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	THE BEAR'S RIP: by Xanthe; dreamed 1990 or 1991; a lucidish dream with four sketches. A bear rips open my wall and guides me into a psychedelic space where I learn to see with new eyes...
	BLUE SOUP, NO SPARK: by Wayan; 1985/6/1, an epic dream on outgrowing God A visit to a world where they fear blue soup ends in death and resurrection, so I'm pissed at my boss--God. CAUTION: DEATH, REBIRTH, SACRILEGE... JOB BURNOUT
	BOYS WHO RUN WITH THE SCISSORS: by Wayan; 1986/1/26, a shamanic dream-joke Women who run with the wolves? Ha! In Mongolia, the only ones who can beat lightning-demons are...
	DREAMS IN WAR TIME: by Amy Lowell; c. 1917, a chain of seven small dream-poems Terse dreamlets quietly catch World War I's effect. Faith died in the trenches...
	ELECTRIFIED: by Joseph Kemeny, 2011, painting of a lucid dream I was focusing on emitting healing energy from my hands which resulted in an "electric" flow of energy through my entire body. Later in the dream...
	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...
	FIRST DREAMFLIGHT: by Wayan; 1969/11/11, two dream-results from my first dreamwork experiment. I never flew in my dreams. I felt cheated. So one day I set out to CREATE dream-flight...
	FRANKENSTEIN'S ORIGIN: by Mary Shelley; 1816/6/16, the (hypnogogic?) dream inspiring a famous book I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together; I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out...
	GODEVILLE: by Wayan; 2013/9/1, a nightmare of that Old-Time Religion I'm at a vaudeville for gods. Cthulhu the squid-god nearly tramples me--and then gets horny... CAUTION: GROSS GOD, GROSS GOO
	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...
	HILLARY AND TEAL: by "A 24-Year-Old Californian Woman"; around 2008/2/28, an absurd political dream Hillary Clinton hid her cancer, but the GOP found out. So a monster kidnaps Rainbow Brite, and...
	LADDER OF FEAR by Mike & Wayan, 2021/2/9; parallel dreams MIKE: A reckless friend races up a hazardous ladder. I follow slowly, reluctant, scared. Almost a nightmare... WAYAN: Mike recklessly climbs an outdoor ladder as lightning strikes. Scary! Wait--this dream feels psychic... CAUTION: APPARENT E.S.P.
	LIGHTNING: by Hasteen Hon, 1930, a warning dream DREAM: the storm was strange and fierce. A voice warned me the clouds were somehow dangerous. DAY: I got caught out in a fierce storm. I dismounted and sheltered under a tree. Lightning struck, and...
	MOON AND FIRE RISING: by Jenny Badger Sultan; dreamed c.1994/3/10 (+ earlier dream images, one from 1969) A dragon-woman showed me a cache of art. When I painted her face I recalled seeing it in a dream decades ago in a mirror... CAUTION: DRAGON BREASTS
	THE MURDERS: by four Wayans! 1971/7/14; a family has simultaneous psychic nightmares. Nearly everyone in my family dreams of a mass murder as it happens nearby. But my dad's sure it's his own evil id, and my mom clams up, and my sister forgets. And me? I doubt the whole thing for ten years, until... CAUTION: NIGHTMARE VIOLENCE
	A NIGHT ON MOUNT DIABLO: by Wayan, 1984/6/8, an allegorical four-phase dream. I'm attacked by a narcissist firebird, a rabid rattler-manticore, a masochist bear, and a sexless succubus... CAUTION: INEPT DEMONS
	PINK LIGHTNING: by Emily Y. Chan, 2017/12/15 or before; dream painting We were trying to catch this "harpy", who looked like a 1980s angel, but she teleported away. It was freaking weird...
	THE POLYGAMOUS PILOT: by Wayan; 1990/9/25, an unlikely predictive dream. My friend the Polygamous Pilot is up in an ice-storm, hanging powerlines on the sky, when...
	RIBBING: by Wayan; 1992/12/25, an assertive dreamtale. After seeing 150 years of family photos, I dream of being teased by time-traveling cheerleaders, and...
	A SQUARE IN THE HAND: by Anna Kingsford; 1887/4/12, an epic nightmare with a twist I'm a French revolutionary facing a firing squad. But palmistry predicts I'll be strangely saved...
	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....
	TURNABOUT: by Henry James; 1870s or 80s; a nightmare reversed by sheer courage. A night-fiend strove to open the door I held shut between us-- until I realized I too was terrible, and opened it to find a great... CAUTION: THE DREADED PROSE OF HENRY JAMES
	TWO-HEADED BEAST: by Wayan; 1997/7/31, a 5-page Gothic dream-comic (or as illus. text) In Castle Frankenstein, will Mary Shelley wed Elmer Fudd? His two-headed monster has marital advice...

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