Mirrors and Reflections
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ALTHEA'S CHICKEN: by Wayan; 1990/3/27, a nightmare-farce. My sister Althea decides my house has demons, and hires an exorcist who botches things, so that... |
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AMATERASU'S MIRROR: by Lady Sarashina and an unnamed priest, c. 1035/3/22, two dreams of a life-choice Sarashina dreams (again) she needs to leave court life and a spiritual path. Her skeptical mom sends a priest to the temple to dream for her! But he too dreams the Goddess shows two life-choices--happy or sad... |
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BALLOON DRUG: by Patricia Garfield, 1974/2/3, a dream on thought-forms While writing about Tibetan dreamwork, I dream I'm on drugs and see myself in a mirror, first old & scarred, then young & sexcrazed. I think "This'd scare me if I hadn't been reading up on Yoga stuff!"... |
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THE BEACH: by Patricia Benefield; 1985 or before, a surreal painting of recurring dreams Birds enchant me, and they long have frequented my dreams. Sometimes, as in The Beach, I am a bird/woman... |
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BERYL BORROWED IT: by Wayan, 1986/3/8, an absurd dream. My top-heavy friend Beryl borrows my ass and legs to become a centaur so she won't fall over. But I want them back, so... CAUTION: CRUDE AND STUPID |
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CANDLEPOWER by Wayan, 1987/9/15, a predictive dreamlet DREAM: Outage! I bike through dark streets. One bay window glows--room lit by a glowing woman reflected in many mirrors... NEXT EVE: Outage! I bike home through dark streets. One bay window glows--room lit by candles reflected in many mirrors... CAUTION: NUDITY; APPARENT E.S.P. |
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THE DOUBLE: by Julie Doucet; Nov. 1992, a lucid alter-ego sex dream. Looking in a mirror, Julie goes lucid. She changes herself into a man and pulls her mirror-image through the glass... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY |
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DREAMS EXPLAIN DREAMS: by Wayan; 1994/5/31, a dream in a dream in a dream. I'm the composer Schumann, till a nightmare jumps me and I wake. And wake. And wake... CAUTION: MALE NUDITY |
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DREAMKU, SEPTEMBER 2006: by Roswila; thirty dream-haiku with various dates from 1960-2006 One dream-poem in haiku style each day for a month! Ghosts, snow, penguins, yoga babies, elves who leave their tree... |
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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 |
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FIGURE IN BLUE TANKTOP LOOKS IN MIRROR: by Wayan; 1995/5/15 After a workout, she looks at herself in the mirror, and for once, she LIKES herself... CAUTION: SHE LIKES HERSELF, AND WE CAN'T HAVE THAT! |
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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 |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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THE LADY BATHES IN GRIEF: by Wayan; 1983/5/31, a long-haul psychic dream. Why'd a spirit-woman come to our reservation to mourn a drowned guy? Her mirrors & candles tell us... |
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LANDSCAPE FROM A DREAM: by Paul Nash; recurrent dreams 1895-9, painted summer 1937 As a child, Paul Nash dreamt he flew over rural southern England. As an adult surrealist painter... |
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LBJ'S CAGE: by Lyndon Baines Johnson; May-June 1924, recurring teenage nightmares I found myself in a cage, with only a bench and piles of old books. A mirror showed I was old and twisted with speckled skin. In horror I said "I must get away"... |
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LEFT EYE: by "Anonymous #9"; 1938, a predictive, quasi-reassuring nightmare I dreamed of an explosion--a stabbing pain in my left thigh, right fore-arm, and left eye. Two years later, in World War Two, a grenade... |
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A MERMAID DISH: by Wayan; 1994/11/13, a parabolic dream A mermaid friend invites me to see an underwater experiment in the Golden Gate... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS |
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THE MERMAID'S DRESSING ROOM: by Wayan; 1993/12/18; a dream on how to evolve. At Sea-Dragon State Park, I climbed down to the sea serpent's dressing room after the show, and found... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS |
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MIRRORCUNT: by Wayan; 2011/3/24, a peculiar erotic dream image After singing dream songs on stage, I dream of a girl on a talkshow displaying the strangest vagina in history... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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OFFICE NIGHTINGALE: by Wayan; 1982/9/21, a dream warning I'm in the wrong place I'm a lonely bird flying in a glass office. Seeking friends, seeing reflections, I fly into windows. Ow! There's hope of escape only where no false friend beckons... |
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A PILGRIM DREAMING: by Denise Levertov; 1977? a dream poem A man I loved goes into the Jungian depths, but when his anima appears in the mirror-pool, his nerve fails... |
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POISONED!: by Wayan; 1994/6/20, three linked diagnostic dreams. Poison takes many forms, from attitudes to environmental by-products to actions done deliberately... |
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RABBIT WORLD: by Wayan; 6-page comic of a 1990/9/26 shamanic dream. I'm a telepathic rabbit defending our world from space-laser attack. We do, but do we modernize too much? CAUTION: IDEAS |
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RAVEN'S MIRROR: by Wayan, 2022/8/15, a surreal shamanic dreamlet A raven summons a levitating mirror that shows her face as a human, and tries out moods & expressions based on Tarot cards plucked from a tree... |
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REFLECTIONS IN THE POOL: by Wayan; 184K total, 2 panoramas; a 1994/7/2 dream. Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love. Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace? CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL |
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SHADOW PUZZLE: THE LORD AND HIS SERVANT: by Wayan; 1984/5/23, a reflective dream. A puzzle-game of eyes and mirrors and shadows starts revealing the players' deepest secrets... |
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SHOOT THE MIRROR!: by Sir Oliver Lodge; 1927/10/15, a dream of stagy twists A man frames his big brother, til their sister makes him shoot his own reflection. Neither one expects... |
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THE SHY ORGY: by Wayan; 1983/3/10, a sex dream with a nonsexual predictive side Swimming in Spokane, I meet two teenage girls and we have a... shy orgy? Next day I go to a play... and see the two on stage! I still dismiss the dream as a fantasy--consciously. But unconsciously I start taking action... CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX |
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SPECKLED EGGS: by Starvibes; 2008/6/16, a dream of intrigue. I dreamed of speckled eggs, Caribbean drug traffickers and of almost drowning near a sinking boat... |
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STELLAR IMPLANT: by Wang Chuna, 920s CE, a mad-surgery career-advice nightmare Wang dreamt a man cut his belly open and implanted a big mirror inscribed with stars. It hurt, even when he woke. For a month! But his belly now had a hunger to learn about astronomy... |
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SWAN: by Wayan; 1995/4/8, a transformation dream; 3-page dreamcomic (or as ill. text) I wake amnesic in a cabin in Alaska, in a dress printed with self-putdowns. I track down the wizard who cursed me. He turns me into a swan! Worse? No! His first curse was on a human being, and now I'm a bird. My mind is free!... |
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TAROT: THE ANOREXIC DANCER: by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. The card of excessive self-denial, whether compulsive or artistic or spiritual... |
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TERESA'S BILLBOARDS: by Wayan; 1988/5/1, a dream about trust. Teresa mistrusts men. Her best friend Sabina comes on to me in front of Teresa, who blames me... CAUTION: NUDITY, BETRAYAL, GENDER PARANOIA |
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THIEF OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1996/11/29, a sexy soul-swap dream; a 22-page comic (or text w/pics) I was a mermaid trying to find Count Coyote's stolen dreams, so I could marry my human girlfriend... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, LESBIAN MARRIAGE, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
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VRILLASSA’S ONLY PRIEST: by Jo; 2007/2/10, a dream of meeting God A job as the only priest on an island colony sounded perfect, only I’m the wrong religion... CAUTION: DOGMATISTS AND DEAD BIRDS TALKING |
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YELLOWBALL ABSTRACTION: by Wayan; 2001, ink sketch at first unrecognized as a dream! Another lie from those fiendish abstractionists. Turns out it's not a yellow ball at all... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
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