Bias and Bigotry
What about dreams where you're the biased one, where you display prejudices you don't believe you have in waking life? Don't panic! Such dreams are sometimes touted as evidence that biases lurk in the unconscious; but dreams where you're biased have other possible meanings. Dreams, like charades and pidgin languages, can use exaggerated, crude, even shocking imagery to communicate when subtlety's failed. Dreaming you're a racist and waking up all shaken up sure gets your attention!
Note how dream-biases can aim at nonsensical targets--squirrel people, ogres, dino-human marriages. That's strong evidence such dreams are symbolic--often pointing out how you put down your own longings or behavior. If you deny suppressed sides of yourself a fair chance, dreams of being either a victim or a perpetrator of analogous discrimination are both quite likely.
So consider two possibilities: your dreams may be pointing out real daytime biases you've observed or even felt, OR they may symbolize internal putdowns. Dream bigotry usually flags a real problem; but whether internal or external must be judged case by case. Without (if you'll pardon the term) prejudice.
RELATED TOPICS: politics - anger - fanatics and extremists - self-defense - gender - I'm Just Not Myself Today!: dreams of how it feels to be someone else... - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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AI ZHONG!: by Wayan; 1989/7/21, a short psychic dream A small, clear, simple precognitive dream... and its un-small, un-clear, un-simple cause... |
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THE AIR BURUNDI PAINTINGS: by Wayan; 7 illus., 2007/1/20, a dream of art & courage Weird paintings cover a hill town in Africa, demanding I paint them when I wake. Paintings on courage, flight... and defying tradition. |
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ALIEN GIRL, SACRED PEAKS: by Wayan; dreamed 2005/11/25, two dreams on long-term goals I'm one of a trio of swimmers in a pool, making out--under the surface only. Must we hide? I'm near Shiprock with a flying-saucer girl who sees the nearby crags and far snowy peaks as all the same size and distance... how to teach perspective? CAUTION: SKINNYDIPPING, GROPING |
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ALIENS, MONSTERS, WITCH: by Judy Landaiche; 1991/11/8, a dream on judging by appearances Our starship crashed on an alien world. Humanoid aliens attack us. A witch saves us. A second kind of alien attacks; again she saves us. A third--ugly, monstrous--and the witch goes off with them! Turns out they're friendly... |
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ALTHEA'S MONEY DREAMS: by Althea; 1999/1/22, financial dreams provoked by... financial dreams? After reading a booklet of dreams about money by Wayan, Althea has four such dreams of her own challenging family ideas of class, gender, inheritance... and then practical investment advice!... |
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APOLOGETIC OGRE: by Wayan; 1990/3/1, a nightmare. I hop on a bus in mythical Greece, and this woman's guardian angel acts racist. OK, I'm an ogre. So? CAUTION: ANOTHER HANDGUN TRAGEDY |
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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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AVOID THE MATRIARCH: by Wayan; 2011/7/8; a dream of, well, avoidance I love a girl in a big Singapore clan whose matriarch hates me. But the omens say confronting her will be disastrous... |
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THE AZTEC EMPIRE'S RESERVATIONS: by Wayan; 1998/3/19, a parallel-world dream The modern Aztec Empire is as bad as Anglos toward other Indians, for it's not poverty that hurts... |
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A BEAGLE, THREE WOLVES, AND A SETTER: by Wayan; 2009/2/6, a dream-poem; Dreamverse #50 Fresh off the Beagle, Darwin meets three wolf-girls, but has distinctly Biblical inhibitions... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM, PUNS |
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A BEAM OF FLIGHT: by Wayan; 1992/4/19, a dream of love and shellshock. I'm a dance teacher, I'm King Kong, I'm a shell-shocked elf, I'm a wild bird flying... CAUTION: GAY-POSITIVE ROLE MODELS, OH NO! |
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THE BELL CURVE: by Wayan; 1995/2/22, an essay on IQ My take on IQ, racism, Murray and Herrnstein's notorious book, and the theory of multiple intelligence. As an (ex)child prodigy it's not theoretical for me: broken hearts, broken trust, broken ribs... CAUTION: LONG WORDS, RAMPANT ELITISM, GENIUS SHOPTALK |
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BETRAY MY ANIMAL FRIENDS: by Wayan; 1999/11/12, a dream of brainwashing. As humans settle infospace, will we cheat other species trying to evolve into people? Are we already doing it? Admiring & documenting creatures we've written off as doomed? CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES; DISTURBING PREMISE |
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BIRD, CAT, TREASURE: by Anna Kingsford; 1877/8/3, two warning dreams in one night Should Anna quit hiding her psychic dreams? She dreams a cat eats her bird & burglars loot an open house. Maybe keep hiding? |
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BLACK DUCKS QUACKED FIRST: by Wayan; 1990/9/13, a dream-farce on Shadows of Greats Past. My sister & I try to sing an original, but every note summons old jazz greats, leaving us no musical elbow room! So I quack like a duck. Nope! Giant ducks appear, and say... CAUTION: RACIAL ANXIETY? GIANT DUCKS! |
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BLESS MY PHOBIA: by Wayan; dreamed 1992/8/15; story + silk painting. I was Eve's guardian angel the second time round, and I blew it again. But this time, it came out right.... CAUTION: BREASTS AND BEASTS |
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THE BLIP: by Wayan; 1982/5/4, a brief surreal dream on... beautyism? A bubble of spacetime distortion lands in an awkward place, making people mistrust the unlucky recipient... |
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BLUEBEARD DRAG: by Wayan; 2008/9/5, a creepy dream-poem, Dreamverse #22 On the waterfront, I meet a seductive girl. Well, guy. Well, serial killer. Um, I think I'll leave now... CAUTION: HOMOPHOBIA OR SURVIVAL INSTINCT? |
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THE BOARD OF KIBITZERS: by Wayan; 1993/10/18, a pseudo-psychic dream about dreams. My therapist changes into a good ol' boy? I can handle that. But that State Board of Kibitzers behind him... |
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BONYTAUR PERSPECTIVE: by Wayan; 2023/6/8, an aesthetic-clash dream I look down on scrawny centaurs with cropped manes & tails: butch minimalism. Unsexy! Then I'm down among them. Now they have big eyes, luxuriant manes and tails: femme excess. I find this sexy... CAUTION: CENTAUR NUDITY |
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BOYS: by Wayan; 1993-99, a gender-equity poem. When girls get their clits cut, even the UN takes notice. But mutilate boy genitals, and... big yawn! CAUTION: TALK ABOUT SEX AND VIOLENCE--BUT HEY, IT'S ONLY BOYS |
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BUNNY GROPER: by Wayan; 2022/2/4; a dream on harassment's roots and goals A fantasy bazaar full of wolf, cat and rabbit shoppers. But my human friend Mark has a booth by the exit, and grabs a rabbit girl's tail! She glares daggers, but seems resigned to harassment... CAUTION: SEXISM OR SPECISM? |
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CATCH-UP: by Wayan; 2001/3/14, a dream on maturation Revelations about my mom put my own shyness in a new light. That night I dream twin sisters zoom through puberty in hours... CAUTION: VERY SUDDEN BREASTS |
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CHIDI AND PONY-MISTRESS: by Wayan, 2019/9/25, a mysterious dream Ethics professor Chidi from The Good Place, painted purple, tells me he's in love with the Mistress of the Herd, a mix of Circe, Dr. Moreau & My Little Pony, who radiates spells of love & beauty... CAUTION: WEIRD IMAGERY, CRYPTIC, NUDE PONIES |
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CHOKING A CAMEL: by Wayan, 1983 (early May?), a grotesque little dream-poem Freud explains to me why writing's so hard. His explanation is as senseless as his other theories... |
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THE CLARK RANGE, OR, THE HAND: by Wayan; 1975/12/1, a surreal lucidity-prompting dream In the Sierra with geologists, I stick my arm down a drillhole and feel a living hand! Impossible, yet... |
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CLOCKTOWER: by Wayan, 1986/4/2, a predictive dreamlet DREAM: a girl peers in my window & flirts with me. But why's she perched on a miniature clocktower? NEXT DAY: on campus, I spot a girl perched on a ledge of a new miniature clocktower. Oh, that's... CAUTION: CHILDHOOD TRAINING: "MEN ARE SCUM" |
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THE CONCHES: by Wayan; 1996/5/23, a dream on how dreams view the waking mind. A visit to the Conches, a strange race of molluscs who are people only seasonally... |
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CONTRACT CLOAKS FOR COURIERS: by Wayan; 2019/5/30, a dream on enforcing contracts After a day of medical mess-ups, I dream whites routinely cheat super-fast Native American pony couriers, till the riders demand showy down payments called Contract Cloaks. Now cheats'll get publicly exposed... |
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CORVI AND FEY: by Wayan; 2016/6/14, a shamanic dream of reuniting estranged symbiotes I visit a world of ravenish people, the Corvi, who banished their longtime partners, the wish-granting Fey, calling them parasites. I decide to meddle... |
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CUBIST CHARLIE BROWN: by Wayan; 1977/4/1, a cubist nightmare. We're Cubist cartoon characters, trapped in a strip gone mad. But my dad stays calm! Too calm... CAUTION: SEAS OF BLOOD... OR IS IT RED INK? |
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CYCLOTRON OF FLOWERS: by Wayan; 2015/9/13, a surreal dreamscene done as an imagist poem Night. Rider and mount gallop in a ring, leaving a luminous spiral wake of glowing flowers. Power builds, but when the spiral gate opens, where will it lead? |
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THE DARII: by Wayan; 1994/8/15, a predictive dream of another life. I'm trying to prevent a race war, but can I kill someone I admire? And if so, can I live with it? CAUTION: RACISM, VIOLENCE, INTENSE GUILT |
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THE DAYS WHEN WOMEN WERE BEING HURT: by Anonymous #40, 1996?, a surreal dream I was big as the world, so whole cars fit in my vagina. But men were selling women to supermarkets, to be cooked & resold. So I crossed the Atlantic sea-floor on foot... CAUTION: CAR SEX. NO, NOT SEX IN CARS... |
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DEAD, NOT STUPID: by Wayan; 2000/1/20, a (possibly predictive) ghost dream My little sisters tell the detectives, "Daddy's ghost has a message for you" but at first they don't listen... |
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DEAD RIGHTS! DEAD RIGHTS!: by Wayan; 1983/10/1, a dream of the other side. I die young, to get it over with, like chickenpox. As I slowly revive, I face bias against the dead. So.. |
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DEER AND WOLF MYSTICS: by Wayan; 2015/2/1; an odd peacemaking dream The wolf and deer people are getting along well--a relief since I like both. Now, can the wolves learn from the deer how to open their third eye? |
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DILL: by Wayan; 1988/9/9, a dream-poem about reverse theft I'm a reporter. In the mall, I get my pocket picked repeatedly-- but the thieves keep slipping mysterious stuff in, not out... CAUTION: PUN |
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DOG ON THE RAMP: by Wayan; 1989/4/6, a dream of love in a time of bias. My friend Lisadia sneers at a dog-girl's attempts to beautify her starship. I'm shocked--she's openly specist... CAUTION: SPECISM |
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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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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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DOVE GIRL: by Carl Jung; c.1912/12/25, the classic anima dream. In a castle, a white bird lands on the table and becomes a little girl who plays with Jung's kids, hugs him, then turns back into a bird, explaining "I can become human only for a few hours of the night, when... |
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EDWIN'S DREAM: by soon-to-be-King Edwin, c.616, as told by the Venerable Bede; a nagging dream King Ethelfrid bribes Redwald to turn over his guest, Edwin. Edwin dreams an angel warns him, swearing to save him if he'll convert. Redwald's wife tells him "Don't betray a guest." Once Edwin's king, that dream-angel demands his fealty... CAUTION: SHODDY SPIRITUAL BARGAINING |
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EFFORT VERSUS APTITUDE: by Wayan, 2017/8/23, a dream about... oh, read the title. I urge a cafe to host a talented Tarot reader with an amazing aura, but the owner says "Anyone can be psychic with practice." Oh? Can practice make you Einstein, too? |
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EIGHT TO A HORN: by Wayan; 1986/4/25, a magical dream, Chapter 7 of UNICORN TAG. In the middle of Nowhere Desert, I meet a telepathic unicorn who's stuck with a false safety-tag... |
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EL ASNO!: by Wayan; 1995/1/20, a political dreamtale. In a field in the Central Valley, I face the Terror of California... CAUTION: FIENDISH LEFTIST PROPAGANDA |
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ELBERETH PAUSES: by Wayan; 1989/6/26, a dream on postwar ethics. After the Lord of the Rings falls, Elbereth herself is sent to heal the land. But she has a troubling neighbor... |
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AN ELECTORAL DRAGON: by Wayan; 1998/10/21, a virtual-reality-campaign-ad dream In a world of hideous haircuts (flagging your politics) I meet a dragon running for office. But is this real or a dream? Both/neither! It's... |
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EMADRO: by Wayan; 1983/6/4, a wild dream on clinging--and letting go. An elephant sinks in the North Sea, and the Oracle Mink says a wizard did it. Can old Lady Gandalf help? |
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EMPEROR OF THE GALAXY: by Wayan; 1988/1/31, a political dreamtale. The Emperor of the Galaxy can't publish his anti-slavery book as himself, so he quits to become a slave... |
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EVASIVE MANEUVERS: by Wayan, 1986/9/17, a doubly predictive dream DREAM: Landsmen betray their mermaid lovers in a harbor full of towers that seem tilted and broken from under the sea. NEXT MORNING: My boss asks me to track down a new translation of Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid. AFTERNOON: I find a book on IQ tests that include spatial questions full of broken geometric shapes--familiar shapes... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS |
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FAERIE: by Wayan; 1995/7/18 & 95/8/6: two linked dreams of postmodern Faerie, with sketches I'm the daughter of a mortal doctor working in Faerie as it faces social upheaval (and I look for a decent date...) |
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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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FINAL EXAM, WRITTEN IN BLOOD: by Wayan; 2019/6/16, a dream on systemic bigotry My classmates stole my pen. My teacher condones it. I am, after all, a hated minority. They won't even SELL me one. So I write my final in blood--three huge, crude letters... |
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FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 2.6M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic. I had an epic dream lasting subjective weeks--a true other life. It wasn't Earth and we weren't human. I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. One night, my friends curled round me, I saw I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a woman, marry, and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right... 2600K loads slowly? Try it in parts: 1: HOME, 650K, 2: VOYAGE, 1200K, 3: BACK 750K. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
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FLY AWAY HOME: by Wayan; 1996/12/26, a dream of flight and kindness. I'm an alien castaway, hiding my wings. But Earth feels like home now! If I could fly here, would I stay? |
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FOSSIL BARBIE: by Wayan; 1978/9/27; a dream of non-teamwork. I dreamed our medieval football coaches blamed the ugly Potato Person for all evil... CAUTION: NUDE POTATO |
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FOUR TABOOS: by Wayan, 2016/3/15, four dreams on inhibitions I hoped I was over. Climbing out of Childhood Abyss, I literally get a leg up from a girl seeking the Ledge of Teens. A shy girl has to hide she's a were-creature. Gay men make out in the witch-registry to rattle its homophobic guardians. My sister stripteases while scolding me for a mess I didn't make... CAUTION: DUH, SEX TABOOS! KIDS, FURS, GAYS, SIBLINGS |
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FOXES: by Wayan; 1989/4/12. Digital nondream painting. Long ago I saw a marvelous Hiroshige print of a fox convocation, lit by moon and foxfires... CAUTION: LESBIAN SPOOKS |
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FOX ON THE TRAIN: by Wayan; 2015/1/9, an advisory dream painted & poemed I'm a guard on a train crossing the desert who falls in love with a refugee fox-girl, despite heavy specist peer-pressure and the archaic Railway Code... CAUTION: NUDE FOX |
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FREUD'S UNDERWORLD: by Wayan; 2024/1/4; a comic book-review nightmare DAY: I reread Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams. His own dreams feel petty, devious, status-obsessed... dull. DREAM: I find Freud's bought my childhood home! I spelunk the Freudian underworld--a dark complex of tunnels, sewers and rats. Cross the rivers of muck on stepping stones. Emerge into sun at last, swearing "Never again..." |
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THE FUR SIDE, or, GESTELLA: by Wayan; 2013/7/2; a dream-critique of a feminist fable After reading a fable about a murdered werewolf, I dream a tough old woman with golden wolf eyes joins our school lunch table, where the furry minority sits... CAUTION: CRITIQUES SUSAN PALWICK |
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GENDERBENT LUCID DREAMS: by JHM Whiteman, pre-1961, compared to Wayan, 1979/8/29 Celia Green, lucid dream expert, claims nearly all lucid dreamers keep their waking bodies, their self-image. But Whiteman & Wayan both have genderbent lucid dreams... |
GENDER-SKEW IN DREAMS: by Wayan; 1998/2/2, a brief essay on dream-differences |
In older studies at least, women dream of both sexes but men dream largely of men. Just like TV, huh? CAUTION: YOU'LL NEVER WATCH TV AGAIN |
GERRYMANDERING DESIRE: by Wayan; 1994/1/20, a modest sexual orientation proposal |
The two commonest sexual orientations have no names, or even concepts! Yet they're obvious, once... CAUTION: THE TRUTH THAT DARE NOT BE TOLD |
GET THE PICTURE? by Barbara, as told by Gayle Delaney, 1979 or before; a prompting dream |
I was half-drowning, holding our son up in the pool, while my husband tried to take a photo. I kept gasping "Did you get the picture yet?" but he kept saying "Not yet"... |
GIRAFFE CAMOUFLAGE: by Wayan; 2020/9/1, a dream of the anti-closet? |
A human and a talking giraffe fall in love. But some hunters still shoot animal people. So he camouflages her with paint. Bright paint. Now she's more visible than ever! Not that I can criticize his eccentricities. I'm in love with a unicorn songwriter... CAUTION: FURRYPHILIA |
GIRL TELEPORTS BALLOONS: by Wayan; 1984/8/23, a dream recurring after 26-year gap |
A snotty shopkeeper won't let a kid have a balloon, so she teleports one through the display window! Blind to the magic, he just scolds her and takes it away. So her mind reaches through the window to liberate every balloon in his store! And then, 26 years later... |
GOPA'S NIGHTMARE: by Gopa Gautama, c.534 BCE, a breakup-warning dream |
Gopa dreams the earth shakes, stars and meteors fall. She's naked, her marriage bed is broken, her husband Siddhartha's treasures lie scattered. He says "How auspicious!"--and prepares to abandon her and their son... CAUTION: SEXISM |
HAWK CENSORS: by Wayan; 1988/7/7, a surreal predictive dream on censorship |
All the photos of hawk people I can find show them with bizarre genitalia: males with hawk-heads for penises, and females with nothing. Blank! Then I go to work... CAUTION: REVERSE SEXISM |
HEAD ON MY TABLE: by Lauren Watley; 2011/2/16, a creepy dream-image with depth |
After a day of troubling conflicts over race & art, I dream I'm handed a hot, heavy, mossy head--is it art, or alive? |
HER GESTURED ROUTE: by Wayan; 1984/6/16, a dream poem. |
How's it feel to be an anima off the job? Is it lonely, when no one even believes you're a real person? |
GIFTED CHILDREN NEED...: by Wayan; 1980/8/6, a journal extract on geniuses. |
Advice of a specialist on the care and feeding of child prodigies, embarrassingly relevant for adult geniuses... |
GROTESQUE: by William S. Burroughs, c.1986; a primal nightmare of emotional abuse |
Genteel gay guests first humiliate then torture their hosts--the rich but sick wife, then her weak, gay, parasitic husband... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, MISOGYNY, CRUELTY, SHIT |
HALF-ELF: by Wayan; 1996/2/14, a predictive dream fable. |
A biracial girl doubts her own heritage; a human friend has to confirm the obvious. So what am I blind to? |
HALF-TWIN: by Wayan; 1995/7/4, a dream on the real roots of trust |
In a world obsessed with genes and pecking order, we're half-sisters-- very different, yet we support and trust one another. Our society's just wrong!... |
HEARN'S BEAST: by Wayan; 1986/2/18, a dream fable. |
Inside an evacuated region, the Lafcadio Hearn Zone, I meet the monster thousands fled... |
HELPLESSLY LUCID: by Alder; 2007/6/23, a lucid dream in which I’m powerless! |
I’m a homeless elf. We’re a persecuted minority group. I know I’m dreaming and try to change it but... |
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... |
THE HORSE VOTERS: by Wayan; 1995/4/30, a time-travel dream on... race? |
I'm back in the 19th century, learning that horse breeders cross-bred more than the public thinks. One suggests I look hard in the mirror... CAUTION: UNSEEMLY SENATORIAL DISCOURSE |
HUBRIS EGGS: by Wayan; 1981/6/11, a short defiant psychic dream. |
I'm wrapping my heavy-metal eggs too slowly, so the Judges sink my car! I set out to get revenge... |
I FIGHT FOR BEAUTY: by Wayan; 1990/1/1, an incubated dream within a dream within a dream. |
From Hawaii to Wyoming, I fight for beauty, always waking to find I'm someone new... |
I WANT MY INHERITANCE: by Wayan; 1989/12/18, a dream on family brainwashing. |
My family calls me a blonde bimbo and won't give me my inheritance, so I take drastic steps... CAUTION: MORAL HAIRSPLITTING |
I WAS A SEX SLAVE: by Wayan; 1994/11/20, a dream on isolation |
I'm a slave dancer. I run for it, and make it over the border. But my owner comes looking for me... CAUTION: NUDITY, SLAVE SOCIETY |
I WON'T DIE TILL LOVE DIES: by Wayan; 1981/1/21, a divine dream . |
I meet the mermaid goddess of love in her pool, but when she advises me, I dispute one small point... |
ICK! DOGS!: by Wayan; 1990/1/3, a Star Trek dream. |
I'm Jean-Luc Picard, and my Enterprise has been taken over by a pack of brilliant, paranoid wolves... |
IGNORABLE DRAGON: by Wayan; 2019/4/13; a dream of brain-unwashing |
Out my window, a dog is fighting a snake. A dog with bat wings. A dog big as a horse. A griffin! Big as a bus now. A dragon! What spell made me mistake THAT for a dog?... |
IN THE SHADOW OF MAN: by Wayan; 1994/3/4, a dream on how to escape the cage |
I'm a lab animal who discovers voice software and creates a personal zine, testifying for our rights... |
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 |
INSIDER DATING: by Wayan; 2017/4/2, a dream of how others see us? |
I dream my friend's amused that I date women to steal work-secrets; I get rich off insider trading, while they get fired. Only... I don't! Where'd he get this idea?... |
INTERNAL SCROLL: by Carolee Schneemann, 1975, an embarrassing dream acted out on stage |
I dreamed I was pulling a scroll out of my vagina and reading it like a tickertape. I was reluctant to perform the dream--I knew I'd get into trouble!--but I felt compelled... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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 |
THE IRRATIONALITY OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1989/12/31, a New Year's dream. |
On TV, the first Jungian anima to leave the unconscious is granting an interview. But the questions are... |
IS GOD GOD?: by Wayan; 1984/6/17, a dream of the school of hard knocks. |
God watches over me--to slap me down. If God is even God. So I set out to learn about this jerk-God... |
JANE IN VAIN: by Wayan; 1997/3/6, a dream that's not about class. |
A prisoner's allowed to see his middle-class lover only in a seedy bar by the jail. But she likes the place... CAUTION: THE JOYS OF SLUMMING |
JOKE PILOT: by Wayan; 1995/7/15, a dream of defiance. |
Among aliens, humans are jokes. Fragile and blind, we can't fly starships. Unless we build our own... |
JOVE'S LIMBO: by Wayan; 1994/11/27, a dream of astral muckraking. |
Half elvish, rejected, I wander the worlds, and find a limbo built by Zeus--but do the inmates deserve it? |
JUNK FICTION?: by Wayan; 1990/6/15, a rant on literature's treatment of shamans & psychics |
At least fantasy and science fiction address my life-issues; "realism" just declares me nonexistent... |
KICK HER: by Wayan; 1994/8/9, a gameshow nightmare. |
I'm a blonde gameshow bimbo. Each week, I'm beaten up. Ha ha ha! But my bruises are real. At last, I... CAUTION: GAMESHOW FROM HELL |
THE KING OF PERSIA: by Wayan; 1990/4/1, an annoying family dream. |
My dad has a time machine, so he generously invites the King of Persia over. And offers him MY room... |
THE LADY LOVES THE HORSE by Wayan, 1990/9/28; a dream mocking fake humility |
Richard Russo writes that Westerners cannot dream like tribal people. So I dream Russo's the Cubist Dictator of Dreams! I prefer the part-equine Lady Demicorn, and the Fat Meditating Dog, and the Birdiesattva... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
THE LEAD HAZARD OF WITCHES: by Wayan; 2008/11/21; an alternate-world dream |
I'm in an America where witches are burned & abused women grow on trees. Yet three of us heal... CAUTION: CREEPY PARALLEL WORLD |
LINSCOTT'S NIGHTMARE: by Steve Linscott, Oct. 1980; jailed for a dream! |
Linscott dreamt of a murder and woke to find it'd happened down the block. Friends nagged him to tell the dream to the investigators. He did. They tried him for murder... |
THE LION KING: by Wayan; 1995/9/15, a time-travel dream on social skills. |
When I wake up, animals rule the earth. How do they cope with specism? Well, it's complex... |
LIZARD OR WIZARD? Or, ARACHNOLYPSE by Wayan, 2021/2/10; a cynical magical dream |
An idiot wizard lures car-sized spiders into town. I find a spellbook that repels them, but have to hide it so my community college professors, Gandalf & Saruman, don't take it. For I'm no wizard, just a lizard... CAUTION: HUGE SPIDERS, HUGE SELLOUTS |
LONG JOHNS by Ann Faraday, 1972; punning dreamlets on two consecutive nights |
DREAM 1: A man wearing long white underwear shoots me down with a machine gun. DAY: Long John Nebel interviews me; his Freudian friend calls me a penis-envying woman. DREAM 2: Long John and his buddy umpire a rough baseball game. Definitely not cricket... CAUTION: SEXISM, FREUDIANS, PUNS |
LOUSY DREAM: by Jack Kerouac, early Dec? 1952, a rage-filled nightmare |
In America the woman has the Police State Telephone in one hand and My Child swathed in incredible bills in the other... Ah, Kafka, you never had it so good... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, MISOGYNY |
LOVING A COP: by Wayan; 1981/5/5, a dream on initiative. |
I'm a cop's wife, having trouble with his need to protect me. He's hurt if I take too much initiative... |
MEAD'S ADVICE: by Beverly O'Neill; c.1977? 78? a dream on seeking a female rolemodel |
I try hard not to invade Margaret Mead's privacy, but I need her advice; after I find a fruit true growing in a forgotten room, she unbends... |
MERMAID VERSUS TRUMP: by Wayan, 2020/1/7, one of twin warning dreams |
Agents of Donald Trump with knives trap a mermaid. I jump one of them, and she escapes, towing me with her. She assumed humans just hate merfolk, but I know... CAUTION: HARSH WARNING ABOUT TRUMP |
MIKE DIANA, JAILED FOR SACRILEGE: by Wayan; 1994/6/23; a real-life nightmare. |
Unfortunately, this is not a dream at all... |
MISFITS ON MARS: by Wayan; 1986/11/20, an epic dream; the climax of the dreamseries UNICORN TAG. |
From the punk clubs of Frisco to the Safeways of Si Valley to the vermilion sands of Mars, Silky the were-nightmare fights for the Misfits against every cliche in science fiction... |
MOTHER SUPERIOR: by Wayan; 1999/2/18, a nightmare with psychic tinges. |
A creepy visit to the Leather Nuns: as fierce as Beorn in The Hobbit, but less hospitable... |
MS. TRUST: by Wayan; 1993/11/4, a dream of a guarded angel. |
I meet my own mistrust: an angel who can't trust ME! So she turns me into a football-playing ant... |
MY PLACE: by Wayan, 1998/2/21; an envious book review |
Sally Morgan, in her famous autobiography, details racism and family silence, but also her family's matter-of-fact acceptance of premonitions and dreams. I feel acceptance envy! |
NON-GHOSTS: by Wayan, 2022/2/5, a dream-poem on two... beings. |
I met two transparent spooks who insist "We're not ghosts! We were never human." I'm sure they're wrong; they've just forgotten. But I phone a witch, who confirms... |
OHLONE AT THE MALL: by Wayan; 1994/2/1, a dream of what matters |
I see two Ohlone women around 1900, starving, naked, despised, their land stolen--and still way happier than... CAUTION: NUDITY |
OLD AND IN THE WAY: by Wayan; 1999/5/3, a veiled predictive dream. |
On the street called Old And In The Way, I meet a psychic I crushed on as a kid, and then, in a hearth, fight the tentacled alien who's been stalking me... |
ON THE NIGHT RIDE HOME: by Wayan; 1971/11/8, a dream-poem on pushing past prejudice |
As I bike home at night, strange doings--a rat is sacrificed; gemstones delivered; an astronaut shows glowing alien objects; a second rat becomes a... firefighter? |
OPHIDIOPHOBIA: by Wayan; 1986/2/12, a dream on race and religion. |
I'm a therapist with a client diagnosed paranoid--but are his doctors racist? He's not just black, but scaly... |
OR... IS IT YOU?: by Wayan; 1990/2/11 nondream digital painting on marginality. |
When I was battered, I briefly lived on the streets. What struck me was how fragile most of us were... CAUTION: BRIEF BUT GRIM |
OTTERS DON'T FAKE: by Wayan; 1989/10/15, a sex dream that's not about sex at all. |
I'm scared to show my dream-paintings to my art class. That night I find an large otter in my bed... CAUTION: SEX |
OTTO SUGGESTION TO A HORSE IN DRAG: by Wayan; 1995/8/8, a dream on body image. |
My uncle mocks the racehorse he rides! Smears lipstick on this stallion, calls him a wimp... Why? CAUTION: DREAM PUN, NUDE MARES |
OUR GOVERNOR: by Wayan; 1990/3/28, an anti-death-penalty dream. |
I force the governor's chief aide to tour the new prisons for us artists, fags, and niggers. He's appalled--but how many more noses must I rub in the governor's racism? CAUTION: THE N-WORD |
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 |
OVARIES: by "Ann", as told by Gayle Delaney, 1979 or before, a curative dream | Ann had inflamed ovaries and faced surgery. She asked her dreams for a second opinion. She dreamt of voices and images saying "there's plenty of time for all this." She bathed peacefully in a river, meditated, gave easy birth to an infant, climbed a ladder to her law degree. She woke cured. Her next doctor said "you must've been misdiagnosed; you just thought you were in pain." CAUTION: SEXIST GASLIGHTING
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PEELING HER SKIN: by Wayan; 2020/10/20, a dream about the MeToo movement? |
A spacy friend rolls on the floor with me. Seduction, or play, or what? She peels off patches of clothes and skin, exposing a new realer self... CAUTION: TRUMP FANS WILL HATE IT |
THE PEGASI TUB: by Wayan; 2013/11/9, a fun, flirty dream I felt I didn't deserve |
After a rainy hike I'm cold and muddy. In the camp's hot tub, six girls splash and play. They welcome me, but I feel shy. They slowly become winged ponies! Were-Pegasi... CAUTION: HOT-TUB NUDITY |
PERISSA: by Wayan; 1997/9/13, a sexy dream-comic (small screen, slow loading? Illus. text) |
When Perissa, an exhibitionistic centaur, bares her body in a crowded Coliseum, she also bares a human-supremacist plot... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM |
PHARAOH HOOKS: by Wayan; 1989/7/31, a deadpan joke of a dream. |
My sister and her friend the snake-woman tell me the facts of life: the golden hooks, the piglets... CAUTION: UNRELIABLE GYNECOLOGY |
PRAISE THE DANCING GOONS: by Wayan; 2008/10/16, a dream-poem: Dreamverse 34 |
Three big tap-dancing kidnappers is too many to fight. So I try admiring their kidnapping technique... |
PROBLEMATIC ASSUMPTION: by Wayan; 1992/3/3, four sexy dreamlets exposing a delusion. |
DAY: In yoga class, a sexist teacher and angry student don't question assumptions I know are false... DREAMS: I flee sexy but underage Easter bunnies, fox-girl marathoners, a witch and a wolf in love... and a horde of single girls of all ages & species! I run away, because MY problematic assumption is... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, REVERSE SEXISM |
THE QUEEN'S WAR: by Marianna as told by Gayle Delaney, before 1994; 2 daddy's-curse dreams |
Marianna escaped her bossy dad, only to end up with a bossy countercultural boyfriend. In these two dreams she makes the connection, and faces that she's picking Napoleons... CAUTION: BLOODY BATTLE, BAD SEX |
HIS RACIST SON: by Wayan; 1994/1/8, an incubated dream offering two diagnoses |
Suddenly I hate and fear black kids in school! The counselor says I'm clinically paranoid: I need drugs! My dad says "How strange, how sad." And goes home to light a candle at his shrine to the Confederacy... CAUTION: INDUCED RACISM |
THE REAL MAO: by Wayan; 2006/7/9 and 7/11: two dreams (one possibly psychic) about an appalling book |
Jung Chang’s exposé of Mao's brutal deeds and legacy provoke dreams of leaders who don't listen--till I scream... |
REBELLION: by Roz Chast, 2023 or before, a dream on dreamwork? |
I was trapped in a Handmaid's Tale dystopia; I was a mannequin, naked & helpless. I couldn't even walk. But I hid one rebellious act: I kept a diary... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, CARTOON DYSTOPIA |
REJECT THE TRUMP GIG: by Wayan; 2017/7/5, a dream warning me not to sell out |
Now and then I model. I'm offered a gig doing ads for Trump--at $1000 a session! Tempting, but no. As I go home, my cabbie is shocked--"I'd take that gig!" "But would you really?"... CAUTION: HARSH TO COMPROMISERS |
RETURN FROM EXILE: by Anonymous #48, early 1994?, a fierce political dream |
I'm a rebel leader released from prison only to find my people beaten down and malnourished. I swear to eject our oppressors despite the price of war. ... |
REVOLUTION IS MESSY: by Emily Joy; 2006/4/26, a political dream |
When whites invade, two shapeshifting Native American cubs resist architecturally... |
RUBBISH: by Naguib Mahfouz; dreamed 2001? A dream of advice from the dead. |
My dead friend lost patience with the local dump, so I beat the trash--and out came shining people... |
THE RUNNING: by Wayan; 1997/9/27, a dream on sensitivity and the reverse. |
I couldn't make it to Spain to see the Running of the Bulls, so I found an American equivalent... |
SARITA'S DREAM: by Sarita Johnson, 1980/8/17, epic dream with a surreal ending |
Cops hunt my girlfriend & me all over town. Strangely, whenever I ask them to back off, they do! Alma's resigned--lets them arrest her and put her on a raft. But she turns into a... |
SAVED BY A CYMBAL: by Wayan; 2021/11/29, a dream punning about dreamwork! |
Stranded on an island where a marching band drowned, I escape by paddling across the Pacific using a rusty, er, cymbal... |
SEXUAL VERSUS SOCIAL SHYNESS: by Wayan; 2022/6/7, an advisory dream |
I meet two women: I lose my usual shyness around playful, sexy Lujenda, but I feel surprisingly shy around her brilliant cousin Lumina! I may have unfinished business... |
SHELDON SUES: by Wayan; 2016/6/23, a dream on meritocracy, egalitarianism & class war |
I'm a kid in Italian high school. A gifted classmate, Sheldon, provokes bullies. He sues the school to stop it. The prosecutor's reluctant... CAUTION: GIFTEDS AS A HATED MINORITY |
THE SHIP'S BOY: by Wayan; 1996/12/1, a dreamtale. |
Dinosaur people demand to take our Ship's Boy with them. But he knows them! They RAISED him? |
SHOVED OFF A CLIFF: by Wayan; 2017/9/7, a nightmare-warning (I'd asked what to do next). |
Atop a sea-cliff, I meet a young couple in love. One look at me and they push me off! When I see I can't save myself, I try to take them with me... CAUTION: NIGHTMARE BARING UGLY TRUTHS |
SILLA KRISTOS: by Silla Kristos, c.1634; a didactic during-death vision |
Silla Kristos angered Saint Walatta Petros, so she cursed him. He got sick and died. She knew she'd overdone it, and asked the Virgin Mary to revive him. Mary grumbled, but did. While dead, Silla Kristos got wise angelic advice... CAUTION: BRATTY SAINT, BRATTY MONK |
SING TO MY ALIEN FRIEND: by Wayan; 2017/3/7, a dream-poem on... alienation? |
From a crowd in a gym, I sing to my wolflike alien friend. But she can't recognize my voice-- too convincing a falsetto! I slide deeper, but once she heard a girl, she can't imagine... |
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 |
SOLNIT'S DOG FIXATION: by Wayan; 2017/4/2, an awkward dream mixing a writer I admire & one I don't |
I dream peaceful Rebecca Solnit turns into violent Valerie Solanis. Her excuse is, she was kidnapped and raped-- now she only trusts dogs. I mean, sexually, too... The dream warns that furries like me may relate to animals better, due to abuse by humans. If so, I've got more therapy to do.. CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES (text only; no abuse images) |
SOUL-SHARD: by Wayan; 2000/10/5, a rebellious dream |
I'm a wolf in an ashram studying astral travel with my spirit-wife. Our souls blend a bit, enraging our guru, a minor Hindu god, who sends demons to make us stop this spiritual "contamination"... |
THE SPELL BLURS WOMEN: by Wayan; 2013/5/5, a poem from a Lorelei dream |
In a creepy castle on the Rhine, whenever I'm near three women, they blur into one. A powerful spell! Now where have I seen this effect...? CAUTION: DISSES PATRIARCHAL RELIGIONS |
A SPHINX IN CLAY: by Wayan; 2017/2/25, a dream urging me to face my heritage. Also sculpt! |
I'm a half-sphinx--human dad, sphinx mom--stuck in human form so far. Will I ever learn to shift? I practice--sculpt my elegant feline future self... CAUTION: SPHINX NUDITY |
SPOTTED FAWN DODGES ARROWS: by Amanda Strong; 1998, a dream on the power of names |
Soon after I was given the name Spotted Fawn, I dreamed I was one, fleeing faceless hunters under the full moon. There's history in this... |
SQUEEZE LEGS FOR THAT LOVELY FEELING: by Wayan; 1988/11/14, nondream sex-fantasy in crayon |
I couldn't find the motivation to do enough figure studies unless they were sexy, so... CAUTION: SEX |
SQUIRREL GIRL: by Wayan; 1973/10/19, a dream poem of love & rockets |
Squirrel Girl and I try to find a private room, but Hal the mad computer in 2001 spies on us and our spaceship captain orders us to clean the ion tubes... CAUTION: SQUIRREL NUDITY |
STARVATION?: by Wayan; 1995/8/28, a journal extract on body image. |
On a poster of a model who's around my weight, someone's scrawled STARVATION IMAGERY... CAUTION: DEFENSE OF SKINNY PEOPLE |
STICKY FINGERS: by Wayan; 1997/4/18, a dream on self-judgment |
A woman masturbates constantly at work, then greets businessmen with her hot sticky handshake... CAUTION: SEX |
STILL DWARFED: by Wayan; 1991/5/31, digital portrait of dream-self vs. body-image. |
When I start feeling worthless, I paint myself. But which me? CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM |
STINKING RICH: by Wayan; 1993/1/20, a dream about class rage. Stupid class rage. |
I envy and resent a rich family's mansion so much I break in and sabotage their giant meat freezer... CAUTION: HOSTILITY, ENVY, WASTE OF BAD FOOD |
STRETCH NOW!: by Wayan; 1991/7/25 lost dream plus 1991/11/13 digital sketch |
DREAM: I was a cheetah seeking a book of cheetah rolemodels, but this specist librarian harassed me... PAINTING: months later, dream forgotten, I painted myself without knowing why as a cheetah stretching... |
TASTEBUDS AND LIARS: by Wayan; 1993/8/7, a dreamtale. |
I was warned Wolf-Cats turn on people, but I still befriended one. Now I'm looking down its throat... |
TELEKINETIC KIDS: by Wayan; 2017/9/8, a warning and exploratory dream |
A black separatist commune hides two little girls who are psychokinetic. They fear I'll expose them. But I've spent my whole life passing too... CAUTION: PARAPSYCHOLOGY, RACIAL SEPARATISTS |
THE TEMPLE COAT: by Gayle Delaney, fall 1972, a pastlife dream |
A ship-captain insisted some castoff clothes were mine. They fit. As I put on an elegant coat, I recalled it was made in a past life to disguise me so I could enter a temple excluding women... |
THAT'S NOT ART! THAT'S ART!: by Wayan; 1995/3/19, a true story |
An artist I know dismisses her (gorgeous) art as just therapy... while the museums are full of trash. Why? |
THEY FEED THEY LION: by Philip Levine; summer 1968; a poem from two dreams |
A workmate said "They feed they lion"; two dreams later, the poem emerged as you see it... CAUTION: POLITICAL RAGE, SURREALISM |
THOSE BITCHES! OOPS, I MEAN... GREAT GODDESS!: by Wayan; 1988/8/19, a dyslexic dream. |
I live in a beehive. We must mate with dogs. I'm assigned a bitch. But I'm allergic to gods! Oops, I mean... CAUTION: SEXUAL THEME, DOGGESS WORSHIP |
THREE-EYED WOLF: by Wayan; 1992/12/14. Digital comic of a dream, done movie-poster style |
A 'toon liberation dream. I cartooned a new self and slowly she grew realer, until she ran Disney... CAUTION: FRANK SINATRA SWEARS |
THE THREE VEILS BETWEEN MAN AND GOD: by Anna Kingsford, March 1881, a messianic dream. |
I was shown what veils the God in us: Blood (violence), Idols (dogmatism), and the Curse of Eve (sexism)... CAUTION: FUNDAMENTALISTS (OF ANY FAITH) WILL SEE RED |
TIGER CALLS MY BLUFF: by Wayan, 2022/10/8, a nighmare critiquing American positivism |
DAY: I hear Angela Duckworth (writer of Grit) talk on positive thinking. She thinks we're our own worst enemies. DREAM: I test my grit an African savanna--and outbluff lions! Unfortunately, that Siberian tiger won't be bluffed... CAUTION: TROUBLING ASSESSMENT OF... PUTIN? BULLIES IN GENERAL? |
TINA FEY TRIES TO FLY: by Wayan; 2017/4/24, a mystical feminist farce of a dream |
In a world where speech is in Mayan glyphs, comedian Tina Fey (dressed for prom night) climbs a Tibetan peak to learn levitation. But the flying monks are scared of women... CAUTION: COOTIES; ROWDY JESUS; MAY FLUNK THE BECHDEL TEST |
TITANIA: by Wayan; 1981/12/7, 83/1/7 & 2/13 and 84/10/2, a dream-epic in installments |
Clarence the sappy angel from It's A Wonderful Life and Milton's Lucifer land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're fine as is, but the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full palette of feelings. Like the feeling she's fake... |
UNICORNS, ARABIAN NIGHTS... STARSHIP?: by Wayan, 2023/12/3, a dream predicting 3 incompatible motifs |
I find myself on the bridge of a starship. But the décor is Arabian Nights--and half the crew are unicorns, grazing built-in flowerbeds. Some humans on board treat them as mere pets. But one's piloting the ship... CAUTION: PREDICTIVE |
A VALLEY NEAR HOPE: by Wayan; 1984/10/17-19, an epic dream. |
I wander a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who love unicorns but fear cyborgs, who love ants but fear unicorns! And while the Three Tribes squabble, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four aspects of my tetrahedral soul... CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING |
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 |
VIEWPOINT: by Wayan; 1991/6/9, a dream on pastlife amnesia. |
I ask to see my past lives, and dream of a viewpoint where I can--but this Mormon ranger... |
THE VOICE OF GOD: by Wayan, 1993/1/31, a psychic nightmare-epic. |
Half-mad with fear, I massacre a cult, till my gun manifests stigmata: a gory miracle. Then I'm a cultist, resisting the Voice of God pushing all us mortals to murder in His name. I woke up haunted, and wondered for weeks what this was about... until the Waco Massacre. CAUTION: CREEPY VIOLENCE, CREEPY GOD, CREEPY PREDICTION |
VOR: by Wayan; 1984/3/27, an indescribable dream |
Am I King Kong? No, it's a city of midgets! I leave and find I'm gay. Gay bugs come out of the closet too, storming the fundamentalist flies of Heaven. And then Vor, the purple alien, does something peculiar... CAUTION: LOOKS DOWN ON HOMOPHOBIC MIDGETS |
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 |
WEREDOGS AREN'T RACIST: by Wayan; 1974/3/31, a surreal sarcastic dream |
I'm a girljock waiting to see a movie when a weredog in line involuntarily shifts from dog to human, and a Berkeley radical takes offense at the symbolism... CAUTION: SNIPPY ABOUT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS |
WHERE IS MY MOTHER?: by Kelly Simon; 1992?; an epic time-traveling dream of roots |
I'm nine years old again. But my mom acts like a child--crawls into a hole. I follow, scared, and find my grandfather packing to leave the Old Country before the Nazis kill us all... CAUTION: FEAR & PERSECUTION |
WHY I BECAME THE SEA: by Wayan; 1980/6/19, a vengeful flying/transformation dream. |
I get so mad at some gaybashing cops and gangsters that I become the sea itself and chase them... CAUTION: UNCHARITABLE REPRESENTATION OF OUR SAINTS IN BLUE |
WILLPOWER (HAPPINESS): by Wayan; 1991/1/17, a didactic dream. |
At age 90, the first female high-rise steelworker tells me why she did it--and why she regrets it now... |
WINDFALLS IN EDEN: by Wayan, 2000/3/30, a religio-politic dream. |
I'm a part-owner of Eden, harvesting windfalls. But a renter says his Landlord promised him all the apples... |
WISHING RICOCHETS: by Wayan, 2017/7/18, a shamanic dream on will and restraint. |
Trapped in segregation-era Florida, I force a racist waitress to go bother someone else. Disastrously, she does. Someone more vulnerable. Self-assertion's not always wise... CAUTION: KLAN THREAT |
WITCH, FLY FREE!: by Wayan; 1997/5/3, a predictive dream. |
A castle of witches in Europe. Persecuted for centuries, they're wary. Still, such a treasure-trove of kindred spirits! Can I find a witch to love? CAUTION: PAGANS CRIPPLED BY SIEGE MENTALITY... |
A WOMEN'S WORLD: by Wayan; 1996/8/6, a psychic dream. |
I visit Earth during an all-female era. I'm a woman, can pass for local--so why do I lie to fit in? CAUTION: SEXIST SLUR |
YELLOWSTONE: by Wayan, 2022/5/3, a predictive dream of politics |
DREAM: I'm in Yellowstone, in a monstrous resort. Local tribes fight white exploitation of sacred land. NEXT MORNING: I read a Native American critique of racist land-theft in a TV show: Yellowstone... |
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