Celibacy
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THE ABUSE PANELISTS: by Wayan; 1997/2/6, nondream journalism A whole convention of adults abused as kids shows me how hard it is to hide the damage... CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES |
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ADRIAN TRIED: by Wayan, 1991/3/12, an embarrassing dream. Adrian and Jennifer and Michelle try very very hard to get my attention, but I'm a bit oblivious... CAUTION: SEXUAL STUPIDITY |
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ARCTIC CHANGELING: by Wayan; 1981/6/30, a dream on roots. I'm a shy woman in a truckstop town who learns why I don't fit in. But will I, among my real kin?... |
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ARMLESS: by Wayan; 1997 portrait of dream figures (pencil/digital) A strange, horny, frustrated being, part human part horse, who lacks hands to hold the centaurs... CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL TENSION |
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AROO'S ENGINEERS: by Wayan; 1984/11/9-10, a Hawaiian dream epic. The Engineers make Eden... logical. But the blimps go blind, and a demon goes viral. How can I escape the their ultra-efficient hell? |
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AWAKENING HURTS: by Wayan; 1993/7/4, a dreamtale. An old friend's awakening from anorexic asexuality. Puberty at 30? And wait a minute... is she me? |
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BAKE HER PHOTO: by Wayan; 1993/10/24, a short, psychic dream. I dream I've carried a photo with me 17 years, but now... I BAKE it. The next day, I meet... |
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BATTERED, WITH SYRUP: by Wayan; 1998/11/6 & 11/21, two healing dreams. I'm a battered girl who sings in a mall. The Dictator (of all people) helps me start healing and learn to fly... CAUTION: BATTERING AND ITS CONSEQUENT DAMAGE |
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BEAUTY, BRAINS, WARMTH: by Wayan; 1987/11/28, a didactic dreamtale. The Goddess won't tell me who to seek, to love, just WHAT to seek--and what not to... CAUTION: DIVINELY SANCTIONED TRIGAMY? |
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BLESS MY PHOBIA: by Wayan; dreamed 1992/8/15; story + silk painting. I was Eve's guardian angel the second time round, and I blew it again. But this time, it came out right.... CAUTION: BREASTS AND BEASTS |
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BLIND TO THE CUES: by Wayan; 1996/10/2, a dream of blinders. A sexy pool-playing friend in a short skirt leans over an invisible, virtual-reality pooltable, but I'm blind to... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, TRULY CLUELESS GUY |
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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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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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BRANDY'S CURSE: by Wayan; 1996/10/23, a bizarre dream (even for me). After I saw the film "Surviving Picasso" (he's brilliant but treats women like dirt) I dream a sexy friend asks me to remove a strange curse. But can I?... |
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BRETON SELKIE, or, VERIFY AURAS!: by Wayan; 1995/11/10, a cautionary, possibly psychic dream. I meet a sexy seal-girl. Being single and desperate, I overlook a slight values conflict... CAUTION: DISGUSTING JOB |
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BROWN DRESS: by Wayan; 1984/2/11, 9-page digital comic of a sexy healing dream. A champion swimmer tells me how she turned a sexual humiliation into excitement and liberating power... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, SHAME, PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY |
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BUT I WANT TO LIVE!: by Wayan; 1995/8/5, a life-altering dream. My job's to clarify people's deepest wishes. But when I meet two women who truly want to die... CAUTION: SUICIDAL IMPULSES |
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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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CASSANDRA AND OTTER: by Wayan; 1982/3/14, a reassuring nightmare. I take Cassandra's prophecies seriously, but she can't make sense of my future. So we go see an otter with a crystal ball. But he's installed a new security system... |
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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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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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CENTAUR, WOBBLY: Wayan; digital sketch 1990 based on dream I can't trace. Wise advice from a funny looking centauress at a nude beach... CAUTION: CRUDE NUDE |
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CHAPERONE AND REBEL: by Wayan; 1998/5/18, a flirtatious dreamtale. A girl with a magic swimsuit flashes me, as her Iranian fundamentalist aunt glares from beyond the veil... CAUTION: NUDITY? OR ILLUSION? |
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CHINA BEACH: by Wayan; 1992/10/9. Digital painting of a nondream life-shift.. That moment when you tire of your old trauma and suddenly turn to the sun. Or fun. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES |
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CHRONOPHOBIA!: by Wayan; 1993/7/10, a physicist's nightmare on time's arrow I find myself driving a speeding car down a freeway--in reverse. No, not reverse gear... |
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CHRYSALIS: by Wayan; 1999 acrylic painting of two dreams, 1997/10/6 and 1997/11/8. Ballooning over Middle Earth with a metamorphosing butterfly-girl, we drift into forbidden territory: |
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CLIFFMARE: by Wayan; 1988/10/8; a dream of lust vs freedom. I was a wild mare in heat, torn between longing for sex, touch, love...and the fear of being tamed. CAUTION: HORSE FRUSTRATION |
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COLD-SHOWER CONSCIOUS: by Wayan; 1996/5/25, a dream dissecting a fear. Sexy frustrating dreamlets with a message, not about my unconscious, but about my CONSCIOUS... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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THE CORE ISSUE: by Wayan; 1992/6/25, a dream from multiple viewpoints The tale of a gray heart trying to heal leads to unicorn-hostage drama in the Transamerica Pyramid... CAUTION: SEX, MAFIA THREATS, VIOLENCE |
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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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CUTENESS PAGEANT: by Wayan; 2008/8/29, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #16. I'm trapped in a cute cartoon universe! Worse, to judge this beauty contest, I have to see past our style to our souls... |
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THE DEER PARTY: by Wayan; 1986/4/10. A magical dream Chapter 1 of a nine-story series: UNICORN TAG. A sentient factory shows me a gene-tweaked future where the Deer Party agitates for liberty, equality and fertility. In that future I learn I too may not be human... |
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DIURNAL AND NOCTURNAL WORLDS: by Wayan; 1993/11/8, an epic dream of the multiverse. Round the ring of twelve worlds and their twelve gods, seeking one god who's giving me grief... |
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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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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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EIGHT TO A HORN: by Wayan; 1986/4/25, a magical dream, Chapter 7 of UNICORN TAG. In the middle of Nowhere Desert, I meet a telepathic unicorn who's stuck with a false safety-tag... |
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THE ENTWINED CHILD AND MADAM PURR-SAY: by PurplePurplePurple; 2013/7/5, twin poem-dreams I dream my autistic son, miraculously high-functioning, recites a math-poem to a crowd... Then I become cartoon cat Madam Purr-Say and chant my own defiant poem at the dream gods... CAUTION: FIRST POEM AUTISTIC, SECOND PISSY |
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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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THE FIREBREAK OF MEN: by Wayan; 1997/2/13, a herstorical dream. The Europeans have another great war, killing off their men. Will that break the cycle of violence? Like a... |
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FIRST DATE: by Wayan; 1991/10/20, a true story. I have weird, bad luck around dating. Finally I go on a picnic with Page, and the Great Fire begins... |
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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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FIVE HEARTS: by Wayan; dreamed 1989/1/11; sexy psychic unicorn dream-comic (text only: FIVE HEARTS) I'm a nurse pulled through a glowing well to a world ruled by a five-hearted unicorn, who wants me to... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX FANTASIES, LONGING, MELANCHOLIA |
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FLOWERING:: by Wayan; 1996, pencil digitally tinted; nondream portraits. Sketches from a San Francisco street music festival where, after a long sleep, I woke up sexually at last... CAUTION: NYMPHETS, QUEERS, AND OTHER REAL PEOPLE |
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(ON THE OLD) GENDER TRAIL: by Wayan; late 1995, digital picture-poem with dream intrusions. For me, the path to love is difficult, elusive, convoluted... |
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GERRYMANDERING DESIRE: by Wayan; 1994/1/20, a modest sexual orientation proposal The two commonest sexual orientations have no names, or even concepts! Yet they're obvious, once... CAUTION: THE TRUTH THAT DARE NOT BE TOLD |
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GHOST DOGS: by Wayan; a 1993/4/2 temptation dream done as a 1-page digital comic I meet a wolf who invites me to join Dr Who's pack of sexy Ghost Wolves. Just one catch nobody mentioned. To be a ghost, you have to... CAUTION: FLIRTATIOUS WOLVES |
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GIRL-HEAP, 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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GITANA AND REX AND KIT: by Wayan; 1988/12/11, a comic nightmare. My friend Gitana has a grim view of men--a view that materializes, and starts chasing us... CAUTION: BURGER FRANCHISE DEMOLITION |
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GLASS GAME: by Wayan; 1985/9/23, a nightmare. A swimming pool game with color-sorted broken glass. It's social, it's fun! The whole family can play! CAUTION: BLOODY IDIOTS |
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GLASS EATER: by Wayan; 1982/12/10, a dream on managing ESP. I live in an asylum for fragile psychics. When one man over-uses his talent, he compulsively eats glass... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
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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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A GOLDEN KEY IN A CHEAP LIGHT: by Wayan; 1996/7/9, a subtle dream lesson I was so lonely the potheads on Haight looked good. I dreamed I had the Golden Key, but under a cheap sodium streetlamp, ALL my keys looked gold! Then I met true gold: a woman meditating until she shone... CAUTION: NUDITY, HAIGHT STREET STONERS |
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GRIEF KIVA: by Wayan; 1980/2/16, a lucid psychic dream. In a Hopi underworld, I find even lucid dreaming can't cure guilt and grief over losses yet to come... |
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HALF-HEARTED GHOST: by Wayan; 1994/9/28, a dream on the cruelty of shyness. I go invisible in my dance class and hear what the girls I like have to say about me. Uh-oh... CAUTION: PAINFUL RELATIONSHIP TRUTHS |
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HAPPINESS UNBLOCKS ART: by Wayan; 1997/7/7, nondream book review An insight about a fictional character who unblocks her creativity changes my own life strategy... |
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HAUNTED BUT HAPPY: by Wayan; 1990/10/13, a labyrinthine dream. Some Christian oneirologists barge into the Haunted Firehouse. But I pose for nude unicorn photos, and... CAUTION: DUMB CHRISTIANS, EXHIBITIONIST UNICORNS, ETC. |
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HEADING FOR A FALL: by Wayan; 1993/11/2, a dream of drastic shortcuts. I crash my car on the way to therapy. I ask my dream why. And it tells me! Deliberate, but not suicidal... |
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HER OWN WEAPON: by Wayan; 1983/8/31, a poltergeist-therapy dream. A woman says she's being stalked, but it's her own poltergeist! Her therapist makes her reach for it... |
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HICKOPHOBIA: by Wayan; 1996/5/13; 2-page dream-comix (or plain text version) Whenever I run out of ballet class to Japanese without asking my classmate Wendy out, I change sex... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
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HILLBILLY ECO-REVOLT: by Wayan; 1985/6/12, a diagnostic eco-dream. A poor planet with one city. Urban technocrats and hick ecologists have conflicting development models... CAUTION: TOO REAL TO BE FUN |
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"HIS BALL IS EMPTY": by Wayan; 1982/3/23, an epistolary advice-dream. A letter to Miss Hornyhearts compares the writer's lover and husband. Some sharp advice for nice boys... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
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HONESTY THE WITCH: by Wayan; 1974/6/1, a flying dream. A witch advocates honesty, but kids mock her; one boy tries to rape her. We fight mid-air, riding her broom... CAUTION: RAPE ATTEMPT |
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HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT: by Wayan; 1994/4/3, a dark dream. As my grandmother is dying, I have a dream about what really went on in her house... CAUTION: CHILD SLAVERY |
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HOW TO BE HAPPY: A FABLE BY TOLKIEN: by Wayan; 1994/6/16, a dream, not by Tolkien. I'm a librarian in an English village hit by fads--new philosophies and lifestyles. I learn what works: |
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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..." |
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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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IN THE VAULT: by Wayan; 1983/4/6, a dream of treasure. I was a sheltered girl till I entered my family's secret ancestral vault. I didn't expect to meet... |
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INACTION PAINTING: by Wayan; 1995/10/29, digital dream-figure collage When I see that grim museum shit I start giggling "Boy art!" The guards glare, so I go home and paint like this. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX TALK, LUST FAIRIES AND FLYING TEENY WEENIES |
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IS SOLITUDE HOLY?: by Wayan; 1998; a watercolor on dreamwork's isolation. When I compare Julia Butterfly up her tree with those hermits who sat atop columns in the desert... |
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ISLE OF THE BLEST: by Wayan; 1990/11/9, painting inspired by series of fox-dreamlets I'm a Japanese werefox, longing to reach the Isle of the Blest; but dare I swim for it? |
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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 |
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JULIE'S DATING AD: by Wayan; 1999/10/24, a singles dream. Why'd Julie write a singles ad with insane, sky-high demands, when she just wants a nice relaxed guy? |
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KIOSK: by Wayan; 1994/5/1, a 4-page dreamcomic on the power of song (or illustrated text version) I'm a sexy singing beast, the Krelkin, trying to lure the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk... CAUTION: NUDITY, INTERSPECIES FLIRTATION |
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LET ME REVISE THAT...: by Wayan; 1998/8/28, a dream of clarity. I pray to the Love Goddess for help, but then realize there's a problem with my phrasing... CAUTION: UNROMANTIC |
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LILY OXYGEN: by Wayan; dreamed 1984/1/19, drawn 2000; a strong psychic dream. I'm Emily Dickinson reborn in 2100 as a breeder of hydroponic lilies, till my dad drafts me as an Arctic energy-prospector, where I meet a ghost, a fiery Beast, a new me, and the girl of my dreams... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, NUDE PROSPECTORS, GNOMIC DICKINSON QUOTES |
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LOBSTER ECSTASY: by Wayan; 1970/11/1?, a teenage lobster love dream. One of my first recorded dreams--how I foolishly turned away from Lobster Love... CAUTION: CHITINOUS SEX |
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LONELY NO MORE!: by Wayan; 2000/3/27, a sculpture of American singlehood. The Dating Fairy, built on lonely evenings waiting for her to call me back--whoever "her" was that week... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES |
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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? |
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LYNN HALL'S "FLYAWAY": by Wayan; 1997/7/6, a journal extract on religious abuse A book that kept me up late. Ariel and Robin get abused as subtly & deniably as me and my sisters... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS/PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE |
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MARRIED TO MYSTERY: by Wayan; 1992/7/29, a dream on dream research. The starship Enterprise. A world ahead sends the Captain and the Nurse odd psychic urges. Follow or resist? |
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MENOLLY: Love Song to a Dragonsinger: by Wayan; 1977, a dreamish poem on giftedness and abuse. As a kid I was haunted by the parallels between Menolly of Pern and me... |
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MIRYAM'S THEFT: by Wayan; 1996/9/24, a psychic dream on being used I'm a ghost dwarf in love with a Lady trapped in a magic Arabian castle. But our love is being used... CAUTION: SEX, BETRAYAL, SACRILEGE |
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MOTHER SUPERIOR: by Wayan; 1999/2/18, a nightmare with psychic tinges. A creepy visit to the Leather Nuns: as fierce as Beorn in The Hobbit, but less hospitable... |
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MY MUSLIM MOTHER-IN-LAW: by Wayan; 1995/3/25, a dream on repression. How exactly did I acquire a mother-in-law snooping on my phone calls, when I don't have a wife? |
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MUSTARD VAMPIRE : by Wayan; 1984/3/1, a warning dream. I love a cute vampire. She's willing to go on a diet. Even so, do I have enough blood to spare? |
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MY GATE: by Wayan; 1996/5/29; a bizarre, joyful dream; 4-page comic (or ill. text version) The full moon rises: I become Weregirl, do the Moondance, and gnaw open the lock on my heart... CAUTION: MOONING |
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MY LIFE ISSUE: ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS: by Wayan; 1994/1/2, a warning dream. I dream the real issue in your life isn't the one you complain about most, but the one you hide... |
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MY PAST CHANGES SO: by Wayan; 1985, a poem on healing-stages. It takes time to build yourself out of found objects and trash... |
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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... |
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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 |
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A NIGHT ON MOUNT DIABLO: by Wayan, 1984/6/8, an allegorical four-phase dream. I'm attacked by a narcissist firebird, a rabid rattler-manticore, a masochist bear, and a sexless succubus... CAUTION: INEPT DEMONS |
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NIGHT FLIGHT: by Catherine as told to Wayan; c. 1962, a recurrent childhood flying dream. My friend Catherine dreamed she was a flying mare with golden hooves. But in real life, she lost them... |
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THE NIGHT OF CHANGE: by Wayan; 1994/2/8, a dream on the order of deep changes. Festival night in a strange town, where, one night a year, dancing in the street transforms you into... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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"NOHOR!" YELLED THE NIGHTMARE: by Wayan; 1982/12/27, a passionate nightmare. I dreamed a black mare was howling "Nohor!" At first I thought she meant "I'm not just a horse", but... CAUTION: SEXUAL ISSUES |
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NORTH FLEET OF THE RAIN: by Wayan; 1974/7/10, an alien-invasion-solution dream A vast galactic fleet hovers around Earth, demanding Rain. Whaaat? I fight an alien leader, and find out what their long drought has been... CAUTION: UFO SEX |
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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 sexual at all... CAUTION: SEXUAL SYMBOLISM |
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ON MOLLY'S FOREHEAD: by Wayan, 1988/11/19, a spiritual sex dream. A child of radicals goes wild in Rio. When we bail her out, we find she's had a strange enlightenment... CAUTION: UNSAFE SEX |
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ONCE A HERO: by Wayan; 1998/10/22-25, 17 images, a raw dream-series. Sexy dreams of Chinese archeology, authorized by the fairies, make me face that my family abused me... |
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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 |
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PETER PAN SYNDROME: by Wayan; 1995/1/10, a dream on those books... I meet Peter Pan grown up: a stark, fey prince in exile. Why do only I see him and the Lost Children? Oh. |
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PET THE FOX: by Wayan; 1993; improv map of my olfactosphere. Sexual beauty scares me--how I'm affected--how vulnerable I am. An irresistable pheromone... CAUTION: SEXUAL THEME |
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PREGNANT WITH KRYTHA: by Wayan; 1998/2/3, a monomaniacal dream My best friend and I are shapeshifters; I seduce him, just so my daughter Krytha can be born... CAUTION: MAMMALIAN NUDITY, PHEROMONAL SEDUCTION, RECKLESS PREGNANCY |
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QUEEN COBRA: by Wayan; digital painting of a 1987/1/15 dreamlet. I asked "I'm still scared to date anyone. Why? What's my next step?" That night, I was answered... CAUTION: SEXUAL IMPLICATIONS |
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REDUCED TO THE STUDHOUSE: by Wayan; 1980/11/16, a warning dream. I'm not a normal wolf: I'm a were-woman. When I turn wolf again, I'm in heat; but I want to be alone! So... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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RING OF WHITE WATER: by Wayan; 1983/1/30, an epic astral dream. I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. A girl in my tour group jumps ship: she dreads the white water of rocky relationships ahead... CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS... |
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SADDLED WITH AUTISM: by Wayan; 1999/10/1, an embarrassing yet advisory dream. I'm autistic; a TV host encourages me and another autistic kid to have sex on the air... CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX ON NATIONAL TV; SERIOUS FINGER-POINTING |
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SAFETY GETS ME HOT: by Wayan; 1997/3/27, a dream on sensitivity. I'm trapped in a post-apocalypse pulp story! Fun for my readers, but not for me! How to escape? |
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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... |
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SEX FIRST, THEN SADNESS: by Wayan; 1998/12/12, an advisory dream. At a party, a sad girl attracts me. But to reach her, I must have an affair with a sexy, frustrated writer... |
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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 |
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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 |
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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? |
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SHAKE! 1989/8/11, rev.1995; digital Muybridge tribute by Wayan. I love what dancers look like, seen over time, in stroboscopic photos. Like weird undersea growths... WARNING: NUDE CAT PEOPLE |
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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... |
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SLAVES DON'T DANCE: by Wayan; 1999/8/1, a 17-page Shakespearean dream-comic (or ill. text) Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm forced to nurse her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is... |
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SPORECOUNT: by Wayan; 1990/1/5, a dreamtale on patience through change. I'm a hot archeology student till I open the wrong tomb. A plague turns us into green moldy monsters--at first... CAUTION: DISEASE, DEATH, GRIEF, SHAME |
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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 |
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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 |
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VIRGIN ON THE VERGE: by Wayan, 1992/8/8. Digital picture-poem Ever since I was battered I feel like a virgin again: longing, but wary--scared where sex may lead... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES |
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WASTE: by Wayan; 1990/5/7, a desert singles poem, 11 images. A road trip through New Mexico mutates into a tour of my relationship disasters... |
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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 |
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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... |
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WHAT MEN HIDE BEHIND: by Wayan; 1992/11/30, an alarming comic dream The real pursuit of happiness: she pursues me, and I run in shame and hide! But she's persistent... |
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WHO'LL BE MY LOVE?: by Wayan; 1986/4/14, a dream noir farce; part 4 of UNICORN TAG. I'm a hardboiled detective wincing as I grill a meek little psychic (probably me) about squish-softboiled topics like unicorns and love... CAUTION: SMUTTY UNICORN MAKES EVEN COPS BLUSH |
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WOLFWALL: by Wayan; 1994/1/31. Daydream/trance digital drawing Drew all night in a trance and only learned at dawn what this flirting otter and wolf were trying to tell me... CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL THEME |
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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... |
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A WOMEN'S WORLD: by Wayan; 1996/8/6, a psychic dream. I visit Earth during an all-female era. I'm a woman, can pass for local--so why do I lie to fit in? CAUTION: SEXIST SLUR |
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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 |
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YOU'RE THE EAGLE: by Wayan; 2000/2/8, a dream fable. A hermit spends his life wrestling with shadows. His only disciple becomes famous. Who was happier? |
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