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THE AIRPORT AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHY BOOTH: by Julie Doucet; 1997/11/19, a dream-comic At the airport, a new automatic photo booth shoots your memories! Julie can't resist... and emerges, excited, to find that... |
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ARSON MUSIC: by Wayan; 2000/10/4, a parallel-world dream on ethics Driving through California farm hills with subtly different natural laws, I find social consequences. Can physics create evil? |
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ARSON PATTERN: by Wayan, 2023/8/13, a troubling political dream Fires erupt all over the Bay Area, but people I meet (and the news) just say "global warming." No! It's no warmer than normal and those fires are in lines! Arsonists are driving around, torching... CAUTION: POLITICAL READING |
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BAD DREAM BOOK: by Jim Shaw; late 1994?, a dream calling his dream art lame I show a friend my book of dream-art, but it's half-baked and embarrassing. I'm no good at smuggling guns, porn or cash through customs, either... CAUTION: LOW-RES SMUT IN THAT BOOK |
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BERRY DANCE: by Wayan; 2009/12/17; a nightmare turns to go-go-dance My kidnappers were desperate: no jobs. I fled them down the berry chute, to the underground strawberry factory where engineers in go-go boots did the berry dance--and the berries... CAUTION: STRAWBERRY FETISH |
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BERYL BORROWED IT: by Wayan, 1986/3/8, an absurd dream. My top-heavy friend Beryl borrows my ass and legs to become a centaur so she won't fall over. But I want them back, so... CAUTION: CRUDE AND STUPID |
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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? |
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THE BOATMEN OF LAOLONG: by Viceroy Zhu, before 1679, as told by Pu Songling; an incubated dream Traders were vanishing. Newly installed Viceroy Zhu fasted, focused, and dreamt the gods sent him a riddling poem. Each line suggested one word--together, they... CAUTION: BRUTAL ORGANIZED CRIME |
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BOGUS: by Ed Pell; 1990/11?; a financial forensic dream DAY: I'm preparing a report on our industry; but the numbers seem a bit odd. DREAM: Someone points out a big inventory generated no sales or income. NEXT DAY: Awake, I hunt for evidence the inventory's real. And find... |
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THE BORIS BADENOV SOLUTION: by Wayan; 1989/2/10, a dream of puns. My evil twin, Boris Badenov, wants $8000 or else. I ask my dreams for a solution, and get one... |
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THE BOSS'S GUTS: by Wayan; 1993/6/3, a dream on health-sabotage.. Flu. Ow, cramps! But that night I dream of a miner's rebellion against our fat-cat boss. Which side am I on? |
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BOYS DON'T CRY: by Wayan; 2000/1/7, twin sex nightmares reacting to a movie seen two days later! DREAM 1: My date Lana changes to my housemate Alder to my dead friend Beryl, who talks of pastlife trauma... DREAM 2: Sexy deer-girls and ice dancers get me and my sister hot, but a ghost disrupts impending incest... TWO DAYS LATER: I see Boys Don't Cry--settings, situations, characters & even names from my dream! CAUTION: DEER BREASTS, NEAR-INCEST, FILM ON TRANNYCIDE |
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BREAK-IN: by Andrea McFarland; 2011/4/21; a psychic warning dream A thief was breaking in. I tried to flee, but my dad got in the way. Woke up, went out to my car, and found... |
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THE BREAST BANDIT: by Wayan, 1984/5/31, an embarrassing dream. I'm bad. I'm really bad. I know I shouldn't have done it. But my mail-order breasts were late... CAUTION: BREAST THEFT |
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BRIGHT NICHES IN THE CASTLE WALL: by Jenny Badger Sultan; summer 2003; a series of dreams. Dreams warning of mania and paralyzing shame alternate with calm dreams of life and growth... |
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CONTRACT CLOAKS FOR COURIERS: by Wayan; 2019/5/30, a dream on enforcing contracts After a day of medical mess-ups, I dream whites routinely cheat super-fast Native American pony couriers, till the riders demand showy down payments called Contract Cloaks. Now cheats'll get publicly exposed... |
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CRIMECON 90: by Wayan; 1990/3/27, a dream about capitalism. I did what I love. The money didn't follow. So now I have to guard a crimeboss at a theft convention... CAUTION: INEVITABLE CHEKHOVIAN SHOOTOUT |
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A CROOKED BAND: by Wayan; 1996/8/21, a dream of chutzpah. A spinoff band sues the original group for playing their own songs and using their own name... |
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CURSE HER IN THE OAK: by Wayan; 2009/9/28, dream poem on an odd job; Dreamverse #56 I'm a girl in rural Victorian England working as the county's magical protector. I have my hands full: a gang of thievish orphans has holed up in an invisibility tree! Showdown at the oak... |
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A DATE IN MINSK: by Wayan; 2009/8/23, a possibly psychic dream of adaptability A spacetime traveler inadvertently strands his pacifist vegetarian date in a gun-crazy mob-run town... CAUTION: DEFAMES BYELORUSSIANS |
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A DAUGHTER TO DOTE ON: by Thomas Madden; 2017/9/17, a dream on gender? Family pressure? Both? My dad saw a mob killing; our family enters witness protection. But why's my new role female? Well, my parents... CAUTION: WILLING OR UNWILLING DRAG? |
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DEMON-SUMMONING IS JUST A MISDEMEANOUR: by Jo; 2017/7/26, a gender-bent diagnostic nightmare I protect my friends from a demon, but the dream-guardians I summon terrify me... |
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DESERT SLAVERS: by Wayan; 2015/5/29; a grim dream replayed a bit better A gang of slavers catch my family. I flee on a bike but it breaks down. Stranded. Replay! This time I have a gun... CAUTION: GANG, SHOOTING |
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DEVANGELS: by Wayan, 2017/4/27, a numinous but ambivalent dream After a hard day in the recording studio, I dream of powerful yet obedient devil-angels; quiet for now, but I fear they'll decide shamans like me are abominations... CAUTION: ANGELS? GOLEMS? DEVILS? |
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DEVILMENT: by Wayan, 2017/8/13, two dreams on Queen Bee syndrome, fusing Milton & Milton Friedman A Queen Bee devil kidnaps my grandniece; I kill her to free the child. Turns out even Hell's leaders are relieved. She returns as a satanic housing developer. Slicker this time, but just as crooked. Must I kill her again? CAUTION: DEVILS, VIOLENCE (NONGRAPHIC) |
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DILL: by Wayan; 1988/9/9, a dream-poem about reverse theft I'm a reporter. In the mall, I get my pocket picked repeatedly-- but the thieves keep slipping mysterious stuff in, not out... CAUTION: PUN |
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DOG IN A CASSOCK: by Wayan, 1972/2/3, a comically surreal dream-poem A master criminal is tracked down by a hound in a monk's robe who's introduced to me as... the President of the United States? |
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THE DOGGYSEY: by Wayan, 2009/11/26, a dream Odyssey predicts my own artistic path I find I'm a fox singing the Disney musical version of a canine epic: the tale of Odysseus the Mutt and his purebred Big Brother vying for the paw of Penelope--and the throne of Ithaka... CAUTION: POLTERGEIST |
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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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DREAMKU, MARCH 2007: by Roswila; various dates up to March 2007; 31 dream-poems--mostly haiku Dream poems laid out like a calendar. Themes? Horses, camels, abused girls, vampires--all want their freedom... |
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EAR TO THE, UH, WALL: by Wayan; dreamed 1983/10/10 Granny's magic nipple helps me foil the yuppies dumping toxic waste. But does it count if I did it just to save my own... CAUTION: CRUDE TALK; STETHESCOPIC NIPPLE |
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EAT THE MOON: by Wayan; 2013/9/4; a weird shamanic dream-poem Lights on the moon! Future cities shine. Gotta fix that time-slip. But in shaman-space, the moon's a deerskull up a tree! I take it down, pocket its jewel-city-eyes and try to stew the moon. I'm Coyote, so my cookery goes wrong... |
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ERMINE, or, GOTHMOG'S GHOST: by Wayan, 1984/2/11, a gender-bent & species-bent warning dream I'm a delicate little ermine-chinchilla whose best friends are all sewer rats. They push their food and drink on me, and I nibble to be polite... |
EXPLOITED UNICORN: by Wayan, 2019/1/11, a disturbing dreamlet |
Night, downtown. A unicorn in tears, chained to her... barker? owner? pimp? "Just $300" he yells. But for what? Magic? Sex? Healing? CAUTION: PROSTITUTION? SLAVERY? GIG ECONOMY? |
EYE OF TOOTH, or, THE SCORE: by Wayan; 2014/1/28, a cryptic dream prescription |
I'm a time-traveling revolutionary seeking a coded message from Pancho Villa. I find it in a music score... but what's an Ojo de Diente? When I wake... |
FEATHERHOLDERS: by Wayan; 2020/5/18, a dream of a strange career |
My friend Xanthe steals a sorceror's magic feathers and creates a police force to curb the misuse of magic. But I'm no featherholder; I'm the dispatcher... |
FLUID REALITY: by Wayan; 1983/8/8; a magical dream-sea voyage that turned out to be predictive |
On my quest I find magic portals, snarky flower-fairies, undersea redcoats, reassembling bodyparts, living chess, and Nosferatu the Cheating Vampyre... |
FOX-MOTHER: by Wayan; 2008/8/12, a dream poem; Dreamverse #2. |
The goddess of the Cult of Clutter catches a little thief, and tastes her to see if she’s worthy... |
FOX ON THE TRAIN: by Wayan; 2015/1/9, an advisory dream painted & poemed |
I'm a guard on a train crossing the desert who falls in love with a refugee fox-girl, despite heavy specist peer-pressure and the archaic Railway Code... CAUTION: NUDE FOX |
FULL MOON KIDNAP: by Wayan; 2018/4/30, a dream warning that recurrent illness shapes the psyche |
Every full moon, kidnappers jump me. Sometimes I escape, but when they succeed, they torture me till the moon wanes. They're careful to leave no physical scars... |
FUTURE BOOKS: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a dream lesson on reading |
In a repressive, thought-controlled future I find some old banned books; I tell my student "Reading these makes life more interesting--and angry..." |
THE GHOST IN MIRIEL'S BUG: by Miriel & Wayan; 1985/10/1, an apparently shared dream |
WAYAN: I dream a transparent ghost steals my sister Miriel's white VW bug... MIRIEL: I dream about a ghost and my old white VW bug that was stolen... CAUTION: E.S.P. CLAIM |
GIRL TELEPORTS BALLOONS: by Wayan; 1984/8/23, a dream recurring after 26-year gap |
A snotty shopkeeper won't let a kid have a balloon, so she teleports one through the display window! Blind to the magic, he just scolds her and takes it away. So her mind reaches through the window to liberate every balloon in his store! And then, 26 years later... |
GISLI THE OUTLAW: by Gisli the Outlaw of Iceland; 966-973, a series of at least ten life-saving dreams. |
Gisli had two spirit-wives who told him in dreams how to evade the bounty-hunters after him... for 13 years! |
GOBLET OF GOLD: by Sophocles, between 450-406 BCE; a detective dream. |
A huge gold cup was stolen from the Temple of Hercules. Sophocles thrice dreamt Hercules named the thief... |
GOLD VERSUS DIAMONDS: by Wayan; 1972/1/20, a shameful dream fable. |
We're children seeking gold in a fairy wood. We meet some elf-kids, chase them off, and dig where they played. Then their parents show up... CAUTION: INTERSPECIES BULLYING |
GREEN RAY, BLUE WINGS: by Wayan, 1974/7/14, a joyful apocalyptic dream |
High in the Sierra during a thunderstorm, I dream aliens steal the gold, and the sun's going nova. But Life wants us to conquer space, so we all grow wings... |
THE GUARDIAN ANGEL COURSE: by Wayan; 1984/9/29, a long-term predictive dream |
I get bored with crime, and then I die. So I take a workshop: How to Find your Guardian Angel. But things go strange... CAUTION: UNEXPECTED ANGELS |
GUARDIAN ANGELS FEUD: by Wayan; 1995/10/9, an epic, heretical dream. |
You know angels feud over regional underfunding of Divine Grace. But you don't know how low they'll go... |
HAMM: by Wayan; 2008/9/26, a dream poem; Dreamverse #31 |
A lecturer tries to help the homeless founder of Hamm's Beer, robbed by bankers. But the talk may harm more than help... |
THE HAUNTED CODE: by Wayan; 2017/6/16, a warning dream about denying history |
A mail-order warehouse in Kansas sends ghost-infected software out, causing mayhem. But less than when Kansas exported the killer flu 100 years ago... CAUTION: DISSES KANSAS & CAPITALISM, FOR GOOD HISTORICAL REASONS |
HE HAS REPENTED: by Frederick Greenwood; before 1894, a pre-Freud discovery of the unconscious |
A con artist fools me and a waiter. But if my dreamfolk are all me, who's fooling whom? |
HEIST THE GOLDEN EGGS!: by Wayan; 2008/7/18, a dream of do-it-yourself tech--and ethics |
Two teens crack a bank with a homemade rocket--but forgot a crowbar! Caught, but the bank can't press charges; the kids have proof the bank uses slave labor... CAUTION: DISSES CAPITALISM |
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 |
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... |
HORSE THIEVES: by Plenty Coups, early 1870s?; a practical psychic or subliminal dream |
Thieves stole 100 of our horses. The tracks suggested white men, but that night my dream Helpers declared them Sioux. We tracked them across Montana... |
HOT FEET: by Patient 2 of William Hammond, c.1868, a nightmare--but subliminal or mystical? |
I'm in the Rocky Mountains. Gold-hungry Mexican bandits capture me and put my feet to the fire, demanding "How do you transmute copper into gold?" I scream "I don't know!", waking to find... CAUTION: TORTURE PLAYED FOR LAUGHS |
HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT: by Wayan; 1994/4/3, a dark dream. |
As my grandmother is dying, I have a dream about what really went on in her house... CAUTION: CHILD SLAVERY |
HUMPBACKED COAT-THIEF: by "Anonymous #15"; c.1919, an acted-on warning dream |
I dreamed of a beggar in our house who had been stealing. It was a very small man with a hump. Weeks later... |
HUNTERS: by Emily Y. Chan, c.2020/12/12, 2024/3/23, and 2024/4/13, paintings of recurrent dreams |
First I met an assassin girl who could raise dust storms; then a monster-hunted named Rho; then I was the hunter, with a futuristic hovercycle and low-tech bow and arrows... |
I FIGHT FOR BEAUTY: by Wayan; 1990/1/1, an incubated dream within a dream within a dream. |
From Hawaii to Wyoming, I fight for beauty, always waking to find I'm someone new... |
I NEVER SAW JUNG DIE: by Larry Vigon; 2003/11/28; a quasi-Jungian dream |
My nonexistent brother is a bank robber about to be arrested; he says "I never saw Jung die." Meaning not that Jung's alive, but just... |
"I SHALL HURT YOU WORSE": by Mrs B. when young, c. 1760; a predictive dream semi-heeded |
At 14, B. dreamt a stranger attacked her and hurt her badly. She said "but I'll hurt you worse." She did: a week later that man attacked and nearly killed her. She survived to identify him--and get him hanged... CAUTION: HARSH JUSTICE |
I WANTED TO STEAL: by Jack Kerouac, early Nov. 1952, a class-envy dream. |
I wanted to steal this pink woolen sweater. I didn't need it; what I really wanted to steal was middle-class security... |
INGENIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS: by Elizabeth Kew; 1930s?, a cynical dream come true. |
My friend put an ad on her gown, so I try one on our house. I have big ideas for more, but a pickpocket... |
INSIDER DATING: by Wayan; 2017/4/2, a dream of how others see us? |
I dream my friend's amused that I date women to steal work-secrets; I get rich off insider trading, while they get fired. Only... I don't! Where'd he get this idea?... |
ISLAND LOVERS: by Sunshine; 2015/9/14, a horror-film dream gone soft? |
They sneak off from a party to have a thresome, but monsters try to harvest their organs! Inept monsters... CAUTION: SEX (OFFSTAGE) |
IT WASN'T EASY: by Wayan; 1983/2/24, a dream of escaping my family's unrealism |
An Arabian prince kidnaps my girlfriend and me. We eventually escape his flying palace, but she gets trapped in Victorian underwear, while I escape feuding politicians by turning myself into a truck tire. NOT a smart move... CAUTION: BOGUS VICTORIAN SEX-EUPHEMISMS |
JASON: by MariNaomi; 1989, a romantic-warning nightmare |
The Mummy chases me, then unwraps his bandages to show the mutilated face of my boyfriend. "I'm getting out of jail!" he says. Then the phone wakes me. My boyfriend. He says "I'm getting out of..." CAUTION: CODEPENDENCE, MUTILATION, GUILT AND GRIEF |
A JOB WELL DONE: by Wayan; 1981/3/2; a dream-farce with a serious warning |
The tale of a fawn named Fawn and her mom, a bank-robbing hippopotamus... CAUTION: GLAMORIZES THIS ALARMING TREND |
JUNG'S DRAGONS: by Carl Jung, 1917/1/17 to mid-1922; recurring dream/trance figures |
Jung's visions of dragons evolve from fiery destroyers to thieves who can be forced to give up treasure to peacful, luminous guardians of the sacred... |
THE KANGAROO EXECUTOR: by Wayan; 2023/7/3, a surreal dream poem |
The will named a strange executor: a kangaroo. Turns out there's some logic to it: executors need burglar-skills, and few quadrupeds can climb in bedroom windows... |
THE KEY IS HERE, BUT BEWARE; 2012/3/8 by Eleanor; nested nightmares of enlightenment |
The moment I find the Key, I'm possessed! I wake to find it's just a nightmare. Only who's broken into my house?... CAUTION: DEMONIC POSSESSION & EVERYDAY PSYCHOPATHS |
KIDNAP LI PO!: by Wayan; 1990/1/16, a poetic dream. |
I dream a Chinese fable: how the poet Li Po was abucted by the gods, till they face heavenly justice... CAUTION: ABDUCTION, DRUNKS, EVIL PUN |
LINSCOTT'S NIGHTMARE: by Steve Linscott, Oct. 1980; jailed for a dream! |
Linscott dreamt of a murder and woke to find it'd happened down the block. Friends nagged him to tell the dream to the investigators. He did. They tried him for murder... |
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... |
THE LOST RING: by Helen Fraser; 1924; an astral lost-and-found dream |
A friend in Heaven promises Helen a lost ring would return to her. Three days later it did; but its path had been strange... |
A LOVE AFFAIR: by David B.; 1993/3/23, a 11-page comic of a dark dream |
My lover's face is shadowed and we are never alone together. Things slip from film-noir to open nightmare when... CAUTION: SEX, DEATH, GUILT |
MAFIA DENTIST: by Wayan, 2007/7/10; a predictive comic nightmare. |
My dentist (a Haitian Mafia leader) sends a message to my dad (also a Mafia don) by dental cruelty.... |
MALWARE IN THE BRAIN: by Wayan, 2017/12/27, a possibly predictive dream. |
Dream: tourists in our town use brainware to navigate & translate, but it's infected. Turns you fascist. Whaaaat?... Next day: the FBI knocks! Our web provider fingered us as a nest of internet criminals. Thanks, Comcast! Talk about malware... |
MANDALA DURING A TIME OF WAR AND DISINTEGRATION: |
by Jenny Badger Sultan; Jan-Feb 2003, painting of a dream-series My dreams were troubled by war. So I painted them in concentric rings--lotus, fire, children, animals, and nightmares... |
MARBLES: by Wayan; 1994/12/2, a dream on persecuting the gifted. |
A gang of humans try to rob me of what makes me able to fly... my marbles? I musn't lose my marbles! |
MARCOUX'S DREAMS: by Shirley Marcoux, 75/11/4, 76/4/2, 4/28 & 6/24; & one by Cheryl, 76/4/3 |
Four apparently psychic dreamlets of a gun in a desk, a guy needing to hide, a canyon with woodpiles & a locked gate, and a blonde girl named Cathy... CAUTION: SMALL DREAMS, LARGE IMPLICATIONS FOR E.S.P. |
MARTIAN VIGILANTE: by Wayan, 2006/3/25, an absurdist nightmare on inner killjoys |
After a busy exhausting day, I find myself on a dream street flirting with a really cute artist. Until this stumpy green Martian slithers up, calls us criminals, and threatens us with a raygun... CAUTION: DUMBEST INNER CRITIC EVER |
THE MEGARA INN: by an Arcadian Greek c.200 BCE; two dreams that don't prevent a murder but do solve it |
A traveler dreams his friend's attacked, but he ignores it. Next he dreams his friend begs him to at least avenge him... |
MEM LOI'S SEARCH WARRANT: by Wayan; 2023/4/2, a dream of my own immune system? |
My home's a huge maze. Find a clinic and a cafe. Cops appear, & claim I'm a woman named Mem Loi & confiscate weird masks off our walls. Ugly masks, so who cares? Wait, one looks like a covid virus... CAUTION: DREAMER'S A DOORMAT |
MIND OF A MURDERER: by Mary Arnold-Forster; between 1910 & 1920, a dream on self-justification |
I sink into a book on a murderer who rationalizes away all guilt, but pull out thinking "How morbid!"... |
MIRYAM'S THEFT: by Wayan; 1996/9/24, a psychic dream on being used |
I'm a ghost dwarf in love with a Lady trapped in a magic Arabian castle. But our love is being used... CAUTION: SEX, BETRAYAL, SACRILEGE |
MY ART'S IN THE MUSEUM, ALL RIGHT: by Wayan; 1996/2/19, a dream on self-theft. |
At last, I get shown in the museum! Sort of. Homeless people sell my art from carts in the lobby. Stolen!... |
NEW BRIGHTON MURDER: by Annie Howie Mudie; 1912/12/20, a sloppy oracular dream |
Someone said "There's been a murder in the Victoria Hotel, and the murderer slept in your house." Three weeks later... |
NEW LEVEL!: by "Julian"; 2006/5/22, 3 gamelike dreams in one night, two of them epic |
My mom and I road-duel an alien beetle, then investigate a deepspace Marie Celeste; then I spy for the Angevin Empire to protect the Crown Jewels... |
NIP OFF HIS NOSE: by Wayan, 2020/2/20, four surreal dreamlets about Covid? or... overwork? |
1: I sketch two deer-girls making videos. 2: I pull a man's nose off, and milk the scene for drama before... 3: My old boss is convicted of murder! 4: I wake and two friends interpret #3 as "Overwork is killing you..." I wake again. My dream-notebook's blank. No friends here; their interpretation was a dream too.... CAUTION: NUDE DEER |
NOT A CAT: by Wayan; 2022/11/27, a dream of being a sort-of-ghost |
I wander New York City, a homeless ageless child, unnoticed--unless I climb stairs. Then people panic--see a huge cat! But today I meet a crew lugging big paintings, who seem blind to cat or child. I think they're art thieves, mid-heist... CAUTION: SHAMANIC INTERPRETATION |
O MAIDENS IN YOUR SAVAGE SEASON: by Wayan; 2024/4/15, a sex dream on... fish? |
After reading a manga and gorging on sushi, I dream a mob of little ninjas dressed as catgirls pile on me, begging to be petted. Excitement, guilt... CAUTION: PEDOPHILIA, NON-FREUDIAN INTERPRETATION |
ODE TO SPAM: by Wayan; 2007/10/11, a poem about the wonders of email |
Softly snows the spam upon my lonely brain, quilting me in flounderdrifts. Shovel it again... |
OH, WAIT: by Wayan; 2008/10/3, an illustrated dream poem; Dreamverse #32 |
I'm a spy tracking down coinlike bombs. Fighting a double agent, I fall in love! So I suggest her gang rob golden-parachute bankers... CAUTION: POOLSIDE SEX |
THE ONION: by Sunshine; 2015/3/16, a magical dream voyage |
My love and I steal the only onion in the world! To make our getaway we sail off the edge of the earth... |
ORE PIRATES, by Wayan, 2009/5/29; a dream-poem, Dreamverse #45 |
I'm in a movie version of prehistoric Baja California, mining nuggets that howl, when pterodactyl-worshiping pirates glide in trying to snatch our ore... |
PARENTAL TOUGH LOVE: by Wayan; 2023/4/5, a dream baring a deadly pattern |
My parents, alive again, steal my car, my meds & my supplements, trapping me in their isolated house and forcing me to stay awake-- no sleep, no food. They're out to cure my silly, selfish idea I have needs... |
POIROT AND THE DICKHEADS: by Wayan; 2010/3/11, a comic antilucid dream | I'm detective Hercule Poirot, but I'm losing my case and my brain-- because my story isn't by Agatha Christie, it's a knockoff... CAUTION: PINK DILDO HATS |
PORTALS OF THE PAST: by Wayan, 2021/2/6; a timish dream. |
The time-caves under Golden Gate Park lead to supervillains, magical girls, miniphants, bamboo thugs, adorable dinosaurs, and... pandemics. But is there a way back home? |
PRECAMBRIAN SLEUTH, or, MURDER BY ATMOSPHERE: by Wayan; 2013/6/2, a warning dream-poem. |
I'm a detective sent to a research station two billion years ago. The ancient atmosphere isn't just anoxic, but deadly...
| RAINBOW TUNNEL: by Wayan; 1995/4/9 (MP3+lyrics), a global-warming nightmare song |
In our steamy future, after the cities drown, I'm hiking through Rainbow Tunnel, when I meet a holy man... |
THE RED BARN MURDER: by Ann Marten, c. 1827/12/15 and early 1828; two possibly psychic dreams |
Ann Marten kept dreaming that her stepdaughter had not eloped but was buried under a nearby red barn... CAUTION: MURDER |
A RETRIBUTION OF MERMAIDS: by Bruno Oliveira; summer 2011, a treasure-finding dream |
Despite corporate crooks, missiles and floods, Angelina Jolie and I find the lock of mermaid hair... |
RING-DUEL: by Wayan; dreamed 1988/12/21; a transformation dream on reclaiming your power |
A mad scientist sneaks me into a museum that holds the Ring of Power I made at 14. I put it on, and slip into the spirit world--as a dragon! An ice-drake sent by Sauron comes to duel me for my Ring... |
ROGER AND TINA: by Lisa Horton Zimmerman; 1991?; a gender-bent dream |
As Roger, I can't get enough of Tina, though I know she lies and steals. After she vanishes with my leather jacket, I hunt for her. Spot her shoplifting, and I want to catch her, but let go at last... |
RONALD REAGAN STOLE MY SOUL!: by Wayan; 1983/3/7; a dream-comic |
I was a robot who had a soul--till the Reagans stole it! I track them down, and demand it back. Simply confronting them works--the hole inside me is filled... CAUTION: CAUSTIC POLITICS |
SABOTAGED BOAT: by C. G. "Chinese" Gordon; c.1861-4, a recurrent warning dream |
I recognized the saboteur. If I had neglected that dream warning we all would likely have drowned... |
SECRET SCREEN: by Wayan; 2018/4/19 and 2018/5/16, three linked dreamlets of escape |
A friend nags me to be lookout as he steals a cult's papers. I know it'll end in murder, but foresight paralyzes me! In a videogame that keeps freezing unplayably, I find a button calling up a secret screen of second chances... I'm lost in a grim basement, but two kids show me a cobwebbed glass door you can walk through like air... |
SHIP OF JADE: by Wayan; 2009/11/7, an illustrated dreampoem on dreampoetry! Dreamverse #64 |
My dreams are made of lovely carvable jade. Too bad my tools and skills suit our plastic age... |
SHOWERED WITH WISHES: by Zooop; 2007/3/12, a dream that enough is enough |
I took my cellphone into the shower. I couldn’t find the shampoo, and idly typed SHAMPOO in, and... CAUTION: NOW YOU KNOW WHO STOLE YOUR ODD SOCKS |
SIPHONIA: by Wayan; 30 p, 2006-14, a nondream virtual world, in progress; maps, tours |
First, suck up 90% of Earth's seas. Now wait 90,000 years for life to adapt. The continents are now Tibetan plateaus above steamy new Deeps, ruled by giant parrots, ravens and otters... |
SKUNKERPILLAR: by Wayan; 2018/4/7, an advisory dream on metamorphosis |
After I (sort of) foil some elf-burglars, a friendly elfwoman shows me a black caterpillar, then the rare white-striped skunkerpillar... |
SKYLIGHT: by an Honorable Lady; before 1894, a crimesolving dream (psychic? subliminal? ghost-visit?) |
My dead father said a trusted servant was stealing our goods through an unlocked skylight. This proved true... |
SLAVES DON'T DANCE: by Wayan; 1999/8/1, a 17-page Shakespearean dream-comic (or ill. text) |
Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm forced to nurse her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is... |
SOLNIT'S DOG FIXATION: by Wayan; 2017/4/2, an awkward dream mixing a writer I admire & one I don't |
I dream peaceful Rebecca Solnit turns into violent Valerie Solanis. Her excuse is, she was kidnapped and raped-- now she only trusts dogs. I mean, sexually, too... The dream warns that furries like me may relate to animals better, due to abuse by humans. If so, I've got more therapy to do.. CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES (text only; no abuse images) |
SORRY WE DRANK ALL THE BEER: by Wayan; 1986/6/3, a dream on the use of rage |
The future. Humanity's trapped--no energy. Because aliens looted our world before we evolved! Now... |
SPECKLED EGGS: by Starvibes; 2008/6/16, a dream of intrigue. |
I dreamed of speckled eggs, Caribbean drug traffickers and of almost drowning near a sinking boat... |
A STAY OF EXECUTION: by John Lee; 1885/2/22, a miracle-predicting dream |
John Lee, sentenced to hang, dreamt he walked to the scaffold but the trapdoor stubbornly stuck. He woke, told his jailors the dream, walked to the scaffold, and... |
STOCKDEN'S MURDER: by Elizabeth Greenwood; Dec 1695-Jan 1696, six dreams solving a murder. |
Greenwood dreamt her murdered neighbor's ghost gave her tips helping her catch his three killers... |
SURPRISE THAT PENIS: by Wayan; 1986/2/18, a subtly psychic dream. |
I hijack a Lacewing Chopper to install a new rubber-band engine, but the motor becomes a talkative penis, and... CAUTION: ONE WEIRD WEENIE |
SUSPENSE ABOVE THE POOL: by Carl Linkhart, 1990 or before; dream poem/painting |
The past. Summer. Sunset. I want to sneak in a final swim--in someone else's forbidden backyard pool... |
SUVY & JOHN DOE: by Shawnodese, c.1970; a precognitive warning dream |
I dream my friend Suvy introduces me to a man who just took a class I'm considering. Weeks later she introduces me to him--but just as in my dream, he feels a bit insipid... |
SYBIL SUE FLANNERY: by Wayan, 1986/10/29, a dream noir. |
I'm Sybil Sue, a hard-boiled shapeshifting shamus, on the track of the most wanted bankrobbers in LA: the Bad Girls... CAUTION: IN BETWEEN GUNSHOTS, THE BAD GIRLS SWEAR |
TAKEN OVER: by Eileen, Jony & Kim, as told by Gayle Delaney, 1979 or before; parallel nightmares |
Eileen rose out of her body. A man dared her "How far away can you go?", then stole her body! Jony and their daughter Kim had nightmares of invasion too; all three woke up shaken... |
TAMALPAIS: by Anna Halprin, 1979, a dream inspiring annual healing ceremonies |
A murderer was stalking Mt Tam. I dreamed I met the murderous spirit; only by allying with small dancers from inside the mountain could we defeat it... CAUTION: NEW AGE |
TANYA'S DREAMS: by Tanya, as told by Gayle Delaney, Jan 1971-June '72; a set of 6 breakup dreams |
My friend Tanya tries hard to save her marriage, but in her dreams Isidora Duncan, Carl Jung, even the gods themselves warn her to face their deep incompatibility... |
TEXANS: by Wayan, 2018/8/22, an alternate-world dream |
The Lone Star Planet--worldwide Texas--is weirdly empty. No kids at all! Instead, teens ping into existence pre-formed. An alternate Earth with no concept of change? |
THAR SHE BLOWS!: by Madeline; 2008/3/27, a pirate mermaid shipwreck sex dream. |
On the run I meet a lycan, a pirate, and a mermaid. She causes a flood, and something floats by I just have to grab... CAUTION: INTERRUPTED SEX |
THEFT OF THE ARK: by King Solomon, c. 960 BCE; a dream acted on too late |
Ethiopian records say Solomon and Makeda, the Queen of Sheba, had a son who stole the Ark of the Covenant! Solomon dreamt of the theft but didn't check til it was too late... |
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 |
THIRTY DAYS; 1980/4/15-16 by Wayan; a poem on an ill-timed premonition--or something worse |
Did sex turn creepy because I sensed the madman stalking us? Or did our sin (casual sex) summon him? CAUTION: CREEPY SEX, CREEPIER PREMONITIONS |
THREE DREAMS: by Al Davison and two friends, 1985, a shared nightmare |
I dreamed I checked my neighbor's flat for prowlers; I got shot and fell out a window. The same night my neighbor dreamt she asked me to check her flat, I got shot and fell out a window; the same night her best friend dreamt she came by and saw from street level the gunmen and my fall out the window... CAUTION: VIOLENT ATTACK FROM THREE VIEWPOINTS |
THE TOWN THIEF FEELS CHEATED: by Wayan; 1993/7/27, a dreamtale. |
Long ago he cut a deal with the cops. But town's grown, and one victim fights back. Our thief is outraPOINTS |
TRESPASSER TRIANGLE: by Wayan, 2022/3/6, a comic frustration dream |
My girlfriend and I find ourselves naked in my neighbor's yard! A second neighbor spots us, and knowing my house is empty, she breaks in! The first neighbor, seeing her home's empty, breaks into hers. We go home, stomping loud so our burglar flees back home, driving her burglar out, and... CAUTION: UNINTENTIONAL NUDE PICNIC |
TRUMP ON THE RUN: by Wayan; 1990/3/8, a suspiciously predictive dream |
The manhunt is on for Donald Trump, rich sociopath. But he too is pursuing something: happiness... |
12 SWALLOWS, 700 DAUGHTERS: by Wayan; 1972/10/14, a dream poem on compassion; Dreamverse #5 |
Alchemy demands I kill ten swallows. I refuse! Instead, twelve birds and I fuse and fly over a magic wood... |
TWILIGHT'S OVAL GAME: by Wayan; 2017/10/4, three dreams arguing "Friendship is Magic"--literal magic. |
1: I failed to save a magic tree. It fell and killed someone. I'm racked with guilt... 2: A giant pinball game on a tilted oval relief-map. But you can only win as a team of six friends... 3: A Caribbean girl with a weird aura tries to align two magic crystals to heal herself... CAUTION: BREASTS, MY LITTLE PONY AS ROLEMODEL |
UTE RAID: by Hasteen Hon's grandmother, c.1856 or c.1873, a possibly lifesaving dream |
When my grandmother was young her husband had a prosperous ranch. She dreamed some Indians attacked. She convinced them to hide; the Utes killed or stole nearly all their sheep. But at least they were alive... |
THE VENDOR: by Georges Perec; July 1971, a nightmare of societal amorality. Dream #77 |
I murder my wife. I try to sell her body as meat to a firm that'll turn her into wine. But the transubstantiation has already happened, and the paperwork's undone... CAUTION: GRISLY |
THE VERIZON EXPERIMENT: by Wayan; 2014/3/31, three linked dreamlets, the last self-flagging as predictive |
1: A nature spirit's physics experiment proves that time forks. But how much? How dense is the multiverse? 2: I sculpt a model of this multiverse. A physicist likes it; the nature spirit likes it more. So she swipes it... 3: A 'friend' offers refugees my bedroom, crowding me and my work into a corner. I wake. The phone rings... |
VERTICAL PLANES: by Wayan; 1990/3/7, an astral pirate dream. |
We're air pirates running a music shop, till our biplanes are hijacked by cat angels! Furious, we set out... |
WATER, HORSE, TWO SUNS: by Dong Feng, 370s CE, a lifesaving dream |
A murder case. But the suspect had gone to an interpreter and told of an ominous dream. The investigator saw its strange images might be puns, naming the real killer--and they did... |
WERTZ!: by Wayan; 2023/10/14, a night of cartoonist-inspired dreams |
After seeing Julia Wertz's cartoon history of her entire dreamlife (on one big page!) I dream Wertz style all night! I don't mind the nightmares--what gets me down is comics' black & white... CAUTION: NIGHTMARES, SEX |
WHAT YOU IMAGINE HAPPENS: by Wayan; 1982/2/21; a dreampoem on quarks. Or spooks. |
I'm stuck on a runaway bus. So we decide to picture the axle falling off, and it obeys! But the bus zooms on, carried by a horde of little animals... CAUTION: ESP SKEPTICS WILL LOATHE THE AFTERWORD (true story, though) |
WINK OF A CAR: by Wayan; 2009/5/20, a surreal dream on workaholism. |
DAY: I work way too much--art projects plus helping a friend get her lost data back... DREAM: A gun nut threatens me, so I claim I bent his gun. Really I just bent spacetime. He flees atop his toy car, letting it steer--it's smarter than he is. That car winks at me... |
WITCHES, MANHUNT, TIGER AND SHARK: by Sidarta Ribeira, 1976, child's nightmares facing loss |
After his dad's death, a boy dreams he's an orphan facing cannibal witches--every night! Therapy helps; his recurring dreams shift to a manhunt for a criminal who hides on the ceiling. The dreams shift again, to a tiger hunt. That is, the tiger hunts you. The boy jumps in the sea. Swimming with sharks... CAUTION: INTENSE NIGHTMARES, PARENTAL LOSS |
THE WOLF DREAM: by Mr. Bai, as told by Pu Songling; before 1679, a predictive dream, or fiction? |
Mr Bai dreams his son the mandarin is a tiger leading a pack of wolves--all man-eaters, at least until two angels knock out his fangs and predict he'll get beheaded soon... CAUTION: CANNIBALS, REVENGE KILLINGS |
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