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PAIN-RATIONER'S STRIKE: by Wayan; 1987/1/1, a dream on self-torture. Three men torture my friend (or is he ME?) and try to keep me from intervening... CAUTION: FAST-TALKING BULLIES |
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MULTIPLEX: by Wayan; 1987/1/9, a dream on multiple dreamselves. Inside my brain's a fractured legislature--a hive-mind where da beez disagreez... |
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CLAN TAUR: by Wayan; recurrent dream-family (best example: 1987/1/9); pencil studies 1998-2002. I keep dreaming I'm in a multispecies family full of centaurs and satyrs, having a reunion at the beach... CAUTION: NUDE BEACH, STRANGE RELATIVES |
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NORASINGH: by Wayan; 1987/1/15, a Tantric Frankenstein dream. I fall in love with my sculpture of a mythical Southeast Asian creature. Then a mad yogi breaks in... CAUTION: SEX, TANTRA, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS |
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QUEEN COBRA: by Wayan; digital painting of a 1987/1/15 dreamlet. I asked "I'm still scared to date anyone. Why? What's my next step?" That night, I was answered... CAUTION: SEXUAL IMPLICATIONS |
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LUNAR WEDDING: by Wayan; 1987/2/5, a poem of a surreal futuristic dream I'm at a fancy wedding on Mars, I think, but slowly realize the black sky and huge blue ball mean this lawn is on... ...the Moon. In the open. What are we breathing? Well... old money, I think. |
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JOVIAN REVOLUTION: by Wayan; 1987/2/22, a dream-poem of another life. Deep in Jupiter's atmosphere it's dark as a moonlit night, but warm; we sail a world-sea. And mutiny against our commanders! Clouds clear to a red dawn... CAUTION: RED POLITICS, GREEN NUDITY |
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GOLDIE AND GRIMOIRE: by Wayan, 1987/3/2, a dream foreseeing My Little Pony? I get a crush on two mare-girls--sunny palomino Goldie is cute, but it's dark-silver, lunar Grimoire that really stuns me... CAUTION: EQUINE NUDITY, ESP REFERENCES |
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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... |
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'WE'RE ALL HUMAN': by Wayan; 1987/3/13, a dream trial. For flirting in the astral cafeteria, we all get sentenced to group therapy-- till I catch the lie in my life. What lie? Read the title... |
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HOW TO BE A WOLF: by Wayan; 1987/3/15, a dream of a trickster-mentor We're hiking in the Sangre de Cristos when a girl offers to show us how to be a wolf. We're eager--until she turns wolf, bites us and leaps off a cliff! Furious, we stupidly follow her over... CAUTION: NUDE FLYING WOLVES |
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TIGER HONEYMOON: by Wayan, 1987/3/16, a dream of a trickster I buy a charming ruin in the woods. Newlywed tigers prowl! The tiger bride tells me "He expects predictability. But I'll show him what a tiger really is..." |
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DRAGON BANNERS: by Wayan; 1987/3/19, a dream on the value of inner emptiness. A dragon's daughter seeking her inheritance defies a sneaky dragon-realtor out to own the world... |
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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... |
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WARIA: by Wayan; 1987/3/23, digital painting of a pointed advisory dream. My life was a sex disaster. I felt ugly and sick. Then I dreamed I found a counselor who really helped. But my parents warned me against her. Why? They explained: WARNING: NUDITY |
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SLEIPNIR: by Wayan; 1987/3/31, a dumb physics dream. I'm at a physics conference. A new force has been discovered that may just allow travel faster than light. Strange, how'd the Vikings know?... |
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MY NEW JOB: by Wayan; 1987/4/20, a haiku-ish dream joke? At the library, my boss says we're restructuring, modernizing. My new job is to... |
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LION SUIT by Wayan, 1987/5/4; a short dream-poem; predictive or clairvoyant? DREAM: A series of old films with Erroll Flynn looking shy in his glasses, and his... lion suit? NEXT DAY: Hunting pumas is legalized; the paper shows a sit-in full of people in lion suits... |
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SILKY'S BRIDGE: by Wayan, with brief parallel dream by Liz; 1987/5/7, apparent shared dreams WAYAN: I'm a cat climbing on sea-cliffs. Fear I'll fall. Run into Silky, an archer firing a line across to an islet. Now the Deer People can build their gossamer bridge... LIZ: I was hiking along a trail atop sea-cliffs. But I feared I'd fall... |
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THE ROAD TO HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1987/5/12, a recurring shamanic dream The Rem Road I climb every night, from flesh to spirit, earth to sky. Though tonight, all these wounded skateboarders worry me! And my own bruises say I overdid it in contact improv today... |
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DUCK!: by Wayan; dreamed 1987/6/5, digital painting 1988 I was on one of those package dream-tours--an hour here, a scene there. But then in Patagonia... CAUTION: CREEPING PAGANISM |
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GRAMPA GOT AIMED: by Wayan; 1987/6/17, a psychic dream. The girl I love has a family that'll stop at absolutely nothing to destroy us. But I'll fight for love... CAUTION: SEX; EMOTIONAL VIOLENCE; MOLESTATION HISTORY |
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DEERTAUR TRANSFORMATION: by Wayan, 1987/6/22, a dream of mythical art A strange book has woodblock prints telling how a princess turns to a deer-centaur and meets animal-headed forest guardians. But the message is rather practical... CAUTION: (FURRY) NUDITY |
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NO BLUE RIDER: by Wayan; 1956-8 recurring dreams; a 1987/6/22 dream brought them back; painted 1996/1/21 My first memory is of being a wild horse, and waking up to find I was now a human child. Franz Marc's "Blue Rider" paintings felt like my dreams; but as I learned of his life... |
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BLUNDERING LINDA: by Wayan; 1987/7/12, a namedropping predictive sex dream I'm in bed with a witch and a piano who's come alive and wants to try sex with us. But I worry a stranger named Linda will break in. I wake, write the dream--and a stranger breaks into our house seeking her son! Her name's... CAUTION: BIZARRE THREESOME, BIZARRE PRECOGNITION |
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PENGUINS TALK ONLY TO...: by Wayan; 1987/7/25, a comic dream-poem. Talking animals flood my bedroom. Well, they'll talk to me--but they're cliquish. Hippos snub cats snub bears snub deer, and no one talks to penguins, for... |
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TILT THE GLOBE TO MAXIMIZE BIOMASS: by Wayan, 1987/8/15, 1990/3/31 & 6/10, 1993/8/10, four dreams prompting Planetocopia I dreamed I took a globe off its stand, drilled new poles, and put it back on tilted, so that most continents are greener; Tokyo, Alaska and Tierra del Fuego are now all tropical... Over a decade later, dreams forgotten, I start what I think is a nondream art project, by tilting... |
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WHY COWGIRLS LOVE BROCCOLI: by Wayan; 1987/8/19, a surreal dream of love. I'm a cowgirl in Nevada circa 1900. In the canyon below Haunted Mansion, I meet a broccoli-green lizard girl. Naturally I help a lady in distress... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE |
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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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FLY & ULTRASOUND: by Wayan, 1987/9/4, a surreal dream on chucking out experts THAT DAY: I test my hearing range; it turns out to be more dog than human... DREAM: To banish a teacher & her giant fly, I summon a musical goddess... |
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PIANO AND CROCODILES: by Wayan; 1987/9/6, a predictive dream with teeth. My parents host a dinner party, but squeeze us all onto a piano stool. I plink away nervously. The guests flee. My sister blames me, but I suspect it's my dad's pet crocodiles! Next day... |
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HUNTERS' FIRE: by Wayan; 1987/9/8, a nightmare that may be a memory. I'm an orphan shot at by hunters. They shoot my sister! But no one believes me... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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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! |
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GIMME YOUR CAR: by Wayan; 1987/9/16, a predictive/warning dreamlet Dream: a woman wants to drive my old hippie bus. But a tire's missing! She pushes. I don't think it's safe... Next evening: my housemate wants to drive my old hippie bus. She pushes, but I don't think it's safe... |
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HOT WATER KNOB: by Wayan, 1987/10/5, a punning predictive dream DREAM: my car has a fuel leak. Luckily, I carry around a crystal hot-water knob-- for beauty, not car repair. But I screw it in & stop the leak, fixing my 'drive'... NEXT EVENING: turn on the TV news, and there's my hot water knob... |
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THE LOCH NESS DANCE: by Wayan; 1987/10/14, a Zen dream. I'm chasing a guy named Will (short for Willful Conformity) through the classes of a mad dance academy... |
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A DEAL WITH GOD: by Wayan; 1987/10/21, a heretic dream. Evangelists pester me until I get so mad I make an on-the-spot deal with... CAUTION: MAD AT CHRISTIANS AGAIN |
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THE CATBIRD SEAT: by Wayan; 1987/10/27? Daydream/fantasy A vague, warm, confusing image of a sort of half-bird half-cat who was half-pet, half-lover... CAUTION: AVIALITY (THAT'S BESTIALITY WITH FEATHERS) |
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CATGIRL WITH A SWAN NECK: by Wayan; 1987/10/27, acrylic wash on Xeroxed ink; daydream. | |
SIXTY-NINE MIDAIR: by Wayan; 1987/10/27, hypnogogic/daydream image Just a lazy, sexy image that came to me, of floating in air like a pinwheel, licking and being licked... CAUTION: SEX |
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UNICORN LEAP: by Wayan; 1987/10/27?, nondream ink sketch tinted with acrylic. A unicorn in a dance performance--a solo vignette with a spectacular leap. And the dancer knows it... |
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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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BETRAYING DREAMS: by Wayan; 1987/11/6, a dream about dreamwork. As I hike across the tundra to win a bet with God, I realize I've been subtly betraying my dreams... |
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UNICORN and MERMAID: by Wayan; 1987/11/15, dream figures; primitive (16-color) digital art. A unicorn wades in the shallows to meet a mermaid. Are they lovers now, or just headed that way?... |
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PIG YOYO: by Wayan; 1987/11/21, a dream on how to end self-torture. A hog is tied so it bounces in a fountain, and at the bottom of each bounce, a fork jabs it! How to free this yoyo pig? CAUTION: PAIN |
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ORDEAL BY INFRASTRUCTURE: by Wayan; 1987/11/22, a Clintonian dreamtale--before Clinton! I want to join the inner circle of America's political elite. But to do that I have to survive the Ordeal by Infrastructure... |
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THE RIFT ZONE: by Wayan; 1987/11/27, a long-term psychic dream. I'm not ambivalent--I'm confused! I live here by the Rift Zone and I don't. I'm single and not. Two lives!... |
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BEAUTY, BRAINS, WARMTH: by Wayan; 1987/11/28, a didactic dreamtale. The Goddess won't tell me who to seek, to love, just WHAT to seek--and what not to... CAUTION: DIVINELY SANCTIONED TRIGAMY? |
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CENTAUR: PAULINA AT SUNSET: by Wayan; 1987/12/8, three dream-infused figure studies Fear anorexia? Gain weight, yet stay slender--be a centaur, like model Paulina Porizkova... CAUTION: NUDITY; BODY IMAGE/ANOREXIA ISSUES |
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THE 1200-STEP PROGRAM: by Wayan; 1987/12/17, an illustrated dreamtale. I'm climbing a tower, as my dad, Apollo, drunk, throws bottles at me from the top, breaking bones... CAUTION: DENIAL ABOUT ALCOHOLISM |
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DATELINE WEDNESDAY: by Wayan; 1987/12/27, a dream of the shamanic heartland On Thursdays, in Tungusia, looking at your watch could save your life... CAUTION: DEFAMES SIBERIANS |
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THERAPIST GARBLES "I" & "YOU": by Wayan, 1987/12/28, a dream warning of bad therapy In therapy, I'm wrestling with sex. But workmen invade--hammer & hang pictures. MY pictures! And my therapist keeps confusing me and her, and our sexual orientations! She means well, but... CAUTION: NUDE PORTRAIT |
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ANDROMEDA: by Wayan; dreamed 1987/12/30; a Greek myth turns Jungian and Buddhist I dream of the legendary maiden chained to a rock, and the dragon coming to abduct her--but neither one is as advertised. They look strangely akin... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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BE FIERCE OR DIE: by Gayle Delaney, between 1982 & '87, a business warning dream I had to negotiate a salary for hosting a radio show. I'd never done such a thing. I asked my dreams. I was shown a land of ruthless warriors with a bushido code. So I went in tough, stayed tough, and... |
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BIRDS OF DREAM: by Kathleen Raine, between 1981 & '87; a mystical dream poem Colorful birds swirl round me. They may be natives of Paradise--may be, in fact, avian angels... |
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BREAK / FAST: by Roswila; c. 1987, a poem of a predictive dream My friend stuffs a broken feeder with birdseed. I worry it'll attract too many wild birds. He laughs "Exactly!"... |
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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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CELLO CASE: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995, an odd dream image I was going to music camp, but I didn't know how to play my cello. A teenager and her mother slept like vampires in her giant cello case... |
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HERE IN MY IMPOVERISHED PSYCHE: by Tracey West, 1987? 88?, recurring nightmares I'm Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island. But the theme song repeats endlessly--not the later version with my name, but the early one dismissing me and the Professor as and the rest. I wake up screaming... |
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IGUANA: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995, two surreal dreamlets on water damage In a flooded room, an indignant iguana scolds me, while my wife Marnie checks her computer implant for water damage... |
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THE IRON WINDOW: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995, a grotesque dreamlet Bearded professors call through an iron-barred window shaped like a woman's torso, hoping to lure a nude model to fill it so they can grope... CAUTION: CREEPY |
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LEAN ON ME: by Wayan; 120K; 1987, 1992. Recurring dream image.. This couple keeps appearing in my dreams--as equals, as mount and rider, as friends, as enemies, as lovers... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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THE MAGIC OF WRITING: by Diana Wynne Jones; 1974, mid-'77, '82, late '83, early '84, & '87; prediction, or causation? What I write in my books and think I have made up has a creepy way of coming true. I noticed it first... CAUTION: DISTURBING INVOLUNTARY MANIFESTATIONS |
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MY FUTURE ART: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995; a self-fulfilling dream prophecy This woman shows me a book of my art. I'm not sure I want to see them--some pieces are from my future... |
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MYRNA, LOOK AHEAD: by Myrna, drawn by her daughter Joey Epstein; before 1988, a dream of ghost advice After Myrna’s husband died, one night she felt him behind her in bed, and he whispered... | |
NAMED: by Kathleen Raine, between 1981 & '87; a mystical dream poem A voice calls to me by name--but not the name I now bear, evoking memories of another life... |
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THE OUTSIDERS: by Grady Towers; 1987, article on genius. Towers, before he was killed, argued Terman was wrong: geniuses are often isolated and maladjusted... CAUTION: UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS |
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THE RICH WRECK THE WELL: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995, a dream of Heaven A movie version of heaven. Souls line up for rejuvenation from a great fountain. But fat old rich guys crash the line, demanding to be first... CAUTION: UGLY NUDITY, UGLY BEHAVIOR, POLITICALLY PREDICTIVE |
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THE SUMMONERS: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995, a mysterious dream Two nude women (drawn Wally Wood style) dance ritually in a forest, summoning a worm-snake-dragon with a ring of fangs... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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SWALLOWING NUMBERS: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995; a surreal eating dreamlet I was late for something, so I opened my pocket watch and swallowed a bunch of numbers... |
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THROATS and SLOT MACHINE: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995, two odd dreamlets THROATS: Men put babies into giant throats inset in a funhouse wall; SLOT MACHINE: I see a slot machine generating random art-speak phrases... |
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