Dinosaur Dreams
I've noticed that as scientific and popular knowledge of dinosaurs improves, my dream-dinos have changed to match. They're hotter-blooded these days--and smaller, smarter, slicker, faster. A bit like microchips!
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AIR OASIS: by Wayan; 1984/4/15, a dream of marginality. Why'd I have to get my big inspiration deep in a lake in the Land of the Lizard People high in the Andes? |
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THE BEE QUEEN: by Wayan; 1997/6/26, a hard-headed dream. Two time-traveling paleontologists get a gift from their friend the Bee Queen. A gift with six-inch fangs... |
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BELLOWS BRIDGE: by Rick Veitch, Dec 1973, a dream of a battle on the border of dreaming On the bridge between waking and dreaming, a jet plane duels a T. Rex. But the jet strays into dream space, becoming a pterosaur--and soon, Rex lunch... |
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BUT THAT'S BESTIALITY!: by Wayan; 1994/10/29, an alt-world dream. In a world with a dozen intelligent species, dominated by dinosaurs, I get in trouble for publishing a kinky tale of forbidden mammal love... |
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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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CRICKET GOT IN: by Wayan; 1988/8/25, a dream of troubling gods. A cricket actress I know makes it into the Dynasty of the Gods! Or is it the TV soap "Dynasty"?... |
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THE DINOSAUR ELEVATOR: by Wayan; 1992/11/22, a paradoxical dream. The dinosaurs I meet manage to prove BOTH leading time-travel theories! Yet they're incompatible... |
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DINO FOR A NIGHT: by Wayan; 2017/7/9, a sci-fi-movie dream poem I'm turned into a small dinosaur and treated as a guard dog. But I meet a dino girl. We have fun, once we see it's a movie--they won't kill off the love interests. Hollywood rules make us invulnerable... |
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DINOSAUR GAITS: by Wayan; 1998/11/1, a dream on independence. My paleontologist mom can scuttle like a lizard, so why can't she manage a dinosaur gait? |
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DINOSAUR GRADE: by Wayan, 2006/1/25, a shamanic workout dream I ride a recumbent bike up an exhausting slope past browsing bears. Oh. Not bears. Dinosaurs. No wonder I'm so tired! Timetravel's hard... |
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DINO SINGULARITY: by Wayan; 2012/3/30, a paleontological speculation in a dream. Peering in a spacetime gate, I wonder if all the dinos went extinct. Would we spot an ancient Singularity? |
DINO TREASURE: by Wayan, 1996/9/1, a treasure-hunt dream. |
At the Psychic Faire, I'm a deer-man in a gang hunting treasure, led by a rough tough dinosaur... |
DINO YARMULKE: by Wayan; 2015/10/13; an odd little dream and portrait |
I carelessly burst in on a friend, a gay dinosaur, during a Jewish holiday rite, startling him so he raises his spiny crest, levitating his yarmulke... |
FAIRE DINOSAUR: by Wayan; 1981/5/5. A dream of forbidden love. |
I fall in love with a sexy T. Rex at the Renaissance Faire. Then things get weird... CAUTION: DINO ABUSE |
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 |
HELL-TORNADO: by Wayan; 1988/7/2, a dream on social engineering. |
Who built the tornado in the Heartland, that sucks anyone who opens their spirit-wings down to Hell? CAUTION: BAD THEOLOGY, WORSE PHYSICS |
HOOD: by Wayan; 1993/5/11 & 5/15, a recurring dream of a... woman? dinosaur? cape? spirit? |
An alien-heron-dino-woman left us her cape--or is it a cast-off skin? I put it on, for I was told I need the hood to ward off some evil. My human head won't fit the narrow hood. But the owner's manual says I don't need a shield, I'm immune! So skip the hood; wear the cape as a minidress... |
HOWL: by Wayan; June 1983, a picture-poem on a daydream of deep time |
Surely the dinosaurs were as vocal as their little cousins, the birds. But bass to the birds' soprano! So when dinos sang to the moon... |
JOVIAN REVOLUTION: by Wayan; 1987/2/22, a dream-poem of another life. |
Deep in Jupiter's atmosphere it's dark as a moonlit night, but warm; we sail a world-sea. And mutiny against our commanders! Clouds clear to a red dawn... CAUTION: RED POLITICS, GREEN NUDITY |
THE LIMP: by Wayan; 1986/7/18, a dream on difference |
I was working for a London architect. His son thought people shunned him for his limp, but... |
LIZ: by Wayan; 1992/3/15, digital painting of a daydream. |
I'm not sure just where she slithered out from, but she looks like more fun than most mammals... CAUTION: LIZARD BREAST |
THE LIZARD LESSON: by Wayan; 1996/12/12, a hard-hittin' shamanic dream. |
I'm a shaman in Nunavut who has to teach a guy in a lizard suit (and his foxy niece) that reparations have limits... |
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 |
MONSTERS FROM MY SOUP: by Cyberwebspace; 2010/9/30, a stubborn nightmare |
How'd that spider, dragon and T. rex get in my soup? I skip lunch. Dig in the garden, but scaly heads pop out to nip at me. Persistent! |
MY ALIEN ABDUCTION: by Wayan; 1989/4/6, a dream on reserving judgment. |
I'm abducted by scaly alien mercenaries. But halfway to their ship, we get stuck. As we wait and talk, I find I like them. The problem's their boss--a rich, spoiled human... |
MY LITTLE 'POCALYPSE: by Wayan, 2019/5/10; a predictive dream of a TV show making extinction cute |
The 'toon actors from My Little Pony gleefully volunteer to die horribly in a TV documentary on the impact in Yucatan that killed off the... dinosaurs? No! Unicorns, griffins, pegasi and dragons! As I draw the dream, I get an email from the maker of a TV documentary on climate catastrophe... |
NEWT WEDDING: by Emily Joy; spring 1995, a six-year-old's epic dream |
Through wild jungles and over the Mattress Mountains, I lead a giant purple newt to love... |
OMELET BEACH: by Wayan; 2007/1/15, a dream on how things look through your third eye |
An alien beach scene--as seen through eyes that see bodies’ energy fields more than surface forms... |
ORE PIRATES, by Wayan, 2009/5/29; a dream-poem, Dreamverse #45 |
I'm in a movie version of prehistoric Baja California, mining nuggets that howl, when pterodactyl-worshiping pirates glide in trying to snatch our ore... |
OVERLAY: by Wayan; 1984/2/11, 1995/8/26, and 2004/9/11, 3 dreams shape a 9-page comic on living with ESP |
Dreams of translucent fairies, centaurs, robots & gnomes prompt me to cartoon on transparent overlays to show how dreamworlds overlay ours... |
PLESIOSAUR: by Wayan; 1985/9/5, a comic medical nightmare. |
An itchy patient of mine insists he's turning into a four- headed, man-eating plesiosaur. He left one thing out... |
PORTALS OF THE PAST: by Wayan, 2021/2/6; a timish dream. |
The time-caves under Golden Gate Park lead to supervillains, magical girls, miniphants, bamboo thugs, adorable dinosaurs, and... pandemics. But is there a way back home? |
PRISONS AND STRIPES: by Emily Joy; 2007/10/4, a lucid dream. |
In a museum full of spacetime-bubbles holding lost souls, the museum-goers are as weird as the exhibits... |
RHAMPHORHYNCHUS: by Wayan; 1996/11/12, a waking premonition. |
Biking, I find myself chanting a dinosaur name--Rhamphorhynchus. I don't even know what kind it is. At home I open a novel, and a Rhamphorhynchus appears, politely defined for me by our obliging universe... CAUTION: E.S.P.? |
SAURIANS: by Wayan; 155K, 1992, 4 digital dream portraits. |
In dreams, I kept meeting a dinosaurian person who was proud, strange, beautiful. S/he introduced me to two sisters I just had to paint... |
SAURIAN CITY: by Wayan; 1996/12/1, a dream snapshot. |
I visit a world of dinosaurs who fly small planes and live in glowing tree-cities... |
SERRANA: by Wayan; Oct-Dec 2004, a sculpture/webtour; 60 maps, photos & sketches |
A dry little world with many small seas, Serrana has at least six intelligent species and an anarchist culture. It's a tribute to Ursula Le Guin's anarchist utopia, "The Dispossessed", and Kropotkin's theories of biological cooperation... CAUTION: ANARCHIST POLITICS, ALIEN NUDITY |
THE SHIP'S BOY: by Wayan; 1996/12/1, a dreamtale. |
Dinosaur people demand to take our Ship's Boy with them. But he knows them! They RAISED him? |
SMOKING REX: by Wayan; 1989/3/29, a dream of unlikely alliance. |
A cigar-smoking tyrannosaur moves into our neighborhood, upsetting us bluebirds and vampire bats. So we... |
A STAB OF ANGER: by Wayan; 1997/5/24, a Jurassic Park dream. |
By a midnight lake, I comfort an abused girl in the mud. But two figures with long knives loom... |
TEMEMTIM: by Wayan; 1995/3/3 and 3/16; two linked archeology dreams. |
My cold-sensitive dinosaur friend makes a find at our archeological dig by thinking like the Old Ones... |
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 |
TRICERATOPS, or, THE GUY WHO SCRIPTS MY DREAMS: by Wayan, 1982/8/24; a dream on dreams |
Stuck in a horror movie, I get to meet the triceratops-headed monster who scriptwrites all my nightmares. But he's open to suggestions... |
VELOCIRAPTORS AND BANANAS: by Wayan; 1994/2/6, a predator-advisory dream. |
After a visit from our landlady's angry, crazy son I dream hungry velociraptors invade our house... |
VIRGINIA'S TRAIN: by Emily Joy; 2005/9/24, a psychic dream and poem
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We lose control of our new time machine, which seems to have its own agenda... CAUTION: CONTEMPLATION OF SUICIDE, CHRONOLOGICALLY IMPAIRED DREAMER |
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 |
VOLCANISM, IMPACTS, AND MASS EXTINCTIONS: by Wayan; 2019/4/25; reaction to a startling book |
This symposium, airing a dispute between geologists & astronomers who just don't read each others' papers, had multiple revelations--big hazards, bigger holes in our knowledge, and bigger opportunities... CAUTION: CHART! WITH NUMBERS!! |
WHITE-KNUCKLE FAIRNESS: by Wayan; 1999/3/23, a dream of not being me. |
I'm a conscientious saurian who feels obliged to duel with a hot-tempered friend. Preparing, wanting to fight fair, I don't just file my spurs blunt, I... |
WHO ATE MY LETTUCE?: by Wayan; 1983/1/13, a short dreamfable. |
An invisible monster is eating my lettuce patch. It casts a huge blurry shadow, leaves footprints, but... |
XALGRIIN IN THE LAB: by Emily Joy, 2006?, odd dream scene |
Xalgriin is a sweet stegosaurus boy locked up in a research lab, planning to free not just himself but others... |
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