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Buddhist dreams--including dreams of meeting Buddha(s).

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	AFTER THE FLOOD AND THE PIG-EARED BABY ALLIGATOR: by Skiznot; 1994-96, 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...
	AIRPLANE DISASTERS: by Jack Kerouac, early Aug? 1954, a helpless-witness nightmare An indestructible camera relentlessly shows me the feelings of passengers on crashing plane after crashing plane... CAUTION: PAINFUL READING
	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...
	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 THAT LATER TURNED OUT TO BE... KINDA REAL
	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 enlightenment...
	BALANCE?: by Wayan, 1984/10/10, a dream about dreams. Silky, my sentient starship, gives me a scolding about playing it safe...
	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...
	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 ...
	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
	BUDDHA BEARS: by Wayan; 1994. Digital painting of daydream. Gosh, I'm speechless. How Zen! Market me at once! CAUTION: MOCKS RELIGION. OR ADVERTISING. ONE OF THOSE.
	CAMERA STRIKE: by Wayan, 1996/10/19, a dream within a dream with a point. I'm a lemur-girl in an emotional maze. But I wake to find I'm really a satyr cartoonist. Yet we have much in common... CAUTION: PHALLIC SATYRE
	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 to help other people...
	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, lonely. Then a herald arrives from the Isles--Donald Duck! He says...
	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...
	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
	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...
	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...
	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"...
	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...
	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...
	FORKS AND SAUCERS: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a dream on when to quit. Tibet, 1910. A cult whose ancestors manned a radar station that shot down UFOs. But were they really hostile?
	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...
	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...
	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.
	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
	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?
	HIS MINE: by Wayan; 1985/12/2, a wild dream epic. I'm a hobbit seeking Henry Fonda's haunted gold mine, but I end up in a showdown in a shaman's bar...
	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...
	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 a 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 one's shadow. 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 one's shadow. 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; an epic canvas hiding over a dozen dreamscenes (mostly Jan-Mar 2011) Inspired by a dream, I painted a big canvas landscape with movable (magnetic) dream figures and 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 flash back to ancient China, where I land at a candle-lit temple 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. One of my tour group jumps ship: she's scared of the white water of rocky relationships ahead... CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS...
	ROBINSON JEFFERS AS A SHAMAN: by Wayan; 1996/7/28, a little shamanic shoptalk Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism, blind to how kindness matters... CAUTION: SHAMANIC SHOPTALK, BRAIN REQUIRED
	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 thing appeared in the sky. It kept transforming--a light, a sheep, a man. It advised me to stop burning my head...
	SOCK PUPPETS OF THE GODS: by Dee and Wayan; 100K, 1994/4/14. Parallel shamanic dreams!. A dance classmate asks a bizarre question that haunts me. That night I dream I'm suicidal--nearly kill myself. Then I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern, from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but each time, the challenges get more spiritual. I wake up stunned. Then I learn what a shaman I know 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 my dreams, I see Jung was right: even in times of chaos, 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 coming back till he got it right. Well, practice makes perfect...
	SUSHI CIRCUS: by Wayan; 1982/2/17, an illustrated psychic dream. To avoid being stabbed, I flee the Psychodrama Circus. The place explodes! But it's the sushi 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. Playing for the world. But we 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 prophetic, almost 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... 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. But it's all fake, built to test your...
	UNICORN TAG: by Wayan; 1986, a linked series of illustrated dreams. Animal teachers, mostly equine, drag me (as I scream NO!) beyond plain dreamwork into shamanism... Chapter 1: The Deer Party: by Wayan; 150K, 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. 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: no sex, meat, alcohol, or cooked food; 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...