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Competition and races

Dreams of competitions, rivalries, contests, duels, bouts and races... plus one actual competition/contest (see Pegasia). There are also a few dreams of more sedentary games that explore the effects of competition.

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	BERYL BORROWED IT: by Wayan, 1986/3/8, an absurd dream. My friend Beryl borrows my ass and legs to become a centaur so she won't fall over. I want them back, so... CAUTION: CRUDE AND STUPID
	THE BIRD MARATHON: by Wayan; 120K, 1982/7/10, a half-nightmare, 3 illus. A bizarre marathon, and the Princess is the prize. But she doesn't WANT to be, so she sets out... CAUTION: BLOODY BIRD
	BRIGHT BEAST, PATIENT BEAST: by Edwin Muir; c.1920, a dream of our primal struggle Two beasts eternally fight, the proud bright peacock-tailed beast and the sad-eyed, ever-defeated sheepdog of...
	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?
	CHESS DEVIL: by Wayan; 1997/8/5, a humiliating nightmare. I try to rescue my girl friends losing to a devil in boat-chess, but they'd rather be with him... CAUTION: BAD GIRLS
	CHESTERTON'S POUNCE: by William Archer; 1920/4/6, a literary nightmare G.K. Chesterton was a leopard, and he ambushed George Bernard Shaw... Oh, the blood! Why didn't I intervene?
	THE CORE ISSUE: by Wayan; 100K, 1992/6/25, a dream from multiple viewpoints The tale of a gray heart trying to heal leads to unicorn-hostage drama in the Transamerica Pyramid... CAUTION: SEX, MAFIA THREATS, VIOLENCE
	CROCODILE KING: by Christina Rossetti; 1855, a mysterious dream-poem. On the Euphrates, one crocodile eats all his kin, bloating monstrously. But when a winged ship appears, he feigns remorse...
	"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
	CUTENESS PAGEANT: by Wayan; 2008/8/29, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #16. I'm trapped in a cutesy cartoon universe! Worse, to judge a beauty contest, I have to see past our style to our souls...
	DEADWOOD, or, MAO'S ONEIROLOGIST: by Wayan; 1976/4/2, a career-advisory dream-poem Trapped in the Cultural Revolution, I can't reach the Himalayas. So I fly around the base of the Stairway to Heaven...
	THE DILDO SHOW: by Wayan; 2010/1/24, a truly awful dream sitcom After seeing a 1950s cowboy show, I dream of a sitcom full of dildo balloons, passive boytoys and a relentless laugh track... CAUTION: OH, READ THE TITLE
	ENKIDU: by Gilgamesh of Uruk, c. 2750 BCE, an early prophetic dream The hero Gilgamesh troubles his city til he has a dream predicting the gods will send him a best friend and lover, Enkidu... CAUTION: SEX
	THE EVEREST MARATHON: by Wayan; 1986/4/12, a wild dream epic, part 3 of Unicorn Tag. During the great race up Everest, I become an e-snake, cross three eco-bubbles, beg a wary deer-taur to splice my spine for me, help Ariane (a childhood crush on the run from sentient tanks), and solve at last the Dream Equations... I learn climbing Everest doesn't take strength, but... trust?
	MY GAMESHOW PRIZE: by Wayan; 1998/1/6, a let-down dream. I win a prize on a gameshow, but collecting is another story, since the show is run from Hell...
	GLASS GAME: by Wayan; 1985/9/23, a nightmare. A swimming pool game with color-sorted broken glass. It's social, it's fun! The whole family can play! CAUTION: BLOODY IDIOTS
	A HAND AT CARDS: by Loomis C. Johnson; around Dec. 1916, a predictive dream. I dreamt of a surreal poker hand where one card changed to create a full house. Next weekend, I was losing when...
	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...
	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...
	THE KEY TO OUR INHERITANCE: by Wayan; 2010/9/12; a nightmare whose victims organize The dead treasure-hunter's will tells his heirs to meet in the wood. Chased by a knight in armor, we near-strangers unite...
	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
	KISS OF A SAVAGE: by Wayan; 1993/10/28, a dream of deep time. I wake to find I'm a museum exhibit 15,000 years from now--a primitive man...
	LET'S PLEASE THE RICH: by Wayan; 1998/6/24, a disgusting proposal The rich block reform. So let's offer the rich what they really want: ranking and attention... CAUTION: CHIMPONOMICS
	MAGIC SCHOOL: by Wayan, 1982/1/26: a waking event and replying dream. Phyllis Schlafly, who killed the Equal Rights Amendment, provokes a dream of being Captain Kirk trapped in a magic school with no way out but the graduate exam... Can I learn the lesson of the tree? CAUTION: POLITICAL JOURNALISM BEFORE THE DREAM. OH NO!
	A MAMMOTH FIGHT: by Wayan; 1996/2/26, a dream of another life. A tacky other life. I'm a fight promoter whose biggest deal ever is maybe too big for me. How'd it become a four-way bout? CAUTION: CRASS ACT
	THE MAN WITH THE SNAKE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2002/9/3, dream of an aborted shamanic duel I stood in the desert preparing for a contest with a man and his snake. But he cheated! Then my cat Lulu intervened...
	MORAL MINNOWS: by Wayan; 1992/9/15, a dream of deep politics. A dream explaining why everyone with any moral vision gets filtered out of politics now...
	MY DESIGN FOR THE DOME: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/5/1; an advisory dreampainting from the Box of Dreams At first no one seems interested in my mural-design for the inside of the City Hall dome, but...
	MY PRIZE: by Wayan; 1997/8/15, a short psychic dream on inner critics. A teen awards me prizes for art and writing. I wake to see her on TV--a gymnast after a prize herself...
	NET PROFITS: by Wayan; 1998/7/14, a dream of family values and Web credit. At a family picnic, my sisters and I fish for scholarships and grants. They put down my art, my website...
	PEGASIA: by Wayan; 10MB mini-site (200 maps & images), spring 2006 to present (ongoing); tours of an alien moon. A contest! Here's a wide, fertile world full of empty ecological niches for intelligent creatures. Design one!
	PERISSA: by Wayan; 660K total (15 images); 1997/9/13, a sexy political dream. When Perissa, an exhibitionistic centaur, bares her body in a crowded Coliseum, she also bares a racist plot... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM
	PERPETUA'S LAST DREAM: by St Perpetua; 203 A.D., a flying, sex-changing, defiant dream. Facing death the next day in a Roman arena, Perpetua dreams of the spiritual duel behind the physical one...
	PRODIGY SUPPORT: by Wayan; 1994/7/21, a clipping and reactions News of a child prodigy who was given the support I wasn't, triggers a flood of envy and bitterness...
	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: BRAIN REQUIRED
	ROCKY LOVE: by Wayan; 1984/1/18, a dream farce. A friend's tragic accident confines him to disco roller skates for life! Worse yet, he's in a Rocky Relationship... CAUTION: "ROCKY HORROR" REFS, SEX
	THE RULES OF THE GAME: by Wayan; 1992/11/30, a Gestaltish dream. The Inner Theater. I'm duelling someone who keeps changing the rules. But so can I... can we make a deal?
	THE RUNNING: by Wayan; 1997/9/27, a dream on sensitivity and the reverse. I couldn't make it to Spain to see the Running of the Bulls, so I found an American equivalent...
	RUNNING BIRD: by Alder; 1953, a kinetic nightmare with double selves. I'm a flightless bird hopping down a line of marble columns rising from the sea, as they topple behind me...
	RUNNING START: by Wayan; 1989, a figure study. A rather feline runner poised for the starting gun...
	SCHNEIDER TROPHY CRASH: by J. Lloyd-Owens; c. 1931/8/1, an overwhelming premonition As a newsreel showed a Navy flier for the Schneider Trophy Air Race, I felt a violent shock and said "He's going to be killed..."
	SIGNORINETTA: by Alfred Douglas; late May 1908, a predictive (and profitable) dream. I dreamt a grey filly won the Derby. My friend, a fan, said no fillies at all were racing this year; but he forgot a loser named...
	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...
	SNAKES AND CENTIPEDES: by Russ Thornton; 2008/11/1, a shared/telepathic dream. Two snakes fight as centipedes emerge from under rocks. I tell my best friend. Next day her co-worker tells her the same dream...
	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...
	THE STARMONT TRIATHLON: by Wayan; 1984/7/2, a magical marathon dream. I meet the Red God of Running and Holly Golightly; we're all in the triathlon up the world's greatest peak:
	TIGER TALL: by Wayan; 1992/7/3, a marathon dream. I'm a tiger from Planet Cat, visiting Earth to run in San Francisco's "Bay to Breakers" race. I knew racial tensions were high, but why is William S. Burroughs out to kill me? Oh. Because...
	TRESPASSERS IN MALANCHAI: by Hyal; 100K, Feb 1996?, an epic dream with a weird intrusion. A maneless lion-boy wins his people's respect. While training, he sees weird trespassers who seem to be from someone else's dream... and ten years later, he finds that dreamer.
	TRIGO: by Edith L. Willis; 1929/6/4, an induced automatic-writing prediction (profitable, too) In an idle moment I held a pencil and asked the air who'd win the Derby. 'Trigo' meant nothing to me, but was listed at 32 to 1, so...
	TWO BISHOP APPLICANTS: by Wayan; 1984/11/21, a dreamtale. My mind and my soul both apply for a job in Stanford Cathedral. Their rivalry grows to a shamanic duel...
	UNCONTROLLED TIME TRAVEL: by Jo; 2007/7/13, a time-slipping dream. I�m a drug-addicted amateur dramatist. A fat balding businessman and I bring humanity back from extinction, but... CAUTION: TORTURE (brief), ADVOCACY OF WAR, HUMAN EXTINCTION (offstage)