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2012
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CENTAUR AUDITION: by Wayan; 2012/1/7 and 2012/1/30, two linked Pygmalion dreams Non-dream centaur ballerinas invade my dreams, because they long to be in the World Dream Bank... CAUTION: BARBIE CENTAUR NUDITY, CASTING-COUCH OVERTONES |
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PANIC ATTACK IN MY SLEEP; 2012/1/11 by Rainier Mathee; a nightmare on every level No work, no friends, no lover. People power-drill their own skulls. My uncle's going insane. And when I call 911... CAUTION: BLEAK |
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SWIMMING CATS: by Starvibes, 2012/1/20, a mysterious dream image Tracking two cats at night, I watch amazed as they dive in and swim gracefully across a swimming pool... |
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PIANOBED: by Wayan; 2012/1/22, a health-advisory dream. I forgot how to play my pianobed, so I just thrash around in it. And thus thrash music is born (sorry)... |
CENTAUR AUDITION: by Wayan; 2012/1/7 and 2012/1/30, two linked Pygmalion dreams |
Non-dream centaur ballerinas invade my dreams, because they long to be in the World Dream Bank... CAUTION: BARBIE CENTAUR NUDITY, CASTING-COUCH OVERTONES |
BABY HITLER'S DOG; 2012/2/7 by Wayan; a grotesque time-travel dream (of health advice?) |
An old actor tells me "I met Hitler when we were both babies. I knew what was coming so I wanted to kill him, but then I'd BE him..." |
ZILLIONAIRE'S TOWER: by Wayan; 2012/2/9, a financial climbing dream |
My mild yuppie friend Lou climbs a bank tower to reach his rich mentor, and wins an internship. But as he swears his oath to Get Rich Quick... CAUTION: DISSES CUTTHROAT CAPITALISM |
STOP OBAMA'S ASSASSINATION: by Wayan; 2012/2/10. A dream about politics? Or health? |
Two child prodigies fail to stop the killers stalking President Obama, but a geek with a homemade laser... |
TEACH DREAM E.S.P.: by Wayan; 2012/2/14. An advisory dream with an intriguing model of time. |
I'm co-teaching a class on ESP. My specialty's sending warnings to my own past self to change the present... |
WITCH AND WITTENS: by Wayan, 2012/2/20, a dream on sexual ambivalence |
I never find girls I dislike hot... so why do this smugly seductive witch and all her pointy-hat minions simultaneously attract and repel me so? CAUTION: JUST... WRONG. |
A CARTOONIST'S DIARY (excerpt): by Dylan Horrocks; 2012/3/5, a dream proposing a literary project |
I melted down all the vinyl records ever made in New Zealand to create one huge compendium. I woke thinking "Could I do that for New Zealand comics?" |
THE KEY IS HERE, BUT BEWARE; 2012/3/8 by Eleanor; nested nightmares of enlightenment |
The moment I find the Key, I'm possessed! I wake to find it's just a nightmare. Only who's broken into my house?... CAUTION: DEMONIC POSSESSION & EVERYDAY PSYCHOPATHS |
TRINARY: by Wayan; 2012/3/17, a base-3 dream. | I meet a woman named "2-0-1-0", realize that pronunciation means it's not base ten, but mistake it for binary. Not with a 2 in it! It's trinary, and hides a diagnostic message... |
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? |
SILKY'S BACK: by Wayan; 2012/3/20, a short dream in FOAM FURS | |
ROSETTES: by Wayan; 2012/3/26, a short dream in FOAM FURS | |
DINO SINGULARITY: by Wayan; 2012/3/30, a paleontological speculation in a dream. | Peering in a spacetime gate, I wonder if all the dinos went extinct. Would we spot an ancient Singularity? |
MY DRAG-QUEEN COUSINE: by Wayan; 2012/4/8, a dream about tomorrow |
At our family reunion's parade, a tropical float goes by with a drag queen who turns out to be physically female--but still drag! The next day... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, DRAG OF COURSE |
HIJACK! The Christmas Special: by Wayan; 2012/4/13, a trapped-in-bad-TV dream. |
I'm stuck on a jet full of cartoons. We get hijacked by a kid who just wants pilot practice, and then a talking cactus counter-hijacks us... CAUTION: THE F-WORD |
OTTER NERD FROM TITAN: by Wayan; 2012/4/15 & sequel-dream (2013/2/9), a dream-poem on social skills |
A suspicious exobiologist warns me that otter from Titan may not be the amiable, nerdy celebrity it seems. But... |
THE ENTANGLED MAN; by Wayan, 2012/5/5; a singular dream |
On our expedition to a singularity, one researcher gets quantum-entangled with it! He could become anything... |
SKY-THAW; 2012/6/8 by Wayan; a comic, surreal, political dream-poem |
While watching two rooftop actors (one a chicken) I noticed the icebergs in the sky were melting at last... |
ZEBRA RUN AND FLOW: by Alan Underwood, 2012/6/12, a scenic dreamlet |
Zebra emerge from the lake. They glide as if swimming, and the air has an odd shimmer; did they bring the depths along? They seem to be having great fun ducking branches and vaulting brambles. Such agility and grace! |
THE AMAZONS' OFFER: by Wayan; 2012/6/13, a mystical sexy dream poem. |
A horde of wild women camp in my yard and practice leaping through invisible spacetime portals. They invite me along... CAUTION: FEATHERED, PAINTED NUDITY |
BASTARD UNICORN: by Wayan; 2012/6/28, a dream about ambition |
Since I'm half-unicorn, my ambition drives me to share power and help the whole herd--that's how unicorns rise. But among human politicians... |
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 |
DETACHABLE PENISES: by Wayan; 2012/8/9, a brain-mapping conundrum dream |
I don't have an erection. I have two. But how can my brain register feelings from an extra organ it's not built for? CAUTION: PHALLIC SYMBOLISM? OR SOMETHING ELSE? |
ETHICAL INVESTING: by Wayan; 2012/8/11, a financial-advice dream |
I go to an investment counselor who asks ME for advice! I lay out a plan, then wonder it'd work in nonfinancial affairs too... |
TRUST YOUR CANOE: by Wayan; 2012/8/16, two diagnostic dreamlets |
I ride a magical self-guiding canoe, seeking the right beach and cove for me. Even when the boat climbs hills so I can explore inland, I expect it to fail... |
INDIANS OCCUPY DANCE CLUB: by Wayan; 2012/8/31; a dream of biased art I try to correct |
An ink sketch in a magazine shows a new Ghost Dance invading city clubs. But the (biased?) artist uglifies the Indians, horses and giraffes dancing... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY; JAUNDICED ART/REPORTING |
TAOIST DEBUT: by Wayan; 2012/9/16, a dreamlet on book-learning vs. living experience |
I'm at the court of Jenghiz Khan, as rival priests try and fail to convert the Mongols to this faith or that. Then a Taoist demigod walks up... |
MOON DANCE, or, FURRY SCULPTURE: by Wayan; 2012/10/1, short dream in FOAM FURS | |
FORESEE ELECTION, BUT BLIND TO SEX: by Wayan; 2012/10/23, a predictive dream only half heeded |
On hearing the election results, a girl at Esalen Hot Springs joyfully dances naked around me. I heed the dream's prediction about the election, but not about... CAUTION: NUDITY |
RUBY UNICORN: by Wayan; dreamed 2012/11/15; a sculptural dream. |
THAT DAY: My bandmates want to record crowd-pleasing songs. I want to record our strangest ones... THAT NIGHT: In a woman's art studio, I'm struck by a low, feline, muscular unicorn mare, carved out of a giant ruby. I ask, and she says "Oh, that's not mine. I found it in the trash"... |
DO WHAT YOU LOVE: by Wayan; 2012/11/17; a recession song. 5MB (MP3 + lyrics) |
Do what you love and the money will follow! We sang it in clubs & cafes. Well maybe it did once, but now it rings hollow; I ain't had money in days... |
NON OMNIS MORIAR: by Carole Lindberg; Dec. 2012, a comic apocalyptic dream |
The world was ending. Volcanoes, floods. Refugees trudged by in the mud, carrying their belongings on their backs. I think I better get dressed to go. But I can't find anything appropriate to wear... |
WHAT E.S.P. IS FOR: by Wayan; 2012/12/10, three dreamlets on my real nature and purpose |
I dream ESP isn't just for oneself. A romance between a wolf singer & a deer guitarist. I'm furry too, and better accept it! |
CLOUD WAR: by Wayan; 2012/12/22, a dream of eco-apocalypse on the darkest day of the year |
Clouds wake up. Maybe they were always aware, but now they're aware of us. And rage against us all. Oh, humanity'll survive. But easy times are over... CAUTION: PARTISAN INTERPRETATION |
NOUVELLE BARBIE BODS: by Patagia, 2012/12/22, a playful poem on a dream-diorama |
I visited my friend Chris Wayan's workshop and found him building a dance troupe of joyfully obscene centaurs out of Barbie dolls... |
BROTHER: by Noelle Stevenson; c.2000-2012?, recurring rescue dreams |
I kept dreaming of a boy in striped pajamas. I had to save him every night. Until one night I failed. I just couldn't. I knew who he was--my brother who... CAUTION: DEATH |
COME FLY WITH ME: by Lilian Verkins; 2012, painting of a joyful if secretive flying dream |
I flew over a beautiful park where I taught others how to fly. But there were people who I didn't want to see me flying. I stood mid-air above them, and they didn't spot me... |
DREAM PATH: by Joseph Kemeny, 2012, painting of a lucid dream |
Often while lucid dreaming I find myself exploring a pathway with amazing detail. Sometimes a doorway seems to be asking me to continue on to a higher level... |
STACY BECOMES A BLUEBIRD: by Valerie McCarney, 2012 or 2013, a dream on letting your kids fly free |
My daughter got a tattoo that spread and became blue feathers growing from her arms. Wings start to bud... |
VANDERMEER'S STAIR: by Jeff Vandermeer, 2013 or before,, a nightmarish creative prompt |
I was on a spiral stair. The walls had scrawled messages, not sprayed, carved or painted but living tissue--and getting fresher as I descended. Whatever was growing them was still below me, and still writing... |
WHAT LIES BENEATH: by Susan Vasiljevic; undated, 2012? 13?, a feminist nightmare-painting |
A male real estate agent knocked on the door. The house was full of sleeping crocodiles. She fled through the house, trying not to rouse the attention of either sort of predator... |
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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