Freudian Slips
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BALLOONS: by Stan Brakhage; 1975/5/7, an epic, apocalyptic flying dream after a bad plane flight I'm a schoolkid again, fleeing an eruption of sewage. We escape in a balloon. Earth is beautiful, but I know this flood of shit will drown the whole world... |
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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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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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THE COUNTRY OF THE DEAF: by Wayan; 1982/7/18, dreampoem with stunning Freudian typo I'm forced to come out to my mom. Not that I'm gay; that I'm psychic, and find the roar of the mind-deaf unbearable. But Mom's selectively deaf... CAUTION: ESP SKEPTICS WON'T RELATE |
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ERICEPAEUS: by a multilingual woman, c.1918/12/25; a psychic dream told to Jung Jung's patient dreamed of a strange name, Ericipaeus. She didn't know Jung had been studying a minor god named, he thought, "Ericapaeus". He'd misread the manuscript; the name was actually spelled a third way... |
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FACE-BEETLE: by Wayan; 1982/2/13, a nightmare with career advice. A monstrous Kafka beetle grows gradually out of my face. And it's a MESSAGE... |
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FIRE-CATS: by Wayan; 1981/10/10; twin dream-poems on over-discipline For mere disobedience, I EXECUTE a forest-fire-fighting cat! So next I'm trapped in a security-obsessed job; how do I like it? I flee... |
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HIJACK! The Christmas Special: by Wayan; 2012/4/13, a trapped-in-bad-TV dream. I'm stuck on a jet full of cartoons. We get hijacked by a kid who just wants pilot practice, and then a talking cactus counter-hijacks us... CAUTION: THE F-WORD |
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JACK DANIELS: by Wayan; 1983/10/14, three dreams critiquing a (real!) ESP experiment gone awry A car crashes & burns--but the driver bailed! No one to save... A miner stabs a baby "because everyone not underground is evil"... Radar O'Reilly from MASH, President Calvin Coolidge and I confuse who's who... |
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LITTLE BAD DREAM CHARM: by Kathy Fagan; 2001? A slip-filled dream-poem Half asleep, I scrawl a nightmare of trying to rescue gasping boyfish, but my dreamwriting goes wrong too... |
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MARVEL PATROLS: by Rick Veitch; c.1995; a punning nightmare on being an independent cartoonist The comics industry degenerates into civil war. We peddle all night to avoid the Marvel... |
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ORGY BELOW THE SURFACE: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; an embarrassing dream Under the surface of my comics panels, a tiny horde is having an orgy. I can't publish this, it's too embarrassing! Wait a minute. That one is me... CAUTION: MICRO-ORGY |
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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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PINKIE CLEANS THE WINDOWS OF PERCEPTION: by Wayan; 2017/2/5, an advisory dream fusing Aldous Huxley & My Little Pony. My new housemate Pinkie is a party animal, but she's really nice. She climbs a high ladder to help wash my Windows of Perception. Then our unicorn friend Rarity walks in. She warns me to pace this renovation project... CAUTION: PONIES |
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SAUCER ATTACK: by Wayan; 1991/10/30, a predictive Halloween nightmare Nightmare: flying saucers attack, and I only have a squirt gun to fight back with! Next day I see the Simpsons Halloween special. Lisa Simpson has a nightmare... |
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SO GUARDED A SKIN: by Wayan; dreamed 1983/6/11, a dream of a Freudian... blurt? An art critic asks me what I think of a sexually explicit nude, and I find myself blurting nearly the opposite of my conscious opinion... CAUTION: NUDE SKETCH |
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SPEWING WINE: by Wayan; 1992/8/17, a Freudian-slip dream baring family dysfunction My family moves into a damp, leaking basement. My dad just sneers at us for fussing about the cold, the damp, the mildew, the leaks. "I'll show you REAL leaking..." |
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THEY'RE HANGING THE POLITICAL TRAITOR: by Jack Kerouac, late Sept. 1953, a sad dad dream They're hanging the political traitor in my closet. I stand horrified. The old man's resigned--no complaint. It's my father, I now realize... |
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TIMEDOORS OF THE GODS: by Wayan; 1998/2/17, a mysterious initiatory dream. I'm mortal, yet I'm offered a residency in the Commune of the Gods, along with Xena the Amazon Warrior and... Little Red Riding Hood? |
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THE TYRANT'S WIFE: by Wayan; 1980/6/9, a dreamtale. In our plot to kill the Tyrant, we used his wife. Or... did she use us? She goes mad, but--she's HAPPY... |
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UNIVERSITY OF THE SIERRA: by Wayan; 1975/10/30, a pun-studded dream poem Jealous of newlyweds, I grind my teeth. But the Ice Age ground the Sierra's granite teeth, and they're lovelier for it... |
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WAR BETWEEN LIBERALS & REACTIONARIES: by S. Ramón y Cajal, 1929/5/26; a predictive dream? There is a war between liberals and reactionaries, but the dream makes no sense: friends claim to be hit, to be wounded, but I see no bodies, no blood... CAUTION: ANTICIPATES THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR |
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WASP: by Madellyne Waugh; 2010/4/22, a punning dream on... guilt? A giant insect chases me around our gym. A girl tells me it's harmless but I'm sure it's a... |
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