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AICORN'S BANANA: by Wayan; 2016/6/13, a dream-parable on owning your tastes An artificial intelligence acquires fans and has orgies with her groupies. Her creators don't care as long as the advertisers get product placement. But she has this size fetish... CAUTION: VIBRATORS |
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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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BEET: Five Dreams One Night: by Wayan; 2013/10/30, Halloween dreams as minipoems Parasites, Rambo, huge fetus-beets, an exhibitionist and a living statue advise me on my love life... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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BLUNDERING LINDA: by Wayan; 1987/7/12, a namedropping predictive sex dream I'm in bed with a witch and a piano who's come alive and wants to try sex with us. But I worry a stranger named Linda will break in. I wake, write the dream--and a stranger breaks into our house seeking her son! Her name's... CAUTION: BIZARRE THREESOME, BIZARRE PRECOGNITION |
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BURNING HOUSE: by Graciela Iturbide, 2006 or before; a Pygmalion dream My home was burning; I despaired. All my negatives would be lost. But some figures arose from their photos and walked out of the fire... |
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CARYATID SWEET, GUIDE SOUR: by Wayan, 1999/9/2, a dream about that crazy conscious. My guide in India says the Third World's doomed, but a stone dancer in the ruins winks behind his back... CAUTION: NAKED CARVINGS |
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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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THE CENDANCERS: by Wayan; 2011-16, a 32-figure sculpture project with 250+ pics A wild troupe of sexy, surreal, centaurlike dancers mostly built from Barbie dolls... CAUTION: EXPLICIT NUDITY, FUR, BARBIE |
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CENTAUR AUDITION: by Wayan; 2012/1/7 and 2012/1/30, two linked Pygmalion dreams Non-dream centaur ballerinas invade my dreams, because they long to be in the World Dream Bank... CAUTION: BARBIE CENTAUR NUDITY, CASTING-COUCH OVERTONES |
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CHOCOLATE BALLS: by Wayan, 2022/5/10, a surreal furry dream on Covid bloat I find I'm a self-made... critter. A plushie sewn with zippers so I can stuff any bits of me that seem flat or limp. But my filling's not cotton, polyester or foam. It's chocolate! So I have... CAUTION: CRUDE DREAM, AWFUL PUN |
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CLEO'S REVENGE: by Wayan, 2017/1/7, a sculpture of a dream warning "Don't hide sexual attraction" I meet Cleo from Monster High. I like her. Why, that's pedophilia! (Huh? She's AGES old.) Once I hide my Cleophilia, ALL sexual feelings vanish! "I'm sickly & sexless." Oh. The Mummy's Curse! CAUTION: SEX-DENIAL; NUDE CENTAUR |
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COFFINS: by Beryl and Wayan; 1983/11/5, dark parallel/shared/telepathic dreams
Twin dreams of ghoulish games backstage at a theater. And they anticipated real long-term ghoulishness... CAUTION: SLOW DEATH |
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DANCING ROBBANE: by Emily Joy; 2007/8/1, sculpture of a dream sculpture. The clay came alive, shaped itself, started dancing...and mutating. |
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DECLARING INDEPENDENCE: by Patricia Garfield c.1946, Fiona '51, Lenore '58 & Helen '62 Four teens dream their moms are monsters: Patricia sees hers as a demonic doll, Fiona finds her mom's a wolf, Lenore's is a grinning vampire, and Helen's is a bossy, punitive octopus... |
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DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW: by Wayan; 2020/1/2, an embarrassing dream poem The guest room has a giant plush doggie. Next thing I know, I'm humping her doggie style, on the windowsill where the girl driving the backhoe can see... CAUTION: CRINGEWORTHY SEX |
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DRUGGED, SHRUNK AND DAUBED: by Wayan; 2008/11/1, a dream-poem (Dreamverse #38) I'm worried an alien charity is brainwashing an ex-prostitute. When I wake, she's still there--at 2/5 scale!... |
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EASTER HEALING: by "Clairity"; 2008/03/23, a joyful lucid dream I will a clay cat to come to life, then start healing real cats and dogs and... |
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THE EGYPTIAN EXHIBIT: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; a psychedelic Pygmalion dream I panic as statues come alive at the museum, but they're all about energizing a mystical pyramid... |
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ENTER, NERO!: by Emperor Nero; c. 58 CE, a series of guilty surreal nightmares. After murdering his mother, Nero dreams he's losing control: ships drift, statues chase him, and his own tomb says... |
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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 |
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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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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... |
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THE GODDESS OF WYRE: by Edwin Muir; 1925, a dream of soul-rebirth After 25 years I land on my native island of Wyre, to touch an ancient clay figurine, who grows young and wakes... |
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HEAD ON MY TABLE: by Lauren Watley; 2011/2/16, a creepy dream-image with depth After a day of troubling conflicts over race & art, I dream I'm handed a hot, heavy, mossy head--is it art, or alive? |
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HELP, NOT CURE: by Wayan; 1996/12/26, a dream on autism. Gay angels try to help an autistic woman. Change her past? Only if they pass the Ass-Backward Guardians! |
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IRENE'S DREAM: parallel (linked?) dreams by "Irene May" and Jack Kerouac, c. Aug 9 1953 IRENE tries to mold Francesca like clay to bring her back to life, and does--for a moment... JACK finds his brother Gerard dead, and all Jack's words can't revive him... |
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KAKALEA: by Wayan; 2012/7/23 to early 2017; a good world on a bad hair day We search for exoplanets whose stats are Earthlike. But mass, chemistry, warmth and air do not a biosphere make! Geography alone--the mere placement of lands and seas--can also make a world lush or barren... CAUTION: CENTAUR BARBIE NUDITY |
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MUPPET WITNESS: by Bill Tjaden, art by Jesse Reklaw; pre-2000; an absurd dream I work in a witness protection program. We hide the Muppet on the bottom of an empty swimming pool, hand him a long straw, and fill it with... |
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NORASINGH: by Wayan; 1987/1/15, a Tantric Frankenstein dream. I fall in love with my sculpture of a mythical Southeast Asian creature. Then a mad yogi breaks in... CAUTION: SEX, TANTRA, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS |
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NOUVELLE BARBIE BODS: by Patagia, 2012/12/22, a playful poem on a dream-diorama I visited my friend Chris Wayan's workshop and found him building a dance troupe of joyfully obscene centaurs out of Barbie dolls... |
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OWL TAVERN: by Dan O'Neill; before 1994/11/2, a dream-comic I stumble into a bar where the TV stars from my childhood are drunkenly arguing metaphysics--Howdy Doody, Beany & Cecil, Flipper... |
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PESCADERO MONET: by Wayan; 1983/11/4, a happy art-cult dream. Monet is over 100 now, living in an art colony. I visit him, but my parents come along. Bad idea... |
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PHOTOS LURE SOULS: by Wayan; 2016/3/12, dream of summoning spirits I'm photographing lifesize furry statues. How explicit, how sexy? If I get shots they like, souls will be lured to enter their bodies and bring them alive... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
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PLUSH BEAR: by Wayan; 1994/8/3, a grotesque dream poem. Two mimes terrorize our art class in a stretchable bear-suit. Well, we HOPE it's just a suit... |
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POKEY?: by Wayan; 1993/4/15, a dreamtale on my soul. My lover's turned into a tiny living pull-toy, trapped ankle-deep in a wheeled platform. Can I free her? |
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RABBIT-EARED DOE: by Wayan; dreamed 2008/4/29, a dream of statues come passionately to life A hunter catches a Rabbit-Eared Doe by her yard-long ears, pulls on them like reins, and mates with her! She doesn't object; maybe ear-pulling's normal for her. Should I intervene? I can't tell if this is love or rape! CAUTION: STRANGE FURRY SEX |
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REBELLION: by Roz Chast, 2023 or before, a dream on dreamwork? I was trapped in a Handmaid's Tale dystopia; I was a mannequin, naked & helpless. I couldn't even walk. But I hid one rebellious act: I kept a diary... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, CARTOON DYSTOPIA |
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SAINT BARBIE: by Wayan; 2016/6/19, a dream of a meme we need After a living Barbie doll dies while campaigning for niceness, I find myself invoking her to shock people into decent behavior: "In the Name of Saint Barbie!"... CAUTION: BARBIE, UNICORNS, IMPLICIT TRUMP CRITIQUE |
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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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THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY: by Wayan; 1989/7/8, a comic nightmare, possibly telepathic. My sisters get bored with the game of power, so I watch TV-- until it melts, and a terrifying giant rises to chases me... |
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SIBERIAN TIGER VERSUS MUPPETS: by Chris Wayan 2020/12/9; a what-if dream I wake in a strange frozen bedroom. Oh. My bed is Siberia! That means there are tigers. Clearly the way to defend myself is with giant stuffed toys... |
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SILKY AT THE GATE: by Wayan; 2016/2/26, dream of a statue come alive My girlfriend, a lifesize doll in the shape of a feline centaur, gradually comes alive, walking around on her own and flirting with me... CAUTION: NUDE CAT-TAUR |
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SIX DREAMS: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a very busy night! 1: A flooded bathroom becomes 2: a glass water-piano; 3: my friend strips in a restaurant, so 4: they serve me gutted dog. 5: Dolls teach prostitution, as 6: a rhino rubs up to an elephant-bear... |
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TEN CLARKS AND LOISES: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, an epic dream on... poseurs? Hand-puppets, a devil and a witch, have sex, and implant a lunar ghost embryo into Lois Lane; now Lois & Clarkes, ten clones each, pretend to be puppets... CAUTION: PUPPET SEX; EVERYONE A FAKE |
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THE THING ABOUT DREAMS: by Julia Wertz, a dream autobiography, 1980-2010 As a kid, my nightmares were of Sesame Street characters. In my teens I graduated to slasher nightmares and recurring lucid dreams. Alcohol trashed my dreams for years, but now they're not nightmares--just surreal. Hitler wrecks my sex life! What a spoilsport... CAUTION: (MOSTLY FRUSTRATED) SEX |
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A VASE OF FUR: by Wayan; 1998/11/18, a dream of a surreal future. A woman goes on a quest with an alien friend, and returns with only a furry musical vase: her friend! And from how the vase purrs, I'm not so sure if she wants to be changed back. |
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WHERE IS MY MOTHER?: by Kelly Simon; 1992?; an epic time-traveling dream of roots I'm nine years old again. But my mom acts like a child--crawls into a hole. I follow, scared, and find my grandfather packing to leave the Old Country before the Nazis kill us all... CAUTION: FEAR & PERSECUTION |
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WHODUNIT? AND WHAT DID THEY DO?: by Derek Gullino, late 70s? Five nightmares, five years old 1: Dad picks up Bigfoot; he bites off my ear. 2: Dad abandons me in a canyon full of wolves. 3: The man who killed my family hands me his ax. 4: Bees move into my pillow. 5: A marionette with razor-nails lures me close... CAUTION: OUCH |
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ZEMMYO: by Myoe Shonin; c.1221/4/20, a spiritual Pygmalion dream. A doll sent from China breaks into tears over her exile here in Japan. I reassure her and she becomes real... |
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