Dinosaur Dreams
I've noticed that as scientific and popular knowledge of dinosaurs improves, my dream-dinos have changed to match. They're hotter-blooded these days--and smaller, smarter, slicker, faster. A bit like microchips!
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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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ALL TIED UP WITH THE PHONE: by Orion Sandstorrm; before 2002/5/25; a punning dream portrait. In a dark void, a bizarre six-armed fur named Shandra is tied up in phone cords. A phone rings, and Shandra coolly says... CAUTION: TELECOMMUNICATIONS BONDAGE? |
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THE BEE QUEEN: by Wayan; 1997/6/26, a hard-headed dream. Two time-traveling paleontologists get a gift from their friend the Bee Queen. A gift with six-inch fangs... |
| BUT THAT'S BESTIALITY!: by Wayan; 1994/10/29, a dream vignette. In a world dominated by dinosaurs, I get in trouble for publishing a tale of forbidden mammal love... |
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CRICKET GOT IN: by Wayan; 1988/8/25, a dream of troubling gods. A cricket actress I know makes it into the Dynasty of the Gods! Or is it the TV soap "Dynasty"?... |
| THE DINOSAUR ELEVATOR: by Wayan; 1992/11/22, a paradoxical dream. The dinosaurs I meet manage to prove BOTH time-travel theories! Yet they're contradictory... |
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| DINOSAUR GAITS: by Wayan; 1998/11/1, a dream on independence. My paleontologist mom can scuttle like a lizard, so why can't she manage a dinosaur gait? |
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| DINO SINGULARITY: by Wayan; 2012/3/30, a paleontological speculation in a dream. Peering through a spacetime portal, I suspect not all the dinosaurs went extinct--would we spot an ancient Singularity? | |
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DINO TREASURE: by Wayan, 1996/9/1, a treasure-hunt dream . At the Psychic Faire, I'm a deer-man in a gang hunting treasure, led by a rough tough dinosaur... |
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FAIRE DINOSAUR: by Wayan; 1981/5/5. A dream of forbidden love. I fall in love with a sexy T. Rex at the Renaissance Faire. Then things get weird... CAUTION: DINO ABUSE |
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GITANA AND REX AND KIT: by Wayan; 1988/12/11, a comic nightmare. My friend Gitana has a grim view of men--a view that materializes, and starts chasing us... CAUTION: BURGER FRANCHISE DEMOLITION |
| HELL-TORNADO: by Wayan; 1988/7/2, a dream on social engineering. Who built the tornado in the Heartland, that sucks anyone who opens their spirit-wings down to Hell? CAUTION: BAD THEOLOGY, WORSE PHYSICS |
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THE LIMP: by Wayan; 1986/7/18, a dream on difference I was working for a London architect. His son thought people shunned him for his limp, but... |
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LIZ: by Wayan; 1989, digital painting of a daydream. I'm not sure just where she slithered out from, but she looks like more fun than most mammals... CAUTION: LIZARD BREAST |
| 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 |
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| MONSTERS FROM MY SOUP: by Cyberwebspace; 2010/9/30, a stubborn nightmare How'd that spider, dragon and T. rex get in my soup? I skip lunch. Dig in the garden, but scaly heads pop out to nip at me. Persistent! |
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NEWT WEDDING: by Emily Joy; spring 1995, 100k, a six-year-old's epic dream Through wild jungles and over the Mattress Mountains, I lead a giant purple newt to love... |
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OMELET BEACH: by Wayan; 2007/1/15, a dream on how things look through your third eye An alien beach scene--as seen through eyes that see bodies’ energy fields more than surface forms... |
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PLESIOSAUR: by Wayan; 1985/9/5, a medical dream. An itchy patient of mine insists he's turning into a four-headed man-eating plesiosaur. He left one thing out... |
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PRISONS AND STRIPES: by Emily Joy; 2007/10/4, a lucid dream. In a museum full of spacetime-bubbles holding lost souls, the museum-goers are as weird as the exhibits... |
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RESERVATION FOR BIZARRE AND EXTINCT BEASTS: by Orion Sandstorrm; before 2003/9/7; ukiyoe of a dream A futuristic science fiction adventure dream. We rode a feathered, bipedal dinosaur, and got chased by... |
| RHAMPHORHYNCHUS: by Wayan; 1996/11/12, a waking premonition. Biking, I find myself chanting a dinosaur name. I don't even know what it is. At home I open a novel, and a Rhamphorhynchus appears, politely defined for me by our obliging universe... |
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SAURIANS: by Wayan; 155K, 1992, 4 digital dream portraits. In dreams, I kept meeting a dinosaurian person who was proud, strange, beautiful. S/he introduced me to two sisters I just had to paint... |
| SAURIAN CITY: by Wayan; 1996/12/1, a dream snapshot. I visit a world of dinosaurs who fly small planes and live in glowing tree-cities... |
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SERRANA: by Wayan; 2MB, Oct-Dec 2004, a sculpture/webtour with 60 maps, photos and sketches A dry little world with many small seas, Serrana has at least six intelligent species and an anarchist culture. It's a tribute to Ursula Le Guin's anarchist utopia, "The Dispossessed", and Kropotkin's theories of biological cooperation... CAUTION: ANARCHIST POLITICS, ALIEN NUDITY |
| THE SHIP'S BOY: by Wayan; 1996/12/1, a dreamtale. Dinosaur people demand to take our Ship's Boy with them. But he knows them! They RAISED him? |
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SMOKING REX : 25K, 1989/3/29, a dream of alliance. A cigar-smoking tyrannosaur's moved into the neighborhood, upsetting us bluebirds and vampire bats... |
| A STAB OF ANGER: by Wayan; 1997/5/24, a Jurassic Park dream. By a midnight lake, I comfort an abused girl in the mud. But then two figures with long knives appear... |
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TEMEMTIM: by Wayan; 1995/3/3 and 3/16; two linked archeology dreams. My cold-sensitive dinosaur friend makes a find at our archeological dig by thinking like the Old Ones... |
| VELOCIRAPTORS AND BANANAS: by Wayan; 1994/2/6, a dream. After a visit from our landlady's angry, crazy son, a pack of vicious dinosaurs invades our house... |
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| VIRGINIA'S TRAIN: by Emily Joy; 2005/9/24, a psychic dream and poem
We lose control of our new time machine, which seems to have its own agenda... CAUTION: CONTEMPLATION OF SUICIDE, CHRONOLOGICALLY IMPAIRED DREAMER |
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WHITE-KNUCKLE FAIRNESS: by Wayan; 1999/3/23, a dream of not being me. I'm a saurian forced to duel with a volatile friend. Wanting to fight fair, I don't just file down my spurs... |
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WHO ATE MY LETTUCE?: by Wayan; 1983/1/13, a short dreamfable. An invisible monster is eating my lettuce patch. It casts a huge blurry shadow, leaves footprints, but... |
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