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ABREAST OF THE COMPETITION: by Wayan; dreamed 2013/10/9, a dream on appeasing others A tall busty girl's younger, part-unicorn friend starts developing breasts at last. She makes boob jokes, mocking her own body to reassure her herdmate she's no competition... CAUTION: SELF-PUTDOWNS |
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ACCIDENT: by Jules Engel; 1970? Nightmare turns to surreal sport, inspiring animated film. A large dog was chasing me, but somehow we got turned around and began racing. As I caught up with the dog, any bit I passed went invisible--but the rest of the dog ran on unfazed. When I won the dog vanished entirely. Awake, I animated the dog running, then... |
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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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BASTARD UNICORN: by Wayan; 2012/6/28, a dream about ambition Since I'm half-unicorn, my ambition drives me to share power and help the whole herd--that's how unicorns rise. But among human politicians... |
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BERYL BORROWED IT: by Wayan, 1986/3/8, an absurd dream. My top-heavy friend Beryl borrows my ass and legs to become a centaur so she won't fall over. But I want them back, so... CAUTION: CRUDE AND STUPID |
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THE BIRD MARATHON: by Wayan; 1982/7/10, a comic nightmare with serious overtones. A bizarre marathon, and the Princess is the prize. But she doesn't WANT to be, so she sets out... CAUTION: BLOODY BIRD |
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BRIGHT BEAST, PATIENT BEAST: by Edwin Muir; c.1920, a dream of our primal struggle Two beasts eternally fight, the proud bright peacock-tailed beast and the sad-eyed, ever-defeated sheepdog of... |
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BRUSH CRASH: by Wayan; 1984/10/4, a predictive dreamlet. I'm road-racing. I go over the edge of a slope. But brush slows the car just enough to save me... Next day, on TV: Rockford's shoved in a car into a canyon. But brush slows the car just enough to... |
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CAT REPELS DINOSAURS: by Wayan, 1984/8/12, a film-inspired surreal dream DAY: I thorn-puncture my hands while gardening, and write stupid poetry about it... EVE: I watch Little Darlings, a teen sex farce that turns weirdly serious... DREAM: a Mysterious Pussy guards us librarians from stinky alien dinosaurs... CAUTION: SEXUAL INNUENDO??? |
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CHELSEA AND THE PRESIDENTIAL COMPLEX: by Wayan; 1999/12/25, an odd political (?) dream. I was hot tubbing and flirting... so how'd I end up as Chelsea Clinton running for office? |
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CHESS DEVIL: by Wayan; 1997/8/5, a humiliating nightmare. I try to rescue my girl friends losing a boat-chess game to a devil, but they'd rather be with bad-boy him than me... CAUTION: NUDE DEVIL |
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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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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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A CREATURE: by Albert Grass, 1938? Or Zoe Beloff, c.2008? An early Freudian dream-comic--or a hoax! Dream: wild animals race across Paris, but in my hotel lobby, a small creature on my shoulder murmurs "Je t'aime." Awake, I know those racers from the themepark where I work. But the creature takes me way back--to Paris, 1918... CAUTION: ONE-NIGHT STAND |
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CROCODILE KING: by Christina Rossetti; 1855/3/9, a weird dream-poem she may have faked. On the Euphrates, a monstrous crocodile eats all his kin. But when a winged ship appears, he feigns remorse... |
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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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DEADWOOD, or, MAO'S ONEIROLOGIST: by Wayan; 1976/4/2, a career-advisory dream-poem The Cultural Revolution denies me the Himalayas--the spiritual heights. So I flutter around the base of the Stairway to Heaven... |
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THE DILDO SHOW: by Wayan; 2010/1/24, a truly awful dream sitcom I dream of a TV sitcom with passive boytoys, dildo balloons & a relentless laughtrack... CAUTION: OH, READ THE TITLE |
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DINO RODEO: by Wayan; 2022/2/17, a flying dream about... dream theory? Two men down at a rodeo. The velociraptors and pterosaurs draw near. To scare them off, I need to do something alarming, impossible... |
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ENKIDU: by Gilgamesh of Uruk, c. 2750 BCE, an early prophetic dream The hero Gilgamesh troubles his city till he dreams the gods will send him a best friend & lover, Enkidu... CAUTION: SEX |
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THE EVEREST MARATHON: by Wayan; 1986/4/12, a wild dream epic, part 3 of Unicorn Tag. In the great race up Everest, I become an e-snake, cross 3 eco-bubbles, beg a wary deer-taur to splice my spine, help Ariane my childhood crush, and solve the Dream Equations. Climbing Everest takes not strength but... trust? |
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FLUID REALITY: by Wayan; 1983/8/8; a magical dream-sea voyage that turned out to be predictive On my quest I find magic portals, snarky flower-fairies, undersea redcoats, reassembling bodyparts, living chess, and Nosferatu the Cheating Vampyre... |
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GAMESHOW PRIZE: by Wayan; 1998/1/6, a let-down dream. I win a prize on a gameshow, but collecting is another story, since the show is run from Hell... |
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GLADSTONE AND DISRAELI by Edward Maitland, 1881/2/1; a character-reading dream The two great political leaders of the Victorian Age bare their souls to me. Gladstone's ashamed that he betrayed his ideals; Disraeli dances about, vilifying his loathed rival, but he feels no shame at all... CAUTION: VICTORIAN PROSE, BAD POLITICIANS |
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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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A HAND AT CARDS: by Loomis C. Johnson; around Dec. 1916, a predictive dream. I dreamt of a surreal poker hand where one card changed to create a full house. Next weekend, I was losing when... |
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HAND US THE FRENCHMAN!: by Wayan; 2004/10/24, a comic dreamlet on hippiedom's last gasp The Feds order my friend Mike to hand them a Frenchman we haven't seen in years. Mike substitutes a junk VW... |
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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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INUIT MEDITATION: by Wayan; 1989/11/16, a comically surreal dream. I'm the first tuna to get a scholarship to Stanford. Naturally I sign up for a course in Inuit Meditation... |
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JOIN THE HUMAN RACE: by Wayan; 1985/2/11, a Gordian dream. My shortcut in a marathon bogs down in a maze full of psychoanalysts! So I climb the walls and... |
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JUNG'S DRAGONS: by Carl Jung, 1917/1/17 to mid-1922; recurring dream/trance figures Jung's visions of dragons evolve from fiery destroyers to thieves who can be forced to give up treasure to peacful, luminous guardians of the sacred... |
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THE KEY TO OUR INHERITANCE: by Wayan; 2010/9/12; a nightmare whose victims organize The dead treasure-hunter's will ordered us, his heirs, to convene in the wood. Attacked there by a knight in armor, we near-strangers must unite to win our... |
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KICK HER: by Wayan; 1994/8/9, a gameshow nightmare. I'm a blonde gameshow bimbo. Each week, I'm beaten up. Ha ha ha! But my bruises are real. At last, I... CAUTION: GAMESHOW FROM HELL |
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KISS OF A SAVAGE: by Wayan; 1993/10/28, a dream of deep time. I wake to find I'm a museum exhibit 15,000 years from now--a primitive man... |
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THE LESSON: by W.H. Auden; 1942, a poem on three linked nightmares I'm told "Your lives are not in order." The golden crown's too heavy. And I win my lover's hand--only the hand. What are my dreams accusing me of? CAUTION: SEVERED HAND, SUBTLE GUILT |
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LET'S PLEASE THE RICH: by Wayan; 1998/6/24, a disgusting proposal The rich block reform. So let's offer the rich what they really want: ranking and attention... CAUTION: CHIMPONOMICS |
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MAGIC SCHOOL: by Wayan, 1982/1/26: a waking event and replying dream. Phyllis Schlafly, killer of the Equal Rights Amendment, provokes a dream of being Captain Kirk trapped in a magic school with no way out but the graduate exam. Can I learn the lesson of the tree? CAUTION: POLITICAL JOURNALISM BEFORE THE DREAM. OH NO! |
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A MAMMOTH FIGHT: by Wayan; 1996/2/26, a dream of another life. A tacky other life... I'm a fight promoter. But my biggest deal ever is growing out of my control. Mammoth versus Rex, sure. But now it's a four-way bout--schoolbus, whale... CAUTION: CRASS ACT |
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THE MAN WITH THE SNAKE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2002/9/3, dream of an aborted shamanic duel I stood in the desert preparing for a contest with a man and his snake. But he cheated! Then my cat Lulu intervened... |
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MORAL MINNOWS: by Wayan; 1992/9/15, a sociopolitical dream. A dream explaining why everyone with any moral vision gets filtered out of politics now... |
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MY DESIGN FOR THE DOME: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/5/1; a painting from an advisory dream At first no one seems interested in my mural-design for the inside of the City Hall dome, but... |
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MY PRIZE: by Wayan; 1997/8/15, a short psychic dream on inner critics. A teen awards me prizes for art and writing. I wake to see her on TV--a gymnast after a prize herself... |
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NET PROFITS: by Wayan; 1998/7/14, a dream of family values and Web credit. At a family picnic, my sisters and I fish for scholarships and grants. They put down my art, my website... |
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ONE FRUIT REMAINS UNEATEN: by Catshall; November 1983, a journal dotted with dreams My day life as an artist and explorer of the San Francisco underground scene gets regularly commented on by my dreamlife... CAUTION: SEX, BONDAGE |
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PEGASIA: by Wayan; 10MB mini-site (200 maps & images), spring 2006 to present (ongoing); tours of an alien moon. A contest! Here's a wide, fertile world full of empty ecological niches for intelligent creatures. Design one! |
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PERISSA: by Wayan; 1997/9/13, a sexy dream-comic (small screen, slow loading? Illus. text) When Perissa, an exhibitionistic centaur, bares her body in a crowded Coliseum, she also bares a human-supremacist plot... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM |
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PERPETUA'S LAST DREAM: by St Perpetua; 203 CE, a flying, sex-changing, defiant dream. Facing death the next day in a Roman arena, Perpetua dreams of the spiritual duel behind the physical one... |
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PIED MAGE: by Wayan; 1995/2/6, an architectural dreamfable. A wizard into spots and dots invites me into his beach house, hungry for advice on his peculiar fears... |
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THE PLACE OF SPROUTING CORN: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 1989/1/10 & 1989/6/28, twin initiatory dreams. I'm shown corn plants growing from skulls, and it seems like I must plant some skull-corn myself... |
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PRODIGY SUPPORT: by Wayan; 1994/7/21, a clipping and reactions News of a child prodigy who was given the support I wasn't, triggers a flood of envy and bitterness... |
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ROAR OF THE SAILS: by Wayan; 1973/9/6, a magical scavenger-hunt dream goes lucid--absurdly. Our teams search through fountains and pavilions, finding & trading the glowing stones. None of the magic makes me go lucid, but as we sail toward the finish line... |
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ROBINSON JEFFERS AS A SHAMAN: by Wayan; 1996/7/28, a life-review, with 2016/10/22 followup Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism, blind to kindness--or is he just reporting Big Sur's true, mean spirit(s)? CAUTION: LITERARY AND MYSTICAL |
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ROCKY LOVE: by Wayan; 1984/1/18, a dream farce. A friend's tragic accident confines him to disco roller skates for life! Worse yet, he's in a Rocky Relationship... CAUTION: "ROCKY HORROR" REFS, SEX |
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RORAIMA JUMP: by Wayan; dreamed 2016/9/18, a surreal dream of deadly outrage I'm a Brazilian in the Olympic waterfall-jumping finals. The Russian & American cheat--threaten my family. I snap! Fight recklessly, knocking them off their ropes. We all tumble down the cliff... CAUTION: BULLYING, VIOLENT REVENGE |
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THE RULES OF THE GAME: by Wayan; 1992/11/30, a Gestaltish dream. The Inner Theater. I'm duelling someone who keeps changing the rules. But so can I... can we make a deal? |
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THE RUNNING: by Wayan; 1997/9/27, a dream on sensitivity and the reverse. I couldn't make it to Spain to see the Running of the Bulls, so I found an American equivalent... |
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RUNNING BIRD: by Alder; 1953, a kinetic nightmare with double selves. I'm a flightless bird hopping down a line of marble columns rising from the sea, as they topple behind me... |
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RUNNING START: by Wayan; 1989, a figure study. A rather feline runner poised for the starting gun... |
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SCHNEIDER TROPHY CRASH: by J. Lloyd-Owens; c. 1931/8/1, an overwhelming premonition A newsreel showed a flier for the Schneider Trophy Air Race. I felt a violent shock and said "He's going to die..." |
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SIGNORINETTA: by Alfred Douglas; late May 1908, a predictive (and profitable) dream. I dreamt a grey filly won the Derby. My friend, a fan, said no fillies were racing this year; but he forgot one named... |
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SKY AND PRESTER JOHN: by Wayan; 2009/9/30, two short dream poems with sketches; Dreamverse #57 My neurotic sister and I both lust for a girl named Sky; then I flee a gang of popes and lamas and mullahs... |
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SNAKES AND CENTIPEDES: by Russ Thornton; 2008/11/1, a shared/telepathic dream. Two snakes fight as centipedes emerge from under rocks. I tell my friend. Next day her co-worker tells her the same... |
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SPRINTERS AND SPHINX: by Wayan; 2009/11/13, a dream poem. Divers made of ice win the Traffic-Leaping Olympics. But I think they cheated! I seek my friend the Sphinx... |
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THE STARMONT TRIATHLON: by Wayan; 1984/7/2, a magical marathon dream. I meet the Red God of Running and Holly Golightly; we're in the triathlon up the world's greatest peak... |
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TALISMAN: by Wayan; 2016/3/3, a dream hinting I need some long-term dreamwork! I'm a boy from a Southwestern tribe whose rite of passage is a bike race. I wear a jasper pendant with mysterious powers... |
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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... |
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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. |
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TRIGO: by Edith L. Willis; 1929/6/4, an induced automatic-writing prediction (profitable, too) In an idle moment I held a pencil and asked the air who'd win the Derby. 'Trigo' meant nothing to me, but was listed at 32 to 1, so... |
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TWO BISHOP APPLICANTS: by Wayan; 1984/11/21, a surreal but mercilessly logical dream. My mind and my soul both apply for a job in Stanford Cathedral. Their rivalry grows to a shamanic duel... |
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ULYANOVSK: by Wayan, 1987/11/4, a predictive & advisory dream DREAM: I'm a Soviet Potato Fest. Reds, grannies, food. A girl's told a life-and-death lie about a canine... NEXT DAY: I read a version of Red Riding Hood, and the dream's weird elements suddenly make sense. CAUTION: SOVIET CLICHÉS, E.S.P. SPECULATION |
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UNCONTROLLED TIME TRAVEL: by Jo; 2007/7/13, a time-slipping dream. I’m a drug-addicted amateur dramatist. A fat balding businessman and I bring humanity back from extinction, but... CAUTION: TORTURE (brief), ADVOCACY OF WAR, HUMAN EXTINCTION (offstage) |
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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 |
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