Pencil dream-art A-K (L-Z)
Pencil (and a few charcoal) dream-drawings. I've tinted much of my own pencil work here (example: the lush, tropical FISHERGIRLS) digitally or with crayons. Even drawings that look unaltered usually have their contrasts increased digitally, since raw pencil scans often look washed-out. But despite the tweaks, the art below began as pencil and still show those roots--a focus on composition, line, and gesture, a lightness and sensitivity to grayscale subtleties, hatched shading, and detail.
Not obsessive detail, of course. I'm not one of those. No.
RELATED TOPICS: Other media: dream paintings - photocollages and altered photos - watercolor and silk-dyeing - crayon - pure digital art - ink - felt pen and colored inks - comics - sculpture - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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ABREAST OF THE COMPETITION: by Wayan; dreamed 2013/10/9, a dream on appeasing others A tall busty girl's younger, part-unicorn friend starts developing breasts at last. She makes boob jokes, mocking her own body to reassure her herdmate she's no competition... CAUTION: SELF-PUTDOWNS |
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AELFWINE: by Wayan; 1997/12/4, dreams within dreams... about dreams. I go to a lucid-dreaming party, meet the Child who Dreams the World, and find the Body under the Bed... |
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AIR PIRATES IN FAERIE: by Wayan; 1984/8/25, a complex predictive dream DREAM: The future. A party. A woman spills her drink on my white pants. Off to Faerie, where fruit trees are mean... NEXT DAY: I do not wear white pants to Sally's party. So? A woman spills her drink on Sally's white pants... DAY AFTER: I open a book on musicals & see a shot from The Wizard of Oz: Dorothy baiting an angry fruit tree... CAUTION: PREDICTIVE |
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AN ALICORN BLADE IN THE HEART: by Wayan; 2010/12/18; a dream of a lucid flash A witch & I duel with blades of spiral horn. But we both just want to create an utterly truthful oracle. Can't we find a way not to fight? |
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ALPENFLIGHT: by Wayan; 1986/4/1, a predictive flying dream Fleeing hunters, blocked by a cafe crowd, I fly up a long slope--but the cafe climbs on & on! At last I perch exhausted on a peak, looking down on a now-alpine cafe above a sea of clouds. Next day... |
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THE AMAZONS' OFFER: by Wayan; 2012/6/13, a mystical sexy dream poem. A horde of wild women camp in my yard and practice leaping through invisible spacetime portals. They invite me along... CAUTION: FEATHERED, PAINTED NUDITY |
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ANARCHIST FAIR: by Wayan; 2005/4/5, a drastic dream-song, with chords At an anarchist fair in San Francisco, a 13-year-old punkette genius sings some shocking advice to me... |
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AND THEN I WOKE UP: by Wayan; 1980/11/4, an illustrated dreamtale. A dream of mushrooms, flying, canyons, giant Rocs out of Sindbad--and a moral challenge. |
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ANGEL SHOWDOWN: by Wayan; 2020/4/2, a dream mixing shamanism and Barbarella I see parasitic spirits sickening their human hosts. Can't get rid of them, so I try to teach them how to keep their hosts healthier. An angel suspects I'm a necromancer, and shows up armed for a shootout... CAUTION: DISTURBING PREMISE, LOWBROW ANGEL |
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ANGERHELM: by Wayan; 1994/11/11, a reassuring nightmare. In one long night I hike out of Obligation Hell all the way to Inner-Freedom Heaven... |
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ANNABEL ROSE: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/14, a ghostbusting dream on... love? sex? what? Edgar Allen Poe confronts his dead girlfriend, who wants to drag him into the grave with her... CAUTION: HUNGRY GHOST, SEX TALK |
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ANSWERING JUNG: by Wayan; 2005/7/5, a dream parodying one of Jung's key dreams After reading Jung's dreams, I have an anti-Jungian dream of sexy nightmare-statues waiting to come alive, like the tree I draw & bring to life with my literally magic marker... CAUTION: NUDE STATUES |
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ANTELOPE GIRLS: by Wayan; 2015/1/2, a dating-advice dream for the traumatized All the runaways & homeless girls in town start calling themselves antelopes. I bring home an antelope date. But my mom, who looks like my Reaganite grandma, sees a literal antelope... |
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AQUARINA PRODIGY: by Wayan; 2009/10/15, a dream poem with sketches; Dreamverse #60 A child prodigy stands out in a chorus line of waterdancers. Her body is a patchwork of young & old... |
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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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ARIEL and THE UNICORN COMMITMENT: by Wayan; 1983/12/26-27, an epic psychic dream & sequel DREAM: to stop an idiotic bout of war-fever, I have to take on the power of the Goddess herself... NEXT DAY: I stumble on a fantasy book, Ariel, full of details straight out of the dream... THAT NIGHT: I sign the Unicorn Commitment, but personalize the magical contract... CAUTION: DISSES REAGAN & SOUTHERN MASCULINITY |
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ARISTOTLE'S WIVES: by Wayan, 1984/5/20, a dueling-philosopher dream. Aristotle keeps marrying my friends and fucking them up. So I challenge Mr. Logic to a shamanic duel... CAUTION: THE F-WORD. OOPS, TOO LATE! LESBIAN FISH, TOO. |
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ARMLESS: by Wayan; 1997 portrait of dream figures (pencil/digital) A strange, horny, frustrated being, part human part horse, who lacks hands to hold the centaurs... CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL TENSION |
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ARMORINE’S DRAGON: by Armorine; 2006/3/21; shaded pencil drawing of a dream-dragon I had a dream about a beautiful dragon. It is not easy to put something from your dream onto paper... |
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AROO'S ENGINEERS: by Wayan; 1984/11/9-10, a Hawaiian dream epic. The Engineers make Eden... logical. But the blimps go blind, and a demon goes viral. How can I escape the their ultra-efficient hell? |
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ART OR PROPAGANDA?: by Wayan; dreamed 2008/2/7, 3 dream-reactions to Philip Pullman's books There's a rare dream-type that can change reality itself. I study its EEG trace. Can I learn to do it?... I'm arguing with musicians--what's better, music that serves your goals, or purely great music... I'm bored in class. Draw sexy furries. The babydykes by me do too! Art'll summon the girls we want... CAUTION: PHILOSOPHY! OH NO! |
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ARTICHOKE PLATE: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1982 (March?); a punning dream I realize the artichoke plate in my lap is a pun: ART! I CHOKE! I need to peel off my thorny outer leaves of professionalism to find the heart inside... |
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ASCENT: by Wayan; spring 1997; a comix-panorama on recurrent mountaineering dreams. All that spring I dreamed of climbing, cold, fatigue, risk, and fear. But shamanic training involves toughening; ascent isn't always easy flight... |
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THE ASHE SISTERS: by Wayan; 2010/1/26, a dream portrait. My two moms sell art fabrics made by grayish batwinged sisters whose newest ad is risqué... CAUTION: ADS WITH NUDE BATS |
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ASTRALNAUT: by Wayan; 1994/7/30, a reverse ghost dream. I have amnesia. Plus, I'm dead. But I have this great NASA job! Only there's a saboteur... CAUTION: SNOTTY ABOUT CHRISTIANS AGAIN |
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AURALESS: by Wayan; dreamed 2017/5/14, a sex nightmare about perfect normality I'm in bed with a movie star, and it's awful. Why? Because I can only feel her with FIVE senses--the sixth is missing! So disorienting it's creepy... CAUTION: NIGHTMARE, BAD SEX |
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AZOREAN PAN: by Wayan; 1988/6/3 & 6/6, two subtly predictive dreamlets on a Greek god 1: On a mid-Atlantic islet, a farm family plays music to summon the Greek god Pan. It works! 2: A mystical picturebook shows Pan & his mermaid lover. Again I'm told music summons Pan! CAUTION: GOAT-GOD NUDITY |
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BACKWARD BOOB: by Wayan; 2018/6/17, a grotesque dreamlet I pass a jogger with her upper torso twisted 180 degrees round, unable to see straight... CAUTION: DISSES IGNORAMUSES--YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. OH WAIT, YOU DON'T. |
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BAD DREAM BOOK: by Jim Shaw; late 1994?, a dream calling his dream art lame I show a friend my book of dream-art, but it's half-baked and embarrassing. I'm no good at smuggling guns, porn or cash through customs, either... CAUTION: LOW-RES SMUT IN THAT BOOK |
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BALANCE?: by Wayan, 1984/10/10, a dream about dreams. Silky, my sentient starship, gives me a scolding about playing it safe... |
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BALEENA'S GAME: by Wayan; 1974/1/26, a surreal dream with a practical point A whale-spirit marries a poker-player. But her sonar sees too much. Whale-spirits prefer blackjack... |
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BALLET CURTAIN: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, an odd double dream image Dancers in 18th Century gowns emerged from a curtain with paintings of ballerinas in the same gowns... |
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BAST SABOTAGE: by Wayan; 1995/1/22, a dream on dreams. In old Egypt, a part of me sabotages my audience with Bast, the Cat Goddess. Why? |
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BATHSHEBA AT BELVEDERE: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1982 (mid-Dec?); a subtly feminist dream Boating, we land on a cape and find a house with a Rembrandt on the wall--Bathsheba holding a letter from David her lover, pregnant with thoughts as well as child... CAUTION: NUDE SKETCH |
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BAY WINDOW: by Wayan; 1999/6/15, a healing exhibitionist dream I'm naked, flirting with two cute women. People can see us in our bay window, but I just don't care.... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY |
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A BEAGLE, THREE WOLVES, AND A SETTER: by Wayan; 2009/2/6, a dream-poem; Dreamverse #50 Fresh off the Beagle, Darwin meets three wolf-girls, but has distinctly Biblical inhibitions... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM, PUNS |
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A BEAM OF FLIGHT: by Wayan; 1992/4/19, a dream of love and shellshock. I'm a dance teacher, I'm King Kong, I'm a shell-shocked elf, I'm a wild bird flying... CAUTION: GAY-POSITIVE ROLE MODELS, OH NO! |
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BEAST BIRTHS: by Wayan; 1989/9/19, a predictive dream of family secrets. My family has a hidden gene for incest--and griffins. When I bring the family skeleton from the closet... CAUTION: RAPE, INCEST |
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BEHIND THE SCREENS: by Wayan; 1984/2/12, a vivid sex dream that hid a warning I hide a catgirl behind Japanese screens. We have hot sex now & then--but usually I ignore her... CAUTION: SEX; NEGLECT |
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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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BETRAY MY ANIMAL FRIENDS: by Wayan; 1999/11/12, a dream of brainwashing. As humans settle infospace, will we cheat other species trying to evolve into people? Are we already doing it? Admiring & documenting creatures we've written off as doomed? CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES; DISTURBING PREMISE |
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A BIKE ODYSSEY, or, ARABELLA'S ARTIFACT: by Wayan; 1994/7/24, a day trip echoed in a dream. DAY: I bike across San Francisco writing down what I actually see. DREAM: I'm an abused English heiress with a dangerous alien artifact... CAUTION: HAUNTED BY CHILD ABUSE |
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THE BIOSPHERE VARIATIONS: by Wayan; 2004-, sculpture-photo-drawing-travelog-webtours: Tour bizarre worlds most exobiologists would dismiss as hopeless for life--and meet the natives... CAUTION: SEXY ALIENS, WEIRD CUSTOMS, EVOLUTION |
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BLACKSLIME TOWER: by Wayan; 1986/11/13; a transformation dream with political tinges Humanity's trapped in a Quad, overseen by the Guardians of Blackslime Tower. Feather by feather, I grow wings, and plot to escape with the Flying Cat... CAUTION: THE SLIME IS REAGANOMICS |
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THE BLAMMOR: by Wayan; 1984/4/20, 4 linked private-eye dreams. I'm a Fast-Food Detective tracking down a kidnapper-sorceress. I find castles, monsters, magic carpets... and unexpected love. CAUTION: SEX |
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BLEEDING HEART, the SELF-HEALING CORPSE, and IN THE FUTURE DESERT: by Wayan; 2002/5/29 - 2004/5/11, a diagnostic, predictive dream-series; Bleeding Heart as comix A tree-girl moves to Hollywood to make film deals, but jealousy stabs her... CAUTION: BLOODY ASSAULT, GAY DRYADS, MUTANT NUDITY |
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BLONDIE AND CRAZY: by Wayan; 1984/12/25, a bloody warning dream Quiet Blondie seemed sane enough, especially compared to her driven, talkative friend Crazy, until... CAUTION: NUDITY, A LITTLE BLOOD |
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BLOW 'EM UP!' and POKER FACES: by Wayan; 1992/7/2; two dreams on denial and sabotage. Would the Revolutionaries in the Basement really blow up the Committee of Idealists upstairs? CAUTION: MAD BOMBERS! WELL, GRUMPY ONES |
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BLUE EAGLE: by Xanthe; 1989/10/6, a dream that said it wasn't for me I met a great blue eagle waiting to get into a library--but not to hunt books... |
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BLUE LIPS, GOLD EYES, ORANGE JUICE: by Wayan; 1997/5/8, a warning dream. In a world where respectable men wear masks, an old, old man rebels in the crudest way he can... |
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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 |
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BOIL THE CORD, or, A Dinner Date with the Faerie Queene: by Wayan; 2000/4/27, an anorexic dream I seek a stolen magic necklace, but end up dating the thief, an elf-queen with STRANGE taste in cookery... CAUTION: BAD SOUP |
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BOLLYWOOD LOVE: by Wayan; 2009/4/12, a movie dream (duh!); Dreamverse #51 I dream the universe runs on Bollywood rules. I can stand the constant singing and breakdancing; what gets under my skin is that Bollywood Code... |
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BONK VERONICA: by Wayan; 1997/4/1, 9-page dream-comic on body image The world's first all-bulemic band, Veronica and the Vomits, provokes a riot at our local punk club. So I go to Anorexic Bootcamp where models learn self-defense under fire, as calories and fat jokes whiz by... CAUTION: BARF, HORNY ANOREXIC, FOOD FIGHT |
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BONOBO AND BEAR: by Wayan, 1999/10/14, a mystic war-dream. The gods of our cave-past and star-future fight over us--using us, of course. After I see the toll it's taking on a bonobo buddy of mine, I decide to bring the war back home, and go gunning for God--BOTH of them... CAUTION: APES AND EXPLOSIVES DON'T MIX |
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BONOBOCARE, or, THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE: by Wayan, 2015/8/8, a dream's "Modest Proposal" Tax-funded child prostitution ends war--sex calms men down from mean chimps to nice bonobos. Rough on street kids, though... CAUTION: SEXPLOITATION, SATIRE HARSH AS JONATHAN SWIFT. UNICORNS, TOO! |
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BONYTAUR PERSPECTIVE: by Wayan; 2023/6/8, an aesthetic-clash dream I look down on scrawny centaurs with cropped manes & tails: butch minimalism. Unsexy! Then I'm down among them. Now they have big eyes, luxuriant manes and tails: femme excess. I find this sexy... CAUTION: CENTAUR NUDITY |
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BOWLING BOY BLUSHES: by Wayan; 1990/5/10, a dream of prodigy-harassment A little bowling prodigy bothers an adult team. So one sits in his lane, daring him to bowl at her crotch. He's used to kids taunting him, but what do you do when grownups gang up? CAUTION: SEXUAL SHAMING OF CHILD |
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BOXES, or, THE THRILL OF DRAWING: by Wayan; 1999/10/20, nondream pencil drawing In drawing class I was supposed to be studying perspective, but I went beyond the box... |
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BOY BODY: by Wayan; recurring dream 1959-62, a comic on body image. Or illus. text version A recurring childhood dream on how weird a boy-body is when you've been a girl too many lifetimes. CAUTION: PUBLIC HUMILIATION, NUDE MONSTERS, SILLY GENITALIA |
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BREAK THE SCRIPT: by Wayan; 1993/6/19-20, two advisory dreams A sexy encounter with two robotic girls hopping a night train outside Portland... CAUTION: THREESOME |
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THE BREAST BANDIT: by Wayan, 1984/5/31, an embarrassing dream. I'm bad. I'm really bad. I know I shouldn't have done it. But my mail-order breasts were late... CAUTION: BREAST THEFT |
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BRICK AND SKIN: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a dream of spiritual stretching. I'm analog myself, but in Tibet, I meet a digital shaman whose body's a sort of ... |
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BRITISH TRIANGLE: by Wayan; 2019/8/18, a dream of another life. I'm a middle-aged British writer in a triad with a sculptor and a dairy farmer who seem happy sharing me. But it's a small town, so we must be discreet... CAUTION: TRIAD THAT WORKS |
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BUCKLEY'S BLOATED BOMB: by Wayan; 1983/11/20, a political nightmare. I meet William F. Buckley and his beloved pet pig. Only the hog's a live H-Bomb, and the leash is a trigger... CAUTION: REVOLTING GUY, PET, AND ISSUE |
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BUMBREE SYNDROME: by Wayan; 1984/3/14, a comic dream about dreams. Princess Chinchilla and I use an umbrella to escape the Wizard. Now to escape the Dream Researchers!... |
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BUNNY GROPER: by Wayan; 2022/2/4; a dream on harassment's roots and goals A fantasy bazaar full of wolf, cat and rabbit shoppers. But my human friend Mark has a booth by the exit, and grabs a rabbit girl's tail! She glares daggers, but seems resigned to harassment... CAUTION: SEXISM OR SPECISM? |
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BURN THE EGGS: by Wayan; 2008/1/20; a magical advisory nightmare with 15 sketches. Fighting an absolutist theocracy, my dragon-soul burns the church's dragon-nursery. The cost is terrible: a black vortex... CAUTION: ROMANTIC THREESOME GETS BURNED |
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BURROWCATS ON A HIGHER PLANE: by Wayan; 1991/10/25, a shamanic dream of levels. By twisting strangely, humans can slip into a higher plane. Ten feet higher! So unless you climb on the roof, you end up in the tunnels of the burrowcats... |
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BUT THAT'S BESTIALITY!: by Wayan; 1994/10/29, an alt-world dream. In a world with a dozen intelligent species, dominated by dinosaurs, I get in trouble for publishing a kinky tale of forbidden mammal love... |
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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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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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CAT REPELS DINOSAURS: by Wayan, 1984/8/12, a film-inspired surreal dream DAY: I thorn-puncture my hands while gardening, and write stupid poetry about it... EVE: I watch Little Darlings, a teen sex farce that turns weirdly serious... DREAM: a Mysterious Pussy guards us librarians from stinky alien dinosaurs... CAUTION: SEXUAL INNUENDO??? |
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CAT-SCRATCH SIGNS: by Wayan; 1973/11/9, a dream on language-learning Our Star Trek team explores alien ruins covered in cat scratches. Or are they writing? I uncover Roman letters, Arabic numerals, I Ching trigrams, Chinese characters, Chumash pictographs. Reading them turns us into cats! One cat lays eggs, but two more try to smash them... CAUTION: CAT-EGG VANDALISM |
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CATGIRL AND ELEPHANTS: by Wayan, 1990/8/6, a possible predictive dream DREAM: I'm attracted to the catgirl on the roof, but the neighbors all obsess about elephants... NEXT DAY: I'm asked to draw the poster for a co-worker's farewell picnic. The theme? Elephants... CAUTION: NUDE CAT |
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CECY'S SUBMISSION: by Wayan; 1996/6/4, a bondage-farce dream drawn as comics. My writer-friend Cecy will do anything to get published. Anything? Oh, believe me, ANYTHING... CAUTION: BONDAGE, not to mention POSTAGE |
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CELLO CASE: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995, an odd dream image I was going to music camp, but I didn't know how to play my cello. A teenager and her mother slept like vampires in her giant cello case... |
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A CENTAUR GIRL AND HER DOG: by Wayan; 2002/9/18, dream figure, waking fever-fantasy I had hay fever all day, and wished I was at ease in nature--in heat, blissed out, and loved... CAUTION: CANINE/CENTAUR ORAL SEX |
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CENTAUR: PAULINA AT SUNSET: by Wayan; 1987/12/8, three dream-infused figure studies Fear anorexia? Gain weight, yet stay slender--be a centaur, like model Paulina Porizkova... CAUTION: NUDITY; BODY IMAGE/ANOREXIA ISSUES |
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CHESS DEVIL: by Wayan; 1997/8/5, a humiliating nightmare. I try to rescue my girl friends losing a boat-chess game to a devil, but they'd rather be with bad-boy him than me... CAUTION: NUDE DEVIL |
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CHIDI AND PONY-MISTRESS: by Wayan, 2019/9/25, a mysterious dream Ethics professor Chidi from The Good Place, painted purple, tells me he's in love with the Mistress of the Herd, a mix of Circe, Dr. Moreau & My Little Pony, who radiates spells of love & beauty... CAUTION: WEIRD IMAGERY, CRYPTIC, NUDE PONIES |
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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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CHOREOGRAPHY: by Wayan; 2006/9/7, a nightmare of murder in plain sight. At a beach, a mob of kids stage an intricate practical joke full of coordinated “accidents.” How many of the jokers knew the end was death? CAUTION: MALICE |
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CHRISTA'S FUR: by Wayan; 2018/6/9, a smutty spiritual dream-poem riffing on Leonardo's 'Last Supper'? In an alternate Judea, I long for a female Christ and her lesbian apostles. My lust is unrequited, till a small Sex Kitten gives me some wise advice... CAUTION: CAT NUDITY, BLASPHEMY |
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CIRC CERVINE: by Wayan; 2016/9/16, a dream on... how to catch difficult dreams? At a polyspecies circus, I sketch three acrobat-dancers--one deerish, one human, one... a mannequin? Fiendish to draw! I wake frustrated & sketchless. But my sketchwork in the dream helps me redraw it awake... CAUTION: DEER NUDITY |
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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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CLAIRE'S NAMES: by Wayan, 1998/1/11, a dream of love and pushing limits. My skateboard-riding mermaid girlfriend and I bind ourselves together by the magical power of names... |
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CLAN TAUR: by Wayan; recurrent dream-family (best example: 1987/1/9); pencil studies 1998-2002. I keep dreaming I'm in a multispecies family full of centaurs and satyrs, having a reunion at the beach... CAUTION: NUDE BEACH, STRANGE RELATIVES |
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CLOSE THE GATE: by Emily Joy; 2004/11/19, a dream of decision. My foxy lover teases and tempts, but I can't let him into the patio for fear he'll hurt the rabbits… CAUTION: UNFUNNY BUNNY PUNS |
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CLOUD WAR: by Wayan; 2012/12/22, a dream of eco-apocalypse on the darkest day of the year Clouds wake up. Maybe they were always aware, but now they're aware of us. And rage against us all. Oh, humanity'll survive. But easy times are over... CAUTION: PARTISAN INTERPRETATION |
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CLOWN POINTS: by Wayan; 2013/3/17, a nightmare about... philosophy? Clowns have a point system like chess masters, & abuse their apprentices to get ahead, just like capitalism--but I think this dream's about the suppression of magic... CAUTION: CHILD-CLOWN ABUSE |
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CLUB MED OR PRISON?: by Wayan, 2019/5/29, a politicizing dream I'm a woman trapped in a Sahara refugee camp. The only way out is to marry a rich jerk. Try to escape but fail. Now an enemy out to kill me takes over. I have to turn and fight... CAUTION: HARSH ON BOTH TRUMP & BIDEN |
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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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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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CORPSE-BUG: by Wayan; 1994/12/1, an allegorical sex nightmare. I'm a hippie girl in San Francisco, in hard times. To escape the Four Horsemen, I lie down with Death... CAUTION: GANGS, CREEPY SEX |
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CORVI AND FEY: by Wayan; 2016/6/14, a shamanic dream of reuniting estranged symbiotes I visit a world of ravenish people, the Corvi, who banished their longtime partners, the wish-granting Fey, calling them parasites. I decide to meddle... |
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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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COSMIC ORGY: by Wayan, 1971/8/31, an early, taboo-smashing, mystical flying sex dream I've turned into my sister; and she's turned into me. We try sex. A wolf lopes by and joins us. The energy from our orgy lifts us into space. Moons planets stars swim by as we float and fuck... CAUTION: CARTOON ORGY IN SPACE |
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A CREATURE: by Albert Grass, 1938? Or Zoe Beloff, c.2008? An early Freudian dream-comic--or a hoax! Dream: wild animals race across Paris, but in my hotel lobby, a small creature on my shoulder murmurs "Je t'aime." Awake, I know those racers from the themepark where I work. But the creature takes me way back--to Paris, 1918... CAUTION: ONE-NIGHT STAND |
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CREATURE BECOMES CREATOR: by Wayan; 2015/2/5, three linked advisory dreams on world trends A weird little forest god bred me from an ordinary deer into a creature who can almost pass for human. But World War 2 killed my god, and now I'm growing into... CAUTION: NUDITY, CROSSBREEDING |
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CRITTERS OF THE MONTANA FRONT: by Wayan, 2022/5/31, a watercolor warning dream DAY: I admire Hannah Hinchman's watercolors of Montana and Vad Yakovlev's digital art of Equestria. DREAM: I meet & sketch a coyote girl, a whack-a-mole mare, and a leering herder of shadowsheep... |
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CROC BOY: by Wayan; 2008/8/17, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #7. I visit a witch-smeller, who judges apprentice shamans. But when a boy dreams he's a crocodile, she freaks out... |
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THE CROWS OF OZ: by Wayan; 1984/8/23, a moral dream on darkness. I learn from the crows of Oz why loneliness and even tragedy are vital for a living universe... |
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"CRY, BABY!": by Wayan, 1985/8/17, dream-farce with a warning. The only man in the Miss America Japanese Tea Ceremony Swimsuit Pageant, I learn a tearful lesson... CAUTION: DYSFUNCTIONAL FLIRTING |
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CYCLOTRON OF FLOWERS: by Wayan; 2015/9/13, a surreal dreamscene done as an imagist poem Night. Rider and mount gallop in a ring, leaving a luminous spiral wake of glowing flowers. Power builds, but when the spiral gate opens, where will it lead? |
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DANCE OF THE SUN: by Wayan, 1972/10/23, an epic mystical dream I cross a hostile continent to a magic commune, fall in love with a flying girl who slaps a soul-spark into my head, and follow an alien goddess leading the Dance of the Sun... |
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THE DARII: by Wayan; 1994/8/15, a predictive dream of another life. I'm trying to prevent a race war, but can I kill someone I admire? And if so, can I live with it? CAUTION: RACISM, VIOLENCE, INTENSE GUILT |
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DEAD, NOT STUPID: by Wayan; 2000/1/20, a (possibly predictive) ghost dream My little sisters tell the detectives, "Daddy's ghost has a message for you" but at first they don't listen... |
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DEATH DATE: by Jim Shaw; 1994 (early?), a possibly predictive shamanic dream I become a werewolf and climb into a strange attic. I find a grave marker for an old friend--but her death date is two years in the future... |
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DEER AND WOLF MYSTICS: by Wayan; 2015/2/1; an odd peacemaking dream The wolf and deer people are getting along well--a relief since I like both. Now, can the wolves learn from the deer how to open their third eye? |
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DEER JESUS: by Wayan; 1988/12/28, a revisionist Christmas dream The Three Wise Men are a centaur, a lion-man, and a doe-girl. But there's no Christ in the manger, so... CAUTION: DEER-MOM BREASTS |
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DEERMAN'S CHALLENGE: by Melissa McClanahan, 2002?-2007?, a recurring nightmare figure I used to dream of this violent anthropomorphic being. At times I'd put on his deer-skull head and become him, inflicting and inciting violence. Naming him gave me some control... |
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THE DEER PARTY: by Wayan; 1986/4/10. A magical dream Chapter 1 of a nine-story series: UNICORN TAG. A sentient factory shows me a gene-tweaked future where the Deer Party agitates for liberty, equality and fertility. In that future I learn I too may not be human... |
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DESIGNER: by Wayan; 2021/4/8, a dream of being a mishmash god I'm a world-creator, lost in mist, unsure just what sort of people to make-- since I'll be joining them. I'm only sure what not to make--or be... CAUTION: NUDE, FURRY DEITY |
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DINOSAUR BARD: by Wayan, 2005/2/7, a dream-poem advising song Dinosaurs and tigers fill my music club. Not that it takes many to fill it. So spiky! A dino bard croons. A tigress leaps onstage & snuggles up! Music hath charms... |
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DINO RODEO: by Wayan; 2022/2/17, a flying dream about... dream theory? Two men down at a rodeo. The velociraptors and pterosaurs draw near. To scare them off, I need to do something alarming, impossible... |
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DINO YARMULKE: by Wayan; 2015/10/13; an odd little dream and portrait I carelessly burst in on a friend, a gay dinosaur, during a Jewish holiday rite, startling him so he raises his spiny crest, levitating his yarmulke... |
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DISCARDS: by Wayan; 2008/3/24, a rap heard in a dream--Dreamverse #39 A Marin girl finds a dirty secret in the school library--they discard the unpopular. She kinda identifies with the discarded books. And discarded people... |
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DISSECTING PESSIMISM: by Wayan; 1997/4/14, a stubbornly educational nightmare. A serial killer stalks our office, but our bosses deny it and do nothing. I kill him. He revives--over and over! A robot I have to disassemble... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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THE DOG PILOT PROGRAM: by Wayan; 1981/4/23, a dream of doing the impossible. I get a job in China teaching bus-driving dogs how to fly. I don't know how. Luckily, the dogs... |
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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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DON'T SLOW FOR KITTENS: by Wayan; 1986/3/8, a pointed little dream. I'm running along a freeway, pacing a cheetah. But that domestic cat and her kittens can't keep up. Wait, why are we slowing for them? |
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DOPP: by Wayan; 1988/11/5, a predictive dream DREAM: On a farm, I meet two sexy shapeshifting sisters. But mushroom clouds rise on the horizon... NEXT DAY: at SF-MOMA, Susan Marie Dopp's paintings: shapeshifting sisters, mushroom clouds... CAUTION: NUDITY; ESP |
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DRACONIAN VACATION: by Wayan, 2019/4/16, an alternate-Earth dream Just a dream vacation! I take a train trip up the East Coast, meeting, sketching and flirting with the locals, though they're... |
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(THEIR) DREAM HOUSE: by Wayan; 1986/1/1, a New Year's nightmare. A house with a fire-ghost infestation. Worse than termites! And the ghosts tell me it's all my fault.... |
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DREAM SHORTAGE: by Wayan; 1985/12/1, an appropriately short dream. I meet two women in dream-prison. One's a giant, one a miniature. A fairy? She says, 'No, I'm..." |
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DREAMTALES: by Wayan; 1996-2006, a 250-page collection of dream comics "I've always dreamed other lives. Other bodies. Other times. Other worlds. I draw my lives..." |
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DREAM-TAN: by Madellyne Waugh; late April 2010, a digital, institutional avatar I've been drawing a personification of the World Dream Bank. Nerdy, but most of your readers are nerds... |
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THE DRESS CODE OF GOD: by Wayan; 1988/6/1, a didactic if shivery dreamlet Dancers in weird costumes from around the world audition for a contest, but the judge lets them all in, from silly to obscene. Next day, on Doctor Who... CAUTION: POSSIBLY PREDICTIVE; CERTAINLY EMBARRASSING |
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EAT MORE FIBER: by Wayan, 1996/8/8, a nutritious little dream. Concerned about my health, I up my fiber intake. But not from the usual sources... CAUTION: BAD DIETARY ROLE MODEL |
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ELBERETH PAUSES: by Wayan; 1989/6/26, a dream on postwar ethics. After the Lord of the Rings falls, Elbereth herself is sent to heal the land. But she has a troubling neighbor... |
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AN ELECTORAL REFORM: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a dream-idea that came true In between drawing devil-bunnies, I advocate letting doomed fringe candidates donate their votes to more viable colleagues, letting voters express their real choices, not vote for the lesser evil... CAUTION: POLITICS! |
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EMBARKATION, or, THIS PORTAL COIL: by Wayan; 2013/8/28, a dream on dreams A spiral pillow-path leads to an astral portal. But creatures arriving and departing jam the same path. Squeeze by, hop over, apologize... flirt! Is this a dream-image of death & letting go? Then why's it look so fun? |
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EMBER IN THE BRAIN: by Wayan; 1983/3/31, a dream about old anger. I'm the Incredible Hulk, forced to do emergency brain surgery. For the patient's burning from within... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND UNLICENSED MEDICINE |
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ENVY'S BAND: by Wayan, 2016/1/10, a dream on ambition rebelling against niceness I meet Envy, that pushy, ambitious rock singer from the Scott Pilgrim books. She's kind of sabotaging herself--but then don't I go too far the other way? |
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EQUESTRIAN NUNAVUT: by Wayan, 2017/4/27, a dream of a utopia in an unlikely place After a hard day in the recording studio, I dream of our wiser successors, after we drown America: the sentient equines of Greenland and Nunavut... CAUTION: SKINNYDIPPING UNICORNS |
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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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THE ETHICS OF LUCIDITY: by Wayan; 1994/2/19, a thoughtful dream on time and cause. I'm at a symposium on how our beliefs alter not just the future, but the PAST... CAUTION: CONTAINS IDEAS |
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EXPLOITED UNICORN: by Wayan, 2019/1/11, a disturbing dreamlet Night, downtown. A unicorn in tears, chained to her... barker? owner? pimp? "Just $300" he yells. But for what? Magic? Sex? Healing? CAUTION: PROSTITUTION? SLAVERY? GIG ECONOMY? |
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EYE AND I by Wayan; 1999/11/15, a drawing that shifts me into a new way of seeing I met a colorblind artist with an amazing grayscale sense. He inspire me to draw a huge eye full of abstract shapes in gray, trying to see his way... |
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FAIRY URGES A WORKTABLE: by Wayan; 2009/9/15, a dream of seemingly trivial advice that wasn't I find a long, narrow table. I have a table, but a fairy friend perches on this one and urges "Take it home! You'll do better art!" |
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FAMILY JESTERS: by Wayan; 2017/3/15, a dream mixing Kurt Vonnegut and My Little Pony Coastal unicorns are slender; inlanders bloat. Genes, diet, both? Inland bosses enslave their gracile minority. Performing pets! Jesters caged, chained & handicapped to heighten the wonder they can do their art at all... CAUTION: TROUBLING SOCIAL ANALOGIES |
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A FAMILY VISIT: by Wayan; 1996/8/4, a dream of alarming family values. A yard sale in a small town turns out to be my family selling porn. But they want to push more than their sexual values on me... CAUTION: TWISTED FAMILY, ELEPHANT ABUSE |
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FAUNS: by Wayan; 1994/9/9 dream prompted 5 dream-portraits. A group of coolly shameless fauns started teaching me outrageousness in my dreams... CAUTION: FAUNS LACK INCEST TABOOS |
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FELINE WOMAN--AN ANATOMICAL PORTRAIT: by Wayan; 1996? pencil study of recurring dream figure. A Leonardo style skeletal study of a cat person that grew into more of a character study. I just like her... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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FEVER DREAMS: by Wayan; 1993/9/8, a set of wild feverdreams. While my body expels a kidney stone, weird scenes happen on the astral plane. At least I get to dip the pope. CAUTION: PAIN, PEE, POPE |
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FIGURE DRAWING: EAGER ARTIST: by Wayan; 1995/1/30, studio sketch. Rather than draw the model, I often sketch my classmates in life-drawing. They get so intent! |
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FIGURE DRAWING: LIFT THAT WEIGHT: by Wayan, 1995/6/5?, crayon figure-study I was sick again, so I drew a tiny photo in a gym ad, and then realized it was her strange stare I liked... |
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FIGURE DRAWING: UNDECIDED: by Wayan; 1995/7/24, pencil figure sketch Evangeline between poses, hand to mouth, undecided, in an odd evanescent mood I tried to catch... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: WEREWOLF GIRL: by Wayan; fall 1989; studio sketch, pencil. I found this misfiled in a box of art with just the year on it, so I can't credit the model. But she looked like this to me... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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FILLY'S QUEST: by Wayan; 1981/1/31, a dream on dream-theory. Head versus... wings! The tunnel has pictures of a winged unicorn filly on a quest. But the editor of the deluxe book version is intellectual, patriarchal and heavy-handed... CAUTION: UNDERAGE ALICORN FLIRTING |
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FIREBIRD AND MINOTAUR: by Wayan; 1996/9/29, 4 images; a diagnostic dreamtale. I'm a cripple watching a sexy Greek Opera starring Whoopi Goldberg. Then I realize I'm in it... |
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FISH BIRTH: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; c.1978/11/15; a nightmare My little son accidentally tears the tail off our goldfish. The wound looks vaginal. The fish, moaning in pain, turns into my daughter... |
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FISH REMAINS: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1985/9/18; a ritual closing-dream On my 45th birthday, at the end of my eight-year dream-art project, I dream of a women's rite turning scraps of chewed flesh into a whole fish I offer to the fishbowl in the heart of the Vatican... |
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FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 2.6M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic. I had an epic dream lasting subjective weeks--a true other life. It wasn't Earth and we weren't human. I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. One night, my friends curled round me, I saw I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a woman, marry, and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right... 2600K loads slowly? Try it in parts: 1: HOME, 650K, 2: VOYAGE, 1200K, 3: BACK 750K. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
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FISHERGIRL IN WATERCOLOR; OVAL: by Wayan; 1996/7/26 pencil & watercolor Leaf and me, on our boat in the lost city, from the epic dream FISHERGIRL. My first sketch of the dream... CAUTION: TRIBAL NUDITY |
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FIVE HOUNDS, FIVE DEFENSES: by Wayan; 2015/9/18, an explicit advisory dream Five agents hound me. Literal hounds--in trenchcoats. They stand for my five worst life-troubles. Luckily, they can't cooperate--they're from rival agencies! And the dream spells out what works against each one... |
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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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FLOATING WOLF AND BUTTERFLY: by Wayan; 2010/12/21; a furry advisory dream The city museum's new levitating sculpture shows a space reef explored by a floating wolf who needs no spacesuit--vacuum adapted! |
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FLOWERING:: by Wayan; 1996, pencil digitally tinted; nondream portraits. Sketches from a San Francisco street music festival where, after a long sleep, I woke up sexually at last... CAUTION: NYMPHETS, QUEERS, AND OTHER REAL PEOPLE |
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FLUID REALITY: by Wayan; 1983/8/8; a magical dream-sea voyage that turned out to be predictive On my quest I find magic portals, snarky flower-fairies, undersea redcoats, reassembling bodyparts, living chess, and Nosferatu the Cheating Vampyre... |
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FLYING FISH AND LOTUS: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1983/4/10; a dream of quiet transcendence I catch a magical fish and let it go. A friend and I consider higher learning--and we don't mean academia. My friend lays a lotus in a chair on the beach. A man baptises in sunset water, shining like a certain fish... |
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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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FOOD CAME BETWEEN US: by Wayan, 1993/4/25, an incubated epic diagnostic dream. The terror of Navy breakfast, the joy of filterfeeding, how to marry pudding, and a sniper lunch with kisses... |
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FOR THEM: by Wayan; 1995/12/1, a dream of outcasts. On the Night Train out of my small-town life, I meet the town rebel. But she's misplaced her tongue... CAUTION: PETTING; UNNERVING TONGUE |
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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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FOUR OF TEN: by Wayan; 2021/4/3, four examples from ten dreams in one night Books are clothes, and always were. A potato makes me lie, and everyone gets it but me. Sex in a crowd disarms the Mom Squad! And a Mystic Autistic's soul explores my room... CAUTION: PUBLIC SEX? PROBABLY. |
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FOUR TABOOS: by Wayan, 2016/3/15, four dreams on inhibitions I hoped I was over. Climbing out of Childhood Abyss, I literally get a leg up from a girl seeking the Ledge of Teens. A shy girl has to hide she's a were-creature. Gay men make out in the witch-registry to rattle its homophobic guardians. My sister stripteases while scolding me for a mess I didn't make... CAUTION: DUH, SEX TABOOS! KIDS, FURS, GAYS, SIBLINGS |
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FOX COUPLE: by Wayan, 1990/2/15; poem of a warning dream I meet a tall bipedal talking fox. He has a human house. And a pet vixen--on a leash. But she talks too! Tells me he mounts her--yet treats her like a pet. She's never come yet. But she stays! Still, I'm as dysfunctional as either of them--if not worse... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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FRACTURE SPEEDS MARRIAGE: by Wayan; 2001/1/1, a dream of advice on health and romance. A baseball star got her leg broken. It stalls her career, but helps her marriage. Did she need a "break"? Do I? |
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FRANCHISE!: by Wayan, 1995/10/12, a dream-comic (ill. text ed.) with a serious warning. I was the first woman made High Commissioner of Baseball. One day a team of mutants begs a franchise... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, BAD TEAMWORK, HORNY BEES |
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FREE THE HICK? A Dream Left Hanging: by Wayan; 1999/9/15, a shard still bearing a message With an ignore-us spell, our team plans to free the angry Hick from the Submerged Court. But the Coyote Girls can see us! Will this really work? |
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FROGWOMAN MARCH: by Wayan; 2000/11/26, poem of a surreal but almost plausible dream. Two protesters, under the weight of full scuba gear and flippers, waddle toward City Hall--the first steps of a transcontinental march. Or at least transcontinental waddle... |
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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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FURRY TRINITY: by Wayan; 2021/3/1, a dream painting three facets of... me? Or of dreaming? Three furry people show off their collected art & pets. But then they dissolve into their art & pets! The room itself dissolves into a river-raft. A unicorn girl in a gauze ritual robe studies a map... CAUTION: MILD FURRY NUDITY |
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FUTURE BOOKS: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a dream lesson on reading In a repressive, thought-controlled future I find some old banned books; I tell my student "Reading these makes life more interesting--and angry..." |
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GEORGE AND WILMA: by Wayan, 2011/10/25, an animation-mashup dream done as a poem George Jetson is married to Wilma Flintstone--though they're both big cats. When George comes home high on mushrooms, he doubts what's on his bed... CAUTION: CARTOON ADULTERY |
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THE GIANT: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a dreamlet on rage about... what? At a beach, a man attacks the genitals, buttocks and thighs of a giant who sits half in the surf, ignoring him... CAUTION: NUDITY, MUTILATION ATTEMPTS |
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GIRAFFETAUR GROVE: by Wayan; 2009/7/27, a science-joke dream hiding serious diagnostic advice I meet the new improved giraffe people with hydraulic chrome skeletons-- such light, powerful jaws and stretchable necks. Wow, Lamarckianism is back! CAUTION: ANTICREATIONISM--THAT IS, ACTUAL SCIENCE |
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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... |
THE GIRL IS ARMED: by Wayan; 2009/1/28, three diagnostic/advisory dreams. |
An abused girl survives grotesque situations to become a job/health counselor with a talking sofa... CAUTION: BUTT-SNIFFING GIANT |
GIVE TRAVIS ONE MORE CHANCE: by Wayan; 1980/10/13, a desperate dream. |
I'm detective Travis McGee's lover. But we always die by the book's end! My solution is drastic... CAUTION: HARD-BOILED HANDGUNS |
GOAT DARE: by Wayan; 1984/8/22, a sex nightmare. |
A girl and I climb a half-built tower to get some privacy from my nosy, sneering parents. But they find us during oral sex, and their scorn melts my girlfriend into a goat... CAUTION: SEX, HUMILIATION, FAMILY VALUES |
GOD DRESSED YE, MARE: by Wayan; Christmas carol misheard 1968/12/25, dreamt I sang 1984/9/16, & drew 2008/6/28. |
At 15 I misheard God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen and liked my version better. "Lit muffin, rude Esmé"... |
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 |
GOD SELLS CIGARETTES: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a sad dream vignette |
I dreamed God was naked, selling cigarettes in a nightclub... CAUTION: MONOTHEISTIC FALL |
GOLD VERSUS DIAMONDS: by Wayan; 1972/1/20, a shameful dream fable. |
We're children seeking gold in a fairy wood. We meet some elf-kids, chase them off, and dig where they played. Then their parents show up... CAUTION: INTERSPECIES BULLYING |
A GOLDEN KEY IN A CHEAP LIGHT: by Wayan; 1996/7/9, a subtle dream lesson |
I was so lonely the potheads on Haight looked good. I dreamed I had the Golden Key, but under a cheap sodium streetlamp, ALL my keys looked gold! Then I met true gold: a woman meditating until she shone... CAUTION: NUDITY, HAIGHT STREET STONERS |
THE GOLDEN PAW: by Wayan; 2009/4/12, a dream on speaking up |
An Oxford teaching assistant sexually blackmails one of his law students, but to his shock she goes public... |
GOLDIE AND GRIMOIRE: by Wayan, 1987/3/2, a dream foreseeing My Little Pony? |
I get a crush on two mare-girls--sunny palomino Goldie is cute, but it's dark-silver, lunar Grimoire that really stuns me... CAUTION: EQUINE NUDITY, ESP REFERENCES |
GOLDIE'S RHINOPOTAMUS: by Wayan; 2013/4/10, a Fellini dreamjoke with advice. |
I'm in Venice. The police chief (armored) and Goldie Hawn (near-naked) ride a skittish monster. Turns out bareback works better... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
GREEN RAY, BLUE WINGS: by Wayan, 1974/7/14, a joyful apocalyptic dream |
High in the Sierra during a thunderstorm, I dream aliens steal the gold, and the sun's going nova. But Life wants us to conquer space, so we all grow wings... |
GREEN SCREEN ANGEL: by Wayan, 2018/10/18, a bizarre predictive dream |
A reporter interviews the guardian angel of my dead sister Jill in front of a green screen. He's dissolving in grief--luminous holes show through... |
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 GRIFFINS' LESSON: by Wayan, 2018/6/1, a pair of predictive dreamlets |
I live through two teens' nightmares, then "wake" with them to find they were drugged by a third party! Why? Then I'm with a cheery wagon-crew of flirting griffins & talking horses, pulling a cart made of grammar or logic. Six days later... detailed images from both dreams appear on TV! CAUTION: CREEPY, THEN SAPPY, THEN FREAKY |
GRIMOIRE AND PACT: by Wayan, 2013/8/4, twin dreams of infestations of... health? illness? sex? magic? |
Two sisters want to lick me all over, but they lick everything; weird gut-fauna make them immune to toxins... Fairy eggs infest my home--become worms, then tiny horses, then mothwinged hobbits, then adult fairies.... CAUTION: NUDE EQUINES & FAE; PARASITES (OR SYMBIOTES?) |
GROUNDHOG DAY: by Wayan; 1994/9/2, a dream-comic (or text with pix) |
James Hillman is the first psychologist on the moon! He sees a shadow and panics like a groundhog--mistakes it for Death. Not his own shadow, but MINE... |
HANDMADE DIMENSIONS: by Wayan; 2009/3/2, a how-to dream. |
I meet an interdimensional traveler. Her navigational technique is unbelievably rough! Yet it works. Am I so sure that math and science always need to be precise? |
HAV TOWERS: by Wayan; 2022/1/3, a predictive dreamlet |
I find my city has changed during Covid; a huge Chinese gate or folly near Fort Mason and a monstrous tower in the central hills, made of Space Needles, umbrellas & balloons... Next day I read Jan Morris's Hav... and there are my towers. |
HAWK AND CAT: by Wayan, 1981/6/2, a dream of ethics and terror. |
My best friend is a cat. Problem is, I'm a rare hawk--a Cat-Eater. I never, ever would, but... |
HAWK CENSORS: by Wayan; 1988/7/7, a surreal predictive dream on censorship |
All the photos of hawk people I can find show them with bizarre genitalia: males with hawk-heads for penises, and females with nothing. Blank! Then I go to work... CAUTION: REVERSE SEXISM |
HEAL THE WORLD!: by Wayan; 2011/8/17, a messianic-inadequacy dream (now there's a new type!) |
I can heal people with a touch. But they don't want to be merely restored, but resculpted... CAUTION: TRANNIES AND FURRIES LEAVE THE CLOSET |
HEARN'S BEAST: by Wayan; 1986/2/18, a dream fable. |
Inside an evacuated region, the Lafcadio Hearn Zone, I meet the monster thousands fled... |
THE HEDGE KING: by Wayan, 1992/6/14, a gender-bent dream epic. |
I change sex to infiltrate a sinister castle, unaware its Lord can spot a shapeshifter--being one himself... CAUTION: A DISTURBING BEDSIDE MANOR. I MEAN, MANNER. |
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 |
HEPBURNING: by Wayan; 1984/8/1, a nightmare on frustration's fire |
Kat Hepburn burns inside, as fierce aliens take over our souls. But these parasites forgot they're now bound to our bodies... |
HER FIRST INCARNATION: by Wayan; 1983/11/10, a dream of a surreal shamanic duel |
Forced into a duel, I let my spirit fight for me using Boomerang Blades. But my enemy becomes giant floating sticky lips! My spirit finds incarnation confusing... |
THE HERONS' TANK: by Wayan, 2020/11/12, a sonnet telling an astral-plane dreamlet |
I climb a small-town water tower. The tank holds a reedy marsh where sentient herons live! They say the Heartland below them is a nest reserved for greedy, screechy, flightless, half-grown souls like us... CAUTION: DISSES SMALL-TOWN VALUES |
HERSELF IN REVERSE: by Wayan; 2013/6/13, three surreal future-prompting dreamlets |
1: In a theater I meet weird big-eyed ballerinas, & realize I'll choreograph for them soon... 2: A sorcery student & her powerful future self flying back through time meet & fuse... 3: A squirrel-mage meets his future self too. He gives us a mild fever to protect us against a deadly plague... CAUTION: NOT FOR TOTAL SKEPTICS ABOUT PREDICTIVE DREAMS |
HICKOPHOBIA: by Wayan; 1996/5/13; 2-page dream-comix (or plain text version) |
Whenever I run out of ballet class to Japanese without asking my classmate Wendy out, I change sex... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
HISTORY DEMANDS PURPLE: by Wayan, 2020/2/18, a dream warning old abuse still harms me |
I'm in a palace spinning a purple royal gown for... a non-princess! And the silk's spinning out of my fingers. What am I, a spider? Turns out it's a spell making anyone encountering a teenage girl here re-enact a royal investiture from centuries ago... CAUTION: ABUSIVE THERAPIST (non-graphic) |
A HISTORY OF ENERGY: by Wayan; 2021/2/19, a dream warning we're all shortsighted |
I dream of a parade or train of energy sources--human muscle, horsepower, coal, oil, gas, solar... But the train's ultimate engine is in our future, and is impossible--a dragon riding a broomstick... |
HOCKEY: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a flirtatious dream-scene |
I'm a hockey player. A woman strips to a bikini, wondering if she's attractive. My erection says she is... CAUTION: BRRR! |
HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT: by Wayan; 1994/4/3, a dark dream. |
As my grandmother is dying, I have a dream about what really went on in her house... CAUTION: CHILD SLAVERY |
HOW THE WAYAN GOT ITS NAME: by Wayan, 1986/5/23, a predictive dream on names (& manes) |
A telepathic unicorn-lion says my true name is Wayan. And my true species? I'm like him! I wake, change my name to fit the dream, move to a new city. Near my new house, my dream-name is scratched into the concrete sidewalk... |
HUGE OVOID SHAPE: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 1999/8/13 Magrittesque surreal sci-fi dream |
A huge white ovoid like a tethered cloud hangs over a city street. We enter it and search for the crew... |
HUMBLE THREE-EYED GIRL: by Wayan; 2008/12/30, a dream on giftedness and shame |
I meet a circle of students with up to five eyes. The lone three-eyed girl is embarrassed, indeed ashamed she's merely attained enlightenment... |
HUMMINGBIRD MEME: by Althea; 2022/1/14, a dream of 15 minutes of fame |
I rescue a hummingbird who drinks nectar from my ear. It becomes an Internet star. But then a girl rides a waterslide with her tits showing, and my meme is over ... CAUTION: CARTOON BREASTS |
HUNTERS' FIRE: by Wayan; 1987/9/8, a nightmare that may be a memory. |
I'm an orphan shot at by hunters. They shoot my sister! But no one believes me... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
I AM NOT A MAN: by Wayan; 1996/11/28, a dream of Middle Earth. |
I can help slay a monster and save my friends--if I deny I'm human. My denial has grave consequences, but it's absolutely true... |
I LOST 400 POUNDS!: by Wayan; 1993/6/24, a motivational dream. |
A gorgeous healer bursts through the wall to tell me "I used to weigh 500 pounds. It kept sex away! But..." |
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! |
IGUANA: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995, two surreal dreamlets on water damage |
In a flooded room, an indignant iguana scolds me, while my wife Marnie checks her computer implant for water damage... |
ILLUSIONISTS DON'T RULE: by Wayan; 1996/8/26, a dream on the strength of logic. |
I read Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind; I dream I'm a pilot who deduces an alien illusionist's in my plane... |
I'M NOT THE DIRECTOR!: by Federico Fellini; Oct. 1961, a dream pun on denying your lifework |
I'm the director of an airport. A mysterious Mongolian traveler lands. Let him in or not? I try to avoid the decision by lying--say "I'm not the director!"... |
IN THE STAR; 1988/9/12 by Wayan; an epic, out-of-body, intrastellar quest-dream |
I tour the heart of a red supergiant, where dreaming souls explore their fears and heart's desires, unconstrained by solid matter... CAUTION: SWEDENBORGIAN VISION, UNICORN NUDITY |
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 |
INDUSTRY'S SHORE: by Wayan; 2008/9/24, a dream poem; Dreamverse #30 |
In the hills above a polluted shore, I find hidden valleys with huge rare trees, and realize it's my choice... |
THE IRON WINDOW: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995, a grotesque dreamlet |
Bearded professors call through an iron-barred window shaped like a woman's torso, hoping to lure a nude model to fill it so they can grope... CAUTION: CREEPY |
JANEWAY'S TANGO: by Wayan, 1998/10/20, a psychic Star Trek dream. |
Why is Captain Janeway doing the tango with another woman, in a creek, wearing a mermaid tail? |
JESUS HEADS: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, punning dreamlets of giant... mugs |
In a museum I see huge Jesus heads with inset saints and figures in pain; then, in our old back yard, huge coffee cups half-sunk in the grass... |
JETPACK AND TIGER: by Wayan; 1988/3/17, a nonlucid yet lucidlike shamanic dream. |
After watching both Star Trek & Doctor Who, I find I'm held prisoner by the Rani and her laser-toting tiger guards. So I meditate--and manifest a jetpack and a laser gun! I never deduced I'm dreaming; it's not lucidity. It's simpler. What have I got to lose? |
A JOB WELL DONE: by Wayan; 1981/3/2; a dream-farce with a serious warning |
The tale of a fawn named Fawn and her mom, a bank-robbing hippopotamus... CAUTION: GLAMORIZES THIS ALARMING TREND |
JOVIAN REVOLUTION: by Wayan; 1987/2/22, a dream-poem of another life. |
Deep in Jupiter's atmosphere it's dark as a moonlit night, but warm; we sail a world-sea. And mutiny against our commanders! Clouds clear to a red dawn... CAUTION: RED POLITICS, GREEN NUDITY |
KARMA AND HER SISTERS: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/27, a sexy dream that turns tragic. |
One boring lonely day, I meet a cute teenage bunny who wants to play with me! But half an hour later… CAUTION: LANGUAGE, INTERSPECIES FLIRTING, AND LOSS |
KIBBLE FROM HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1986/10/13, a dream on love and money. |
I'm a dog princess, on a world where kibble falls from heaven. When I meet our species' guardian angels... CAUTION: DOG NUDITY, LAWYERS |
KICK THE FAERIE BELL: by Wayan; 2015/8/20, a bizarre dream-poem with a practical message |
I'm a courier with a message for the Faerie Queen. Can I avoid all these colorful, sexy, crazy distractions, and focus on the Studio and the Gong? |
KING KONG CRAB: by Wayan; 2008/9/20, a dream poem; Dreamverse #29 |
One wizardry-classmate summons strange beings; another's learned how not to. Because some things need to be dealt with alone, where they can't harm...... |
KING-MAKERS: by Wayan; 2000/2/21, a dream of mediation. |
I'm a political aide to the leader of a hot-tempered, clawed, fanged alien people. And then my boss dies... |
KIOSK: by Wayan; 1994/5/1, a 4-page dreamcomic on the power of song (or illustrated text version) |
I'm a sexy singing beast, the Krelkin, trying to lure the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk... CAUTION: NUDITY, INTERSPECIES FLIRTATION |
KISS OF A SAVAGE: by Wayan; 1993/10/28, a dream of deep time. |
I wake to find I'm a museum exhibit 15,000 years from now--a primitive man... |
KISS THE GLASS: by Wayan; 1979/9/23, a dream on priorities. |
My parents' house is now a sex club. I walk in, and meet my soulmate! But in awkward circumstances... CAUTION: SEX |
KITTEN'S QUEST: by Wayan; 2016/2/13, a dream-poem |
I met two strange sisters on a train who turn out to be half-cat. They open my eyes so I realize that my neighbor Elaine must be a shapeshifter too... CAUTION: FLIRTATIOUS UNDERAGE CAT |
KITTY WANTS TO DIE: by Wayan; 1981/11/9, a nightmare baring a side of me ready to DIE to avoid stuff |
Kitty, exhausted, stops fighting what's inside her, and lets herself die. Crystalline alien worms burst out, growing till they loom over the spaceport... CAUTION: ADDICTION ROOTED IN AVOIDANCE |
KORE: by Ann McCoy; 1986, a dream of the Goddess inspires an epic drawing |
My guide to the archeological site was veiled, but soon she revealed her scales and gills. A little girl led a procession in, to reconsecrate the Temple of Isis... |
KRELKIN: by Wayan; 1974/10/9, on nonhuman figures recurring in dreams |
My psychology professor insists that nature spirits faded away as science rose. But I still dream of krelkins! Jasha is the one I know best... |
THE KRELKIN SISTERS ON MISSION ST: by Wayan; 1995/6/7, a dream of superior beings |
I was walking in the Mission, in San Francisco, when two sisters came up to me who no one else could see... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY |
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