Mollusks
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BANANA SLUG: by Wayan; 1994/6/9, an absurd dream on a petty issue. After a day of enduring reverse sexism, a silly dream of giant banana slugs turns out to be psychic... CAUTION: ANTIMALE SEXISM |
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BLUE BRAINS: by Wayan, 2017/12/11, a false-waking, self-flagging predictive dream Our brains are really squid stuffed in a skulljar. I wake, see the image on TV. "So it's predictive!" I think. Then I wake to find that too was a dream. "Not predictive!" I think. Until my friend turns on the TV, and... |
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THE CONCHES: by Wayan; 1996/5/23, a dream on how dreams view the waking mind. A visit to the Conches, a strange race of molluscs who are people only seasonally... |
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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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DEVANGELS: by Wayan, 2017/4/27, a numinous but ambivalent dream After a hard day in the recording studio, I dream of powerful yet obedient devil-angels; quiet for now, but I fear they'll decide shamans like me are abominations... CAUTION: ANGELS? GOLEMS? DEVILS? |
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FREEDOM THROUGH BOXES: by Wayan; an experiment in art & pain, Jan 2005 I've always loved curves, color, dreams, sex, texture... and planning, too. So one day I drew 100 black boxes in ink--no color, no curves, no erasure! And then I began to seek... |
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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 |
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THE HEIDEGGARIAN BARBARIAN: by Jo, 2007/02/02, a dream of hopping between two characters I was two-thirds of a love triangle, but I always lost out. Flying was some consolation... CAUTION: RAT DEATH, EVIL WHALES AND ADULTERY |
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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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LESBOY: by Wayan; 1996/5/20, a dream on one's identity and place. My Aunt Squid advises me to join a lesbian artists' co-op. But I'm a man! Not for long, though... CAUTION: NUDE SUNBATHING, GENDER BEWILDERMENT |
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LYR: by Wayan; 7MB, 2005, 80 pages w/200+ drawings and maps; a virtual planet A vast sea-world with 7 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species... CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION! |
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MANTA-SQUID: by Wayan; 1986/3/13, a nightmare on the Senoi hoax DAY: I read an exposé on "Senoi dreamwork"--the Malaysian Senoi people disavow it. Some white guy just made it up! DREAM: I'm a dream researcher in Malaysia. A manta-squid attacks! Now the "Senoi" focus on my needs makes sense... CAUTION: TENTACLE-RAPE ATTEMPT |
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OCTOPIA: by Wayan; 1996/3/21, a spiritual dream-comic on play; ill. text version I'm a stratospheric bat who finds a flying swastika. Is it creeping fascism? Or a Hindu blessing? Neither! It's an Octopian frisbee. I return it... |
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OLD AND IN THE WAY: by Wayan; 1999/5/3, a veiled predictive dream. On the street called Old And In The Way, I meet a psychic I crushed on as a kid, and then, in a hearth, fight the tentacled alien who's been stalking me... |
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THE PRIMEVAL ANIMAL and the Survival of the Earth: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 1999/4/28; an epic dream A huge spiral nautilus needs healing; its coils are coming undone, and if it dies, all on earth may die with it... |
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RHINZL'S SHADOW: by Wayan; dreamed 1984/8/28; two unlikely predictive dreams. DREAMS: 1: I can't afford language classes. 2: A beautyqueen rigs a stargate; I kill monsters & sell their bones... NEXT DAY: I'm asked "Why don't you get a language degree?" I can't afford it! I go home & watch Dr Who... A stunning girl fixes a spacetime portal. Smugglers kill alien monsters & sell their ashes as a drug... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND CREEPY DISPOSAL OF BODIES |
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SERRANA: by Wayan; Oct-Dec 2004, a sculpture/webtour; 60 maps, photos & sketches A dry little world with many small seas, Serrana has at least six intelligent species and an anarchist culture. It's a tribute to Ursula Le Guin's anarchist utopia, "The Dispossessed", and Kropotkin's theories of biological cooperation... CAUTION: ANARCHIST POLITICS, ALIEN NUDITY |
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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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SLUG ETHICS: by Wayan; 1974/10/7, an undream tale. A man who wants to love and respect all life has unwanted kitchen guests: a wave of slugs... |
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SLUGS: by Patagia; 2010/11/24, a molluscan dream poem My friend and I are banana slugs on the forest floor. We wander out into chaparral, and across a bike path... |
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A SQUID STRATEGY: by Wayan; 1997/10/7, a dream warning. Giant squid start surfacing at popular beaches and eating people. Not the form of first contact we'd hoped... CAUTION: YOU ARE LUNCH |
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STARFISH: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 1985; a multileveled, doubly predictive dream A sacred starfish piloting a Cessna plane survives a crash. But can it survive a boy's clumsy rescue efforts? |
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SWIMMER: by Wayan; 1992/4/15, a digital sketch of a daydream. Swimming down among the tentacles didn't bother me. I wanted that ball. But I didn't see the BIG eye... |
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THE TAO OF DENNIS THE MENACE: by Wayan; 1986/4/17, a dream of a wise mentor. Chased by purple squid from Jupiter, I seek refuge with a guru the Goddess recommends for me... |
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THEY DON'T BELIEVE ME: by Wayan; 1989/10/4, an unbelievable dream with 15 illus. My dog and I are abducted by aliens who turn us into cats. We escape & go feral to survive. How we got back, and what happened along the way, even my own shrink refuses to believe... CAUTION: LEWD SQUID AND KLEPTOMANIAC BUGS |
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UNCLE JUPITER: by Wayan; 1998/9/3, a dreamtale. My uncle is Jupiter. Not the god, the planet. All my relatives are planets. So am I. And I'm invaded... |
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VENUS UNVEILED: by Wayan, 2004/8/30; a virtual world with c.200 photos, maps, portraits. Tour Venus as it will be in 1000 years, after terraforming: paradise for dozens of intelligent species! |
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THE VERDURE IS ACCOMPLISHED: by Jenny Badger Sultan; dreamed 1996/4/21 and 5/11 A dream voice announced "The verdure is accomplished." Green is a healing color for me... In the next dream we sat round a green pool, talking of healing. But the snails troubled me... |
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WINTER SNAIL: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 1994/1/22, twin dreams of renewal fuse in a painting At the beach, a barrel of huge snails somehow heal my legs. In the next dream, back on the beach, I give birth to our son... |
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