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For me, the hardest legacy of being raised by idealists has been guilt--guilt I wasn't doing more for others, guilt that I wasn't... Gandhi!
And I'm not even sure Gandhi was Gandhi.
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ABJECT OBJECT: by Wayan; 1992/5/11, a nondream digital picture-prose-poem It's OK to be a sex object as long as you're also a subject. What's no fun is being an abject... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL FEARS/SHYNESS |
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ALTHEA'S MONEY DREAMS: by Althea; 1999/1/22, financial dreams provoked by... financial dreams? After reading a booklet of dreams about money by Wayan, Althea has four such dreams of her own challenging family ideas of class, gender, inheritance... and then practical investment advice!... |
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A PEEL FOR APPROVAL: by Wayan; 1990/9/24, a cautionary dream Ariana's a brilliant young writer, but how she plans to escape her family is alarming... CAUTION: TEEN PREGNANCY, SKIN MAGS, HORRIBLE CAREER PLANNING |
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APOLOGETIC OGRE: by Wayan; 1990/3/1, a nightmare. I hop on a bus in mythical Greece, and this woman's guardian angel acts racist. OK, I'm an ogre. So? CAUTION: ANOTHER HANDGUN TRAGEDY |
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THE BELL CURVE: by Wayan; 1995/2/22, an essay on IQ My take on IQ, racism, Murray and Herrnstein's notorious book, and the theory of multiple intelligence. As an (ex)child prodigy it's not theoretical for me: broken hearts, broken trust, broken ribs... CAUTION: LONG WORDS, RAMPANT ELITISM, GENIUS SHOPTALK |
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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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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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THE CAMBODIAN GIRL: by Wayan; 1996/4/2 dream, sculpted 1998/11/9. VERY mixed media--the boat is warped wood. And the story is warped more... CAUTION: SEX, SHAME FROM EARLY TRAUMA |
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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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CHINA AND AMERICA: by Alder and Wayan; 1997/9/23, telepathic dreams. Two giants wrestle in the Chinese mountains. Who'll win, Red or Yellow? But when I wake... |
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CLASH OF KNOW-NOTHINGS: by Wayan; 2004/11/3, a election-day rant We don't face Huntington's Clash of Civilizations. This is a world war--inland reactionaries attack tolerant coasts. CAUTION: POLITICAL IDEAS, POLITICAL RAGE |
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A DATE IN MINSK: by Wayan; 2009/8/23, a possibly psychic dream of adaptability A spacetime traveler inadvertently strands his pacifist vegetarian date in a gun-crazy mob-run town... CAUTION: DEFAMES BYELORUSSIANS |
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DOME: by Wayan; 1999/1/31, a dream peeling off a lie. I'm actress Nicole Kidman, clinging to the dome of City Hall like King Kong, ripping it to shreds! Why? CAUTION: VANDALISM, REVERSE SEXISM, EXHIBITIONISM |
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DRAMATIC PARASITES: by Wayan; 1995/6/28, a dream on fear of success. I project I'll make a lot more money soon. Good, now I can support all my lazy friends! Wait... |
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THE DRAGON ECONOMIST: by Wayan, 2011/1/7, a surreal dreamlet prodding me An economist gets a job as a dragon guarding a data-treasure. Heroes plot to slay him, but I trust the dragon more than the heroes... |
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EDITH KEELER: by Wayan, 1975/10/8, an incubated dream giving multiple answers I asked my dreams to show me my Shadow--what I deny. It showed me at least FIVE! And in every time-branch, a runaway truck crushed me--the Truck of Ideology. Not that I seemed able to avoid it... CAUTION: RECURRING DEATHS |
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AN ELECTORAL DRAGON: by Wayan; 1998/10/21, a virtual-reality-campaign-ad dream In a world of hideous haircuts (flagging your politics) I meet a dragon running for office. But is this real or a dream? Both/neither! It's... |
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A FAMILY ALBUM: by Wayan; 1981/3/9, folio of nightmarish dysfunctional family. A series of family shadows, as I saw them then. These scenes are NOT literal, is that clear? But the tensions they show were very real... CAUTION: GRIM! SEXUAL VIOLENCE, INCEST, MUTILATION |
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FLY IN THE SLUM: by Wayan; 1996/10/14, a possibly psychic flying dream. In a rough part of San Francisco, I climb to the roof of a tower and jump off, but not to kill myself... |
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GENDER-SKEW IN DREAMS: by Wayan; 1998/2/2, a brief essay on dream-differences In older studies at least, women dream of both sexes but men dream largely of men. Just like TV, huh? CAUTION: YOU'LL NEVER WATCH TV AGAIN |
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THE GENERAL: by Wayan, mid-December 1975, a nightmare warning of real danger I'm a child in a Latin American city who's murdered on the street. Then I'm my brother, seeking my own murderers. I find the General behind it! Unfortunately... CAUTION: DYING. DYING TWICE. AND THEN NEARLY AGAIN, AWAKE... |
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THE GOLDEN JOCKSTRAP: by Wayan, 2017/3/8, a dream on meeting your own needs I walk into a Castro fashion shop with Dalí décor--golden underwear draped on branches. And my friends all buy it... CAUTION: UNDERWEAR JOKES |
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HOT-AIR FEMINISM: by Wayan; 2019/1/3; a harsh political dream The latest MeToo meme is to leave a door open at night with a heater on, so a hot-air plume marks a refuge for women in danger--or, of course, burglars! So I stalk our neighborhood locking doors... CAUTION: DECRIES HOT-AIR NAÏVETÉ |
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I WANT MY INHERITANCE: by Wayan; 1989/12/18, a dream on family brainwashing. My family calls me a blonde bimbo and won't give me my inheritance, so I take drastic steps... CAUTION: MORAL HAIRSPLITTING |
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INVOKE THE ANIMAL POWERS (or was it PROVOKE?): by Wayan; 2008/9/9, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #24 A children's recital of "Where the Wild Things Are" turns into a riot-orgy. And it feels... political? CAUTION: WILD THING ORGY |
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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 |
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KISS THE CATS: by Wayan; 2008/8/23, a dream poem, Dreamverse #13 I have to kiss a mess of cats. Fishy, but I'm not chicken. My real beef is with the humans watching... |
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LARRY'S MULTIVERSE: by Wayan; 2008/2/16, a dream poem, Dreamverse #14 My shamanic teacher lures me into a labyrinth ruled by wizards whose magic-monopoly's about to fall... |
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LET'S PLEASE THE RICH: by Wayan; 1998/6/24, a disgusting proposal The rich block reform. So let's offer the rich what they really want: ranking and attention... CAUTION: CHIMPONOMICS |
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LOCAL STYLE: by Wayan; 1999/11/24, an assumption-reversing dream. Brunch, a terrace restaurant, some cute women. I say hi and politely grope them... why do I feel odd? |
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MAKING PROGRESS STANDING STILL: by Wayan; 1990/10/1; a healing dream cartooned. I dreamed I slowly climbed out of guilty longing to an exciting climax on the Escalator of Love... CAUTION: CARTOON SEX, NUDITY, GENDER POLITICS |
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MATRONIZED: by Wayan; 1996/5/25, a real-life vignette. An older woman I know nags me about food. Suddenly my mind flips our genders and weights... |
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MY CUBIST CONSCIENCE: by Wayan; 1982/8/5; a dream warning of overharsh ethics. I dreamed I was trapped in the maze of my pacifist vegetarian feminist anarchist eco-conscience... |
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NOT SELF DEFENSE!: by Wayan; 1999/4/29, a warning dream. I'm Tarzan, fighting off attackers. But I kill one helpless prisoner! Am I going too far? CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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ON MOLLY'S FOREHEAD: by Wayan, 1988/11/19, a spiritual sex dream. A child of radicals goes wild in Rio. When we bail her out, we find she's had a strange enlightenment... CAUTION: UNSAFE SEX |
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OUR BEST SONG: by Wayan; 1983/10/25, a decade-long dream of song and flight. The artcops search-and-destroy our flying band, and my wings are shorn. But ten years later, songless, apathetic, I climb through my TV--and the women of Vietnam show me a new way to fly... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, ATTITUDE, ALTITUDE |
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AN OUTGROWN BED: by Wayan; 1990/10/14, a dream of growth and time. I'm a girl in a Catholic school. But a magazine and my too-small bed combine to change my life... CAUTION: MASTURBATION, QUEER-POSITIVE, CHRISTIAN-NEGATIVE |
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PLANET CAT: by Wayan; 1995/11/12, a First Contact dream of love. I'm the first man on Planet Cat, falling in love with my guide. And then I'm the Cat, falling for an alien ape... CAUTION: NUDE CAT |
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POISONED!: by Wayan; 1994/6/20, three linked diagnostic dreams. Poison takes many forms, from attitudes to environmental by-products to actions done deliberately... |
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PRINCESS OF PASSION: by Wayan; 1993/7/10, a chthonic dream. Led by a rebel demon into the heart of a Chinese mountain, should I wake the Sleepers in the Cave? |
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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? |
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PRODIGIES' ODDITIES: by Wayan; 1994/2/2, a confession. I suspect we child prodigies and geniuses are as unlike the gifted as normal people. So here's a checklist... CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED |
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PUPPY: by Wayan; a set of 1984-5 dreamlets; digital story-painting 1990/11/25 I tried to have sex with a puppy in heat, but she was just too small for me. An image that freaks out even my friends! But its crudity hid an unexpectedly subtle message... CAUTION: SEX, BESTIALITY |
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RATTLER BANQUET: by Wayan; 1993/1/29, a pointed nightmare; it leaves punctures! My parents invite me out to dinner, but there's a rattlesnake under the table, and my mom chases it up my leg. I wake to find two holes in my knee... |
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REJECTED! SO?: by Wayan; 2004/11/12, a dream of political AND personal advice A middle-class girl rejects me, and a newsman declares my politics irrelevant. "Liberal media" my ass... CAUTION: POLITICS |
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RICH BITCH: by Wayan; 1979/10/20, a dream on money, sex and class. I dreamed I met a wealthy werewolf. My parents were leftists and told me the rich are wicked--but... CAUTION: INDECENT T-SHIRT, INDECENT WEREWOLF |
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SLAVE MARKET: by Wayan; 1998/9/10, a dreamtale on freedom. Business solved the problem of cheap foreign labor: slavery's legal again. So our firm buys cheap losers... |
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STARVATION?: by Wayan; 1995/8/28, a journal extract on body image. On a poster of a model who's around my weight, someone's scrawled STARVATION IMAGERY... CAUTION: DEFENSE OF SKINNY PEOPLE |
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TAKE STOCK OF YOUR PELVIS: by Wayan; 1980/1/11, a sexual dream that isn't. A friend stockpiling for Armageddon shows me what I thought was lust is really a need to learn... pelvic anatomy? Why? CAUTION: NUDITY; LANGUAGE; WE FIND OUT WHY |
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TIME IS A CROC: by Wayan; 1993/3/29, a dream on time. Golfing in the basement with Giselle! But her ball goes through a Stargate to land on a world where the water hazards are hazards... |
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WARIA: by Wayan; 1987/3/23, digital painting of a pointed advisory dream. My life was a sex disaster. I felt ugly and sick. Then I dreamed I found a counselor who really helped. But my parents warned me against her. Why? They explained: WARNING: NUDITY |
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WASTE: by Wayan; 1990/5/7, a desert singles poem, 11 images. A road trip through New Mexico mutates into a tour of my relationship disasters... |
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WHAT ARE THE ISSUES?: by Carla Young, 2010/3/16; painting of a political dream pun My friend's ignorant of our local Congressional race. I loathe Pombo and like his rival McNerney, but can't pronounce his name right... |
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WITCHMARE SEDUCES TWILIGHT: by Wayan; 2021/3/12 & 13, a dream with a confirming follow-up DREAM: Witchmare the sorceress patiently wins over Twilight, a unicorn who thought she was straight. NEXT NIGHT: at a queer picnic, I find I know my orientation--witches! But I'm less sure what sex I am... CAUTION: LESBIANS, UNICORNS, FANART, COMPLEXITY |
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YUPPIE BREAKUP: by Wayan; 1991/5/22, a dream on values--or the lack thereof. A yuppie idealist discovers her boyfriend's a cheerful opportunist, and they disentangle their lives... CAUTION: SEX IN REVERSE |
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