Solitude
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ANNABEL ROSE: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/14, a ghostbusting dream on... love? sex? what? Edgar Allen Poe confronts his dead girlfriend, who wants to drag him into the grave with her... CAUTION: HUNGRY GHOST, SEX TALK |
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ARCTIC CHANGELING: by Wayan; 1981/6/30, a dream on roots. I'm a shy woman in a truckstop town who learns why I don't fit in. But will I, among my real kin?... |
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ARCTIC UNICORN: by Wayan; 1989/8/2, a self-flagging predictive dream I'm in a gypsy wagon that always creeps north; to break the spell, I need an arctic unicorn. Four days later, at work at the library, a new book appears: Nancy Luenn's Arctic Unicorn... |
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AVOID THE MATRIARCH: by Wayan; 2011/7/8; a dream of, well, avoidance I love a girl in a big Singapore clan whose matriarch hates me. But the omens say confronting her will be disastrous... |
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BESS: by Forrest Bess, 1946, '47, '57, '67 & '70; five hypnogogic dreams Bess painted images that look like abstract symbols but actually flashed in front of him when half asleep... |
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THE BEST CONVERSATIONALISTS: by Wayan; 1984/8/5, a geeky dream. I'm at an all-geek banquet! We're all shy; we just can't do smalltalk. Then the hostess explains why she chose us... |
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BLACKBIRD: by Anna Halprin; 2002-2005?, a recurring dream of a spirit guide. At first I was afraid of the blackbird, who asked me to come away with him--I wasn't ready to die-- but now I see him as a friend and guide. One day when I'm ready, we'll fly--and I won't be back. |
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BLOODLINES: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2005/7/30, 9/1 and 9/3; a compound dream-painting A man obsessed with blood and death disturbs me, but I have to admit I share his interests... Next the blood comes home; a surgeon wants to flay my tongue... Next, witch-children rebel against a bloody flossing ritual and fly away on broomsticks... |
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BOILING MY FRIENDS: by Wayan; 1983/6/7, a nondream poem of letting go. Giving up a circle of friends is like the collapse of a sun--do you dry up like a raisin... or explode? |
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THE BRUNDIBAR SEA: by Wayan; 2005/12/18, a mystical manifestation dream Biking, I stray into the steamy Brundibar Sea. My bike dissolves! But hot-tubbers explain the Sea manifests what you visualize. Yay! Uh-oh... CAUTION: MYSTICISM AND HOLOCAUST HISTORY |
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BUT I WANT TO LIVE!: by Wayan; 1995/8/5, a life-altering dream. My job's to clarify people's deepest wishes. But when I meet two women who truly want to die... CAUTION: SUICIDAL IMPULSES |
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CENTAUR QUARTET: by Wayan; 1982/2/26, 83/12/24 & 84/10/16, recurring dreams of my spirit family. Can our interspecies family survive? Our very instincts clash around solitude/boundaries, sex and incest CAUTION: SEX, INCEST, REPRESSION/DENIAL |
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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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DANCING BACKWARD: by Roswila; 2007/5/21, a punning dream-poem I just watch as all the dance students practice the jive step. I think I already know that one... |
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DAPHNE THINKS: by Wayan, 2007/6/10, a dream warning of (two?) unacknowledged needs My co-worker Daphne is snappish and stressed. She meditates, seeking the cause, and becomes a half-newt-half-koi in a giant fishbowl. Up shambles a curious AI... |
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DAWN'S DREAM: by Dawn Z and Wayan; 2.3MB (MP3 + lyrics), 1999/4/1, a dream rock song My friend Dawn dreamed she crawled into a dumpster to live, and at last felt at home, secure... |
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DEADWOOD, or, MAO'S ONEIROLOGIST: by Wayan; 1976/4/2, a career-advisory dream-poem The Cultural Revolution denies me the Himalayas--the spiritual heights. So I flutter around the base of the Stairway to Heaven... |
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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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THE DOCTOR KILLS A TERN: by Wayan; 1988/9/24. A dream poem, Dreamverse #4 Dr Who kills his best friend, a huge white tern, on a whim. Furious, I demand a rewrite... CAUTION: WANTON MURDER |
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DOPPELGANGER: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; 6-page hostage-dream comic; shamanic? Tony works as a courier in Sarajevo till he inadvertently delivers a bomb. Held by a warlord for months, he dreams within the dream, and draws those dreams... CAUTION: GRIM |
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THE DOUBLE: by Julie Doucet; Nov. 1992, a lucid alter-ego sex dream. Looking in a mirror, Julie goes lucid. She changes herself into a man and pulls her mirror-image through the glass... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY |
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DRAGON-JEWEL: by Wayan; 2013/6/27, a 1001 Nights epic dream disturbingly predictive of ISIS In Old Palmyra, I stumble on a dragon-hoard. Wizards and caliphs hunt me--how to get out of town? Magic carpet? No. I put on a brown coat, borrow a delivery bike, and slowly pedal... |
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EAT MORE FIBER: by Wayan, 1996/8/8, a nutritious little dream. Concerned about my health, I up my fiber intake. But not from the usual sources... CAUTION: BAD DIETARY ROLE MODEL |
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EVASION: by Marie-Claude Girondé, summer 2008?, a dream painting. One pays for soaring high with solitude of the soul... |
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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... |
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FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 2.6M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic. I had an epic dream lasting subjective weeks--a true other life. It wasn't Earth and we weren't human. I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. One night, my friends curled round me, I saw I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a woman, marry, and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right... 2600K loads slowly? Try it in parts: 1: HOME, 650K, 2: VOYAGE, 1200K, 3: BACK 750K. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
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FISHERGIRL IN WATERCOLOR; OVAL: by Wayan; 1996/7/26 pencil & watercolor Leaf and me, on our boat in the lost city, from the epic dream FISHERGIRL. My first sketch of the dream... CAUTION: TRIBAL NUDITY |
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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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FLY, DANCER!: by Wayan; 1993/4/2; an advisory dream. In my ballet class, we were learning to leap. But I wanted to FLY. So I went outside alone... |
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FOUR PERCEPTUAL SCREENS: by Wayan; 2018/1/24, a dream urging me to drop some armor--but not all I dream my Doors of Perception have four layered screens to keep out mosquitoes, when one is plenty... |
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FREEBIRD TOWER: by Wayan; 1975/1/10, a rebellious flying dream I was a bird-girl, the pet of some rich, royal humans. I summoned a storm of rebel birds, flooding the moat and driving out our owners... CAUTION: BIRDGIRL NUDITY |
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FULL REASON: by Wayan; 1980/5/28, a dream on patience. At a benefit for Rock Psychiatrists, the Spirit of the Convention explains why I'm not yet allowed on stage... |
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FURIOUS FLIGHT: by Wayan; 1998/11/8, a dream on managing rage. I lose my temper. I don't just fly off the handle--I fly off a cliff and out to sea! Why'd I risk drowning?.. |
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FURMAKI: by Wayan & Alder; 2018/11/15, anime-tinged telepathic/shared dreams. We sneak out of the movie to explore Upstairs. My friends hide from the staff in storage nooks for rolls of fake-fur. They turn into kitsune, catgirls & deergirls... |
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FURRY TRINITY: by Wayan; 2021/3/1, a dream painting three facets of... me? Or of dreaming? Three furry people show off their collected art & pets. But then they dissolve into their art & pets! The room itself dissolves into a river-raft. A unicorn girl in a gauze ritual robe studies a map... CAUTION: MILD FURRY NUDITY |
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GARDEN OF THE GODS: by Wayan; 1995/10/6, a dream of slowth. In the Garden of the Gods, I sit through sun and rain. For gods aren't the gardeners, they're the crop... |
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GIGANTIC SAND MOUNTAINS: by Jack Kerouac, early Sept. 1953, a dream on fun versus work Perched on a huge sandpile by the train track, I wrote. Then met a narcissistic hipster chasing happiness and sex. But this globe's austere and full of hurt... |
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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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GIRL IN THE WATER: by Wayan, 2000/10/7, twin dreams on... dreamwork? In a California with no Gold Rush, wild deer carry a girl over the San Fernando hills to a secret dream-pool... Then in a Japantown hotel lobby, that girl floats meditating in a huge aquarium, as local gossips lie about her... |
GREENBIRD SAVIOR: by Wayan; 1983/6/2, a divine comedy. |
Time-travel the Navaho way! But our bread-pipe gets hijacked, so we call the Bird. Who shows up, all right... CAUTION: NON-STANDARD SAVIOR, EVIL DREAM PUNS |
HERMIT IN THE PIPE: by Wayan; 1999/5/2, a dream of the end. |
I'm a holy man sneaking into a sewerpipe at the beach, to pop anxiety pills in shame. Do they even work? CAUTION: CHEMICAL CRUTCHES |
HIDE IN THE REEDS: by Wayan, 2023/2/5, a punning health-advice dream |
In the park, long lines of worshipers wait to meet a guru. But I'm naked, so I hide in the reeds... CAUTION: NUDE SUNBATHING |
HILLBILLY ECO-REVOLT: by Wayan; 1985/6/12, a diagnostic eco-dream. |
A poor planet with one city. Urban technocrats and hick ecologists have conflicting development models... CAUTION: TOO REAL TO BE FUN |
HUMANITY'S GREATEST FEAR: by Emily Joy; 2007/4/8, a sarcastic dream on education. |
My teacher insists, "You'll be scared too, when you see it." But when he shows us humanity’s greatest fear... CAUTION: UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS |
IN THE BIG BURN: by Wayan; 1997/7/22, a postnuclear dream. |
I love a girl who wants to settle in a radioactive jungle, a scar from an ancient war. Stay or go? |
THE INVISIBLE SULKY: by Wayan; 1995/9/20, a dream on resistance. |
I feel a drag, and take off my safety belt. I find I've been towing an invisible buggy with two men in it... |
IS SOLITUDE HOLY?: by Wayan; 1998; a watercolor on dreamwork's isolation. |
When I compare Julia Butterfly up her tree with those hermits who sat atop columns in the desert... |
JACOB'S LADDER: by Jacob, grandson of Abraham; c. 2050 BCE; a self-fulfilling prophetic dream. |
Jacob dreams of angels climbing to heaven. He meets God, who promises the Holy Land to him and his tribe. Jacob uncritically accepts... |
KRELKIN CAMOUFLAGE: by Wayan; 1981/4/21, 3 versions of recurring dream image |
A sexy dream-creature hides by splitting her body visually, her red mane and tail matching her background... |
LION EYES: by Patagia; 2007/11/??, a serious dream-prank. |
Lions trap me in an African cave with only coffee, paper and pens! Is this what it takes to get me to write? |
MARK ROLLS THE MELON: by Wayan, 1990/7/4, an Independence Day dream-comic |
My friend Mark and I climb the Path of Righteousness to the summit where he finds a big red watermelon. He rolls it down the Path of Righteousness, knocking businessmen aside like bowling pins! Why? Well... |
MCKILLIP'S NEW BOOK: by Wayan; 2010/7/23, an epic literary dream |
I'm inside a magical novel by Patricia McKillip, amid tricksters, cosplayers, spooks, sex changes, levitation and (sigh) cops... CAUTION: COYOTE SEX |
MONASTERY: by Anonymous #7; before 1986, a predictive/advisory spiritual dream |
I happily meditated alone in a monastery. But when I woke, I saw no way to act on the dream. Then a friend... |
MOONCAT: by Wayan; 1995/11/14; a subtle dream-comic about sonar. text version |
Near a mysterious sculpture garden on the moon, lives the blind, bike-riding sage I seek: Moon-Cat... |
MUTISM'S PENUMBRA: by Wayan, 2019/9/9, an otherworldly dream of a curiously familiar malaise |
In a world of wizards, many have gone silent. They seem to forget speech exists. A toxin, a disease? But what explains people's calm as more go mute? No, it's an insidious spell--with a penumbra making us take its spread for granted... CAUTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR OUR WORLD |
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 |
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 |
O LA LA, WHAT A STRANGE DREAM: by Julie Doucet; 1989, a comic space sex dream |
Mom gave me cookies for my three-year solo spaceflight. Special cookies for both ends of me... CAUTION: NUDITY, BAD SEX ADVICE |
OCTOPIA: by Wayan; 1996/3/21, a spiritual dream-comic on play; ill. text version |
I'm a stratospheric bat who finds a flying swastika. Is it creeping fascism? Or a Hindu blessing? Neither! It's an Octopian frisbee. I return it... |
OPELS, OPALS: by Wayan; 1990/6/10; two dreamlets that turn out to be predictive |
I'm car-buying. My friend has an Opel, but it's sluggish AND a gas hog. How can a car be both? Then... I notice a jar of opals that my grandpa gave me has grown dull with algae! Sheesh, more opals gone bad... I wake and head to work. But at a bottleneck, I'm blocked by this loud group talking on and on about... |
THE OUTSIDERS: by Grady Towers; 1987, article on genius. |
Towers, before he was killed, argued Terman was wrong: geniuses are often isolated and maladjusted... CAUTION: UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS |
PALAIS IDÉAL: by Ferdinand Cheval; dreamed 1864, built 1879-1912, a life-defining dream |
I dreamed I built a palace, but for fifteen years I kept silent, ashamed. Then I tripped over a beautiful stone. I took it home. Next day I collected more... |
THE PARABLE OF THE CAVE: by Wayan; 1993/9/18, an antisocial dream. |
Plato never did say what shed the light that cast those shadows on his cave wall. I find out. CAUTION: CUT-RATE APOCALYPSE |
POTLATCH SMOKE: by Wayan; 1988/5/10, a shamanic dream-inside-dream 4 levels deep! |
Refugees flood the spirit worlds! War looms. Wolf, Silky, Dr Who, even the Bug-Goddess of Love are alarmed. I'm just a blonde ditz, but I help inspect realities till we trace the source: a Tlingit potlatch! Why? |
PURR: by Wayan; Sept. 1981, watercolor of a dream. |
I dreamed our family's black cat Persephone had to make a life-decision... |
RABBIT WORLD: by Wayan; 6-page comic of a 1990/9/26 shamanic dream. |
I'm a telepathic rabbit defending our world from space-laser attack. We do, but do we modernize too much? CAUTION: IDEAS |
RAETHE: by Wayan; 1990/4/19; a delicate follow-up dream, drawn & poemed |
In the Cave of the Ant Ambassador, I meet his mate, a beautiful translucent fox named Raethe. Way happier with her mate (& body!) than in that dream just two months ago... |
RAZI AND THE HOLY WINO OF SHASTA: by Wayan; 1994/9/1, a redemptive epic dream |
20,000 years from now, a deer-harpist named Razi finds the Holy Wino's not quite the ruin he seems... CAUTION: BAD PENGUINS, DEER NUDITY, RUDE DRUNK |
RED HORSE: by Katherine Kean; undated, 2016? 17?; a dream demanding... solitude? wildness? more? |
I was at a nice party when a wild horse burst in and insisted on taking me into a wilderness... CAUTION: CUT-OFF ADVENTURE? |
REDUCED TO THE STUDHOUSE: by Wayan; 1980/11/16, a warning dream. |
I'm not a normal wolf: I'm a were-woman. When I turn wolf again, I'm in heat; but I want to be alone! So... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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? |
RUNNER WITH A PORPOISE: by Wayan; 1999/10/30, a dream of spirits. |
A Japanese high school athlete has no friends, till she starts meeting animal spirits on her long solo runs... |
SANDWORLDERS: by Wayan; 1996/1/28, a dreamtale on solitude. |
At the beach, I meet some gregarious desert-world aliens who think loners are insane... |
THE SATURATION DIAL: by Wayan; 2015/11/7, a surreal lucid dream with a control knob! |
Night. Two moons. I go lucid! Find a knob adjusting the dream's color saturation. Dial it up--and meet ghosts of pure color, invisible til I luridified... |
SATYR AND TWILIGHT: by Wayan; 2018/9/1, an epic dream perhaps foreseeing the pandemic |
A spell kills off nearly all humanity and mutates the rest of us. Now I'm a satyr living in a co-op home with unicorns, dryads, cattaurs, and shy vampires. Thing is, I prefer the Apocalypse to what came before... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
EL SEÑOR DE LOS PÁJAROS: by Graciela Iturbide; 1980-83, recurring, possibly predictive dream |
I dreamed a sentence over and over: "In my country I shall plant birds." And I saw a man with many birds flying around him... |
SHAKE! 1989/8/11, rev.1995; digital Muybridge tribute by Wayan. |
I love what dancers look like, seen over time, in stroboscopic photos. Like weird undersea growths... WARNING: NUDE CAT PEOPLE |
SHARONNE: by Paul Friedrich, pre-1983, a political dream (despite Freud and Jung) |
I was in a gang, but I quit. They stoned me--and the green heron, the green color I called "Sharonne". The setting (Israel), the green (Islam), and the name (Ariel Sharon?) all hint the dream's political... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, POLITICS |
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... |
SILENT CRASH: by Vera and Wayan; 1992/8/14, a shared (predictive?) dream. |
Wayan dreams a jet crashes in dead silence. Meanwhile Vera dreams of being ON a jet that... |
THE SOLE FISHER OF THE EIGHTH NODE: by Wayan; 1986/9/25, a prescriptive dream. |
The pier jutting into the sea of dreams has an 8th chakra at the end, where a lonely woman fishes for, um, sole... |
SQUIRREL GIRL: by Wayan; 1973/10/19, a dream poem of love & rockets |
Squirrel Girl and I try to find a private room, but Hal the mad computer in 2001 spies on us and our spaceship captain orders us to clean the ion tubes... CAUTION: SQUIRREL NUDITY |
THE SUICIDE TRACK: by Wayan; 2023/2/25, a disturbing non-nightmare |
My clinic's euthanasia program is so warm and cuddly I barely notice I'm drifting toward death til I reach the final form... and it's in Russian. They think I'm a refugee! Don't know me at all... CAUTION: FLAMES ANTI-ABORTION AND HEALTHCARE IDEOLOGIES |
SURVIVOR'S CURIOUS: by Wayan; 2010/7/7, a dream of an inner guard relaxing |
As we cross a scary ledge, my tough survival-guide, always no-nonsense before, finally willing to consider... intellectualism, dating, ethics... fun? |
TARZAN AND JANE IN SUBURBIA: by Wayan; 1993/7/11, a dreamtale. |
Well, Tarzan and Jane are living in suburbia now, but though Tarzan's given up so much, Jane complains... |
TEACHER-BIRD: by Wayan; dreamed 1986/9/7; a cyclic dreampoem |
Seeking my lost teacher-bird, I dabble with the time machine in the basement. Oops! I summon Bigfoot. But the monster rips out her fur... |
THIRD EYE: by Wayan; 2009/3/25, three diverse dreamlets on the same theme: enlightenment |
1: Three sisters flash me; one has a third eye in there! Clothed, it's blind. Was she just enlightening herself? 2: In the future, most cars self-drive. I'm the last driver using my own muscles and mind. Can I hold out? 3: A friend charts all of history's wars to prove: democracies don't fight each other. So to get peace... CAUTION: NAKED EYE |
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 |
THROUGH WALLS TO SEX CLASS: by Wayan; 2017/6/22, a therapeutic/advisory dream |
A trusted college advisor says "Slip through cracks in the classroom walls!" There's no direct route. Yoga to taekwondo to ballet to... a sex workshop! CAUTION: ABOUT SEX |
TINA FEY TRIES TO FLY: by Wayan; 2017/4/24, a mystical feminist farce of a dream |
In a world where speech is in Mayan glyphs, comedian Tina Fey (dressed for prom night) climbs a Tibetan peak to learn levitation. But the flying monks are scared of women... CAUTION: COOTIES; ROWDY JESUS; MAY FLUNK THE BECHDEL TEST |
TITANIC: by Nina; 1979 or before, an incubated nightmare |
I ask how my relationship with Scott was going. That night he asks me to sail on the Titanic. I say "That ship will sink!" but he won't listen. I see a skeleton-baby and know I have even more to lose... CAUTION: NIGHTMARE, UNFIT DAD, ABORTION |
THE TRAIN ON TIME CAFE: by Wayan, 1981/12/20, an epic political dream. |
Silicon Valley goes enthusiastically fascist. I hide in a berry patch. They build a shining world, and then... |
TSUNAMI: by Wayan; 2011/12/31, a feverdream, maybe predictive, definitely prescriptive |
I cling alone to the cliffs of Lands End, so when the tsunami hits, I survive. Had I been in the low, crowded Sunset district I'd be dead... |
UNICORN FEEDBACK: by Wayan; 2009/1/3, a double dream of advice |
A telepathic unicorn gives me some subtle advice. I wake, and tell a friend, who easily proves my account is distorted by my own biases. Telepathy's confusing! Wake again. Her correction was part of the dream... |
UNSHADE TREES: by Wayan; 1981/7/18, an advice-dream. |
Unshade trees are ugly. But my friends list their uses: casting shadows lighter than sunlight, keeping land clear of other trees, and the fruit. Fruit? WHAT fruit? Am I blind? |
THE WEB-BIRD LED ME: by Wayan; 1992/8/13; digital sketch previsioning the World Dream Bank? |
Maybe the web like a shining dove will lead me from my lonely cave into the light. The glaring light... Wait! That can't be right! CAUTION: SEPIA HALFTONE NUDITY |
'WE'RE ALL HUMAN': by Wayan; 1987/3/13, a dream trial. |
For flirting in the astral cafeteria, we all get sentenced to group therapy-- till I catch the lie in my life. What lie? Read the title... |
WERE-TROUT: by Wayan; 1997/8/2, a dating-advisory dream. |
I'm a one-legged hopping hermit in the ruins of LA, and my only hope for love is to conjure up a girl out of a trout and a puppy... |
WHY I LIE: by Wayan, 2016/10/7, a dream on privacy-guilt |
In a class, asked to share a bit about myself, I lie. Why? Not only are people like me illegal, my particular story would be seen as impossible... |
WILDERNESS OF VIRGINIA: by Jack Kerouac; around Oct. 1, 1953; a capitalist nightmare |
I feel horrified--how publishers will batten on the sufferings of junkey musicians... unbearable... |
THE WORK OF POWER: by Anna Kingsford; Dec. 1880, a wildly uncompromising dream-sermon |
A dream telling how to acquire mystic power: raw food, no sex, meat, or booze; just meditate in rural solitude... CAUTION: EXTREMISM |
YOU'RE THE EAGLE: by Wayan; 2000/2/8, a dream fable. |
A hermit spends his life wrestling with shadows. His only disciple becomes famous. Who was happier? |
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