Big Cats
My dreams admire cats and cat people for their independence, sexiness, and comfort in their own bodies. I've noticed that other dreamers often see big cats in more ambivalent terms, as potential man-eaters, even as nightmare figures. Maybe it has to do with guilt about your own predations. If you dreamt you were stalked by a lion, maybe it's just payback for that burger you ate (would that explain my immunity? I'm a vegetarian. Less guilt?) Or that sleazy deal you closed last week, you sneaky ol' predator, you! Who knows?
Or consider a third possibility--you really are being stalked by something big and toothy. That rival at work. A fatal disease. Your brakes that need fixing. Your Congress that needs fixing.
Some dreams are flat-out warnings.
RELATED TOPICS: domestic or small cats - sphinxes - animal people - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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ADOPT A SON TO WIN A MATE: by Wayan; 2010/11/24; a dream of priorities I'm a big cat lonely in this human city. Wish I had a mate! But as soon as I take responsibility for an orphaned boy, in walks an older girl... |
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AILURA; by Wayan, 2013/8/16-2016/2/19; a soft-sculpture dream-portrait/plushie/sextoy Recurring dreams of loving a catgirl spur me to sew a fake-fur portrait with wood and stone bones and foam-rubber muscles giving her a will of her own... CAUTION: FURRY DREAM SEX |
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ALCOHOLIC CAT: by Montague Ullman's patient, 1950/2/24, an eavesdropping dream PATIENT: I dreamt of a dangerous cat and a mixture of cream and booze called 'appealing nausea'... THERAPIST: I heard a lecture on feeding alcohol to cats til they choose milk laced with booze... CAUTION: WILL BOTHER E.S.P. SKEPTICS |
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AMONG COLUMNS: by Wayan; 1989/6/19, digital picture of psychic dream A psychic dream about a New York ballet student who was a black panther. Lower case... |
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ART OR PROPAGANDA?: by Wayan; dreamed 2008/2/7, 3 dream-reactions to Philip Pullman's books There's a rare dream-type that can change reality itself. I study its EEG trace. Can I learn to do it?... I'm arguing with musicians--what's better, music that serves your goals, or purely great music... I'm bored in class. Draw sexy furries. The babydykes by me do too! Art'll summon the girls we want... CAUTION: PHILOSOPHY! OH NO! |
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ASLAN SWOOPS: by Wayan; 1985/1/19, a dream of the wrath of a right-wing god I'm in a cafe in Narnia when the lion-god Aslan attacks a giraffe for the mortal sin of dating a zebra. And why not? Oral Roberts University just banned interracial dating... CAUTION: CRINGEWORTHY CHRISTIANS |
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AWKWARD ENLIGHTENMENT: by Wayan; 2010/1/13; a dream of spiritual and practical advice Anxious about a big party, I dream of being crowded. But a cat-centaur in the crowd attains sudden enlightenment... |
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BANANA MOON: by Wayan; 1998/3/4-12/26, dream-figure painting, acrylic on wood, 3x4' My figure-painting class here in San Francisco has a diverse student body, but not THIS diverse... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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THE BAR PET: by Wayan; 1994/12/4, a disorienting dreamlet. I meet a sex-kitten in the Underground Cartoonists' Bar, but her body language makes no sense to me... CAUTION: UNDERAGE FLIRTATION... OR IS IT? |
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BAGHEERA SUGGESTS LOVAGE: by Wayan; 1993/7/31, a Jungle Book dream The panther in the Jungle Books was really female. I grew up with her cub... |
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BAST SABOTAGE: by Wayan; 1995/1/22, a dream on dreams. In old Egypt, a part of me sabotages my audience with Bast, the Cat Goddess. Why? |
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BEHIND THE SCREENS: by Wayan; 1984/2/12, a vivid sex dream that hid a warning I hide a catgirl behind Japanese screens. We have hot sex now & then--but usually I ignore her... CAUTION: SEX; NEGLECT |
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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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BORN IN A CAVE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2007/4/20 to 2007/8/9, a painted series of rite-of-passage dreams. I keep dreaming of awkward but successful transitions into new life, and paint them all in one landscape... |
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BREEDISM: by Wayan; 1989/1/16, a snappish dream of the future. I'm a reporter interviewing survivors of a plane crash--a puma and a pit bull. Can I survive the survivors? |
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CAT COUPLE: by Wayan; 1996/4/30, a drawn digital prayer or wish. I cover my computer's desktop with this image tiled endlessly. And will, till the lesson sinks in... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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CAT DANCER: by Wayan; 1996/8/15; dream figure 15" tall; clay, wire, acrylic I have recurring dreams of this sexy feline anima or familiar who loves dance. CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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CATGIRL AND ELEPHANTS: by Wayan, 1990/8/6, a possible predictive dream DREAM: I'm attracted to the catgirl on the roof, but the neighbors all obsess about elephants... NEXT DAY: I'm asked to draw the poster for a co-worker's farewell picnic. The theme? Elephants... CAUTION: NUDE CAT |
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CATGIRL HOODED IN SNOW: by Wayan; 1982, ink sketch of daydream, 11 x 14". I was never sure where her winter cloak ended and her winter coat began... |
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CATGIRL WITH A SWAN NECK: by Wayan; 1987/10/27, acrylic wash on Xeroxed ink; daydream. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CATRISE: by Wayan; 2000/2/21, a sexy flying dream; acrylic painting. I'm an alien exchange student in Palo Alto High School. I get stared at--they wear clothes, they don't fly... CAUTION: FELINE NUDITY |
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CAT PEOPLE KISSING: by Wayan; clay carving of dream figures, 1996/8/29, 8" tall. An early dream-based sculpture carved out of dry white clay as if it were soft stone... |
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CAT SLASH: by Wayan, 1991/12/29, a predictive, advisory dream I dream of four cats, small to huge, who teach me to assert my boundaries. Next day, three inches from my nose, a tiny cat swipes at a giant dog... CAUTION: APPARENTLY PREDICTIVE |
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CAT SPEAKS ARMENIAN: by Wayan; 2019/5/17, a dream on the odds of finding love I meet a big cat who seems invisible to most humans. She talks in Armenian speech balloons. Too bad she already has a boyfriend! But her mere existence proves there's hope for me... |
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THE CENDANCERS: by Wayan; 2011-16, a 32-figure sculpture project with 250+ pics A wild troupe of sexy, surreal, centaurlike dancers mostly built from Barbie dolls... CAUTION: EXPLICIT NUDITY, FUR, BARBIE |
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CHAKAT: by Katie Hofgard; 2003/4/22?, a dream self-portrait I dreamed I was a cattaur... |
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CHEETAH: by Wayan; 1978-86, a poem on turning dreams into art. I'm a cheetah working as a baker in Coconino County, Arizona, haunted by Krazy Kat... |
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CHESTERTON'S POUNCE: by William Archer; 1920/4/6, a literary nightmare G.K. Chesterton was a leopard, and he ambushed George Bernard Shaw... Oh, the blood! Why didn't I intervene? |
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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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CLOUD WAR: by Wayan; 2012/12/22, a dream of eco-apocalypse on the darkest day of the year Clouds wake up. Maybe they were always aware, but now they're aware of us. And rage against us all. Oh, humanity'll survive. But easy times are over... CAUTION: PARTISAN INTERPRETATION |
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COEURL: by Wayan; 1980/2/26, a dream of surprise transcendence I'm trapped in an alien hotel, my true love has gone radioactive, and the only way out is to turn into a giant, scary... CAUTION: CLOSET LESBIAN. LITERAL CLOSET. |
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COFFINS: by Beryl and Wayan; 1983/11/5, dark parallel/shared/telepathic dreams
Twin dreams of ghoulish games backstage at a theater. And they anticipated real long-term ghoulishness... CAUTION: SLOW DEATH |
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CREEPINESS: by Scottopic; 2001/11/30. A hypnogogic nightmare. I'm in bed sleepily petting my cat, when I see my cat across the room! What's on my legs? It's big. My cat chases it off... through the wall? My room is sealed. Where did it come from, where did it go?... |
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CRESCENT CAT: by Wayan; 2011/2/17, a painting critiqued by a dream My dream critiques a non-dream artpiece. Does it only count as dream-art when your dream urges changes, or is creativity partly knowing when to stop? |
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DANCE OF THE ENIGMAS: by Brian Harp; 2000, a dream of a sphinx-riddle She asked "What, plus a teaspoon of knowledge and a teaspoon of wisdom, makes three teaspoons of nothing?" |
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DAWN SAYS 'SCULPT MASTURBATION': by Wayan; 1997/8/3; an advisory dream I dreamed my sculptor friend Dawn insisted I sculpt a girl really, um, relaxing. Took me a mere 13 years to act on the dream! CAUTION: SKETCHED & SCULPTED MASTURBATION |
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DELIGHT EVOLVES FLIGHT: by Wayan; 2011/12/23, an advisory dream In a parallel world, a gliding griflynx displays a brilliant evolutionary strategy: joy! It's the strongest mate magnet... |
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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 BARD: by Wayan, 2005/2/7, a dream-poem advising song Dinosaurs and tigers fill my music club. Not that it takes many to fill it. So spiky! A dino bard croons. A tigress leaps onstage & snuggles up! Music hath charms... |
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DOG OR... KITTY?: by Cory and Wayan, 2019/5/1, shared predictive dreamlets. Wayan dreams of petting an adorable cat-dog. The same night... Cory dreams of meeting an adorable dog-cat. Later that day... At the beach, Cory meets a woman with a dog named... Oh. You guessed. |
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DON'T SLOW FOR KITTENS: by Wayan; 1986/3/8, a pointed little dream. I'm running along a freeway, pacing a cheetah. But that domestic cat and her kittens can't keep up. Wait, why are we slowing for them? |
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DOPP: by Wayan; 1988/11/5, a predictive dream DREAM: On a farm, I meet two sexy shapeshifting sisters. But mushroom clouds rise on the horizon... NEXT DAY: at SF-MOMA, Susan Marie Dopp's paintings: shapeshifting sisters, mushroom clouds... CAUTION: NUDITY; ESP |
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DREAM CAUSED BY THE FLIGHT OF A BEE AROUND A POMEGRANATE A SECOND BEFORE WAKING by Gala Dalí 1943? painted by Salvador Dalí 1944; a supposedly instantaneous dream. Dalí's wife Gala naps, but a bee wakes her--and her dream instantly magnifies bee into tigers! After all, both have fur, sharp bits, black & gold stripes... CAUTION: BREASTS; BAD DREAM THEORIES. |
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DREAMKU, JUNE 2006: by Roswila; various dates up to June 2006; thirty dream-haiku Daily dream-poems in haiku style, nonstop for a month. A flood of animals, revenant ghosts, sex changes... |
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DREAMKU, MARCH 2007: by Roswila; various dates up to March 2007; 31 dream-poems--mostly haiku Dream poems laid out like a calendar. Themes? Horses, camels, abused girls, vampires--all want their freedom... |
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EDITH KEELER: by Wayan, 1975/10/8, an incubated dream giving multiple answers I asked my dreams to show me my Shadow--what I deny. It showed me at least FIVE! And in every time-branch, a runaway truck crushed me--the Truck of Ideology. Not that I seemed able to avoid it... CAUTION: RECURRING DEATHS |
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ELEPHANT UPSIDE DOWN: by Xanthe, c2001, a surreal underworld-dream In the underworld, soldiers chase fundamentalists in underwear, as leopards stare. The upside-down elephant plugs the exit. We can only escape if we |
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ELLIS CRITIQUE: by Wayan; 2008/12/10, four dreams comically explore Havelock Ellis's dream-theories! Pa warns me to protect my paws. Then gilt wounds my sole. Then a lioness eats a tasty drumstick. Then a bus crashes on our corner--for real! |
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THE ENCHANTED WOMAN: by Anna Kingsford; Feb. 1877, an epic prehistoric dream. Goaded by a green spirit of envy, an Ice Age sorceror kidnaps Adam's Eve, arresting human evolution... |
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EXIT THROUGH THE DUNGEON: by Wayan, 1982/5/23, trance-drawing experiment with surprise advice I turned off my conscious judgment and just drew. Two paths appeared--one led to psychodrama, then parental prison; the other, into the underworld of dreamwork... CAUTION: NUDE DREAM-SELVES |
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FAMILIAR WOOD: by Wayan; 1994/11/10, a dream of the borderzone. Downtown San Francisco hides a magic wood full of crested talking tigers. And I must enter it to live a while... |
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FELINE WOMAN--AN ANATOMICAL PORTRAIT: by Wayan; 1996? pencil study of recurring dream figure. A Leonardo style skeletal study of a cat person that grew into more of a character study. I just like her... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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FIGHTING MY FATHER: by Paul Tholey, c.1969-72, as told to Patricia Garfield, recurrent nightmares solved by negotiation After my father died he attacked me in recurring nightmares. I fought and beat him, but he always came back. When he showed up as a tiger, I negotiated, agreeing to make some changes. He's left me in peace ever since. |
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FIGURE DRAWING: CAT-MARE-GIRL: by Wayan; 1995/7/24; studio sketch, crayon. Late in life-drawing class, Evangeline got tired and snuggled into a pillow-nest. She looked so feline... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: DAPPLED: by Wayan; 2000/11/29, pastel digitally tweaked. A pensive leonine woman resting on a tilted rock. A life drawing with certain imaginary spots. CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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FIREBOWL: by Wayan; 2013/9/14; a diagnostic/climatological/futurological dream I'm in the High Plains, at a huge powwow on climate change. This could become, not a new dustbowl, but a firebowl. As I wake, I find I'm running a fever! And the dream hints what caused it... |
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FIRST NIGHT IN FIJI: dreamed May 1980 by S---; an unheeded warning dream
Far from home, about to wed a man I barely knew, I dreamed I was a lion in an open cage I dared not leave... |
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FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 2.6M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic. I had an epic dream lasting subjective weeks--a true other life. It wasn't Earth and we weren't human. I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. One night, my friends curled round me, I saw I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a woman, marry, and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right... 2600K loads slowly? Try it in parts: 1: HOME, 650K, 2: VOYAGE, 1200K, 3: BACK 750K. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
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FISHERGIRL IN WATERCOLOR; OVAL: by Wayan; 1996/7/26 pencil & watercolor Leaf and me, on our boat in the lost city, from the epic dream FISHERGIRL. My first sketch of the dream... CAUTION: TRIBAL NUDITY |
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FIVE HOUNDS, FIVE DEFENSES: by Wayan; 2015/9/18, an explicit advisory dream Five agents hound me. Literal hounds--in trenchcoats. They stand for my five worst life-troubles. Luckily, they can't cooperate--they're from rival agencies! And the dream spells out what works against each one... |
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FLIGHT FROM A JAGUAR: by Davi Kopenawa, 1959-62, a child's recurring nightmare turns to flight A jaguar tracked me. I ran, but never escaped; it pounced on me and I woke crying. I tried climbing trees, but it climbed after me. The only escape was to jump from the highest branch, flapping desperately. And I flew... |
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FLIGHTS AND CATS: by Colette; before 1949, a sketch of her dream life Colette flies, sees a birdheaded turtle, wrestles a great playful cat, debates a snake, holds hands with a shy dog... |
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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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FURRY TRINITY: by Wayan; 2021/3/1, a dream painting three facets of... me? Or of dreaming? Three furry people show off their collected art & pets. But then they dissolve into their art & pets! The room itself dissolves into a river-raft. A unicorn girl in a gauze ritual robe studies a map... CAUTION: MILD FURRY NUDITY |
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GEORGE AND WILMA: by Wayan, 2011/10/25, an animation-mashup dream done as a poem George Jetson is married to Wilma Flintstone--though they're both big cats. When George comes home high on mushrooms, he doubts what's on his bed... CAUTION: CARTOON ADULTERY |
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GOD DRESSED YE, MARE: by Wayan; Christmas carol misheard 1968/12/25, dreamt I sang 1984/9/16, & drew 2008/6/28. At 15 I misheard God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen and liked my version better. "Lit muffin, rude Esmé"... |
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GOLD EATER: by Wayan; 1993/1/15 dream drawn as 9-page comic. I'm an orphan shapeshifter enslaved by a gold-eating monster. But I meet a cat-girl with a hammer... CAUTION: BAD FOSTER-DAD; CAPITALIST MONSTER; VIOLENCE (TO VENDING MACHINES) |
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GRAY CATGIRL: by Wayan; 2014/2/21, a short dream in FOAM FURS |
GYRLFALCON: by Wayan; 1971/11/26, a genderbent, speciesbent & predictive dream |
I'm a Gyrlfalcon in a theater, fighting the Wolverine and his Morlocks with my lover the Green Lion... |
THE HACKER: by Wayan; 1993/11/23, a psychic nightmare. |
Who's the demon? Mom, the Dragon, the Smiler, the Rubber Ax Murderer, the Doll Princess or the Tiger?... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
HALF'S HARD: by Wayan; 2014/11/24, a frustration dream hiding a diagnosis and prescription |
Night. Broken metal sculptures, a welder too horny to weld safely, and a steel panther longing to be whole and loved... CAUTION: KINKY SCULPTUROPHILIA |
HANK AND THE BENGAL TIGER: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/2/27; painting in the Box of Dreams |
At a party, I go hunting for my husband and find him on a terrace facing a Bengal tiger... |
HEARN'S BEAST: by Wayan; 1986/2/18, a dream fable. |
Inside an evacuated region, the Lafcadio Hearn Zone, I meet the monster thousands fled... |
THE HEDGEHOG DISPENSARY: by Wayan; 2004/10/2, furtopian watercolor 12-page dreamcomic (or text + pics) |
A rabbit shaman makes his student drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. How to free her? CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR |
HOT POT CAT LOT: by Wayan; 1992/8/6, a timed-release predictive dream. |
After a bad writing class, I meet a shy catgirl guarding a Mongolian Hot Pot, and discover who I am... |
HOW THE WAYAN GOT ITS NAME: by Wayan, 1986/5/23, a predictive dream on names (& manes) |
A telepathic unicorn-lion says my true name is Wayan. And my true species? I'm like him! I wake, change my name to fit the dream, move to a new city. Near my new house, my dream-name is scratched into the concrete sidewalk... |
I FIGHT FOR BEAUTY: by Wayan; 1990/1/1, an incubated dream within a dream within a dream. |
From Hawaii to Wyoming, I fight for beauty, always waking to find I'm someone new... |
THE ILL-FORMED TALE: by Wayan; 160K, 1981/4/7, a wild dream anti-epic. |
To reach the Peak of Happiness on the Isle of Dreams, I must pass four Perils--but they're all backwards... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS NUTS, KNIVES, NUDE ALIENS, BACKWARD PLOT... |
IN THE FOG: by Wayan; 1989/4/5, nondream (I swear!) digital landscape. |
This place isn't out of my dreams, it just looks like it. It's real real real... |
IN THE SHADOW OF MAN: by Wayan; 1994/3/4, a dream on how to escape the cage |
I'm a lab animal who discovers voice software and creates a personal zine, testifying for our rights... |
ISIS HELPS TERI GARR: by Wayan; 1988/3/27, a meandering predictive dream. |
Actress Teri Garr and Isis the talking cat recur all night, but so does a baseball glove I haven't pulled out in years. Why? A few days later a friend asks for that glove, and I find... |
JANE GIFFORD: dreams drawn/painted by Jane Gifford 2001-'23 |
From the dream-sketchbooks of Jane Gifford: odd creatures, flying, coping with Covid, and cleaning the underworld (as one does)... |
JETPACK AND TIGER: by Wayan; 1988/3/17, a nonlucid yet lucidlike shamanic dream. |
After watching both Star Trek & Doctor Who, I find I'm held prisoner by the Rani and her laser-toting tiger guards. So I meditate--and manifest a jetpack and a laser gun! I never deduced I'm dreaming; it's not lucidity. It's simpler. What have I got to lose? |
LEBBIRD ECSTATIC: by Wayan; 2006/8/20, not-quite-dream sculpture; 7 pics |
A sensual moon-worshiping flying feline who'd inevitably evolve in certain Pegasian solar systems... CAUTION: NUDE LEOPARDESS |
LEONINE TRINITY: by Wayan; 1989/11/6 digital print of recurring dream (first: 1987/11/28?) |
A goddess in a dream once told me to seek 3 and only 3 qualities in a mate... CAUTION: NUDITY |
LEOPARDESS: by Wayan, 1990/5/19; a predictive dreamlet |
Dream: a house-share with this leopardess might be a bit crowded. But she's so much FUN! Next day: I visit a house in the woods with the most catlike senior tenant ever... |
LEOPARDS AT THE FRINGE: by Wayan; 2014/3/28; poem of a cryptomnesic species-bent thespian sex dream |
I'm at the Fringe Festival, onstage in a Performance Orgy, playing two roles: a leopard with human pets and a leopard's human pet. But I'm not quite playing... CAUTION: STAGED ORGY |
THE LEOPARD'S CLUE: by Wayan; 2012/3/17, an incubated advisory dream. | My boyfriend, a leopard, sniffs out a clue to an old murder involving me in a past life. But did I witness, die, or kill? |
THE LEOPARD'S TURN: by a Brazilian woman, c.1990-'98; a see-both-sides dream |
I see a leopard chasing an Indian man who defends himself with a knife; then I wake. To find I'm still witnessing the same scene, only now I'm the leopard... |
LILY THE LION: by Wayan; 1991/4/7, a small psychic dream. |
My housemate Lily is a lion. She bursts into my room. Stare-down. And then she pounces. So I... CAUTION: VIOLENCE! MUTUAL GLARING! THE VULCAN NERVE PINCH! |
LION: by Kenneth John Atchity; c.1983, a flying dream lionifying Death |
I fly through treetops, a lion chasing me. For him it's a game; he smiles at my tiring. And death is his name... |
LION EYES: by Patagia; 2007/11/??, a serious dream-prank. |
Lions trap me in an African cave with only coffee, paper and pens! Is this what it takes to get me to write? |
LION FATIGUE by Xanthe and Wayan, 1989/8/24; parallel dreams on, well, L.F. |
Wayan: a mother mountain lion got quantum-entangled with farm animals, exhausting her... Xanthe: my dogs hurt this lion and I had to tend and calm it all night, exhausting ME... |
LION-GIRL TRIANGLE: by Wayan; 2000/12/11, an uncomfortable sex-dilemma dream, possibly predictive |
I'm a betrothed teenager having to choose between mates, in an alternate Africa where lions are another tribe of people--and occasionally adopt humans... CAUTION: NUDITY |
LION IN A LEISURE SUIT: by Wayan; 1974, nondream doodle that shouldn't be here. |
It's the 1970s. What's a lion to do? Get fern-bar camouflage: a suit and an I'm-a-bohemian moustache... |
THE LION KING: by Wayan; 1995/9/15, a time-travel dream on social skills. |
When I wake up, animals rule the earth. How do they cope with specism? Well, it's complex... |
THE LION LIES DOWN WITH THE MARE by Wayan, 1986/6/7; a surreal predictive dream |
THAT DAY: a play in the park about human-car hybrids. Jaguar girl, Mustang boy! Surreal. THAT NIGHT: Lions & jaguars hunt a mustang, but she flirts instead of fights, and soon... CAUTION: INTERSPECIES SEX |
LION-MEN: by Wayan; 1995/7/9, an eye-opening dreamlet. |
I'm a traveling Zen warrior talking to a circus girl in a barn. Four guys enter--and my life changes forever. |
LION NOW, EMANCIPATION LATER: by Wayan; 2000/5/5, two dreams as my dad lay dying |
We must hunt a man-eating lion to protect our village--our village full of slaves. But we can't deal with our looming social crisis now--gotta focus on the lion in front of us.. CAUTION: SLAVERY, ILLNESS, DEATH |
LION RIDER: by Jo Equinity; c. 2000?, an anticipatory consoling dream |
I dreamed I was riding a lion. A few days later, when my husband suddenly left me, I recalled the dream and... |
LION SUIT by Wayan, 1987/5/4; a short dream-poem; predictive or clairvoyant? |
DREAM: A series of old films with Erroll Flynn looking shy in his glasses, and his... lion suit? NEXT DAY: Hunting pumas is legalized; the paper shows a sit-in full of people in lion suits... |
LIONS AND TIGERS: by William Archer's friend; before 1924, a zootheological dream. |
At the zoo, Archer's friend found the tigers caged but the lions roaming free. The reason? Lions fear hell, but tigers... |
LYNX: by Peter Birkhäuser; Sept? 1976, his last dream-painting, facing his death |
The Lynx, my dream-god, comes for me at last... |
LYR: by Wayan; 7MB, 2005, 80 pages w/200+ drawings and maps; a virtual planet |
A vast sea-world with 7 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species... CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION! |
MARTIAN AIRLOCK and JAGUAR MASK: by Wayan, 2015/6/22, twin shamanic near-nightmares |
Jaguar Mask: a were-jaguar stuck in human form asks me to sew a new jaguar face on."But won't it hurt?... Martian Airlock: I'm suitless on Mars. Freezing, choking, I dive into an airlock & slam the switch--but it's sabotaged... |
A MATE FOR THE BLACK STALLION: by Roswila; 2009/3/15, a dream-poem |
A mare's brought in to save a rare bloodline. She's young but as extraordinary as her mate: part filly, part feline... |
MEAD'S ADVICE: by Beverly O'Neill; c.1977? 78? a dream on seeking a female rolemodel |
I try hard not to invade Margaret Mead's privacy, but I need her advice; after I find a fruit true growing in a forgotten room, she unbends... |
MEDITATION: by Marie-Claude Girondé, spring 2007, a dream painting. |
A jungle cat needs to take time out from a hard day's predation to have a quiet smoke... |
THE MER BUILDING: by Wayan; 2001/2/23, a dream of a double life. |
I’m a puma with a night job as a cellist. But my day job with The Architectives is the bizarre one... |
MER-TIGER: by Wayan, 2014/9/21-2016/7/7; a nondream surreal soft-sculpture used as a dream-tool! |
I got a big thrift-store toy tiger to shade my head as I slept (which worked; better dreams in the tiger's shadow!) then sewed on a crest, mane, fishtail, fins... CAUTION: PLUSHIE/SEXTOY |
MISTRESS TOOTHSMOOTH: by Yves Delage, 1915/1/20, an early anima dream |
I'm in the cellar, petting a tiger-cat. She speaks inside my head: "I'm tired of living on bread. I need meat." I make excuses--it's pricy--then see big hanging quarters of meat. I hide them! She says "Call me Mistress Touttmouss"--well, something like that--I know it's English, but can't make it out til I wake, when I see... |
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... |
MY SYMBIOTES: by Wayan; 2015/2/8, a dream characterizing our sixth sense, & proposing a seventh |
I have symbiotes--a dragonlynx and some flannan, like micro-angels with birdfeet & moth antennae. Lynx & flannan embody my sixth and seventh senses... |
MY WILDCAT WOUND: by Wayan; 1994/7/8, a dream on gender trauma. |
I'm a wildcat in a cat/fox team led by a woman who wants us to merge with a man/wolf team... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
NORASINGH: by Wayan; 1987/1/15, a Tantric Frankenstein dream. |
I fall in love with my sculpture of a mythical Southeast Asian creature. Then a mad yogi breaks in... CAUTION: SEX, TANTRA, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS |
NOSER: by "Anonymous #13"; pre-1963, a predictive dream |
An orange tiger with wolf ears jumped on me. I was surprised but not scared, as if it were just a big dog. The next day, shopping, my daughter thrust an orange wolf-eared hand-puppet in my face, jaws open... |
NOT A CAT: by Wayan; 2022/11/27, a dream of being a sort-of-ghost |
I wander New York City, a homeless ageless child, unnoticed--unless I climb stairs. Then people panic--see a huge cat! But today I meet a crew lugging big paintings, who seem blind to cat or child. I think they're art thieves, mid-heist... CAUTION: SHAMANIC INTERPRETATION |
OPEN THE DOOR!: by Wayan; April 2002, acrylic bas-relief of waking fantasy. |
I salvaged a door. When I painted it, a fox-woman wanted to open it and get out... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY |
THE PEGASUS CHILD: by Wayan; 1982/4/4, a dream of family diversity and spiritual advice |
Dad's human, Mom's a weird owl-lynx, the kid's a baby Pegasus... and I, W.C. Fields, that fat cynical drunken old actor, am the babysitter... |
PENGUINS TALK ONLY TO...: by Wayan; 1987/7/25, a comic dream-poem. |
Talking animals flood my bedroom. Well, they'll talk to me--but they're cliquish. Hippos snub cats snub bears snub deer, and no one talks to penguins, for... |
PENTALEMMA: by Wayan; 2002/3/10 to 2006/5/1?, a 13-page nondream improv-comic on deep goals |
Hypnotized in therapy, I saw AT LEAST five competing goals tugging at me like gravity fields. Naturally I drew them. Come tour the Inner Solar System of our desires... CAUTION: NUDITY (BODY, HEART, BRAIN, SOUL) |
PHOTOS LURE SOULS: by Wayan; 2016/3/12, dream of summoning spirits |
I'm photographing lifesize furry statues. How explicit, how sexy? If I get shots they like, souls will be lured to enter their bodies and bring them alive... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
PIER'S END: by Wayan, 1989/2/21, a Raymond Chandler dream. |
My detective lover warned me, "Stay away!" Now I'm trapped. Dare I follow the lion over the edge? |
PLANET CAT: by Wayan; 1995/11/12, a First Contact dream of love. |
I'm the first man on Planet Cat, falling in love with my guide. And then I'm the Cat, falling for an alien ape... CAUTION: NUDE CAT |
PLANETOCOPIA: by Wayan; 2002- (ongoing Sisyphean project) |
19 nondream imaginary worlds rendered in text, art, & sculpture. Most teem with intelligent life--alien Edens! CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, MATH, SOCIALISM, EVOLUTION |
PUMA ORGY: by Wayan; 1988/2/5, erasable crayon drawing of a dream. |
I dreamed I had to go through the Animal Orgy to get to the City of the Shining Spirits on the horizon... CAUTION: STRANGE SEX |
RA CATS: by Wayan; 2002, an image inspired by a cutting-board. |
A friend gave me a meat-cutting board, with channels for the blood. Eww. So why'd it become three cats worshiping the sun? CAUTION: NUDITY |
RARE BIT FIENDS: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; a recurring dream personifying dreamwork? |
The wildcat Rare Bit Fiends slinks out of the hills to stalk and maul dreamers--until one day she rears up to teach a dream workshop... |
REFLECTIONS IN THE POOL: by Wayan; 184K total, 2 panoramas; a 1994/7/2 dream. |
Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love. Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace? CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL |
ROAR!: by Wayan; 2000/4/3, a nightmare transformed by a bluff |
Night. A jungle full of prowling lions and leopards. So naturally, I get up on a rock and roar back... |
ROBERT’S PLAN: by William Blake; late 1788; an advisory dream... |
Blake was broke. Couldn’t typeset Songs of Innocence and Experience. But in a dream, his brother advised him... |
RUBY UNICORN: by Wayan; dreamed 2012/11/15; a sculptural dream. |
THAT DAY: My bandmates want to record crowd-pleasing songs. I want to record our strangest ones... THAT NIGHT: In a woman's art studio, I'm struck by a low, feline, muscular unicorn mare, carved out of a giant ruby. I ask, and she says "Oh, that's not mine. I found it in the trash"... |
SALIA AND CHUR: by Wayan; 1989/2/25, a psychic Star Trek dream. |
Our starship signs up a strange new woman whose quirks turn out to be fallout from slavery... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES |
SATANIC LION'S WARNING: by Eldon B.; 2007/1/19, a nightmare with poltergeist activity |
I fled a demon into a shadowy construction zone where an even worse telepathic lion-devil lured me in with soothing flattery. I woke shaking--and then things in my room began to move... CAUTION: DEMONS, POLTERGEIST PHENOMENA |
SHARK SENSE: by Wayan; 1988/12/9, a diagnostic circus dream. |
I'm a circus tiger, then a performing shark. One day, I block my human partner's high dive... Why? |
SIBERIAN TIGER VERSUS MUPPETS: by Chris Wayan 2020/12/9; a what-if dream |
I wake in a strange frozen bedroom. Oh. My bed is Siberia! That means there are tigers. Clearly the way to defend myself is with giant stuffed toys... |
SILKY AS A CATTAUR: by Wayan; 2014/1/4-2016/1, a soft-sculpture dream-portrait-plushie-sextoy |
An ambitious freestanding lifesize sculpture of a feline centaur girl with working joints and muscles so she's posable. And huggable. And... CAUTION: NUDE CATTAUR |
SILKY AT THE GATE: by Wayan; 2016/2/26, dream of a statue come alive |
My girlfriend, a lifesize doll in the shape of a feline centaur, gradually comes alive, walking around on her own and flirting with me... CAUTION: NUDE CAT-TAUR |
SILKY'S BRIDGE: by Wayan, with brief parallel dream by Liz; 1987/5/7, apparent shared dreams |
WAYAN: I'm a cat climbing on sea-cliffs. Fear I'll fall. Run into Silky, an archer firing a line across to an islet. Now the Deer People can build their gossamer bridge... LIZ: I was hiking along a trail atop sea-cliffs. But I feared I'd fall... |
SOUL-BOARD: by Wayan; 1989/1/12, a dream poem. |
Africa. My horse trusted me as we faced lions and fire, but to face the Soul-Board, he must trust himself... |
A SPHINX IN CLAY: by Wayan; 2017/2/25, a dream urging me to face my heritage. Also sculpt! |
I'm a half-sphinx--human dad, sphinx mom--stuck in human form so far. Will I ever learn to shift? I practice--sculpt my elegant feline future self... CAUTION: SPHINX NUDITY |
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 |
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 |
STRANGE AUDITION: by Nancy Price; 1948, a predictive theatre-dream |
I dream the actors auditioning for George Bernard Shaw’s play are blends of human, avian, and lion. Next morning I find a card from Shaw asking if I'd fancy playing a lion in his... |
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: DREAMTIGER! (Strength): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1979. |
Find your strength in dreams: facing (and befriending) what you've feared, or fought... |
THARN: by Wayan; 2006, 45 p, 200+ ill., a nondream virtual world: maps, photos, portraits, tours |
Tour a rugged, scenic moon with air and water in deep canyons sheltering a dozen intelligent species CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, SCIENCE |
THEY FEED THEY LION: by Philip Levine; summer 1968; a poem from two dreams |
A workmate said "They feed they lion"; two dreams later, the poem emerged as you see it... CAUTION: POLITICAL RAGE, SURREALISM |
TIE MARK UP: by Wayan, 2019/2/1, three dreams warning lifelong habits demand serious change |
1: Crystal-skulled wizards, dino & lionfolk parade by. 2: I curl up with three skittish beasts. Patience! 3: My friend Mark tries to rape me. I tie him up, seek a restraining order. Will the cops believe me? CAUTION: RAPE ATTEMPT |
TIGER: by Andrea McFarland, 2023/4/21; a dream of an anima? shadow? familiar? |
A Bengal tiger slips into my room. Others panic and want to call the police, but I feel protective... |
THE TIGER AND THE WOLF: by Jo; 2011/1/15; a dream of temptation |
A black dog leads me into the fairy wood. I'm curious what happens to those who walk under the tree where the Lightning Tiger lurks.... |
TIGER CALLS MY BLUFF: by Wayan, 2022/10/8, a nighmare critiquing American positivism |
DAY: I hear Angela Duckworth (writer of Grit) talk on positive thinking. She thinks we're our own worst enemies. DREAM: I test my grit an African savanna--and outbluff lions! Unfortunately, that Siberian tiger won't be bluffed... CAUTION: TROUBLING ASSESSMENT OF... PUTIN? BULLIES IN GENERAL? |
THE TIGER CUBE: by Wayan; 1996/1/19, a mysterious not-quite-nightmare. |
An alien tiger and his human girlfriend herd me to their house and show me a cube of raw flesh... but why? |
TIGER DIALOGUES: 1973-4 by Ann Faraday, plus a dreamlet by John Wren-Lewis; recurring dreams |
When I overwork, neglecting my body's wants, I dream of an angry tiger. Over time, I've learned (mostly) to feed my tiger, and sometimes he's an ally now... |
TIGER HONEYMOON: by Wayan, 1987/3/16, a dream of a trickster |
I buy a charming ruin in the woods. Newlywed tigers prowl! The tiger bride tells me "He expects predictability. But I'll show him what a tiger really is..." |
TIGER PODIUM; c. 2003/9/29 by Monica M; a predictive dream |
The stage curtain opens. Tigers sit on podiums. In the center is a huge one with a bloody mouth. A few days later... |
TIGER TALL: by Wayan; 1992/7/3, a marathon dream. |
I'm a tiger from Planet Cat, visiting Earth to run in San Francisco's "Bay to Breakers" race. I knew racial tensions were high, but why is William S. Burroughs out to kill me? Oh. Because... |
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? |
TIGERBORN: by Wayan; 1996/7/28, a dream of an alternate life. |
I was raised in the redwoods in the nest of a black tiger. Only a foster child, but emotionally, I'm tigerish... |
THE TIGER'S THROAT: by Wayan; 1994/4/12, a psychic dreamtale. |
I'm walking down a tiger's throat, but it's not what you think. Diagnosis! My friend suddenly couldn't roar. She's here too, exploring her own trachea.... |
TIME-CAT: by Wayan; 2013/11/23; a self-flagging predictive dream |
I'm a cat person, grooming. But not MY fur--it's a woolly mass of timelines! We cats travel time, smoothing out snarls... Then I wake, go to a party, and... |
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... |
TRAIL OF POGS: by Wayan; 2004/9/6, my dreams' response to the first Burning Man dream-workshop |
A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us... |
TRESPASSERS IN MALANCHAI: by Hyal; Feb 1996, an epic dream with a psychic intrusion. |
A maneless lion-boy wins his people's respect. While training, he sees weird trespassers who seem to be from someone else's dream... and ten years later, he finds that dreamer. |
TRINITY: by Nashoba Hostina; 2002? A nightmare of losing best friends to romantic love |
We were inseparable: the tiger, the fox, and the wolf. Together our magic lit up the darkness around us, until... |
UNDERSECRETARY FOR THE ARTS: by Wayan; 2022/2/13, an advisory dream |
I'm named the Undersecretary for the Arts. I sift through all the grant applications. But I'm a webtroll; I hang furry pastel pinups in my office. The humans see postmodern irony... CAUTION: FURRY PINUPS; UTTER LACK OF IRONY |
UNICORN ORGY: by Wayan; sculpture group based on 1995/4/22 dream, finished 2004/3/30; 1' tall. |
A sculpted orgy of unicorns, dryads, and werewolf-satyrs designed to stand sideways on your wall... CAUTION: SEX |
A VALLEY NEAR HOPE: by Wayan; 1984/10/17-19, an epic dream. |
I wander a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who love unicorns but fear cyborgs, who love ants but fear unicorns! And while the Three Tribes squabble, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four aspects of my tetrahedral soul... CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING |
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... |
VERTICAL PLANES: by Wayan; 1990/3/7, an astral pirate dream. |
We're air pirates running a music shop, till our biplanes are hijacked by cat angels! Furious, we set out... |
VISIONS UPSTAIRS: by Wayan, 2007/1/15, an ero-spiritual dream-comic |
Junk in the attic? Treasures! The cat musicians shift from cartoons to life as I ascend, til in the ultimate attic--the astral beach--I meet a cattaur made of pure (de)light... CAUTION: SEX-CRAZED CATS, NEW AGE FINALE |
WATERCATS: by Wayan; 1987/9/10; an epic, clear predictive dream |
I dream I find a few 'extinct' watercats--in a slum! They talk. They say I'm one of them, brainwashed to think I'm human. I wake, go to a dinner, and hear a tale of... watercats! |
WAX WALL, PUMA COMA: by Wayan; 2022/8/8, 3 surreal genderbent time-bent dreams |
I'm a demon girl out to sabotage a pirate radio station by climbing a tall wall of glowing wax, carrying a comatose mountain lioness on my back! |
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... |
WERECAT SYNDROME: by Wayan, 2017/4/23, dream advice on Asperger's. Or masculinity? |
Werecat Syndrome runs in my family. Academics assume I'm a savage predator. Why? All I want to do is rub up against girls and find one who purrs back... |
WERTZ!: by Wayan; 2023/10/14, a night of cartoonist-inspired dreams |
After seeing Julia Wertz's cartoon history of her entire dreamlife (on one big page!) I dream Wertz style all night! I don't mind the nightmares--what gets me down is comics' black & white... CAUTION: NIGHTMARES, SEX |
WHAT TO DO IN A WIZARD'S LAIR: by Wayan; 2013/4/23, a comic dreamlet |
A friend who's a sorceror's apprentice shows me his Dark Master's tower. And his Dark Master's bed strewn with all his stuffed animals! I just can't resist... |
WINDFALLS IN EDEN: by Wayan, 2000/3/30, a religio-politic dream. |
I'm a part-owner of Eden, harvesting windfalls. But a renter says his Landlord promised him all the apples... |
WITCHES, MANHUNT, TIGER AND SHARK: by Sidarta Ribeira, 1976, child's nightmares facing loss |
After his dad's death, a boy dreams he's an orphan facing cannibal witches--every night! Therapy helps; his recurring dreams shift to a manhunt for a criminal who hides on the ceiling. The dreams shift again, to a tiger hunt. That is, the tiger hunts you. The boy jumps in the sea. Swimming with sharks... CAUTION: INTENSE NIGHTMARES, PARENTAL LOSS |
THE WOLF DREAM: by Mr. Bai, as told by Pu Songling; before 1679, a predictive dream, or fiction? |
Mr Bai dreams his son the mandarin is a tiger leading a pack of wolves--all man-eaters, at least until two angels knock out his fangs and predict he'll get beheaded soon... CAUTION: CANNIBALS, REVENGE KILLINGS |
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