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APOLOGETIC OGRE: by Wayan; 1990/3/1, a nightmare. I hop on a bus in mythical Greece, and this woman's guardian angel acts racist. OK, I'm an ogre. So? CAUTION: ANOTHER HANDGUN TRAGEDY |
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BERYL'S DOG DAYS: by Wayan; 1988/1/25, a psychic dream farce. My friend Beryl wants me to help rob a bank, so she can cut off her breasts and be a great opera singer... |
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BETRAY MY ANIMAL FRIENDS: by Wayan; 1999/11/12, a dream of brainwashing. As humans settle infospace, will we cheat other species trying to evolve into people? Are we already doing it? Admiring & documenting creatures we've written off as doomed? CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES; DISTURBING PREMISE |
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BIRDS ON FIRE: by Wayan; 2008/9/15, a political dream-poem, Dreamverse #26 George Bush leads a hill-tribe raid against the hill-tribe led by Osama bin Laden... and I'm stuck between... CAUTION: ANTI-HEROES, POLITICAL PREDICTION |
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BLACK MAGIC: by Wayan; 1986/11/10, a dream of love and rage; Chapter 8 of UNICORN TAG, though it can stand alone. A packet of magic soupmix sends me upstairs to a secret wizards' lab. They've summoned a demon they can't handle: the furious Black Unicorn... |
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THE BLOOD OF CHRIST (BUT, MOM!): by Anna Kingsford; 1879/10/17, a doctrinal dream gets personal I say Christ’s “blood” is a metaphor for “spiritual perfection.” My mom says "You're killing me; please repent"... |
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BLOW 'EM UP!' and POKER FACES: by Wayan; 1992/7/2; two dreams on denial and sabotage. Would the Revolutionaries in the Basement really blow up the Committee of Idealists upstairs? CAUTION: MAD BOMBERS! WELL, GRUMPY ONES |
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A BODICE RIPPER: by Carla Young, 2010/2/22; epic (and episodic) dream with 5 paintings Awkward newlyweds. Not a love match! Can they co-operate to save a woman from the Nazis?... |
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BURN THE EGGS: by Wayan; 2008/1/20; a magical advisory nightmare with 15 sketches. Fighting an absolutist theocracy, my dragon-soul burns the church's dragon-nursery. The cost is terrible: a black vortex... CAUTION: ROMANTIC THREESOME GETS BURNED |
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BUT AS YESTERDAY by Nancy Price; 1948, a dream of being sacrificed Our gods demand sacrifices. I let Mother mutilate me so I'd be unfit. But the priests turn out to be blind... CAUTION: YOU CAN FEEL PAIN IN DREAMS |
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CALVIN'S DREAM: by Calvin, c.1960?, a teen's sex dream on family & religious abuse I'm naked in a forest where the trees talk. They want my cock. A girl materializes, and we make love, but now the treefolk are our congregation, cheering us on. Only they call her my sister! She says "Yes. But I was never born. Dad beat Mom to abort me." She fades away, a ghost! I pick up a knife to protect Mom against Dad... CAUTION: PORNY SEX, SUDDEN GRIM END |
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THE CAMBODIAN GIRL: by Wayan; 1996/4/2 dream, sculpted 1998/11/9. VERY mixed media--the boat is warped wood. And the story is warped more... CAUTION: SEX, SHAME FROM EARLY TRAUMA |
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CECY'S SUBMISSION: by Wayan; 1996/6/4, a bondage-farce dream drawn as comics. My writer-friend Cecy will do anything to get published. Anything? Oh, believe me, ANYTHING... CAUTION: BONDAGE, not to mention POSTAGE |
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THE CHAPARRAL OF TIME: by Wayan; 2008/10/21, a timetravel dream-poem: Dreamverse #36 I snorkel over time-reefs to an era of talking animals--but why crash on the head of rocker Suzi Quatro? |
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CLASH OF KNOW-NOTHINGS: by Wayan; 2004/11/3, a election-day rant We don't face Huntington's Clash of Civilizations. This is a world war--inland reactionaries attack tolerant coasts. CAUTION: POLITICAL IDEAS, POLITICAL RAGE |
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CROC BOY: by Wayan; 2008/8/17, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #7. I visit a witch-smeller, who judges apprentice shamans. But when a boy dreams he's a crocodile, she freaks out... |
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CRUCIFERS: by Greg Hildebrandt; recurring nightmares 1969-71, painted 1971 After breaking with the Catholic Church, Greg had recurrent nightmares about its history of atrocities and cover-ups. Out of this came a series of paintings unlike his famous book covers. This was the first... CAUTION: MURDEROUS MOB |
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DANCE OF THE ENIGMAS: by Brian Harp; 2000, a dream of a sphinx-riddle She asked "What, plus a teaspoon of knowledge and a teaspoon of wisdom, makes three teaspoons of nothing?" |
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DID YOU THINK IT WOULD BE EASY?: by Wayan; 1995/1/15, a dream of slow liberation. Our Appalachian town revolts against fundamentalists, but brainwashing takes time to undo... CAUTION: SEX AND INJUSTICE |
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A DIFFICULT PATH: by Anna Kingsford; 1877/11/3, an advisory dream. I lead my daughter up a thorny path; she’s getting scratched. She'd rather stay in that fishing village below... |
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DREAMWORK IN A DECADENT AGE: by Wayan; 1997/11/19, a short essay Sprague De Camp says religions seduce us with emotional comfort. But is dreamwork religion or science? |
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FAIRY WIFE: by Wayan; 1985/1/17, an epic dream of love and choice. A fairy woman and a mortal man? Can't work! They're flighty, we're crude. Doomed, right? Well, some people are so sure of it they decide to help things along a bit. Or a lot... |
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FINANCIAL PORN: by Wayan; 1980/12/24, a Christmas dream on capitalism. On Christmas eve, I ask my dreams what they think of our annual orgy, and... CAUTION: THE F WORD AND THE C WORD (CAPITALISM) |
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FOLLOWING THE ELEPHANTS: by John Goldhammer; 1990s, a ten-year series of short dreams. Dream-elephants slowly bring John to terms with the early loss of his dad--and lead him out of a cult he’s outgrown.. |
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FOOTPRINT: by Wayan; 1980/1/11, a dream of the floating world. I'm jogging in Yosemite. A man tells me I'm possessed. There IS something in my shoe... |
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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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(MY) GLASS BODY: by Wayan; 1993/9/16, a dream on sensitivity. After I visit the crystalline people, a young diamond-wizard stalks me all the way to my home in the Meat World, and says... |
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GOD OF THE GULF: by Wayan; 2021/3/3, a dream warning piety has hazards I'm in the Gulf of Mexico watching the Creator of North America place mountains, rivers and ancestors just where they belong. I wake knowing this pious, static view is immoral... CAUTION: CRITIQUES TRADITIONALISM |
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GODEVILLE: by Wayan; 2013/9/1, a nightmare of that Old-Time Religion
I'm at a vaudeville for gods. Cthulhu the squid-god nearly tramples me--and then gets horny... CAUTION: GROSS GOD, GROSS GOO |
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HIDE THE LIST!: by Anonymous; c. 1550, a recurrent warning dream. A London Protestant dreamed Bloody Mary would find the congregation's member-list and burn them all... |
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HYDROGEN INITIATION: by Wayan; 1981/1/6, a shamanic nightmare. I'm an initiate in a Sung Dynasty monastery. But I have no idea how far the hazing can go... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
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THE ILL-FORMED TALE: by Wayan; 160K, 1981/4/7, a wild dream anti-epic. To reach the Peak of Happiness on the Isle of Dreams, I must pass four Perils--but they're all backwards... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS NUTS, KNIVES, NUDE ALIENS, BACKWARD PLOT... |
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JACOB'S LADDER: by Jacob, grandson of Abraham; c. 2050 BCE; a self-fulfilling prophetic dream. Jacob dreams of angels climbing to heaven. He meets God, who promises the Holy Land to him and his tribe. Jacob uncritically accepts... |
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LASERBOMB: by Wayan, 1995/7/3, a dream on paralysis. I'm on Mars. The terraforming is going well. Then saboteurs set off a laserbomb in the street near me... CAUTION: TERRORISM |
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MAHAKALA, MOZART, AND THE CRIPPLED BIRD: by Wayan; 1985/4/17, a dream on facing shadows The Christian God vs Mahakala, Buddhist god of right anger! War in Middle Earth, as Pink Floyd sings... |
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MANSON'S CAGE: by Wayan; 1992/9/10, a nightmare. At the end of my long, tiresome tour of Hell, it's feeding time in the cage of the Manson cult... CAUTION: SO MEAT REALLY IS MURDER! |
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MAYAN FORCE: by Wayan; 1992/12/6, a political dream-fable. First, sf writer Heinlein advocates a strong army; then I see one in action--turned against the people... |
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MIKE DIANA, JAILED FOR SACRILEGE: by Wayan; 1994/6/23; a real-life nightmare. Unfortunately, this is not a dream at all... |
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MILK ADDICTS: by Wayan, 1974/6/2, an early psychic dream. I'm in what seems to be a village of very conservative Muslims. But they're really alien castaways... |
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MOM THE MURDERER: by Wayan; 1996/3/7, a possible psychic dream. My mom confesses to a killing, says tearfully she had to do it--but her reasons make no sense. When I wake.. |
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MOOSE: by Wayan; 1984/3/12, a dream on the blessings of curses. How the Supreme Court gave my brother antlers, and where his soul went: where I'll go, now that I know... |
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MOTHER SUPERIOR: by Wayan; 1999/2/18, a nightmare with psychic tinges. A creepy visit to the Leather Nuns: as fierce as Beorn in The Hobbit, but less hospitable... |
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MUIR ON MARS: by Wayan; 1994/5/14, a dreamtale. I'm John Muir reborn on Mars, supporting Mars First against tree-cutters, who poison their enemies... |
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A MUSLIM CHEETAH: by Wayan, 2004/12/2, a dream of fundamental ambivalence A cheetah is a saboteur for a violent Islamic group. I'm attracted, but tear into her; "You plant bombs in the name of a rulebook meant for apes not cats!" CAUTION: NUDE CHEETAH; CRITIQUES HOLY BOOKS |
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MY CUBIST CONSCIENCE: by Wayan; 1982/8/5; a dream warning of overharsh ethics. I dreamed I was trapped in the maze of my pacifist vegetarian feminist anarchist eco-conscience... |
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NOT THREE!: by Wayan; 1996/11/11, an encouraging nightmare I was wrong. I didn't survive three assassins. It's been seven! Why'd I forget the others? |
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ORDEAL BY INFRASTRUCTURE: by Wayan; 1987/11/22, a Clintonian dreamtale--before Clinton! I want to join the inner circle of America's political elite. But to do that I have to survive the Ordeal by Infrastructure... |
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PANIC ATTACK IN MY SLEEP; 2012/1/11 by Rainier Mathee; a nightmare on every level No work, no friends, no lover. People power-drill their own skulls. My uncle's going insane. And when I call 911... CAUTION: BLEAK |
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PRAISE THE DANCING GOONS: by Wayan; 2008/10/16, a dream-poem: Dreamverse 34 Three big tap-dancing kidnappers is too many to fight. So I try admiring their kidnapping technique... |
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PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD: by Wayan; 2009/10/19, an illustrated dream poem; Dreamverse #61 I get stuck with a one-year mandatory gig as President of the World, just as Saudi Arabia collapses, and fools rush in... |
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A PRISONER OF ZEN: by Wayan; 1980/11/9, a dream on isolation. The Pope spears our Inuit captain and the Mystic, who turns solitary--a prisoner of Zen. Can I free him? |
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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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THE SEA-HAG RIOT: by Wayan; 1989/6/5, a wild dream hiding a warning. Aliens, hypnotherapy, dancing molars, riots, witches, flying pianos, lettuce... yet there is a point. |
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SHEEP IN THE SKY: by Myoe Shonin; c.1220/9/20, a dream of strange advice. A strange transforming thing appeared in the sky--a light, a sheep, a man. It told me to stop burning my head... |
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SILK PINS: by Wayan; 1992/5/13, a self-mocking dream. I'm a trade rep for Terra, on a new world. But an old rival, a rep from another world, arrives, and... |
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TAROT: (THE CHARISMATIC) LIZARD: by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. The card of driven leaders. It's so refreshing to hear someone honest and passionate. Right? Well... |
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THIEF OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1996/11/29, a sexy soul-swap dream; a 22-page comic (or text w/pics) I was a mermaid trying to find Count Coyote's stolen dreams, so I could marry my human girlfriend... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, LESBIAN MARRIAGE, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
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THIRTEEN PEACE SIGNS IN A TIME OF WAR: by Wayan; early 2002, acrylic sgraffito on wood. The animal goddess of peace, stubbornly raising her sign, my sign, as you all slide into your nice holy war... |
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THE THREE VEILS BETWEEN MAN AND GOD: by Anna Kingsford, March 1881, a messianic dream. I was shown what veils the God in us: Blood (violence), Idols (dogmatism), and the Curse of Eve (sexism)... CAUTION: FUNDAMENTALISTS (OF ANY FAITH) WILL SEE RED |
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TIMESHOT!: by Wayan; 1999/1/2, a warning dream. I provoke a shooting! Wandering through time, I forget how much some cultures fear witches... |
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VICARIOUS ATONEMENT: by Anna Kingsford; 1880/1/31, an anti-shamanic dream Kingsford meets a girl who burns herself as a protest. K flips out! Rants instead of helps... CAUTION: RANT MIDWAY YOU'RE BETTER OFF SKIPPING |
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A VISION: by Denise Levertov, 1965 or '66, a poem from hypnogogic vision? daydream? Two archangels meet; one red and gold winged, one blue and green. In heaven, form reveals worldview. Yet these two souls in dispute are great; rather than fight they appreciate... |
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THE VOICE OF GOD: by Wayan, 1993/1/31, a psychic nightmare-epic. Half-mad with fear, I massacre a cult, till my gun manifests stigmata: a gory miracle. Then I'm a cultist, resisting the Voice of God pushing all us mortals to murder in His name. I woke up haunted, and wondered for weeks what this was about... until the Waco Massacre. CAUTION: CREEPY VIOLENCE, CREEPY GOD, CREEPY PREDICTION |
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VOR: by Wayan; 1984/3/27, an indescribable dream Am I King Kong? No, it's a city of midgets! I leave and find I'm gay. Gay bugs come out of the closet too, storming the fundamentalist flies of Heaven. And then Vor, the purple alien, does something peculiar... CAUTION: LOOKS DOWN ON HOMOPHOBIC MIDGETS |
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VRILLASSA'S ONLY PRIEST: by Jo; 2007/2/10, a dream of meeting God A job as the only priest on an island colony sounded perfect, only I'm the wrong religion... CAUTION: DOGMATISTS AND DEAD BIRDS TALKING |
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WAITING FOR PIGFALL: by Wayan; 1979/10/31, a puzzling Halloween dream. The messiah of a suicide cult prepares to ritually sacrifice me. Then a miracle occurs! But... whose? |
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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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WINDFALLS IN EDEN: by Wayan, 2000/3/30, a religio-politic dream. I'm a part-owner of Eden, harvesting windfalls. But a renter says his Landlord promised him all the apples... |
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THE WORK OF POWER: by Anna Kingsford; Dec. 1880, a wildly uncompromising dream-sermon A dream telling how to acquire mystic power: raw food, no sex, meat, or booze; just meditate in rural solitude... CAUTION: EXTREMISM |
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WORLD TOUR: by Sharon Boyle; 1937?, a nightmare told to her mom, poet Kay Boyle This man comes into the chapel, makes a fascist salute, catches fire, and burns right down to his shoes... |
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YGGDRASIL COLONY: by Exarian; 2009/4/20, an Asimovian dream I dream of three colonies in the deep future. We outlived the universe itself, but can we survive each other? CAUTION: WAR, GENOCIDE, POLITICAL ALLEGORY |
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