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Choices, A-L (M-Z)

It took your beloved tiny-brained editor a long, long time to make this list, after some nagging from my fellow dreamer Emily Joy, who often dreams of choices (well, we all do; she's just more aware of it).

I had real trouble choosing choice-dreams. Isn't it revealing that I don't frame things readily in that way? I think it's one consequence of shamanic dreams. You're presented with such vivid givens! The Other World has such a tinge of inevitability that I at least won't get off my butt to challenge things here on Earth unless absolutely forced to. Caution, a broader perspective, or just plain laziness? Whatever it is, I'm sure it's just me. The rest of you dreamers don't do thaaaat.

Well, anyway, when I got around to looking, dreams posing choices were everywhere! That's really what made it so hard and slow: the list was too damn long. Still is.

But here they are: dilemmas, trilemmas, all the lemmas you like.

RELATED TOPICS: opportunities grasped - opportunities lost - initiative - willpower - self-defense - assertion & passivity - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

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	AMATERASU'S MIRROR: by Lady Sarashina and an unnamed priest, c. 1035/3/22, two dreams of a life-choice Sarashina dreams (again) she needs to leave court life and a spiritual path. Her skeptical mom sends a priest to the temple to dream for her! But he too dreams the Goddess shows two life-choices--happy or sad...
	THE AMAZONS' OFFER: by Wayan; 2012/6/13, a mystical sexy dream poem. A horde of wild women camp in my yard and practice leaping through invisible spacetime portals. They invite me along... CAUTION: FEATHERED, PAINTED NUDITY
	ANARCHIST FAIR: by Wayan; 2005/4/5, a drastic dream-song, with chords At an anarchist fair in San Francisco, a 13-year-old punkette genius sings some shocking advice to me...
	AND THEN I WOKE UP: by Wayan; 1980/11/4, an illustrated dreamtale. A dream of mushrooms, flying, canyons, giant Rocs out of Sindbad--and a moral challenge.
	ANGERHELM: by Wayan; 1994/11/11, a reassuring nightmare. In one long night I hike out of Obligation Hell all the way to Inner-Freedom Heaven...
	ANNIE, GET YOUR GOWN!: by Wayan; 1988/9/14, a comic dream. I'm Annie Oakley, sharpshooter, facing something scarier than gunmen: a formal ball introducing me to my new husband's family--Austrian aristocracy! What's an American gal to do?
	A PEEL FOR APPROVAL: by Wayan; 1990/9/24, a cautionary dream Ariana's a brilliant young writer, but how she plans to escape her family is alarming... CAUTION: TEEN PREGNANCY, SKIN MAGS, HORRIBLE CAREER PLANNING
	BALLOON DIVE: by Wayan; 2007/6/17, a nightmare saying I made the least bad choice A boy leaps from a runaway balloon, falls 100' into a pond, and floats face-down. I'm sure he's dead, but when a woman fishes him out...
	BAND-AIDS: by Bagheera Pardus; c.1985, a lucid re-entered nightmare turned to joy. Giant snakes chased me. I go lucid, turn & slay one. As I woke, the snakes cried. So I re-entered... CAUTION: SNAKES, BEHEADING, REHEADING
	THE BASEBALL KISS: by Wayan; 1983/8/4, a dreamtale on choice. The Prime Minister of England breaks my nose, so I become a flock of squirrels to seek revenge. But maybe I should I let it go...
	BATHSHEBA AT BELVEDERE: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1982 (mid-Dec?); a subtly feminist dream Boating, we land on a cape and find a house with a Rembrandt on the wall--Bathsheba holding a letter from David her lover, pregnant with thoughts as well as child... CAUTION: NUDE SKETCH
	BATMAN'S LOVE: by Wayan; 1996/3/26, a dream-epic of love and time. A New Age graduation party spurs a wild dream of the spiritual odyssey of Catwoman, starring Alexander the Great, Batman, God, and Rumi the poet (played by Frank Zappa)... CAUTION: MORAL RELATIVITY
	BELT-SNAKE MYOPIA: by Wayan; 1983/12/25, a dream of innocent sabotage. A shy woman's belt slowly comes alive, but like most snakes, it has weak eyes. Would glasses help?...
	BIKE FROM A BOMB: by Wayan; 1981/3/14, a bikemare. Idiotically, I bet I can escape an atomic bomb on my bike. Maybe if I ignore stoplights... CAUTION: IRRESPONSIBLE WEAPONS USE
	BLACKBIRD: by Anna Halprin; 2002-2005?, a recurring dream of a spirit guide. At first I was afraid of the blackbird, who asked me to come away with him--I wasn't ready to die-- but now I see him as a friend and guide. One day when I'm ready, we'll fly--and I won't be back.
	BLACK MAGIC: by Wayan; 1986/11/10, a dream of love and rage; Chapter 8 of UNICORN TAG, though it can stand alone. A packet of magic soupmix sends me upstairs to a secret wizards' lab. They've summoned a demon they can't handle: the furious Black Unicorn...
	BLONDE OR BRUNETTE?: by Mike Bickel; summer 1966, a recurring dream pointing out a choice I DREAM I'm helping my mom make a bed, but the light keeps going out. Each time, her hair changes color! NEXT DAY I tell my dream to a co-worker. He says it means a romantic dilemma I fear to look at. He's right...
	BLUE SOUP, NO SPARK: by Wayan; 1985/6/1, an epic dream on outgrowing God A visit to a world where they fear blue soup ends in death and resurrection, so I'm pissed at my boss--God. CAUTION: DEATH, REBIRTH, SACRILEGE... JOB BURNOUT
	BOILING MY FRIENDS: by Wayan; 1983/6/7, a nondream poem of letting go. Giving up a circle of friends is like the collapse of a sun--do you dry up like a raisin... or explode?
	BREAK THE SCRIPT: by Wayan; 1993/6/19-20, two advisory dreams A sexy encounter with two robotic girls hopping a night train outside Portland... CAUTION: THREESOME
	BRETON SELKIE, or, VERIFY AURAS!: by Wayan; 1995/11/10, a cautionary, possibly psychic dream. I meet a sexy seal-girl. Being single and desperate, I overlook a slight values conflict... CAUTION: DISGUSTING JOB
	BROWN DRESS: by Wayan; 1984/2/11, 9-page digital comic of a sexy healing dream. A champion swimmer tells me how she turned a sexual humiliation into excitement and liberating power... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, SHAME, PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY
	BUT I WANT TO LIVE!: by Wayan; 1995/8/5, a life-altering dream. My job's to clarify people's deepest wishes. But when I meet two women who truly want to die... CAUTION: SUICIDAL IMPULSES
	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
	A CENTAUR SPLITS: by Wayan; 1988/1/12, a Gestalt dream. A centaur divorces, into a unicorn and an unfinished faun-girl, who argue "Forward!" "Not ready!"... CAUTION: TRANSPARENT BREASTS
	CHANDELIER: by a Washington mom, pre-1961, an absurd, lifesaving dream I dreamt that at 4:35 AM the chandelier over our baby's bed fell, crushing the baby to death. I woke and...
	CHARACTER ISOLATED BY A DEED: by Wayan; 1992/3/13, a dream's eye view of waking minds. People SAY they like realistic characters they can identify with, but they don't ACT like it...
	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...
	THE CHUTE: by Wayan; 1993/11/10, a dream transforming fear. I'm warily crossing an avalanche chute in winter, when my worst fear happens. Then the slide speaks up...
	CLASSICAL BIRDS: by Anonymous #58, 1979 or before, as told by Gayle Delaney; a wish-granted dream I was tired and sad and mired in routine. I asked for a dream to restore my soul. I found myself under a tree as a chorus of gorgeous birds sang classical music...
	CLAY BEHEADER: by Wayan; 1983/7/28, a nightmare offer. A woman's stalked by a clay monster that eats heads. But it has a proposition for both of us... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MONSTER
	CLIFFMARE: by Wayan; 1988/10/8; a dream of lust vs freedom. I was a wild mare in heat, torn between longing for sex, touch, love...and the fear of being tamed. CAUTION: HORSE FRUSTRATION
	CLOSE THE GATE: by Emily Joy; 2004/11/19, a dream of decision. My foxy lover teases and tempts, but I can't let him into the patio for fear he'll hurt the rabbits… CAUTION: UNFUNNY BUNNY PUNS
	COEURL: by Wayan; 1980/2/26, a dream of surprise transcendence I'm trapped in an alien hotel, my true love has gone radioactive, and the only way out is to turn into a giant, scary... CAUTION: CLOSET LESBIAN. LITERAL CLOSET.
	COLLAPSE THEM IN THE ZONE: by Wayan; 1995/4/7, a dream of ghosts and physics. I explore a zone lost in Shroedinger probabilities, and meet time-ghosts who want to collapse into reality...
	CORPSE-BUG: by Wayan; 1994/12/1, an allegorical sex nightmare. I'm a hippie girl in San Francisco, in hard times. To escape the Four Horsemen, I lie down with Death... CAUTION: GANGS, CREEPY SEX
	COYOTE PAJAMAS: by Wayan; 1983/12/17, a Dantesque dream-epic. I'm Coyote, keeping the Business Prophet from taking over Dante's Peak. But it turns too personal... CAUTION: IDIOTIC VIOLENCE
	CROWBOTTLE: by Wayan; 1998/1/2, a dream of a wise foolish act. It was on a beach. Inside, a black thing squirmed and boiled. Despite all the tales of vengeful djinn, I pull the cork...
	CRYPTOMNESIC TROLLEY: by Wayan; 1991/4/22, a lucid dream of a suicidal experiment. To prove I really am lucid-dreaming, I let a streetcar run me over. Mm, crunchy! Then I find out... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT OM...
	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
	DIPHTHERIA SPECK: by an Outback man; pre-1961, a diagnostic dream with a tight deadline I dreamed our physician said our son had diphtheria. When I woke, we found only a tiny white spot in his throat. But by the time the doctor arrived...
	DOCTOR VENTRIL: by Wayan; 1978/9/22, a nightmare where I'm the nightmare. A doctor lures me into his office. What he turns out to be scares me less than how I defend myself... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, ARACHNOPHOBIA
	DOCTOR WHO AND DEATH: by Wayan; 1984/6/30, a hopeful dream of betrayal. Dr Who, that lovable BBC alien, grows a sappy flower-face and allies with Death. An alarming turn-around! What's he up to? CAUTION: GOOD DOCTOR GOES BAD?
	DOG AIRPORTS: by Wayan; 1999/5/4, a dream of misplaced worship. Okinawa in the far future, when the world is run by dogs. Except they worship us, and we aren't there...
	DOG BITES CAT: by Wayan; 2015/2/17; a grating dream-poem I get bullied into dogwalking. A biter--leaves a cat bloody. You'd think a talking dog'd listen. But Cheney...
	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
	THE DOOR GIRL: by Wayan; 1997/9/6, a road-not-taken dream. A doorway not taken (for the most sensible of reasons) provoked a magical dream of what I missed...
	DRAGON BANNERS: by Wayan; 1987/3/19, a dream on the value of inner emptiness. A dragon's daughter seeking her inheritance defies a sneaky dragon-realtor out to own the world...
	DREAM?: by Kjartan Arnorsson; fall 1993, a dream in shocking contrast to waking life. On my way to a wedding, I dream I'm in a war. I liberate a camp of prisoners. But one man's so injured he can't be moved. We have to leave him behind. My rescue of his fellows has effectively killed him... CAUTION: GUILT AND LIFE-QUESTIONING
	DREAM-CHILDREN by Charles Lamb, Nov. 1821, an early, eerie parallel-world dream. My children ask me to tell our family history, up to the death of their mother. I wake to find myself single, my late wife alive but married to another, and my beloved children, phantoms... CAUTION: 19TH-CENTURY LOGORRHEA
	EARTH'S BEING MURDERED: by Wayan; 1996/7/13, a nightmare. Mute, paired images, contrasting life with the death we're spreading. And then finally the dream speaks: CAUTION: READ THE TITLE AND GO SABOTAGE SOMETHING!
	THE EGG PROBLEM: by Wayan; 1990/3/2, digital painting of a magical dream. I'm an intellectual ballerina trying to stop zombies hatching from stone eggs, but I succeed only when I become a dragon using touch, scent and visualization to persuade the eggs...
	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...
	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...
	AN ELECTORAL REFORM: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a dream-idea that came true In between drawing devil-bunnies, I advocate letting doomed fringe candidates donate their votes to more viable colleagues, letting voters express their real choices, not vote for the lesser evil... CAUTION: POLITICS!
	THE ELEVEN CENT ORACLE: by Wayan; 1998/11/12, a dream on accumulating... change. I'm a migratory girl who's lost my tribe. I find eleven coins, cross the world, and pay the Oracle...
	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?
	EMISSARY: by Wayan; 2000/3/22, an astral dreamtale. I signed a prenatal agreement for weird, uneven luck to turn my life toward art and spirit. I want to broaden it, but I've lost the contract! So my spirit wife Silky sets out to find it...
	EMOTIONAL PALETTE: by Wayan; 2000/3/22, an indescribable dream. My spirit-wife and I spend our last evening together painting. Not with colors--with emotions...
	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...
	THE ETHICS OF LUCIDITY: by Wayan; 1994/2/19, a thoughtful dream on time and cause. I'm at a symposium on how our beliefs alter not just the future, but the PAST... CAUTION: CONTAINS IDEAS
	EXIT THROUGH THE DUNGEON: by Wayan, 1982/5/23, trance-drawing experiment with surprise advice I turned off my conscious judgment and just drew. Two paths appeared--one led to psychodrama, then parental prison; the other, into the underworld of dreamwork... CAUTION: NUDE DREAM-SELVES
	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...
	FALL AT THE RIGHT SIZE: by Wayan; 2018/7/14, a dream shape-poem on a lifesaving indecision. I fall off a tower, but I can change size. Tiny things fall slower, but they also tempt the local falcons! Be big & hit hard, or tiny & be eaten? There's a third choice, but I sorta fell into it...
	FALL INTO FEAR: by Brenda Ferrimani; 2001/9/12, a 9/11 nightmare transformed by lucidity I’m falling into endless darkness. I feel like screaming, but then I remind myself I’m dreaming. “What is for me here?” I demand. “SHOW ME!” I begin rising toward the stars. Huge metal discs with alien writing rise with me...
	FERDINAND'S ASSASSINATION: by Joseph Lanyi; 1914/6/28, a historic predictive dream. Lanyi dreamed in detail of the assassination of his friend Archduke Franz Ferdinand hours before it happened...
	FIGURE DRAWING: UNDECIDED: by Wayan; 1995/7/24, pencil figure sketch Evangeline between poses, hand to mouth, undecided, in an odd evanescent mood I tried to catch... CAUTION: NUDITY
	FIRST DREAMFLIGHT: by Wayan; 1969/11/11, two dream-results from my first dreamwork experiment. I never flew in my dreams. I felt cheated. So one day I set out to CREATE dream-flight...
	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
	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?
	FLY, DANCER!: by Wayan; 1993/4/2; an advisory dream. In my ballet class, we were learning to leap. But I wanted to FLY. So I went outside alone...
	FOLLOWING THE ELEPHANTS: by John Goldhammer; 1990s, a ten-year series of 13 short dreams. Dream-elephants slowly bring me to terms with the early loss of my dad, and lead me out of a cult I've grown beyond...
	FRANCHISE!: by Wayan, 1995/10/12, a dream-comic (ill. text ed.) with a serious warning. I was the first woman made High Commissioner of Baseball. One day a team of mutants begs a franchise... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, BAD TEAMWORK, HORNY BEES
	FREEZE!: by Wayan; 1984/5/29, a surreal dream of asymptotic political advice Demons of fire invade the house, and the Voice of Truth says they can't be killed. What would you do?
	GAFTA: by Wayan; 1996/5/9, a pro-sabotage dream. The aliens offer us a Galactic Free Trade Agreement, but my friends and I think it's a disastrous deal... CAUTION: MORAL AMBIGUITY
	GHOST DOGS: by Wayan; a 1993/4/2 temptation dream done as a 1-page digital comic I meet a wolf who invites me to join Dr Who's pack of sexy Ghost Wolves. Just one catch nobody mentioned. To be a ghost, you have to... CAUTION: FLIRTATIOUS WOLVES
	GIRL-HEAP, OR CHOICE?: by Wayan; 1998/10/29, a dream on initiative. I'm on a women's sports team, and I should be in paradise. But I want more; not love exactly, but...
	GIRL INTO HERON: by Wayan, 2017/11/7, a dream-poem of an uncertain choice Four thugs stalk a gawky girl through the Everglades. She treads on a black stone and... becomes a blue heron! Her stalkers vanish--did they become birds too? Should I step up?
	GOAT DARE: by Wayan; 1984/8/22, a sex nightmare. A girl and I climb a half-built tower to get some privacy from my nosy, sneering parents. But they find us during oral sex, and their scorn melts my girlfriend into a goat... CAUTION: SEX, HUMILIATION, FAMILY VALUES
	A GOTHIC TALE: by Roswila; 2000/4/7, a dream-poem Nightwalkers lured our empath away. We come to their castle to rescue her. But she's pregnant with magic. Will she come or stay?
	A GREAT NIGHTMARE, or, The Autistic Dream Lecturer: by Wayan; 1997/1/2, a diagnostic nightmare. I dream I'm addressing a dream convention, but I'm autistic! I MUST act bizarre, just to function...
	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...
	GUARD ON THE BEACH: by Wayan; 1980/9/17, a dream of moral suasion Very nearly a nightmare, till the guard on the beach relented in the face of people power...
	THE HACKER: by Wayan; 1993/11/23, a psychic nightmare. Who's the demon? Mom, the Dragon, the Smiler, the Rubber Ax Murderer, the Doll Princess or the Tiger?... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	HAPPINESS UNBLOCKS ART: by Wayan; 1997/7/7, nondream book review An insight about a fictional character who unblocks her creativity changes my own life strategy...
	THE HEAD FACTORY: by Wayan; 2014/8/24, a dream-poem on changing your mind I toured the factory where they make the spare heads you put on and take off to change your mind. Nothing creepy about it, nothing at all...
	HEADING FOR A FALL: by Wayan; 1993/11/2, a dream of drastic shortcuts. I crash my car on the way to therapy. I ask my dream why. And it tells me! Deliberate, but not suicidal...
	THE HEDGE KING: by Wayan, 1992/6/14, a gender-bent dream epic. I change sex to infiltrate a sinister castle, unaware its Lord can spot a shapeshifter--being one himself... CAUTION: A DISTURBING BEDSIDE MANOR. I MEAN, MANNER.
	THE HEDGEHOG DISPENSARY: by Wayan; 2004/10/2, furtopian watercolor 12-page dreamcomic (or text + pics) A rabbit shaman makes his student drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. How to free her? CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR
	HER CUTIE MARK: by Wayan, 2016/8/7, a dream fusing Shakespeare & My Little Pony After seeing The Tempest with a tattooed Miranda, I dream she has a Cutie Mark on her flank-- a logo showing her life-purpose, her life-path. Except she's outgrowing it... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	HER HANDS ARE TIED: by Wayan, 1992/4/17, a dream advising a different therapist I had a chronic illness doctors said was psychosomatic. So I saw Ani, a therapist... I dream we're prisoners. Ani leads a successful escape, but then walks around oblivious that her hands are still tied! I offer to untie her; she seems not to hear me. Great in a crisis, but oblivious to chronic stuff? To me? Not the best fit...
	HERMIT IN THE PIPE: by Wayan; 1999/5/2, a dream of the end. I'm a holy man sneaking into a sewerpipe at the beach, to pop anxiety pills in shame. Do they even work? CAUTION: CHEMICAL CRUTCHES
	HERON HAREM: by Wayan; 1981/6/14, a dream with a moral. I'm a heron working in the Civil Service. I want to blow the whistle, but then how would I support my... CAUTION: BIRD-SLAVERY?
	HILLBILLY ECO-REVOLT: by Wayan; 1985/6/12, a diagnostic eco-dream. A poor planet with one city. Urban technocrats and hick ecologists have conflicting development models... CAUTION: TOO REAL TO BE FUN
	"HIS BALL IS EMPTY": by Wayan; 1982/3/23, an epistolary advice-dream. A letter to Miss Hornyhearts compares the writer's lover and husband. Some sharp advice for nice boys... CAUTION: LANGUAGE
	HIS DEER WIFE: by Wayan; 1995/7/9, a dream of love in a parallel world. I'm a slave, a scribe in the house of a Captain of the New Aztec Empire, when he brings home a wife... CAUTION: SLAVE SOCIETY, SEX, SPOUSAL ABUSE/NEGLECT
	A HOBBIT IN L.A.: by Wayan; 1990/1/8, a dream on wishes. I'm a hobbit woman in Los Angeles, hiding a magic weapon from Sauron. No, not THAT weapon. The wishing-bucket...
	HOBBIT SNIPER: by Wayan; 1998/10/13, a dream on strategy. I'm a sniper in a desert battle of men against hobbits. Guilty for not fighting openly, but that'd be suicidal... CAUTION: MATH AND WAR
	THE HOLY HARP: by Wayan; 1994/3/22, a dream of musical guilt. The Goddess's harp, that calls in the seasons, just passed on. But the new harper has a shocking admission...
	HORTA'S EGGS: by Wayan; 1984/1/17, a dream of re-evaluation. I fight to save a nest of 50,000 eggs that'll hatch... psychics! But my friends want to exterminate them! Who's wrong here?
	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...
	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
	I AM NOT A MAN: by Wayan; 1996/11/28, a dream of Middle Earth. I can help slay a monster and save my friends--if I deny I'm human. My denial has grave consequences, but it's absolutely true...
	I DIDN’T DIVE IN: by Herbert Read; before 1938, a dream-poem experiment. I watched her dive into the lake... and fail to come up. Her golden cloak floated on the water. I hesitated just a moment, and...
	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
	ICEBERG WRANGLERS: by Wayan; 2015/8/4, an otherworldly dream-poem Captain Ahab's part-whale students are better ice wranglers than I'll ever be-- wrestling icebergs of possibility round to their best outcomes, in this pea-soup sea...
	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...
	I'M NOT THE DIRECTOR!: by Federico Fellini; Oct. 1961, a dream pun on denying your lifework I'm the director of an airport. A mysterious Mongolian traveler lands. Let him in or not? I try to avoid the decision by lying--say "I'm not the director!"...
	IMPERSONAL ORGY: by Wayan; 1997/9/18, a temptation dream--or an un-temptation dream?. At the beach, my friends start a sleepy anonymous orgy... I'm single and frustrated, but is this what I want? CAUTION: SEX
	IN IO: by Wayan, 1981/8/7, a wild otherworldly dream with 3 illustrations. I live on Io. It's nicer than its photos. At least inside, where the oceans are--where I grow a second head...
	IN THE BIG BURN: by Wayan; 1997/7/22, a postnuclear dream. I love a girl who wants to settle in a radioactive jungle, a scar from an ancient war. Stay or go?
	IN THE VAULT: by Wayan; 1983/4/6, a dream of treasure. I was a sheltered girl till I entered my family's secret ancestral vault. I didn't expect to meet...
	INDIA ON THE SECURITY COUNCIL?: by Wayan; 2000/4/21, an annoying dream on peace. India wants a seat on the UN Security Council, but what of Pakistan? The UN has a modest proposal...
	ISHI AND SNOID: by Wayan; 1993/8/4, a dream on uncomfortable growth I'm a California Indian wandering through time, keeping our secret of time-travel from reckless white guys...
	THE ISLAND FURIES: by Wayan; summer 1975, a dream of self-control. When warring Greek isles kill a peacemaker, her three best friends start a vendetta! But she wanted peace... CAUTION: HATE NURSED TOO LONG
	JOIN THE HUMAN RACE: by Wayan; 1985/2/11, a Gordian dream. My shortcut in a marathon bogs down in a maze full of psychoanalysts! So I climb the walls and...
	JOSEPHUS, LET GO: by Josephus Flavius; c.65 CE, vague predictive dreams Resistance fighter Josephus, cornered, took a hard look at his prophetic dreams and decided to make peace...
	JUST SEX AND IDIOTS: by Wayan; 1998/2/22, a political dating dream. A sex dream warning "to find your soulmate, learn to spot the opposite: cute political and spiritual idiots..." CAUTION: SEX AND POLITICS
	JOSEPHUS, LET GO: by Josephus Flavius; c.65 CE, vague predictive dreams Resistance fighter Josephus, cornered, took a hard look at his prophetic dreams and decided to make peace...
	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
	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
	KIDS' WORLD: by Wayan; 1996/8/2, a dream on solitude. The children of some castaways refuse to go 'home': to them, this shore IS home. So what won't I leave?
	KING OF THE KILN: by Wayan; 1996/11/25, a psychic dream. I dream of a scary king who offers to bake my dreams to strengthen them. Then my friend Mark calls...
	KITTENS OR MOM?: by Jesse Reklaw; 1976-77, recurring nightmares of a choice I was in Hell. My mom was in a cage suspended over lava. The devil gave me a cruel choice: "Fry up these kittens or let your mom drop!" CAUTION: CRUELTY
	A KNIFE AT HIS THROAT: by Wayan; 1991/1/1; a political dream-cartoon-fable A courtroom hostage-drama where I'm forced to commit... tracheotomy! And then the Gulf War begins... CAUTION: CARTOON VIOLENCE
	A KRELKIN SMEARED: by Wayan; 1996/9/23; a dream of bold intervention . I'm a slender, clever krelkin. I draw me, but then red rage erupts and I trash myself... can I be saved?
	LBJ OR WOODROW?: by Lyndon Baines Johnson; July-Sept 1955 and Feb-Mar 1968, recurring paralysis dreams From the neck up I was me; from the neck down, Woodrow Wilson in his old age, paralyzed. My presidential aides divided up my duties, and ignored me...
	LBJ'S CAGE: by Lyndon Baines Johnson; May-June 1924, recurring teenage nightmares I found myself in a cage, with only a bench and piles of old books. A mirror showed I was old and twisted with speckled skin. In horror I said "I must get away"...
	LBJ'S RIVER NIGHTMARE: by Lyndon Baines Johnson; Feb-Mar 1968, a nightmare on political paralysis I was trapped in a river, trying to swim to shore. But I was in a powerful eddy. No matter which way I swam...
	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...
	LESBOY: by Wayan; 1996/5/20, a dream on one's identity and place. My Aunt Squid advises me to join a lesbian artists' co-op. But I'm a man! Not for long, though... CAUTION: NUDE SUNBATHING, GENDER BEWILDERMENT
	LET ILLNESS GO: by Wayan; 1999/6/7. Acrylic/digital painting of a meditation not a dream. Illness is such a handy excuse when you need solitude, care, rest, or just time to think... but...
	LET ME REVISE THAT...: by Wayan; 1998/8/28, a dream of clarity. I pray to the Love Goddess for help, but then realize there's a problem with my phrasing... CAUTION: UNROMANTIC
	LILY OXYGEN: by Wayan; dreamed 1984/1/19, drawn 2000; a strong psychic dream. I'm Emily Dickinson reborn in 2100 as a breeder of hydroponic lilies, till my dad drafts me as an Arctic energy-prospector, where I meet a ghost, a fiery Beast, a new me, and the girl of my dreams... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, NUDE PROSPECTORS, GNOMIC DICKINSON QUOTES
	THE LIMIT OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE: by Wayan; 1974/3/13, a dream of madness. Deep in the caves, a Voice announces I've gone as far as the human mind can stand. But ahead, I see...
	LION-GIRL TRIANGLE: by Wayan; 2000/12/11, an uncomfortable sex-dilemma dream, possibly predictive I'm a betrothed teenager having to choose between mates, in an alternate Africa where lions are another tribe of people--and occasionally adopt humans... CAUTION: NUDITY
	THE LITERAL EMPIRE: by Wayan; 1997/11/17, a dream on flexibility. I join the alliance against humorless humanoids who are invading funny-animal planets...
	THE LIZARD LESSON: by Wayan; 1996/12/12, a hard-hittin' shamanic dream. I'm a shaman in Nunavut who has to teach a guy in a lizard suit (and his foxy niece) that reparations have limits...
	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
	LOON LADDER: by Wayan; 1993/5/13. A dream of rising above. I had this near-nightmare about climbing a DNA stair up to the sky, and stepping off... CAUTION: NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES
	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?
	LOVE OR HATE?: by Wayan; 1994/5/4, an untwisted dream. My sister and I are groping toward sex when our mom bursts in. Her scolding's not what I expect... CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES, PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY
	LUCID LIMITS: by Wayan; 1990/2/13, a lucid nightmare. Yes, they're possible! A nightmare. I go lucid as the bullets tear through me. Yet I go on with the dream! Why?... CAUTION: NIGHTMARISH VIOLENCE