Touch and Bodywork
Or very simple. A lot of my own dreams emphasize that simple contact, petting and reassurance is often what really heals us. The power of touch.
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ADDING SHELLS TO NINA: by Wayan; 1974/10/4, an absurd dream poem. I lay on a beach with Nina. I stuck a shell on her body and designed a fabulous line of prosthetics... |
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ADRENALINE HALL: by Wayan; 1992/2/3, a useful metabolic nightmare. A hall designed to give your fear-glands a workout, since muscles aren't the only thing we need to buff... |
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AFTERIMAGE: by Wayan; 1983/8/8, a dream on dreams. A bizarre little dream proving just how physical the impact of a dream is on the body... |
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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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ANSWERING JUNG: by Wayan; 2005/7/5, a dream parodying one of Jung's key dreams After reading Jung's dreams, I have an anti-Jungian dream of sexy nightmare-statues waiting to come alive, like the tree I draw & bring to life with my literally magic marker... CAUTION: NUDE STATUES |
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BLACK & WHITE, OR COLOR?: by Wayan; 1984/2/19, a predictive dreamlet with deep implications I dream of a black & white TV show of a woman in a dance leotard. I whack the antenna and she pops into color. Awake, I turn on the TV. Black & white image of TWO women in leotards. Whack the antenna. ONE pops into... |
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THE BLACK WAVE: by Wayan, 2016/10/18, a poem on a hypnogogic healing dream After days sick, I open myself to unseen spirits and let a black wavefront go through me--and the healing begins. But what did I let in? CAUTION: MYSTICISM & FETISHISM DON'T MIX |
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BLONDIE AND CRAZY: by Wayan; 1984/12/25, a bloody warning dream Quiet Blondie seemed sane enough, especially compared to her driven, talkative friend Crazy, until... CAUTION: NUDITY, A LITTLE BLOOD |
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BRICK AND SKIN: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a dream of spiritual stretching. I'm analog myself, but in Tibet, I meet a digital shaman whose body's a sort of ... |
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THE BROADS: by Wayan; 1978/11/19, a dream on self-image distortion. We all wear magic beltbuckles. Twist one--your body stretches from squat to willowy. Except mine... CAUTION: SEX, BODY-IMAGE DISTORTION |
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BUGS AND ROOSEVELT: by Wayan; 1982/5/2, a wild predictive dream illustrated as an epic poem I'm Bugs Bunny. I torment Daffy Duck till I learn that in many time-branches the New Deal happened late... or never. I decide to prod a reluctant Franklin Delano Roosevelt... CAUTION: FIRESIDE PETTING, DUCK TORTURE, BAD POLITICS |
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CAT-SNAKE: by Wayan; 1993/3/6, a short dream fable. I glue cat-legs on my snaky friend, despite the scare talk from Christians sure that snakes never change... |
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A CENTAUR SPLITS: by Wayan; 1988/1/12, a Gestalt dream. A centaur divorces, into a unicorn and an unfinished faun-girl, who argue "Forward!" "Not ready!"... CAUTION: TRANSPARENT BREASTS |
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THE CHAPARRAL OF TIME: by Wayan; 2008/10/21, a timetravel dream-poem: Dreamverse #36 I snorkel over time-reefs to an era of talking animals--but why crash on the head of rocker Suzi Quatro? |
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CRYPTOMNESIC TROLLEY: by Wayan; 1991/4/22, a lucid dream of a suicidal experiment. To prove I really am lucid-dreaming, I let a streetcar run me over. Mm, crunchy! Then I find out... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT OM... |
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CUTE WITCH, BAD HEAD: by Wayan; 1992/1/31, a sexual healing dream. A witch with a messed-up mind makes me her sex slave. But what if I can bypass her brain?... CAUTION: SEX |
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DARE TO BE FAT!: by Wayan; spinoff picture from a 1997/8/20 dream. I was an anorexic fox-girl, till this phrase galvanized me. Now I pump iron and eat what I like, and... |
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DREAMKU, SEPTEMBER 2006: by Roswila; thirty dream-haiku with various dates from 1960-2006 One dream-poem in haiku style each day for a month! Ghosts, snow, penguins, yoga babies, elves who leave their tree... |
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EASTER HEALING: by "Clairity"; 2008/03/23, a joyful lucid dream I will a clay cat to come to life, then start healing real cats and dogs and... |
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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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ERÉNDIRA: by Wayan; dreamed 1984/10/3, a grotesque predictive dream 1: Mimes stage an Orgy For Peace. Shy, I wait my turn. Should've run off with that girl eyeing me! 2: My friend Diane says "Men are selfish!" I pop her safety valve; she vents a great cloud of rage... Two days later: I go see the film Eréndira; it's full of scenes & lines from my dream... CAUTION: CHARITY PROSTITUTION BY MIMES |
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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 |
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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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GIRLHEAP, OR CHOICE?: by Wayan; 1998/10/29, a dream on initiative. I'm on a women's sports team, and I should be in paradise. But I want more; not love exactly, but... |
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HEART CHAKRA: by Wayan; 2011/5/8, a dreamlet blending Indian mysticism and the movie Megamind I'm a digital superhero, rubbing red-orange oil into my fake skin. I have six more colors of oil to rub in, six more chakras to heal. But first things first!... |
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HEIRESS AND MORTAL: by Wayan; 2011/2/16, a dark advisory dream I'm a misfit--a mortal in an immortal world. Then I meet a girl with an unpredictable illness... |
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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 |
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HOW LONG IS ENOUGH?: by Wayan; 1994/4/24, a psychic little dream. Just a dance/yoga dream, warning "don't push your body till it hurts..." that came true the next day. |
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I MIST MY SISTER: by Cory and Wayan; 1992/9/20; a dream-comic. Cory's healing dream triggers one by Wayan My friend Cory's sore back is healed by a dream. So I ask for the same, and get this dream of incest... CAUTION: KARMA, SEX/NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES |
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MAKING PROGRESS STANDING STILL: by Wayan; 1990/10/1; a healing dream cartooned. I dreamed I slowly climbed out of guilty longing to an exciting climax on the Escalator of Love... CAUTION: CARTOON SEX, NUDITY, GENDER POLITICS |
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MASSAGE: by Wayan; 1994/3/31, an advisory dreamlet. Sit on a bench and massage a total stranger. But soon it's not just a massage: a MESSAGE... CAUTION: SEX |
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MENDELIAN CHIMERAS: by Wayan; 2015/1/1, a New Year's dream warning of medical uniqueness I meet a girl who's a Mendelian hybrid of human, animal and peavine! But I'm no more human than she is... |
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THE NIGHT DREAM: by Archibald MacLeish; c.1930, a dream poem. A joyous day with a strange woman who seems not to be his wife, until he touches her hand and knows... |
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NUMB CUNT COMES ALIVE: by Wayan; 1996/6/18, a dreamtale on flow. My lover's half-mechanical cunt wakes fully--a first. But what inspired my dream wasn't a sexual first... CAUTION: SEXUAL SYMBOLISM
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ORIOLE GIRL: by Wayan; 1992/1/23, psychic dream told as illustrated poem. |
While conducting a census of fairies in Golden Gate Park, I fall in love with an abused oriole-girl, and we try to heal one another... CAUTION: AWKWARD SEX |
PATH: by Wayan; figures from 1989/10/12 dreamlet invade a waking landscape. |
My art teacher said "Draw a spiritual experience." I tried, but that night, I dreamed of sharp-toothed... CAUTION: TOPLESS MEDITATORS |
PET AD, OR, RENTADOG: by Wayan; 1996/11/9, an illustrated Shakespearean singles-ad. |
I put a singles ad in our paper, but I just couldn't say what I really wanted to. Now, I can... CAUTION: SEX, DRUGS, AND DOGGEREL |
PET ME DARE!: by Wayan; 1996/2/7, a sexy healing dream; 2p. dream-comic (or ill. text) |
After whining all day that I lost my anima, I dream I'm petting a cat. Who purrs, and grows, and grows, and purrs "Pet..." CAUTION: PUSSY TROUBLE |
POPEYE MUSCLES: by Wayan; 1986/7/14, a grotesque dreamtale. |
My body turns protean: big Popeye muscles pop out as needed, relaxing into stick-figureness... |
PROBLEMATIC ASSUMPTION: by Wayan; 1992/3/3, four sexy dreamlets exposing a delusion. |
DAY: In yoga class, a sexist teacher and angry student don't question assumptions I know are false... DREAMS: I flee sexy but underage Easter bunnies, fox-girl marathoners, a witch and a wolf in love... and a horde of single girls of all ages & species! I run away, because MY problematic assumption is... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, REVERSE SEXISM |
RAISE YOURSELF!: by Wayan; 1998/7/5, 17" nondream sculpture |
Why wait for the Rapture when you can use a chinup machine and raise yourself off that cross?... CAUTION: NUDE PSEUDO-CRUCIFIXION, SACRILEGIOUS SELF-HELP |
RESCUE FEVER: by Wayan; 1994/2/3, a dreamtale on rescue fantasies. |
A refugee girl crawls into my bed. We become lovers. I protect her. But over time... am I holding her back? CAUTION: ABUSE? OR NOT? |
REST TOO: by Wayan; 1999/5/5. Acrylic on 12" LP; a life-sketch with a lesson. |
The mysterious glyphs above the model's head are dream-language, warning me to... CAUTION: NUDITY |
SEA MASSAGE: by Wayan; 1995/10/3, a puzzling dreamtale. |
I can fly and breathe water. So I fly into art-rich mansions, though not to steal--I earn plenty from undersea massage... |
A SEX KITTEN: by Wayan; 1999/1/29, an embarrassing dream. |
A creature that's half kitten and half baby wants me to masturbate it... I'm reluctant, but when I do... CAUTION: SEX |
SEX THERAPY: by Wayan; 1998/5/18, a dream on the messiness of healing. |
Both of us were abused as kids. Sex is hard. So we go to a therapist who has us act out sex on the floor... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES |
THE SEX WORKSHOP: by Wayan; 1997/4/6, a dream on taking the next step. |
The teacher of our sex workshop picks me for a demonstration in front of everyone. Gulp... CAUTION: WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK? |
SHAKING: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/4/6, a dream of the physical side of spiritual struggle |
Swedenborg shakes uncontrollably all night, releasing or discharging some strange energy. He frames it in religious terms, but it's a phenomenon even secular writers have reported... CAUTION: WEIRD |
SHAPESHIFTER FEVER: by Wayan; 1989/1/30, a dream poem. |
A summer love affair with a shapeshifting alien turns awkward when she gets a high fever, and... CAUTION: UGH! |
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 |
SILKY'S MASSAGE: by Wayan; 1981/2/2, a dream on workaholism, with 2/16 follow-up |
I tried to cartoon a joyful dream but nightmares kept intruding. Finally, aching, I half-slept... My spirit guide Silky came, and said the obvious, and stretched my sore neck and back... CAUTION: NUDE ANIMAL DANCE TROUPE |
SPLINTER: by Wayan; 1981/3/14, a dream of love and nagging. |
I love Splinter, but her mom insists I got BOTH of them pregnant. Then I notice I'm pregnant too... CAUTION: SEX, NAGGING |
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? |
STRETCH NOW!: by Wayan; 1991/7/25 forgotten dream provoking a 1991/11/13 digital sketch |
DREAM: I was a cheetah seeking a book of cheetah rolemodels, but this specist librarian harassed me... PAINTING: months later, dream forgotten, I painted myself as an intellectual cheetah stretching... |
TAROT: REST!: by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. |
The card of fatigue and rest. Tarot's so primal--never a dull moment. Well, take a break... |
TERESA'S BILLBOARDS: by Wayan; 1988/5/1, a dream about trust. |
Teresa mistrusts men. Her best friend Sabina comes on to me in front of Teresa, who blames me... CAUTION: NUDITY, BETRAYAL, GENDER PARANOIA |
THREE DREAMS: by Robley Wilson; July 4, 1975?; a dream-poem |
Dead fish in a poisoned stream, dead kittens in a pit... and advice from the woman who revives them with a touch. |
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 |
TIAMAT'S REBELLION: by Wayan; 1988/1/1, a dream about neoteny. |
That day: I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah. That night: I dream she leads a revolution on a starship against her elders... |
TO THE SNAKE: by Denise Levertov; 1959?; a short dream-poem |
I loved the feel of the green snake, and reassured my friends it wasn't poisonous, but really... |
TOUGH GLOVE: by Wayan; 1999/12/4, an advisory dreamlet |
I finally find a way to safely indulge in heavy petting as well as puns) with a playful but scratchy cat... |
TWILIGHT'S OVAL GAME: by Wayan; 2017/10/4, three dreams arguing "Friendship is Magic"--literal magic. |
1: I failed to save a magic tree. It fell and killed someone. I'm racked with guilt... 2: A giant pinball game on a tilted oval relief-map. But you can only win as a team of six friends... 3: A Caribbean girl with a weird aura tries to align two magic crystals to heal herself... CAUTION: BREASTS, MY LITTLE PONY AS ROLEMODEL |
UNDO THE PARALYSIS: by Wayan; 1985/7/14, a dream on persistence. |
In a future society, I'm deliberately, permanently paralyzed. Yet my home-grown cure slowly works... |
THE VAT MESSIAH: by Wayan; 1985/2/27, an epic dream of magic, flight, and sex |
In our cult, we lie in vats of goo till we grow wings. But we're feared more than we knew... CAUTION: SPECIST LYNCH MOB, NUDE IN SCHOOL, LESBIAN FEELINGS, OBSCENE CARROT |
VERA AND HER PRIDE: by Bethany Sellers; 2005, a dream-portrait of an inner feline family. |
I found myself in a whole pride of cat-people like me, each one representing some side of me... |
A WISE WRITER PROTECTS HER EYES: by Wayan; 1998/8/19, an advisory dream. |
A writer I meet is either flirting with me obscenely, or advising me about eyecare, or... are those the same? CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM |
WIZARD GIZZARD: by Wayan; 1996/8/5, a diagnostic dream. |
I have a tummy ache. Our local wizard says "no wonder, with fascists occupying your colon"... CAUTION: TREATMENT NOT A.M.A.-APPROVED |
WORD AND DEED: by Wayan; 1989/8/1, an embarrassing dream fable. |
After watching the sex film Emmanuelle with my sister (we both like girls) I dream she & I & Emmanuelle are in bed together--and I learn a little something about denial... CAUTION: DREAM INCEST; AWKWARD NONSEXUAL INSIGHTS |
YOGA SAINT: by Wayan; 2010/12/4, an incubated, disturbing diagnostic dream |
I dream I meet my headaches! An ascetic yogi who punishes jokers, flirts and cynics for worldliness... |
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