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ABJECT OBJECT: by Wayan; 1992, a nondream digital picture-prose-poem It's OK to be a sex object as long as you're also a subject. What's no fun is being an abject... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES |
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ALL TIED UP WITH THE PHONE: by Orion Sandstorrm; before 2002/5/25; a punning dream portrait. In a dark void, a bizarre six-armed fur named Shandra is tied up in phone cords. A phone rings, and Shandra coolly says... CAUTION: TELECOMMUNICATIONS BONDAGE? |
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AMBIVALENT? NO! (YES): by Wayan; 108K, 1990. Digital panorama of dream-characters. A chronological orgy of my self-images from childhood on: horses, geeks, girls, satyrs, boys, monsters... CAUTION: SEX |
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ANDROMEDA: by Wayan; dreamed 1987/12/30, crayon, 14x17" I dream of the legendary maiden chained to a rock, and the dragon--but they weren't as advertised... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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ANIMANGEL: by Wayan, 1980s-2010! An inky portrait-poem of my clashing guardian angels. My loud, spiky, tailed angel of change and potential, and my calm, skeptical devil of gradualism, a star-nosed mole... |
| ANOCHE / LAST NIGHT: by Antonio Machado; c. 1900; a joyful dream poem Last night, as I slept, I dreamt--illusion blessed!--that I had a beehive, here in my heart... |
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ANOREXIA NIRVANA: by Wayan; 106K, 1993, digital picture-poem of my astral reality. I was anorexic for years; I only mastered it when I saw it was a hunger for the spirit world... |
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AQUARINA PRODIGY: by Wayan; 2009/10/15, a dream poem with sketches; Dreamverse #60 A child prodigy stands out in a chorus line of waterdancers. Her body and energy are a patchwork of young and old... |
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ARIANE'S HONEYMOON: by Wayan; 1986/4/11, a short dream; chapter 2 of UNICORN TAG, a set of nine linked dreamtales. I'm happily married to a childhood crush of mine. Till she talks to my sister, and I overhear what she really thinks of...... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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ARMLESS: by Wayan; pencil tinted digitally, 1997; dream figures A strange horny frustrated being, part human part horse, who needs hands to grab the centaurs... CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL TENSION |
| THE BLIP: by Wayan; 1982/5/4, a brief dreamtale. A bubble of spacetime distortion lands in a very awkward place... |
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BONK VERONICA: by Wayan; 1997/4/1, 9 page dream-comic (1.3Mb total) The world's first all-bulemic band, Veronica and the Vomits, provokes a riot at our local punk club. So I go to Anorexic Bootcamp and join an army of models learning self-defense under fire, as calories and fat jokes whiz by... CAUTION: BARF, HORNY ANOREXIC, FOOD FIGHT |
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BOX: by Wayan; 1991? Digital self-portrait as dreamer trapped on the Web.. So exactly how is posting all these dreams different from crawling naked inside your screen?. CAUTION: NUDITY |
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BOY BODY: by Wayan; dreamt 1960, drawn 1996; a dream and comic on body image A recurring childhood dream on how weird a boy-body is when you've been a girl too many lifetimes. CAUTION: PUBLIC HUMILIATION, NUDE MONSTERS, SILLY GENITALIA |
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BOY TRANCE: by Wayan; 1989, a digital sex change. Boys still get portrayed as businesslike in sex, girl as floating orgasmic jellyfish. Time for a sex change... CAUTION: SEX AND LIMP RUBBER ARMS |
| 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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| THE BROADS: by Wayan; 1978/11/19, a dream on lowlife potential. Everyone wears a big cowboy beltbuckle. Twist it and your bodymass re-distributes! But mine... CAUTION: CRASS AND CRUDE |
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THE CAMBODIAN GIRL: by Wayan; 125K, 1996/4/2 dream illustrated by sculpture, 2000. VERY mixed media--the boat is warped wood. And the story is warped more... CAUTION: SEXUALLY SUGGESTIVE AND QUITE EMBARRASSED ABOUT IT |
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CENTAUR: PAULINA AT SUNSET: by Wayan; 210K, 1988? Dream-influenced life studies Worried you're anorexic? Gain weight, yet stay slender! Become a centaur, like model Paulina Porizkova... CAUTION: NUDITY and BODY IMAGE/ANOREXIA ISSUES |
| CHELSEA AND THE PRESIDENTIAL COMPLEX: by Wayan; 1999/12/25, an odd political (?) dream. I was hot tubbing and flirting... so how'd I end up as Chelsea Clinton running for office? |
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CHUNKS, or, BABEZILLA!: by Wayan; two dreams 1990/10/4 and 1991/9/4 told as digital comics. I meet a giant psychic baby feared by 12-step people. So I go to the beach and find I'm a shark-bit girl who can have her missing chunks sewn back in--if I still have room for them... |
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CLONE BREAKUP (illus. text) or CLONE (5p. comic): by Wayan; 1994/2/27, a psychic dream on the need to stand out. I model with ten blonde clones. They want to be seen as individuals, so it's their last fashion show before they... |
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CLOTHES MAKE THE HERO: by Wayan; 1995/4/9, a dream of the power of tackiness. I always laughed at those silly superhero outfits. But when it's my turn to fly, I find out why... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
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COMETS STRUCK MY GIRLFRIEND: by Wayan; a 1998/8/9 dream painted on a 12" record. I knew my new girlfriend was the large economy size but I didn't realize she was a gas giant until... CAUTION: FLATULENT PLANETARY NUDITY |
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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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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... |
| DAWN'S DIVORCE: by Dawn Z; 2002/3/1-21, an outrageous dream sequence While going through a painful breakup, I kept having sexy, lucid, psychic dreams... |
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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.. |
| 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? |
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| MY DEWCLAW: by Wayan; 1997/6/30; dreams within dreams within dreams Body after body is peeled away revealing truth inside truth... CAUTION: GROTESQUE |
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| DINOSAUR GAITS: by Wayan; 1998/11/1, a dream on independence. My paleontologist mom can scuttle like a lizard, so why can't she manage a dinosaur gait? |
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| THE DISPLAY: by Wayan; 1997/10/17, a natural history dream. I'm trapped in a nature documentary about mating displays among humans... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, PBS NARRATION, AND OTHER EMBARRASSMENTS |
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DO YOU LOVE ME, JOHN?: by Wayan; 1991/7/6, a dream on the courage of the shy. I dream of a future where blondes are a too-cute endangered species. How can they survive? Like this... CAUTION: NUDITY |
| DOLLY'S TAROT: by Wayan; 1995/9/5, a dream on roles. Tarot with Dolly Parton. But I piss her off. "Men! You think I'm dumb, cuz of my tits!" She fixes THAT... CAUTION: STUPID BREAST HUMOR BUT AT LEAST IT'S NOT GRUESOME |
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| DREAM ON DREAMS: by Wayan; 1994/5/31, a dream in a dream in a dream. I'm the composer Schumann, till a nightmare jumps me and I wake. And wake. And wake... |
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DUCK!: by Wayan; 1988. Digital painting of a dream, 1987/6/5. I was on one of those package dream-tours--an hour here, a scene there. But then in Patagonia... CAUTION: CREEPING PAGANISM |
| DURING DREAM-DROUGHT: by Wayan; 1997/5/7, a journal exerpt. Sitting in an eviction-lawyer's waiting room, of all places, I discover my next artistic direction... |
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| ECTOPIC: by Wayan; 1996/7/3, a tragic transsexual dream. My stomach ache is an ectopic pregnancy. The embryo's doomed. Surgery. And I'm a man... |
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EEL TOWER: by Wayan; 1981/4/23, a dream of longing. I dreamed living in a body of flesh is like being trapped on a sinking cruise ship... CAUTION: NUDITY (but she's just crying, not giving that guy a blowjob, okay?) |
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ELEGANTE (ELLE EST GAUNTE): by Wayan; 1983, nondream body-image painting. Every year, as Americans get fatter, the fashion gets thinner (and I look more normal)... |
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FASCION: by Wayan; 1992. Digital poster on gender A sardonic little poster on dating-role reversal with helpful advice... CAUTION: NUDITY AND INTRUSIVE PHALLUS |
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FOOT CREVASSE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/7/11; a dreampainting from the Box of Dreams I dream my foot has a huge bloody crevasse. But I study it calmly... |
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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. This year four needs came up over & over... |
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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 EYES!: by Wayan; 1984/5/28, a metaphoric dreamlet. I started life as twins, but slowly we fused. I still have four eyes, though. Then, one day... |
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FOUR-LEGGED MONK: by Centaurquad; June 1983; a sexy transformation dream My boyfriend's a student in an exotic monastery. But under his robe, he's gotten a bit exotic himself... CAUTION: SEXUAL DREAM |
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GEEK SHORTAGE: by Wayan; 135K, 1990-95. Digital panorama on body image--literally. A narrative mural on the sexiness of dancers, as I became one--at the moment I lost my old geeky self... |
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GET YOUR BODY BACK: by Wayan; 1997/6/11, a dreamed parable. A man dies--his body's chopped up. He ends in Hell. But he's a stubborn guy; he wants his body back. So... |
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GIRL WITH A PROBLEM: by Wayan; 1997/4/12, a surreal dream. I date a girl with a mysterious syndrome, but soon I become a monkeyfaced con-man. And SHE becomes... |
| MY GLASS BODY: by Wayan; 1993/9/16, a dream on sensitivity. After I visit the Glass People, a young glass wizard stalks me home to the Meat World, and says... |
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GOD-SHIELDS: by Wayan; 1990/8/21, a confusing dream of growth. I'm a fat guy hired as a temp by some unethical gods. Or are they trying to teach me something? |
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GOOD DOG!: by Wayan; 1992; sketch of inner me: doggily insecure. The shy, doggy need for reassurance I often crave from a lover--do I crave a mistress, an owner?... CAUTION: NUDITY, PILLOW TALK |
| THE HEAVIEST FLYER ON EARTH: by Wayan; 1979/1/25, a dream of clumsy flight I can't turn into a bird like all my friends. The most I can do is grow wings and try to fly, solid-boned...
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HOLD HEAD: by Wayan; 1993; nondream digital sketch. This started as an exercise in dramatic figure-drawing and shifted round into an exorcise in guilt... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL CONFESSIONS |
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HUMBLE THREE-EYED GIRL: by Wayan; 2008/12/30, a dream on giftedness and shame I meet a circle of students with up to five eyes. The lone three-eyed girl is embarrassed, ashamed she's merely attained enlightenment... |
| HYDROGEN INITIATION: by Wayan; 1981/1/6, a shamanic nightmare. I'm an initiate in a Sung Dynasty monastery. But I have no idea how far the hazing can go... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
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I LOST 400 POUNDS!: by Wayan; 1993/6/24, a motivational dream. A gorgeous healer bursts through the wall to tell me "I used to weigh 500 pounds. It kept sex away! But..." |
| I WANT MY INHERITANCE: by Wayan; 1989/12/18, an obsessive dream. My relatives call me a blonde bimbo and won't give me my inheritance, so I take drastic steps... CAUTION: MORAL HAIRSPLITTING |
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I'M ALL EARS, DR. ESTES: by Wayan; 1995/6/7, not a dream, a portrait of a radio-trance. Clarisa Pinkola Estes (who runs with the wolves) was on the radio, and this popped out of my mouse... |
| I'M AN INTERSEX AND I'M OKAY: by Wayan; 1992/11/7, a body-image dream. I discover I'm not exactly a man OR a woman; so why not throw out their standards and roles and be me? CAUTION: SEXUAL SELF-EXAM |
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| JENNIFER MONTGOMERY: by Wayan; 1995/4/24, a journal extract Her film about her teenage affair with a pedophile is troubling enough before the FBI steps in to blackmail her... CAUTION: MOLESTATION/ABUSE ISSUES |
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| 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... |
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LOBSTER ECSTASY: by Wayan; 1970/11/1?, a teenage lobster love dream. One of my first recorded dreams--how I foolishly turned away from Lobster Love... CAUTION: CHITINOUS SEX |
| LONGEVITY PLANS!: by Wayan; 1998/8/22, a nondream speculation. Lifespans are growing, but do we incorporate that into our life-planning? Oh, hell, do I plan at ALL? |
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| LOVE DAY: by Wayan; 1989/3/21, a sitcom dream. On Love Day you can't mock anyone's come-on, of course; but in the bar "Cheers", Carla's mad at Diane... CAUTION: PRO-BIGAMY? |
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LUCID GIRDERS: by Wayan; 1993/8/18, an illustrated dream about dreaming. Stayed up late, painting foreshortening. Then I saw a scene in color, motion, 3D, and knew I had to be dreaming: I was visualizing too clearly, THINKING too clearly, to be awake... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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LUCID LIVING: by Wayan; 125K, 2007/4/8, a quasi-lucid dream of the future, with 6 illustrations Honesty induces a joyful state with lucidlike powers. So I bike across the Lake of Time, open the book of my future, and see... CAUTION: SEXY SKETCHES FROM THE FUTURE |
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THE MAD UNVEILERS: by Marie-Claude Girondé, early 2009, a dream painting. The dancers, in a frenzy, stripped themselves. Not just their clothes; themselves... |
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MAKING PROGRESS STANDING STILL: by Wayan; 1990/10/1; a healing dream cartooned. I dreamed I slowly climbed out of guilty longing to an exciting climax on the Escalator of Love... CAUTION: CARTOON SEX, NUDITY, GENDER POLITICS |
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MANATEE: by Wayan; 1992. Digital nondream painting. Beauty's link to status and privilege bothers me. The pretty get perks (or parks), while we uglies... CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, AND A BLOOD FLOWER |
| MATRONIZED: by Wayan; 1996/5/25, a real-life vignette. An older woman I know nags me about food. Suddenly my mind flips our genders and weights... |
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MEDITATION BLUES: by Wayan, 1983, nondream sketches of meditative state. Meditation's hard for me; I expect to turn on instantly, like a lamp plugged into Enlightenment... |
| MINOR SURGERY: by Wayan; 1999/2/2, a dream misinterpreted. A man goes in for minor surgery and wakes up changed. I feel creepy, but for all the wrong reasons... |
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| A MISCARRIED LIFE: by Wayan; 1981/2/12, a short dreamfable. I'm Hattie, a pregnant girl on a Lewis and Clark expedition. I miscarry, and they tell me... |
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THE MAD UNVEILERS: by Marie-Claude Girondé, early 2009, a dream painting. The dancers, in a frenzy, stripped themselves. Not just their clothes; themselves... |
| THE MAN WHO MISTOOK...: by Wayan; 1995/9/19, an insane dream. I'm just an ordinary guy, who beats his son so he'll grow faster, and sees tits on drinking fountains... |
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MODELING A ME: by Wayan, 1994/8/29, a mirroring dream I find a 3D program that shows your true self, the self that can love, IS love. And my wireframe is... |
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MOLLY'S PROSTHETIC: by Wayan, 1994/9/22, a dream of handy advice. My dad's new wife is a collie. Naturally, she wants a prosthetic arm. But she has no site to bind it to... CAUTION: BREAST-OBSESSED BUSINESSMAN, DOG WIFE |
| THE MOUNTAIN, THE MAGPIE AND THE ROAD: dreamed 2013/3/26 by Rustling Leaves; an issue-baring nightmare
I visit a beautiful artificial mountain with loved ones--but my demons overwhelm me one by one. CAUTION: SUICIDAL FEELINGS, BODY HATE/FATPHOBIA, IMPLIED RAPE |
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MY SINE-FRIEND: by Wayan; 1984/3/6, an emotional dream of time and rebirth. An animal-girl I know lives like a sine-wave, first forward in time, then backwards, dying at every zero... |
| NO FINGERS: by Wayan; 1993/10/6, an indirectly predictive dream. My therapist has no fingers. A fingerless man intrudes on my session, and they use up my hour talking... |
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| OHLONE AT THE MALL: by Wayan; 1994/2/1, a dreamfable. I see two Ohlone women around 1900, starving, naked, despised, their land stolen--and still happy... |
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ON HER FOURTH BODY: by Wayan; 1993/11/25, a psychic dream-comedy. A cute cow-singer on her fourth body-transplant solves the gravity-riddle that's stumping Mr Spock... |
| ONLY A PIECE OF PAPER: by Wayan; 1980/12/15, a dreamsong. Kate Wolf sings that ads are way dirtier than porn. But my memory slowly twists her message... |
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| 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? |
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PASSION: by Katie Hofgard; 100K, 2006, an undream portrait of a complex woman. Talk about mixed messages! Or... is it really? CAUTION: NUDITY, SLIGHT FIRE HAZARD |
| POISONED!: by Wayan; 1994/6/20, three linked dreams. Poison takes many forms, from attitudes to environmental by-products to actions done deliberately... |
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POKEY?: by Wayan; 1993/4/15, a dreamtale on my soul. My lover's turned into a tiny living pull-toy, trapped ankle-deep in a wheeled platform. Can I free her? |
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POPEYE MUSCLES: by Wayan; 1986/7/14, a grotesque dreamtale. My body turns protean: big Popeye muscles pop out as needed, relaxing into stick-figureness... |
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THE POWER OF MOONLIGHT: by Carla Young, 2010/1/2; painting of a dream image I wish I could be as body-free as my neighbor Jenna, hiking nude under the full moon... |
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PSYCHO-EGG: by Wayan; 1994/8/31, a diagnostic dreamtale. I'm shown a crystal egg with a model of my mind in it. The mapping is unmistakable. How embarrassing!: |
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RAISE YOURSELF!: by Wayan; 1998, 17" mixed media sculpture; nondream . Why wait for the Rapture when you can use a chinup machine and raise yourself off that cross?... CAUTION: NUDE PSEUDO-CRUCIFIXION, SACRILEGIOUS SELF-HELP |
| THE ROYAL NONESUCH: by Wayan; 1988/4/15, a dream on the media. My mom and sister take me to see a bondage film. But the movie steals my pants! I should have known... CAUTION: WORSE THAN PEEWEE HERMAN |
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SEA MASSAGE: by Wayan; 100K, 1995/10/3, a puzzling dreamtale. I can fly and breathe water. So I fly into art-rich mansions, though not to steal--I earn plenty from undersea massage... |
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SELF-MADE COW: by Wayan; 2013/4/10, a surreal psychic dream. I'm in Santa Cruz with my friend, a shocking-pink stuffed toy cow with sewed-on accessories: big red lips, a floral wig, and a third eye. I wake, draw the cow--and my sister calls from Santa Cruz to sing me a song about... |
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SELF-MADE GIRLS: by Wayan; 2000/2/15, a public dream. Two souls coalesce from bars of light into human beings by the power of words. Words like stupid, ugly... |
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SELF-PORTRAIT AS A YOUNG COYOTE: by Wayan; 1999. Acrylic on wood, 23 x 15". Portrait of a dream self. I'm more a dream artist than a realist, but one day I set up a mirror and looked in it... |
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SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CONVOLUTED TONGUE: by Wayan; early Sept. 1999. Pencil mirror-drawing. Einstein's tongue got its own poster, why shouldn't mine? But let's see even the Ein Tongue do this... |
| SEVEN SQUARED: by Wayan; 1994/2/18, a dream about the IQ closet. In our wizard-war, I've hidden my nature. At last I come out; but I can't tell the whole truth... |
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SHAMANIC CHEW-TOY: by Wayan; 2011/3/16; nested dreams of strange women Compulsively honest spirit-women with waterjugs invade my friend's house. I wake to find my girlfriend's obsessing on hair loss. To calm her, I babble about limb loss... and wake again to find she was a dream too. |
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SHAPESHIFTER FEVER: by Wayan; 1989/1/30, a dream poem. A summer love affair with a shapeshifting alien turns awkward when she gets a high fever, and... CAUTION: UGH! |
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SHHHH!: by Wayan; 628 x 318, 1981, ink drawing. A sudden image of a woman whose other lips not only talked, they wouldn't shut up. Worse yet, they... CAUTION: NUDITY |
| SHOCKWAVE: by Wayan; 1996/7/27, a predictive nightmare. My childhood home explodes into a vast pyroclastic cloud that comes boiling toward me, miles away... CAUTION: DOOM |
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SHY NO MORE: by Wayan; 2008/8/13. A dream poem, Dreamverse #3 I play the lovers in a teen romance: shy abused boy, insecure girl. But I get tired of the script, and... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
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SILKY CROSSES THE ATLANTIC: by Wayan; dreamed 1982/8/24, painted 1994 (acrylic/ink/xerox). After I fled my batterer, I was afraid to love--afraid I'd give up my freedom again for mere kindness... |
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SISTERS OF THE INTERFACE: by Wayan; 1983/12/21, a shamanic dreamtale. My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet... |
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THE SKIN'S COMPLAINT: by Wayan; 1996/11/17, a dreamtale. A huge rubbery mass of skin complains I made it sick. I get tired of its whining, and... |
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THE SOLE FISHER OF THE EIGHTH NODE: by Wayan; 1986/9/25, a prescriptive dream. The pier jutting into the sea of dreams has an 8th chakra at the end, where a lonely woman fishes for, um, sole... |
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THE SPARE: by Wayan; 1998/6/9, a disorienting dreamtale. I wake to find I have two penises, one connected, one free-floating! How do its sensations reach my brain? CAUTION: WANDERING WEENIES! |
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SPRINTERS AND SPHINX: by Wayan; 2009/11/13, a dream poem. Divers made of ice swept the Traffic-Leaping Olympics. Did they cheat? I sought my friend the Sphinx... |
| SQUASH WITH WHITE SAUCE: by Wayan; 1983/12/17, not a symbolic dream, no no I'm in a department store trying on clothes when I notice there's a large zucchini growing from my crotch... CAUTION: SQUASHY PENIS, ICKY RECIPE |
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| 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 |
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STILL DWARFED: by Wayan; 1991? Digital portrait of dream-selves, body-images. When I start feeling worthless, I paint myself. But which me? CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM |
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SUCK MY CONE!: by Wayan, 1995/1/11, a bluesy dream. Nerds built the blues. Rick Moranis, famous blues-nerd, makes a groupie suck his ice cream cone... CAUTION: MOCKS MUSIC, RACE, VANILLA ICE (CREAM)... |
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A SUDDEN SEX CHANGE: by Wayan; 1994/4/18, a wish-fulfilling dream. Walking down the street, I suddenly change sex! At first I'm happy, but I find unexpected disadvantages... |
| SUNLIGHT'S THE CURE: by Wayan; 1990/12/29, a dreamtale. I find the cure for an alien plague, then visit the world it came from, to find it has a curious variant... CAUTION: SEX CUSTOMS OF THE NEWT PEOPLE! MY COUSIN'S GAY WEDDING! |
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| SURPRISE THAT PENIS: by Wayan; 1986/2/18, a subtly psychic dream. I hijack a Lacewing Chopper to install a new rubber-band engine, but the motor becomes a talkative penis, and... CAUTION: ONE WEIRD WEENIE |
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SWISS-CHEESE FAIRY: by Wayan; 120K, dreamed 1983/7/15, sculpted early 2000: ceramic, wire, and silk, 17" I met an elfin girl who's tattooed realistic vaginas all over her body, as... decoys? For she has... CAUTION: NUDITY, TATTOOS, TABOOS... |
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THE SWORD DANCE: by Wayan; 1988/4/29, a psychic dream. I visit my friend Xanthe's lungs, where a swordswoman in a red bikini gives me a unicorn. The next day... |
| TAKE STOCK OF YOUR PELVIS: by Wayan; 1981/1/11, a symbolic not-quite-sex dream. A friend, stockpiling for Armageddon, makes me see that I value something peculiar: the knowledge of... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
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TAROT: THE ANOREXIC DANCER: by Wayan; 30K. Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. The card of excessive self-denial, whether compulsive or artistic or spiritual... |
| 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... |
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TITANIA: by Wayan; 1983/1/7 and subsequent nights; an epic dream of love Clarence the sappy angel from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and Milton's Lucifer, noblest Devil of them all, land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're perfect, and the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me, and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full range of feelings. Too bad one is the feeling she's fake... |
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TOES: by Wayan; 7K, 1990 Digital nondream image My foot is a torso and my toes sprout conflicting personalities... CAUTION: STUPID CARTOON NUDITY |
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THE TORTURER: by Wayan; 1997/7/13, a predictive nightmare A traveling torturer chooses me for his victim. He has the right. I bluster, but when at last I have to sleep... CAUTION: NO PAIN, BUT GORE |
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TWISTED!: by Wayan; 510K, 2003/6/23, 18 images; a nondream experiment I twirled pinups into surreal not-quite-abstracts, to see just how twisted sex could get... CAUTION: NAKED PRETZELS |
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UGLY AND HAPPY: by Wayan; 640 x 400, ca. 1991, digital finger-painting. I try to make beauty, try to be beauty, but all the while, this voice keeps snickering... |
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AN UNDERCOVER TROLL: by Wayan; 1994/7/6, a dream of personal growth taken too far... Disguised as a literary troll, I spy on the Neo-Nazis, but it can't last: I ate a magic herb, and I'm growing... |
| 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 treatment has an effect... |
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| THE UNMAKING OF A DANCER: by Wayan; 1994/5/22, a journal extract on dance and health. Ballerina Joan Brady quit, but ten years later, returned. Her body rejuvenated! So what can MINE do? |
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UTOPIA: by Wayan; 37 p, 3.9 MB, 2007/5/9, a painted essay on... wishes? An improvised painting-series exploring my obsession for Utopia--and your deafening silence... CAUTION: IDEAS, FURRY NUDITY, THAT GOSH-DARN MODERN ABSTRACT ART |
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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 |
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WARIA: by Wayan; 640 x 450, 1989, digital image based on a 1987/3/23 dream. My life was a sex disaster. I made myself ugly and sick. But then one night I dreamed I found a healer... WARNING: NUDITY |
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WAYAN SAYS: by Wayan; 1992-94. Digital portrait of dream-self I'm a lean loose cheetah who works best in short bursts and long rests. I overwork when I get too human... |
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WENDY NEGLECTED: by Wayan; 1996/7/22, a paradoxical dream. Ari neglects Wendy till she doubts she's sexy. I show her she is. But am I using her too? CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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WERE-TROUT: by Wayan; 1997/8/2, a dating-advisory dream. I'm a one-legged hopping hermit in the ruins of LA, and my only hope for love is to conjure a girl from a... |
| WOMBERS: by Wayan; 1997/8/23, a journal entry on peace-at-any-price personalities Nancy Friday describes a certain kind of guy disturbingly like me, and I realize chronic illness has made me... |
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| WORM WIZARD, or, TITMAN'S CHAIR: by Wayan; 1997/4/23, a dream of bamboozlement. In the castle of a wizard who's a were-worm, I let myself become my best friend's chair! Generous, huh? |
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WYVERN: by Wayan; 1997, 22" ceramic sculpture; recurring dream figure. I dreamed of a dragon-woman on a reef. She was my guardian, but she let me drown! She had her reasons... CAUTION: SCALY NUDITY |
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YUM YUM!: by Wayan; 1985/1/31, a smelly dream. At work, a toxic potluck. I say no! And dream I'm a scent-oriented alien tossing back stink-grenades... |
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ZELIG FLIES: by Wayan, 1984/4/29, a psychic, lucid dream epic. Indescribable! I careen from a sacrificial marriage-altar to the secret pool of the Oracle Harpist, into the jaws of Leviathan and the joys of lucid flight, shifting from male to female and gay to straight--till I meet the Dragonfly People themselves... CAUTION: STUPID, STUPID SEX CULT! |
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ZYGOTE: by Wayan; 104K, 600 x 640, 1999. It's true: after death, angels advise you where to go next. But what if you get an over-eager travel agent?
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