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ACCIDENT: by Jules Engel; 1970? Nightmare turns to surreal sport, inspiring animated film. A large dog was chasing me, but somehow we got turned around and began racing. As I caught up with the dog, any bit I passed went invisible--but the rest of the dog ran on unfazed. When I won the dog vanished entirely. Awake, I animated the dog running, then... |
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ALERTNESS GYM: by Wayan; 1994/4/19, a strange dream date. I go on a date who seems bored till she takes me to the Alertness Gym... |
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THE BARRINGTON BUNNY: by Wayan; 1988/8/30, a world-saving alien-abduction dream Alien robots kidnap me... and make me the mascot for a college football team. But my Channel Changer slowly infuses us all with nerdy trust... |
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THE BASEBALL KISS: by Wayan; 1983/8/4, a dreamtale on choice. The Prime Minister of England breaks my nose, so I become a flock of squirrels to seek revenge. But maybe I should I let it go... |
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BASEBALL NAGA: by Wayan; 1971/7/12, a sexy snake dream. Our toy train full of nude baseball players went under the park sprinklers, so naturally our shortstop shelters her friend the outfielder snake. But in there? Isn't it just as wet in there? CAUTION: SCALY SEX |
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BLAME IT ON RIO: by Wayan; 1984/4/13, a quietly psychic dreamtale. I dream a sexy softball pitcher strikes everyone out. Next day, my friend brings her home, and... CAUTION: LESBIAN DATING |
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BLIND TO THE CUES: by Wayan; 1996/10/2, a dream of blinders. A sexy pool-playing friend in a short skirt leans over an invisible, virtual-reality pooltable, but I'm blind to... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, TRULY CLUELESS GUY |
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BOBCAT: by Anonymous #44; 1996?; a surreal diving dream Scuba diving, we find Atlantis. Beautiful Greek statues. But some kid painted a baseball in Aphrodite's hand. And the bobcat diving with us has been holding its breath for an hour... |
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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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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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BOXED IN : by Wayan; 1984/3/25, a predictive dreamlet proving I never, ever learn a thing I dream I've decided to jog to Alaska. But that Arctic wind slows me, and then a traffic-snarl boxes me in... Awake, I bike to work. Distracted by the dream, I leave my coat. An Arctic blast slows me, and then a... |
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BOY IN THE GATEWAY: by "Anonymous #18"; pre-1963, a small warning dream I was at school, walking through the gate to the playing fields, when a boy crashed into me... |
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BRUSH CRASH: by Wayan; 1984/10/4, a predictive dreamlet. I'm road-racing. I go over the edge of a slope. But brush slows the car just enough to save me... Next day, on TV: Rockford's shoved in a car into a canyon. But brush slows the car just enough to... |
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BUT, THEN LIFE BITES: by Wayan; 1983/2/13, a surreal (but nondream) feltpen sketch After seeing Picasso's massive cubist women running on a beach, I found myself drawing a lighter version--except she (I) waved this bitter banner. But then I was ill at the time... |
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CENTAUR SOCCER: by Wayan; ink sketch of daydream I'm not a big soccer fan. I'd play more if only I had enough feet... |
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CHANGE MY GRIP: by Jack Nicklaus, 1964/6/24, a problem-solving dream My golf game has been way off; a 76 is starting to look good. But last Wednesday I dreamed I changed my grip--just a little. When I woke I tried it. Yesterday I shot a 68; today, 65... |
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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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CRIMECON 90: by Wayan; 1990/3/27, a dream about capitalism. I did what I love. The money didn't follow. So now I have to guard a crimeboss at a theft convention... CAUTION: INEVITABLE CHEKHOVIAN SHOOTOUT |
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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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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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DOGMAN PLAYS ON TURF: by Wayan, 2023/3/17; a prescriptive dream A dog man invites me to play in the park--and as long as we play on soft turf, without teams or rules, I'm happy! |
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EGGSHELL SKATEBOARDER: by John S. Dykes, Dec. 1981; a surreal dream-sketch A monstrous empty eggshell, cracked open and roughly propped up, makes an excellent skateboard park |
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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? |
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EXUBERANT BALLOONS: by Pauline Ramsey, c. 1985, a sudden joyful dream image. I stood on a bridge in winter. A skater shot out from the arch beneath, trailing a rainbow of balloons... |
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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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FLUID DREAM CONNECTIONS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2003/11/8 and 2007/3/14; linked dreams of pods A pod of whales in the sky and a circle of children dressed like seed-pods both beg me to interpret them... |
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FOSSIL BARBIE: by Wayan; 1978/9/27; a dream of non-teamwork. I dreamed our medieval football coaches blamed the ugly Potato Person for all evil... CAUTION: NUDE POTATO |
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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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A GAMER'S DREAM: by Mark Nelson; 2002/3/5; A collage of real-world events brought into dreams
I face a barrage of deadly challenges out of every action film I've seen and every game I've ever played... |
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GREEN, GREEN, SPIRIT OF THE SPRING: by Jenny Badger Sultan; dreamed 1991/2/3, 1995/8/13 and 1995/11/10 I meet a girl with a plant growing out of her head... Someone prays to the spirit of a spring to heal me... I watch people practice exercises with the ritual feel of voudun or candomble... |
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HEART-SWING: by Havelock Ellis; c.1920? a dream-conversation with a heart A young woman and I swing one another into the air. I asked her to swing me more slowly and regularly... |
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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! |
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I OVERSLEPT: by Wayan; 1992/6/12, a dream of loss. I oversleep. A lot. All my friends are dead, along with my century... |
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ICERINK: by Wayan; 1980/8/23, a warning dream. Psychodrama seemed like a way to meet cool people. But when I dreamed they were ice-skating rioters... |
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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... |
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KICK THE PRESIDENT: by Wayan; 1999/6/1, a dream on consequences. I win a free game of Kick the President. But what if everyone can see your kick-ass Prez but you? CAUTION: THIS DREAM IS MONITORED BY THE SECRET SERVICE |
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LADDERS: by John S. Dykes, 1984; a surreal dream-sketch Tiny people ride a herd of levitating ladders--badly. One seems to have gotten bucked loose... |
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LINDA'S NAVAL by Linda W & Wayan, 1991/8/16; parallel surreal exhibitionist dreams WAYAN: My housemate Linda shows me her weird navel--and pussy, to compare... LINDA: At Christmas, I run through snowy streets, naked except for earphones... CAUTION: NUDITY & AWFUL DREAM-PUN |
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MARCO TO WIN: by Violet Tweedale, 1893 or 4; a predictive... something We went to visit a well-known psychic. As an afterthought I asked about an upcoming race. The answer was firm: "Marco to win..." We made a lot off her tip. But when I thanked her later, we were shocked to learn she'd never heard me! Then who had spoken?... CAUTION: WEIRD EVEN FOR SPIRITUALISTS |
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MY NEW PASSPORT: by Gayle Delaney, 1972/8/21, a life-changing dream Why does my passport have color photos of me ice skating? I haven't in years. Your passport must show your true face. Should I change it, or do they know me better than... CAUTION: SHAMANIC SYNCHRONICITY |
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NUCLEAR NIGHTMARES: by Erica DeMane, Michael, Joanne and Scott; c.1984, four creepy dreams Erica dreams that during a protest she's caught in a radioactive flood... Michael dreams a nuclear forcefield makes his fingertips explode and congeal into weird knobs... Joanne dreams she meets nuclear mutants with curling black nails great for peeling potatoes... Scott dreams the world goes silent and white, bleaching out. His hands dissolve... |
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NUCLEUS: by Wayan, 1979/3/18, a surreal dream of character-insight, set inside an atom I dream my theatre friends are particles dancing inside an atomic nucleus-- particles that reveal their character, motivations and power. And I'm one too... |
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ORCA TOWS: by Wayan; 1984/5/25, a dream with impact. I show an Ohio friend the latest California sport. But we haven't quite worked out how to land just yet... |
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OUR GOVERNOR: by Wayan; 1990/3/28, an anti-death-penalty dream. I force the governor's chief aide to tour the new prisons for us artists, fags, and niggers. He's appalled--but how many more noses must I rub in the governor's racism? CAUTION: THE N-WORD |
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THE PLACE OF SPROUTING CORN: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 1989/1/10 & 1989/6/28, twin initiatory dreams. I'm shown corn plants growing from skulls, and it seems like I must plant some skull-corn myself... |
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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? |
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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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RETURN FROM EXILE: by Anonymous #48, early 1994?, a fierce political dream I'm a rebel leader released from prison only to find my people beaten down and malnourished. I swear to eject our oppressors despite the price of war. ... |
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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... |
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ROAR OF THE SAILS: by Wayan; 1973/9/6, a magical scavenger-hunt dream goes lucid--absurdly. Our teams search through fountains and pavilions, finding & trading the glowing stones. None of the magic makes me go lucid, but as we sail toward the finish line... |
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ROBOT AND UNICORN: by Wayan, 2022/11/23, a dream of building a rebellion After too much TV, I dream I'm plotting against a regime of suave, treacherous magical beings. But a unicorn sorceress suggests I enlist the robots. She's right--they find plutocratic thaumocracy ugly... CAUTION: ANTI-CAPITALIST |
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RORAIMA JUMP: by Wayan; dreamed 2016/9/18, a surreal dream of deadly outrage I'm a Brazilian in the Olympic waterfall-jumping finals. The Russian & American cheat--threaten my family. I snap! Fight recklessly, knocking them off their ropes. We all tumble down the cliff... CAUTION: BULLYING, VIOLENT REVENGE |
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THE RUNNING: by Wayan; 1997/9/27, a dream on sensitivity and the reverse. I couldn't make it to Spain to see the Running of the Bulls, so I found an American equivalent... |
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RUNNER WITH A PORPOISE: by Wayan; 1999/10/30, a dream of spirits. A Japanese high school athlete has no friends, till she starts meeting animal spirits on her long solo runs... |
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RUNNING START: by Wayan; 1989, a figure study. A rather feline runner poised for the starting gun... |
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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 |
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SHARKBIT AND WARY: by Wayan; 2017/11/17, a dream explaining my own social caution At the beach, I see a swim team wading in. One girl teases a laggard wader, not seeing her huge scar. She says "I won't swim till the shark-risk is mapped"... |
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SPRINTERS AND SPHINX: by Wayan; 2009/11/13, a dream poem. Divers made of ice win the Traffic-Leaping Olympics. But I think they cheated! I seek my friend the Sphinx... |
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THE STARMONT TRIATHLON: by Wayan; 1984/7/2, a magical marathon dream. I meet the Red God of Running and Holly Golightly; we're in the triathlon up the world's greatest peak... |
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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... |
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THE STONE THROWER: daydream by Wayan; 1983/2/26 In a alien sports stadium, watching a game where a slender reptilian man pitched rocks... |
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TALISMAN: by Wayan; 2016/3/3, a dream hinting I need some long-term dreamwork! I'm a boy from a Southwestern tribe whose rite of passage is a bike race. I wear a jasper pendant with mysterious powers... |
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THE TEACHER: by Lord Vivian, 1874; a predictive dream he bet on... for another! DREAM: a stranger tells me "The Teacher" won the Handicap. AWAKE: At the track I meet the man in my dream! He says The Teacher is now called Aldrich. But Aldrich's owner discourages me. A friend trusts my dream & wins £1,000... |
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TENNIS UNDER STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES by Nancy Price; 1948, (A comic frustration dream hiding a warning) Our tennis game's spoiled by rubber rackets, fierce grandmas, Good and Evil (those identical twins) and a bully on stilts... |
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THREE FLYING DREAMS: by Sharad Chandra, 1988 or before, mystical advisory dreams 1: I ask how to fly. "Breathe air from high levels; its light and purity will wash away earth's heaviness..." 2: To join a flying game, you must cut off your own head! Players acquire new heads and can work miracles... 3: I float up to reach a book in a shop. People call the police but I defiantly soar--over Paris, up to the stars... |
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TIGER TALL: by Wayan; 1992/7/3, a marathon dream. I'm a tiger from Planet Cat, visiting Earth to run in San Francisco's "Bay to Breakers" race. I knew racial tensions were high, but why is William S. Burroughs out to kill me? Oh. Because... |
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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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ULYANOVSK: by Wayan, 1987/11/4, a predictive & advisory dream DREAM: I'm a Soviet Potato Fest. Reds, grannies, food. A girl's told a life-and-death lie about a canine... NEXT DAY: I read a version of Red Riding Hood, and the dream's weird elements suddenly make sense. CAUTION: SOVIET CLICHÉS, E.S.P. SPECULATION |
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VARTENA: by Wayan; 1986/9/9, a psychic nightmare. I'm the referee, or 'Vartena', of a violent high-school game of waterpolo. A friend nearly drowns! Next day... |
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VISIONS UPSTAIRS: by Wayan, 2007/1/15, an ero-spiritual dream-comic Junk in the attic? Treasures! The cat musicians shift from cartoons to life as I ascend, til in the ultimate attic--the astral beach--I meet a cattaur made of pure (de)light... CAUTION: SEX-CRAZED CATS, NEW AGE FINALE |
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WEREDOGS AREN'T RACIST: by Wayan; 1974/3/31, a surreal sarcastic dream I'm a girljock waiting to see a movie when a weredog in line involuntarily shifts from dog to human, and a Berkeley radical takes offense at the symbolism... CAUTION: SNIPPY ABOUT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS |
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WHAT MEN HIDE BEHIND: by Wayan; 1992/11/30, an alarming comic dream The real pursuit of happiness: she pursues me, and I run in shame and hide! But she's persistent... |
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XANTHE'S TUNNEL: by Xanthe & Wayan; 1999/6/11, two possibly telepathic dreams I'm a dyke playing baseball in Golden Gate Park. Some guys harass us and run into a tunnel. I follow, but... |
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