Cows, Sheep, Goats...
Many of these dream-beasts aren't simple farm animals, but were-creatures and gengineered people of ruminant descent. In fact, now that I've compiled it, I notice the list is full of cow singers, goat philosophers, ballerina sheep... and, of course, buffalo people you'd better treat with respect.
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ALL HALLOW'S EVE: by (Mrs.) D. M. Barrett; 1904, a psychic dream I dreamt ghosts visited us, and for each scream, a relative would die. Two of us cried out. That morning the first letter came... |
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ALL-NIGHT BUFFALO CONVENIENCE!: by Wayan; 1995/7/24, an entrepreneurial dream. A late-night conversation with the proud developer of a new concept in South Asian convenience dining... |
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ALP VARK: by Wayan; 1983/11/24-25, an epic comic psychic dream.
I'm kissed by the Holy Aardvark, but my bond with my dad is strained by ESP he can't accept... |
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AZOREAN PAN: by Wayan; 1988/6/3 & 6/6, two subtly predictive dreamlets on a Greek god 1: On a mid-Atlantic islet, a farm family plays music to summon the Greek god Pan. It works! 2: A mystical picturebook shows Pan & his mermaid lover. Again I'm told music summons Pan! CAUTION: GOAT-GOD NUDITY |
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BRITISH TRIANGLE: by Wayan; 2019/8/18, a dream of another life. I'm a middle-aged British writer in a triad with a sculptor and a dairy farmer who seem happy sharing me. But it's a small town, so we must be discreet... CAUTION: TRIAD THAT WORKS |
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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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BUSINESSMEN HAVE SNOUTS: by Wayan; 2010/11/15, a dream-poem on climate-denial? Businessmen grow snouts or short trunks and their necks stretch. They drive VW Beetles with the sunroof open. Works in summer, but... |
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COW PUNS: by Wayan; 1983/5/14, an ethological dreamlet. The pecking order (goring order?) of cows explains why our leaders stink... |
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CRITTERS OF THE MONTANA FRONT: by Wayan, 2022/5/31, a watercolor warning dream DAY: I admire Hannah Hinchman's watercolors of Montana and Vad Yakovlev's digital art of Equestria. DREAM: I meet & sketch a coyote girl, a whack-a-mole mare, and a leering herder of shadowsheep... |
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DINO RODEO: by Wayan; 2022/2/17, a flying dream about... dream theory? Two men down at a rodeo. The velociraptors and pterosaurs draw near. To scare them off, I need to do something alarming, impossible... |
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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! |
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THE FLYING COW: by a cow-buyer, as told by Pu Songling; before 1679, a perverse predictive dream? A farmer dreamt his new cow grew wings and flew away. Next day, he sold that cow at a heavy loss. Walking home with the cash, he found a tame falcon, and tied its leg to his moneybag. One guess what the bird did... |
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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 |
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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... |
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JOSEPH AND THE PHARAOH: by Joseph, a cupbearer, a baker & a Pharaoh, c.1673-1660 BCE; six surreal dreams Joseph as a teen dreams sheaves of his brothers' grain bow to his; then the sun, moon & stars bow to him. Eleven years later, in prison, Joseph interprets two cellmates' dreams as premonitory, and gets both right. Two years later, he interprets two bizarre dreams troubling the Pharaoh, thus saving Egypt from famine... CAUTION: BRONZE AGE FUN! NEAR-FRATRICIDE, SLAVERY, EXECUTION, FORCED MARRIAGE... |
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LBJ'S STAMPEDE: by Lyndon Baines Johnson; 1913-14?, a childhood nightmare anticipating a presidency As a boy I dreamt I was trapped in a wooden chair, paralyzed, as a stampede rushed toward me, just as my grandmother was paralyzed and chair-bound... |
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MY THREE HUSBANDS: by Wayan; 1981/2/26 & 1991/5/26, dreams drawn as a 15-page comic I'm three women at once! We marry a unicorn, a goat philosopher, and a magic talking cat. But cops raid our furry commune... CAUTION: INTERSPECIES MARRIAGE, TEEN SEX, BAD COPS |
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ON HER FOURTH BODY: by Wayan; 1993/11/25, a predictive dream-comedy. A gengineered singer (born a cow, became a horse, then a shark, now a sexy Mare Chanteuse) solves a mystery that stumped even Mr. Spock. Next day, I see a film--a mystery solved by a... |
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THE PYRAMID COW: by Wayan; 1999/12/18, a dreamtale. Protestors occupy the Transamerica Pyramid and install a cow as CEO... a Cash Cow? |
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SELF-MADE COW: by Wayan; 2013/4/10, a surreal psychic dream. I'm in Santa Cruz with my friend, a shocking-pink stuffed toy cow with sewed-on accessories: big red lips, a floral wig, and a third eye. I wake, draw the dreamcow--and my sister calls from Santa Cruz to sing me a song about... |
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SHANGRI-LA: by Wayan, 1973/11/13, a teen's mystical dance-party dream I visit Shangri-La, the ancient Tibetan valley of refuge. Unicorns graze. We drive around on car-sheep. Robin Hood rebels against the Priestess of Gloom. Pilgrims in silly gauze robes arrive. Or are they just tourists? Oh, well. Toga party! CAUTION: GAUZE ROBES, NUDE UNICORNS |
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SHEEPISH: by Wayan; 1985/9/24, a clear but stupid psychic dream. Floundering through the snows of 1917, I fall in love with actress Linda Evans, who is a sheep teaching ballet. When I wake... |
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SIPHONIAN QUARTET: by Wayan; 2010/4/10, four baffling parallel-world dreams 1: Purple squid saboteurs flood our cliffhouse. 2: My oyster-ranching girlfriend has a snobby aunt. 3: I wake in a stranger's bondage fantasy--ugh! 4: Shepherds on the sea-floor watch for gliderwolves... CAUTION: EMBARRASSING BONDAGE DREAM |
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SURRENDER TO THE WHITE BUFFALO: by Kathleen Sullivan, 1970s?; a nightmare turned shamanic A gigantic herd of buffalo stampede toward me. I panic, then surrender in peace to what is surely my death... |
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TANYA'S DREAMS: by Tanya, as told by Gayle Delaney, Jan 1971-June '72; a set of 6 breakup dreams My friend Tanya tries hard to save her marriage, but in her dreams Isidora Duncan, Carl Jung, even the gods themselves warn her to face their deep incompatibility... |
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