Balancing the Personality
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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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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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BALANCE?: by Wayan, 1984/10/10, a dream about dreams. Silky, my sentient starship, gives me a scolding about playing it safe... |
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BEGGARS IN SPAIN: by Wayan; 1994/12/10, a dream on reason & intuition's mutual mistrust Two rivals stand for reason & intuition. Why can't they cooperate, see each others' virtues? Trained insecurity... |
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BOX OF DREAMS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2007 to 2009, a boxed set of 19 small dream-paintings A sequence of short dreams full of creatures. They warn I'll face leukemia... |
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BRICK AND SKIN: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a dream of spiritual stretching. I'm analog myself, but in Tibet, I meet a digital shaman whose body's a sort of ... |
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CLAY AND HOP: by Wayan; 2009/10/30, a dream poem with sketches; Dreamverse #63 I touch the secret soul of a cancer survivor, upsetting her. To apologize, I become a goofy hopping god... CAUTION: FONDLING SACRED FIGURINES |
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DANCING ROBBANE: by Emily Joy; 2007/8/1, sculpture of a dream sculpture. The clay came alive, shaped itself, started dancing...and mutating. |
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DON'T WANT HIM TO SOAR: by Wayan; 1991/4/18, a dream of sabotage. In a parallel world, a visionary's building the first plane only now. I'm his assistant. But I don't WANT... |
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THE DRAGON'S TEETH: by Wayan; 1994/6/23; a dance dream that maps out my life I'm dancing on stage, in behavioral space. But right in the middle of the stage, erupt these... teeth? |
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THE ENCHANTED WOMAN: by Anna Kingsford; Feb. 1877, an epic prehistoric dream. Goaded by a green spirit of envy, an Ice Age sorceror kidnaps Adam's Eve, arresting human evolution... |
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FEVER DREAMS: by Wayan; 1993/9/8, a set of wild feverdreams. While my body expels a kidney stone, weird scenes happen on the astral plane. At least I get to dip the pope. CAUTION: PAIN, PEE, POPE |
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FILLY'S QUEST: by Wayan; 1981/1/31, a dream on dream-theory. Head versus... wings! The tunnel has pictures of a winged unicorn filly on a quest. But the editor of the deluxe book version is intellectual, patriarchal and heavy-handed... CAUTION: UNDERAGE ALICORN FLIRTING |
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FOUR ELEMENTALS: by Wayan, four recurrent 2009 dream-figures, 2010/1/1 to 1/14 For the New Year, I draw a group portrait of the old year's main dream-figures. Four needs came up constantly... |
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FOUR-EYED BABY: by Xanthe; 1989?, a Jungian dream I met some little hunchbacks in the woods who showed me a newborn baby growing from the moss... |
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FOUR LOVERS: by Wayan; c.1990/11/30; digital painting based on recurrent dream A recurring dream of a fourway marriage of animal people. I don't think it's symbolic, but predictive... CAUTION: FURRY SEX |
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A GAME OF CARDS: by Anna Kingsford; 1883/12/7, a god kibitzes on a Tarot game Anna trusts to luck, but her mentor urges her to plan--"Think it out!" And what are these cards? |
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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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GREENBIRD SAVIOR: by Wayan; 1983/6/2, a divine comedy. Time-travel the Navaho way! But our bread-pipe gets hijacked, so we call the Bird. Who shows up, all right... CAUTION: NON-STANDARD SAVIOR, EVIL DREAM PUNS |
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HEADSMAN: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/4/17, a cannibal nightmare prefiguring Jung Swedenborg meets an executioner who cooks the heads he chops off, and eats them. Yet in context, the nightmare may be constructive... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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HERM: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/9/8; painting in the Box of Dreams In a domed tower, we all look up bewildered by a statue like an ancient herm, floating in mid-air... |
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LEARNING TO SING AND DANCE: by Marilyn Barrett; 1988 or before, a dream of heritage I'm a kid again, waltzing with my dad, though he's long dead. He hands me the trumpet inside his chest. When I wake, I feel it still. My mom just died; I've reclaimed a playful part of him she condemned all her long life... |
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THE LIMP: by Wayan; 1986/7/18, a dream on difference I was working for a London architect. His son thought people shunned him for his limp, but... |
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MANDALA: by Carl Jung, c.1915; a drawing he lied about for decades Jung, in crisis, drew a complex mandala, and then wrote about its symbols & archetypes, always claiming a patient had drawn it... |
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A MUSLIM CHEETAH: by Wayan, 2004/12/2, a dream of fundamental ambivalence A cheetah is a saboteur for a violent Islamic group. I'm attracted, but tear into her; "You plant bombs in the name of a rulebook meant for apes not cats!" CAUTION: NUDE CHEETAH; CRITIQUES HOLY BOOKS |
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NIBBLING FRUITS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/2/3; a painting from an advisory dream I am given a gift of "Nibbling Fruits" which only I may eat--because I've been feeding everyone but me... |
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THE NIGHT OF CHANGE: by Wayan; 1994/2/8, a dream on the order of deep changes. Festival night in a strange town, where, one night a year, dancing in the street transforms you into... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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RADAR BEAR: by Wayan; 1983/6/17, a dream of MASH--and perseverance. Radar O'Reilly's teddy bear is stolen. He builds spy-planes to find it. One morning the camp wakes to find... |
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TAROT: THE MAGE: by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1979. Jung said most people let one aspect of life dominate them. The Mage balances them... |
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TAROT: OUTSTANDING (The Seven of Wands): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. How rare it is to meet the Outstanding whose thinking, sensing, feeling and intuition all work... |
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TIGER DIALOGUES: 1973-4 by Ann Faraday, plus a dreamlet by John Wren-Lewis; recurring dreams When I overwork, neglecting my body's wants, I dream of an angry tiger. Over time, I've learned (mostly) to feed my tiger, and sometimes he's an ally now... |
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TRINITY: by Nashoba Hostina; 2002? A nightmare of losing best friends to romantic love We were inseparable: the tiger, the fox, and the wolf. Together our magic lit up the darkness around us, until... |
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WITCH'S BUTTER: by Wayan, 2023/5/27, a science-geek dream. I live in four consecutive bodies: I'm a Bose-Einstein condensate, a cloud of particles moving as one-- unless overheated. No, I'm Witch's Butter, a mob of amoeboid cells who unify into a quasi-slug--temporarily. No, I'm a person, but soft and yellow as Witch's Butter. No, I'm firming up, but still entangled... |
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