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AFTER THE FLOOD & THE PIG-EARED BABY ALLIGATOR: by Skiznot; c.1995, an oracular dream My hometown floods. I swim after some strange fish and find a scientific community where a scaled baby tells me who I am... |
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AIRPLANE DISASTERS: by Jack Kerouac, early Aug? 1954, a helpless-witness nightmare An indestructible camera relentlessly shows me what passengers feel on every crashing plane... CAUTION: PAINFUL READING |
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AMERICAN TANKA: by Wayan; dreamed 1989/7/26, painting-poem-story on 30" disk, 1995. I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night... |
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AT A CALIFORNIA CAMP: by Jack Kerouac, spring 1955, a nuclear testing nightmare My family and I are prisoners in a camp that will be H-bombed so our remains can be studied. I write a Buddhist poem preparing for death... CAUTION: GOVERNMENT ATROCITY |
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AWKWARD ENLIGHTENMENT: by Wayan; 2010/1/13; a dream of spiritual and practical advice Anxious about a big party, I dream of being crowded. But a cat-centaur in the crowd attains sudden enlightenment... |
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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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THE BOULDER DISSOLVES: by Myoe Shonin; mid Dec. 1230, an old monk's dream of liberation I was trapped inside a boulder, but as I chanted it melted around me until it resembled a discarded skin... |
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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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THE BRIDGE: by Wayan; a 3-page comic from two linked dreams, 1989/5/28 & 1989/10/1. The Hunt of the Unicorn (yeah, guess who I am), as I fly through the worlds fighting Reaganism... CAUTION: MOCKS THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR |
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BUDDHA BEARS: by Wayan; 1994/12/10. Digital sketch of a dream image I forgot was a dream! Gosh, I'm speechless. How Zen! Market me at once! CAUTION: MOCKS RELIGION. OR ADVERTISING. ONE OF THOSE. |
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CAMERA STRIKE: by Wayan, 1996/10/19, a dream within a dream with a point. I dream I'm a lemur-girl in an emotional maze. I wake to find I'm really a satyr cartoonist. Funny, we have a lot in common! I wake to find... CAUTION: PHALLIC SATYRE |
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CELLPHONE HEAVEN: by Alder, 2008/8/28, a dream of practical sainthood I visit a Tibetan monastery with great cellphone reception from the gods. But all their calls are messages to pass on to others--none for us... |
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THE CIRCUS HUMANS' DESERTION: by Wayan; 1988/2/19; a holy dream. I join a circus, but soon all the best carnies sail off to the Blessed Isles. The circus animals pitch in and carry on--clumsy and lonely. Then a divine herald arrives from the Isles: Donald Duck! He says... |
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CRONE AND SAGE AT THE MALL: by Wayan; 1991/6/22, a mystical dream-sonnet about malls. I dream up a shining mall. At a booth selling herbs I meet my mentors, Crone and Sage. They tease me for building a venue so banal. But I tease right back: "This place shapes you..." CAUTION: CRITIQUES BUDDHIST PURITY |
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CROSS THE BLACK RIVER ONE DEATH AT A TIME: by Wayan; 1990? Astral landscape Buddhism is a 12-step program; it has its pitfalls for those of us who already detach all too easily... |
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DARUMA DOLLS: by Wayan; late 1994. Nondream digital sketch. One of Aline Kominsky's comix has her in a bar and a guy asks "Que pasa, muñeca?" and... CAUTION: CONVERSATIONAL FETUSES |
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DREAM-DENIERS: by Wayan, 2014/5/31, a dream contemplating the meaning of dreams In a museum I talk to a stained-glass artist who's a dreamworker like me. But a meme seems to be spreading that says dreams mean absolutely nothing... CAUTION: ADVANCED DREAMWORK |
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A DREAMKU PRIMER: by Roswila; 2007; how-to guide to dream haiku Distilling a dream to one key image can clarify it. But don't be ruled totally by traditional haiku form... |
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DREAMKU, JUNE 2006: by Roswila; various dates up to June 2006; thirty dream-haiku Daily dream-poems in haiku style, nonstop for a month. A flood of animals, revenant ghosts, sex changes... |
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DRINK THE DOVE: by Myoe Shonin; c.1202/9/11, a pre-Surrealist surreal dream The sparrow died in the ashes, but the dove in my hands became a blue cloud. I drank it, thinking "This will benefit us all"... |
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FEVER HILL: by Wayan; 1991/4/13, a comic Buddhist nightmare. My fever-dreams manifest physically and mess up my whole neighborhood. Seismic inspectors arrive... |
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FOR THE FIRST TIME: by Jack Kerouac, Nov? 1954, a lucid dream of escaping a rut I've climbed a cliff and cower on the brink; but for for the first time I need not fall or retrace my dangerous path down. I know I'm dreaming, and wake... |
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FORKS AND SAUCERS: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a dream on when to quit Tibet, 1910. I find a cult whose ancestors manned a radar station that shot down flying saucers. But were the aliens really hostile? I'm not so sure... |
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GABORS: by Jack Kerouac, late Jan. 1954, a dream of celebrity delusion Starlets Zaza and Eva Gabor grow old shopping, smiling, covering their fears, until... |
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GRIEF KIVA: by Wayan; 1980/2/16, a lucid psychic dream. In a Hopi underworld, I find even lucid dreaming can't cure guilt and grief over losses yet to come... |
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GROUND ZERO: by Al Davison; 2001/9/9, a predictive dream-comic. Two days before 9/11, I dream I'm a child at ground zero, mourning the devastation--and witnessing rebirth. |
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HELL CAFE: by Wayan; 2009/10/21, a dream poem w/sketch; Dreamverse #62 A Buddhist scroll shows me Hell Cafe, where diners become entrees. But I read the scroll backwards! You can escape Hell just by walking out, against the traffic flow... CAUTION: CANNIBAL SOULS |
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HIGHER LEVEL: by Wayan; 2011/12/13, an absurd transcendent dream I paddle through the grim streets of Karachi on my belly, on a skateboard, with my flipper-hands, until at last I reach the border to a Higher Realm... |
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HILLMAN ON DAIMONS: by Wayan; 1998/9/7, on Greco-Roman and Jungian ideas of a life-goal James Hillman and my own experience suggest we enter life with an agenda. But what if our goals are sick? |
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HIS MINE: by Wayan; 1985/12/2, a wild dream epic. I'm a hobbit seeking Henry Fonda's haunted gold mine. And find it. Or is that chocolate? But I get caught in a shamanic showdown in a bar where they serve real spirits...
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HOW TO SURVIVE NUCLEAR WAR: by Maxine Kumin; early 1980s, a dream poem. |
In Japan, sick in bed, reading a book on radiation sickness, I dream of a restorative ritual for trees... CAUTION: GRUESOME |
HUNT AND PECK: by Patagia; 1997/6/16, a dream on the creative non-struggle. |
I’m a brown sparrow scratching in the dirt, looking for bugs. Focused, tireless, I hunt and peck... |
I ALSO DREAMED...: by Jack Kerouac, Summer 1958? an early dream of the world as a simulation. |
I also dreamed the world was a mathematical abstract, like, by subtracting 740 from 1000 you got 260 which meant 'Egg' more or less, so if you wanted an egg you had the egg... |
ID FLOWERS: by Wayan; 1989/10/8, a dream of wish and fear |
The villagers warned me not to walk in the alien graveyard; for at night, the Id flowers wake... |
THE ILL-FORMED TALE: by Wayan; 160K, 1981/4/7, a wild dream anti-epic. |
To reach the Peak of Happiness on the Isle of Dreams, I must pass four Perils--but they're all backwards... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS NUTS, KNIVES, NUDE ALIENS, BACKWARD PLOT... |
IMMOLATION MAZE: by Richard Turner; 1973, a nightmare expanded into both sculpture & story |
Saigon, 1973. Lost in a fabric maze. I find, wearing Buddhist robes, the skeleton of a dog. Years later I write of Buddhist monks burning themselves, and build an ominous maze... CAUTION: SUICIDES BY FIRE |
THE INCIDENCE OF BUDDHAS: by Wayan; 1996/4/24, a dream testing me. |
I'm in a mall that enlightened customers alter with a thought. But too many Buddhas spoil the architecture... |
JADE JACKPOT, or, A HEAP O' CHANGE: by Wayan; 1990/1/7, a dream of shaking down God. |
I'm slipping dimes into a boulder of jade: a vending machine that fills every order wrong. Why feed it? Well... |
THE KEYRING OF ATTACHMENTS: by Wayan; 1974/5/31, a dream gone too far. |
Swayed by sinister surgeons, I go all Buddhist and give up my attachments, including various organs... CAUTION: DIVESTABLE GENITALIA |
LEARNING SCALES: by Wayan; 1985/6/26, an epic dream of Chinese dragons. |
I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost. We need an Imperial Dragon... |
LION-MEN: by Wayan; 1995/7/9, an eye-opening dreamlet. |
I'm a traveling Zen warrior talking to a circus girl in a barn. Four guys enter--and my life changes forever. |
MAGIC SCHOOL: by Wayan; 1982/1/26, a major, political dreamtale. |
Phyllis Schlafly, killer of the Equal Rights Amendment, provokes a dream where I'm Captain Kirk trapped in a magic school, with no way out but the graduate exam. Can I learn the lesson of the tree? CAUTION: POLITICS |
MAHAKALA, MOZART, AND THE CRIPPLED BIRD: by Wayan; 1985/4/17, a dream on facing shadows |
The Christian God vs Mahakala, Buddhist god of right anger! War in Middle Earth, as Pink Floyd sings... |
MEDITATION BLUES: by Wayan, 1983/2/13, nondream sketches of meditative state. |
Meditation's hard for me; I expect to turn on instantly, like a lamp plugged into Enlightenment... |
THE MAGIC WORDS: by Wayan; 1974/5/29, an early dream on word-magic. |
Humanity in the future desperately needs the magic words from the past to free them. But... "pickle?" |
MAHAKALA, MOZART, AND THE CRIPPLED BIRD: by Wayan; 1985/4/17, a dream on facing shadows |
The Christian God vs Mahakala, Buddhist god of right anger! War in Middle Earth, as Pink Floyd sings... |
MOVING IN THE LANDSCAPES OF MY DREAMS: |
by Jenny Badger Sultan; 14 dreams (mostly Jan-Mar 2011) painted on one canvas A dream urged me to paint a big landscape with cutout movable (magnetic) dream figures and liftable flaps revealing hidden dream scenes... |
MY RITUAL BEHEADING: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 1996/3/24, painting of a nightmare |
We stood meekly in line to be beheaded. I tried to accept my fate and commended myself to God... CAUTION: READ THE TITLE! |
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... |
NORASINGH: by Wayan; 1987/1/15, a Tantric Frankenstein dream. |
I fall in love with my sculpture of a mythical Southeast Asian creature. Then a mad yogi breaks in... CAUTION: SEX, TANTRA, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS |
ON MOLLY'S FOREHEAD: by Wayan, 1988/11/19, a spiritual sex dream. |
A child of radicals goes wild in Rio. When we bail her out, we find she's had a strange enlightenment... CAUTION: UNSAFE SEX |
PEACOCK KINGS: by Myoe Shonin; 1196/8 or 1196/9, an ecstatic dream |
I meet two Peacock Kings bigger than human beings, who chant blessings until I wake with tears drenching my pillow... |
A PRISONER OF ZEN: by Wayan; 1980/11/9, a dream on isolation. |
The Pope spears our Inuit captain and the Mystic, who turns solitary--a prisoner of Zen. Can I free him? |
REBORN IMMORTAL: by Reneta Scian; 2010/1/3, a three-stage flying dream |
First I try to break the sound barrier like my girlfriend. Nope! Then I fly slowly to her apartment. Nothing flashy, but I make it. Last, I zoom back to ancient China, where I find a candle-lit shrine dedicated to... me? |
RING OF WHITE WATER: by Wayan; 1983/1/30, an epic astral dream. |
I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. A girl in my tour group jumps ship: she dreads the white water of rocky relationships ahead... CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS... |
ROBINSON JEFFERS AS A SHAMAN: by Wayan; 1996/7/28, a life-review, with 2016/10/22 followup |
Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism, blind to how kindness matters... CAUTION: SHAMANIC SHOPTALK, BRAIN REQUIRED |
SATORI ACCORDING TO GHOST: by Wayan; 1998/4/11, a longterm predictive dream |
A Buddhist student, troubled by a corporation marketing a product called "Satori", summons the ghost of her beloved mentor for advice... |
SERAFINA AND RAM DASS: by Wayan; a 2000/11/6 dream anticipating an 11/9 experience with auras |
A Finnish shaman/witch gives me a lesson in night flying; in the waking world I meet Ram Dass and sense him speak astrally before his body can get the words out... CAUTION: HIGH MYSTICAL QUOTIENT; IF ALLERGIC, AVOID |
SHEEP IN THE SKY: by Myoe Shonin; c.1220/9/20, a dream of strange advice. |
A strange transforming thing appeared in the sky--a light, a sheep, a man. It told me to stop burning my head... |
SOCK PUPPETS OF THE GODS: by Dee and Wayan; 1994/4/14. Parallel shamanic dreams! |
I dream I'm suicidal; but I'm saved when I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern, from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but the challenges slowly get more spiritual. NEXT DAY: I learn what my shaman-friend Dee just dreamed. And now I'm unsure whose dream this is... CAUTION: IDEAS |
SOULS IN THE MUD: by Wayan; 1981/1/14, a thoughtful dream. |
I'm being hunted in Reincarnation Swamp, as I worry--the human population boom means experienced souls are scarce. Are most folks you meet really dogs, cats... rats? CAUTION: MYSTIC ELITISM |
SOUL-WORK GOES ON: by Wayan; 1994/11/3, a journal extract on dreamwork. |
As I reread decades of dreams, I see Jung was right: even in crisis-times, soul-work goes calmly on... |
SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE? PLEASE, MISTRESS, NO!: by Wayan; 1981/7/18, a meditation on meditation. |
A rant on over-disciplined Americans (NOT under; we just think we are) taking up spiritual disciplines... |
STRANGE SERVICE: by Gordon B., early 2006, a transcendental dream |
The old man sang in the empty church, then looked at me and snapped his fingers. I was filled with voices... |
THE STUTTER: by Wayan; 1995/9/7, a religious dreamtale. |
Half our religion-founders were just one guy, repeating till he got it right. Practice makes perfect! |
SUSHI CIRCUS: by Wayan; 1982/2/17, an illustrated psychic dream. |
To avoid being stabbed, I flee the Psychodrama Circus. Wisely--the place explodes! But it's the filling of the sushi roll that really upsets me... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MAKI |
TAHOE DRAGON: by Wayan; 1980/8/16. A dream of flight and fire. |
A dragon killed a friend, and threatened worse. I had to fight. We dueled mid-air, over Lake Tahoe... |
TAHOE TAROT: by Wayan; 1988/4/13, a silly mystic flying dream. |
My sister and I are playing cards in the air high over Lake Tahoe. The stakes? The world. But we both cheat... |
THREE-EYED WOLF: by Wayan; 1993/12/14. 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 |
TIBETAN DISASSEMBLY: by Wayan; 2007/7/5, a dream of a desperate ploy |
A woman in Tibet disassembles herself! A local god hires her spirit, but she uses the office equipment to backup her memories and... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
THE TOMBSTONE TEST: by Wayan; 1986/8/18, a deceptive dream. |
I walk in a vast graveyard full of history's most famous people and treasures. But it's all fake, built to test your... |
UNICORN TAG: by Wayan; 1986, a linked series of illustrated dreams.
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Animal teachers, mostly equine, drag me (as I scream NO!) beyond plain dreamwork into shamanism... Chapter 1: The Deer Party: by Wayan; 6 illus. Chapter 2: Ariane's Honeymoon: by Wayan; 8K Chapter 3: The Everest Marathon: by Wayan; 1 illus. Chapter 4: Who'll Be My Love?: by Wayan; 100K, 4 illus. Chapter 5: Dreamrider: by Wayan; 7K, a nondream interlude Chapter 6: Half Shaman, Half Statesman: by Wayan; 170K, 4 illus. Chapter 7: Eight To A Horn: by Wayan; 2 illus. Chapter 8: Black Magic: by Wayan, 7 illus. Chapter 9: Misfits On Mars: by Wayan; 300K, 7 illus. |
WHAT! MORE?: by Wayan; 300 x 500, ink 1985, digital color 2001. |
The world needs Zen cards, to balance out the Tarot. So here's my Zen pack--all one of them. One too many. |
"WHAT SHARKS?": by Wayan; 1990/4/22, a dream of multiple viewpoints. |
A cowgirl is driving us in circles round the dusty parking lot, fleeing the air-sharks... or is she? |
WHO ATE MY LETTUCE?: by Wayan; 1983/1/13, a short dreamfable. |
An invisible monster is eating my lettuce patch. It casts a huge blurry shadow, leaves footprints, but... |
THE WORK OF POWER: by Anna Kingsford; Dec. 1880, a wildly uncompromising dream-sermon |
A dream telling how to acquire mystic power: raw food, no sex, meat, or booze; just meditate in rural solitude... CAUTION: EXTREMISM |
THE WORLD'S FAIR: by Wayan; 1983/3/18, an illustrated dream fable. |
The same night I learn of the Kerouac Tree, a wise old man shows me the world's fair. Not the event... |
YEATS: by Wayan; 1990/1/1, a poem wrestling with Yeats's visions. |
Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted? |
YOU'RE THE EAGLE: by Wayan; 2000/2/8, a dream fable. |
A hermit spends his life wrestling with shadows. His only disciple becomes famous. Who was happier? |
ZEMMYO: by Myoe Shonin; c.1221/4/20, a spiritual Pygmalion dream. |
A doll sent from China breaks into tears over her exile here in Japan. I reassure her and she becomes real... |
ZEN INSURANCE: by Anonymous #38, art by Jesse Reklaw; pre-2000; a mystical frustration dream |
My Zen master keeps asking me koans. But every riddle is about insurance forms. I always reply "I am thirsty." He asks another. It goes on forever... |
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