Demons and Devils
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THE AIR BURUNDI PAINTINGS: by Wayan; 7 illus., 2007/1/20, a dream of art & courage Weird paintings cover a hill town in Africa, demanding I paint them when I wake. Paintings on courage, flight... and defying tradition. |
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ALTHEA'S CHICKEN: by Wayan; 1990/3/27, a nightmare-farce. My sister Althea decides my house has demons, and hires an exorcist who botches things, so that... |
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AMPLIFIER: by Alder; 1999/11/13, a dream on self-underestimation I was always the weakest magic-worker I knew. But when demons threatened my grandchild... |
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AROO'S ENGINEERS: by Wayan; 1984/11/9-10, a Hawaiian dream epic. The Engineers make Eden... logical. But the blimps go blind, and a demon goes viral. How can I escape the their ultra-efficient hell? |
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ARROW OF FIRE: by Archbishop Anselm, King William Rufus & a monk, 1100/8/1, 3 predictive dreams Anselm dreams God orders King William's death by an arrow of fire; the King dreams his blood covers the sun. Waking, he mocks a third man's ominous dream, goes hunting, and dies bloodily at sunset, an arrow in his heart... |
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AUTUMN OF THE ANCIENTS: by Carl Linkhart, 1995 or before; dream poem/painting Central America. A pale sorceress has stolen the splendor of the Mayan pyramids. Is pagan power strong enough to defy the church's promises of savation & its fears of a rumored devil? |
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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 |
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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... |
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CATS AND DOG: RECURRING DREAM: by Lee Kennedy; 1994, a parental valuation dream I kept dreaming demon cats tortured me. At last a vicious dog joined them. He wanted to kill me, but the chief cat wanted to keep playing with her prey. I realized they were my mum and dad, and said... |
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CHESS DEVIL: by Wayan; 1997/8/5, a humiliating nightmare. I try to rescue my girl friends losing a boat-chess game to a devil, but they'd rather be with bad-boy him than me... CAUTION: NUDE DEVIL |
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CREATING WINGS: by Robert Southey; 1805. Beauty to nightmare to flight. Saints and devils in a sunken statuary garden turn too real for comfort; so, creating my own wings, I fly... |
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CURSES!: by Wayan; 1995/7/29, a rant on how we fear the power of wishes. Studies confirm that prayer can heal. So can curses harm? Yet the fear of curses fueled the witch hunts... CAUTION: DISTURBING IMPLICATIONS, IF TRUE |
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DATIN' DEMON: by Mark Varitz and Wayan; 1989/12/3; Mark's dream triggers one by Wayan. I meet my personal demon, and discover it has a personal demon: me! Am I worse than my Shadow? CAUTION: LANGUAGE, NUDE MONSTERS |
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DEMON BUDGETING: by Wayan, 2011/9/27, a nightmare on letting things blow over A demon invades our police station, takes over our captain and lieutenant, and pushes them to fight. But I know demonic possession can't last long. Our copshow's special effects budget is too limited... |
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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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THE DEMON TODDLER: by Wayan, 2015/5/5, a creepy dream about... bears? demons? humans? After a nature show on bears and a horror-parody film, I dream of a man and a demon toddler in a sick relationship. At least it sickens all of us... CAUTION: DEVIL AND PEDOPHILE: WHO'S CORRUPTING WHO? |
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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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THE DEVIL BY C.S. LEWIS: by Wayan; 1975/12/2, an epic dream on ethics After I die, I join with others to catch the Devil, who's a bag full of bitter, angry souls. But he infects some kids. To free the world of evil, we'd have to kill them. Making us evil... CAUTION: FRUSTRATING AFTERLIFE |
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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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THE DEVIL'S TRILL: by Giuseppe Tartini; c.1713, a musical inspiration dream. I sold my soul to the Devil. On an impulse, I handed him my fiddle. To my wonder, he played a sonata of exquisite beauty. When I woke I retained only echoes... |
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DRAGONFLY BUS: by Wayan, 2023/3/28; four dreams on halting runaway feelings A girl writes a whole movie to get a shy boy to hold her; I stupidly summon a monster dragonfly-bus; a devil-suited jerk hogs a musical's stage TWICE; leeches crawl from the treasure-box I opened... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, SEXUAL FEAR/GUILT |
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DRAMA IS HELL!: by Thomas Hood; 1824?; a comic nightmare When my first play failed, I tried to console myself by reading Paradise Lost. But drama and devils don't mix... |
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THE DREAM: by Pierre Puvis de Chavanne, c.1882: a temptation dream? Subtitled "In his Sleep he Saw Love, Glory and Wealth Appear to him". Is it a real pre-Freudian dream on being tempted by three powerful allies of the Id... or just allegory? I have my doubts... |
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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! |
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ELEPHANT MAN: by "Bizekidz7"; 2011/1/11, a weird dream image. An amicably divorcing man suddenly turns into an elephant to chase a little red demon! What's going on here? |
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EVERLASTING AND PERPETUAL NIGHTMARE: by Shawn King; c. 2009/2/10; two bits of a lifelong nightmare Lucifer throws firebolts from a Montreal tower; monsters stalk us; next comes the flood... |
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FALSE BOTTOM: by Edith Wharton; October 1913, a summing-up nightmare. Demons open a trunk full of the horrors I've faced this year, and lay them out, mocking me... but is that all? |
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FAWN AND DEMON: by Wayan; 1990/7/15, twin dreams of desire. A doe I meet is as horny and shy as me. We're similar: torn between desire and fear... Then I meet a slacker succubus. She may just let herself get seduced toward freedom... CAUTION: SEX |
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FLOATING HORSES: by Wayan, 1972/8/10, a flying/transformation dream advising patience That day, I did bad art. That night, my friend & I get turned into levitating horses-- though some of our fellow fliers, like the mummified Inuit, are kinda creepy... |
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FREEDOM THROUGH BOXES: by Wayan; an experiment in art & pain, Jan 2005 I've always loved curves, color, dreams, sex, texture... and planning, too. So one day I drew 100 black boxes in ink--no color, no curves, no erasure! And then I began to seek... |
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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? |
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FURSA'S DREAM: by Fursa, c.633, as told by the Venerable Bede; a Christian shamanic dream Fursa the preacher, sick, dreams flaming devils & angels are trying his case; one failure to coax a deathbed repentance gets him scorched. He wakes with burns... CAUTION: DREAM HAS PHYSICAL EFFECTS |
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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... |
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GARGOYLE GO-BETWEEN: by Wayan; 1996/11/22, a Hogwartish dream. I'm odd kid out in my wizard school till gargoyles raid us, and I puzzle out their tongue, to become... |
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GET YOUR BODY BACK: by Wayan; 1997/6/11, a dreamed parable. A man dies--his body's chopped up. He ends in Hell. But he's a stubborn guy; he wants his body back. So... |
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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! |
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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 |
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A HAUNTED HOUSE INDEED!: by Anna Kingsford; 1887/4/12, an epic ghost dream I was warned about soul-devouring art in the haunted house, but I didn't expect to find an entire art salon... CAUTION: ABSORBING ARTWORK |
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HELL CAFE: by Wayan; 2009/10/21, a dream poem w/sketch; Dreamverse #62 A Buddhist scroll shows me Hell Cafe, where diners become entrees. But I read the scroll backwards! You can escape Hell just by walking out, against the traffic flow... CAUTION: CANNIBAL SOULS |
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HUCK FINN'S WISH: by Wayan; 1995/12/8, a dream of flight and sabotage. A mysterious stranger offers free wishes to the kids of Hannibal, Missouri. Tom Sawyer wants to fly... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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I GOT OUT: by Wayan; 1992/1/4, a psychic dream drawn as a 9-page digital comic I flee our love triangle when Abe turns mean. He's telepathic, but I have my escape all planned: the goldfish, the snakepit, the caves... CAUTION: THREESOME, SNAKES, MOTORCYCLE FATALITY |
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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 |
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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 |
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A LAKE DEMON: by Wayan; 1979/11/3, an anti-lucid dream. I walk through worlds, fight a deadly lake demon, and work magic--but I mustn't go lucid... |
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MY LIPS ARE SEALED: by Wayan, 1989/6/3, a moody, psychic, epic, two-part dream. I'm a Romantic poet who defeats the curse of the fountain, to marry; but when our daughter's grown, a new curse strikes me mute, paralyzed. And I mistake this for old age! Then, in real life, my dad wakes up from a nap paralyzed... |
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LITTLE DEVILS: by Roswila, 2007/10/30; a dreamku A dream haiku of little devils dancing the conga. What's it mean? Well, check the date... |
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MY PET MONSTER: by Katie Hofgard; 2005/5/17?, an erotic nightmare I'm a sexy monster, but my sister sells me to the Devil as his bride... CAUTION: SEXY CREATURE, ROTTEN SISTER |
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NUCLEUS: by Wayan, 1979/3/18, a surreal dream of character-insight, set inside an atom I dream my theatre friends are particles dancing inside an atomic nucleus-- particles that reveal their character, motivations and power. And I'm one too... |
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PIXY CONCUSSION: by Wayan; 2006/3/11, a diagnostic sex-dream comic, 9 p. (or illus. text) Janet's obsessed with a creepy guy till her pixy friend Kay decides to "knock some sense into her cunt"--literally... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, NASTY LOVE SPELL, PIXIE NUDITY |
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POKER WITH A DEMON: by Wayan; 1980/8/15; a comic predictive financial dream. I'm authorized to play high-stakes poker with a scary-looking but rather nice demon... |
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PREGNANCY FROM HELL: by Wayan; 1994/6/6, a predictive dream-farce. I'm pregnant with the Antichrist. This is going to ruin my vacation! Why do I think this is all about money? |
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PRINCESS OF PASSION: by Wayan; 1993/7/10, a chthonic dream. Led by a rebel demon into the heart of a Chinese mountain, should I wake the Sleepers in the Cave? |
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REFLECTIONS IN THE POOL: by Wayan; 184K total, 2 panoramas; a 1994/7/2 dream. Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love. Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace? CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL |
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RUSTY UNDERWORLD: by Wayan, 2023/9/23, a chthonic news-dream I'm in a vast cavern full of skyscrapers--sucked into the underworld. Rusty steel plates cover their now-useless windows. In the shadows, horned, fanged businessdevils scurry by... |
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SATANAGRAM: by Wayan; 1998/8/1, a Christmas song lyric. A hard-hitting rap on Satan's dumbest disguise. Yet he's gotten away with it! The shocking truth... CAUTION: LANGUAGE! SACRILEGE! MUCILAGE! (FOR THE BIG WHITE BEARD) |
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SATANIC LION’S WARNING: by Eldon B.; 2007/1/19, a nightmare with poltergeist activity I fled a demon into a shadowy construction zone where an even worse telepathic lion-devil lured me in with soothing flattery. I woke shaking--and then things in my room began to move... CAUTION: DEMONS, POLTERGEIST PHENOMENA |
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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... |
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SOUL-SHARD: by Wayan; 2000/10/5, a rebellious dream I’m a wolf in an ashram studying astral travel with my spirit-wife. Our souls blend a bit, enraging our guru, a Hindu god, who sends demons to make us stop this spiritual “contamination”... |
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A SPHINX'S SKETCHBOOK: by Wayan; dreamed 1994/7/2 & 7/19; a 23-page dream-comic I find the sketch-journal of a beautiful winged sphinx who left her mythic isle to explore a great city of crazy bipeds, called San Francisco... CAUTION: SPHINX SEX, SPHINX ATTITUDE |
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TEN CLARKS AND LOISES: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, an epic dream on... poseurs? Hand-puppets, a devil and a witch, have sex, and implant a lunar ghost embryo into Lois Lane; now Lois & Clarkes, ten clones each, pretend to be puppets... CAUTION: PUPPET SEX; EVERYONE A FAKE |
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TITANIA: by Wayan; 1981/12/7, 83/1/7 & 2/13 and 84/10/2, a dream-epic in installments Clarence the sappy angel from It's A Wonderful Life and Milton's Lucifer land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're fine as is, but the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full palette of feelings. Like the feeling she's fake... |
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TO HELL: by Katie Hofgard; 2003/4/19?, a nightmare of loyalty I loyally served a demon who punished me until at last he sent me to hell. And STILL I didn't rebel... CAUTION: BLOODY ABUSE |
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TRENCHCOAT ANGELS: by Wayan; 2010/1/21; a flying diagnostic visitation dream I'm flying around a half-built house when I'm cornered by three scary archangels in trenchcoats. But they want my help... |
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TROUT BECK by Nancy Price; summer 1933, an aerial comic dream-epic I'm carried off by a crane to meet birdfish, singing sheep, fell-spirits, mad shopkeepers and devil-bulls... |
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TRUMPOCALYPSE UNDERLING: by Wayan, 2020/5/3, a reality-based nightmare Donald Trump is Satan. I'm just a low-level devil, under his thumb. I feel helpless to stop his businesslike plans for the Apocalypse... CAUTION: POLITICAL RAGE; PREDICTS COVID'S LATER WAVES |
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TV DEVIL FLU: by Wayan; 1994/10/24, a comic nightmare hiding useful advice. A "friend" gives me her TV. No wonder! Turns out it's haunted by a small-minded devil who cheats on all his deals... |
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THE VORTEX: by Wayan; 1990/1/3, a nightmare countered. I'm in suburbia for the End of the World. A Vortex eats the block, licks at me. So I click some icons: CAUTION: CRUDE LANGUAGE. OH, AND THE APOCALYPSE, TOO. I FORGOT. |
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VULTURE PEOPLE: by Jack Kerouac, 1962, a gross-out nightmare--and a warning? The vulture people are fucking in the city dump. I end up their guest, given putrid food in their cold stinking house of rancid grease. I'll become a vulture too... CAUTION: UGH! |
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THE WIND FROM HELL: by Wayan; 1981/4/21, a dream-poem. Hot air rises, right? So there's a monsoon from Hell, lifting souls. Lucky for us that gravity balances it... |
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WINGED BEAST: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/4/7/29, a dream of fighting one's own flaws Swedenborg fights a monster but lacks strength. Yet later, on a higher plane, he learns the beast did die... CAUTION: VIOLENT |
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