Forests
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ABOVE SOCIETY: by Jayci Ferrimani; c. 1998, painting of a flying dream with a point I flew over a forest. I noted the trees were all the same, and told myself to remember this... |
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ALL THE ANIMALS: by Sharon Lynn Pugh; c.1986, an epic, species-bent, funny, feminist dream-within-a-dream I'm a fox-woman. A human man courts me--insultingly. I dream my brain grows till my head hurts, till it splits open, till light gets in. I rant at the last dragon. Strange but kindly, he gives me a picnic... |
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BAGHEERA SUGGESTS LOVAGE: by Wayan; 1993/7/31, a Jungle Book dream The panther in the Jungle Books was really female. I grew up with her cub... |
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BERNAL ISLET IN 2250: by Wayan; 2007/4/2, an epic undream painting My neighborhood becomes a Huck Finn Eden after global warming turns it into a tropical island... CAUTION: NUDITY, AMBITOPIA |
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BIOFRACTAL: by Deirdre Barrett, c.2016; an ecological dreamlet I was in a jungle, seeing birth, growth and death--the entire web of life at once... |
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BUFFALO PERSON: by Plenty Coups, summer 1857; a child's time-traveling, tribe-saving dream I was led into the future, where all the buffalo disappeared, to meet a frail old man by a ranch house... |
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BUTTERFLY WOLF: by Wayan; 1982/8/15, poem and paintings of a dream job--and dream lover? I help run the Dream Hotel, a giant mushroom with grand forest views. It's the off season; our only guest is this lovely butterfly-wolf girl... CAUTION: NUDE WOLF |
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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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CARACARAS TELL ALL: by Sean McCann, c.2010, a wistful dream SITUATION: I'm in the rainforest, studying the red-throated caracara, a clever, elusive bird... DREAM: Caracaras show up in Vancouver, speaking fluent English. At LAST I can interview... |
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THE CAT: by David B.; 1991/9/24, an eerie sculpture come alive In the woods outside a modern art museum, I'm being stalked by Giacometti's huge skeletal cat... |
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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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CLARENCE, GO THIS WAY: by a Michigan mom and son, pre-1961, a shared dream I dreamed I sat high in a pine tree when my son stumbled through the woods, clearly lost. So I called... Meanwhile my son, off at college, dreamed he was lost in a forest when he heard a voice above him call... |
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CRESTED DEER: by Wayan; 2022/7/8, two shamanic little dreams In endangered woods I meet deer with bold black-and white feather crests. Higher up, it's barren--a hard winter. But I taste a medicinal blue-black fruit... |
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DEAF TO MY SIGNS: by Wayan; 1997/6/17, a wise frustration dreamtale. In a darkened room of deaf women watching a slideshow, I find no one can hear me in either English or Sign... |
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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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DEERTAUR TRANSFORMATION: by Wayan, 1987/6/22, a dream of mythical art A strange book has woodblock prints telling how a princess turns to a deer-centaur and meets animal-headed forest guardians. But the message is rather practical... CAUTION: (FURRY) NUDITY |
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DESERT EYES: by Wayan; 1984/3/4, a dream of portals. We desert-hobbits break through to a world of jungle giants who see differently from us. Will they believe us about the UFOs? |
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DO YOU LOVE ME, JOHN?: by Wayan; 1991/7/6, a dream on the courage of the shy. I dream of a future where blondes are a too-cute endangered species. How can they survive? Like this... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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THE DREAM: dreamed by Yadwigha, painted by Henri Rousseau; 1910, collaborative dream art Rousseau's painting of a woman on a red sofa in a glorious jungle really was dream-based--just not his dream... CAUTION: NUDITY, SLACKING |
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A DREAM OF HELL by Herbert Palmer, 1919; recurring nightmares of loneliness I'm in Hell. No fire, no guilt. Just endless forests under the moon. My mother paints endlessly but never gets it right. A sunny day, but I can't go out to play. Cut off... CAUTION: DEPRESSION |
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THE EUCALYPTUS WARNING: by Wayan; 1993/8/6, a punning health-advice dream. Bad puns link an ecological dream of a forest being murdered by inches, and a dental exam... |
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EXPLORATION: by Wayan; 1998/2/27, a dream on leaving your safe zone. Hide-and-seek on an alien world ends in a sexy encounter--and a startling insight on BELIEF... CAUTION: SEX |
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FAMILIAR WOOD: by Wayan; 1994/11/10, a dream of the borderzone. Downtown San Francisco hides a magic wood full of crested talking tigers. And I must enter it to live a while... |
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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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FLAMING LEAVES: by Dr. Adele A. Gleason and John R. Joslyn; 1892/1/26, a shared dream. Adele: alone & scared in a dark wood--but her friend John came & shook a tree; it burst into flame! John, the same night: found Adele scared in a dark wood. Shook a bush & it burst into flame... |
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FLIGHT FROM A JAGUAR: by Davi Kopenawa, 1959-62, a child's recurring nightmare turns to flight A jaguar tracked me. I ran, but never escaped; it pounced on me and I woke crying. I tried climbing trees, but it climbed after me. The only escape was to jump from the highest branch, flapping desperately. And I flew... |
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FLYING IN THE FALL: by Wayan; 1995/1/21, a dream scene. In Surinam, a whole river falls 600 meters into the sea. I put on a birdsuit and fly into rainbows... |
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THE FOREST BRIDE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 1994/7/23 & 1994/12/10; opposing solstice dreams In the midsummer dream, I'm at a wedding in the Russian forest; in winter, I dream I hold an emaciated girl as she breathes her last... |
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GIRAFFETAUR GROVE: by Wayan; 2009/7/27, a science-joke dream hiding serious diagnostic advice I meet the new improved giraffe people with hydraulic chrome skeletons-- such light, powerful jaws and stretchable necks. Wow, Lamarckianism is back! CAUTION: ANTICREATIONISM--THAT IS, ACTUAL SCIENCE |
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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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GUNTRAM'S SNAKE by King Guntram, c.570 CE; a profitable out-of-body dream On a hunt, Guntram took a nap. His courtier saw a snake emerge from his mouth; it tried to cross a creek. The courtier lay his sword out like a bridge, and the snake crossed, climbed a hill, and went in a hole. It returned and crawled in Guntram's mouth. He woke and said "I was crossing a river on a great iron bridge..." |
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I'M ALL EARS, DR. ESTES: by Wayan; 1995/6/7, not a dream, a portrait of a radio-trance.
Clarisa Pinkola Estes (who runs with the wolves) was on the radio, and this popped out of my mouse... |
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IN THE BIG BURN: by Wayan; 1997/7/22, a postnuclear dream. I love a girl who wants to settle in a radioactive jungle, a scar from an ancient war. Stay or go? |
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IN THE STAR; 1988/9/12 by Wayan; an epic, out-of-body, intrastellar quest-dream I tour the heart of a red supergiant, where dreaming souls explore their fears and heart's desires, unconstrained by solid matter... CAUTION: SWEDENBORGIAN VISION, UNICORN NUDITY |
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JASHA EXPLAINS DEATH: by Wayan; ca. 1974/10/1; a 10-page painted comic with recurrent dream figures Deep Duck's interview with Jasha the Krelkin goes rogue, as she urges tossing out human habits like... death? CAUTION: REDWOOD-SPRITE SEX, PEEING ON TREES, DRUNK DUCK |
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KILIMANJARO: by Wayan, 1983/4/3, a predictive climatological dream I dream I'm visiting a friend who's moved to a high equatorial peak. I'm shocked to find no trees. Next day, I stumble on a book about Mt Kilimanjaro. Its treeline is below ours in California! A high-altitude desert... |
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LILIES, DREAMER, FOX: by Wayan; 1998/5/27, acrylic on 46" plywood disk, life study. She didn't want to be there. She closed her eyes and went elsewhere. So I painted where she went... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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LION: by Kenneth John Atchity; c.1983, a flying dream lionifying Death I fly through treetops, a lion chasing me. For him it's a game; he smiles at my tiring. And death is his name... |
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MARCOUX'S DREAMS: by Shirley Marcoux, 75/11/4, 76/4/2, 4/28 & 6/24; & one by Cheryl, 76/4/3 Four apparently psychic dreamlets of a gun in a desk, a guy needing to hide, a canyon with woodpiles & a locked gate, and a blonde girl named Cathy... CAUTION: SMALL DREAMS, LARGE IMPLICATIONS FOR E.S.P. |
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MELTDOWN VALLEY: by Wayan; 1993/2/13, a dream of scrupulous balance. A park in San Francisco has melted into a bizarre mutation-zone. Its guardian is a lonely elf-woman... CAUTION: ELF NUDITY |
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MY TREE: by Wayan; 170K, 12/12/2007, 2-page comic of a persistent delusion. I keep feeling I'm a reincarnated rainforest creature just passing for human. When all I want is... CAUTION: TOBACCO |
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NATURE DEFIES CONTOUR: by Wayan; 1999/9/20. waking vision in ink & acrylic applied with a stick It's not nice to outline things that don't want to have outlines... |
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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... |
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NIP OFF HIS NOSE: by Wayan, 2020/2/20, four surreal dreamlets about Covid? or... overwork? 1: I sketch two deer-girls making videos. 2: I pull a man's nose off, and milk the scene for drama before... 3: My old boss is convicted of murder! 4: I wake and two friends interpret #3 as "Overwork is killing you..." I wake again. My dream-notebook's blank. No friends here; their interpretation was a dream too.... CAUTION: NUDE DEER |
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NOVEMBER DREAM: by Kathleen Raine, between 1974 & '77; a longing dream poem In my dream I walk through golden glowing woods; I wake to a soggy London November... |
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THE OWLS OF THE GATEKEEPER ON THE FOREST BRIDGE: by Brian Quinn; 2009/7/15, a shamanic invite I'm pulling a cart in the woods. At a bridge over a canyon, owls urge me to climb down into the misty abyss, but... |
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THE PEGASI TUB: by Wayan; 2013/11/9, a fun, flirty dream I felt I didn't deserve After a rainy hike I'm cold and muddy. In the camp's hot tub, six girls splash and play. They welcome me, but I feel shy. They slowly become winged ponies! Were-Pegasi... CAUTION: HOT-TUB NUDITY |
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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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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? |
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RED HORSE: by Katherine Kean; undated, 2016? 17?; a dream demanding... solitude? wildness? more? I was at a nice party when a wild horse burst in and insisted on taking me into a wilderness... CAUTION: CUT-OFF ADVENTURE? |
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ROUSSEAU: by Wayan; nondream journal entry & felt pen drawing, 1983/3/23. A psychedelic study of Henri Rousseau's painting of a flutist in the jungle, revealing how I really see the world... |
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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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SENSORIA: by Wayan; 2023/1/6, a dream doing science A book about the psychology of creatures with different sensory arrays persuades me that all of us creatures build models of one shared world, for understanding your neighbors vastly ups your odds of survival... |
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SLUGS: by Patagia; 2010/11/24, a molluscan dream poem My friend and I are banana slugs on the forest floor. We wander out into chaparral, and across a bike path... |
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SPHINX'S WOOD: by Wayan; 1981/11/19, a dream of puns, riddles and advice After my dad lets me down I dream black may be white, and white, black--if you're a Sphinx... |
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SPIDER CRONE: by Wayan; 2019/12/20, a nightmare of helpful advice Lost in the rainforest of Olympic National Park, I stumble into the wrong cabin: the hut of Time herself. Or is she? She asks me to clean up, but spare her web... |
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SPOCK'S SPIRITS: by Wayan; 2000/3/12, a financial-advice dream. Lost in a dark maze of machine-shops, I follow Mr. Spock, who's drunk, and talks to tree-spirits... CAUTION: ALCOHOL AS INSPIRATION? |
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SPORECOUNT: by Wayan; 1990/1/5, a dreamtale on patience through change. I'm a hot archeology student till I open the wrong tomb. A plague turns us into green moldy monsters--at first... CAUTION: DISEASE, DEATH, GRIEF, SHAME |
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SPORE FOREST: by Wayan; 1998. Watercolor, digital tweaking. Daydream image.. No dream, no plot. I saw myself as a horse grazing in a forest of giant mosses, lifting spore-packets... |
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SYLVIA, OR, PUN-DREAMS: by Hervey de Saint-Denys, early 1860s? 4 dreams of French puns A comet grows hair, a girl named Rosalie becomes a bed of roses, writing in a beautiful hand appears on a beautiful hand, and Sylvia becomes a talking forest bird... |
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TAROT: DREAMTIGER! (Strength): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1979. Find your strength in dreams: facing (and befriending) what you've feared, or fought... |
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THE TIGER AND THE WOLF: by Jo; 2011/1/15; a dream of temptation A black dog leads me into the fairy wood. I'm curious what happens to those who walk under the tree where the Lightning Tiger lurks.... |
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TIGER HONEYMOON: by Wayan, 1987/3/16, a dream of a trickster I buy a charming ruin in the woods. Newlywed tigers prowl! The tiger bride tells me "He expects predictability. But I'll show him what a tiger really is..." |
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TRANSLUCENCY AS AN ADAPTATION IN ARBOREAL CRUSTACEANS: by Anonymous #46, early 1994?, an epic dream Arboreal marsupials with megaphones narrate a Polynesian documentary, while the rare translucent lobster sings its death song, sacrificing itself for lunch CAUTION: WILL CAUSE VEGETARIANISM |
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TREE, RIVER, BIRD, MOON: by Davi Kopenawa, 1959-62, a child's shamanic dreams I climbed a tree with a beautiful view, but climbing down I fell, and woke. I visited the people under the river. A beautiful ayocora bird danced for me. But so did the moon spirit, baring its fangs. Terrifying! |
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UNGIRDLE THE TREE: by Wayan; dreamed 2018/10/6, a shamanic warning dream I'm a girl living alone in a forest. I go patrolling after a storm and find a red cable strangling a tree. Though scared, I climb up and tear it off. But there are more... CAUTION: POLITICAL INTERPRETATION |
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WABOSE'S VISION: by Catherine Wabose (Ogeewyahnoquot Okwa), Feb. 1814? shamanic initiation dreams After fasting for six days, I dreamed of three spirit helpers who aided my village, guiding hunters toward game and healing others. But I lost so many loved ones... CAUTION: SPOUSE MURDERED; CAREER BURNOUT |
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WATERFALL: by Wayan; 1984/12/14, ink blown up via Xerox, with acrylic wash; nondream. A stylized waterfall--a distillation of all those childhood summers camping in Yosemite... |
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WERTZ!: by Wayan; 2023/10/14, a night of cartoonist-inspired dreams After seeing Julia Wertz's cartoon history of her entire dreamlife (on one big page!) I dream Wertz style all night! I don't mind the nightmares--what gets me down is comics' black & white... CAUTION: NIGHTMARES, SEX |
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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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THE WILD HUNT: by Carl Jung; Sept. 1922, a clairvoyant dream hinting what death is A huge wolfhound tore past me. My blood froze. The Wild Hunt was carrying off a soul... |
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WINGS by Nancy Price; 1948, two bird-people dreams, one psychic I have a long chat with two songbirds. Next I'm a parrot, living in rainforest. Then the mail comes... |
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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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WITCH'S BUTTER: by Wayan, 2023/5/27, a science-geek dream. I live in four consecutive bodies: I'm a Bose-Einstein condensate, a cloud of particles moving as one-- unless overheated. No, I'm Witch's Butter, a mob of amoeboid cells who unify into a quasi-slug--temporarily. No, I'm a person, but soft and yellow as Witch's Butter. No, I'm firming up, but still entangled... |
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YOU REALLY AREN'T LUNCH; 2012/6/11 by Maia Spencer; a cledonic dream of facing fears Hiding in the woods I meet a Cyclops. But I'm not me, I'm the editor of the World Dream Bank... |
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