Deserts and Oases
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AIR OASIS: by Wayan; 1984/4/15, a dream of marginality. Why'd I have to get my big inspiration deep in a lake in the Land of the Lizard People high in the Andes? |
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AL CAPP'S HORSES: by Wayan; 1988/4/12, a dream predicting an odd image, palette and painting style I dream cartoonist Al Capp switched late in life to painting horses in a weird expressive style; I wake, write the dream, rush to work to find a painting of horses in a weird expressive style CAUTION: CAUSTIC TO E.S.P. DENIERS |
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ALIEN GIRL, SACRED PEAKS: by Wayan; dreamed 2005/11/25, two dreams on long-term goals I'm one of a trio of swimmers in a pool, making out--under the surface only. Must we hide? I'm near Shiprock with a flying-saucer girl who sees the nearby crags and far snowy peaks as all the same size and distance... how to teach perspective? CAUTION: SKINNYDIPPING, GROPING |
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ALTHEA'S MONEY DREAMS: by Althea; 1999/1/22, financial dreams provoked by... financial dreams? After reading a booklet of dreams about money by Wayan, Althea has four such dreams of her own challenging family ideas of class, gender, inheritance... and then practical investment advice!... |
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ATTAHUAH: by Jamie Sawyer; summer 2015, a postapocalyptic lucid dream of vengeance Four guys plot to enslave my girl and kill me; I have lucid powers, and kill them instead. My girlfriend Attahuah gets poisoned, but... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, DECEIT |
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BORN IN A CAVE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2007/4/20 to 2007/8/9, a painted series of rite-of-passage dreams. I keep dreaming of awkward but successful transitions into new life, and paint them all in one landscape... |
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BUNNY GROPER: by Wayan; 2022/2/4; a dream on harassment's roots and goals A fantasy bazaar full of wolf, cat and rabbit shoppers. But my human friend Mark has a booth by the exit, and grabs a rabbit girl's tail! She glares daggers, but seems resigned to harassment... CAUTION: SEXISM OR SPECISM? |
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CAPITOL REEF: by Wayan; 1996/1/27. Drawn daydream of a mid-air orgy (or is it mid-water?) News of a new national park and a science show on cleaner-fish spur a daydream of dolphins, cats and... CAUTION: FISH ORGY; MOCKS THE ANGEL MORONI, TOO |
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CHEETAH: by Wayan; 1978-86, a poem on turning dreams into art. I'm a cheetah working as a baker in Coconino County, Arizona, haunted by Krazy Kat... |
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DESERT EYES: by Wayan; 1984/3/4, a dream of portals. We desert-hobbits break through to a world of jungle giants who see differently from us. Will they believe us about the UFOs? |
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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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THE DESERT'S PURPOSE: by Wayan; 1996/11/19, a philosophical dream. I'm in the bed of a pickup truck crossing Sonora, insisting to a farmworker "Deserts have spiritual value..." |
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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... |
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DOG THIRST: by Cecy and Wayan; 1991/10/7, shared or telepathic dreamlets CECY: In a desert, a thirsty dog jumps out of a tree--the first known dog suicide... WAYAN: I'm a talking dog. Our owner denies us enough water, so we protest... |
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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... |
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FIVE ELVISH DREAMS: by Dolores J. Nurss; 2005/6/10-2005/6/19, an incubated lucid-dream sequence 1: I visit Elrond and Bilbo in Elvenhome, but overthinking traps me in a timeloop; 2: Elrond says he renounces seriousness for joy, and plans a great, inclusive party; 3: I feel unworthy, but set out on a desert quest with Elrond's young apprentice; 4: I meet joyful, drunken, singing elves but hide in a tree, too shy to join in; 5: I meet a nervous elven singer and a dolphin trapped in a tiny pool in my bedroom... |
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FLYING BED, TALKING BIRDS: by Wayan; 2015/1/6, a one-word shamanic advisory dream My bed floats high over southwest Morocco. Giant birds come fly lazily with me, croaking "Faster, faster!" But I'm busy with anti-desert eco-planning... |
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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 |
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GEOMETRY OF DAWN: by Bruce Kawin, c.1983, a sexy metaphysical dream? My anima sends me on peculiar journeys--smoke rings, islands, conversations with a stone-- but at last it's just us. She has something more she wants to teach me. On that bed... CAUTION: ASTRAL COME-ON |
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GIRDERS AND DUST: by Wayan; 1983/10/23; a dream touring the ruins of childhood. I dreamed I returned to a childhood park and found mostly ruin. But one magical thing survived... |
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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... |
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HANDSHAKE: by John S. Dykes, before 1986; a surreal dream-sketch People ride inside two levitating arms that shake hands above a desert. Do the insiders know what the deal is? |
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HIS MINE: by Wayan; 1985/12/2, an epic Wild West dream I'm a hobbit seeking Henry Fonda's haunted gold mine. And find it. Or is that chocolate? But then I'm caught in a shamanic showdown in a bar where they serve real spirits... |
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HORSE-DOG: by Wayan, 1982/2/1, a rambling, scattered but predictive dream I cross the Mushroom Desert, meet a blue-tailed squirrel & a horse-size dog, then zombie-vampire suburbanites. NEXT DAY: an artist sends me a flyer with a new dream painting--a huge dog whose fur-patterns depict a horse... CAUTION: SYNCHRONICITY |
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HORSES OF THE AQUARIUS: by Wayan, recurring dream 1956-8, poem '72/6/24, art 82/12/11 My earliest memory's a recurring dream: I'm a wild horse near Shiprock, recurrently dreaming that I'm a human child! The two lives alternated for years, each a dream to the other... |
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KAKALEA: by Wayan; 2012/7/23 to early 2017; a good world on a bad hair day We search for exoplanets whose stats are Earthlike. But mass, chemistry, warmth and air do not a biosphere make! Geography alone--the mere placement of lands and seas--can also make a world lush or barren... CAUTION: CENTAUR BARBIE NUDITY |
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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? |
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LAKOTA TRAINSCAPES: by Wayan; 2018/10/30, art seen in an anti-lucid dream In a general store on a High Plains rez, I find two surreal collaged postcards. If only this were a dream they'd qualify for the World Dream Bank, but sadly, it isn't. Right? CAUTION: STUPID, STUPID CONSCIOUS! |
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LINES COMPOSED IN SLEEP: by Owen Meredith; before 1887; a Kubla-Khanlike poem-shard I dreamt an epic poem on a sinister ruined city now home only to reptiles. I woke with at least a hundred lines, but... |
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LION FATIGUE by Xanthe and Wayan, 1989/8/24; parallel dreams on, well, L.F. Wayan: a mother mountain lion got quantum-entangled with farm animals, exhausting her... Xanthe: my dogs hurt this lion and I had to tend and calm it all night, exhausting ME... |
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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... |
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MARS REBORN: by Wayan; 15 pages, 27 photos, 2003/9/22, a tour of a sculpted/virtual world Mars as it will be 1000 years from now, terraformed. A guided tour with photos... |
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MIRIEL, DON'T GO IN!: by Wayan; 1982/10/6, a dream of a stunted planet's stunted god. God offers gifts to pilgrims, so my sister enters his door. Fierce light shoots out... |
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MISFITS ON MARS: by Wayan; 1986/11/20, an epic dream; the climax of the dreamseries UNICORN TAG. From the punk clubs of Frisco to the Safeways of Si Valley to the vermilion sands of Mars, Silky the were-nightmare fights for the Misfits against every cliche in science fiction... |
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MOVING IN THE LANDSCAPES OF MY DREAMS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 14 dreams (mostly Jan-Mar 2011) painted on one canvas A dream urged me to paint a big landscape with cutout movable (magnetic) dream figures and liftable flaps revealing hidden dream scenes... |
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NAVAHO HORSES: by Wayan; 1972/8/1; childhood drawing, feltpen & color pencil A museum sketch of Navaho horses who got me hot--teaching teenage me that my sexual orientation wasn't (only) human... |
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A NEVADAN ASS: by Wayan, 2007/5/17, a dream-poem on sabotage in art AND love DREAM: on a Nevada ranch, I'm a were-horse into mares--when I'm human. And when I'm a stallion? Why, cowgirls! Always date the wrong species--just to be sure of rejection. NEXT DAY: I let a class of commercial artists critique my dream-comix. Just to be sure of rejection... CAUTION: FURRYPHILIA, SELF-SABOTAGE |
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NICHE: by Wayan; 1990/5/9, a nondream poem on new art media, or crashing your computer. Same thing. A poem linking the dawn of digital art to early, tinny phonographs, cranky film cameras... CAUTION: IDEAS |
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OCARINA, or, MILLION-YEAR SENTENCE: by Wayan; 1972/5/27, a lucid / predictive dream. I go lucid and drive my bed to the Nevada desert where I see my next million years. And so far, it’s been true... |
OISIN: by Wayan; 2005-2013, 32 maps and images; a nondream virtual world |
A model of a moon, half-Europa, half-Mars, with (intelligent?) life in seas under a skin of ice... |
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... |
THE OTHER LAND: by Walter de la Mare, c.1881-4; an episodic or "installment" dream series |
Age 7 to 11, I often dreamt I inhabited a consistent geography of mountains & deserts. I was an adult of dark complexion in non-European clothes; I spoke a tongue (and read a script) that I didn't recognize when awake... CAUTION: ADULT DRUG EXPERIMENT; PAST LIFE MEMORY? |
POKING THROUGH THE NET: by Wayan; 1993/8/6, a dream on evading repression. |
Cultists must wear a burqa and confess their sins daily. So why's their beach such a pickup scene? CAUTION: NUDITY UNDER FISHNETS |
PONYBOY: by Wayan; 1982/12/9, a dream about the control room of dreams. |
The child who runs with wild horses finds the secret spy-room of dreams! But no one's watching... |
THE POWER OF ART: by Wayan; 2016/8/29, a dream-poem about the longtern effect of dreamwork? |
At a museum, a weird art project shows me how observing and documenting life in art can improve that life--just from being taken seriously... |
QUEEN KONG: by Wayan; 1986/3/17, a surreal dream of nerd defiance |
A giantess strides across the desert. The Great White Hunter fires his elephant gun, but the books she's made of stop his bullets. I think I'll join the Queen Kong Library... |
THE RESTLESS FILTER: by Wayan; 2011/2/4; a dream explaining my loneliness and American politics |
I'm a kid in Nevada around 1950, learning that both my folks are lone wolves who gave me a genetic double dose... CAUTION: RACIAL THEORY ABOUT... LIBERTARIANS? |
SAINT BRIDGET: by Jenny Badger Sultan; between 1963-68, a dream on adversity's uses. |
In a Scythian church, a painting says: "Little St Bridget was bound so hard that when they released her she flew"... |
THE SELL-FISH WITCHES: by Wayan; 1983/6/29, an epic corrective dream |
My sister and I are runaways, developing psychic powers. A cult of fish-selling witches wants to use us... CAUTION: SIBLING INCEST, SPELL ABUSE |
SHE LIVES TO 140: by Wayan; 2017/7/13, a dreamlet urging crankiness |
I meet a 140-year-old hermit in her black chadoor, skateboarding down a hill near her sacred dream-spring... |
SHELL AND STONE: by William Wordsworth; late 1840s, a dream of a new Great Flood |
An Arab shows me a stone he calls a book, and a prophetic shell that warns of a flood rushing toward us... |
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... |
SISTERS OF THE INTERFACE: by Wayan; 1983/12/21, a shamanic dreamtale. |
My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet... |
SNAKE POD TREE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 1989/3/16, painting of a vivid dream image |
In a desert, I find a tree with red purselike pods. But they all seem empty, and I know they should each contain a vivid yellow snake... |
A SNAKE PROMPT: by Rebecca Solnit; before 2005, a brief but effective warning to pay attention |
As I recalled what I'd dreamed the night before, a snake, I looked down and saw my foot was poised to come down on... |
SORB TRUCE: by Wayan; 2008/9/1, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #20 |
In a desert crawling with aliens who can absorb your mind, I propose a truce, and gain... |
SOUTHWEST SHAMANS: by Wayan; felt pen, August 1971; childhood mythical drawing |
Drawn on a trip to the Southwest as a kid. Felt like I'd lived there in a past life. Or I would in a future life... |
THE SPHINX WANTS CLEANING: by Thutmoses IV, c.1400 or 1405 BCE; a god's dream-bargain |
Thutmoses napped in the shade under the Great Sphinx--then buried to the neck in sand. The resident sun-god complained of the sand; "the throne is yours if you'll clear it off..." |
SWALLOWS OF FOUR CORNERS: by Wayan, (Aug?) 1971, a childhood visionary feltpen drawing |
Navaho country felt like home--the land, the art, the animals, the language. Trapped in suburbia, I drew... |
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... |
TAROT: THE WINGED COYOTE (Freedom!): by Wayan; tarot card from a dream, 1979/3/14. |
I dreamed I was the Spirit of Mexico: a winged coyote flying around Sonora howling at the moon... |
THARN: by Wayan; 2006, 45 p, 200+ ill., a nondream virtual world: maps, photos, portraits, tours |
Tour a rugged, scenic moon with air and water in deep canyons sheltering a dozen intelligent species CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, SCIENCE |
TICHANE: by Wayan; 1992/11/7. Nondream digital "woodblock print". |
What the world looks like when you have environmental illness, like me... |
TRAIL OF POGS: by Wayan; 2004/9/6, my dreams' response to the first Burning Man dream-workshop |
A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us... |
TRINITY: by Nashoba Hostina; 2002? A nightmare of losing best friends to romantic love |
We were inseparable: the tiger, the fox, and the wolf. Together our magic lit up the darkness around us, until... |
TUBA BEANS: by Wayan; 1996/3/24, a Star Trek dream. |
Changelings invade our orbital station, selling drugs, kidnapping teachers--but Constable Odo can handle that. What's weird are the beans pouring out of that kid's tuba... |
TWILIGHT ANIMA RISING: by Mardi Storm, 2005, a dream leading to artistic defiance | I dreamed of a unicorn rearing in the desert. I wanted to sculpt it and applied to Burning Man but was rejected. So I sculpted the unicorn anyway, out of playa mud. It was a hit... |
WASTE: by Wayan; 1990/5/7, a desert singles poem, 11 images. |
A road trip through New Mexico mutates into a tour of my relationship disasters... |
WITNESSES FOR THE PROSECUTION: by Rita Wolff; 1984, a mysterious dream. |
Night. The Nile; the Pyramids on one bank; minarets and domes on the other. But if the dream's comparing antiquity to modernity... which does it condemn? |
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