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ANTI-LUCID FLIGHT: by Wayan, 2016/8/30, a friendly nightmare begging me to go lucid. I fear falling? The drop increases. Want a softer surface? The rocks turn to dirt, then water. Want help? Here comes a flying dolphin. Oh, but I'm not dreaming... |
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ARCTIC UNICORN: by Wayan; 1989/8/2, a self-flagging predictive dream I'm in a gypsy wagon that always creeps north; to break the spell, I need an arctic unicorn. Four days later, at work at the library, a new book appears: Nancy Luenn's Arctic Unicorn... |
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THE AZTEC EMPIRE'S RESERVATIONS: by Wayan; 1998/3/19, a parallel-world dream The modern Aztec Empire is as bad as Anglos toward other Indians, for it's not poverty that hurts... |
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BALOLOKONG: by Wayan, 1984/11/13; a Hopi time-travel dream. The Ice Hotel, where all my selves are sealed. Can we thaw Einstein? Balolokong the Rainsnake says... |
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BEES' DISTRESS: by Davi Kopenawa, late Nov. 1989, a shamanic dream On my first trip to Europe, I found bees there live in boxes. They came to me in my dream to say "We are slowly starving, as humans kill the flowers and trees we need." They asked me to warn the white people, who are deaf... |
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BIRDS AT WAR: by Martín Painemal Huenchual, 1973/12/11, a warning dream DREAM: Millions of birds were at war, tearing one another apart. It was out of control, thousands and thousands... DAY: Pinochet's coup took Chile. Alerted by the dream, Painemal went into hiding and lived--unlike thousands... CAUTION: EXTRAPOLATIVE OR PSYCHIC? |
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THE BLACK CURRENT: by Wayan; 1985/6/16, a slice-of-life dreamtale. A dream-voyage round the world on the Black Current, only to wake up back in my animal village... CAUTION: GORILLA MARRIAGE |
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THE BLACK EGG: by Wayan; 1999/3/25, a comic psychic dream. My crazy friend Wayne goes bowling for busses with a black egg. Wait! Crazy? Or... predictive? CAUTION: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE BEHAVES DISGRACEFULLY |
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BUFFALO PERSON: by Plenty Coups, summer 1857; a child's time-traveling, tribe-saving dream I was led into the future, where all the buffalo disappeared, to meet a frail old man by a ranch house... |
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THE CIRCUS HUMANS' DESERTION: by Wayan; 1988/2/19; an epic holy dream. I join a circus, but soon all the best carnies sail off to the Blessed Isles. The circus animals pitch in and carry on--clumsy and lonely. Then a divine herald arrives from the Isles: Donald Duck! He says... |
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CONTRACT CLOAKS FOR COURIERS: by Wayan; 2019/5/30, a dream on enforcing contracts After a day of medical mess-ups, I dream whites routinely cheat super-fast Native American pony couriers, till the riders demand showy down payments called Contract Cloaks. Now cheats'll get publicly exposed... |
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COSMIC MAYPOLE: by Georganna Malloff; 1976-80s, dream-based drawings and totem poles I dreamed all the creatures of the world were dancing around a maypole. My friends and I sculpted a totem pole from the dream... |
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COUNT COUP!: by Plenty Coups, 1857; a child's defining dream I sought a dream of Helpers. But rather than give me gifts, they gave me a daunting challenge... |
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COYOTE ANGEL: by Wayan; 2000/1/3, sculpture of dream figure. A shapeshifter caught in the moment of transformation, just as her arms unfold into smoky wings... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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COYOTE PAJAMAS: by Wayan; 1983/12/17, a Dantesque dream-epic. 7I'm Coyote, keeping the Business Prophet from taking over Dante's Peak. But it turns too personal... CAUTION: IDIOTIC VIOLENCE |
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COYOTE'S DINNER PRAYER: by Wayan; 1998/6/5. A waking prayer-poem for you hungry coyotes. Coyote's pagan parody of the Christian Lord's prayer. Well, actually, it's kind of sweet.. CAUTION: SACRILEGE, ESPECIALLY THE BIT ABOUT TEMPTATION |
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COYOTE'S VAULT: by Wayan; 1994/5/4, a shamanic dream of the future. One of the Time Vaults has opened. That means a historical crisis is at hand. Guess who gets to go in... |
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CRAZY HORSE'S DREAM: by Crazy Horse; summer 1854 (age 11-12) a life-predicting dream I saw a man riding across the face of a lake. Bullets and arrows flew at him, but all missed. He reached the shore. Men who looked like him rose from the ground, and pulled him down... CAUTION: GENOCIDE DIRECT, GENOCIDE BY PROXY |
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CRUISE: by "Michelle", 1990s; a recurrent predictive dream I never go on cruise ships but I keep dreaming I'm on one and meet the same man, and marry him..... |
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EUROPE'S SPIRITS LIVE: by Davi Kopenawa, late 1989/11 and 1990/10/12-16; shamanic dreams I visited Europe while suffering from malaria. The local spirits helped me, cooling my fever. They prefer to live high in the mountains where the air and water are still clean. White people ignore them, but they're still there... |
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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... |
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FIREBOWL: by Wayan; 2013/9/14; a diagnostic/climatological/futurological dream I'm in the High Plains, at a huge powwow on climate change. This could become, not a new dustbowl, but a firebowl. As I wake, I find I'm running a fever! And the dream hints what caused it... |
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FLIGHT FROM A JAGUAR: by Davi Kopenawa, 1959-62, a child's recurring nightmare turns to flight A jaguar tracked me. I ran, but never escaped; it pounced on me and I woke crying. I tried climbing trees, but it climbed after me. The only escape was to jump from the highest branch, flapping desperately. And I flew... |
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FLOATING HORSES: by Wayan, 1972/8/10, a flying/transformation dream advising patience That day, I did bad art. That night, my friend & I get turned into levitating horses-- though some of our fellow fliers, like the mummified Inuit, are kinda creepy... |
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FLU PRESCRIPTION: by Qu'lad and Togumalis, 1918 or 19, two shaman's dreams that saved lives Qu'lad, dying of flu in the pandemic, dreamt a wolf told him cold-water baths would save him. He staggered to the river. He lived. He told others. They lived. The shaman Togumalis dreamt his spirit helper, a squirrel, prescribed the same. A century later, hospital records show why it worked... CAUTION: ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE SHOWN AS SUPERIOR |
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FORESEE ELECTION, BUT BLIND TO SEX: by Wayan; 2012/10/23, a predictive dream only half heeded On hearing the election results, a girl at Esalen Hot Springs joyfully dances naked around me. I heed the dream's prediction about the election, but not about... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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FOUR DAYS BEFORE THE FLU: by R.T., 1918; a predictive nightmare I dreamed that in four days a plague would hit our reservation and people would start dying. Four days later it happened just as I was warned---the 1918 flu. And my dream caused it... CAUTION: NOT JUST SURVIVOR'S GUILT, SEER'S GUILT |
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GARDEN OF THE GODS: by Wayan; 1995/10/6, a dream of slowth. In the Garden of the Gods, I sit through sun and rain. For gods aren't the gardeners, they're the crop... |
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GIRL IN THE WATER: by Wayan, 2000/10/7, twin dreams on... dreamwork? In a California with no Gold Rush, wild deer carry a girl over the San Fernando hills to a secret dream-pool... Then in a Japantown hotel lobby, that girl floats meditating in a huge aquarium, as local gossips lie about her... |
GOD OF THE GULF: by Wayan; 2021/3/3, a dream warning piety has hazards |
I'm in the Gulf of Mexico watching the Creator of North America place mountains, rivers and ancestors just where they belong. I wake knowing this pious, static view is immoral... CAUTION: CRITIQUES TRADITIONALISM |
GRAVES: by J.S., 1901, a predictive nightmare |
I dreamt my wife and I lived on a farm. I was summer and all was ripe. But I found I wasn't digging vegetable beds, but graves. I woke. By next summer, my wife and child were both... |
GREENBIRD SAVIOR: by Wayan; 1983/6/2, a divine comedy. |
Time-travel the Navaho way! But our bread-pipe gets hijacked, so we call the Bird. Who shows up, all right... CAUTION: NON-STANDARD SAVIOR, EVIL DREAM PUNS |
GRIEF KIVA: by Wayan; 1980/2/16, a lucid psychic dream. |
In a Hopi underworld, I find even lucid dreaming can't cure guilt and grief over losses yet to come... |
THE HEDGEHOG DISPENSARY: by Wayan; 2004/10/2, furtopian watercolor 12-page dreamcomic (or text + pics) |
A rabbit shaman makes his student drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. How to free her? CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR |
HIS DEER WIFE: by Wayan; 1995/7/9, a dream of love in a parallel world. |
I'm a slave, a scribe in the house of a Captain of the New Aztec Empire, when he brings home a wife... CAUTION: SLAVE SOCIETY, SEX, SPOUSAL ABUSE/NEGLECT |
HORSE THIEVES: by Plenty Coups, early 1870s?; a practical psychic or subliminal dream |
Thieves stole 100 of our horses. The tracks suggested white men, but that night my dream Helpers declared them Sioux. We tracked them across Montana... |
HOW TO BE A WOLF: by Wayan; 1987/3/15, a dream of a trickster-mentor |
We're hiking in the Sangre de Cristos when a girl offers to show us how to be a wolf. We're eager--until she turns wolf, bites us and leaps off a cliff! Furious, we stupidly follow her over... CAUTION: NUDE FLYING WOLVES |
I FIGHT FOR BEAUTY: by Wayan; 1990/1/1, an incubated dream within a dream within a dream. |
From Hawaii to Wyoming, I fight for beauty, always waking to find I'm someone new... |
I THOUGHT HE LIKED ME: by Wayan; 1994/8/16, a dream of rejection... or worse. |
I join the Seattle Tribal Council, which of course means marrying them all. The husband I'm to sleep with on our Council Honeymoon seemed to like me, till he pulls that practical joke... CAUTION: GROSS! |
I WAS A SEX SLAVE: by Wayan; 1994/11/20, a dream on isolation |
I'm a slave dancer. I run for it, and make it over the border. But my owner comes looking for me... CAUTION: NUDITY, SLAVE SOCIETY |
THE ICE CREAM KISS: by Wayan; 1993/11/27, an uncomfortable dream. |
I'm Joe Leaphorn, in (of all places for a Navaho detective) a coven in San Francisco watching a creamy... |
INDIAN SCHOOL: by Hasteen Hon, 1926, a death-foreseeing dream |
My grandmother told me dreams tell the truth. I was skeptical. I dreamed my brother came home from Indian school. He looked terrible-- skeletal, with sooty skin. Soon after, my brother got sick. He looked as he did in the dream. We brought him home. Four days later, he... |
INDIANS OCCUPY DANCE CLUB: by Wayan; 2012/8/31; a dream of biased art I try to correct |
An ink sketch in a magazine shows a new Ghost Dance invading city clubs. But the (biased?) artist uglifies the Indians, horses and giraffes dancing... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY; JAUNDICED ART/REPORTING |
INITIATION: by Davi Kopenawa, Fall 1983, account of a shamanic ordeal |
When I first took yãkoana, my visions were disappointing--where were the spirits? They studied me for days, until they knew I was serious. Then a few came, then a horde! Overwhelming... |
INUIT MEDITATION: by Wayan; 1989/11/16, a comically surreal dream. |
I'm the first tuna to get a scholarship to Stanford. Naturally I sign up for a course in Inuit Meditation... |
ISHI AND SNOID: by Wayan; 1993/8/4, a dream on uncomfortable growth |
I'm a California Indian wandering through time, keeping our secret of time-travel from reckless white guys... |
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... |
LAKOTA TRAINSCAPES: by Wayan; 2018/10/30, art seen in an anti-lucid dream |
In a general store on a High Plains rez, I find two surreal collaged postcards. If only this were a dream they'd qualify for the World Dream Bank, but sadly, it isn't. Right? CAUTION: STUPID, STUPID CONSCIOUS! |
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... |
THE LIZARD LESSON: by Wayan; 1996/12/12, a hard-hittin' shamanic dream. |
I'm a shaman in Nunavut who has to teach a guy in a lizard suit (and his foxy niece) that reparations have limits... |
LONGEVITY ROAD: by J.S., c.1898, a predictive life-arc dream |
I walked along a hilly road with ropes and boxes. My wife vanished in a hollow. But my path went on until the hills were blue in the distance. An old man interpreted... |
LOON LADDER: by Wayan; 1993/5/13. A dream of rising above. |
I had this near-nightmare about climbing a DNA stair up to the sky, and stepping off... CAUTION: NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES |
LUCID FLIGHT: by Lisa Reich; March 2003, an ecstatic lucid dream of flight. |
I flew as if part of the air--an otherworldly freedom so exquisite I wonder if it's attainable at all in earthly existence... |
MAMA BEAR'S ADVICE: by Wayan; 1985/12/8, a dream on love-tactics. |
A bear-girl seduced by her coyote professor gets a little advice on revenge from her anthropologist mom... |
MAYAN FORCE: by Wayan; 1992/12/6, a political dream-fable. |
First, sf writer Heinlein advocates a strong army; then I see one in action--turned against the people... |
MCKILLIP'S NEW BOOK: by Wayan; 2010/7/23, an epic literary dream |
I'm inside a magical novel by Patricia McKillip, amid tricksters, cosplayers, spooks, sex changes, levitation and (sigh) cops... CAUTION: COYOTE SEX |
MISTER HALL: by εmaxu.lag.Ilis, 1923/2/27?, a psychic dream |
I was in a strange house. I met Mr Hall, a preacher from Alert Bay. He said he was different now, in the world above. I woke and told the dream. Two months later a letter came saying he died February 27... |
THE MIWOK RITE: by Wayan; 1999/11/20, a dream fable. |
A ritual in a future society makes me laugh. I tease a futurian, insist it's really an old Miwok rite... |
MUDHOLE: by Hosteen A., 1928, a death-warning dream |
I dream my cousin and I ride out looking for his lost moccasins. Suddenly he's swallowed by mud and drowns. It's so fast. I feel sorry for him but I'm helpless. Two months later, my cousin died... |
MUGS: by Wayan; 1985/12/25, a dream of weird Christmas gifts |
A shop sells coffee cups covered in tales & creatures begging to be drawn... |
MUSKRAT, OTTER, MINK: by J.P., c.1900, a trapper's shamanic-fistfight dream |
Three men chase me. I can't get away so I turn and fight, and put out one guy's eye. That makes them pause! At last they back away. As they paddle away in a boat, I realize who they are: Muskrat, Otter and Mink... CAUTION: ANTHROPOLOGISTS! |
MY MOTHER & I: by J.S. & his mother, c.1910?, shared/parallel dreams |
MY DREAM: I was walking a hilly road, my uncle ahead, my stepdad behind; trying to keep them in sight. My mom appeared and I woke. MY MOTHER'S: the same. She told me hers before I told her mine. She thought it meant my uncle would die first, then me, then... CAUTION: APPARENT TELEPATHY, BUT MISINTERPRETED MEANING |
NATIVE LANGUAGE: by Wayan; 1996/11/17, a dream about senses and speech. |
I'm at the beach, seeing it through English linguistic filters. Or do I? Is there a language under language? |
NAVAHO HORSES: by Wayan; 1972/8/1; childhood drawing, feltpen & color pencil |
A museum sketch of Navaho horses who got me hot--teaching teenage me that my sexual orientation wasn't (only) human... |
OHLONE AT THE MALL: by Wayan; 1994/2/1, a dream of what matters |
I see two Ohlone women around 1900, starving, naked, despised, their land stolen--and still way happier than... CAUTION: NUDITY |
OJIBWAY DREAM NET: by Regina de Cormier-Shekerjian, c.1984, a dream-poem of a visiting animus |
I hung the dream-net over my bed. It worked. A blue-winged man with a leg of silver came to me, drummed, danced, offered to teach me secrets. Awake, I found a blue feather caught in that net... |
OTTER MEDICINE: by The-Fringe, a Crow healer, early 1850s; a shamanic dream with physical effects |
I slept on an island in a scalding hot spring, praying for a dream. I got one--and woke up on the shore... |
THE OWLS OF THE GATEKEEPER ON THE FOREST BRIDGE: by Brian Quinn; 2009/7/15, a shamanic invite |
I'm pulling a cart in the woods. At a bridge over a canyon, owls urge me to climb down into the misty abyss, but... |
OZETTE ANGEL: by Wayan; 1988/8/23; dream-tinged landscape. |
West of Seattle, near Lake Ozette, a mudslide buried a whole Makah Indian village centuries ago... |
PITS OF POWER: by Wayan; 2005/11/16, a dream of rival miracles |
One tribe builds earth-magic pits that can teleport you or grant wishes. But the other tribe's more powerful flow-state magic is harder to define... CAUTION: SEX FANTASY GRANTED |
PLANE OVER ORAIBI: by Hosteen Hal, c.1902-13; a long-range predictive dream |
Before I'd ever heard of planes, I dreamed one landed near me. A white man invited me to ride, and we flew over Oraibi. I told people but they didn't believe such a thing could come true... |
PLAYMATES: by J.S., c.1893, a childhood dream |
When I was little, two boys with strange laughs invited me to play. Their house was crowded and underground. After I came back out, I realized their home was a grave and they were ghosts. They gave me a power... |
POTLATCH SMOKE: by Wayan; 1988/5/10, a shamanic dream-inside-dream 4 levels deep! |
Refugees flood the spirit worlds! War looms. Wolf, Silky, Dr Who, even the Bug-Goddess of Love are alarmed. I'm just a blonde ditz, but I help inspect realities till we trace the source: a Tlingit potlatch! Why? |
A PRISONER OF ZEN: by Wayan; 1980/11/9, a dream on isolation. |
The Pope spears our Inuit captain and the Mystic, who turns solitary--a prisoner of Zen. Can I free him? |
REVOLUTION IS MESSY: by Emily Joy; 2006/4/26, a political dream |
When whites invade, two shapeshifting Native American cubs resist architecturally... |
SALIA AND CHUR: by Wayan; 1989/2/25, a psychic Star Trek dream. |
Our starship signs up a strange new woman whose quirks turn out to be fallout from slavery... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES |
SATORI ACCORDING TO GHOST: by Wayan; 1998/4/11, a longterm predictive dream |
A Buddhist student, troubled by a corporation marketing a product called "Satori", summons the ghost of her beloved mentor for advice... |
A SIRIUS MISSION: by Wayan; 1983/9/21, a nightmare predicting a painful fall |
Exploring a planet in the Sirius system, we raft down a river. A local guy warns there's a waterfall ahead, but my raftmates won't believe him! Over we go. Ow... Next day, glad my druggy housemate's leaving, I learn of a big letdown... |
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... |
SOUTHWEST SHAMANS: by Wayan; felt pen, August 1971; childhood mythical drawing |
Drawn on a trip to the Southwest as a kid. Felt like I'd lived there in a past life. Or I would in a future life... |
SPACE: by εmaxu.lag.Ilis, before 1925, an early dream of spaceflight |
In my dream, I flew upward. It was as though I was going to the place where stars are, for the stars were showing in the daytime. I saw all around our world. Then I wished in vain to go down again... |
SPIDER CRONE: by Wayan; 2019/12/20, a nightmare of helpful advice |
Lost in the rainforest of Olympic National Park, I stumble into the wrong cabin: the hut of Time herself. Or is she? She asks me to clean up, but spare her web... |
SPOTTED FAWN DODGES ARROWS: by Amanda Strong; 1998, a dream on the power of names |
Soon after I was given the name Spotted Fawn, I dreamed I was one, fleeing faceless hunters under the full moon. There's history in this... |
SUPERHERO TRAINING KITS: by Wayan; 2006/12/17, a wise mishmash dream |
I careen from a shamanic laboratory to a shattered ring round an alien world to (gasp) an honest politican!... |
SURRENDER TO THE WHITE BUFFALO: by Kathleen Sullivan, 1970s?; a nightmare turned shamanic |
A gigantic herd of buffalo stampede toward me. I panic, then surrender in peace to what is surely my death... |
SUVY & JOHN DOE: by Shawnodese, c.1970; a precognitive warning dream |
I dream my friend Suvy introduces me to a man who just took a class I'm considering. Weeks later she introduces me to him--but just as in my dream, he feels a bit insipid... |
SWALLOWS OF FOUR CORNERS: by Wayan, (Aug?) 1971, a childhood visionary feltpen drawing |
Navaho country felt like home--the land, the art, the animals, the language. Trapped in suburbia, I drew... |
TALISMAN: by Wayan; 2016/3/3, a dream hinting I need some long-term dreamwork! |
I'm a boy from a Southwestern tribe whose rite of passage is a bike race. I wear a jasper pendant with mysterious powers... |
TAROT: BIRTH (the Empress): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. |
The card of fertility--and the pangs and effort of starting a new thing... |
THREE DREAMS & A COINCIDENCE: by Rick Veitch, c.1996, predictive shamanic dreams |
Three dreams set on Abenaki holy ground, of weird shamans--one ashen, one pumpkin-headed, the third goofy-faced--lead me to visit the site. Where I find the river's washed up that third shaman's face... CAUTION: WILL BOTHER E.S.P. SKEPTICS |
TRAIL OF POGS: by Wayan; 2004/9/6, my dreams' response to the first Burning Man dream-workshop |
A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us... |
TRAILER PARK ELF: by Dolores J. Nurss; 2001/11/18; a troubling dream of incompatible realms |
I dreamed I was a blond guy tracking down an elf who lived in a trailer park. She'd gone mad; elves trapped in the human world mostly do. Awake, I sketched her, then saw she's a lot like my younger self! Disturbing... |
TREE, RIVER, BIRD, MOON: by Davi Kopenawa, 1959-62, a child's shamanic dreams |
I climbed a tree with a beautiful view, but climbing down I fell, and woke. I visited the people under the river. A beautiful ayocora bird danced for me. But so did the moon spirit, baring its fangs. Terrifying! |
TRINITY: by Nashoba Hostina; 2002? A nightmare of losing best friends to romantic love |
We were inseparable: the tiger, the fox, and the wolf. Together our magic lit up the darkness around us, until... |
MY TUTELARY UNCLE: by Wayan; 1993/5/28, a shamanic dream. |
I'm half Anglo, half Kwakiutl. My uncle the shaman died, but he still wants to teach me his medicine... |
TWO INUIT WERE TALKING: by Wayan; ink 1982, digital color 1998; nondream fantasy. |
Two Inuit talk of sun and moon and birds and little ghosts who sneak up on you... |
UTE RAID: by Hasteen Hon's grandmother, c.1856 or c.1873, a possibly lifesaving dream |
When my grandmother was young her husband had a prosperous ranch. She dreamed some Indians attacked. She convinced them to hide; the Utes killed or stole nearly all their sheep. But at least they were alive... |
VOR: by Wayan; 1984/3/27, an indescribable dream |
Am I King Kong? No, it's a city of midgets! I leave and find I'm gay. Gay bugs come out of the closet too, storming the fundamentalist flies of Heaven. And then Vor, the purple alien, does something peculiar... CAUTION: LOOKS DOWN ON HOMOPHOBIC MIDGETS |
WABOSE'S VISION: by Catherine Wabose (Ogeewyahnoquot Okwa), Feb. 1814? shamanic initiation dreams |
After fasting for six days, I dreamed of three spirit helpers who aided my village, guiding hunters toward game and healing others. But I lost so many loved ones... CAUTION: SPOUSE MURDERED; CAREER BURNOUT |
WHITE LOON: by White Loon, 1870s?, an initiation-negotiation dream |
At ten, I fasted a long tedious time. I dreamed a bird offered me showy gifts, but I kept to my grandmother's advice: never take the first offer. At last a big, strange bird from the north, a white loon, offered me long life and health; that I accepted! So now I'm called... |
YELLOWSTONE: by Wayan, 2022/5/3, a predictive dream of politics |
DREAM: I'm in Yellowstone, in a monstrous resort. Local tribes fight white exploitation of sacred land. NEXT MORNING: I read a Native American critique of racist land-theft in a TV show: Yellowstone... |
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