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THE ANCIENT BOOK: by Wayan; 1993/11/11, a political dreamfable. I'm a schoolkid in the future who finds an ancient book the censors somehow missed... |
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BESTIALITY: by Wayan; 1997/2/6, essay with implications for dreams breaking taboos A capsule history of a taboo that changed startlingly over 3000 years... does sin depend on timing? CAUTION: SEX TALK, TABOOS |
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BIDENT: by Wayan; 2019/9/29, a punning political nightmare The Evil Librarians drop a 19th Century book-character on my head--a blue-skinned paranoid! He tries to kill me with a trident missing one prong... a Bident? Oh, no! He's Joe B... CAUTION: DIM VIEW OF TWO 2020 CANDIDATES |
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BLUE EAGLE: by Xanthe; 1989/10/6, a dream that said it wasn't for me I met a great blue eagle waiting to get into a library--but not to hunt books... |
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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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A CONVERSATION WITH ANOREXIA: by Wayan; 1994/6/25; two wild shamanic dreams. That day I read Hilde Bruch's "Conversations with Anorexics" and face the fact I am one. That night, in the land where anorexic horses heal, I enter the Kiva of Shamanic Pamphlets, and... |
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THE DYE-HOUSE RECORDS: by a Christian secretary, pre-1961, a prayer-induced intuition Our archivist had had a stroke. When an engine failed, my boss said "Find its records if it takes two weeks!" Five minutes later... |
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FILLY'S QUEST: by Wayan; 1981/1/31, a dream on dream-theory. Head versus... wings! The tunnel has pictures of a winged unicorn filly on a quest. But the editor of the deluxe book version is intellectual, patriarchal and heavy-handed... CAUTION: UNDERAGE ALICORN FLIRTING |
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FOUR OF TEN: by Wayan; 2021/4/3, four examples from ten dreams in one night Books are clothes, and always were. A potato makes me lie, and everyone gets it but me. Sex in a crowd disarms the Mom Squad! And a Mystic Autistic's soul explores my room... CAUTION: PUBLIC SEX? PROBABLY. |
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GENIUS! PRODIGIES AND THE GIFTED: A BOOKLIST: by Wayan, 2010-2018; a nondream bibliography A booklist (plus a few articles, films & comics) of interest to prodigies and geniuses. Just 100 so far; email suggestions! |
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HALF-ELF: by Wayan; 1996/2/14, a predictive dream fable. A biracial girl doubts her own heritage; a human friend has to confirm the obvious. So what am I blind to? |
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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 |
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HE LOOKED SOURLY: by John Dee; 1582/11/24, a mage's dream of dying, and after. The foremost wizard of Shakespeare's age dreams he's dead. They're burning his books, but that doesn't bother him... |
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JEAN ARP'S OCTOPUS: by Wayan; 2001/2/26; a surreal dream of my surreal reaction to a surrealist and his... lunch A library shows me surrealist Jean Arp's sketchbook. One Eschery sketch with repeated focal points is hypnotic. But they also show me his lunch, and I try to eat it! I fail. Head & gut disagree. Stuck Arp-way... CAUTION: NEVER EAT 12-YEAR-OLD SUSHI |
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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..." |
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THE LIBRARY: dreamed by Audrey Niffenegger between 1976 & 1982; an book-inspiring dream
I die. But then I find a door in my grandmother's pantry leading to a beautiful library... |
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THE LUSIADS: by Wayan, 1984/5/17; a predictive dreamlet Dream: up on Floor 4.4 of a strange library, I'm shown Os Lusiadas, apparently the Portuguese national epic. Next day at work, I'm handed a new purchase to input--Os Lusiadas. And yes, it's Portugal's national epic... CAUTION: APPARENT E.S.P. |
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MOM THINKS I'M ON A LEASH: by Wayan, 2019/3/10; an unheeded warning dream DREAM: my late mom invades my workplace. "Check in weekly or we'll stop your allowance!" What allowance? I'm independent! MONTHS LATER: I got sick from overwork. Nearly died. NOW: I think my dead mom meant: face your limits, check in with mortality, or you'll... check out. |
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MY NEW JOB: by Wayan; 1987/4/20, a haiku-ish dream joke? At the library, my boss says we're restructuring, modernizing. My new job is to... |
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OH, WAIT: by Wayan; 2008/10/3, an illustrated dream poem; Dreamverse #32 I'm a spy tracking down coinlike bombs. Fighting a double agent, I fall in love! So I suggest her gang rob golden-parachute bankers... CAUTION: POOLSIDE SEX |
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OLD HAT: by Wayan; 1988/1/5, a "normal" (i.e. incoherent) dream. The Goddess gave birth in my workplace. Her fever-dreams become real around us... CAUTION: BIRTH SCENE, LIBRARIANS' ORGY |
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PESSIMIST HELIX: by Wayan; 1996/6/9, a wise time-travel dream. I work the info desk in a futuristic library. But one question leads me into a DNA-helix, a tornado of doubt... |
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PIKE JOURNAL: by Wayan; 1984/11/14, a small psychic dream. I'm peeking at Pike's Peak with Gregory Peck, as we seek my dream-journals in the Hawaiian jungles... CAUTION: STUPID PSYCHIC PUNS |
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QUEEN KONG: by Wayan; 1986/3/17, a surreal dream of nerd defiance A giantess strides across the desert. The Great White Hunter fires his elephant gun, but the books she's made of stop his bullets. I think I'll join the Queen Kong Library... |
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SAMURAI LIBRARIAN: by Wayan; 1982/10/20, a dream that dreamwork is samurai discipline I wrote my dreams each morning no matter what--even if I it made me late for work. They assumed I was sloppy, lazy, spacy. No; disciplined about priorities! |
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SHARKBIT AND WARY: by Wayan; 2017/11/17, a dream explaining my own social caution At the beach, I see a swim team wading in. One girl teases a laggard wader, not seeing her huge scar. She says "I won't swim till the shark-risk is mapped"... |
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SIGNALS: by Patagia, 2009/11/5, a dream-poem on the conflicting demands of creative life I dream I'm trying to understand how I write poetry, but then I recall my daughter's sick from a bad prescription. So I try to research her illness, but our library's renovating... |
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SNAKE APOLOGY: by Wayan; 1972/6/24 or 25, a dream on solving communication problems I'm a snake being hunted by the FBI. I know English, but I can only hiss. So I need to find an indirect way to show I'm peaceable... |
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THE SPHINX APPROVES: by Wayan; 1991/5/2, a dreamtale on growth. A great war shrinks to wrestling, then hopping from page to page! Once they were worlds to me, but now... |
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A SPHINX'S SKETCHBOOK: by Wayan; dreamed 1994/7/2 & 7/19; a 23-page dream-comic I find the sketch-journal of a beautiful winged sphinx who left her mythic isle to explore a great city of crazy bipeds, called San Francisco... CAUTION: SPHINX SEX, SPHINX ATTITUDE |
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STAY GROUNDED!: by Wayan; 1988/2/27, an unexpectedly grounded dream. I'm playing poker with a dragon. But we barely dare move: we're both crackling with thousands of volts... |
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STRETCH NOW!: by Wayan; 1991/7/25 lost dream plus 1991/11/13 digital sketch DREAM: I was a cheetah seeking a book of cheetah rolemodels, but this specist librarian harassed me... PAINTING: months later, dream forgotten, I painted myself without knowing why as a cheetah stretching... |
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THE TOOTH: by SAO (Shawn Allen O'Neal), 2003?, an epic, oracular, baffling dream Psychics give me an incomprehensible reading. A book from the tree-library gives only Victorian dating advice. At last a madman gives me a treasure-box holding a tooth that unfolds into slices carved in unreadable symbols... |
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THE TRAIN ON TIME CAFE: by Wayan, 1981/12/20, an epic political dream. Silicon Valley goes enthusiastically fascist. I hide in a berry patch. They build a shining world, and then... |
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UNICORN TAG: by Wayan; 1986, a linked series of illustrated dreams.
Animal teachers, mostly equine, drag me (as I scream NO!) beyond plain dreamwork into shamanism... Chapter 1: The Deer Party: by Wayan; 6 illus. Chapter 2: Ariane's Honeymoon: by Wayan; 8K Chapter 3: The Everest Marathon: by Wayan; 1 illus. Chapter 4: Who'll Be My Love?: by Wayan; 100K, 4 illus. Chapter 5: Dreamrider: by Wayan; 7K, a nondream interlude Chapter 6: Half Shaman, Half Statesman: by Wayan; 170K, 4 illus. Chapter 7: Eight To A Horn: by Wayan; 2 illus. Chapter 8: Black Magic: by Wayan, 7 illus. Chapter 9: Misfits On Mars: by Wayan; 300K, 7 illus. |
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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VOTERS GONE CRAZY: by Thomas Madden, c. 2009/2/5; a political nightmare It's election time in Europe, but voters have gone crazy. Nazis invade England. In my library, Sarah Palin rots... CAUTION: POLITICS GONE WACKY |
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WATER BOOKS: by Marilyn Stablein; 1968, a dream while visiting Nepal... for six years In a Tibetan monastery on an ancient lakebed, I swim through a vast sunken library. Books open like sea anemones, letters float to the surface like kelp... |
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YOU CHIPHEAD! : by Wayan, 1997/1/31, a sarcastic dream. Chips are faster than brains these days, so everyone's upgrading--everyone but me... |
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