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1985
Computers spread; college libraries install free Macs. The revolution had begun. Personally, the impact was immediate: each night after work, I started typing up my first dreamtales, Blue Soup, Learning Scales, Vat Messiah, Mahakala, and the Black Current. The first steps out of private dreamwork, toward becoming a writer.
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SHROPSHIRE: by Wayan; 1985/1/6, a predictive warning dream DREAM: chased by a sniper, I trick him into blowing himself up. Then, in the Watchtower, I know every name & address in Shropshire, but must hide them till all the snipers are caught... NEXT DAY: at work I run across a book with every name and address in 17th-century Shropshire... CAUTION: FATAL EXPLOSION |
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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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EYES IN THE BLACK SQUARE: by Mark Varitz and Wayan; dreamed 1985/1/14, telepathic or shared dreams WAYAN: I wake deep in the night. From the black square of a curtainless window, eyes are peering in at me... MARK: I wake to find a black square trapdoor in my bedroom ceiling. From the dark above, eyes peer in at me... |
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FAIRY WIFE: by Wayan; 1985/1/17, an epic dream of love and choice. A fairy woman and a mortal man? Can't work! They're flighty, we're crude. Doomed, right? Well, some people are so sure of it they decide to help things along a bit. Or a lot... |
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ASLAN SWOOPS: by Wayan; 1985/1/19, a dream of the wrath of a right-wing god I'm in a cafe in Narnia when the lion-god Aslan attacks a giraffe for the mortal sin of dating a zebra. And why not? Oral Roberts University just banned interracial dating... CAUTION: CRINGEWORTHY CHRISTIANS |
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MAELSTROM AND BORE: by Wayan; 1995/1/23, poem telling a predictive dreamlet. An avian friend of mine researches a whirlpool. But it doesn't want to be studied, and it has friends too... |
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YUM YUM!: by Wayan; 1985/1/31, a smelly dream. DAY: a toxic potluck. Not the first! But this time I say no... DREAM: I'm a scent-oriented alien, tossing stinkbombs back... |
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ROBOT DREAMS: by Wayan; 1985/2/5, a dream on dreamwork. I'm a robot in high school. I have my first dream, but I'm deaf to its message cuz it's not spectacular... |
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JOIN THE HUMAN RACE: by Wayan; 1985/2/11, a Gordian dream. My shortcut in a marathon bogs down in a maze full of psychoanalysts! So I climb the walls and... |
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THE ANSWER FLOOR: by Wayan; 1985/2/16, a dream-poem inverting a famous dream of Jung's I dream of a three-floor tower--but the Answer is up on Level Four! No elevator, no stair. I can't even see it. Yet it's there... |
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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 |
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BAD NANCY!: by "Nancy"; March 1985, a prodromal/diagnostic dream A second me punches me in the breast. I fight back, yelling "Bad Nancy! Bad Nancy!" Five months later I find a malignancy... |
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RINGSHADOWS: by Wayan; 1985/3/6, an otherworldly ecodream with subtle advice. Earth has rainbow rings. They're braided like Saturn's, so their shadows create tinted microclimates... |
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MAHAKALA, MOZART, AND THE CRIPPLED BIRD: by Wayan; 1985/4/17, a dream on facing shadows The Christian God vs Mahakala, Buddhist god of right anger! War in Middle Earth, as Pink Floyd sings... |
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BOAT MEETING: by Wayan; 1985/4/28; a predictive dream that hints at its own nature I swim far out in a lake to a business meeting on a dinghy; but that's trivial. What matters is mapping the murky lakebottom, dive after dive... |
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DOPPELBRUDER: by Wayan; 1985/5/9, a dream of a self at war over... labels? Lured to a parallel, feudal world by a marriage-vow, I'm trapped in my double's arrogant, twisted mind... |
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SPEAK UP, RISE UP: by Wayan; 1985/5/24, a witnessing-flying advisory dream I bike round the ring of women on the stage. Oracles! Whoever speaks, levitates. One advises me, but I can't act on it--too ill. "Gotta heal!" I blurt. My own oracle.. |
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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 |
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HILLBILLY ECO-REVOLT: by Wayan; 1985/6/12, a diagnostic eco-dream. A poor planet with one city. Urban technocrats and hick ecologists have conflicting development models... CAUTION: TOO REAL TO BE FUN |
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THE BLACK CURRENT: by Wayan; 1985/6/16, a slice-of-life dreamtale. A dream-voyage round the world on the Black Current, only to wake up back in my animal village... CAUTION: GORILLA MARRIAGE |
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CARSELVES: by Miriel; 1985/6/21, a predictive dream of putdowns I dreamed I was a classic hippie bus. My brother was a lovingly customized Mustang. We were real collector's items. So our parents decided to sell us. Their asking price was... |
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LEARNING SCALES: by Wayan; 1985/6/26, an epic dream of Chinese dragons. I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost. We need an Imperial Dragon... |
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WITNESS IN THE FIELD: by Wayan; 1985/7/8, an apparent predictive nightmare DREAM: I witness a murder on a farm. So I hide in the fields as assault-gun bullets fly... NEXT DAY: I go see a love story set on a farm. But suddenly killers show up to eliminate a witness to a murder. Assault rifles in the cornfields... CAUTION: VIOLENCE & APPARENT E.S.P. |
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BIRDMAN TEACHES "NO!": by Miriel as told to Wayan; 1985/7/11, a poem on flight/assertion training In the canyon behind our home, a steel-clawed birdman taught my brother and me to fly by shouting "NO!"... |
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UNDO THE PARALYSIS: by Wayan; 1985/7/14, a dream on persistence. In a future society, I'm deliberately, permanently paralyzed. Yet my home-grown cure slowly works... |
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WHARTON TOWER: by Wayan; 1985/7/24, 3 surreal dreamlets on gender & class? 1940s reporters almost trap me in a mob shootout. I shelter in a gender-segregated hotel. The owner of Wharton Tower shakes the hotel so it swings between its butch & femme halves. I fall off the Hudson Palisades, but I land safely on the Glass Ceiling... |
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FALCON AND FÜHRER: by Miriel; 1985/7/31, an epic flying/transformation dream A mysterious "Führer" hypnotized all my companions. So I become a human-sized falcon and hunt him... |
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THE DEAD BABY: by Wayan; 1985/8/4 a dream of hope. My sister gives birth during a killer heatwave. The baby's dead. I play with the body, like a chimp... CAUTION: GROSS |
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SPIN-WITCH, or, THE MAGIC LIGHTER: by Wayan; 1985/8/10, a dream on defensiveness. Leona's a fighter--she rejects compromisers like her husband, her friends, that miniature catgirl she's been sitting on... |
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"CRY, BABY!": by Wayan, 1985/8/17, dream-farce with a warning. The only man in the Miss America Japanese Tea Ceremony Swimsuit Pageant, I learn a tearful lesson... CAUTION: DYSFUNCTIONAL FLIRTING |
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GREEN ANGELS: by Wayan; 1985/9/2, a dream-idyll seething with politics. I stalk a platoon of levitating surf-bunnies who may be out to bomb a Greenpeace submarine... |
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PLESIOSAUR: by Wayan; 1985/9/5, a comic medical nightmare. An itchy patient of mine insists he's turning into a four- headed, man-eating plesiosaur. He left one thing out... |
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FISH REMAINS: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1985/9/18; a ritual closing-dream On my 45th birthday, at the end of my eight-year dream-art project, I dream of a women's rite turning scraps of chewed flesh into a whole fish I offer to the fishbowl in the heart of the Vatican... |
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GLASS GAME: by Wayan; 1985/9/23, a nightmare. A swimming pool game with color-sorted broken glass. It's social, it's fun! The whole family can play! CAUTION: BLOODY IDIOTS |
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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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MYSTERY BETWEEN: by Wayan; 1985/9/27, crayon and acrylic drawing on dreamnesia. Okay, you got your heaven, and your earth, and between, you got... CAUTION: MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE |
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THE GHOST IN MIRIEL'S BUG: by Miriel & Wayan; 1985/10/1, an apparently shared dream WAYAN: I dream a transparent ghost steals my sister Miriel's white VW bug... MIRIEL: I dream about a ghost and my old white VW bug that was stolen... CAUTION: E.S.P. CLAIM |
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MAGICAL LIGHT: by Wayan; 1985/10/8, a dream on micromania Linda Evans of Dynasty survives a shapeshifters' war, though her mansion's wrecked. She meets a caped superhero--and superdog, and supercat, squirrel, hamster, mouse! These micro-heroes make me see I too have been minimizing my own bravery... |
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HIT ROCK: by Wayan; 1985/10/13 nightmare & picture challenging it I dreamed I blinded myself because mere appearances lead to racism & sexism. Only the blind know truth... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY, SEVERE IDIOCY |
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DIANE'S TRIANGLE: by Wayan; 1985/10/18, a psychic warning dream. A disturbing dream of my sister and her best friend turns out to be warning me of a sex secret... CAUTION: INCEST TENSION, SURREAL SEX, CHEATING |
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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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THE BOGLE, 1985/11/10, dreamlet introducing HIS MINE. |
THE FLASHBACK: by Wayan; 1985/11/28, a dark dream-farce. |
I'm a monster working in a shopping mall in Stockton, California, when I smell smoke... CAUTION: FILM NOIR SEX |
AN ELK SHOWED ME A SIGN OF PEACE: by Georganna Malloff; Nov/Dec 1985, vision |
In the Rockies, in winter, I was freezing until I found the hot springs. In the steam rising, I saw a vision of an elk... |
DREAM SHORTAGE: by Wayan; 1985/12/1, an appropriately short dream. |
I meet two women in dream-prison. One's a giant, one a miniature. A fairy? She says, 'No, I'm..." |
HIS MINE: by Wayan; 1985/12/2, an epic Wild West dream |
I'm a hobbit seeking Henry Fonda's haunted gold mine. And find it. Or is that chocolate? But then I'm caught in a shamanic showdown in a bar where they serve real spirits... |
MAMA BEAR'S ADVICE: by Wayan; 1985/12/8, a dream on love-tactics. |
A bear-girl seduced by her coyote professor gets a little advice on revenge from her anthropologist mom... |
FLYING IS TASTELESS: by Miriel; 1985/12/11, a warning dream |
I dreamed I learned to fly. But my so-called friends told me flight is tacky and I should stay grounded... |
MUGS: by Wayan; 1985/12/25, a dream of weird Christmas gifts |
A shop sells coffee cups covered in tales & creatures begging to be drawn... |
BEAN BAR: by Wayan; 1985/12/28, a culinary fable. |
I don't know beans about right action, so Kokoro, master chef of the Bean Bar, teaches me the stages of true mastery... |
BAND-AIDS: by Bagheera Pardus; c.1985, a lucid re-entered nightmare turned to joy. | Giant snakes chased me. I go lucid, turn & slay one. As I woke, the snakes cried. So I re-entered... CAUTION: SNAKES, BEHEADING, REHEADING |
THE BEACH: by Patricia Benefield; 1985 or before, a surreal painting of recurring dreams |
Birds enchant me, and they long have frequented my dreams. Sometimes, as in The Beach, I am a bird/woman... |
ENVYING LYNN: by a patient of Peter O'Connor; 1985 or before, a positive-Shadow dream. |
Lynn's changed. She everything I'm not--playful, colorful, free with her money. She finds the coolest stuff. Why can't I find all that Lynn has?... |
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... |
MOM IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT: by a patient of Peter O'Connor; 1985 or before, a therapy-guiding initial dream. |
My mom's driving me to work. A nearby car has young people in it--I'd rather be with them. My mom seems to be dawdling; I'll be late meeting my colleague! I'm furious... |
MY PAST CHANGES SO: by Wayan; 1985, a poem on healing-stages. |
It takes time to build yourself out of found objects and trash... |
THE OCCUPATION: by a patient of Peter O'Connor; 1985 or before, a therapy-guiding initial dream. |
Touring an underground maze, I meet a woman I like. But her brother bristles. Then, from a height, I see the ventilation pits of the labyrinth laid out like a map. The Japanese invade! Hide in the jungle. Women in rags butcher centipedes & mice... CAUTION: UNHAPPY MEALS; OVER-JUNGIANISM |
PIANIST: by Wayan; 1985, a nondream ink caprice. |
Love that hair, girl. A very seventies bar-monster... |
REINDEER FOREST: by Wayan; ca. 1985, nondream ink sketch, approx 9x14" |
Reindeer linked by their heads--curiously analogous to language, or culture, or the Web, isn't it... |
SAMURAI BULLET: by Wayan; 1985 automatic drawing, 3x5", ink; tinted 2001. |
I didn't know myself what this was about, till I had to write this note--and suddenly I got it... |
SHAMISEN: by Wayan; 450 x 500, 1985? Watercolor on wrinkled paper. |
Me playing the blues on a Japanese shamisen... |
STARFISH: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 1985; a multileveled, doubly predictive dream |
A sacred starfish piloting a Cessna plane survives a crash. But can it survive a boy's clumsy rescue efforts? |
THYROID: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 1985; a set of life-saving diagnostic nightmares |
In 1985 I was flooded with nightmares about heads and necks. They had an unparalleled intensity... |
WHAT! MORE?: by Wayan; 300 x 500, ink 1985, digital color 2001. |
The world needs Zen cards, to balance out the Tarot. So here's my Zen pack--all one of them. One too many. |
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