE VACUUM CLEANER QUARTET: by Wayan; 1981, four bizarre poems. All I know about humans, I learned in psychodrama. I gawked as caterpillars grew wings. Except me... |
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VACUUM DOG: by Laura A. Dale, 1942/12/19; a surreal nightmare labeling itself psychic DAY: I'm an experimental subject given a drug in hopes it'll induce ESP. I just babble stupidly. Humiliation! DREAM: my vacuum cleaner comes alive to attack my terrier & me. I flee, but there's an explosion... TWO DAYS LATER: at the movies, a cartoon: a vacuum cleaner comes alive to attack a terrier. Then, BOOM... CAUTION: WILL REALLY BOTHER E.S.P. SKEPTICS |
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THE VERA DREAMS: by Vera and Wayan; 1991/7/25 & 8/3, a set of shared/psychic dreams. I dream my friend Vera's ordered to just study & sleep--no play, no dates. Then I dream Vera works with gangs as an armed peacekeeper. I tell her; Vera's shocked, since... |
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VIRGIN ON THE VERGE: by Wayan, 1992/8/8. Digital picture-poem Ever since I was battered I feel like a virgin again: longing, but wary--scared where sex may lead... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES |
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THE WHITE DEER'S EXPERIMENT, or, FAWN OF A LESSER GOD by Wayan; 2013/4/13, an epic shamanic epiphany dream with tinges of ESP I meet my Creator--a were-deer. No wonder I'm a shy, horny herbivore so unlike these naked apes! She tells me my divine purpose... CAUTION: MONOTHEISTIC BLASPHEMY; E.S.P. FLASH; NUDE DEER |
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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 |
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WHO, ME?: by Wayan; 2002. Acrylic of dream figure. Some shy folks don't even know they're dragons.... |
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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! |
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