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SUBURBS

A list of dreams about suburbia.

I grew up in the American suburbs, in that strange mixture of conformity, peace, and isolation. I don't live there now, but they're always in my dreams. My native country. Not the Old Country, I guess. The New Country.

A new archetype. Wait, is that a contradiction in terms?

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	THE ADDICTION: by Wayan; 1988/1/26, a thoughtful nightmare I'm addicted to faraway trains. I quit cold turkey, but I shake the house down! Junkie poltergeists... CAUTION: DRUG ADDICTION. SORT OF.
	BAR BET: by Wayan; 1982/4/30, a dream-quest on not settling for less. On a bar bet, we seek God. We reach the Isles of the Blessed, but they're complacent. We want the wild God, the real God, the Bad Taste God. Onward, pagan questers! Because we want to win our bet. CAUTION: LAZY-ASS ANGELS
	BLACKSLIME TOWER: by Wayan; 1986/11/13; a transformation dream with political tinges Humanity's trapped in a Quad, overseen by the Guardians of Blackslime Tower. Feather by feather, I grow wings, and plot to escape with the Flying Cat... CAUTION: THE SLIME IS REAGANOMICS
	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
	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
	THE BURBS: by Wayan; 1990/7/1, a true-story poem. A perfectionist gardener builds perfect planterboxes while his seedlings starve. And so I left the burbs...
	CLASS HAMSTER: by Wayan; 2008/11/13, an educational nightmare I tour a middle school paralyzed by delinquents, and learn this is normal now...
	DOG BITES CAT: by Wayan; 2015/2/17; a grating dream-poem I get bullied into dogwalking. A biter--leaves a cat bloody. You'd think a talking dog'd listen. But Cheney...
	DRAGON'S EYE VIEW: by Wayan; 1987/3/7, a dream through other eyes. From Baffin Bay to suburbia, dragons are everywhere... if you look with a dragon's eye...
	A HOTEL ODYSSEY: by Wayan; 1994/2/21, a Borges dream. I live in the Infinite Hotel, but the other guests in my wing are no fun. It's time to set sail...
	HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT: by Wayan; 1994/4/3, a dark dream. As my grandmother is dying, I have a dream about what really went on in her house... CAUTION: CHILD SLAVERY
	INCREMENTAL HEAVENS: by Wayan; 2016/9/5, a reincarnation-frustration dream, baffling then. Not now. I keep getting reincarnated in dull heavens where all is blocked by know-nothings. After the 2016 election... CAUTION: CAUSTIC
	THE INVESTOR DREAMS A WOLF: by Wayan; 1983/10/30, a dream poem. My dream characters aged and tamed until they sit in a genteel Victorian flat. Then a wolf rappels in...
	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
	LEOPARDESS: by Wayan, 1990/5/19; a predictive dreamlet Dream: a house-share with this leopardess might be a bit crowded. But she's so much FUN! Next day: I visit a house in the woods with the most catlike senior tenant ever...
	LYNN HALL'S "FLYAWAY": by Wayan; 1997/7/6, a journal extract on religious abuse A book that kept me up late. Ariel and Robin get abused as subtly & deniably as me and my sisters... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS/PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE
	MARK ROLLS THE MELON: by Wayan, 1990/7/4, an Independence Day dream-comic My friend Mark and I climb the Path of Righteousness to the summit where he finds a big red watermelon. He rolls it down the Path of Righteousness, knocking businessmen aside like bowling pins! Why? Well...
	MOOSE: by Wayan; 1984/3/12, a dream on the blessings of curses. How the Supreme Court gave my brother antlers, and where his soul went: where I'll go, now that I know...
	MS. TRUST: by Wayan; 1993/11/4, a dream of a guarded angel. I meet my own mistrust: an angel who can't trust ME! So she turns me into a football-playing ant...
	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
	OHLONE AT THE MALL: by Wayan; 1994/2/1, a dream of what matters I see two Ohlone women around 1900, starving, naked, despised, their land stolen--and still way happier than... CAUTION: NUDITY
	ORBITING MOM: by Wayan; 1997/1/7, an uh-oh dream. I'm trying to get a moontan when my mom appears. My astral body starts orbiting her like a moon. Uh-oh...
	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
	OWL GUARDIAN: by Wayan; 1986/6/6, a psychic dreamlet A giant luminous guardian owl baffles and intimidates me but after seeing a play next evening, it makes more sense...
	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
	PESCADERO MONET: by Wayan; 1983/11/4, a happy art-cult dream. Monet is over 100 now, living in an art colony. I visit him, but my parents come along. Bad idea...
	THE POWER BEHIND THE GODS: by Wayan; 1972/10/25, a dream on the uses of universe-hopping I meet the terrible Power Behind the Gods. I don't like it. So I get my squirtgun & shoot its butt. The enraged Power chases me as blindly as I hoped! I jump into a secular universe, and... CAUTION: SACRILEGE
	PSYCHIC FAMILIES ARE SO MUCH FUN: by Wayan; 1980/7/21, a true story of ESP. My sister's avoiding our nosy parents, but I sense they'll run into her soon. I just didn't know HOW soon...
	HIS RACIST SON: by Wayan; 1994/1/8, an incubated dream offering two diagnoses Suddenly I hate and fear black kids in school! The counselor says I'm clinically paranoid: I need drugs! My dad says "How strange, how sad." And goes home to light a candle at his shrine to the Confederacy... CAUTION: INDUCED RACISM
	THE SEA-HAG RIOT: by Wayan; 1989/6/5, a wild dream hiding a warning. Aliens, hypnotherapy, dancing molars, riots, witches, flying pianos, lettuce... yet there is a point.
	SHOCKWAVE: by Wayan; 1996/7/27, a predictive nightmare. My childhood home explodes into a vast pyroclastic cloud that comes boiling toward me, miles away... CAUTION: DOOM
	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...
	TANKBUSTERS: by Wayan, 2020/5/21, a dystopian dream with political advice In a near-future dictatorship, Democrats are afraid to take any action. But in a suburban lot, I find a burned-out tank. I need to find these rebels who can defeat military-grade repression... CAUTION: GRIM
	TARZAN AND JANE IN SUBURBIA: by Wayan; 1993/7/11, a dreamtale. Well, Tarzan and Jane are living in suburbia now, but though Tarzan's given up so much, Jane complains...
	TEN THOUSAND MAD GHOSTS: by Wayan; 1996/9/3, a psychic nightmare. A toxic site in Silicon Valley isn't a chemical spill, but angry ghosts, killed in a camp and forgotten... CAUTION: THE CAMP TURNS OUT TO BE REAL
	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...
	TOURIST TRAP: by Wayan, 2024/3/24, a nightmare of ignored warnings I bike up a Hawaiian hill toward a lava fountain. A house catches fire, but it's blocks ahead. I go a bit closer. Then a heat-shimmer shows deadly gas has crept ahead of the flames... CAUTION: FATAL MISJUDGMENT
	THE TRAIN ON TIME CAFE: by Wayan, 1981/12/20, an epic political dream. Silicon Valley goes enthusiastically fascist. I hide in a berry patch. They build a shining world, and then...
	TRESPASSER TRIANGLE: by Wayan, 2022/3/6, a comic frustration dream My girlfriend and I find ourselves naked in my neighbor's yard! A second neighbor spots us, and knowing my house is empty, she breaks in! The first neighbor, seeing her home's empty, breaks into hers. We go home, stomping loud so our burglar flees back home, driving her burglar out, and... CAUTION: UNINTENTIONAL NUDE PICNIC
	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
	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 VORTEX: by Wayan; 1990/1/3, a nightmare countered. I'm in suburbia for the End of the World. A Vortex eats the block, licks at me. So I click some icons: CAUTION: CRUDE LANGUAGE. OH, AND THE APOCALYPSE, TOO. I FORGOT.
	WINGS by Nancy Price; 1948, two bird-people dreams, one psychic I have a long chat with two songbirds. Next I'm a parrot, living in rainforest. Then the mail comes...