Cows, Sheep, Goats...
Many of these dream-beasts aren't simple farm animals, but were-creatures and gengineered people of ruminant descent. In fact, now that I've compiled it, I notice the list is full of cow singers, goat philosophers, ballerina sheep... and, of course, buffalo people you'd better treat with respect.
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ALL HALLOW'S EVE: by (Mrs.) D. M. Barrett; 1904, a psychic dream I dreamt ghosts visited us, and for each scream, a relative would die. Two of us cried out. That morning the first letter came... |
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ALL-NIGHT BUFFALO CONVENIENCE!: by Wayan; 1995/7/24, an entrepreneurial dream. A late-night conversation with the proud developer of a new concept in South Asian convenience dining... |
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ALP VARK: by Wayan; 1983/11/24-25, an epic comic psychic dream.
I'm kissed by the Holy Aardvark, but my bond with my dad is strained by ESP he can't accept... |
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AZOREAN PAN: by Wayan; 1988/6/3 & 6/6, two subtly predictive dreamlets on a Greek god 1: On a mid-Atlantic islet, a farm family plays music to summon the Greek god Pan. It works! 2: A mystical picturebook shows Pan & his mermaid lover. Again I'm told music summons Pan! CAUTION: GOAT-GOD NUDITY |
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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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BUFFALO PERSON: by Plenty Coups, summer 1857; a child's time-traveling, tribe-saving dream I was led into the future, where all the buffalo disappeared, to meet a frail old man by a ranch house... |
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BUSINESSMEN HAVE SNOUTS: by Wayan; 2010/11/15, a dream-poem on climate-denial? Businessmen grow snouts or short trunks and their necks stretch. They drive VW Beetles with the sunroof open. Works in summer, but... |
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COW PUNS: by Wayan; 1983/5/14, an ethological dreamlet. The pecking order (goring order?) of cows explains why our leaders stink... |
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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... |
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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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FERRYGOAT: by Wayan; 2009/8/15, a dream warning what I was becoming; Dreamverse #48 That levitating bear's not tightrope-walking--she rides a goat strung like soap-on-a-rope. A goat that's me! I'm eating... CAUTION: UGH! |
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THE FLYING COW: by a cow-buyer, as told by Pu Songling; before 1679, a perverse predictive dream? A farmer dreamt his new cow grew wings and flew away. Next day, he sold that cow at a heavy loss. Walking home with the cash, he found a tame falcon, and tied its leg to his moneybag. One guess what the bird did... |
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GOAT DARE: by Wayan; 1984/8/22, a sex nightmare. A girl and I climb a half-built tower to get some privacy from my nosy, sneering parents. But they find us during oral sex, and their scorn melts my girlfriend into a goat... CAUTION: SEX, HUMILIATION, FAMILY VALUES |
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GOAT WITH A HUMAN HEAD: by Steve Carter, 2008/7/12; a dream image. Walking around my brother's farm, I met this goat with a human head. He'd been playing with matches... |
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LBJ'S STAMPEDE: by Lyndon Baines Johnson; 1913-14?, a childhood nightmare anticipating a presidency As a boy I dreamt I was trapped in a wooden chair, paralyzed, as a stampede rushed toward me, just as my grandmother was paralyzed and chair-bound... |
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MY THREE HUSBANDS: by Wayan; 1981/2/26 & 1991/5/26, dreams drawn as a 15-page comic I'm three women at once! We marry a unicorn, a goat philosopher, and a magic talking cat. But cops raid our furry commune... CAUTION: INTERSPECIES MARRIAGE, TEEN SEX, BAD COPS |
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ON HER FOURTH BODY: by Wayan; 1993/11/25, a psychic dream-comedy. A sexy gene-sculpted singer (an ex-cow on her 4th body) solves the riddle that's stumping Mr Spock... |
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THE PYRAMID COW: by Wayan; 1999/12/18, a dreamtale. Protestors occupy the Transamerica Pyramid and install a cow as CEO... a Cash Cow? |
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SELF-MADE COW: by Wayan; 2013/4/10, a surreal psychic dream. I'm in Santa Cruz with my friend, a shocking-pink stuffed toy cow with sewed-on accessories: big red lips, a floral wig, and a third eye. I wake, draw the dreamcow--and my sister calls from Santa Cruz to sing me a song about... |
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SHANGRI-LA: by Wayan, 1973/11/13, a teen's mystical dance-party dream I visit Shangri-La, the ancient Tibetan valley of refuge. Unicorns graze. We drive around on car-sheep. Robin Hood rebels against the Priestess of Gloom. Pilgrims in silly gauze robes arrive. Or are they just tourists? Oh, well. Toga party! CAUTION: GAUZE ROBES, NUDE UNICORNS |
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SHEEPISH: by Wayan; 1985/9/24, a clear but stupid psychic dream. Floundering through the snows of 1917, I fall in love with actress Linda Evans, who is a sheep teaching ballet. When I wake... |
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SIPHONIAN QUARTET: by Wayan; 2010/4/10, four baffling parallel-world dreams 1: Purple squid saboteurs flood our cliffhouse. 2: My oyster-ranching girlfriend has a snobby aunt. 3: I wake in a stranger's bondage fantasy--ugh! 4: Shepherds on the sea-floor watch for gliderwolves... CAUTION: EMBARRASSING BONDAGE DREAM |
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SURRENDER TO THE WHITE BUFFALO: by Kathleen Sullivan, 1970s?; a nightmare turned shamanic A gigantic herd of buffalo stampede toward me. I panic, then surrender in peace to what is surely my death... |
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TANYA'S DREAMS: by Tanya, as told by Gayle Delaney, Jan 1971-June '72; a set of 6 breakup dreams My friend Tanya tries hard to save her marriage, but in her dreams Isidora Duncan, Carl Jung, even the gods themselves warn her to face their deep incompatibility... |
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