Animal People, E to L
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E PLURIBUS UNUM: by Wayan; 1998/8/13. Digital painting of allegorical orgy America isn't the Melting Pot. It's the Humping Pot... CAUTION: THE BEAST WITH 300,000,000 BACKS |
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EAGLE AND GEESE: by Penelope of Ithaka; c.1240 BCE, a subliminal, self-interpreting dream I dreamt an eagle slaughtered my twenty geese. I wept until he spoke to me: "Take heart! I am thy husband..." |
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EAR TO THE, UH, WALL: by Wayan; dreamed 1983/10/10 Granny's magic nipple helps me foil the yuppies dumping toxic waste. But does it count if I did it just to save my own... CAUTION: CRUDE TALK; STETHESCOPIC NIPPLE |
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EDGE: by Wayan; 1992?, digital painting of a nondream vision. A robed figure crowds a wild horse to a cliff-edge. One's my body, one's my soul. But which?... |
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EEL GIRLS: by Wayan; 1993/9/14, a tearjerker nightmare. I learn to fly, but keep it quiet. Yet aliens still find out, and tell me a truth I didn't want to know... |
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THE EGG PROBLEM: by Wayan; 1990/3/2, digital painting of a magical dream. I'm an intellectual ballerina trying to stop zombies hatching from stone eggs, but I succeed only when I become a dragon using touch, scent and visualization to persuade the eggs... |
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EIGHT TO A HORN: by Wayan; 1986/4/25, a magical dream, Chapter 7 of UNICORN TAG. In the middle of Nowhere Desert, I meet a telepathic unicorn who's stuck with a false safety-tag... |
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AN ELECTORAL DRAGON: by Wayan; 1998/10/21, a virtual-reality-campaign-ad dream In a world of hideous haircuts (flagging your politics) I meet a dragon running for office. But is this real or a dream? Both/neither! It's... |
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EMADRO: by Wayan; 1983/6/4, a wild dream on clinging--and letting go. An elephant sinks in the North Sea, and the Oracle Mink says a wizard did it. Can old Lady Gandalf help? |
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EMPTY-EYED CREATURES: by Wayan; 1996/12/9, an animal Zen dream. I lose myself, but I get some startling advice from a convent-school kid with empty eyes... |
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ENCHANTED GLASS; before 1983, by Charles Gullans, a poem on recurring nightmares of shapeshifters Their bodies shift, and alter. Antlers sprout... much has been taken, and something terrible is grafted... CAUTION: HUMAN SUPREMACISM |
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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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ENJOY LIFE: by Wayan; 1983/8/24 dream inspires 1990/1/31 digital painting-experiment This image is senseless, but I have an excuse: I was watching TV in my dreams. TV on another world... |
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ENKIDU: by Gilgamesh of Uruk, c. 2750 BCE, an early prophetic dream The hero Gilgamesh troubles his city till he dreams the gods will send him a best friend & lover, Enkidu... CAUTION: SEX |
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THE ENTWINED CHILD AND MADAM PURR-SAY: by PurplePurplePurple; 2013/7/5, twin poem-dreams I dream my autistic son, miraculously high-functioning, recites a math-poem to a crowd... Then I become cartoon cat Madam Purr-Say and chant my own defiant poem at the dream gods... CAUTION: FIRST POEM AUTISTIC, SECOND PISSY |
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EQUESTRIAN NUNAVUT: by Wayan, 2017/4/27, a dream of a utopia in an unlikely place After a hard day in the recording studio, I dream of our wiser successors, after we drown America: the sentient equines of Greenland and Nunavut... CAUTION: SKINNYDIPPING UNICORNS |
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ERECTION 2000: by Wayan, 2000/11/28; ceramic sculpture 9" tall; response to stolen 2000 election. A candidate glad to shake your hand... though not all you voters will want him to... CAUTION: ANOTHER PRICK RUNNING FOR OFFICE |
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ERMINE, or, GOTHMOG'S GHOST: by Wayan, 1984/2/11, a gender-bent & species-bent warning dream I'm a delicate little ermine-chinchilla whose best friends are all sewer rats. They push their food and drink on me, and I nibble to be polite... |
THE ERTHEDNI: by Wayan, 1977/1/8, three transformation dreams, the last with advice |
1: I'm starving in a lush valley; a cult claims all the food, the water, even the air. 2: I'm drowning in a cage but find a corner with water I can breathe--just barely. 3: I'm a merman with a wise friend who hints I need to leave those who starve & drown me... CAUTION: DOMESTIC BATTERING (OFFSTAGE) |
ESCAPE BY INTUITION: by Wayan; 2010/1/11; four dreams of breaking through |
I must see a community as a whole, and intuit my way out of a sealed room, and spot details, and join a trio in bed... CAUTION: NUDITY IN LAST DREAM |
EVASION: by Marie-Claude Girondé, summer 2008?, a dream painting. |
One pays for soaring high with solitude of the soul... |
THE EVEREST MARATHON: by Wayan; 1986/4/12, a wild dream epic, part 3 of Unicorn Tag. |
In the great race up Everest, I become an e-snake, cross 3 eco-bubbles, beg a wary deer-taur to splice my spine, help Ariane my childhood crush, and solve the Dream Equations. Climbing Everest takes not strength but... trust? |
EVOLUTION'S DULL: by Wayan; 1997/7/22, a science rant. |
Evolution is like baseball--a game of inches, efficiency, constraints. Surely we can do better.... CAUTION: CONTAINS THOUGHT |
EXPLOITED UNICORN: by Wayan, 2019/1/11, a disturbing dreamlet |
Night, downtown. A unicorn in tears, chained to her... barker? owner? pimp? "Just $300" he yells. But for what? Magic? Sex? Healing? CAUTION: PROSTITUTION? SLAVERY? GIG ECONOMY? |
FAERIE: by Wayan; 1995/7/18 & 95/8/6: two linked dreams of postmodern Faerie, with sketches |
I'm the daughter of a mortal doctor working in Faerie as it faces social upheaval (and I look for a decent date...) |
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 |
FALADA: The Goose Girl's Best Friend: by Mardi Storm, recurring predictive dreams c.1975-79, sculpted c.2000 |
I had recurring dreams in which a talking horse’s head was nailed to a tree. Strangely, this was before I read "The Goose Girl" in Grimm's fairytales... CAUTION: GRIMM ALL AROUND |
FALCON AND FÜHRER: by Miriel; 1985/7/31, an epic flying/transformation dream |
A mysterious "Führer" hypnotized all my companions. So I become a human-sized falcon and hunt him... |
FAMILIARS: by Wayan; 1986/4/2, a dreamtale on the dark side of reading. |
In ancient Britain, as Christianity moves in, I'm a slave--sailing through centuries, but never free... |
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... |
FAMILY JESTERS: by Wayan; 2017/3/15, a dream mixing Kurt Vonnegut and My Little Pony |
Coastal unicorns are slender; inlanders bloat. Genes, diet, both? Inland bosses enslave their gracile minority. Performing pets! Jesters caged, chained & handicapped to heighten the wonder they can do their art at all... CAUTION: TROUBLING SOCIAL ANALOGIES |
FANFOX: by Wayan; 2001, self-portrait as a fox woman. |
This foxgirl had my own uneasy mixture of exhibitionism and wariness. Baring sex, but not my face... CAUTION: NUDITY |
FANTASTIC RIDE: by Marie-Claude Girondé, spring 2007?, a dream painting. |
The dreamer overflows from her egg, spills out to become a waterfall, a stampede of horses... |
FAUNS: by Wayan; 1994/9/9 dream prompted 5 dream-portraits. |
A group of coolly shameless fauns started teaching me outrageousness in my dreams... CAUTION: FAUNS LACK INCEST TABOOS |
FAWN AND DEMON: by Wayan; 1990/7/15, twin dreams of desire. |
A doe I meet is as horny and shy as me. We're similar: torn between desire and fear... Then I meet a slacker succubus. She may just let herself get seduced toward freedom... CAUTION: SEX |
FELINE WOMAN--AN ANATOMICAL PORTRAIT: by Wayan; 1996? pencil study of recurring dream figure. |
A Leonardo style skeletal study of a cat person that grew into more of a character study. I just like her... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
FERRYGOAT: by Wayan; 2009/8/15, a dream warning what I was becoming; Dreamverse #48 |
That levitating bear's not tightrope-walking--she rides a goat strung like soap-on-a-rope. A goat that's me! I'm eating... CAUTION: UGH! |
FIGHTING A VIRUS: by Wayan, 1998/11/21, a diagnostic nightmare. |
Coming down with a virus, I dream of a guy who INSISTS we must fight, it's just so FUN... |
FIGURE DRAWING: CAT-MARE-GIRL: by Wayan; 1995/7/24; studio sketch, crayon. |
Late in life-drawing class, Evangeline got tired and snuggled into a pillow-nest. She looked so feline... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
FIGURE DRAWING: DAPPLED: by Wayan; 2000/11/29, pastel digitally tweaked. |
A pensive leonine woman resting on a tilted rock. A life drawing with certain imaginary spots. CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
FIGURE DRAWING: WEREWOLF GIRL: by Wayan; fall 1989; studio sketch, pencil. |
I found this misfiled in a box of art with just the year on it, so I can't credit the model. But she looked like this to me... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
FILLING THE ANCESTORS' SHOES: by Wayan; 1995/9/24, a shamanic dream. |
A dream of a shaman named Fred who tried to use a bear as a lightbulb. Fred, Fred, Fred... |
FIRE-CATS: by Wayan; 1981/10/10; twin dream-poems on over-discipline |
For mere disobedience, I EXECUTE a forest-fire-fighting cat! So next I'm trapped in a security-obsessed job; how do I like it? I flee... |
FIRST IMPRESSIONS: by Wayan; 2004/5/20, a dreamsong (MP3+lyrics); Dreamverse #0 |
I meet a monster--half earthworm, half giraffe. Then I realize she’s kind of cute...
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Far from home, about to wed a man I barely knew, I dreamed I was a lion in an open cage I dared not leave... |
FISHEL AND FRISH AND FIREBIRD: by Wayan, 2003/12/4, a seven-year dream. |
Why do the guests arriving for our seven-year reunion include part-time giants and dog-headed gods? They tell me...
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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 |
FISHERGIRL IN WATERCOLOR; OVAL: by Wayan; 1996/7/26 pencil & watercolor |
Leaf and me, on our boat in the lost city, from the epic dream FISHERGIRL. My first sketch of the dream... CAUTION: TRIBAL NUDITY |
FIVE HEARTS: by Wayan; dreamed 1989/1/11; sexy psychic unicorn dream-comic (text only: FIVE HEARTS) |
I'm a nurse pulled through a glowing well to a world ruled by a five-hearted unicorn, who wants me to... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX FANTASIES, LONGING, MELANCHOLIA |
FIVE HOUNDS, FIVE DEFENSES: by Wayan; 2015/9/18, an explicit advisory dream |
Five agents hound me. Literal hounds--in trenchcoats. They stand for my five worst life-troubles. Luckily, they can't cooperate--they're from rival agencies! And the dream spells out what works against each one... |
FLAMINGOS: by Wayan; 1998/3/30; nondream acrylic, 20 x 30". |
Part an experiment in wild textures, part a "Where's Waldo" game to see if you'd notice my self-portrait... |
FLIGHTS AND CATS: by Colette; before 1949, a sketch of her dream life |
Colette flies, sees a birdheaded turtle, wrestles a great playful cat, debates a snake, holds hands with a shy dog... |
FLOATING HORSES: by Wayan, 1972/8/10, a flying/transformation dream advising patience |
That day, I did bad art. That night, my friend & I get turned into levitating horses-- though some of our fellow fliers, like the mummified Inuit, are kinda creepy... |
FLOATING WOLF AND BUTTERFLY: by Wayan; 2010/12/21; a furry advisory dream |
The city museum's new levitating sculpture shows a space reef explored by a floating wolf who needs no spacesuit--vacuum adapted! |
FLOCK WISDOM: by Alder; 1958, a magic comic frustration dream |
My eighth grade class is a flock of birds migrating south for the winter, but we don’t migrate the easy way... |
FLOWERHEADED CAT: by Wayan; 2005/8/17, two bizarre, sexy, advisory dreamlets |
My co-worker flashes a lot. Her boyfriend helps--flaps her skirt up to bare her pussy. What's their agenda? In a dream-sculptor's studio, I pet her lily-headed cat, who purrs. I think "At least her pussy likes me..." CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, PUNS, PETTING |
FLU PRESCRIPTION: by Qu'lad and Togumalis, 1918 or 19, two shaman's dreams that saved lives |
Qu'lad, dying of flu in the pandemic, dreamt a wolf told him cold-water baths would save him. He staggered to the river. He lived. He told others. They lived. The shaman Togumalis dreamt his spirit helper, a squirrel, prescribed the same. A century later, hospital records show why it worked... CAUTION: ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE SHOWN AS SUPERIOR |
FLY-PARADISE: by Wayan; 1978/12/15, an automatic-writing poem that worked like an advisory dream |
I'm a fly lured to a bright but sealed window. The only way out is to ignore the light and brave the dark--and only when a door opens. Patience AND boldness... |
FLY WITH ME?: by Wayan; 2024/1/7; a flying dream of course! But an odd one. |
DAY: I research a weird Salvador Dalí dream-painting mingling, flight, tigers and sex. DREAM: I flirt with a talking cat. Want her to fly with me. But she wants something earthier... |
FLYING BED, TALKING BIRDS: by Wayan; 2015/1/6, a one-word shamanic advisory dream |
My bed floats high over southwest Morocco. Giant birds come fly lazily with me, croaking "Faster, faster!" But I'm busy with anti-desert eco-planning... |
FOAM, FURS, DREAMS: by Wayan; 2012-16, a blog on sewing giant dream plushies; 43 dreams! |
My dreams urge me to build furry dream creatures with joints, muscles & bones, then to heal myself by mating with them... CAUTION: FETISHISM, FURRY NUDITY & SEX |
FOINBREK THE MOOSE: by Wayan; 1993/12/4, a dreamtale on love and work. |
My lesbian twin, who lives in the unemployment line, falls in love with a pushy moose from Brooklyn... CAUTION: INEPT SEX |
FOLLOWING THE ELEPHANTS: by John Goldhammer; 1990s, a ten-year series of 13 short dreams. |
Dream-elephants slowly bring me to terms with the early loss of my dad, and lead me out of a cult I've grown beyond... |
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 |
FOUR ELEMENTALS: by Wayan, four recurrent 2009 dream-figures, 2010/1/1 to 1/14 |
For the New Year, I draw a group portrait of the old year's main dream-figures. Four needs came up constantly... |
FOUR LOVERS: by Wayan; c.1990/11/30; digital painting based on recurrent dream |
A recurring dream of a fourway marriage of animal people. I don't think it's symbolic, but predictive... CAUTION: FURRY SEX |
FOX AND THE EYE OF GOD: by Wayan; 1984/8/14, a predictive mythic dream |
DREAM: I hike up my Career Path into the hills. On a snowfield, a bird and a fox create the eye of God, who banishes all evil! NEXT DAY: I read a novel full of images out of the dream... |
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... |
FOXCOMB: by Wayan; ink 1990 tinted 2001; daydream of recurring dream character |
I visited the first bioengineered fox-person with working thumbs, to see what she thinks of hands... |
FOX COUPLE: by Wayan, 1990/2/15; poem of a warning dream |
I meet a tall bipedal talking fox. He has a human house. And a pet vixen--on a leash. But she talks too! Tells me he mounts her--yet treats her like a pet. She's never come yet. But she stays! Still, I'm as dysfunctional as either of them--if not worse... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
FOXES: by Wayan; 1989/4/12. Digital nondream painting. |
Long ago I saw a marvelous Hiroshige print of a fox convocation, lit by moon and foxfires... CAUTION: LESBIAN SPOOKS |
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... |
FOX ON THE TRAIN: by Wayan; 2015/1/9, an advisory dream painted & poemed |
I'm a guard on a train crossing the desert who falls in love with a refugee fox-girl, despite heavy specist peer-pressure and the archaic Railway Code... CAUTION: NUDE FOX |
FOX-SHEPHERDESS AND RAVEN: by Wayan; 1998 wet-on-wet acrylic of daydream, 1999/11/29. |
I don't know if the fox-shepherdess ate all her sheep, or if she herded invisible and quite different things... |
FOX STORM: by Wayan; fractal painting of dream (date lost, but pre-1998/8/11) |
I might have been less cowed by the storm-face, if I'd seen it was made of little foxes just like me... |
FOX TEMPLE: by Wayan; 2019/11/16, a mythic dream with sharp advice |
AWAKE: I watch Okko's Inn. Little Okko sees spirits--until she grows up and quits settling for ghosts. DREAM: I explore a temple, meet a fox-spirit... and see I never was human. Time to quit settling for... CAUTION: GAUZE-ROBED PRIESTESS |
FOXY ANCESTOR: by Wayan; 1998/7/25, a subtle dream. |
A famous inventor is descended from foxes. Their faces teach me something about beauty and character... |
FRAN SAYS "THAT'S WHAT PSYCHIC IS": by Wayan, 1982/1/15; a self-flagging predictive dream |
I turn into my friend Fran, who I haven't see for months. Then I'm me, in a hot tub, talking to Fran, who's now a sort of lemur-girl. She insists I'm psychic. I'm skeptical. I just get hunches, if I relax in hot water. She says... |
FREAKY DREAM, or, HEART IN MY STOMACH: by Ratiries Steelclaw; c. 2004/3/30, a dream comic |
I felt like my heart was in my stomach. My friend Lyx opened me up & said "It is." She scolded me for eating it... CAUTION: URP |
FROG: by Wayan; 120K, 2000/4/19, a narrative digital picture-poem |
I was single and tired of kissing frogs. Then I realized--I AM one. Or worse: a pretentious polliwog... |
FROG ORDERS: by Wayan; 1986/7/4, a dream on piety. |
I'm in medieval England on a mission from God, but I meet a Priestess on a mission from...well, we argue. |
THE FUR SIDE, or, GESTELLA: by Wayan; 2013/7/2; a dream-critique of a feminist fable |
After reading a fable about a murdered werewolf, I dream a tough old woman with golden wolf eyes joins our school lunch table, where the furry minority sits... CAUTION: CRITIQUES SUSAN PALWICK |
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... |
FURRY CENTAUR PROJECT: by Wayan; 2011/12/10, a dreamlet prompting a big sexy soft-sculpture |
I'm halfway through a sculpture--a pony-size centauroid covered in fake fur and feathers--folded wings, like a pegasus... |
FURRY TRINITY: by Wayan; 2021/3/1, a dream painting three facets of... me? Or of dreaming? |
Three furry people show off their collected art & pets. But then they dissolve into their art & pets! The room itself dissolves into a river-raft. A unicorn girl in a gauze ritual robe studies a map... CAUTION: MILD FURRY NUDITY |
GALILEO FALLS: by Wayan; 1979/11/7, a mysterious dream . |
I was a closet unicorn. SO closet, I didn't even know what a unicorn was, till I went to college and met Lindsay, who was half and could pass... |
GARGOYLE GO-BETWEEN: by Wayan; 1996/11/22, a Hogwartish dream. |
I'm odd kid out in my wizard school till gargoyles raid us, and I puzzle out their tongue, to become... |
(ON THE OLD) GENDER TRAIL: by Wayan; late 1995, digital picture-poem with dream intrusions. |
For me, the path to love is difficult, elusive, convoluted... |
GEORGE AND WILMA: by Wayan, 2011/10/25, an animation-mashup dream done as a poem |
George Jetson is married to Wilma Flintstone--though they're both big cats. When George comes home high on mushrooms, he doubts what's on his bed... CAUTION: CARTOON ADULTERY |
GHOST DOGS: by Wayan; a 1993/4/2 temptation dream done as a 1-page digital comic |
I meet a wolf who invites me to join Dr Who's pack of sexy Ghost Wolves. Just one catch nobody mentioned. To be a ghost, you have to... CAUTION: FLIRTATIOUS WOLVES |
GIRAFFE CAMOUFLAGE: by Wayan; 2020/9/1, a dream of the anti-closet? |
A human and a talking giraffe fall in love. But some hunters still shoot animal people. So he camouflages her with paint. Bright paint. Now she's more visible than ever! Not that I can criticize his eccentricities. I'm in love with a unicorn songwriter... CAUTION: FURRYPHILIA |
GIRAFFE MISSION, or, THE 17TH FOOT: by Wayan, 2017/1/30, a Seussy dreampoem on breadth of view |
I was in the Mission with friends. A giraffe saw me as narrowminded, and lifted me up to show me HIS viewpoint. No insights--till we topped the roofline... |
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 |
GIRL INTO HERON: by Wayan, 2017/11/7, a dream-poem of an uncertain choice |
Four thugs stalk a gawky girl through the Everglades. She treads on a black stone and... becomes a blue heron! Her stalkers vanish--did they become birds too? Should I step up? |
GO YOUR OWN WAY: by Peter Birkhäuser; 1942-45?, three advisory dreams plus a realist painting, '44. |
Peter draws painstaking realism til his tense hand turns into a horn! An anima urges him to walk into a blue light. He & Sybelle struggle against a crowd walking the wrong way... |
GOAT DARE: by Wayan; 1984/8/22, a sex nightmare. |
A girl and I climb a half-built tower to get some privacy from my nosy, sneering parents. But they find us during oral sex, and their scorn melts my girlfriend into a goat... CAUTION: SEX, HUMILIATION, FAMILY VALUES |
GOAT WITH A HUMAN HEAD: by Steve Carter, 2008/7/12; a dream image. |
Walking around my brother's farm, I met this goat with a human head. He'd been playing with matches... |
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) |
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 |
GOOD DOG!: by Wayan; 1992/4/15; sketch of inner me, doggily insecure. |
The shy, doggy need for reassurance I often crave from a lover--do I crave a mistress, an owner?... CAUTION: NUDITY, PILLOW TALK |
GORDO'S EYES: by Wayan; 1981/2/14, a dream warning. |
The old cartoon character Gordo has another girlfriend. But his pets say he only loves the hunt, not her... |
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? |
GRAPE: by Wayan; 1992/2/1. Digital painting of daydream. |
There's the watermelon of passion, and then there are the little grapes of fun that foxes eat... CAUTION: NUDE DANCING |
GRIFFIN: by Wayan; 1995/8/2, digital portrait of two dream-selves. |
Gryphon meets Dragon, mid-air, and they're both me--sometimes... |
THE GRIFFINS' LESSON: by Wayan, 2018/6/1, a pair of predictive dreamlets |
I live through two teens' nightmares, then "wake" with them to find they were drugged by a third party! Why? Then I'm with a cheery wagon-crew of flirting griffins & talking horses, pulling a cart made of grammar or logic. Six days later... detailed images from both dreams appear on TV! CAUTION: CREEPY, THEN SAPPY, THEN FREAKY |
GYRLFALCON: by Wayan; 1971/11/26, a genderbent, speciesbent & predictive dream |
I'm a Gyrlfalcon in a theater, fighting the Wolverine and his Morlocks with my lover the Green Lion... |
THE HACKER: by Wayan; 1993/11/23, a psychic nightmare. |
Who's the demon? Mom, the Dragon, the Smiler, the Rubber Ax Murderer, the Doll Princess or the Tiger?... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
HALF SHAMAN, HALF STATESMAN: by Wayan; 1986/4/21, a parallel-world dream: Chapter 6 of UNICORN TAG |
I get a scholarship to Shaman U. Some of my classmates are Terran, but I still don't fit in, because... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
HARE HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1998? Digital dream sketch. |
I dreamed my friend Beryl's soul was a giant rabbit, arguing in paradise with our mutual guardian angel... |
HAWK AND CAT: by Wayan, 1981/6/2, a dream of ethics and terror. |
My best friend is a cat. Problem is, I'm a rare hawk--a Cat-Eater. I never, ever would, but... |
HAWK ANGEL: by Wayan; 1982/12/28; a dream on rejecting hearsay. |
I dreamed I met a sort of hawk angel, but there was this preachy guy between us... CAUTION: NUDITY |
HAWK CENSORS: by Wayan; 1988/7/7, a surreal predictive dream on censorship |
All the photos of hawk people I can find show them with bizarre genitalia: males with hawk-heads for penises, and females with nothing. Blank! Then I go to work... CAUTION: REVERSE SEXISM |
HAWK RIDGE: by Wayan; 1990/2/15; primitivist digital dream-painting |
I dreamed I was a gull in Middle Earth fighting Sauron, though he blurred my vision; but my hawk-eyed gullfriends helped me out... |
HEADEGG (Black-Eyed Bird of Pain): by Wayan; 1983/10/24; acrylic painting of a headache-trance. |
I was cartooning with a headache. It took over and started drawing for me... |
HEADING FOR A FALL: by Wayan; 1993/11/2, a dream of drastic shortcuts. |
I crash my car on the way to therapy. I ask my dream why. And it tells me! Deliberate, but not suicidal... |
HEAL THE WORLD!: by Wayan; 2011/8/17, a messianic-inadequacy dream (now there's a new type!) |
I can heal people with a touch. But they don't want to be merely restored, but resculpted... CAUTION: TRANNIES AND FURRIES LEAVE THE CLOSET |
HEARN'S BEAST: by Wayan; 1986/2/18, a dream fable. |
Inside an evacuated region, the Lafcadio Hearn Zone, I meet the monster thousands fled... |
THE HEAVIEST FLYER ON EARTH: by Wayan; 1979/1/25, a dream of (clumsy) flight |
Both my friends can become birds and soar; but all I can manage is angel wings--barely enough to hold up solid-boned me... |
HEDGEHOG AND WHITE RABBIT: by Wayan; 1972/12/1, a dream love story. |
Hedgehog and White Rabbit stick together, through the snipers on Broadway, through the dogs of winter, through cannibal soup... |
THE HEDGEHOG DISPENSARY: by Wayan; 2004/10/2, furtopian watercolor 12-page dreamcomic (or text + pics) |
A rabbit shaman makes his student drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. How to free her? CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR |
HELP YOUR NEIGHBOR: by Wayan; 1994/2/18, a comic nightmare. |
I'm an organic almond grower who's solved the Luminous Snail problem. But my neighbor has an agenda... |
HER CUTIE MARK: by Wayan, 2016/8/7, a dream fusing Shakespeare & My Little Pony |
After seeing The Tempest with a tattooed Miranda, I dream she has a Cutie Mark on her flank-- a logo showing her life-purpose, her life-path. Except she's outgrowing it... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
HER HORSE: by Wayan; 1985/5/14, a dream fable about bodies. |
A farm girl seems to be sexually exploiting her dog and horse, but their auras tell another tale... CAUTION: SEX SYMBOLISM |
HERON CATCHES ARROWS: by Wayan, 2023/3/31, a shamanic dream based on a pun |
I'm a great blue heron with hands and human speech. A hunter fires arrows at me, but I'm fast and can catch them. They're costly, so I demand a bargain with him... CAUTION: ABOUT EMOTIONAL ABUSE |
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? |
THE HERONS' TANK: by Wayan, 2020/11/12, a sonnet telling an astral-plane dreamlet |
I climb a small-town water tower. The tank holds a reedy marsh where sentient herons live! They say the Heartland below them is a nest reserved for greedy, screechy, flightless, half-grown souls like us... CAUTION: DISSES SMALL-TOWN VALUES |
HERSELF IN REVERSE: by Wayan; 2013/6/13, three surreal future-prompting dreamlets |
1: In a theater I meet weird big-eyed ballerinas, & realize I'll choreograph for them soon... 2: A sorcery student & her powerful future self flying back through time meet & fuse... 3: A squirrel-mage meets his future self too. He gives us a mild fever to protect us against a deadly plague... CAUTION: NOT FOR TOTAL SKEPTICS ABOUT PREDICTIVE DREAMS |
A HISTORY OF ENERGY: by Wayan; 2021/2/19, a dream warning we're all shortsighted |
I dream of a parade or train of energy sources--human muscle, horsepower, coal, oil, gas, solar... But the train's ultimate engine is in our future, and is impossible--a dragon riding a broomstick... |
HITCHCOCK BIRD: by Wayan, 1982/9/8, a shamanic little predictive dream |
I'm trapped in a Hitchcock thriller. Then one suicidal gunman turns into a songbird! Next day at lunch a bird acts crazy. Over the next year, I do change from human to... CAUTION: SUICIDAL BIRD |
HITLER'S GETTING CRISPR: by Jennifer Doudma; fall 2015, a nightmare on CRISPR by one who'd know |
It was Hitler. He had a pig face, and he was taking notes. He said 'I want to understand the uses and implications of this amazing technology'... |
HIS DEER WIFE: by Wayan; 1995/7/9, a dream of love in a parallel world. |
I'm a slave, a scribe in the house of a Captain of the New Aztec Empire, when he brings home a wife... CAUTION: SLAVE SOCIETY, SEX, SPOUSAL ABUSE/NEGLECT |
A HISA ON OLYMPUS: by Wayan; 2014/6/15, a dream on the need to slow down |
I'm a hisa, a primitive alien who solves a high-tech crime for the humans. Then I hike home, step by step, down a great shield volcano. Because shuttles leave your soul behind... |
THE HOMONKEYLUS: by Wayan; 1992/6/15, a looping dream about blinders. |
A smiling beauty queen on a float gives birth to a monkey with blinders, then re-absorbs the baby, then... CAUTION: NUDITY AND ODDITY |
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... |
HOP: by Emily Joy, Maddie, and Kathe, 2004/3/31; three linked dreams of a single character |
Three friends in one bed dream three dreams in one night about a talking rabbit with a persistent request... |
HORSE-DOG: by Wayan, 1982/2/1, a rambling, scattered but predictive dream |
I cross the Mushroom Desert, meet a blue-tailed squirrel & a horse-size dog, then zombie-vampire suburbanites. NEXT DAY: an artist sends me a flyer with a new dream painting--a huge dog whose fur-patterns depict a horse... CAUTION: SYNCHRONICITY |
HORSE IN A TAILWIND: by Wayan; 1982; study of a dream character |
It looks like a study of negative shapes, but if you happen to be a part-time horse, like me... |
THE HORSE VOTERS: by Wayan; 1995/4/30, a time-travel dream on... race? |
I'm back in the 19th century, learning that horse breeders cross-bred more than the public thinks. One suggests I look hard in the mirror... CAUTION: UNSEEMLY SENATORIAL DISCOURSE |
HORSELIKE BUT NOT: by Wayan; portrait of dream figure, 1997, acrylic, 14 x 17" |
My anima Silky finds it hard to go back to classic hooves, now that she's tried opposable thumbs... |
HOT POT CAT LOT: by Wayan; 1992/8/6, a timed-release predictive dream. |
After a bad writing class, I meet a shy catgirl guarding a Mongolian Hot Pot, and discover who I am... |
HOT TO TROT or BRAIN TRAUMA or HUMPIN' THE HOG or SAD-EYED SWAN OF LOVE: |
by Wayan; 1993/8/4, a bizarre, epic dream on finding your way I'm a mare hot to trot (and get laid) in the Big City, but my gay Star Trek friend's brain trauma makes her a clueless alien with a bo(a)ring sexlife--until a sad swan enfolds her in love... CAUTION: ALIEN POSSESSION, CARTOON PIG SEX, SMOKING SWANS |
HOW TO BE A WOLF: by Wayan; 1987/3/15, a dream of a trickster-mentor |
We're hiking in the Sangre de Cristos when a girl offers to show us how to be a wolf. We're eager--until she turns wolf, bites us and leaps off a cliff! Furious, we stupidly follow her over... CAUTION: NUDE FLYING WOLVES |
HUNT OF THE UNICORN: by Wayan; 1989/5/18, an overlooked psychic dream. |
I marry, just to get into a clannish world where I'm seeking symbiotic unicorns. I end up fleeing... Next evening, a TV movie--Goldie Hawn marries into a clannish world and ends up... |
I AM THREE: by Wayan; 1956-58, my three earliest dreams. |
My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child... |
I AM A SILKY IN THE SEA: by Wayan; 1983/12/12, watercolor on shapeshifting in dreams. |
"I am a man upon the land; I am a Selkie in the sea..." Silky or selkie means a were-seal... |
I DREAM OF... ME: by Linda Medley; 1990 or 91, a dream-comic, the seed of Castle Waiting |
I wake in a hobbit-hole. My love looks worried. What's wrong with me? A badger takes me to see wizard Sean Connery, who gives me feathers to eat, and I become... |
I FIGHT FOR BEAUTY: by Wayan; 1990/1/1, an incubated dream within a dream within a dream. |
From Hawaii to Wyoming, I fight for beauty, always waking to find I'm someone new... |
I HELD THE SUN ROSE: by Wayan; 1989/6/18; digital painting inspiring a dream inspiring a 2nd painting. |
After I drew this I dreamed I was chasing stars with a long-tailed friend, and in the end we caught the Sun... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
I WON'T DIE TILL LOVE DIES: by Wayan; 1981/1/21, a divine dream . |
I meet the mermaid goddess of love in her pool, but when she advises me, I dispute one small point... |
ICK! DOGS!: by Wayan; 1990/1/3, a Star Trek dream. |
I'm Jean-Luc Picard, and my Enterprise has been taken over by a pack of brilliant, paranoid wolves... |
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... |
IGUANA: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995, two surreal dreamlets on water damage |
In a flooded room, an indignant iguana scolds me, while my wife Marnie checks her computer implant for water damage... |
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... |
I'M A VESTA, NOT A MAN!: by Wayan; 1980/1/6, a dream of when it's over. |
I'm the animal guardian of a deep crater, but when a human girl rejects me, I set out to leave... CAUTION: ORAL SEX, UNREQUITED LOVE, SPECISM |
IN THE COURSE OF WORK: by Marie-Claude Girondé, spring 2007?, a dream sculpture |
Is that a madwoman riding a horse, or a cougar pouncing on a deer, or are these dream-creatures wildly making love? |
IN THE FOG: by Wayan; 1989/4/5, nondream (I swear!) digital landscape. |
This place isn't out of my dreams, it just looks like it. It's real real real... |
IN THE NIGHT OF 13 OCTOBER, 1942: by Peter Birkhäuser; 1942/10/13, a shamanic dream painted Sept. 1975. |
Sybelle & I climbed the cathedral spire. Bravely she kissed the monstrous guardian, exhaling blue light. My own challenge was to leap across an abyss, under the luminous eye of God... |
IN THE SHADOW OF MAN: by Wayan; 1994/3/4, a dream on how to escape the cage |
I'm a lab animal who discovers voice software and creates a personal zine, testifying for our rights... |
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 |
INACTION PAINTING: by Wayan; 1995/10/29, digital dream-figure collage |
When I see that grim museum shit I start giggling "Boy art!" The guards glare, so I go home and paint like this. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX TALK, LUST FAIRIES AND FLYING TEENY WEENIES |
AN INTERVIEW WITH WAYAN: by Wayan; 1994/3/20, an interview. |
Dream researcher Stephanie Van Zandt Nelson questions me on the roots of the art of dreaming... |
INUIT MEDITATION: by Wayan; 1989/11/16, a comically surreal dream. |
I'm the first tuna to get a scholarship to Stanford. Naturally I sign up for a course in Inuit Meditation... |
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... |
INVOKE THE ANIMAL POWERS (or was it PROVOKE?): by Wayan; 2008/9/9, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #24 |
A children's recital of "Where the Wild Things Are" turns into a riot-orgy. And it feels... political? CAUTION: WILD THING ORGY |
ISIS HELPS TERI GARR: by Wayan; 1988/3/27, a meandering predictive dream. |
Actress Teri Garr and Isis the talking cat recur all night, but so does a baseball glove I haven't pulled out in years. Why? A few days later a friend asks for that glove, and I find... |
ISLE OF THE BLEST: by Wayan; 1990/11/9, painting inspired by series of fox-dreamlets |
I'm a Japanese werefox, longing to reach the Isle of the Blest; but dare I swim for it? |
JANE GIFFORD: dreams drawn/painted by Jane Gifford 2001-'23 |
From the dream-sketchbooks of Jane Gifford: odd creatures, flying, coping with Covid, and cleaning the underworld (as one does)... |
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 |
JETCATS: by Wayan; 1990/5/24, a surreal dream hiding a message about others |
Our black cat Purr and our new blonde kitten fly around as if jet-propelled dive-bombing the roof. Alarming, but their cat-reactions aren't like mine-- fast as a test pilot! For me it'd be suicide; for them, just playing... |
JETPACK AND TIGER: by Wayan; 1988/3/17, a nonlucid yet lucidlike shamanic dream. |
After watching both Star Trek & Doctor Who, I find I'm held prisoner by the Rani and her laser-toting tiger guards. So I meditate--and manifest a jetpack and a laser gun! I never deduced I'm dreaming; it's not lucidity. It's simpler. What have I got to lose? |
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 |
JOIN THE WOLVES LATER!: by Wayan; 1980/9/4, a dream of false but useful fear. |
Shepherding a group of cityfolks through an alien wilderness, I need a werewolf's help. So why do I lie? |
JUDGE, FLASHER, PIG: by Wayan, 2023/10/22, two parallel, surreal dreams |
A pig-man hybrid--huge mouth, tiny body--happily eats trash, smirking as I pass... Then a woman bends over to flash me, smirking, as a censorious Judge glares... CAUTION: SCENE 1 GROSS, SCENE 2 SEXUAL |
THE KANGAROO EXECUTOR: by Wayan; 2023/7/3, a surreal dream poem |
The will named a strange executor: a kangaroo. Turns out there's some logic to it: executors need burglar-skills, and few quadrupeds can climb in bedroom windows... |
KARMA AND HER SISTERS: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/27, a sexy dream that turns tragic. |
One boring lonely day, I meet a cute teenage bunny who wants to play with me! But half an hour later… CAUTION: LANGUAGE, INTERSPECIES FLIRTING, AND LOSS |
THE KENNERBIRD: by Wayan; 1973/5/20; a naive shamanic dream. |
I'm a cartoon flamingo; with my sisters, the frog and the rabbit-squirrel, I meet our Maker--the cartoonist... |
THE KEROUAC TREE: by Wayan; 2 ill., 1983/3/18, a dream of fame and time. |
The true story of the very first tree-hugger. Not Kerouac! You'll never guess. In fact, you'll say it's impossible... |
KIBBLE FROM HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1986/10/13, a dream on love and money. |
I'm a dog princess, on a world where kibble falls from heaven. When I meet our species' guardian angels... CAUTION: DOG NUDITY, LAWYERS |
KICK AUTHORITY: by Wayan; 1989/10/25. Early digital painting of a dream figure. |
Question authority? Nah. They always have such excuses! Kick authority entirely! Just say no. |
KING-MAKERS: by Wayan; 2000/2/21, a dream of mediation. |
I'm a political aide to the leader of a hot-tempered, clawed, fanged alien people. And then my boss dies... |
KIOSK: by Wayan; 1994/5/1, a 4-page dreamcomic on the power of song (or illustrated text version) |
I'm a sexy singing beast, the Krelkin, trying to lure the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk... CAUTION: NUDITY, INTERSPECIES FLIRTATION |
KITSUNE (FOX-GIRL) BY MOONLIGHT: by Wayan; 2002/5/1 dream prompting a paint experiment |
In a Japanese house I met a charming red-headed girl and had this weird urge to scratch her pointed ears. Oh! She's a kitsune!... |
KITTEN'S QUEST: by Wayan; 2016/2/13, a dream-poem |
I met two strange sisters on a train who turn out to be half-cat. They open my eyes so I realize that my neighbor Elaine must be a shapeshifter too... CAUTION: FLIRTATIOUS UNDERAGE CAT |
KOKO'S LOSSES: by Wayan; 1999/10/9, an elliptically predictive dream. |
Koko the gorilla has had some terrible setbacks lately... the double amputation, especially... |
KRELKIN AND KIOSK: by Wayan; dreamed 1994/5/1, sculpted 1999/8/31-12/11; a career-advice dream? |
A sculpture of me as the sexy singing beast who lures the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk... |
KRELKIN CONTEMPLATING: by Wayan; 1995/6/7 dream-figure sculpted 1998/7/17 in Paperclay |
A small statue of this beautiful creature who keeps appearing in my dreams... CAUTION: NUDITY |
KRELKIN CAMOUFLAGE: by Wayan; 1981/4/21, 3 versions of recurring dream image |
A sexy dream-creature hides by splitting her body visually, her red mane and tail matching her background... |
THE KRELKIN SISTERS ON MISSION ST: by Wayan; 1995/6/7, a dream of superior beings |
I was walking in the Mission, in San Francisco, when two sisters came up to me who no one else could see... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY |
A KRELKIN SMEARED: by Wayan; 1996/9/23; a dream of bold intervention . |
I'm a slender, clever krelkin. I draw me, but then red rage erupts and I trash myself... can I be saved? |
THE LABORATORY UNDERGROUND: by Anna Kingsford; 1880/2/2; an animal-rights nightmare. |
I find myself in a vault with tables where half-dissected animals writhe. Hidden in each was a human shape... CAUTION: GRUESOME |
LADY UNICORN: by Cindy Prince; 2007/10/16, a dream of a shapeshifter. |
I was working in the library, talking to this woman who announced "I think I'll grow my horn now..." |
LAMEST CAR CHASE EVER: by Wayan, 2023/10/2, a dream predicting not events but emotions |
I'm caught in a surreal traffic jam--balky horses, teeny cop cars. Get so stressed that I split into a big creature guarding a small human sleeper. But even sleep is now a crime... CAUTION: PREDICTIVE? |
LAMIA by Wayan, 1988/11/1 with a nightmare by John Ruskin, 1869/11/1 |
I ask my dreams about sex, and get... sex on a beach with a sea-serpent girl--a lamia. But she gets queasy-- landsick! Too hot for her up here. Help her back in the sea. What a contrast with Ruskin's lamia nightmare... CAUTION: SCALY SEX |
THE LAST JUDGMENT: by Esther Raucher, c.1950; a childhood dream grows into a big sculpture group |
I fled a snake by flying. I felt guilty, I knew it was cheating. Years passed. I made tiny clay figurines. Years passed. I drew a chicken lady with a halo. Years passed. I sculpted a flock of BIG... CAUTION: NUDE CHICKEN LADIES |
LEAN ON ME: by Wayan; 120K; 1987, 1992. Recurring dream image.. |
This couple keeps appearing in my dreams--as equals, as mount and rider, as friends, as enemies, as lovers... CAUTION: NUDITY |
LEARN TO FLY: by Hexx-Kitty; 2006/7/15, a nightmare image. |
This big red rabbit in a straitjacket was chasing me through a big gothic mental asylum. Scared me silly... |
LEARNING SCALES: by Wayan; 1985/6/26, an epic dream of Chinese dragons. |
I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost. We need an Imperial Dragon... |
THE LEASH: by Wayan; 1995/6/26, a dreamfable. |
Alien abductions upset us--being studied, treated like animals. But isn't that how we treat other species-- study, exploit, ignore their feelings? That night, I dream one dog on a leash paralyzes a civilization... |
LEBBIRD ECSTATIC: by Wayan; 2006/8/20, not-quite-dream sculpture; 7 pics |
A sensual moon-worshiping flying feline who’d inevitably evolve in certain Pegasian solar systems... CAUTION: NUDE LEOPARDESS |
LEMON PEOPLE: by Wayan; 2008/8/11, a dream poem; Dreamverse #1. |
A dream-fable of lemons who are really orange-people infected by a spore turns out to be about me... |
LEONINE TRINITY: by Wayan; 1989/11/6 digital print of recurring dream (first: 1987/11/28?) |
A goddess in a dream once told me to seek 3 and only 3 qualities in a mate... CAUTION: NUDITY |
LEOPARDESS: by Wayan, 1990/5/19; a predictive dreamlet |
Dream: a house-share with this leopardess might be a bit crowded. But she's so much FUN! Next day: I visit a house in the woods with the most catlike senior tenant ever... |
THE LEOPARD'S CLUE: by Wayan; 2012/3/17, an incubated advisory dream. | My boyfriend, a leopard, sniffs out a clue to an old murder involving me in a past life. But did I witness, die, or kill? |
LEOPARDS AT THE FRINGE: by Wayan; 2014/3/28; poem of a cryptomnesic species-bent thespian sex dream |
I'm at the Fringe Festival, onstage in a Performance Orgy, playing two roles: a leopard with human pets and a leopard's human pet. But I'm not quite playing... CAUTION: STAGED ORGY |
LESBOY: by Wayan; 1996/5/20, a dream on one's identity and place. |
My Aunt Squid advises me to join a lesbian artists' co-op. But I'm a man! Not for long, though... CAUTION: NUDE SUNBATHING, GENDER BEWILDERMENT |
LET ME DREAM!: by Marie-Claude Girondé, spring 2007?, a dream painting. |
The dreamer becomes a horse, the horse becomes a unicorn. Dreams have their own quests apart from the conscious... |
LIBERTÉ: by Marie-Claude Girondé, c. 2005?, a dream painting. |
"Freedom is a gift you give yourself." But it doesn't always involve seahorses or babycarriages covered in quills... |
LES LICORNES: by Marie-Claude Girondé, fall 2007, a dream painting. |
Three unicorns gallop out of the waves... |
A LIFE IN PERCENTAGES: by Wayan; 2013/5/19, a dream about dreams--and timesharing |
A man I meet leads half a dozen consistent dreamlives--an experience so splintered that it's hard to figure out which life is his waking one... |
LIFE MATES: by Katie Hofgard; 2003/4/19?, a reincarnation-romance dream | Mysterious doings on an archeological dig bring a creature back to life, but this is no Mummy... |
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... |
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 |
LILY THE LION: by Wayan; 1991/4/7, a small psychic dream. |
My housemate Lily is a lion. She bursts into my room. Stare-down. And then she pounces. So I... CAUTION: VIOLENCE! MUTUAL GLARING! THE VULCAN NERVE PINCH! |
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... |
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... |
LION-GIRL TRIANGLE: by Wayan; 2000/12/11, an uncomfortable sex-dilemma dream, possibly predictive |
I'm a betrothed teenager having to choose between mates, in an alternate Africa where lions are another tribe of people--and occasionally adopt humans... CAUTION: NUDITY |
LION IN A LEISURE SUIT: by Wayan; 1974, nondream doodle that shouldn't be here. |
It's the 1970s. What's a lion to do? Get fern-bar camouflage: a suit and an I'm-a-bohemian moustache... |
THE LION KING: by Wayan; 1995/9/15, a time-travel dream on social skills. |
When I wake up, animals rule the earth. How do they cope with specism? Well, it's complex... |
LION-MEN: by Wayan; 1995/7/9, an eye-opening dreamlet. |
I'm a traveling Zen warrior talking to a circus girl in a barn. Four guys enter--and my life changes forever. |
LION SUIT by Wayan, 1987/5/4; a short dream-poem; predictive or clairvoyant? |
DREAM: A series of old films with Erroll Flynn looking shy in his glasses, and his... lion suit? NEXT DAY: Hunting pumas is legalized; the paper shows a sit-in full of people in lion suits... |
LIONS AND TIGERS: by William Archer's friend; before 1924, a zootheological dream. |
At the zoo, Archer's friend found the tigers caged but the lions roaming free. The reason? Lions fear hell, but tigers... |
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... |
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 |
LIZARD by Miriel, 2021/9/??, a dreamlet about a familiar? |
I'm lying on a foam pad in a Volkswagen bus I remember from years ago when a lizard half a meter long dances up to perch on my shoulder... |
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... |
LOBSTER ECSTASY: by Wayan; 1970/11/1?, a teenage lobster love dream. |
One of my first recorded dreams--how I foolishly turned away from Lobster Love... CAUTION: CHITINOUS SEX |
LOLA: by Wayan; 1995/4/22, a wild dream: psychic, shamanic and... economic? |
How the hell do I summarize this? Lola, a werefox I'm hot for, becomes my feudal Japanese brother, and her fox-shape reappears as the truck-driving maid for a Han Dynasty lady. We counter the interdimensional energy vampires by importing ghost unicorns on sailing ships, who have an orgy. Two weeks later, it all comes true. Literally? No, but closer than you'd think.... |
LOON LADDER: by Wayan; 1993/5/13. A dream of rising above. |
I had this near-nightmare about climbing a DNA stair up to the sky, and stepping off... CAUTION: NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES |
LORD OF THE UNDERWORLD by Wayan, 1989/2/11; a chthonic transformation dream |
While spelunking, I blunder into the Lord of the Underworld's court where dragons swim--and become one! My human friends stare at me, coiled with my two mates. Do they even know me now? CAUTION: SCALY THREESOME |
LOST AGAIN: by Wayan; felt pen, 1983/2/27, sketch of daydream? or dream? |
I was a bird-person in a post-nuclear future, touring North America on the wing. But ruins all look the same... CAUTION: ALL YOU LOVE IS GONE |
LUCID LIVING: by Wayan; 2007/4/8, a quasi-lucid dream of the future with 9 illustrations |
Honesty induces a joyful state with lucidlike powers. So I bike across the Lake of Time, open the book of my future, and see... CAUTION: SEXY SKETCHES FROM THE FUTURE |
LUNAMOTH (Around #11): by Wayan; soon after 1998/8/7; 2 portraits of a dream-self, one digital, one acrylic |
Day Me curls up and Night Me unfolds: a girl with dark moth-wings, not angel-white but camouflaged... |
LUNAR REPUBLIC BORDERGUARD: by Wayan; 1996/8/30 sculpture of 1995/11/14 dream. |
A looming figure on the border of the new Lunar Republic, who told me it's time to turn from war to art... |
LUNCH WITH THE STARS: by Wayan; 1981/2/2, a dream on beliefs. |
I'm in a loving animal dance troupe, but wake to find I'm alone. For consolation, I eat at The Terrace, and meet stars. Not film stars... |
LYNX: by Peter Birkhäuser; Sept? 1976, his last dream-painting, facing his death |
The Lynx, my dream-god, comes for me at last... |
LYR: by Wayan; 7MB, 2005, 80 pages w/200+ drawings and maps; a virtual planet |
A vast sea-world with 7 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species... CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION! |
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