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ADOPT A SON TO WIN A MATE: by Wayan; 2010/11/24; a dream of priorities I'm a big cat lonely in this human city. Wish I had a mate! But as soon as I take responsibility for an orphaned boy, in walks an older girl... |
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ALPINE GUINEA PIG & SEXLESS CHILD, or, I'M EITHER A GREAT MOM OR A TERRIBLE MOM: by "Veronica Franco"; 2006/8/19, a dream of penned creatures and those who love them. Alpine deer-hamsters, pigs, birds, children, even fundamentalists' daughters grow up and want to fly free... |
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ANTELOPE GIRLS: by Wayan; 2015/1/2, a dating-advice dream for the traumatized All the runaways & homeless girls in town start calling themselves antelopes. I bring home an antelope date. But my mom, who looks like my Reaganite grandma, sees a literal antelope... |
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AS OTHERS SEE US: by Wayan; 1993/12/3, a socially astute flying dream. We're orphans learning to fly by night, when others can't see and define us... |
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BAT AND UMBRELLA: by David Small; c. 1960/3/1, a nightmare exposing deadly child neglect I'm an orphaned bat in an alley in a storm. I mistake a broken old umbrella's ribs & flaps for... my Mom! I unfold Mom, and discover... CAUTION: LIFE-THREATENING CHILD NEGLECT |
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BONOBOCARE, or, THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE: by Wayan, 2015/8/8, a dream's "Modest Proposal" Tax-funded child prostitution ends war--sex calms men down from mean chimps to nice bonobos. Rough on street kids, though... CAUTION: SEXPLOITATION, SATIRE HARSH AS JONATHAN SWIFT. UNICORNS, TOO! |
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BROWN DRESS: by Wayan; 1984/2/11, 9-page digital comic of a sexy healing dream. A champion swimmer tells me how she turned a sexual humiliation into excitement and liberating power... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, SHAME, PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY |
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BULL FEEDS THE KITTEN: by Wayan; 2018/5/23 a dreampoem of using tricks to nurse feral critters Cleo the talking kitten denies being a cat, so I invent Wolf-N-Puma Chow! Must I play similar games to nourish that other feral critter... me? |
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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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CARSELVES: by Miriel; 1985/6/21, a predictive dream of putdowns I dreamed I was a classic hippie bus. My brother was a lovingly customized Mustang. We were real collector's items. So our parents decided to sell us. Their asking price was... |
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COLOSTRUM FIRST!: by Lily and Wayan; 1998/2/27; a shared dream A dream of exhibitionist girls playing with breast milk turns out not to be symbolic, but psychic... CAUTION: BREASTS |
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DREAMKU, JUNE 2006: by Roswila; various dates up to June 2006; thirty dream-haiku Daily dream-poems in haiku style, nonstop for a month. A flood of animals, revenant ghosts, sex changes... |
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DRUGGED, SHRUNK AND DAUBED: by Wayan; 2008/11/1, a dream-poem (Dreamverse #38) I'm worried an alien charity is brainwashing an ex-prostitute. When I wake, she's still there--at 2/5 scale!... |
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ELF CIRCLE; 2011/3/19 by Wayan; a complex advisory dream. After trespassing in a staff-only part of Faerie, I'm cast out. Only I'm cast like a seed, meant to grow a new elf circle... |
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FALSE ALARM: by Wayan; 1996/5/23, a nightmare I lived as a kid. In school, I'm seen as a freak--lied to, set up for little pranks. Not just by my classmates--my teachers... |
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FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 2.6M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic. I had an epic dream lasting subjective weeks--a true other life. It wasn't Earth and we weren't human. I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. One night, my friends curled round me, I saw I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a woman, marry, and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right... 2600K loads slowly? Try it in parts: 1: HOME, 650K, 2: VOYAGE, 1200K, 3: BACK 750K. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
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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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FOR THEM: by Wayan; 1995/12/1, a dream of outcasts. On the Night Train out of my small-town life, I meet the town rebel. But she's misplaced her tongue... CAUTION: PETTING; UNNERVING TONGUE |
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FOX-BOY: by Wayan; 1997/2/28, a dream fable. A boy offends his uncle the King, who transforms him into a fox. Grounded! But Fox-Boy runs away... |
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GALLERY GAWKERS: by Wayan; 2003-5; sketches of San Francisco characters
For two years, I sat at the desk in our co-op gallery, and secretly sketched our bewildered, art-assaulted customers... |
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GIFTED CHILDREN NEED...: by Wayan; 1980/8/6, a journal extract on geniuses. Advice of a specialist on the care and feeding of child prodigies, embarrassingly relevant for adult geniuses... |
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THE GIRL IS ARMED: by Wayan; 2009/1/28, three diagnostic/advisory dreams. An abused girl survives grotesque situations to become a job/health counselor with a talking sofa... CAUTION: BUTT-SNIFFING GIANT |
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THE GIVE-AWAY: by Wayan; 1982/6/7, a career nightmare. My parents pray for my success, and arrange a great learning opportunity for me. Really. |
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GOLD EATER: by Wayan; 1993/1/15 dream drawn as 9-page comic. 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) |
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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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HAND ME THE MATCHES!: by Wayan; 1984/9/25, a predictive dream. My sisters and I try to kill kidnappers by setting fires. Dumb, huh? The next day I fight a virus--with fever! |
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HER ONLY FRIEND: by Wayan; 1996/7/1, a dream of worms turning. A sorceress trains a kid as a prostitute who'll spy on her powerful clients. But her training has side effects... CAUTION: EXPLOITED KIDS |
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HORSES OF THE AQUARIUS: by Wayan, recurring dream 1956-8, poem '72/6/24, art 82/12/11 My earliest memory's a recurring dream: I'm a wild horse near Shiprock, recurrently dreaming that I'm a human child! The two lives alternated for years, each a dream to the other... |
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HUNTERS' FIRE: by Wayan; 1987/9/8, a nightmare that may be a memory. I'm an orphan shot at by hunters. They shoot my sister! But no one believes me... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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A JOB WELL DONE: by Wayan; 1981/3/2; a dream-farce with a serious warning The tale of a fawn named Fawn and her mom, a bank-robbing hippopotamus... CAUTION: GLAMORIZES THIS ALARMING TREND |
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LIU AND YI (not to mention Kong!): by Liu Bang's mom, 257 BCE, and Yi Yin's mom, c.1600 BCE; birth-related dreams Liu Bang's mom dreams a spirit is making love to her. Her husband sees the spirit is a dragon! Her baby grows up to found the Han... Yi Yin's mom dreams a spirit warns "if water pours from your mortar, run!" She does, and survives a flood, to help found the Shang... CAUTION: LIKELY JUST FOLKLORE |
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LUCKY STARR: by Wayan; summer 1964, a childhood cryptomnesic dream. I fell asleep reading a book I'd read years before. I finished it in my dreams. Every word in place. How? |
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LYNN HALL'S "FLYAWAY": by Wayan; 1997/7/6, a journal extract on religious abuse A book that kept me up late. Ariel and Robin get abused as subtly & deniably as me and my sisters... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS/PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE |
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MATILDA, or, HITLER'S GIRLFRIEND MULTIPLIES: by Wayan; 1998/10/1, a dream of math and courage. I'm Hitler's girlfriend. Not Eva Braun, just me--gentle, weak, thrown in among killers. What can I do? |
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MEN CATCH FIRE: by Shannon Frazier; 2020/12/8, an identity-bent dream I was a South Asian teenage girl. Strange men throw rocks at our house, then explode into fire. I don't trust my dad to get my little brother out... |
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MENOLLY: Love Song to a Dragonsinger: by Wayan; 1977, a dreamish poem on giftedness and abuse. As a kid I was haunted by the parallels between Menolly of Pern and me... |
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MEREDYTH AND LILLY: by Meredyth Watts; May 2010, 2010/11/14 and 2010/12/7, episodic dreams I dream over & over of the same place, time, & woman. We fall in love. Strangely, I'm the one who gets pregnant... |
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MICMAC TOWERS: by Wayan; 2010/6/12, a quietly predictive surreal dream I dream squatters build surreal towers in a city of junk. I wake, go to a movie, and see... |
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THE MORAL INTELLIGENCE OF CHILDREN: by Wayan; 1999/5/24, a rant on giftedness and fragility Robert Coles wrote a book on kids' moral sense, but his examples don't tell me what they tell him... |
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ON MOLLY'S FOREHEAD: by Wayan, 1988/11/19, a spiritual sex dream. A child of radicals goes wild in Rio. When we bail her out, we find she's had a strange enlightenment... CAUTION: UNSAFE SEX |
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MUTT HUNCH: by Roswila, 2007/11/13; a dreamku A dream haiku telling of a dog-pack saved by the intuition of a mutt with a mangled ear... |
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ORBITING THE CRYSTAL PALACE: by Wayan; 1998/1/12, a dream of making a home. A wild flying dream lands me among feral children fighting to live in a glass conservatory of lost flowers... |
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THE OTTER'S MOM: by Wayan, 1996/5/29; a dream-comic of the future. A doomed, orphaned ottercub meets the last Tasmanian Wolf, who makes a hard choice I couldn't. Or... did I? CAUTION: BIRTH SCENE (MARSUPIAL/NON-GORY) |
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OVERWHELMED YOSEMITE DAD: by Wayan; 1998/9/25, a warning dream. Mom's vanished, and our writer/bohemian dad's caring for us alone now. But he's barely coping. And he's me... |
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PET AD, OR, RENTADOG: by Wayan; 1996/11/9, an illustrated Shakespearean singles-ad. I put a singles ad in our paper, but I just couldn't say what I really wanted to. Now, I can... CAUTION: SEX, DRUGS, AND DOGGEREL |
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PETER PAN SYNDROME: by Wayan; 1995/1/10, a dream on those books... I meet Peter Pan grown up: a stark, fey prince in exile. Why do only I see him and the Lost Children? Oh. |
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THE PIRATE TWINS: by Wayan; 1996/7/25, a dreamtale on intrigue. I love the Twins. They love intrigue. But when a hired crocodile sabotages our Egyptian treasure-hunt... CAUTION: BAD GIRLS |
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PONDICHERRY: by Toni Emrich, 1991/6/6, and Margaret Thomas, 1991/7/??, linked asynchronous dreams EMRICH: I'm in a conference center in "Pondecherry", even though it feels nothing like India... THOMAS: A woman picks fruit off a tree by a pond and calls them "pondicherries--with an 'i'"... CAUTION: WILL ANNOY E.S.P. DENIERS |
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PORCUPINE HEAD: by Emily Y. Chan, 2024/4/20 or before; dream painting I had a dream I was exploring ruins in a forest, where I encountered this feral girl with a porcupine head.... |
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THE POWER OF ART: by Wayan; 2016/8/29, a dream-poem about the longtern effect of dreamwork? At a museum, a weird art project shows me how observing and documenting life in art can improve that life--just from being taken seriously... |
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PRODIGIES' ODDITIES: by Wayan; 1994/2/2, a confession. I suspect we child prodigies and geniuses are as unlike the gifted as normal people. So here's a checklist... CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED |
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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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PUPPY: by Naoki Higashida; March or April 2015, a role-reversal dream I walk home with a puppy to meet my mum, who addresses the dog by my name and invites him in, while I head for my doghouse in the garden... |
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A RENAISSANCE WOMAN: by Wayan; 1997/7/3, a dreamtale. I'm an abused girl turning tricks to survive. But this is San Francisco: I join a prostitutes' co-op, and meet... CAUTION: PROSTITUTES WITH SELF-RESPECT, OH NO! |
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RESCUE FEVER: by Wayan; 1994/2/3, a dreamtale on rescue fantasies. A refugee girl crawls into my bed. We become lovers. I protect her. But over time... am I holding her back? CAUTION: ABUSE? OR NOT? |
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THE RESTLESS FILTER: by Wayan; 2011/2/4; a dream explaining my loneliness and American politics I'm a kid in Nevada around 1950, learning that both my folks are lone wolves who gave me a genetic double dose... CAUTION: RACIAL THEORY ABOUT... LIBERTARIANS? |
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THE SELL-FISH WITCHES: by Wayan; 1983/6/29, an epic corrective dream My sister and I are runaways, developing psychic powers. A cult of fish-selling witches wants to use us... CAUTION: SIBLING INCEST, SPELL ABUSE |
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SHRIEK ADOPTION: by Wayan; dreamed 2015/8/23, a dream-poem exposing self-sabotage A man adopts two orphaned, talented musical griffins. But their previous guardians were so traditionalist & stifling that the cubs want to BURN all their instruments... |
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SISTERS OF THE INTERFACE: by Wayan; 1983/12/21, a shamanic dreamtale. My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet... |
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STATUES ON ICE: by Wayan; 2021/3/12, a dream of blue politics Weird blue snow covers a dump of unwanted historical statues, but they seem less political than... strange. Is that a griffin? What's really getting covered here? |
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TAROT: MINE CHILD: by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. Deep in the strata inside you, gems lie waiting in the dark for this child to dig them free... |
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THANOS: from Dream to Performance: by Lili Berko, 1988 or before, a dream of birth & death The ship carrying my mom to America sails on, as I drown in the sea; They strap me down to pull out the pieces of my stillborn baby Obdale; A family/gang called Thanotos invites me to join them... CAUTION: MISCARRIAGE, DEATH |
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TIAMAT'S REBELLION: by Wayan; 1988/1/1, a dream about neoteny. That day: I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah. That night: I dream she leads a revolution on a starship against her elders... |
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UNDER THE FUR: by Wayan, 1997/10/7; a 5-page dream-comic (or as ill. text) A strange creature slunk into our yard, carrying a skunk lunch. But she dropped her fur coat, and I recognized a kindred spirit... |
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VOLCANIC OATH: by Wayan; 1972/5/20; poem of a teenage Tolkien nightmare. DAY: our ex-cat comes back, needing surgery. Dad doesn't want to pay. Big quarrel. DREAM: Cats, birds, elf-girls; in their asteroid library, a tale of oath-breaking... Now I'm the one who stole a tooth of jade from the volcano hall. Greed... erupts! CAUTION: NUDE BIRD-ELF, DEATH BY LAVA |
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WATERCATS: by Wayan; 1987/9/10; an epic, clear predictive dream 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! |
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WHITE-FACED: by John A. Symonds; 1861/7/3, a mutation nightmare My face was leprous white like parchment; my eyes shone with a cold blue eerie light. I shrieked "Papa, don't you know me?"... |
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WITCHES, MANHUNT, TIGER AND SHARK: by Sidarta Ribeira, 1976, child's nightmares facing loss After his dad's death, a boy dreams he's an orphan facing cannibal witches--every night! Therapy helps; his recurring dreams shift to a manhunt for a criminal who hides on the ceiling. The dreams shift again, to a tiger hunt. That is, the tiger hunts you. The boy jumps in the sea. Swimming with sharks... CAUTION: INTENSE NIGHTMARES, PARENTAL LOSS |
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WOLVES EVOLVE: by Wayan, 1983/11/11, a Darwinian dream. After seeing 'Rear Window', Grace Kelly and I are wolf children in a pack that's quickly evolving into... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, CHILD SEXUALITY, WOLF-SLANDER |
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