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Silky is my spirit wife. When we met in dreams, years ago, she mostly appeared as a horse; we had adventures together, became friends and lovers, and eventually married in a dream. She's a shapeshifter, appearing in many forms, though she favors equines, cats, deer, and humans. Her species may vary with her whims, but some things are constant: black hair or black and white fur, Asian eyes, slender bodies, a quick, nervous but playful nature, sensuality, love of dance and singing, and a surface shyness hiding a fierce sense of fairness and empathy for underdogs. I love her dearly.

Jungians will think "anima" and worry I've surrendered to my unconscious. That's a bad idea in the Jungian scheme--letting your anima take over entirely can lead to moodiness and self-indulgence. But Silky's not a Jungian anima, a mood-creature capable only of dream-thinking and dream-guiding; she's as intelligent as my conscious mind (quite good with numbers, in fact), capable of self-restraint, though she requires a damn good reason to do it; and when I get in over my head in waking-world social transactions, she's taken over for me and saved the day.

She's also more fun at parties than most Jungians.

So... do I think of her as just part of myself or as a real, external spirit I've invited in? Am I possessed? Over the years of intimate body-sharing, the boundary between us has grown so porous that it's hard for me even to make sense of the question any more. Whatever we started out as, we're one hybrid soul now. In some of the following dreams I experience being Silky, first person.

There are problems, of course. It's hard for me to be among men doing Guy Things--the pecking order, the displays. Silky sees it as hilarious--or scary. I feel like an underground woman investigating this strange culture--and men sense it! Also, women dating me eventually notice there's a girl looking out my eyes. Luckily, Silky likes girls as much as boys, and isn't much prone to jealousy. Still it has to be disorienting to have your date keep changing gender on you! Plus, there are two of us to please, so we're picky...

But I haven't felt lonely or bored in years, years, years.

So... despite the traditional warnings in most cultures against dabbling with spirits, I recommend dating, mating with, and even marrying dream-beings... if you really like them. I mean, tradition usually condemns interfaith, interracial, and gay marriage, too. Ah, the wisdom of the ages!

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	AMERICAN TANKA: by Wayan; dreamed 1989/7/26, painting-poem-story on 30" disk, 1995. I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night...
	AMONG COLUMNS: by Wayan; 1989/6/19, digital picture of psychic dream A psychic dream about a New York ballet student who was a black panther. Lower case...
	ARIANE'S HONEYMOON: by Wayan; 1986/4/11, a dreamlet meant to shock; ch.2 of UNICORN TAG, a set of nine linked dreamtales. I married my childhood crush. Happy, till I overhear her tell my sister what she really thinks of... CAUTION: SEX TALK
	BALANCE?: by Wayan, 1984/10/10, a dream about dreams. Silky, my sentient starship, gives me a scolding about playing it safe...
	BLACKGROUND: by Wayan; 2023/3/14-4/4, a booklet of improv paintings on dreamwork Inspired by Lynda Barry, I fill a black-paged book with 20 improv paintings. They grow into a tour of my dreamwork led my anima Silky, a nightmare...
	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
	BROWN DRESS: by Wayan; 1984/2/11, 9-page digital comic of a sexy healing dream. A champion swimmer tells me how she turned a sexual humiliation into excitement and liberating power... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, SHAME, PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY
	BROWNIE: by Wayan; 1984/9/26, a sexy dreamtale. At last my girlfriend and I manage to peel off the Brown Dress of Shame, and ... CAUTION: SEXUAL HEALING
	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
	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
	CASSANDRA AND OTTER: by Wayan; 1982/3/14, a reassuring nightmare. I take Cassandra's prophecies seriously, but she can't make sense of my future. So we go see an otter with a crystal ball. But he's installed a new security system...
	A CAT AND HER GIRL: by Wayan; 1979/5/15, a deep little dream. I'm a doctor in the future, trying to heal the neurolink between a girl and her cat...
	CAT COUPLE: by Wayan; 1996/4/30, a drawn digital prayer or wish. I cover my computer's desktop with this image tiled endlessly. And will, till the lesson sinks in... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	CAT DANCER: by Wayan; 1996/8/15; dream figure 15" tall; clay, wire, acrylic I have recurring dreams of this sexy feline anima or familiar who loves dance. CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	CENTAUR BY SARTRE: by Wayan; 1989/3/28; an oracular dream A sea-centaur explains why some dreams don't LIKE to surface to so-called consciousness... CAUTION: WET T-SHIRT, EXISTENTIALISTS, HARPOONS
	CENTAUR QUARTET: by Wayan; 1982/2/26, 83/12/24 & 84/10/16, recurring dreams of my spirit family. Can our interspecies family survive? Our very instincts clash around solitude/boundaries, sex and incest CAUTION: SEX, INCEST, REPRESSION/DENIAL
	A CENTAUR SPLITS: by Wayan; 1988/1/12, a Gestalt dream. A centaur divorces, into a unicorn and an unfinished faun-girl, who argue "Forward!" "Not ready!"... CAUTION: TRANSPARENT BREASTS
	CENTAUR AND STAR: by Wayan; 1994; digital portrait of recurring dream figure I'm a centaur. I never left Eden. I'm still in the Garden. You are too, every night, in dreams... CAUTION: BREASTS
	CENTAUR, WOBBLY: Wayan; digital sketch 1990 based on dream I can't trace. Wise advice from a funny looking centauress at a nude beach... CAUTION: CRUDE NUDE
	CHELSEA AND THE PRESIDENTIAL COMPLEX: by Wayan; 1999/12/25, an odd political (?) dream. I was hot tubbing and flirting... so how'd I end up as Chelsea Clinton running for office?
	CHRYSALIS: by Wayan; 1999 acrylic painting of two dreams, 1997/10/6 and 1997/11/8. Ballooning over Middle Earth with a metamorphosing butterfly-girl, we drift into forbidden territory:
	THE CHUTE: by Wayan; 1993/11/10, a dream transforming fear. I'm warily crossing an avalanche chute in winter, when my worst fear happens. Then the slide speaks up...
	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...
	COEURL: by Wayan; 1980/2/26, a dream of surprise transcendence I'm trapped in an alien hotel, my true love has gone radioactive, and the only way out is to turn into a giant, scary... CAUTION: CLOSET LESBIAN. LITERAL CLOSET.
	COLD-SHOWER CONSCIOUS: by Wayan; 1996/5/25, a dream dissecting a fear. Sexy frustrating dreamlets with a message, not about my unconscious, but about my CONSCIOUS... CAUTION: SEX TALK
	THE CORE ISSUE: by Wayan; 1992/6/25, a dream from multiple viewpoints The tale of a gray heart trying to heal leads to unicorn-hostage drama in the Transamerica Pyramid... CAUTION: SEX, MAFIA THREATS, VIOLENCE
	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
	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
	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...
	DALMATIAN MARE: by Wayan; 1987/8/22; a dream on hiding and showing off. I dreamed of South American musical intrigue in a grand hotel. Enter a polka-dot shapeshifter...
	DAMOCLES LODGE: by Wayan; 1998/12/22, a dream on what hangs over us. I meet a nice werewolf in a hall of past-life junk, so sharp and rusty we dare not play...
	DEER SORCERESS: by Wayan; 1981/5/18, a dream on the virtues of chaos. A witch-girl turned to a deer flees hell-hounds who just CAN'T get organized...
	DO YOU LOVE ME, JOHN?: by Wayan; 1991/7/6, a dream on the courage of the shy. I dream of a future where blondes are a too-cute endangered species. How can they survive? Like this... CAUTION: NUDITY
	DOG ON THE RAMP: by Wayan; 1989/4/6, a dream of love in a time of bias. My friend Lisadia sneers at a dog-girl's attempts to beautify her starship. I'm shocked--she's openly specist... CAUTION: SPECISM
	DONNA'S FALLOUT: by Wayan, 1972/2/6, 2/26, 2/29 & 3/4: sonnets & watercolors of 4 sex dreams. When I was 17, an older girl pushed booze at me and came on to me... in front of my parents and teachers! For months, I had ambivalent sex dreams trying to process what Donna taught me--not all of it negative... CAUTION: WEIRD SEX; ADULTS BEHAVE BADLY
	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..."
	DRESSER GUARDIAN: MER-ANGEL: by Wayan; mid-May 1999. Dream-figure portrait, acrylic, 5x5" A guardian figure who recurs in my dreams, painted on my dresser to guard my sleep-journeys...
	THE EDUCATION OF A DREAM: by Wayan; 1998/7/7, a dream on dreams. A young, naive, ethereal dream gets an Animus to guide her through the crazy material plane... CAUTION: GRATUITOUS WILLIAM SHATNER
	EEL TOWER: by Wayan; 1981/4/23, a dream of longing. I dreamed living in a body of flesh is like being trapped on a sinking cruise ship... CAUTION: NUDITY (but she's just crying, not giving that guy a blowjob, okay?)
	THE EGG PROBLEM: by Wayan; 1990/3/2, digital painting of a magical dream. I'm an intellectual ballerina trying to stop zombies hatching from stone eggs, but I succeed only when I become a dragon using touch, scent and visualization to persuade the eggs...
	EMISSARY: by Wayan; 2000/3/22, an astral dreamtale. I signed a prenatal agreement for weird, uneven luck to turn my life toward art and spirit. I want to broaden it, but I've lost the contract! So my spirit wife Silky sets out to find it...
	EMOTIONAL PALETTE: by Wayan; 2000/3/22, an indescribable dream. My spirit-wife and I spend our last evening together painting. Not with colors--with emotions...
	EMPTY-EYED CREATURES: by Wayan; 1996/12/9, an animal Zen dream. I lose myself, but I get some startling advice from a convent-school kid with empty eyes...
	THE EVEREST MARATHON: by Wayan; 1986/4/12, a wild dream epic, part 3 of Unicorn Tag. In the great race up Everest, I become an e-snake, cross 3 eco-bubbles, beg a wary deer-taur to splice my spine, help Ariane my childhood crush, and solve the Dream Equations. Climbing Everest takes not strength but... trust?
	FAIRY WIFE: by Wayan; 1985/1/17, an epic dream of love and choice. A fairy woman and a mortal man? Can't work! They're flighty, we're crude. Doomed, right? Well, some people are so sure of it they decide to help things along a bit. Or a lot...
	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
	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
	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
	FOUR-ARMED SINGER: by Wayan; 1996/5/16; a dream of baring your soul . In our mutant future, a lovely horse-tailed four-armed girl sings her heart out--as clubgoers ignore her... CAUTION: NUDE CABARET
	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...
	FOXCOMB: by Wayan; ink 1990 tinted 2001; daydream of recurring dream character I visited the first bioengineered fox-person with working thumbs, to see what she thinks of hands...
	FOXES: by Wayan; 1989/4/12. Digital nondream painting. Long ago I saw a marvelous Hiroshige print of a fox convocation, lit by moon and foxfires... CAUTION: LESBIAN SPOOKS
	FOXY ANCESTOR: by Wayan; 1998/7/25, a subtle dream. A famous inventor is descended from foxes. Their faces teach me something about beauty and character...
	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
	HER GESTURED ROUTE: by Wayan; 1984/6/16, a dream poem. How's it feel to be an anima off the job? Is it lonely, when no one even believes you're a real person?
	THE GHOST IN MIRIEL'S BUG: by Miriel & Wayan; 1985/10/1, an apparently shared dream WAYAN: I dream a transparent ghost steals my sister Miriel's white VW bug... MIRIEL: I dream about a ghost and my old white VW bug that was stolen... CAUTION: E.S.P. CLAIM
	GIRL WITH A PROBLEM: by Wayan; 1997/4/12, a surreal dream. I date a girl with a mysterious syndrome, but soon I become a monkeyfaced con-man. And SHE becomes...
	GOLD EATER: by Wayan; 1993/1/15 dream drawn as 9-page comic. I'm an orphan shapeshifter enslaved by a gold-eating monster. But I meet a cat-girl with a hammer... CAUTION: BAD FOSTER-DAD; CAPITALIST MONSTER; VIOLENCE (TO VENDING MACHINES)
	GRAMPA GOT AIMED: by Wayan; 1987/6/17, a psychic dream. The girl I love has a family that'll stop at absolutely nothing to destroy us. But I'll fight for love... CAUTION: SEX; EMOTIONAL VIOLENCE; MOLESTATION HISTORY
	HALF-ELF: by Wayan; 1996/2/14, a predictive dream fable. A biracial girl doubts her own heritage; a human friend has to confirm the obvious. So what am I blind to?
	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...
	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
	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
	HOMAGE TO CAMILLE: by Wayan, spring 2003. Portrait of a half an anima A portrait of my dream-friend Silky, using a technique learned from artist Camille Porter.
	HORSELIKE BUT NOT: by Wayan; portrait of dream figure, 1997, acrylic, 14 x 17" My anima Silky finds it hard to go back to classic hooves, now that she's tried opposable thumbs...
	HOT POT CAT LOT: by Wayan; 1992/8/6, a timed-release predictive dream. After a bad writing class, I meet a shy catgirl guarding a Mongolian Hot Pot, and discover who I am...
	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 AM THREE: by Wayan; 1956-58, my three earliest dreams. My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child...
	I AM A SILKY IN THE SEA: by Wayan; 1983/12/12, watercolor on shapeshifting in dreams. "I am a man upon the land; I am a Selkie in the sea..." Silky or selkie means a were-seal...
	I AND I, or, RENTADATE: by Wayan; 1983/6/18, a dream of ego-loss AND proliferation. After the revolution, I rule. But I get out of touch. So I throw a party and invite me, myself and I...
	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 GOT OUT: by Wayan; 1992/1/4, a psychic dream drawn as a 9-page digital comic I flee our love triangle when Abe turns mean. He's telepathic, but I have my escape all planned: the goldfish, the snakepit, the caves... CAUTION: THREESOME, SNAKES, MOTORCYCLE FATALITY
	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
	I WAS AN ELEPHANT HANDLER: by Wayan; 1989/4/3, a genderbent stagestruck dream. I was an elephant trainer longing to be a star--to win the girl on the flying trapeze. Who's probably straight... CAUTION: FLIRTING LESBIANS, OR POSSIBLY ELEPHANTS, OR MAYBE LIBRARIANS
	THE ILL-FORMED TALE: by Wayan; 160K, 1981/4/7, a wild dream anti-epic. To reach the Peak of Happiness on the Isle of Dreams, I must pass four Perils--but they're all backwards... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS NUTS, KNIVES, NUDE ALIENS, BACKWARD PLOT...
	IN WOMEN'S PRISON: by Wayan; 1994/7/23, a dream of faith. A woman in prison loves her counselor, but she's a barely literate hooker--she knows he won't love her back...
	INACTION PAINTING: by Wayan; 1995/10/29, digital dream-figure collage When I see that grim museum shit I start giggling "Boy art!" The guards glare, so I go home and paint like this. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX TALK, LUST FAIRIES AND FLYING TEENY WEENIES
	THE IRRATIONALITY OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1989/12/31, a New Year's dream. On TV, the first Jungian anima to leave the unconscious is granting an interview. But the questions are...
	ISIS HELPS TERI GARR: by Wayan; 1988/3/27, a meandering predictive dream. Actress Teri Garr and Isis the talking cat recur all night, but so does a baseball glove I haven't pulled out in years. Why? A few days later a friend asks for that glove, and I find...
	KICK AUTHORITY: by Wayan; 1989/10/25. Early digital painting of a dream figure. Question authority? Nah. They always have such excuses! Kick authority entirely! Just say no.
	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 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
	KRELKIN CONTEMPLATING: by Wayan; 1995/6/7 dream-figure sculpted 1998/7/17 in Paperclay A small statue of this beautiful creature who keeps appearing in my dreams... CAUTION: NUDITY
	KRELKIN CAMOUFLAGE: by Wayan; 1981/4/21, 3 versions of recurring dream image A sexy dream-creature hides by splitting her body visually, her red mane and tail matching her background...
	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
	A KRELKIN SMEARED: by Wayan; 1996/9/23; a dream of bold intervention . I'm a slender, clever krelkin. I draw me, but then red rage erupts and I trash myself... can I be saved?
	LAMEST CAR CHASE EVER: by Wayan, 2023/10/2, a dream predicting not events but emotions I'm caught in a surreal traffic jam--balky horses, teeny cop cars. Get so stressed that I split into a big creature guarding a small human sleeper. But even sleep is now a crime... CAUTION: PREDICTIVE?
	LEAN ON ME: by Wayan; 120K; 1987, 1992. Recurring dream image.. This couple keeps appearing in my dreams--as equals, as mount and rider, as friends, as enemies, as lovers... CAUTION: NUDITY
	LEARNING SCALES: by Wayan; 1985/6/26, an epic dream of Chinese dragons. I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost. We need an Imperial Dragon...
	LEONINE TRINITY: by Wayan; 1989/11/6 digital print of recurring dream (first: 1987/11/28?) A goddess in a dream once told me to seek 3 and only 3 qualities in a mate... CAUTION: NUDITY
	LEOPARDS AT THE FRINGE: by Wayan; 2014/3/28; poem of a cryptomnesic species-bent thespian sex dream I'm at the Fringe Festival, onstage in a Performance Orgy, playing two roles: a leopard with human pets and a leopard's human pet. But I'm not quite playing... CAUTION: STAGED ORGY
	LILY OXYGEN: by Wayan; dreamed 1984/1/19, drawn 2000; a strong psychic dream. I'm Emily Dickinson reborn in 2100 as a breeder of hydroponic lilies, till my dad drafts me as an Arctic energy-prospector, where I meet a ghost, a fiery Beast, a new me, and the girl of my dreams... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, NUDE PROSPECTORS, GNOMIC DICKINSON QUOTES
	THE LION LIES DOWN WITH THE MARE by Wayan, 1986/6/7; a surreal predictive dream THAT DAY: a play in the park about human-car hybrids. Jaguar girl, Mustang boy! Surreal. THAT NIGHT: Lions & jaguars hunt a mustang, but she flirts instead of fights, and soon... CAUTION: INTERSPECIES SEX
	LUCID LIVING: by Wayan; 2007/4/8, a quasi-lucid dream of the future with 9 illustrations Honesty induces a joyful state with lucidlike powers. So I bike across the Lake of Time, open the book of my future, and see... CAUTION: SEXY SKETCHES FROM THE FUTURE
	LUNAMOTH (Around #11): by Wayan; soon after 1998/8/7; 2 portraits of a dream-self, one digital, one acrylic Day Me curls up and Night Me unfolds: a girl with dark moth-wings, not angel-white but camouflaged...
	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
	MARIAH: by Wayan, 1994/9/23, a mystical flying dream. An un-jealous wind lifts me above the San Francisco hills, so I can hunt for my love: the Muse...
	A MARKET STREET CONCERT: by Wayan, 1998/4/2, a sexy dreamfable. On a downtown street, a classmate is singing for change. I can't resist seeing if I can distract her... CAUTION: THEY'RE BOTH EXHIBITIONISTS
	MATURITY: by Wayan; 1989/1/26, a dream on bluntness. Beverly Cleary's Ramona is a popular teen, but she's having a nervous breakdown. And her best friend... CAUTION: STUDENT-TEACHER AFFAIR
	MELTDOWN VALLEY: by Wayan; 1993/2/13, a dream of scrupulous balance. A park in San Francisco has melted into a bizarre mutation-zone. Its guardian is a lonely elf-woman... CAUTION: ELF NUDITY
	THE MERMAID'S DRESSING ROOM: by Wayan; 1993/12/18; a dream on how to evolve. At Sea-Dragon State Park, I climbed down to the sea serpent's dressing room after the show, and found... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS
	MISFITS ON MARS: by Wayan; 1986/11/20, an epic dream; the climax of the dreamseries UNICORN TAG. From the punk clubs of Frisco to the Safeways of Si Valley to the vermilion sands of Mars, Silky the were-nightmare fights for the Misfits against every cliche in science fiction...
	MY GATE: by Wayan; 1996/5/29; a bizarre, joyful dream; 4-page comic (or ill. text version) The full moon rises: I become Weregirl, do the Moondance, and gnaw open the lock on my heart... CAUTION: MOONING
	MY SINE-FRIEND: by Wayan; 1984/3/6, an emotional dream of time and rebirth. An animal-girl I know lives like a sine-wave, first forward in time, then backwards, dying at every zero...
	NAIAD AND GOD-DOG: by Wayan; 1980/11/7, a manipulative dream-tragedy. I love a Naiad who's lost her God. Tragedy strikes us. I'm devastated till I meet the aliens who explain...
	NIGHT MARE: by Wayan; 1990/11/23; digital painting inspired by a friend's dream. I dreamed I was a feral mare: gentle, affectionate, sensual, but gone wild, wary of being tamed again...
	NIGHTMARE TRANSUBSTANTIATION: by Wayan; 2015/2/10; a gross-out but predictive nightmare I'm in a basement, forced to enact a ritual where I must mate with, then FEED on, a flayed creature... I wake shaken, open a random book--and it describes the ancient Celtic rites of Epona... CAUTION: BESTIALITY, MATE-DEVOURING
	NIGHTMARE'S EAGER: by Wayan; 1999/4/6, a short dream about dreams. I meet a Nightmare in heat who wants me. A human girl by me says I'll catch an equine sex-disease... CAUTION: SEX TALK
	NOCTURNE: by Wayan; 2023/9/20, a book of improv paintings on dreams Inspired by Shaun Tan, I fill a black-paged photo album with 36 improv paintings. They become a tour of my dreamworld, led by my anima Silky, a literal nightmare... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, WEIRD DREAM IDEAS
	"NOHOR!" YELLED THE NIGHTMARE: by Wayan; 1982/12/27, a passionate nightmare. I dreamed a black mare was howling "Nohor!" At first I thought she meant "I'm not just a horse", but... CAUTION: SEXUAL ISSUES
	NORASINGH: by Wayan; 1987/1/15, a Tantric Frankenstein dream. I fall in love with my sculpture of a mythical Southeast Asian creature. Then a mad yogi breaks in... CAUTION: SEX, TANTRA, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS
	NOW DON'T PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH: by Wayan; 1998, pencil sketch of 3 recurring dream figures. It's hard being even mildly multiple. Here three of my least compatible personalities line up and...
	ON HER FOURTH BODY: by Wayan; 1993/11/25, a predictive dream-comedy. A gengineered singer (born a cow, became a horse, then a shark, now a sexy Mare Chanteuse) solves a mystery that stumped even Mr. Spock. Next day, I see a film--a mystery solved by a...
	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
	ORIOLE GIRL: by Wayan; 1992/1/23, psychic dream told as illustrated poem. While conducting a census of fairies in Golden Gate Park, I fall in love with an abused oriole-girl, and we try to heal one another... CAUTION: AWKWARD SEX
	OTTERS DON'T FAKE: by Wayan; 1989/10/15, a sex dream that's not about sex at all. I'm scared to show my dream-paintings to my art class. That night I find an large otter in my bed... CAUTION: SEX
	OUR EYES ARE OPEN: by Wayan; 1998? Political painting of my animal anima. As new political outrages flow forth, I feel like a horse wary of a sweet-talking human, and I think...
	PASS, MARE: by Wayan; 1982/3/13, a sex dream about letting your animal side lead A deer-girl turns into a talking mare. We make love. Then, relaxed, she leads me over a pass from suburban isolation into a wider social world... CAUTION: TALKING HORSE SEX
	PASS THE VIAL ON: by Wayan; 2000/4/18, a dream of renunciation A vagabond king showed me the way into Faerie, and it made my fortune. But now it�s time to pass the gift on...
	PEGATAURESS WITH BLUE WINGS: by Wayan; 1993/4/2 & 1997/11/19, a sculpture fusing two dreams. I was a ballerina in blue who learned to fly; and I met a centauress who loved dance too. The dancers fused...
	PERISSA: by Wayan; 1997/9/13, a sexy dream-comic (small screen, slow loading? Illus. text) When Perissa, an exhibitionistic centaur, bares her body in a crowded Coliseum, she also bares a human-supremacist plot... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM
	PET AD, OR, RENTADOG: by Wayan; 1996/11/9, an illustrated Shakespearean singles-ad. I put a singles ad in our paper, but I just couldn't say what I really wanted to. Now, I can... CAUTION: SEX, DRUGS, AND DOGGEREL
	PET ME DARE!: by Wayan; 1996/2/7, a sexy healing dream; 2p. dream-comic (or ill. text) After whining all day that I lost my anima, I dream I'm petting a cat. Who purrs, and grows, and grows, and purrs "Pet..." CAUTION: PUSSY TROUBLE
	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
	PLANETARY EYE: by Wayan; 2023/7/9, a surreal world-building dream I'm building a planetary model a kilometer across, inset in Bernal Hill like an eye in a socket. My intern Silky kicks the globe, scuffing a caravan trail in a desert. Needs to be crookeder... CAUTION: FATSHAMING? OR CALLING OUT SKINNYSHAMING?
	POKEY?: by Wayan; 1993/4/15, a dreamtale on my soul. My lover's turned into a tiny living pull-toy, trapped ankle-deep in a wheeled platform. Can I free her?
	POLTERGEIST: by Wayan; 1983/11/17, a comic surreal dream. A living camera edits us all: the dappled hawk-man, the slutty candidate, the blue businessmen who give such bad advice when you pull the thorns from their feet. And my sweet sad hell-hound...
	PONYGIRL'S DIET: by Wayan; 2010/3/31, a furry health-advice dream I dream of a half-pony half-human girl who can't eat either hamburgers or hay. She figures out an appropriate diet...
	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?
	PREGNANT WITH KRYTHA: by Wayan; 1998/2/3, a monomaniacal dream My best friend and I are shapeshifters; I seduce him, just so my daughter Krytha can be born... CAUTION: MAMMALIAN NUDITY, PHEROMONAL SEDUCTION, RECKLESS PREGNANCY
	THE PROWLER: by Wayan; 1997/2/4, an anti-nightmare. My sister hears a prowler. I go out blind in the dark, and learn she's right. But what a strange intruder!
	QUADRUPLE WEDDING: by Wayan; 1995/5/15, a unifying dream. Day: Why did I get sick from figure-sketching? Guilt? Dream: I'm at a group wedding; shall I wed a dwarf, a feral boy or a horse?
	RANI: by Wayan; 1994/1/28, a dream about choice, with 8 illus. A Borges story of a were-tigress provokes a dream of a ranch crawling with weird were-women. Weird, but I LIKE them... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
	RAZI AND THE HOLY WINO OF SHASTA: by Wayan; 1994/9/1, a redemptive epic dream 20,000 years from now, a deer-harpist named Razi finds the Holy Wino's not quite the ruin he seems... CAUTION: BAD PENGUINS, DEER NUDITY, RUDE DRUNK
	RECOIL: by Wayan; 1995. Digital portrait of dream figures. Puzzled me why I (the girl on the left) was so outraged about the gift of a perfectly nice levitating flower... CAUTION: NUDITY, INGRATITUDE, WITCHCRAFT, ELVIS
	REDUCED TO THE STUDHOUSE: by Wayan; 1980/11/16, a warning dream. I'm not a normal wolf: I'm a were-woman. When I turn wolf again, I'm in heat; but I want to be alone! So... CAUTION: SEX TALK
	REFLECTIONS IN THE POOL: by Wayan; 184K total, 2 panoramas; a 1994/7/2 dream. Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love. Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace? CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL
	RIBBING: by Wayan; 1992/12/25, an assertive dreamtale. After seeing 150 years of family photos, I dream of being teased by time-traveling cheerleaders, and...
	RIDING MY UNICORN: by Wayan; 1993? Digital picture-poem of incubated vision. I'm single and feeling shy. So I asked my dreams for an image of my true love, and got... CAUTION: SEX
	(THE MEANING OF) RINGS AND TURQUOISE: by Wayan; 1998/11/1, a dream on independence. I'm in the park, feeling sad, till a girl on the lawn near me semaphores a message via rings and turquoise... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
	RING OF WHITE WATER: by Wayan; 1983/1/30, an epic astral dream. I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. A girl in my tour group jumps ship: she dreads the white water of rocky relationships ahead... CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS...
	SAMURAI MARE: by Wayan; 1993/2/23, a time-travel dream. A feral mare will only let me ride her if I quit being a Japanese diplomat and become... a Samurai!
	THE SAN DIEGO CENTAURS: by Wayan; 1985/1/9, a slice-of-life dream. In San Diego, I fly around disrupting the UFO games in the junkyard, till I reconnect with a centaur friend
	SEX THERAPY: by Wayan; 1998/5/18, a dream on the messiness of healing. Both of us were abused as kids. Sex is hard. So we go to a therapist who has us act out sex on the floor... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES
	SILKY AS A KRELKIN: by Wayan; 2015/7/1, a dreamlet in FOAM FURS
	SILKY AT THE GATE: by Wayan; 2016/2/26, dream of a statue come alive My girlfriend, a lifesize doll in the shape of a feline centaur, gradually comes alive, walking around on her own and flirting with me... CAUTION: NUDE CAT-TAUR
	SILKY AT THE MIKE: by Wayan; 1983/12/23, sketch of recurring dream Ours is a mixed-race family, and my sister takes after the horse side. No hands, but can she sing!...
	SILKY CLEANS THE UNDERWORLD: by Wayan; 2023/5/26, a heartening surreal dream I'm lost in the underworld again. Happens a lot lately. But I run into my anima Silky, in yellow boots and a safety vest, blasting clean the walls of the land of the dead...
	SILKY CROSSES THE ATLANTIC: by Wayan; dreamed 1982/8/24, painted 1994 (acrylic/ink/xerox). After I fled my batterer, I was afraid to love--afraid I'd give up my freedom again for mere kindness...
	SILKY RELENTS: by Wayan; 1997/3/8 a dreamtale on undoing old injustice. My anima Silky plans to kill a man who hurt her. Instead, we make them re-enact it, with variations...
	SILKY ROMANTICIZES NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: by Wayan; 1983/3/4, a peculiar predictive dream I meet my anima downtown. She looks great, but admits she's still healing sexually-- "I over-romanticize." "Oh? Who or what?" "National Geographic!" An odd fixation. Then I wake & go to work; in a staff-room magazine I find a strange cartoon...
	SILKY SHIELDS A VANDAL: by Wayan; 1994/8/6, a cautionary dream. I'm a kid in a classroom someone's trashed. Our teacher goes ballistic. But was the gypsy girl framed?
	SILKY SINGS WITH WEREWOLF BOY: by Wayan; 1996/7/10; dream figures on bedspread, 5'x7' My anima the singing horse was encouraging a shy werewolf boy to give it a try... CAUTION: UNCLAD HORSE CHANTEUSE
	SILKY THE CATTAUR, EXPOSED: by Wayan; 2016/12/27, linked dreamlet in FOAM FURS
	SILKY THE WALKING TOY: by Wayan; 2015/1/30, a dreamlet in FOAM FURS
	SILKY'S BACK: by Wayan; 2012/3/20, a short dream in FOAM FURS
	SILKY'S BRIDGE: by Wayan, with brief parallel dream by Liz; 1987/5/7, apparent shared dreams WAYAN: I'm a cat climbing on sea-cliffs. Fear I'll fall. Run into Silky, an archer firing a line across to an islet. Now the Deer People can build their gossamer bridge... LIZ: I was hiking along a trail atop sea-cliffs. But I feared I'd fall...
	SILKY'S INVERSION: by Wayan; dreamed 2014/4/24, a surrealist dream My anima, a black mare, is upside down, hanging on the ceiling! Rears downward. And she's changed sex! Not a mare today, a stallion! A gay, humanophilic stallion... CAUTION: VERY QUEER FLIRTATION
	SILKY'S MASSAGE: by Wayan; 1981/2/2, a dream on workaholism, with 2/16 follow-up I tried to cartoon a joyful dream but nightmares kept intruding. Finally, aching, I half-slept... My spirit guide Silky came, and said the obvious, and stretched my sore neck and back... CAUTION: NUDE ANIMAL DANCE TROUPE
	SILKY'S REVOLUTION: by Wayan; 1995/9/4, a historical dream. I'm in an alternate-history American Revolution with Silky the talking black mare. We sail for Europe as diplomats...
	SILKY'S SONNET: by Wayan; 1983/6/15, a love-poem to a nightmare. A love poem to the black mare I keep meeting in my dreams, who finally married me... CAUTION: SEX TALK
	SILKY'S WEDDING: by Wayan; 1988/1/6, a dreamtale. Silky, my often-animal anima, leads me into a strange pagan church where we get married at last...
	SILKY'S WOODCUTS: by Wayan, 2006/12/15, an art-prompt dream with spiritual overtones I dreamed I'd made a set of woodblock prints showing a scene from varied times & angles: my anima Silky, part girl part mare, contemplates another set of prints--famous Zen ones...
	SISTERS OF THE INTERFACE: by Wayan; 1983/12/21, a shamanic dreamtale. My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet...
	SLAVES DON'T DANCE: by Wayan; 1999/8/1, a 17-page Shakespearean dream-comic (or ill. text) Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm forced to nurse her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is...
	SOUL-SHARD: by Wayan; 2000/10/5, a rebellious dream I�m a wolf in an ashram studying astral travel with my spirit-wife. Our souls blend a bit, enraging our guru, a Hindu god, who sends demons to make us stop this spiritual �contamination�...
	STOMPERS: by Wayan; 2013/8/24, a surreal dream of confidence I dream I'm a runner named Silky; but straying outside the crowd can get you stomped by giant aliens...
	SULFUR GROTTO: by Wayan; dreamed 1988/8/30, a psychic genderbent rescue-dream I'm a teenage girl diving for treasure. In an eerie coral grotto reeking of sulfur, I spot a diver in trouble... and wake to find the grotto is real..
	SWISS-CHEESE FAIRY: by Wayan; dreamed 1983/7/15, sculpted 2000: ceramic/wire/silk, 17" I met an elfin girl who's tattooed realistic vaginas all over her body, as... decoys? For she has... CAUTION: NUDITY, TATTOOS, TABOOS...
	THE TAO OF DENNIS THE MENACE: by Wayan; 1986/4/17, a dream of a wise mentor. Chased by purple squid from Jupiter, I seek refuge with a guru the Goddess recommends for me...
	TAROT: THE SULKY: by Wayan; Tarot card of a dream, 1979/4/17. This grumpy little greenish Scotsman rode a 'sulky', a one-man buggy, pulled by a playful black mare. I worried her clowning was a safety valve leaving her unfree...
	TELEPATH TREES: by Wayan; 1993/9/11, a how-the-other-half-lives dream with 7 pics I dream Edward Abbey shows me a secret grove of telepath trees. That night, in my dreams inside my dream, they meet me...
	TEN TRIALS: by Wayan; 1976/10/2, a dream of love distracted. While living with violent Kay, I dream I meet a cute, gentle moth-girl. But we must undergo ten trials. Mustn't we? Mustn't we? CAUTION: RELATIONSHIP TROUBLES, BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT
	THEY DON'T BELIEVE ME: by Wayan; 1989/10/4, an unbelievable dream with 15 illus. My dog and I are abducted by aliens who turn us into cats. We escape & go feral to survive. How we got back, and what happened along the way, even my own shrink refuses to believe... CAUTION: LEWD SQUID AND KLEPTOMANIAC BUGS
	THIEF OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1996/11/29, a sexy soul-swap dream; a 22-page comic (or text w/pics) I was a mermaid trying to find Count Coyote's stolen dreams, so I could marry my human girlfriend... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, LESBIAN MARRIAGE, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
	THREE-EYED WOLF: by Wayan; 1992/12/14. Digital comic of a dream, done movie-poster style A 'toon liberation dream. I cartooned a new self and slowly she grew realer, until she ran Disney... CAUTION: FRANK SINATRA SWEARS
	TIAMAT'S REBELLION: by Wayan; 1988/1/1, a dream about neoteny. That day: I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah. That night: I dream she leads a revolution on a starship against her elders...
	TITANIA: by Wayan; 1981/12/7, 83/1/7 & 2/13 and 84/10/2, a dream-epic in installments Clarence the sappy angel from It's A Wonderful Life and Milton's Lucifer land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're fine as is, but the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full palette of feelings. Like the feeling she's fake...
	THE TUBA MAN: by Wayan; 1982/7/8, a career-advice dream; watercolor sketch. Tuba Man plays from the top of a tower, even when Loveless Man opens fire; for music is life to him...
	UNDER THE FUR: by Wayan, 1997/10/7; a 5-page dream-comic (or as ill. text) A strange creature slunk into our yard, carrying a skunk lunch. But she dropped her fur coat, and I recognized a kindred spirit...
	VIRGIN ON THE VERGE: by Wayan, 1992/8/8. Digital picture-poem Ever since I was battered I feel like a virgin again: longing, but wary--scared where sex may lead... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES
	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
	WATERCATS: by Wayan; 1987/9/10; an epic, clear predictive dream I dream I find a few 'extinct' watercats--in a slum! They talk. They say I'm one of them, brainwashed to think I'm human. I wake, go to a dinner, and hear a tale of... watercats!
	THE WHITE DEER'S EXPERIMENT, or, FAWN OF A LESSER GOD by Wayan; 2013/4/13, an epic shamanic epiphany dream with tinges of ESP I meet my Creator--a were-deer. No wonder I'm a shy, horny herbivore so unlike these naked apes! She tells me my divine purpose... CAUTION: MONOTHEISTIC BLASPHEMY; E.S.P. FLASH; NUDE DEER
	THE WHITE MARE OF TRANSFORM RANCH: by Wayan; 1982/2/18, a dream of my anima I visit a dude ranch where you learn to turn into other species--see how others live. A white mare I barely recognize says Hello...
	WHO'LL BE MY LOVE?: by Wayan; 1986/4/14, a dream noir farce; part 4 of UNICORN TAG. I'm a hardboiled detective wincing as I grill a meek little psychic (probably me) about squish-softboiled topics like unicorns and love... CAUTION: SMUTTY UNICORN MAKES EVEN COPS BLUSH
	THE WILD HUNT: by Wayan; 1998/7/24, a dream of myth--or abuse?. We're exploring the English farm we inherited, when The Wild Hunt storms over the hill...
	XIE MENG!: by Wayan; 2003/1/27, digital portrait of my dream lover. A warning from my spirit wife, Silky, about the World Dream Bank. Building a cathedral of classic dreams is all very well, but what about NEW dreams? CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY
	YELLOWBALL ABSTRACTION: by Wayan; 2001, ink sketch at first unrecognized as a dream! Another lie from those fiendish abstractionists. Turns out it's not a yellow ball at all... CAUTION: LANGUAGE
	YOUR DREAM LIKES YOU: by Wayan; 3 ill., 1991-2007; three maxims from my anima. You say you want to remember your dreams, but do you write down what you DO recall? And ACT on it?