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AHAB: by Wayan; 1994/1/10, a shamanic dream on the ethics of Moby Dick. When I was a kid I was already a mystic and knew what Captain Ahab was REALLY after, but... |
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ANTI-LUCID FLIGHT: by Wayan, 2016/8/30, a friendly nightmare begging me to go lucid. I fear falling? The drop increases. Want a softer surface? The rocks turn to dirt, then water. Want help? Here comes a flying dolphin. Oh, but I'm not dreaming... |
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BALEENA'S GAME: by Wayan; 1974/1/26, a surreal dream with a practical point A whale-spirit marries a poker-player. But her sonar sees too much. Whale-spirits prefer blackjack... |
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BYE-BYE, OLD FILM!: by Wayan; 1981/1/24, a psychic dream, with a 2015/5/22 follow-up. My friends destroy all my old films and give me a 'new' one--but it's from 1900! Then I wake to find... |
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CAPITOL REEF: by Wayan; 1996/1/27. Drawn daydream of a mid-air orgy (or is it mid-water?) News of a new national park and a science show on cleaner-fish spur a daydream of dolphins, cats and... CAUTION: FISH ORGY; MOCKS THE ANGEL MORONI, TOO |
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DOLPHINS: by Larry Vigon; 2001/8/6; a dream personifying dreams? The beach. Smoke? No, spray from hundreds of dolphins hunting. I thought a giant wave was coming in, but it was just a trick of the light through fog... |
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FIVE ELVISH DREAMS: by Dolores J. Nurss; 2005/6/10-2005/6/19, an incubated lucid-dream sequence 1: I visit Elrond and Bilbo in Elvenhome, but overthinking traps me in a timeloop; 2: Elrond says he renounces seriousness for joy, and plans a great, inclusive party; 3: I feel unworthy, but set out on a desert quest with Elrond's young apprentice; 4: I meet joyful, drunken, singing elves but hide in a tree, too shy to join in; 5: I meet a nervous elven singer and a dolphin trapped in a tiny pool in my bedroom... |
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FLUID DREAM CONNECTIONS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2003/11/8 and 2007/3/14; linked dreams of pods A pod of whales in the sky and a circle of children dressed like seed-pods both beg me to interpret them... |
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FOOT!: by Wayan; 1980/11/3; poem based on silly obsessive dreamlets I dream all night of weird feet: a blue alien holograph of one, a band called Foot, parasails turning into sky-feet... |
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FREEDOM THROUGH BOXES: by Wayan; an experiment in art & pain, Jan 2005 I've always loved curves, color, dreams, sex, texture... and planning, too. So one day I drew 100 black boxes in ink--no color, no curves, no erasure! And then I began to seek... |
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GREEN ANGELS: by Wayan; 1985/9/2, a dream-idyll seething with politics. I stalk a platoon of levitating surf-bunnies who may be out to bomb a Greenpeace submarine... |
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THE HEIDEGGARIAN BARBARIAN: by Jo, 2007/02/02, a dream of hopping between two characters I was two-thirds of a love triangle, but I always lost out. Flying was some consolation... CAUTION: RAT DEATH, EVIL WHALES AND ADULTERY |
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ICEBERG WRANGLERS: by Wayan; 2015/8/4, an otherworldly dream-poem Captain Ahab's part-whale students are better ice wranglers than I'll ever be-- wrestling icebergs of possibility round to their best outcomes, in this pea-soup sea... |
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THE KENNERBIRD: by Wayan; 1973/5/20; a naive shamanic dream. I'm a cartoon flamingo; with my sisters, the frog and the rabbit-squirrel, I meet our Maker--the cartoonist... |
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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! |
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THE MARTIAN FEUD: by Wayan; 1994/3/10, a warning dream. On Old Mars, before it died, two rival families' teasing finally goes too far, despite the whale's warning... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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ORCA TOWS: by Wayan; 1984/5/25, a dream with impact. I show an Ohio friend the latest California sport. But we haven't quite worked out how to land just yet... |
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OWL TAVERN: by Dan O'Neill; before 1994/11/2, a dream-comic I stumble into a bar where the TV stars from my childhood are drunkenly arguing metaphysics--Howdy Doody, Beany & Cecil, Flipper... |
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RUNNER WITH A PORPOISE: by Wayan; 1999/10/30, a dream of spirits. A Japanese high school athlete has no friends, till she starts meeting animal spirits on her long solo runs... |
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SEXUAL DREAMS: by Felicia, Simone, Anons 60-61 & a UCSC student; 1994 or earlier, as told by Gayle Delaney Five short playful dreams exploring sex. Because too many therapists get in the habit of thinking all dreams must wrestle with unhappiness... |
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SHARK SENSE: by Wayan; 1988/12/9, a diagnostic circus dream. I work in a circus as a tiger, an orca, a shark. One day, I block my human partner's high dive... Why? |
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SIPHONIAN QUARTET: by Wayan; 2010/4/10, four baffling parallel-world dreams 1: Purple squid saboteurs flood our cliffhouse. 2: My oyster-ranching girlfriend has a snobby aunt. 3: I wake in a stranger's bondage fantasy--ugh! 4: Shepherds on the sea-floor watch for gliderwolves... CAUTION: EMBARRASSING BONDAGE DREAM |
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WHALE BIKES TO HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1974/5/6, a shamanic double-flying dream A road trip with no road--levitating over the Arctic Sea to meet the Whale Philosopher. Then it's time for us all to bike to the stars, leave this world behind... |
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WHALE SPEAKS: by Brenda Ferrimani; dreamed 2014? An epic dream painting. I dreamed I was a whale swimming against a Christian ebb tide, trying to lead humans to a cleaner spiritual current... CAUTION: HARD ON AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY |
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WHERE THE WILD THINGS PLAY: by Anonymous #45, 1996? In a jungle river, I fish for giant kite-bass, then relax and have a drink. A lot of very drunk porpoises dance on the bar. I worry their skin will dry out. Alcohol is so dehydrating! |
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ZEBRA RUN AND FLOW: by Alan Underwood, 2012/6/12, a scenic dreamlet Zebra emerge from the lake. They glide as if swimming, and the air has an odd shimmer; did they bring the depths along? They seem to be having great fun ducking branches and vaulting brambles. Such agility and grace! |
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