There's an assumption that self-publishing only took off when the Internet got popular. Not so! The zine movement came first, using analog technology that had grown common--copiers! Artists repurposed business tools for their own purposes--not for the first time, not for the last.

Some put down such amateur, underground zines (yes, the writing's informal to crude; the pictures, stamp art and scribbles) compared to the self-consciously literary "little magazines" of the same period, like Dreamworks Quarterly, with academic funding, big names, supposedly higher standards. And yet... the number of Dreamworks entries that tell real dreams is quite low--every issue's padded with vague surrealism, psychological theories and artspeak. In contrast, First Person, with its simple, unpretentious, clear guidelines, is mostly real dreams plainly told.

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	CAR: by Carrie Elizabeth, 1994?, a lucid nightmare--yes, that's possible! I don't even notice the car until it's hit me and I'm dead. Now I have to lie here forever, even though I know it's a dream. But if you die in a dream, you die...
	DRAGON/WOMAN: by Pam Cardiff, 1994/6/20, a dream of a dad's curse A mage turns his daughter into an ugly dragon. She pines for a sailor, but though they make beautiful music with magic crystals, he rejects her...
	DREAM OR REALITY?: by Ben Torter, 1994?, a (subliminal? psychic?) lifesaving nightmare I'm in a small pond. A monster goldfish stalks me. I seem trapped in place, and wake in panic, sheets drenched--to find my pet goldfish gasping on the floor...
	HERE IN MY IMPOVERISHED PSYCHE: by Tracey West, 1987? 88?, recurring nightmares I'm Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island. But the theme song repeats endlessly--not the later version with my name, but the early one dismissing me and the Professor as and the rest. I wake up screaming...
	MOM DRIVES: by Frances R. Storey, 1994?, a warning dream--but of the future, or now? I'm back in the suburbs, but decades have passed. My mom's really old & blind. Yet I insist she should drive the car, not me. She pulls out in front of a huge truck...
	MOSQUITO: by Kelly McCracken, 1994?, a dream of... bloodsuckers? At first it's Michael J. Fox flirting with me, and I'm not excited, he's kind of a loser. Then it all changes, and he's a monster mosquito humping me, and I hear someone saying "Do me, do me." Him? Or me? CAUTION: SUBTITLED "THE UNSEXIEST SEX DREAM EVER"
	TURKEY: by Erin Wagner, fall 1994?, recurring nightmares I get painful menstrual cramps, and with them come nightmares of birth. Not always child birth; once it was five kittens. Most recently the baby was human but encased in a Butterball turkey...
	WHODUNIT? AND WHAT DID THEY DO?: by Derek Gullino, late 70s? Five nightmares, five years old 1: Dad picks up Bigfoot; he bites off my ear. 2: Dad abandons me in a canyon full of wolves. 3: The man who killed my family hands me his ax. 4: Bees move into my pillow. 5: A marionette with razor-nails lures me close... CAUTION: OUCH

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