Dreaming Personified
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ACORN AND PELT: by Wayan; 1983/7/19, a simple sex dream growing to a mystical extravaganza I fall in love, defying kidnappers, dwarf-tossers and Toulouse-Lautrec, until I become a time-traveling bunny... CAUTION: SEX, SHAMANISM, DWARF-TOSSING (LAUTREC!) |
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AELFWINE: by Wayan; 1997/12/4, dreams within dreams... about dreams. I go to a lucid-dreaming party, meet the Child who Dreams the World, and find the Body under the Bed... |
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THE AIR BURUNDI PAINTINGS: by Wayan; 7 illus., 2007/1/20, a dream of art & courage Weird paintings cover a hill town in Africa, demanding I paint them when I wake. Paintings on courage, flight... and defying tradition. |
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THE AMBASSADOR PRO TEM OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1993/3/1, a dream about dreams. The real Ambassador of Dreams was moonlighting, so I had to step in and explain dreams to the waking world... |
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AMERICAN TANKA: by Wayan; dreamed 1989/7/26, painting-poem-story on 30" disk, 1995. I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night... |
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ANARCHIST FAIR: by Wayan; 2005/4/5, a drastic dream-song, with chords At an anarchist fair in San Francisco, a 13-year-old punkette genius sings some shocking advice to me... |
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THE ARRIVAL: by Elizabeth Gibbons, 2014; a spiritual dream about dreams I'm a priestess from an island of women; I meet an angel who charges me to harvest all the dreams of the world... |
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BEETLE: by Daniel Quinn; spring 1941; a life-defining shamanic dream A black beetle insists I'm not needed or at home in the human world; my lifework is elsewhere... |
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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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BLACK PUPPETEER: by Anonymous #2; 1930s, an eerie dreamlet. My friend F. saw a child whose every move was controlled by a weird figure behind her... |
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Tarot: THE BUILDER: by Wayan; 1974/5/19, a Tarot card illustrating a dream. I met a god. Unmistakably a god. The Builder, hard at work--making Utopia, by hand. |
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CARYATID SWEET, GUIDE SOUR: by Wayan, 1999/9/2, a dream about that crazy conscious. My guide in India says the Third World's doomed, but a stone dancer in the ruins winks behind his back... CAUTION: NAKED CARVINGS |
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CELEBRATE BOTH: by Henry Sultan, 2005/6/26, a painting that blends two dreams At a snake-weaving party I flirt with my anima, who tells me how the cake fell off the roof. I think "At last we're really connecting!"... |
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CENTAUR BY SARTRE: by Wayan; 1989/3/28; an oracular dream A sea-centaur explains why some dreams don't LIKE to surface to so-called consciousness... CAUTION: WET T-SHIRT, EXISTENTIALISTS, HARPOONS |
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CENTAURPEDE: by Wayan; a bizarre 1983/3/15 dream predicts a bizarre art job in 2002! Like a long molecule floating in darkness, this dream creature could loop and link to itself... CAUTION: EQUINE NUDITY, LANGUAGE |
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CHART THE GROWTH: by Brenda Ferrimani; 2004, painting of an incubated, oracular dream I asked my dreams "What's my truest purpose?" I dreamed my body was a tree, and a voice said "Chart the growth"... |
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CIRC CERVINE: by Wayan; 2016/9/16, a dream on... how to catch difficult dreams? At a polyspecies circus, I sketch three acrobat-dancers--one deerish, one human, one... a mannequin? Fiendish to draw! I wake frustrated & sketchless. But my sketchwork in the dream helps me redraw it awake... CAUTION: DEER NUDITY |
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THE CIRCUS HUMANS' DESERTION: by Wayan; 1988/2/19; an epic holy dream. I join a circus, but soon all the best carnies sail off to the Blessed Isles. The circus animals pitch in and carry on--clumsy and lonely. Then a divine herald arrives from the Isles: Donald Duck! He says... |
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CRITTERS IN THE RIFT: by Wayan; 2013/7/18, a weird dream job I'm the receptionist for a research group of small oracular animals in an Icelandic rift, who can sniff out the answer to any question... |
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DEER-MAN DANCING: by "Cmmndrblu"; early 2006, a shamanic dream-within-a-dream at least six layers deep! I met a deer-man in the woods. I go lucid, then wake up... to find I'm still dreaming. And wake again, and wake, and wake... |
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DINAH'S ADVICE: by Wayan; 2007/4/14, a false-waking advisory frustration dream I struggle to write down a bizarre dream clearly and simply, but pen & paper both mutate. Then a child prodigy explains "dreams don't always want to be linear"... |
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DREAM FLOWERS: by Kathleen Raine, between 1953 & '65; a dream florifying dreams I dreamt I was given verbena sprigs--from my mother, I'm told. But am I me, Persephone, or all the daughters given love by all the mothers? |
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DREAM OF A DREAM OF NIGHT: by Robert Watson; 1960s, a dream-poem The goddess of Night is in love with me, but I'm married, and tired, and just full of excuses... |
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DREAM-TAN: by Madellyne Waugh; late April 2010, a digital, institutional avatar I've been drawing a personification of the World Dream Bank. Nerdy, but most of your readers are nerds... |
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THE EDUCATION OF A DREAM: by Wayan; 1998/7/7, a dream on dreams. A young, naive, ethereal dream gets an Animus to guide her through the crazy material plane... CAUTION: GRATUITOUS WILLIAM SHATNER |
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THE ENCHANTED WOMAN: by Anna Kingsford; Feb. 1877, an epic prehistoric dream. Goaded by a green spirit of envy, an Ice Age sorceror kidnaps Adam's Eve, arresting human evolution... |
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EXPERIMENT WITH TIME by Nancy Price; 1948, a shamanic-initiation dream declined? I meet a girl who's 16 and 61, who tells me dreams are lives, not messages. But then I must fly over a sinister parade... |
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FOUR-ARMED SINGER: by Wayan; 1996/5/16; a dream of baring your soul . In our mutant future, a lovely horse-tailed four-armed girl sings her heart out--as clubgoers ignore her... CAUTION: NUDE CABARET |
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FOUR EYES!: by Wayan; 1984/5/28, a metaphoric dreamlet. I started life as twins, but slowly we fused. I still have four eyes, though. Then, one day... |
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FOX-MOTHER: by Wayan; 2008/8/12, a dream poem; Dreamverse #2. The goddess of the Cult of Clutter catches a little thief, and tastes her to see if she's worthy... |
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FREUD'S UNDERWORLD: by Wayan; 2024/1/4; a comic book-review nightmare DAY: I reread Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams. His own dreams feel petty, devious, status-obsessed... dull. DREAM: I find Freud's bought my childhood home! I spelunk the Freudian underworld--a dark complex of tunnels, sewers and rats. Cross the rivers of muck on stepping stones. Emerge into sun at last, swearing "Never again..." |
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FURMAKI: by Wayan & Alder; 2018/11/15, anime-tinged telepathic/shared dreams. We sneak out of the movie to explore Upstairs. My friends hide from the staff in storage nooks for rolls of fake-fur. They turn into kitsune, catgirls & deergirls... |
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GERMAN AT THE DOOR: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/7/19; painting in the Box of Dreams A hulking, intimidating young man is at my door, with two scary dogs. Wait, is that Carl Jung?... |
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THE GODDESS OF WYRE: by Edwin Muir; 1925, a dream of soul-rebirth After 25 years I land on my native island of Wyre, to touch an ancient clay figurine, who grows young and wakes... |
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GOLD EGG: by James Russell Lowell: 1850s? a dream-poem I dreamt a couple toss out a shabby old hen. But it lays golden eggs! She becomes an eagle and carries me off to... |
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GOLD VERSUS DIAMONDS: by Wayan; 1972/1/20, a shameful dream fable. We're children seeking gold in a fairy wood. We meet some elf-kids, chase them off, and dig where they played. Then their parents show up... CAUTION: INTERSPECIES BULLYING |
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GOLDIE AND GRIMOIRE: by Wayan, 1987/3/2, a dream foreseeing My Little Pony? I get a crush on two mare-girls--sunny palomino Goldie is cute, but it's dark-silver, lunar Grimoire that really stuns me... CAUTION: EQUINE NUDITY, ESP REFERENCES |
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GRANDMA LILY: by Wayan; 2023/6/18, a dream on... dream interpretation? I wake in a suburb with Dire Wolves next door. I'm told an herb will appease them. But the local herbal expert's a regal talking lily--and can I speak plant-language? | |
GROUNDHOG DAY: by Wayan; 1994/9/2, a dream-comic (or text with pix) James Hillman is the first psychologist on the moon! He sees a shadow and panics like a groundhog--mistakes it for Death. Not his own shadow, but MINE... |
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HER GESTURED ROUTE: by Wayan; 1984/6/16, a dream poem. How's it feel to be an anima off the job? Is it lonely, when no one even believes you're a real person? |
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HERON HAREM: by Wayan; 1981/6/14, a dream with a moral. 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? |
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ID FLOWERS: by Wayan; 1989/10/8, a dream of wish and fear The villagers warned me not to walk in the alien graveyard; for at night, the Id flowers wake... |
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IN IO: by Wayan, 1981/8/7, a wild otherworldly dream with 3 illustrations. I live on Io. It's nicer than its photos. At least inside, where the oceans are--where I grow a second head... |
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INK MOUNTAIN: by Wayan; 1992/8/5, a tutelary dreamtale. A Himalayan peak boils with warring creatures, but a guru says "They're just your conflicts. Sit, watch..." |
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THE INVESTOR DREAMS A WOLF: by Wayan; 1983/10/30, a dream poem. My dream characters aged and tamed until they sit in a genteel Victorian flat. Then a wolf rappels in... |
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THE IRRATIONALITY OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1989/12/31, a New Year's dream. On TV, the first Jungian anima to leave the unconscious is granting an interview. But the questions are... |
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KING KONG CRAB: by Wayan; 2008/9/20, a dream poem; Dreamverse #29 One wizardry-classmate summons strange beings; another's learned how not to. Because some things need to be dealt with alone, where they can't harm...... |
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LACED WITH TERROR: by Wayan; 1999/5/3, an anti-nightmare. Researchers show me weird little objects like shoelaces that drive people mad with fear... |
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THE LADY LOVES THE HORSE by Wayan, 1990/9/28; a dream mocking fake humility Richard Russo writes that Westerners cannot dream like tribal people. So I dream Russo's the Cubist Dictator of Dreams! I prefer the part-equine Lady Demicorn, and the Fat Meditating Dog, and the Birdiesattva... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
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LAKOTA TRAINSCAPES: by Wayan; 2018/10/30, art seen in an anti-lucid dream In a general store on a High Plains rez, I find two surreal collaged postcards. If only this were a dream they'd qualify for the World Dream Bank, but sadly, it isn't. Right? CAUTION: STUPID, STUPID CONSCIOUS! |
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LAPUTANS LECTURE BROBDINGNAG: by Wayan; 2014/10/1; a dream defying the patronizing 'conscious' We ride on a flying saucer made of stone. Atop the great cliffs, we meet a giant and warn him not to slip. He doesn't appreciate advice from little alien tourist twerps... |
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LIGHTING THE TORCH: by Peter Birkhäuser; dreamed June 1974, painted Sept. '74. In the dark, a dragonlike god of fire stretched out one claw to courteously light my own small torch... |
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THE LIMIT OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE: by Wayan; 1974/3/13, a dream of madness. Deep in the caves, a Voice announces I've gone as far as the human mind can stand. But ahead, I see... |
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THE LITERAL EMPIRE: by Wayan; 1997/11/17, a dream on flexibility. I join the alliance against humorless humanoids who are invading funny-animal planets... |
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LITTLE NEMO'S BED: by Winsor McCay; c. 1906, a famous if probably fictional dream icon Little Nemo's bed gets restless and takes him for a wild ride through town and up onto roofs... |
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LYNX: by Peter Birkhäuser; Sept? 1976, his last dream-painting, facing his death The Lynx, my dream-god, comes for me at last... |
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MAELEN AND ME: by Wayan; 1972/5/1, a transmigrational dream. I'm a psychic circus animal who's just managed to teleport my humanoid girlfriend. It's for our act, but... CAUTION: PETTING |
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NIGHTMARE'S EAGER: by Wayan; 1999/4/6, a short dream about dreams. I meet a Nightmare in heat who wants me. A human girl by me says I'll catch an equine sex-disease... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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OTTO PREMINGER: by Gayle Delaney; 1972 or '73, a dream on dreamwork! I DREAM I'm in the mansion of my favorite film producer, Otto Preminger. Then I learn it's my home! I WAKE realizing I'm the producer of my dreams--not some impersonal, instinctive Unconscious... |
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A PILGRIM DREAMING: by Denise Levertov; 1977? a dream poem A man I loved goes into the Jungian depths, but when his anima appears in the mirror-pool, his nerve fails... |
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PONYBOY: by Wayan; 1982/12/9, a dream about the control room of dreams. The child who runs with wild horses finds the secret spy-room of dreams! But no one's watching... |
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PORTALS: by Wayan; 2020/7/30, a dream about family, uh, bonding... I sneak into a mansion where a mom & daughter bond by interrogating willing victims who get off on the bondage. Later, Inquisitor Girl and I are waiting to use a teleportation gate and discover we have something in common: not just weird moms, but even weirder dads... CAUTION: KINKY FAMILY VALUES |
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PUFF TIDE: by Wayan; 1993/5/1, a nightmare on indulging rage and tears. I'm swept off sea-rocks, as my scaly guardian watches calmly--letting me drown in the tears I shed... CAUTION: DROWNING |
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THE RAINBOW SLEEPER: by Wayan; 2000/9/20, sculpture of a dream about a mega-sculpture In Rainbow Food Co-op, a huge statue of a sleeping woman emerged from the floor, shedding shoppers... |
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RARE BIT FIENDS: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; a recurring dream personifying dreamwork? The wildcat Rare Bit Fiends slinks out of the hills to stalk and maul dreamers--until one day she rears up to teach a dream workshop... |
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RAVEN'S MIRROR: by Wayan, 2022/8/15, a surreal shamanic dreamlet A raven summons a levitating mirror that shows her face as a human, and tries out moods & expressions based on Tarot cards plucked from a tree... |
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REFLECTIONS IN THE POOL: by Wayan; 184K total, 2 panoramas; a 1994/7/2 dream. 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 |
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REGEANA'S DRAGON: by Regeana; 1996/3/9, a dream of generosity The jewels in the hoard had strange powers, but the advice of the dragon guarding them was even stranger... |
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THE RIVER: by Kathleen Raine, between 1965 & '71; two mystical dream poems on dropping the ego I tossed the crystal decanter of my self into the river, and watched it float away... |
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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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RUM JUNGLE: by Wayan; 1996/1/22, digital painting-poem on dreaming Think of your dreams as a rainforest, clearcut every morning--unless you make the effort to remember... CAUTION: TINY NAKED ANGELS |
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THE SOLE FISHER OF THE EIGHTH NODE: by Wayan; 1986/9/25, a prescriptive dream. The pier jutting into the sea of dreams has an 8th chakra at the end, where a lonely woman fishes for, um, sole... |
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SOME THINGS ARE DARK: by Edna St Vincent Millay; 1948??, a poem narrated by Nightmare Millay, suffering from nightmares, decides to speak from Nightmare's point of view... |
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STEVENSON’S BROWNIES: by Robert Louis Stevenson; 1850s-c.1887, a series of dreams Stevenson’s dreams changed over decades: from childhood nightmares into creative collaborators dreaming whole stories... |
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SURRENDER TO THE WHITE BUFFALO: by Kathleen Sullivan, 1970s?; a nightmare turned shamanic A gigantic herd of buffalo stampede toward me. I panic, then surrender in peace to what is surely my death... |
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TAHOE DRAGON: by Wayan; 1980/8/16, a dream of flight and fire A dragon killed a friend, and threatened worse. I had to fight. We dueled mid-air, over Lake Tahoe... |
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TANYA'S DREAMS: by Tanya, as told by Gayle Delaney, Jan 1971-June '72; a set of 6 breakup dreams My friend Tanya tries hard to save her marriage, but in her dreams Isidora Duncan, Carl Jung, even the gods themselves warn her to face their deep incompatibility... |
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THREE CATS: by Georges Perec; April 1972, a painful comic dreamlet. Excerpt from Dream #114 I go home. Our cat is there. And a small, striped new cat. Then I step on a third, much bigger cat. This is just one cat too many! "This cat's not real!" I say... The nonexistent cat leaps up and scratches my face. |
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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... |
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U.F.O. PROJECTION by Carl Jung, 1958/10; an ego-humbling dream UFOs hover near enough so I can see they're truly lenses--lenses projecting images. I judged UFOs to be projections from our minds, but now I see I am their projection! |
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UNCERTAIN ONEIROMANCY: by Denise Levertov; 1993? a dream poem I led a blind man through a vast art museum underground. But guiding him, I too was blind to the beauty... |
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WHAT YOU IMAGINE HAPPENS: by Wayan; 1982/2/21; a dreampoem on quarks. Or spooks. I'm stuck on a runaway bus. So we decide to picture the axle falling off, and it obeys! But the bus zooms on, carried by a horde of little animals... CAUTION: ESP SKEPTICS WILL LOATHE THE AFTERWORD (true story, though) |
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WHISTLE: by Dr William Hammond, c.1865; a self-flagging predictive nightmare On a long steamboat voyage, a living skeleton swaps a warning for my watch; when the whistle sounds, the boiler will blow. As it does, I dive in the river and wake to discover a real whistle... CAUTION: UNCANNY SYNCHRONIZATION? |
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THE WHITE DEER, RE-ENACTED: by Wayan; 2009/3/2, a parabolic dreampoem. I'm living in an England rendered in chalk. We wander the woods with butterfly nets, ritually hunting the White Deer--if that's what they really are... |
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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... |
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WHY COWGIRLS LOVE BROCCOLI: by Wayan; 1987/8/19, a surreal dream of love. I'm a cowgirl in Nevada circa 1900. In the canyon below Haunted Mansion, I meet a broccoli-green lizard girl. Naturally I help a lady in distress... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE |
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YOGI by Carl Jung, (April?) 1944; an ego-humbling dream Hiking, I come to a chapel where a yogi is meditating--on me. Creating me! And when he stops... |
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YOUR DREAM LIKES YOU: by Wayan; 3 ill., 1991-2007; three maxims from my anima. You say you want to remember your dreams, but do you write down what you DO recall? And ACT on it? |
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