Agassiz, faced with a fossil he had to crack open, was unsure where to strike.
But for three nights he dreamed...
A sexy comedian and her troubles down the drain.
A dream that turned out to be true six days later,
and again in a different way six YEARS later...
Weird paintings cover a hill town in Africa, demanding I paint them when I wake.
Paintings on courage, flight... and defying tradition.
A painting of mountains, manes, mermaids, moons, mattresses, mouths, maples, mohawks, mice & men...
CAUTION: NUDE M-THINGS
I'm kissed by the Holy Aardvark, but my bond with my dad is strained by ESP he can't accept...
A chronological orgy of my self-images from childhood on: horses, geeks, girls, satyrs, boys, monsters...
CAUTION: CARTOON SEX
I'm a schoolkid in the future who finds an ancient book the censors somehow missed...
Golden Gate Park's arboretum, in San Francisco, is home to feral cats, skunks, raccoons, people...
I learn to fly from Arenna the moon-girl and Crest the dragon, in the House of Deep Memory...
I'm a priestess from an island of women; I meet an angel
who charges me to harvest all the dreams of the world...
Jaundiced dreams of an art show spell out just how deeply I reject the rules behind modern art...
There's a large bear wandering the museum, and somehow I feel good about it...
A human pinball game played in the dark, with bells for stoppers, sorting people into a Gaussian bell-curve...
A capsule history of a taboo that changed startlingly over 3000 years... does sin depend on timing?
CAUTION: SEX TALK, TABOOS
Tour bizarre worlds most exobiologists would dismiss as hopeless for life--and meet the natives...
CAUTION: SEXY ALIENS, WEIRD CUSTOMS, EVOLUTION
by Wayan; 2002/5/29 - 2004/5/11, a diagnostic, predictive dream-series; Bleeding Heart as comix
A tree-girl moves to Hollywood to make film deals, but jealousy stabs her...
CAUTION: BLOODY ASSAULT, GAY DRYADS, MUTANT NUDITY
I met a great blue eagle waiting to get into a library--but not to hunt books...
I search for family skeletons, but then a talking plant on TV inspires me to seek the sun and fly free.
But certain velociraptors and barbarian swordswomen object...
CAUTION: DUELS, FISH ABUSE, THE F-WORD
Dreams warning of mania and paralyzing shame alternate with calm dreams of life and growth...
Princess Chinchilla and I use an umbrella to escape the Wizard. Now to escape the Dream Researchers!...
I dreamed this was in our civic museum: a painting of the central
dynamo of our world finally erupting: the Businessman in Anguish.
My guide in India says the Third World's doomed, but a stone dancer in the ruins winks behind his back...
CAUTION: NAKED CARVINGS
My skateboard-riding mermaid girlfriend and I bind ourselves together by the magical power of names...
Abducted as a kid by alien angels and raised in a luminous
cloud, I find it hard to keep a mortal, human perspective...
That day I read Hilde Bruch's "Conversations with Anorexics" and face the fact I am one.
That night, in the land where anorexic horses heal, I enter the Kiva of Shamanic Pamphlets, and...
One of the Time Vaults has opened. That means a historical crisis is at hand. Guess who gets to go in...
I learn from the crows of Oz why loneliness and even tragedy are vital for a living universe...
I live in a cupola atop a Victorian house in the Haight-Ashbury, but that's not the City out my windows...
I meet a nice werewolf in a hall of past-life junk, so sharp and rusty we dare not play...
A witch-girl turned to a deer flees hell-hounds who just CAN'T get organized...
My paleontologist mom can scuttle like a lizard, so why can't she manage a dinosaur gait?
I'm trapped in a nature documentary about mating displays among humans...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, PBS NARRATION, AND OTHER EMBARRASSMENTS
America isn't the Melting Pot. It's the Humping Pot...
CAUTION: THE BEAST WITH 300,000,000 BACKS
Egyptian archeologists dig up a living god. He sees us as dolls to play with, but we've grown up...
CAUTION: GOD AS A RAPIST
Downtown San Francisco hides a magic wood full of crested
talking tigers. And I must enter it to live a while...
Books are clothes, and always were. A potato makes me lie, and everyone gets it but me.
Sex in a crowd disarms the Mom Squad! And a Mystic Autistic's soul explores my room...
CAUTION: PUBLIC SEX? PROBABLY.
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
I'm Liza Doolittle on Mars. With Mr. Wells's Time Machine. Lost, in fact. Can I get home? Should I?
A set of travelogs (with orbital photos) of Earth, Mars and Venus on the same day--as they are 1000 years from now...
In the Garden of the Gods, I sit through sun and rain. For gods aren't the gardeners, they're the crop...
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)
In a worldwide junkyard full of warring spooks, I finally meet the one whose message I need to hear...
Through vast Soviet ruins to the modest rooms where the new Russia lives. As I fall in love with my guide...
A biracial girl doubts her own heritage; a human friend has to confirm the obvious. So what am I blind to?
Some Christian oneirologists barge into the Haunted Firehouse. But I pose for nude unicorn photos, and...
CAUTION: DUMB CHRISTIANS, EXHIBITIONIST UNICORNS, ETC.
The foremost wizard of Shakespeare's age dreams he's dead. They're burning his books, but that doesn't bother him...
I'm a heron working in the Civil Service. I want to blow the whistle, but then how would I support my...
CAUTION: BIRD-SLAVERY?
I marry, just to get into a clannish world where I'm seeking symbiotic unicorns. I end up fleeing...
Next evening, a TV movie--Goldie Hawn marries into a clannish world and ends up...
I flee our love triangle when Abe turns mean. He's telepathic, but
I have my escape all planned: the goldfish, the snakepit, the caves...
CAUTION: THREESOME, SNAKES, MOTORCYCLE FATALITY
The villagers warned me not to walk in the alien graveyard; for at night, the Id flowers wake...
I'm a lab animal who discovers voice software and creates a personal zine, testifying for our rights...
I was a sheltered girl till I entered my family's secret ancestral vault. I didn't expect to meet...
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
I tilted the Earth to create a tropical supercontinent from Bali to Tierra
del Fuego. What will evolve there--and on the new tropical Antarctica?
My shortcut in a marathon bogs down in a maze full of psychoanalysts! So I climb the walls and...
Half elvish, rejected, I wander the worlds, and find a limbo built by Zeus--but do the inmates deserve it?
Swayed by sinister surgeons, I go all Buddhist and give up my attachments, including various organs...
CAUTION: DIVESTABLE GENITALIA
I wake to find I'm a museum exhibit 15,000 years from now--a primitive man...
I was working in the library, talking to this woman who announced "I think I'll grow my horn now..."
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!
I'm a psychic circus animal who's just managed to teleport my humanoid girlfriend. It's for our act, but...
CAUTION: PETTING
A gang of humans try to rob me of what makes me able to fly... my marbles? I musn't lose my marbles!
Near a mysterious sculpture garden on the moon, lives the blind, bike-riding sage I seek: Moon-Cat...
I'm hiking through the Catskills when a gigantic amoeba comes slipping over the hills...
At last, I get shown in the museum! Sort of. Homeless people sell my art from carts in the lobby. Stolen!...
It takes time to build yourself out of found objects and trash...
A museum sketch of Navaho horses who got me hot--teaching
teenage me that my sexual orientation wasn't (only) human...
The Goddess gave birth in my workplace. Her fever-dreams become real around us...
CAUTION: BIRTH SCENE, LIBRARIANS' ORGY
I work the info desk in a futuristic library. But one question leads me into a DNA-helix, a tornado of doubt...
I'm peeking at Pike's Peak with Gregory Peck, as we seek my dream-journals in the Hawaiian jungles...
CAUTION: STUPID PSYCHIC PUNS
a dream of flying, shapeshifting and spiritual advice.
When a flood traps me in my cabin, I dream I meet
an old man who warns me "Let your butterflies go"...
In a museum full of spacetime-bubbles holding lost souls, the museum-goers are as weird as the exhibits...
A Borges story of a were-tigress provokes a dream of a ranch
crawling with weird were-women. Weird, but I LIKE them...
CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
In a church-tent, I find glowing pictures of mine I've never seen awake. One's half-done; I work on it.
I wake, and read how Jung, in a Ravenna church, saw luminous images he later learned burned centuries ago!
CAUTION: NUDE STAINED GLASS
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
Reindeer linked by their heads--curiously analogous to language, or culture, or the Web, isn't it...
After seeing 150 years of family photos, I dream of being teased by time-traveling cheerleaders, and...
Night. A jungle full of prowling lions and leopards. So naturally, I get up on a rock and roar back...
I wrote my dreams each morning no matter what--even if I it made me late for work.
They assumed I was sloppy, lazy, spacy. No; disciplined about priorities!
In San Diego, I fly around disrupting the UFO games in the junkyard,
till I reconnect with a centaur friend
I can fly and breathe water. So I fly into art-rich mansions, though
not to steal--I earn plenty from undersea massage...
My sister and I are runaways, developing psychic powers.
A cult of fish-selling witches wants to use us...
CAUTION: SIBLING INCEST, SPELL ABUSE
Reactionaries smash a paper. To rebuild, the editor must sell
the sacred tiki carvings! But gods don't LIKE being sold...
CAUTION: MORAL QUANDARY
The army breeds super-smart animals. Scientists fear they'll
upset ecosystems, if freed. No one speaks for the creatures...
CAUTION: DIRECT ACTION
We play with worlds for balls, and gravity wells for goals. How do the worlds see it? Well... I find out.
Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm forced to nurse her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is...
Wayan: A sleazy brother calls the cops, blaming us for a fire he set...
Cecy: A sleazy brother calls in a fire while not even trying to put it out...
In my drawing class it was antlers and bones and skulls, death death death till I was tired of MY bones...
A demigoddess and a wizard meddle with humans. But do even THEY know what they're assembling?
A great war shrinks to wrestling, then hopping from page to page! Once they were worlds to me, but now...
I feel split into warring impulses who argue, advise, ignore, and snipe at each other...
I want to drink the elixir, but negative 20 spoons block me! Can I remove them? With warped teacup logic & reciprocals…
I'm playing poker with a dragon. But we barely dare move: we're both crackling with thousands of volts...
My foot is a torso and my toes sprout conflicting personalities...
CAUTION: NUDE CARTOON
I walk in a vast graveyard full of history's most famous
people and treasures. But it's all fake, built to test your...
A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us...
Silicon Valley goes enthusiastically fascist. I hide in a berry patch. They build a shining world, and then...
In Castle Frankenstein, will Mary Shelley wed Elmer Fudd? His two-headed monster has marital advice...
The All-American Family visits the fabulous Un-American Fantasy Store, where Mom is in for a shock...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY, LANGUAGE
A sculpted orgy of unicorns, dryads, and werewolf-satyrs designed to stand sideways on your wall...
CAUTION: SEX
Animal teachers, mostly equine, drag me (as I scream NO!) beyond plain dreamwork into shamanism...
Chapter 1: The Deer Party: by Wayan; 6 illus.
Chapter 2: Ariane's Honeymoon: by Wayan; 8K
Chapter 3: The Everest Marathon: by Wayan; 1 illus.
Chapter 4: Who'll Be My Love?: by Wayan; 100K, 4 illus.
Chapter 5: Dreamrider: by Wayan; 7K, a nondream interlude
Chapter 6: Half Shaman, Half Statesman: by Wayan; 170K, 4 illus.
Chapter 7: Eight To A Horn: by Wayan; 2 illus.
Chapter 8: Black Magic: by Wayan, 7 illus.
Chapter 9: Misfits On Mars: by Wayan; 300K, 7 illus.
Tour Venus as it will be in 1000 years, after terraforming: paradise for dozens of intelligent species!
Blondie Wiggle builds a Video Igloo. But I'm allergic--TV kills me! A BAD omen for our video project...
CAUTION: TV KILLS (BUT YOU KNEW THAT)
I'm in Middle Earth, interviewing dwarves and hobbits
who've experienced a phenomenon called Summoning...
In a Tibetan monastery on an ancient lakebed, I swim through a vast sunken library.
Books open like sea anemones, letters float to the surface like kelp...
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!
I'm a part-owner of Eden, harvesting windfalls.
But a renter says his Landlord promised him all the apples...
Chips are faster than brains these days, so everyone's upgrading--everyone but me...