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Dreams of the stage: live theatre, drama, acting, performance art, public speaking--its terror, embarrassment, humor, and joy. A few dreams, essays and rants were provoked by live drama or by actually performing on stage. And a few are about pure acting: role-playing, trying on another self, regardless of an audience--if any.

Oh, yeah--and a few dreams that emerge in the form of a dramatic script, like Thief of Dreams.

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	BREAK THE SCRIPT: by Wayan; 1993/6/19, a sex dream about art. A sexy encounter with two robotic girls hopping a night train outside Portland... CAUTION: SEX TEXT
	CALIBAN IN ENGLAND: by Theodore Weiss; 1966 or 67; a dream-play never written As I wrote a poem on Caliban, I dream I’m him: taken to Shakespeare’s England, shown as a freak, I must escape to save Miranda and Prospero from assassins...
	CENTAUR AUDITION: by Wayan; 2012/1/7, a dream about undreams, and a sequel 2012/1/30, a Pygmalion dream Non-dream centaur ballerinas invade my dreams, because they long to be in the World Dream Bank... CAUTION: BARBIE CENTAUR NUDITY, CASTING-COUCH SYNDROME
	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...
	"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...
	THE DOOR GIRL: by Wayan; 1997/9/6, a road-not-taken dream. A doorway not taken (for the most sensible of reasons) provoked a magical dream of what I missed...
	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...
	EXPERIMENT WITH TIME by Nancy Price; 1948, a shamanic-initiation dream declined? I meet a girl who's 16 and 61, who tells me dreams are lives, not messages. But then I must fly over a sinister parade...
	FILM STARS by Nancy Price; 1948, a surreal predictive/diagnostic dream I'm a film actress, but the producer isn’t happy with my legs, so make-up takes them away to be redone...
	FIREBIRD AND MINOTAUR: by Wayan; 1996/9/29, 4 images; a diagnostic dreamtale. I'm a cripple watching a sexy Greek Opera starring Whoopi Goldberg. Then I realize I'm in it...
	FIRST IMPRESSIONS: by Wayan; 2004/5/20, a dreamsong (MP3+lyrics); Dreamverse #0 I meet a monster--half earthworm, half giraffe. Then I realize she’s kind of cute...
	FOUR-ARMED SINGER: by Wayan; 1996/5/16; a dream of baring your soul . In our mutant future, a lovely horse-tailed four-armed girl sings her heart out--as clubgoers ignore her... CAUTION: NUDE CABARET
	GOD'S DANCE CLUB: by Wayan; 1995/5/2, an apocalyptic dream. God's dance club, the Universe, is shutting down. God broke his promise that we staff could get on stage...
	GOTTA BE ME, OR...: by Wayan; 1989/9/5, a dream fable. A friend tells me her sex fantasies. We try playing the roles, but not being ourselves has a weird side-effect... CAUTION: SEX GAMES
	GRAPE: by Wayan; 1991. Digital painting of daydream. There's the watermelon of passion, and then there are the little grapes of fun that foxes eat... CAUTION: NUDE DANCING
	THE GREEN GODDESS: by William Archer; 1919/9/1, a playwriting-idea dream that paid off I was held hostage in India by courteous revolutionaries who avoided spelling out that we were soon to die...
	HEDGEHOG AND WHITE RABBIT: by Wayan; 1972/12/1, a dream love story. Hedgehog and White Rabbit stick together, through the snipers on Broadway, through the dogs of winter, through cannibal soup...
	I WAS AN ELEPHANT HANDLER: by Wayan; 1989/4/3, a genderbent stagestruck dream. I was an elephant trainer longing to be a star--to win the girl on the flying trapeze. Who's probably straight... CAUTION: FLIRTING LESBIANS, OR POSSIBLY ELEPHANTS, OR MAYBE LIBRARIANS
	IN THE STAR; 1988/9/12 by Wayan; an epic, out-of-body, intrastellar quest-dream I tour the heart of a red supergiant, where dreaming souls explore their heart's desires unconstrained by matter... CAUTION: SWEDENBORGIAN VISON PLUS NUDE UNICORNS AND LEMURS
	INVOKE THE ANIMAL POWERS (or was it PROVOKE?): by Wayan; 2008/9/9, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #24 A children's performance of "Where the Wild Things Are" turns into a riot-orgy. Why do I think it's all about politics? CAUTION: WILD THING ORGY
	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...
	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...
	MAELEN AND ME: by Wayan; 1972/5/1, a transmigrational dream. I'm a psychic circus animal who's just managed to teleport my humanoid girlfriend. It's for our act, but... CAUTION: PETTING
	IN THE MERMAID'S DRESSING ROOM: by Wayan; 100K, 1993/12/18; an evolutionary dream. At Sea-Dragon State Park, I climbed down to the sea serpent's dressing room after the show, and found... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS
	MOTH TRAPS: by Wayan; 1980/1/11, a short dream on getting stuck. The Agile Beasts build traps to catch the Moth Monsters; but the Moths may build traps to retaliate...
	MUSICIAN AND FOXTAIL, by Wayan, 2009/2/14, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #40 In Palo Alto I meet strange musicians in the rain, and realize kitsune aren't born but made...
	MY MOTHER'S CLOSET: by Rachel Hadas, c. 2000; a dream-poem provoking a 2008/9/16 dream by Chris Wayan I was in my mother's closet, trying on her outfits, and trapped in Hamlet, too...
	NANCY AND KIT: by Wayan; 1994/1/3, a dream about mislabeling. In a psychodrama scene, I try to stop a furious guy from hitting an exhibitionist girl. But I'm bleeding...
	THE NEW DALAI LAMA: by Wayan; 2011/9/9; a prescriptive dream that turns out to be predictive too. I dream the new Dalai Lama's a kind woman who gives me startling health advice and shows me how to fly. The next day...
	NINA'S RING: by Nina's clown, 1955/4/20, a lifesaving intuition While rehearsing our circus act I mentally saw Nina's ladder breaking loose. Next day, a supporting ring snapped. Being forewarned, I pulled hard...
	PAIN-RATIONER'S STRIKE: by Wayan; 1987/1/1, a dream on self-torture. Three men torture my friend (or is he ME?) and try to keep me from intervening... CAUTION: FAST-TALKING BULLIES
	PASTLIFE MIDDEN: by Wayan; 1998/12/28, a past-life dream. I bike deep into Time Hall, barging through security gates of amnesia, to climb the midden of the past...
	PESCADERO MONET: by Wayan; 1983/11/4, a happy art-cult dream. Monet is over 100 now, living in an art colony. I visit him, but my parents come along. Bad idea...
	PIRANDELLO'S BAT: by "Anonymous #22"; before 1963, an absurd predictive dream I dreamed of a garden in Italy. Arches, roses. Then a bat flew in! The next day, I open a book of Pirandello's plays, to find...
	PITS OF POWER: by Wayan; 2005/11/16, a dream of rival miracles One tribe builds earth-magic pits that can teleport you or grant wishes. But the other tribe's flow-state magic is harder to define... CAUTION: SEX FANTASY GRANTED
	PRAY: by Wayan; 1992? Digital nondream image--childhood memory?. I don't know what this scene is about--but it's not a dream. A stage, I think. Something from childhood. CAUTION: BARE BEAR
	RED UNCLE, RED CANYON: by JB Priestley; c.1907 and c.1925, two short dreams making long-term predictions As a boy I dreamt my uncle (a calm man) glared at me in red rage; I was terrified. A decade later, in a bar... I dreamt that over a balcony rail I saw bright-colored, spectacular scenery. Years after, I took a detour in Arizona...
	REHEARSING THE LOVE SCENE: by Wayan; 1999/9/17, a dream of advice. An insecure girl who looks like my anima is rehearsing a controversial love scene with an alien wolf...
	THE SERMON OF CARMEN DOG: by Wayan; 1990/9/10, the ultimate public-speaking nightmare. Animal poets at an open mic. My turn! And I find... I'm one. A creature without grammar...
	SILK PINS: by Wayan; 1992/5/13, a self-mocking dream. I'm a trade rep for Terra, on a new world. But an old rival, a rep from another world, arrives, and... CAUTION: DRUGS AND SHARP THINGS
	SILKY RELENTS: by Wayan; 1997/3/8 a dreamtale on undoing old injustice. My anima Silky plans to kill a man who hurt her. Instead, we make them re-enact it, with variations...
	SKY-THAW; 2012/6/8 by Wayan; a comic surreal political dream-poem While watching two rooftop actors (one a chicken) I noticed the icebergs in the sky were melting at last...
	THE SMILING SHAW MACHINE: by W.B. Yeats; 1894/4/19, a nightmare about popular success. After Shaw's Arms and the Man eclipsed my own play The Land of Heart's Desire, I dreamt that I was haunted by...
	SPUTTERNIK: by Wayan; 1979, a Beat poem: the comedy of the streets. A street poet preaches a gospel of smallness, until he pokes at capitalism in a slightly too personal way...
	STRANGE AUDITION: by Nancy Price; 1948, a predictive theatre-dream All the actors auditioning for Shaw’s play are weird mixtures of human, avian, and bestial. And Shaw’s in the balcony, listening...
	THE SWORDSMEN: by T.A. Williams; late 1930s, a surreal dream. Dusk. A plain. A troop of swordsmen approach me, draw their weapons... and toss their spinning, shining swords to the stars...
	TEETH IN HIS THIGH: by Wayan; 2008/10/30, an embarrassing dream-poem: Dreamverse #37 The Conference on Love has two sexy speakers. One says "my teacher's stalking me" but she clings to him. Love? Hate? Both? CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM--but what are these two exhibiting?
	THE TELLTALE HEART: by SAO (Shawn Allen O'Neal); 1970s, painting of a possible diagnostic nightmare Onstage, high on a scaffold, I was beating the chaff off a huge seed, unable to stop. I was beating my own heart...
	TENNIS UNDER STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES by Nancy Price; 1948, a frustrating dream-farce with a warning Our tennis game's spoiled by rubber rackets, fierce grandmas, Good and Evil (those identical twins) and a bully on stilts...
	THE THIEF OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 200K, an illustrated dream-play, 1996/11/29. I was a mermaid trying to find Count Coyote's stolen dreams, so I could marry my human girlfriend... CAUTION: GAY MARRIAGE, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
	TIGER PODIUM; c. 2003/9/29 by Monica M; a predictive dream The stage curtain opens. Tigers sit on podiums. In the center is a great big one with blood all over its mouth. A few days later...
	THE TUBA MAN: by Wayan; 1982/7/8, a career-advice dream. Tuba Man plays from the top of a tower, even when Loveless Man opens fire; for music is life to him...
	TWO POLLYS: by Lewis Carroll; 1879/5/15, a dream of psychological splitting. With no sense of incongruity, I planned to take the child Polly with me to the theatre, to see the grown-up Polly act...
	AN UNDERCOVER TROLL: by Wayan; 1994/7/6, a dream of personal growth taken too far... Disguised as a literary troll, I spy on the Neo-Nazis, but it can't last: I ate a magic herb, and I'm growing...
	THE VACUUM CLEANER QUARTET: by Wayan; 1981, four bizarre poems. All I know about humans, I learned in psychodrama. I gawked as caterpillars grew wings. Except me...
	THE VIDEOGRAPHER'S APPRENTICE: by Wayan; 165K, 1994/7/29, a predictive/warning dream. Blondie Wiggle builds a Video Igloo. But I'm allergic--TV kills me! A BAD omen for our video project... CAUTION: TV KILLS (BUT YOU KNEW THAT)
	"YOU'RE SO GAY!": by Wayan; 2013/1/24. A psychic dream of a time-short oracle. I'm in line to meet a shockingly accurate psychic. But she's running late, so as I frame my question... CAUTION: I'M NOT GAY BUT I SURE AM QUEER
	ZUCCHINI GIRL: by Wayan; 1996/9/23, a dreamtale on acting out. I find the truth about my childhood. My parents lied! I hide for days, then dub myself Zucchini Girl and go onstage, humping squash, calling it performance art! So do my friends see a problem? CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM