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Out of the Closet!

Dreams on first acknowledging what really turns you on--and facing the reactions.

But some of these dreams are about admitting other faces you feel you have to hide. Brains. Visions. Money. ESP. Dreams. Anything they'll mock you for--or want a piece of.

And a few of these dreams are about real closets--and what, like Lucy in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, we find therein.

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	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?
	ARCH: by Wayan; dreamed 1998/8/10, painted 1999, acrylic on wood. I dreamed that as a kid I saw two girls making love in the bushes, awakening my own sexual orientation. Later, I saw the bigger picture, which wasn't about sex at all... CAUTION: SEX
	AT THE BISEXUAL BALL: by Wayan; 1997/6/21, a dreamtale. How I found out what I really wanted at the bisexual ball. Really, I'm not disappointed... CAUTION: OH COME ON, READ THE TITLE
	AUTISTIC THUNDER: by Wayan; 2018/2/12, a predictive shamanic dream DREAM: a concert by autistics admits my bandmate Mike but locks me out! I summon thunder & quakes till they open up... AWAKE: I called it metaphor--till it happened. I was sitting silent in our band's recording session and Mike asked me to leave... CAUTION: AUTISM & APPARENT E.S.P.
	AWAKENING HURTS: by Wayan; 1993/7/4, a dreamtale. An old friend's awakening from anorexic asexuality. Puberty at 30? And wait a minute... is she me?
	AYRES: by Wayan; alarming nondream discovery 2006/5/4, and subsequent revelations The therapist my parents made me see as a kid got convicted of molesting his child clients. But not all. I played an evasive waiting game for three awful years under his leering scrutiny. So, can evading a molester still traumatize? Oh yes... CAUTION: CHILD NEGLECT & ABUSE
	BASTARD UNICORN: by Wayan; 2012/6/28, a dream about ambition Since I'm half-unicorn, my ambition drives me to share power and help the whole herd--that's how unicorns rise. But among human politicians...
	BIRD, CAT, TREASURE: by Anna Kingsford; 1877/8/3, two warning dreams in one night Should Anna quit hiding her psychic dreams? She dreams a cat eats her bird & burglars loot an open house. Maybe keep hiding?
	BIRD-SENSE: by Wayan; 2013/7/20; Shakespeare improv provokes a dream of having seven senses I dream I have sixth and seventh senses--and wake to realize I do! Just denied them, explained them away... CAUTION: SHAKESPEAREAN HEFT
	BITTER TRANSFORMATIONS: by Selena; 2017/10/18, a diagnostic gender identity dream I finally admit who I am, and the truth is bitter... CAUTION: GENDER DYSPHORIA, MENTION OF COPROPHAGY, POSSIBLE SITCOM SPOILER
	BLUEBEARD DRAG: by Wayan; 2008/9/5, a creepy dream-poem, Dreamverse #22 On the waterfront, I meet a seductive girl. Well, guy. Well, serial killer. Um, I think I'll leave now... CAUTION: HOMOPHOBIA OR SURVIVAL INSTINCT?
	BRAID OF SILENCE: by Wayan; 1989/1/24, a brief dream-poem We're slaves on the moon. But we're slowly stretching our freedom in the shadows, undoing the Braid of...
	CHAPERONE AND REBEL: by Wayan; 1998/5/18, a flirtatious dreamtale. A girl with a magic swimsuit flashes me, as her Iranian fundamentalist aunt glares from beyond the veil... CAUTION: NUDITY? OR ILLUSION?
	"CLIT!": by "D'Jeanna"; 2009/9/11, a breakthrough dream after coming out The day after my mom outed me to my dad, I dream a great storm has passed and everything's just glowing...
	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.
	COLT TABOOS: by Wayan; 1972/3/27, a puberty dream. A castle with horse statues in the moat. Only... one of them is alive! He's my lover... CAUTION: EVERY SEX TABOO YOU CAN THINK OF
	DANCING WITH EMILY BRONTE: by Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree; 1943?, a literary love-dream Alli/Tip could only imagine loving the strange, intense, and unavailable--and Bronte was all three..
	THE DOCTOR'S ADVICE: by Wayan; 2011/5/23, a tricky double-diagnostic dream that changed my life. My doctor says (no exam, no tests) "hidden desires inflame you." I'm skeptical--suspect an infection. Awake, I test both hints--repression and infection. Antibiotics work! I'm still weird--but not sick.
	DRAGON-JEWEL: by Wayan; 2013/6/27, a 1001 Nights epic dream disturbingly predictive of ISIS In Old Palmyra, I stumble on a dragon-hoard. Wizards and caliphs hunt me--how to get out of town? Magic carpet? No. I put on a brown coat, borrow a delivery bike, and slowly pedal...
	THE DREAM POLICE: by Wayan; 1994/4/6, a dream on persecution. The police confiscate my therapist's copies of my dreams, and try me for obscenity! So why do I help?...
	EDITH KEELER: by Wayan, 1975/10/8, an incubated dream giving multiple answers I asked my dreams to show me my Shadow--what I deny. It showed me at least FIVE! And in every time-branch, a runaway truck crushed me--the Truck of Ideology. Not that I seemed able to avoid it... CAUTION: RECURRING DEATHS
	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
	FISHERGIRL IN WATERCOLOR; OVAL: by Wayan; 1996/7/26 pencil & watercolor Leaf and me, on our boat in the lost city, from the epic dream FISHERGIRL. My first sketch of the dream... CAUTION: TRIBAL NUDITY
	FLOWERING:: by Wayan; 1996, pencil digitally tinted; nondream portraits. Sketches from a San Francisco street music festival where, after a long sleep, I woke up sexually at last... CAUTION: NYMPHETS, QUEERS, AND OTHER REAL PEOPLE
	FOAM, FURS, DREAMS: by Wayan; 2012-16, a blog on sewing giant dream plushies; 43 dreams! My dreams urge me to build furry dream creatures with joints, muscles & bones, then to heal myself by mating with them... CAUTION: FETISHISM, FURRY NUDITY & SEX
	GIRAFFE CAMOUFLAGE: by Wayan; 2020/9/1, a dream of the anti-closet? A human and a talking giraffe fall in love. But some hunters still shoot animal people. So he camouflages her with paint. Bright paint. Now she's more visible than ever! Not that I can criticize his eccentricities. I'm in love with a unicorn songwriter... CAUTION: FURRYPHILIA
	GRAMPA GOT AIMED: by Wayan; 1987/6/17, a psychic dreamtale. The girl I love has a family that'll stop at absolutely nothing to destroy us. But I'll fight for love... CAUTION: SEX; MOLESTATION HISTORY; RAPE
	GREEN DAY DREAM: by Cristy C. Road; early 1995. A recurring dream. Green Day singer Billie Joe hocked a lugie on me in concert. I felt blessed... CAUTION: EWWW
	HAWK CENSORS: by Wayan; 1988/7/7, a surreal predictive dream on censorship All the photos of hawk people I can find show them with bizarre genitalia: males with hawk-heads for penises, and females with nothing. Blank! Then I go to work... CAUTION: REVERSE SEXISM
	HELL IS HEAVEN!: by John Keats; 1819, a happy scandalous dream I dreamt I was in the outermost circle of Dante's Hell, among condemned lovers, floating forever, in love, in bliss...
	HER FINAL EXAM: by Wayan; 2015/9/8, a dream of a goddess in hiding--and why During our final exam, my second sight tells me our dance teacher's really a Greek goddess in disguise. But she has her own final exam to face...
	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...
	HOLY ZEN MONK: by Wayan; 1978/4/24, a dream of suicide as political protest I'm a Zen monk riddled with holes from a weird disease the government denies is real. So as a protest, I stand naked atop a wall and let the air-sharks take me... CAUTION: SURREAL SUICIDE
	IN WOMEN'S PRISON: by Wayan; 1994/7/23, a dream of faith. A woman in prison loves her counselor, but she's a barely literate hooker--she knows he won't love her back...
	INVOKE THE ANIMAL POWERS (or was it PROVOKE?): by Wayan; 2008/9/9, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #24 A children's recital of "Where the Wild Things Are" turns into a riot-orgy. And it feels... political? CAUTION: WILD THING ORGY
	THE LESSON: by W.H. Auden; 1942, a poem on three linked nightmares I'm told "Your lives are not in order." The golden crown's too heavy. And I win my lover's hand--only the hand. What are my dreams accusing me of? CAUTION: SEVERED HAND, SUBTLE GUILT
	MY MOTHER'S CLOSET: by Rachel Hadas, c. 2000; a dream-poem provoking a 2008/9/16 dream by Chris Wayan I was in my mother's closet, trying on her outfits, and trapped in Hamlet, too...
	MY PLACE: by Wayan, 1998/2/21; an envious book review Sally Morgan, in her famous autobiography, details racism and family silence, but also her family's matter-of-fact acceptance of premonitions and dreams. I feel acceptance envy!
	OUT OF THE IQ CLOSET: by Wayan; 2008/5/7, a dream-outburst on the social minefield the gifted face I'm silent in class; let our new, inexperienced teacher fumble. At last I'm forced to answer, and reveal I'm ahead of her. She doesn't take it well... CAUTION: UNCOMFORTABLE SOCIAL DILEMMAS
	PARVATI SAWS THE WALL: by Wayan; 2013/6/26, a dream-poem about a Himalayan kook Martial-arts student Parvati just won't fight the teacher she loves (too much!)-- not even for her final exam. Instead she gets a rotary saw and...
	PHOTOS LURE SOULS: by Wayan; 2016/3/12, dream of summoning spirits I'm photographing lifesize furry statues. How explicit, how sexy? If I get shots they like, souls will be lured to enter their bodies and bring them alive... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
	PLUTO: THE NEWEST PLANET: by Lena, 2023/3; a dream warning of coming change A disintegrating board game reminds me to take time to enjoy things beyond work and activism... CAUTION: NUDITY, TRANSGENDER, ASTROLOGY
	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...
	SEXUAL DREAMS: by Felicia, Simone, Anons 60-61 & a UCSC student; 1994 or earlier, as told by Gayle Delaney Five short playful dreams exploring sex. Because too many therapists get in the habit of thinking all dreams must wrestle with unhappiness...
	SHHHH!: by Wayan; 1981, daydream in ink. A sudden image of a woman whose other lips not only talked, they wouldn't shut up. Worse yet, they... CAUTION: NUDITY
	THE SHOP SPILLED OVER: by AE (George Russell); early 1890s, a telepathic flash Closing my eyes I saw an old man and a red-haired girl in a shop. My workmate was writing home...
	SILKY CLEANS THE UNDERWORLD: by Wayan; 2023/5/26, a heartening surreal dream I'm lost in the underworld again. Happens a lot lately. But I run into my anima Silky, in yellow boots and a safety vest, blasting clean the walls of the land of the dead...
	SKY AND PRESTER JOHN: by Wayan; 2009/9/30, two short dream poems with sketches; Dreamverse #57 My neurotic sister and I both lust for a girl named Sky; then I flee a gang of popes and lamas and mullahs...
	SUNLIGHT'S THE CURE: by Wayan; 1990/12/29, a surreal, sexy dream I find the cure for an alien plague, then visit its homeworld, to find it has a curious variant... CAUTION: SEX CUSTOMS OF THE NEWT PEOPLE! MY COUSIN'S GAY WEDDING!
	TERTIARY INFECTION:by Wayan, 2016/4/28; a therapeutic/advisory dream of a helpful disease Flying saucers land, and give us weird compulsions. I catch an unusually mild case, a tertiary infection, and find I'm actually better off...
	THIEF OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1996/11/29, a sexy soul-swap dream; a 22-page comic (or text w/pics) I was a mermaid trying to find Count Coyote's stolen dreams, so I could marry my human girlfriend... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, LESBIAN MARRIAGE, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
	THIRD EYE: by Wayan; 2009/3/25, three diverse dreamlets on the same theme: enlightenment 1: Three sisters flash me; one has a third eye in there! Clothed, it's blind. Was she just enlightening herself? 2: In the future, most cars self-drive. I'm the last driver using my own muscles and mind. Can I hold out? 3: A friend charts all of history's wars to prove: democracies don't fight each other. So to get peace... CAUTION: NAKED EYE
	TRICERATOPS, or, THE GUY WHO SCRIPTS MY DREAMS: by Wayan, 1982/8/24; a dream on dreams Stuck in a horror movie, I get to meet the triceratops-headed monster who scriptwrites all my nightmares. But he's open to suggestions...
	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
	WEREMAIDS: by Wayan; 2020/5/14, a species- and gender-bent dream. I'm a weremaid, able to pass as human but growing a tail in water. I meet a cute but sad girl, and deduce she may be like me--just in the closet. Worse! Turns out she thinks she's a freak... CAUTION: DAMAGE FROM CLOSETING
	THE WHO IN HELL AM I: by Wayan; 1984/1/28, a stubborn dream. I'm Pete Townshend of the Who, climbing stubbornly out of Hell by noticing what I don't want...
	WITCHMARE SEDUCES TWILIGHT: by Wayan; 2021/3/12 & 13, a dream with a confirming follow-up DREAM: Witchmare the sorceress patiently wins over Twilight, a unicorn who thought she was straight. NEXT NIGHT: at a queer picnic, I find I know my orientation--witches! But I'm less sure what sex I am... CAUTION: LESBIANS, UNICORNS, FANART, COMPLEXITY
	WORD AND DEED: by Wayan; 1989/8/1, an embarrassing dream fable. After watching the sex film Emmanuelle with my sister (we both like girls) I dream she & I & Emmanuelle are in bed together--and I learn a little something about denial... CAUTION: DREAM INCEST; AWKWARD NONSEXUAL INSIGHTS
	XANTHE'S TUNNEL: by Xanthe & Wayan; 1999/6/11, two possibly telepathic dreams I'm a dyke playing baseball in Golden Gate Park. Some guys harass us and run into a tunnel. I follow, but...
	"YOU'RE SO GAY!": by Wayan; 2013/1/24. A psychic dream of a time-short oracle. I'm in line to meet a shockingly accurate psychic. But she's running late, so as I frame my question... CAUTION: I'M NOT GAY BUT I SURE AM QUEER