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ABYSSIA: by Wayan; started 2006/6/6, a webtour of an inverted world A nondream vision of an alternate Earth where continents are abysses, abysses continents... |
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AFTERIMAGE: by Wayan; 1983/8/8, a dream on dreams. A bizarre little dream proving just how physical the impact of a dream is on the body... |
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AILURA; by Wayan, 2013/8/16-2016/2/19; a soft-sculpture dream-portrait/plushie/sextoy Recurring dreams of loving a catgirl spur me to sew a fake-fur portrait with wood and stone bones and foam-rubber muscles giving her a will of her own... CAUTION: FURRY DREAM SEX |
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ATMAVICTU: by Carl Jung, c.1919/12/4; portrait of dream figure in a different phase of life Jung's ally in killing the murderous German archetype Siegfried was Atmavictu. Here he's worn out, turning to stone, ready to manifest as a different guide... |
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AWKWARD ENLIGHTENMENT: by Wayan; 2010/1/13; a dream of spiritual and practical advice Anxious about a big party, I dream of being crowded. But a cat-centaur in the crowd attains sudden enlightenment... |
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BATTERED, WITH SYRUP: by Wayan; 1998/11/6 & 11/21, two healing dreams. I'm a battered girl who sings in a mall. The Dictator (of all people) helps me start healing and learn to fly... CAUTION: BATTERING AND ITS CONSEQUENT DAMAGE |
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A BIG WET KISS TO YOU, TOO: by Wayan, 1999/11/9, a dreamlike ceramic. My abstract sculpture just got fishier and fishier, til it grew these big red lips... |
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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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THE CENDANCERS: by Wayan; 2011-16, a 32-figure sculpture project with 250+ pics A wild troupe of sexy, surreal, centaurlike dancers mostly built from Barbie dolls... CAUTION: EXPLICIT NUDITY, FUR, BARBIE |
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CHOCOLATE SPILL: by "Anonymous #8"; pre-1963, a nondream time-glitch of a few seconds The jug of chocolate sauce smashed on the floor, forming a dark pattern. Then the scene melted and, like a film loop, restarted. Horrified, I screamed "Don't touch it!" But the pitcher fell, the sauce made its predestined shape... |
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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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CLOCKMAN HEDGEHOG: by Wayan; 1992/10/5; digital sketch of being rejected by my own sex fantasy! I was a man made of clocks trying to get a date with a hedgehog-hair woman... CAUTION: ANOTHER HORNY GUY WHO DOESN'T GET FAR |
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COAL FACE: by Al Davison; 1967, a recurring dream of coal-eating, magic and justice In my home town there were tales of coal-eaters. I dreamed of a miner who transformed the mine-owner into a canary--at a price. He became coal himself... CAUTION: GRIM MINE, HARSH SACRIFICE |
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COYOTISH CANTILEVER: by Wayan, 1991/3/9, dream image forgotten for years then spontaneously painted. 1991: dream of a weird tower like a cantileved skeletal sculpture of a coyote, in San Francisco. Sketch it then forget it. 1993: experimenting with a paint program, I make a peculiar image. No idea it's from a dream... 2020: transcribing old journals, I find the dream-sketches. My nondream experiment... wasn't. |
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CROSSTIME HEALTH RISK: by Wayan; 1999/7/23, a warning dream of parallel worlds. A man learns to hop between time-branches, but like all transportation, this has epidemiological risks... |
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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... |
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DEYUPPIFIER: by Wayan; 1985/11/6 a gleeful dream fable. I built a sex-maze to reprogram businesspeople, but I only grasp its meaning when I fuck City Hall... CAUTION: SEX, LANGUAGE, RADICAL POLITICS |
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DINAH'S ADVICE: by Wayan; 2007/4/14, a false-waking advisory frustration dream I struggle to write down a bizarre dream clearly and simply, but pen & paper both mutate. Then a child prodigy explains "dreams don't always want to be linear"... |
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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 |
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THE EGG CRACKS: by Carl Jung, 1914/1/10-1917/2/4; meditation-images A green monster guards the divine egg; with the right prayer, it explodes in a fountain of mad color, half grenade, half freed jinni... |
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EGGHOPE: by Wayan; 1995. Digital painting of puzzling nondream vision Night thoughts. Are they eggs? Dreams? Worlds? Phases of the moon? CAUTION: NEGATIVE BREASTS |
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FAERIE: by Wayan; 1995/7/18 & 95/8/6: two linked dreams of postmodern Faerie, with sketches I'm the daughter of a mortal doctor working in Faerie as it faces social upheaval (and I look for a decent date...) |
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FAWN AND DEMON: by Wayan; 1990/7/15, twin dreams of desire. A doe I meet is as horny and shy as me. We're similar: torn between desire and fear... Then I meet a slacker succubus. She may just let herself get seduced toward freedom... CAUTION: SEX |
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FIGURE DRAWING: DAPPLED: by Wayan; 2000/11/29, pastel digitally tweaked. A pensive leonine woman resting on a tilted rock. A life drawing with certain imaginary spots. CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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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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FIVE HEART UNICORN; by Wayan, 2013/8/23-2016/6/24; a soft-sculpture dream-portrait/plushie/sextoy I was a girl in love with a five-hearted unicorn stallion. I woke & sewed this dream portrait/sextoy/reminder. Though since I'm male when awake, I made her a nightmare... CAUTION: FURRY DREAM SEX |
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FLANDERS: by Rachael Dutton, c.1981; a dream painting whose dream is lost In the field, a huge dog whose markings form the image of a running horse. So who am I dreaming of? Horse or hound? |
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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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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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FOUR LOVERS: by Wayan; c.1990/11/30; digital painting based on recurrent dream A recurring dream of a fourway marriage of animal people. I don't think it's symbolic, but predictive... CAUTION: FURRY SEX |
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GEEK SHORTAGE: by Wayan; 1990/2/12. Epic primitive digital painting on body image A mural on how I became a dancer--the day I lost my old body-image, failed to recognize myself in the mirror... |
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(ON THE OLD) GENDER TRAIL: by Wayan; late 1995, digital picture-poem with dream intrusions. For me, the path to love is difficult, elusive, convoluted... |
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GIRAFFE CAMOUFLAGE: by Wayan; 2020/9/1, a dream of the anti-closet? A human and a talking giraffe fall in love. But some hunters still shoot animal people. So he camouflages her with paint. Bright paint. Now she's more visible than ever! Not that I can criticize his eccentricities. I'm in love with a unicorn songwriter... CAUTION: FURRYPHILIA |
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GIRL TELEPORTS BALLOONS: by Wayan; 1984/8/23, a dream recurring after 26-year gap A snotty shopkeeper won't let a kid have a balloon, so she teleports one through the display window! Blind to the magic, he just scolds her and takes it away. So her mind reaches through the window to liberate every balloon in his store! And then, 26 years later... |
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HANK AND THE BENGAL TIGER: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/2/27; painting in the Box of Dreams At a party, I go hunting for my husband and find him on a terrace facing a Bengal tiger... |
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HOLY ZEN MONK: by Wayan; 1978/4/24, a dream of suicide as political protest I'm a Zen monk riddled with holes from a weird disease the government denies is real. So as a protest, I stand naked atop a wall and let the air-sharks take me... CAUTION: SURREAL SUICIDE |
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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... |
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IGNORABLE DRAGON: by Wayan; 2019/4/13; a dream of brain-unwashing Out my window, a dog is fighting a snake. A dog with bat wings. A dog big as a horse. A griffin! Big as a bus now. A dragon! What spell made me mistake THAT for a dog?... |
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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 |
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IO: by Wayan; 2007, revised 2015, a model of Jupiter's moon Io I'm fascinated by Io's feverish colors and tumultuous landscape, so I sculpted a detailed portrait and came to some tentative conclusions about what we see... CAUTION: AMATEUR SCIENCE, OH NO! |
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JETCATS: by Wayan; 1990/5/24, a surreal dream hiding a message about others Our black cat Purr and our new blonde kitten fly around as if jet-propelled dive-bombing the roof. Alarming, but their cat-reactions aren't like mine-- fast as a test pilot! For me it'd be suicide; for them, just playing... |
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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 |
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JUNG'S DRAGONS: by Carl Jung, 1917/1/17 to mid-1922; recurring dream/trance figures Jung's visions of dragons evolve from fiery destroyers to thieves who can be forced to give up treasure to peacful, luminous guardians of the sacred... |
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KAKALEA: by Wayan; 2012/7/23 to early 2017; a good world on a bad hair day We search for exoplanets whose stats are Earthlike. But mass, chemistry, warmth and air do not a biosphere make! Geography alone--the mere placement of lands and seas--can also make a world lush or barren... CAUTION: CENTAUR BARBIE NUDITY |
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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... |
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THE LEOPARD'S CLUE: by Wayan; 2012/3/17, an incubated advisory dream. My boyfriend, a leopard, sniffs out a clue to an old murder involving me in a past life. But did I witness, die, or kill? |
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 |
LION NOW, EMANCIPATION LATER: by Wayan; 2000/5/5, two dreams as my dad lay dying |
We must hunt a man-eating lion to protect our village--our village full of slaves. But we can't deal with our looming social crisis now--gotta focus on the lion in front of us.. CAUTION: SLAVERY, ILLNESS, DEATH |
LION RIDER: by Jo Equinity; c. 2000?, an anticipatory consoling dream |
I dreamed I was riding a lion. A few days later, when my husband suddenly left me, I recalled the dream and... |
LYR: by Wayan; 7MB, 2005, 80 pages w/200+ drawings and maps; a virtual planet |
A vast sea-world with 7 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species... CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION! |
MARTIAN ROBOTS DRESS LIKE FREUD: by Wayan, 1975/8/16, an absurd dream... predicting my life-path? |
Martian robots pester me. I flee through the Asteroids, leaving chaos, cratering Earth. Years later on my farm, a bot shows up disguised as Freud. I start mudslinging... |
THE MERMAN'S LOVER: by Wayan; 1991-93; a sex daydream treated four ways. |
Four versions of an underwater meeting between lovers, one terrestrial, one marine... CAUTION: ORAL SEX |
MERRY WITCHMAS!: by Wayan; 1990/12/22. Digital dreamy image |
Just a witchmas card spreading love and paganism to all, and to all a good night... |
MICROGRAPH: by Wayan; 1991? Illuminated page on psychic dreaming |
A mad experiment one night in Micrography, with a midnight rant for scripture and my girlfriend for God... CAUTION: BLASPHEMY OF SOME KIND OR OTHER |
A MUSLIM CHEETAH: by Wayan, 2004/12/2, a dream of fundamental ambivalence |
A cheetah is a saboteur for a violent Islamic group. I'm attracted, but tear into her; "You plant bombs in the name of a rulebook meant for apes not cats!" CAUTION: NUDE CHEETAH; CRITIQUES HOLY BOOKS |
MY FLUORESCENT WORLD: by Wayan; 1997/8/16, a psychedelic dream. |
I always thought I saw differently than others, but when someone builds the Goggles... |
MY LITTLE 'POCALYPSE: by Wayan, 2019/5/10; a predictive dream of a TV show making extinction cute |
The 'toon actors from My Little Pony gleefully volunteer to die horribly in a TV documentary on the impact in Yucatan that killed off the... dinosaurs? No! Unicorns, griffins, pegasi and dragons! As I draw the dream, I get an email from the maker of a TV documentary on climate catastrophe... |
OVERLAY: by Wayan; 1984/2/11, 1995/8/26, and 2004/9/11, 3 dreams shape a 9-page comic on living with ESP |
Dreams of translucent fairies, centaurs, robots & gnomes prompt me to cartoon on transparent overlays to show how dreamworlds overlay ours... |
PIED MAGE: by Wayan; 1995/2/6, an architectural dreamfable. |
A wizard into spots and dots invites me into his beach house, hungry for advice on his peculiar fears... |
THE POLYGAMOUS PILOT: by Wayan; 1990/9/25, an unlikely predictive dream. |
My friend the Polygamous Pilot is up in an ice-storm, hanging powerlines on the sky, when... |
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... |
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 |
RUM JUNGLE: by Wayan; 1996/1/22, digital painting-poem on dreaming |
Think of your dreams as a rainforest, clearcut every morning--unless you make the effort to remember... CAUTION: TINY NAKED ANGELS |
SATYR AND TWILIGHT: by Wayan; 2018/9/1, an epic dream perhaps foreseeing the pandemic |
A spell kills off nearly all humanity and mutates the rest of us. Now I'm a satyr living in a co-op home with unicorns, dryads, cattaurs, and shy vampires. Thing is, I prefer the Apocalypse to what came before... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
A SEAMY REALITY: by Wayan; 1999/10/21, a surreal predictive dream. |
Sharp seams between realities cross Silicon Valley; I end up in the Dark Castle of the Oracle. When I wake... |
SHY SPHINX: by Wayan; 2009/11/27, a dream of indirect advice |
I find a shy sphinx hiding in the corner of a painting in a dull art class. But maybe she's right to hide... |
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 |
SINGULARITIES: by Wayan, 1995/5/18 etc. (recurrent dream); drawn late 1994. |
Black holes can be scary enough outside you, but what if you have dormant ones inside you? |
SKUNKERPILLAR: by Wayan; 2018/4/7, an advisory dream on metamorphosis |
After I (sort of) foil some elf-burglars, a friendly elfwoman shows me a black caterpillar, then the rare white-striped skunkerpillar... |
SOCK PUPPETS OF THE GODS: by Dee and Wayan; 1994/4/14. Parallel shamanic dreams! |
I dream I'm suicidal; but I'm saved when I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern, from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but the challenges slowly get more spiritual. NEXT DAY: I learn what my shaman-friend Dee just dreamed. And now I'm unsure whose dream this is... CAUTION: IDEAS |
SOLE RETRIEVAL: by Wayan; 2005/10/6, a punning spiritual dreamlet |
Guards in a museum confiscate my goofy purple-warted shoes, then lose them! I fuss till they find them. For it's vital to retrieve my, uh, soles. |
SOUL-BOARD: by Wayan; 1989/1/12, a dream poem. |
Africa. My horse trusted me as we faced lions and fire, but to face the Soul-Board, he must trust himself... |
SPECKLED EGGS: by Starvibes; 2008/6/16, a dream of intrigue. |
I dreamed of speckled eggs, Caribbean drug traffickers and of almost drowning near a sinking boat... |
SPLAT!: by Wayan; 1995/12/11, a science-fiction dream. |
Our physics project is top secret, but a stranger strolls into a meeting and opens a can of green light... |
STONE DANCER: by Wayan; archaic (16-color!) digital improv, 1991/1/16 to 2/1. |
Not a dream--one night I just found myself painting Potatohenge. For two weeks I fussed.. |
STRETCH NOW!: by Wayan; 1991/11/13, daydream with an agenda |
Do it now! I'm doing it--I'm getting up from the computer and stretching. I am a cheetah... |
SWAN: by Wayan; 1995/4/8, a transformation dream; 3-page dreamcomic (or as ill. text) |
I wake amnesic in a cabin in Alaska, in a dress printed with self-putdowns. I track down the wizard who cursed me. He turns me into a swan! Worse? No! His first curse was on a human being, and now I'm a bird. My mind is free!... |
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... |
TEMENOS: by Wayan; 1997/6/17, a psychic dream. |
I'm at a Robert Bly camp for men only. But I'm no man--not even human--some faun or satyr-like species... CAUTION: THIS 'TEMENOS' IS A SACRED PHALLIC IMAGE |
THEA'S HOUSE: by Wayan; 1987/3/23, a life-changing dream. |
I dreamed the Earth Goddess invited me to live with her. She was lonely to be seen for who she was... |
TRAIL OF POGS: by Wayan; 2004/9/6, my dreams' response to the first Burning Man dream-workshop |
A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us... |
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... |
A VASE OF FUR: by Wayan; 1998/11/18, a dream of a surreal future. |
A woman goes on a quest with an alien friend, and returns with only a furry musical vase: her friend! And from how the vase purrs, I'm not so sure if she wants to be changed back. |
THE VAT MESSIAH: by Wayan; 1985/2/27, an epic dream of magic, flight, and sex |
In our cult, we lie in vats of goo till we grow wings. But we're feared more than we knew... CAUTION: SPECIST LYNCH MOB, NUDE IN SCHOOL, LESBIAN FEELINGS, OBSCENE CARROT |
THE VIDEOGRAPHER'S APPRENTICE: by Wayan; 1994/7/29, a predictive/warning dream. |
Blondie Wiggle builds a Video Igloo. But I'm allergic--TV kills me! A BAD omen for our video project... CAUTION: TV KILLS (BUT YOU KNEW THAT) |
VOR: by Wayan; 1984/3/27, an indescribable dream |
Am I King Kong? No, it's a city of midgets! I leave and find I'm gay. Gay bugs come out of the closet too, storming the fundamentalist flies of Heaven. And then Vor, the purple alien, does something peculiar... CAUTION: LOOKS DOWN ON HOMOPHOBIC MIDGETS |
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! |
WAYAN SAYS: by Wayan; dreamed 1986/5/23 & 1991/7/25, silkpainting 1992/5/9, digital 1994/2/25 |
I'm a lean loose cheetah who works best in short bursts and long lazy rests. If I start acting human, I overwork... |
THE WEB-BIRD LED ME: by Wayan; 1992/8/13; digital sketch previsioning the World Dream Bank? |
Maybe the web like a shining dove will lead me from my lonely cave into the light. The glaring light... Wait! That can't be right! CAUTION: SEPIA HALFTONE NUDITY |
WHILE THE MEN WERE HUNTING by Wayan, 1981/11/3; a crayon-ink-Xerox art-prayer. |
In cave times, while the men were all out hunting, it was the women who learned to paint the cave walls to summon... |
THE WHITE DEER, RE-ENACTED: by Wayan; 2009/3/2, a parabolic dreampoem. |
I'm living in an England rendered in chalk. We wander the woods with butterfly nets, ritually hunting the White Deer--if that's what they really are... |
WILD MAGIC: by Wayan, 2018/1/8, a dream on finding a place |
A teacher drafts me into her magic class to shake up her sheltered wizard-wannabes. My magic's wild, ignoring spells and rules. I don't think I realized how wild... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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