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What this site is - Add your dreams! - How to read blurbs - Ratings - Copyright - Downloading - The World Dream Bank has 4000 dreams plus 1000 pages on dreamwork, shamanism, surrealism, fantasy, worldbuilding, creativity and genius. Site © Chris Wayan 2001-2022.
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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AICORN'S BANANA: by Wayan; 2016/6/13, a dream-parable on owning your tastes An artificial intelligence acquires fans and has orgies with her groupies. Her creators don't care as long as the advertisers get product placement. But she has this size fetish... CAUTION: VIBRATORS |
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ALL THUMBS: by Wayan; 2022/9/27, a poem of an awkward dream I've gotten used to the second penis I grew, though it limits who'll want me. But this morning I woke with a third. And am I sure the sprouting's done? CAUTION: HORNY |
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AMBIVALENT? NO! (YES!): by Wayan; 1990/1/3. Digital panorama of dreamselves over a lifetime. A chronological orgy of my self-images from childhood on: horses, geeks, girls, satyrs, boys, monsters... CAUTION: CARTOON SEX |
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ANDROMEDA: by Wayan; dreamed 1987/12/30; a Greek myth turns Jungian and Buddhist I dream of the legendary maiden chained to a rock, and the dragon coming to abduct her--but neither one is as advertised. They look strangely akin... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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ANIMANGEL: by Wayan, 1983/10/1-2010/7/22! An ink portrait-poem of my clashing guardian angels My loud, spiky, tailed angel of change and potential, and my calm, skeptical devil of gradualism--a star-nosed mole... |
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ANOCHE / LAST NIGHT: by Antonio Machado; c. 1900; a joyful dream poem Last night, as I slept, I dreamt--illusion blessed!--that I had a beehive, here inside my heart... |
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ANOREXIA NIRVANA: by Wayan; 1993, a digital picture-poem of astral temptation. I was anorexic for years; I only mastered it when I saw it was a hunger for the spirit world... |
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AQUARINA PRODIGY: by Wayan; 2009/10/15, a dream poem with sketches; Dreamverse #60 A child prodigy stands out in a chorus line of waterdancers. Her body is a patchwork of young & old... |
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ARIANE'S HONEYMOON: by Wayan; 1986/4/11, a dreamlet meant to shock; ch.2 of UNICORN TAG, a set of nine linked dreamtales. I married my childhood crush. Happy, till I overhear her tell my sister what she really thinks of... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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ARMLESS: by Wayan; 1997 portrait of dream figures (pencil/digital) A strange horny frustrated being, part human part horse, who needs hands to grab the centaurs... CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL TENSION |
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AT THE DOOR: by Emily Y. Chan, 2019/3/20 or before; nightmare dream sketch There was a tall man wearing a mask standing at the door. At least I think it was a mask... |
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BACKWARD BOOB: by Wayan; 2018/6/17, a grotesque dreamlet I pass a jogger with her upper torso twisted 180 degrees round, unable to see straight... CAUTION: DISSES IGNORAMUSES--YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. OH WAIT, YOU DON'T. |
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BALLOON DRUG: by Patricia Garfield, 1974/2/3, a dream on thought-forms While writing about Tibetan dreamwork, I dream I'm on drugs and see myself in a mirror, first old & scarred, then young & sexcrazed. I think "This'd scare me if I hadn't been reading up on Yoga stuff!"... |
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BITTER TRANSFORMATIONS: by Selena; 2017/10/18, a diagnostic gender identity dream I finally admit who I am, and the truth is bitter... CAUTION: GENDER DYSPHORIA, MENTION OF COPROPHAGY, POSSIBLE SITCOM SPOILER |
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THE BLIP: by Wayan; 1982/5/4, a brief surreal dream on... beautyism? A bubble of spacetime distortion lands in an awkward place, making people mistrust the unlucky recipient... |
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BONK VERONICA: by Wayan; 1997/4/1, 9-page dream-comic on body image The world's first all-bulemic band, Veronica and the Vomits, provokes a riot at our local punk club. So I go to Anorexic Bootcamp where models learn self-defense under fire, as calories and fat jokes whiz by... CAUTION: BARF, HORNY ANOREXIC, FOOD FIGHT |
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BOX: by Wayan; 1991? Digital self-portrait as dreamer trapped on the Web. So exactly how is posting all these dreams different from crawling naked inside your screen?. CAUTION: NUDITY |
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BOY BODY: by Wayan; recurring dream 1959-62, a comic on body image. Or illus. text version A recurring childhood dream on how weird a boy-body is when you've been a girl too many lifetimes. CAUTION: PUBLIC HUMILIATION, NUDE MONSTERS, SILLY GENITALIA |
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BOY TRANCE: by Wayan; 1989, a digital sex change. Boys still get portrayed as businesslike in sex, girl as floating orgasmic jellyfish. Time for a sex change... CAUTION: SEX AND LIMP RUBBER ARMS |
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BOYS: by Wayan; 1993-99, a gender-equity poem. When girls get their clits cut, even the UN takes notice. But mutilate boy genitals, and... big yawn! CAUTION: TALK ABOUT SEX AND VIOLENCE--BUT HEY, IT'S ONLY BOYS |
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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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THE CAMBODIAN GIRL: by Wayan; 1996/4/2 dream, sculpted 1998/11/9. VERY mixed media--the boat is warped wood. And the story is warped more... CAUTION: SEX, SHAME FROM EARLY TRAUMA |
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CENTAUR: PAULINA AT SUNSET: by Wayan; 1987/12/8, three dream-infused figure studies Fear anorexia? Gain weight, yet stay slender--be a centaur, like model Paulina Porizkova... CAUTION: NUDITY; BODY IMAGE/ANOREXIA ISSUES |
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CHELSEA AND THE PRESIDENTIAL COMPLEX: by Wayan; 1999/12/25, an odd political (?) dream. I was hot tubbing and flirting... so how'd I end up as Chelsea Clinton running for office? |
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CHOCOLATE BALLS: by Wayan, 2022/5/10, a surreal furry dream on Covid bloat I find I'm a self-made... critter. A plushie sewn with zippers so I can stuff any bits of me that seem flat or limp. But my filling's not cotton, polyester or foam. It's chocolate! So I have... CAUTION: CRUDE DREAM, AWFUL PUN |
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CHUNKS, or, BABEZILLA!: by Wayan; two dreams 1990/10/4 and 1991/9/4 told as digital comics. I meet a giant psychic baby feared by 12-step people. So I go to the beach and find I'm a shark-bit girl who can have her missing chunks sewn back in--if I still have room for them... |
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CIRCLES OF BONE: by Linda Puffer, 1977/4/27, a poem on a surreal body-image dream I realize a bone is protruding between my left armpit and breast. I put Maria's hand on my breast and ask her to feel the bone. But no one grasps what it really is--something sticking out from my heart... |
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CLONE BREAKUP: by Wayan; 1994/2/27, 5p. comic of a psychic dream (or as illustrated text) I model with ten blonde clones. They want to be seen as individuals, so it's their last fashion show before... |
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A CLOSE SHAVE!: by Wayan; 1971/11/7, a short poem of a goofy counterfactual dream An over-eager landscaper mows my dad's new beard, unasked. Debate in court! Is the art of mowing free speech, or is your face your castle? |
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CLOTHES MAKE THE HERO: by Wayan; 1995/4/9, a dream on the power of tackiness. I always laughed at those silly superhero outfits. But when it's my turn to fly, I find out why... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
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CLOTHO AND THE POOL OF DREAMS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; a 2015 painting weaving seven dreams (2014/5/4, 6/9, 7/1 & 9/4; 2015/5/23, 6/26 & 8/25) A portrait of Clotho, the Greek Fate who spins our life-threads, by a pool woven of my dreams from this time... |
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COMETS STRUCK MY GIRLFRIEND: by Wayan; a 1998/8/9 dream painted on a 12" record. I knew my new girlfriend was the large economy size but I didn't realize she was a gas giant until... CAUTION: FLATULENT PLANETARY NUDITY |
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"CRY, BABY!": by Wayan, 1985/8/17, dream-farce with a warning. The only man in the Miss America Japanese Tea Ceremony Swimsuit Pageant, I learn a tearful lesson... CAUTION: DYSFUNCTIONAL FLIRTING |
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DALMATIAN MARE: by Wayan; 1987/8/22; a dream on hiding and showing off. I dreamed of South American musical intrigue in a grand hotel. Enter a polka-dot shapeshifter... |
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DAWN'S DIVORCE: by Dawn Z; 2002/3/1-21, an outrageous dream sequence While going through a painful breakup, I kept having sexy, lucid, psychic dreams... |
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DEAD RIGHTS! DEAD RIGHTS!: by Wayan; 1983/10/1, a dream of the other side. I die young, to get it over with, like chickenpox. As I slowly revive, I face bias against the dead. So.. |
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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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DESIGNER: by Wayan; 2021/4/8, a dream of being a mishmash god I'm a world-creator, lost in mist, unsure just what sort of people to make-- since I'll be joining them. I'm only sure what not to make--or be... CAUTION: NUDE, FURRY DEITY |
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DETACHABLE PENISES: by Wayan; 2012/8/9, a brain-mapping conundrum dream I don't have an erection. I have two. But how can my brain register feelings from an extra organ it's not built for? CAUTION: PHALLIC SYMBOLISM? OR SOMETHING ELSE? |
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MY DEWCLAW: by Wayan; 1997/6/30; dreams within dreams within dreams Body after body is peeled away revealing truth inside truth... CAUTION: GROTESQUE |
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DINOSAUR GAITS: by Wayan; 1998/11/1, a dream on independence. My paleontologist mom can scuttle like a lizard, so why can't she manage a dinosaur gait? |
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THE DISPLAY: by Wayan; 1997/10/17, a natural history dream. I'm trapped in a nature documentary about mating displays among humans... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, PBS NARRATION, AND OTHER EMBARRASSMENTS |
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DO YOU LOVE ME, JOHN?: by Wayan; 1991/7/6, a dream on the courage of the shy. I dream of a future where blondes are a too-cute endangered species. How can they survive? Like this... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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DOLLY'S TAROT: by Wayan; 1995/9/5, a dream on roles. Tarot with Dolly Parton. But I piss her off. "Men! You think I'm dumb, cuz of my tits!" She fixes THAT... CAUTION: STUPID BREAST HUMOR BUT AT LEAST IT'S NOT GRUESOME |
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DREAMS EXPLAIN DREAMS: by Wayan; 1994/5/31, a dream in a dream in a dream. I'm the composer Schumann, till a nightmare jumps me and I wake. And wake. And wake... CAUTION: MALE NUDITY |
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DUCK!: by Wayan; dreamed 1987/6/5, digital painting 1988 I was on one of those package dream-tours--an hour here, a scene there. But then in Patagonia... CAUTION: CREEPING PAGANISM |
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DURING DREAM-DROUGHT: by Wayan; 1997/5/7, a journal exerpt. Sitting in an eviction-lawyer's waiting room, of all places, I discover my next artistic direction... CAUTION: SEX/GENDER ISSUES |
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ECTOPIC: by Wayan; 1996/7/3, a tragic transsexual dream. My stomach ache is an ectopic pregnancy. The embryo's doomed. Surgery. And I'm a man... |
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EEL TOWER: by Wayan; 1981/4/23, a dream of longing. I dreamed living in a body of flesh is like being trapped on a sinking cruise ship... CAUTION: NUDITY (but she's just crying, not giving that guy a blowjob, okay?) |
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ELEGANTE (ELLE EST GAUNTE): by Wayan; 1983/1/8, nondream body-image painting. Every year, as Americans get fatter, the fashion gets thinner (and I look more normal)... |
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FAMILY JESTERS: by Wayan; 2017/3/15, a dream mixing Kurt Vonnegut and My Little Pony Coastal unicorns are slender; inlanders bloat. Genes, diet, both? Inland bosses enslave their gracile minority. Performing pets! Jesters caged, chained & handicapped to heighten the wonder they can do their art at all... CAUTION: TROUBLING SOCIAL ANALOGIES |
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FASCION: by Wayan; 1992/8/13. Nondream digital poster on beauty & gender A sardonic little poster on dating-role reversal with helpful advice... CAUTION: PHALLUS INVADES PHOTOSHOOT |
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FEVER DREAM ON THE EVE OF ILLNESS: by Joyce Carol Oates, 1979/12/24? a nightmare of self as skyscraper My body is a residential tower sheltering centipedes, basilisks, dragonflies, bagworms, skeletal cranes; without my blood's heat and the moist caverns of my soul they would die... |
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FOAM, FURS, DREAMS: by Wayan; 2012-16, a blog on sewing giant dream plushies; 43 dreams! My dreams urge me to build furry dream creatures with joints, muscles & bones, then to heal myself by mating with them... CAUTION: FETISHISM, FURRY NUDITY & SEX |
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FOOT CREVASSE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/7/11; painting in the Box of Dreams I dream my foot has a huge bloody crevasse. But I study it calmly... |
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FOUR ELEMENTALS: by Wayan, four recurrent 2009 dream-figures, 2010/1/1 to 1/14 For the New Year, I draw a group portrait of the old year's main dream-figures. Four needs came up constantly... |
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FOUR-EYED BABY: by Xanthe; 1989?, a Jungian dream I met some little hunchbacks in the woods who showed me a newborn baby growing from the moss... |
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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... |
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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 |
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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 |
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FRAN SAYS "THAT'S WHAT PSYCHIC IS": by Wayan, 1982/1/15; a self-flagging predictive dream I turn into my friend Fran, who I haven't see for months. Then I'm me, in a hot tub, talking to Fran, who's now a sort of lemur-girl. She insists I'm psychic. I'm skeptical. I just get hunches, if I relax in hot water. She says... |
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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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GENDERBENT LUCID DREAMS: by JHM Whiteman, pre-1961, compared to Wayan, 1979/8/29 Celia Green, lucid dream expert, claims nearly all lucid dreamers keep their waking bodies, their self-image. But Whiteman & Wayan both have genderbent lucid dreams... |
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... |
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... |
(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... |
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? |
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 |
GREEN SCREEN ANGEL: by Wayan, 2018/10/18, a bizarre predictive dream |
A reporter interviews the guardian angel of my dead sister Jill in front of a green screen. He's dissolving in grief--luminous holes show through... |
HAWK RIDGE: by Wayan; 1990/2/15; primitivist digital dream-painting |
I dreamed I was a gull in Middle Earth fighting Sauron, though he blurred my vision; but my hawk-eyed gullfriends helped me out... |
HEART AND LUNGS: by Claire Sylvia, 1987-88, recurrent dreams as told by Patricia Garfield |
After heart-lung surgery, Claire had dreams of her donor that told his name, his appearance and some of his behaviors. She contacted the donor family and verified these. Can dreams access nonbrain cellular memory? |
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!... |
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... |
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 |
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 |
HOLY ZEN MONK: by Wayan; 1978/4/24, a dream of suicide as political protest |
I'm a Zen monk riddled with holes from a weird disease the government denies is real. So as a protest, I stand naked atop a wall and let the air-sharks take me... CAUTION: SURREAL SUICIDE |
HUMBLE THREE-EYED GIRL: by Wayan; 2008/12/30, a dream on giftedness and shame |
I meet a circle of students with up to five eyes. The lone three-eyed girl is embarrassed, indeed ashamed she's merely attained enlightenment... |
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 LOST 400 POUNDS!: by Wayan; 1993/6/24, a motivational dream. |
A gorgeous healer bursts through the wall to tell me "I used to weigh 500 pounds. It kept sex away! But..." |
I WANT MY INHERITANCE: by Wayan; 1989/12/18, a dream on family brainwashing. |
My family calls me a blonde bimbo and won't give me my inheritance, so I take drastic steps... CAUTION: MORAL HAIRSPLITTING |
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 |
JENNIFER MONTGOMERY: by Wayan; 1995/4/24, a film review |
Montgomery's film about her teenage affair with a pedophile is troubling enough before the FBI tries to blackmail her... CAUTION: MOLESTATION/ABUSE ISSUES |
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... |
THE LAST JUDGMENT: by Esther Raucher, c.1950; a childhood dream grows into a big sculpture group |
I fled a snake by flying. I felt guilty, I knew it was cheating. Years passed. I made tiny clay figurines. Years passed. I drew a chicken lady with a halo. Years passed. I sculpted a flock of BIG... CAUTION: NUDE CHICKEN LADIES |
LETTUCE HEAD: by Wayan, 1992/1/18; a predictive characterological dream |
I'm flying backward over Utah. In the brush on a canyon rim I spot a head of red lettuce big as a man growing as camouflage from a revolutionary warrior's head... CAUTION: APPARENT E.S.P. |
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 |
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 |
LONGEVITY PLANS!: by Wayan; 1998/8/22, a nondream speculation. |
Lifespans are growing, but do we incorporate that into our life-planning? Oh, hell, do I plan at ALL? |
LOVE DAY: by Wayan; 1989/3/21, a sitcom dream. |
On Love Day you can't mock anyone's come-on, of course; but in the bar "Cheers", Carla's mad at Diane... CAUTION: PRO-BIGAMY? |
LUCID GIRDERS: by Wayan; 1993/8/18, an illustrated dream about dreaming. |
Stayed up late, painting foreshortening. Then I saw a scene in color, motion, 3D, and knew I had to be dreaming: I was visualizing too clearly, THINKING too clearly, to be awake... CAUTION: NUDITY |
LUCID LIVING: by Wayan; 2007/4/8, a quasi-lucid dream of the future with 9 illustrations |
Honesty induces a joyful state with lucidlike powers. So I bike across the Lake of Time, open the book of my future, and see... CAUTION: SEXY SKETCHES FROM THE FUTURE |
THE MAD UNVEILERS: by Marie-Claude Girondé, early 2009, a dream painting. |
The dancers, in a frenzy, stripped themselves. Not just their clothes; themselves... |
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 |
MANATEE: by Wayan; 1989/5/12-1992; digital nondream painting. |
Beauty's link to status and privilege bothers me. The pretty get perks (or parks), while we uglies... CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, AND A BLOOD FLOWER |
MATRONIZED: by Wayan; 1996/5/25, a real-life vignette. |
An older woman I know nags me about food. Suddenly my mind flips our genders and weights... |
MEDITATION BLUES: by Wayan, 1983/2/13, nondream sketches of meditative state. |
Meditation's hard for me; I expect to turn on instantly, like a lamp plugged into Enlightenment... |
MINOR SURGERY: by Wayan; 1999/2/25, a dream misinterpreted. |
A man goes in for minor surgery and wakes up changed. I feel creepy, but for all the wrong reasons... |
A MISCARRIED LIFE: by Wayan; 1981/2/12, a dreamlet just a century long. |
I'm Mattie, a pregnant girl on a Lewis and Clark expedition. I miscarry, and they tell me... |
THE MAD UNVEILERS: by Marie-Claude Girondé, early 2009, a dream painting. |
The dancers, in a frenzy, stripped themselves. Not just their clothes; themselves... |
THE MAN WHO MISTOOK...: by Wayan; 1995/9/19, an insane dream. |
I'm just an ordinary guy, who beats his son so he'll grow faster, and sees tits on drinking fountains... |
MODELING A ME: by Wayan, 1994/8/29, a mirroring dream |
I find a 3D program that shows your true self, the self that can love, IS love. And my wireframe is... |
MOLLY'S PROSTHETIC: by Wayan, 1994/9/22, a dream predicting a mood drug will fail |
My dad's new wife is a collie. Naturally, she wants a prosthetic arm. But she has no site to bind it to... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, LEERING BUSINESSMAN, DOG WIFE |
MOON-STRIPED TIGER PROWLING: by Sylvia Rosen, 1975/6/29; dream poem |
The foul old fossil woman had carved and burnt her own flesh in the name of art; we washed her till she was reborn young. It was my turn next to enter the water...
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I visit a beautiful artificial mountain with loved ones--but my demons overwhelm me one by one. CAUTION: SUICIDAL FEELINGS, BODY HATE/FATPHOBIA, IMPLIED RAPE |
MUSCLES: by Gayle Delaney and "John", before 1979, simultaneous out-of-body dreams |
I dreamt I was out of my body. My friend John was too, so I slipped into his to see how it felt. Big lungs, big muscles! When I woke, John told me he'd had a great out-of-body dream and was reluctant to wake... |
MY SINE-FRIEND: by Wayan; 1984/3/6, an emotional dream of time and rebirth. |
An animal-girl I know lives like a sine-wave, first forward in time, then backwards, dying at every zero... |
NIETZSCHE EATS A TOAD: by Frederick Nietzsche; c.1867; a (prodromal?) nightmare |
At a party, Nietzsche told a young woman "my hand was transparent as glass; and a fat toad sat on my hand. I felt compelled to swallow it, and did..." CAUTION: CREEPY DREAM, CREEPY FOLLOW-UP |
NO FINGERS: by Wayan; 1993/10/6, an indirectly predictive dream. |
My therapist has no fingers. A fingerless man intrudes on my session, and they use up my hour talking... |
OHLONE AT THE MALL: by Wayan; 1994/2/1, a dream of what matters |
I see two Ohlone women around 1900, starving, naked, despised, their land stolen--and still way happier than... CAUTION: NUDITY |
ON HER FOURTH BODY: by Wayan; 1993/11/25, a predictive dream-comedy. |
A gengineered singer (born a cow, became a horse, then a shark, now a sexy Mare Chanteuse) solves a mystery that stumped even Mr. Spock. Next day, I see a film--a mystery solved by a... |
ONLY A PIECE OF PAPER: by Wayan; 1980/12/15, songlyric heard in dream. |
Kate Wolf sings that ads are way dirtier than porn. But my memory slowly twists her message... |
OTTO SUGGESTION TO A HORSE IN DRAG: by Wayan; 1995/8/8, a dream on body image. |
My uncle mocks the racehorse he rides! Smears lipstick on this stallion, calls him a wimp... Why? CAUTION: DREAM PUN, NUDE MARES |
OVERLAY: by Wayan; 1984/2/11, 1995/8/26, and 2004/9/11, 3 dreams shape a 9-page comic on living with ESP |
Dreams of translucent fairies, centaurs, robots & gnomes prompt me to cartoon on transparent overlays to show how dreamworlds overlay ours... |
PARALYSIS: by Emily Y. Chan, 2016/5/3 or before; nightmare sketch |
Had sleep paralysis early one morning while trying to wake up, and "saw" this creature or woman looming over me. She had two spider legs (if more, I couldn't see) and was smiling--with no face. Terrifying. Amazing... |
PASSION: by Katie Hofgard; 2006, an undream portrait of a complex woman. |
Talk about mixed messages! Or... is it really? CAUTION: NUDITY, SLIGHT FIRE HAZARD |
POISONED!: by Wayan; 1994/6/20, three linked diagnostic dreams. |
Poison takes many forms, from attitudes to environmental by-products to actions done deliberately... |
POLYMELIA: by Emily Y. Chan, 2016/12/13 or before; a nightmare drawing |
I dreamed I saw this statue of a woman wearing a round hat or bowl that covered her entire head. When I got closer, a bunch of arms sprouted from under the hat/bowl, moving like spider legs... |
POKEY?: by Wayan; 1993/4/15, a dreamtale on my soul. |
My lover's turned into a tiny living pull-toy, trapped ankle-deep in a wheeled platform. Can I free her? |
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... |
PORCUPINE HEAD: by Emily Y. Chan, 2024/4/20 or before; dream painting |
I had a dream I was exploring ruins in a forest, where I encountered this feral girl with a porcupine head.... |
THE POWER OF MOONLIGHT: by Carla Young, 2010/1/2; painting of a dream image |
I wish I could be as body-free as my neighbor Jenna, hiking nude under the full moon... |
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 |
PSYCHO-EGG: by Wayan; 1994/8/31, a diagnostic dreamlet. |
I'm shown a crystal egg with a model of my mind in it. The mapping is unmistakable. How embarrassing!: |
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 |
RAVEN'S MIRROR: by Wayan, 2022/8/15, a surreal shamanic dreamlet |
A raven summons a levitating mirror that shows her face as a human, and tries out moods & expressions based on Tarot cards plucked from a tree... |
REBELLION: by Roz Chast, 2023 or before, a dream on dreamwork? |
I was trapped in a Handmaid's Tale dystopia; I was a mannequin, naked & helpless. I couldn't even walk. But I hid one rebellious act: I kept a diary... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, CARTOON DYSTOPIA |
THE ROYAL NONESUCH: by Wayan; 1988/4/15, a dream on the media. |
My mom and sister take me to see a bondage film. But the movie steals my pants! I should have known... CAUTION: WORSE THAN PEEWEE HERMAN |
SATYR AND TWILIGHT: by Wayan; 2018/9/1, an epic dream perhaps foreseeing the pandemic |
A spell kills off nearly all humanity and mutates the rest of us. Now I'm a satyr living in a co-op home with unicorns, dryads, cattaurs, and shy vampires. Thing is, I prefer the Apocalypse to what came before... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
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... |
SELF-MADE COW: by Wayan; 2013/4/10, a surreal psychic dream. |
I'm in Santa Cruz with my friend, a shocking-pink stuffed toy cow with sewed-on accessories: big red lips, a floral wig, and a third eye. I wake, draw the dreamcow--and my sister calls from Santa Cruz to sing me a song about... |
SELF-MADE GIRLS: by Wayan; 2000/2/15, a public dream. |
Two souls coalesce from bars of light into human beings by the power of words. Words like stupid, ugly... |
SELF-PORTRAIT AS A YOUNG COYOTE: by Wayan; 2000/1/23; portrait of recurring dream self. |
I'm more a dream artist than a realist, but one day I set up a mirror and looked in it... |
SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CONVOLUTED TONGUE: |
by Wayan; 1999/9/1; pencil mirror-drawing. Einstein's tongue got its own poster, why shouldn't mine? After all, even the Ein Tongue can't do this... |
SEVEN SQUARED: by Wayan; 1994/2/18, a dream about the IQ closet. |
In our wizard-war, I've hidden my nature. At last I come out; but I can't tell the whole truth... |
SHAMANIC CHEW-TOY: by Wayan; 2011/3/16; nested dreams of strange women |
Compulsively honest spirit-women with waterjugs invade my friend's house. I wake to find my girlfriend's obsessing on hair loss. To calm her, I babble about limb loss... and wake again to find she was a dream too. |
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! |
SHHHH!: by Wayan; 1981, daydream in ink. |
A sudden image of a woman whose other lips not only talked, they wouldn't shut up. Worse yet, they... CAUTION: NUDITY |
SHOCKWAVE: by Wayan; 1996/7/27, a predictive nightmare. |
My childhood home explodes into a vast pyroclastic cloud that comes boiling toward me, miles away... CAUTION: DOOM |
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 CROSSES THE ATLANTIC: by Wayan; dreamed 1982/8/24, painted 1994 (acrylic/ink/xerox). |
After I fled my batterer, I was afraid to love--afraid I'd give up my freedom again for mere kindness... |
SISTERS OF THE INTERFACE: by Wayan; 1983/12/21, a shamanic dreamtale. |
My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet... |
THE SKIN'S COMPLAINT: by Wayan; 1996/11/17, a dreamtale. |
A huge rubbery mass of skin complains I made it sick. I get tired of its whining, and... |
SKUNKERPILLAR: by Wayan; 2018/4/7, an advisory dream on metamorphosis |
After I (sort of) foil some elf-burglars, a friendly elfwoman shows me a black caterpillar, then the rare white-striped skunkerpillar... |
THE SOLE FISHER OF THE EIGHTH NODE: by Wayan; 1986/9/25, a prescriptive dream. |
The pier jutting into the sea of dreams has an 8th chakra at the end, where a lonely woman fishes for, um, sole... |
THE SPARE: by Wayan; 1998/6/9, a disorienting dreamtale. |
I wake to find I have two penises, one connected, one free-floating! How do its sensations reach my brain? CAUTION: WANDERING WEENIES! |
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... |
SQUASH WITH WHITE SAUCE: by Wayan; 1983/12/17, not a symbolic dream, no no |
I'm in a department store trying on clothes when I notice there's a large zucchini growing from my crotch... CAUTION: SQUASHY PENIS, ICKY RECIPE |
STARVATION?: by Wayan; 1995/8/28, a journal extract on body image. |
On a poster of a model who's around my weight, someone's scrawled STARVATION IMAGERY... CAUTION: DEFENSE OF SKINNY PEOPLE |
STILL DWARFED: by Wayan; 1991/5/31, digital portrait of dream-self vs. body-image. |
When I start feeling worthless, I paint myself. But which me? CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM |
SUCK MY CONE!: by Wayan, 1995/1/11, a bluesy dream. |
Nerds built the blues. Rick Moranis, famous blues-nerd, makes a groupie suck his ice cream cone... CAUTION: MOCKS MUSIC, RACE, VANILLA ICE (CREAM)... |
A SUDDEN SEX CHANGE: by Wayan; 1994/4/18, a wish-fulfilling dream. |
I spontaneously change sex! At first I'm happy, but I find unexpected disadvantages... |
SUNLIGHT'S THE CURE: by Wayan; 1990/12/29, a surreal, sexy dream |
I find the cure for an alien plague, then visit its homeworld, to find it has a curious variant... CAUTION: SEX CUSTOMS OF THE NEWT PEOPLE! MY COUSIN'S GAY WEDDING! |
SURPRISE THAT PENIS: by Wayan; 1986/2/18, a subtly psychic dream. |
I hijack a Lacewing Chopper to install a new rubber-band engine, but the motor becomes a talkative penis, and... CAUTION: ONE WEIRD WEENIE |
SWISS-CHEESE FAIRY: by Wayan; dreamed 1983/7/15, sculpted 2000: ceramic/wire/silk, 17" |
I met an elfin girl who's tattooed realistic vaginas all over her body, as... decoys? For she has... CAUTION: NUDITY, TATTOOS, TABOOS... |
THE SWORD DANCE: by Wayan; 1988/4/29, a very unlikely predictive dream. |
I visit my friend Xanthe's lungs, where I meet a swordswoman in a red bikini. I get a unicorn pendant, go lucid, and become a heron too, but next day, it's the red-bikini-swordswoman I actually meet... |
TAKE STOCK OF YOUR PELVIS: by Wayan; 1980/1/11, a sexual dream that isn't. |
A friend stockpiling for Armageddon shows me what I thought was lust is really a need to learn... pelvic anatomy? Why? CAUTION: NUDITY; LANGUAGE; WE FIND OUT WHY |
TAROT: THE ANOREXIC DANCER: by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. |
The card of excessive self-denial, whether compulsive or artistic or spiritual... |
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 |
THYROID: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 1985; a set of life-saving diagnostic nightmares |
In 1985 I was flooded with nightmares about heads and necks. They had an unparalleled intensity... |
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... |
TOES: by Wayan; 1990 digital cartoon-map of dreamselves |
My foot is a torso and my toes sprout conflicting personalities... CAUTION: NUDE CARTOON |
TORRENT OF CONSCIOUSNESS: by Anonymous #41, 1996?, a surreal word-association dream |
Asparagus, wings, an unhinged hand, a boxed ghost, butter, sister incest, tomato-pincushions, secret volcanoes, one-eyed integers, chickenleg dresses, mirrors and bananapeel beds... |
THE TORTURER: by Wayan; 1997/7/13, a predictive nightmare |
A free-lance torturer chooses me for his victim. He has the right. I bluster, but when I fall asleep at last... CAUTION: NO PAIN, BUT GORE |
TWISTED!: by Wayan; 2003/6/23, 18 images; a nondream experiment |
I twirled pinups into surreal not-quite-abstracts, to see just how twisted sex could get... CAUTION: NAKED PRETZELS |
UGLY AND HAPPY: by Wayan; 640 x 400, ca. 1991, digital finger-painting. |
I try to make beauty, try to be beauty, but all the while, this voice keeps snickering... |
AN UNDERCOVER TROLL: by Wayan; 1994/7/6, a dream of personal growth taken too far... |
Disguised as a literary troll, I spy on the Neo-Nazis, but my disguise can't last much longer: I ate a magical herb, and I'm growing... |
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 UNMAKING OF A DANCER: by Wayan; 1994/5/22, a journal extract on dance and health. |
Ballerina Joan Brady quit, but ten years later, returned. Her body rejuvenated! So what can MINE do? |
UTOPIA: by Wayan; 37 p, 3.9 MB, 2007/5/9, a painted improv exploring... wishes? |
An improvised painting-series exploring my obsession for Utopia--and your deafening silence... CAUTION: IDEAS, FURRY NUDITY, THAT GOSH-DARN MODERN ABSTRACT ART |
A VISION: by Denise Levertov, 1965 or '66, a poem from hypnogogic vision? daydream? |
Two archangels meet; one red and gold winged, one blue and green. In heaven, form reveals worldview. Yet these two souls in dispute are great; rather than fight they appreciate... |
VOR: by Wayan; 1984/3/27, an indescribable dream |
Am I King Kong? No, it's a city of midgets! I leave and find I'm gay. Gay bugs come out of the closet too, storming the fundamentalist flies of Heaven. And then Vor, the purple alien, does something peculiar... CAUTION: LOOKS DOWN ON HOMOPHOBIC MIDGETS |
WALRUSHMORE: by Wayan; 1982/1/8; a dream pun with political bite |
In my sister's house I saw a magazine cover showing that famous national monument in the Black Hills: Mt Walrushmore... |
WARIA: by Wayan; 1987/3/23, digital painting of a pointed advisory dream. |
My life was a sex disaster. I felt ugly and sick. Then I dreamed I found a counselor who really helped. But my parents warned me against her. Why? They explained: WARNING: NUDITY |
WAYAN SAYS: by Wayan; dreamed 1986/5/23 & 1991/7/25, silkpainting 1992/5/9, digital 1994/2/25 |
I'm a lean loose cheetah who works best in short bursts and long lazy rests. If I start acting human, I overwork... |
WENDY NEGLECTED: by Wayan; 1996/7/22, a paradoxical dream. |
Ari neglects Wendy till she doubts she's sexy. I show her she is. But am I using her too? CAUTION: SEX TALK |
WERE-TROUT: by Wayan; 1997/8/2, a dating-advisory dream. |
I'm a one-legged hopping hermit in the ruins of LA, and my only hope for love is to conjure up a girl out of a trout and a puppy... |
WHY I LIE: by Wayan, 2016/10/7, a dream on privacy-guilt |
In a class, asked to share a bit about myself, I lie. Why? Not only are people like me illegal, my particular story would be seen as impossible... |
WINGLESS: by Emily Y. Chan, 2020/12/9 or before; painting of a non-flying dream |
In this dream, everyone had wings but me. I tried. making my own cloth wings but it didn't work... |
WINGLESS: by Wayan; 1992/2/21; a dream-poem on flight versus guilt |
Wingless, I try hard to fly, arm-flapping wild. And I rise! Flight's in the mind. But I'm leaving my friend behind! Guilt ties me down--till I see... |
WITCH'S BUTTER: by Wayan, 2023/5/27, a science-geek dream. |
I live in four consecutive bodies: I'm a Bose-Einstein condensate, a cloud of particles moving as one-- unless overheated. No, I'm Witch's Butter, a mob of amoeboid cells who unify into a quasi-slug--temporarily. No, I'm a person, but soft and yellow as Witch's Butter. No, I'm firming up, but still entangled... |
WOMBERS: by Wayan; 1997/8/23, a journal entry on peace-at-any-price personalities |
Nancy Friday describes a kind of weak guy disturbingly like me--I think chronic illness has... |
WORM WIZARD, or, TITMAN'S CHAIR: by Wayan; 1997/4/23, a dream of bamboozlement. |
In the castle of a wizard who's a were-worm, I let myself become my businessman-friend's chair! Generous, huh? |
WYVERN: by Wayan; 1997/9/3 to 9/18, 22" ceramic sculpture; recurring dream figure. |
I dreamed of a dragon-woman on a reef. She was my guardian, but she let me drown! She had her reasons... CAUTION: SCALY NUDITY |
YUM YUM!: by Wayan; 1985/1/31, a smelly dream. |
DAY: a toxic potluck. Not the first! But this time I say no... DREAM: I'm a scent-oriented alien, tossing stinkbombs back... |
ZELIG FLIES: by Wayan, 1984/4/29, a psychic, lucid dream epic. |
I careen from a sacrificial marriage-altar to the Oracle Harper's secret pool, into the jaws of Leviathan and the joys of lucid flight, shifting from male to female and gay to straight--till I meet the Dragonfly People themselves... CAUTION: STUPID, STUPID SEX CULT! |
ZYGOTE: by Wayan; 104K, 600 x 640, 1999. | It's true: after death, angels advise you where to go next. But what if you get an over-eager travel agent?
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