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ADOPT A SON TO WIN A MATE: by Wayan; 2010/11/24; a dream of priorities I'm a big cat lonely in this human city. Wish I had a mate! But as soon as I take responsibility for an orphaned boy, in walks an older girl... |
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ALL TIED UP WITH THE PHONE: by Orion Scribner; before 2002/5/25; a punning dream portrait. Shandra hangs in a dark void, tied up in phone cords. A phone rings; Shandra coolly says... CAUTION: TELECOMMUNICATIONS BONDAGE? |
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ALPINE GUINEA PIG & SEXLESS CHILD, or, I'M EITHER A GREAT MOM OR A TERRIBLE MOM: by "Veronica Franco"; 2006/8/19, a dream of penned creatures and those who love them. Alpine deer-hamsters, pigs, birds, children, even fundamentalists' daughters grow up and want to fly free... |
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AMERICANS SHOOT ANYTHING: by Wayan; 1990/5/2, a predictive dream. Canals and locks. American soldiers find an underground village and force everyone to evacuate to a warship, "for safety". The villagers turn into birds so if it's a trap they can escape. Next morning... CAUTION: ESP, GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY |
ANGERHELM: by Wayan; 1994/11/11, a reassuring nightmare. |
In one long night I hike out of Frustration Hell, to Inner-Freedom Heaven... |
THE ARREST: by Georges Perec; July 1970, a dream of .... huh? Dream #16 |
I am arrested in Tunisia, essentially for being Jewish, despite my pro-Palestinian sympathies. My main regret: I face years of dirty socks... |
AS IF WE CARED: by Wayan; 1984/9/17, a psychological sex dream. |
A burglar-girl and I spy on the neighbors together and we learn a weird Zen lesson on commitment... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
AT A CALIFORNIA CAMP: by Jack Kerouac, spring 1955, a nuclear testing nightmare |
My family and I are prisoners in a camp that will be H-bombed so our remains can be studied. I write a Buddhist poem preparing for death... CAUTION: GOVERNMENT ATROCITY |
BALLOONS: by Stan Brakhage; 1975/5/7, an epic, apocalyptic flying dream after a bad plane flight |
I'm a schoolkid again, fleeing an eruption of sewage. We escape in a balloon. Earth is beautiful, but I know this flood of shit will drown the whole world... |
BEET: Five Dreams One Night: by Wayan; 2013/10/30, Halloween dreams as minipoems |
Parasites, Rambo, huge fetus-beets, an exhibitionist and a living statue advise me on my love life... CAUTION: NUDITY |
BEHIND THE SCREENS: by Wayan; 1984/2/12, a vivid sex dream that hid a warning |
I hide a catgirl behind Japanese screens. We have hot sex now & then--but usually I ignore her... CAUTION: SEX; NEGLECT |
BLACK PUPPETEER: by Anonymous #2; 1930s, an eerie dreamlet. |
My friend F. saw a child whose every move was controlled by a weird figure behind her... |
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... |
BLOWN OR STEER?: by Wayan; 2006/9/16, a flying, species-bent, advisory dream |
I'm a shy wild cat locked in a zoo paddock with elephants and lions till I remember how to fly! But just levitate, blown about by the wind? Or can I steer my own course?... |
THE BOULDER DISSOLVES: by Myoe Shonin; mid Dec. 1230, an old monk's dream of liberation |
I was trapped inside a boulder, but as I chanted it melted around me until it resembled a discarded skin... |
BRAID OF SILENCE: by Wayan; 1989/1/24, a brief dream-poem |
We're slaves on the moon. But we're slowly stretching our freedom in the shadows, undoing the Braid of... |
BREAD CHESS: by Helen's fiancé; 1930-33, a detailed psychic dream |
Stalin's police held my fiancée incommunicado. But I dreamt of her prison, cellmate, and the odd game they played... |
BREAK FREE: by Emily Joy; 2006/5/11, an encouraging dream on the price of safety. |
I search for family skeletons, but then a talking plant on TV inspires me to seek the sun and fly free. But certain velociraptors and barbarian swordswomen object... CAUTION: DUELS, FISH ABUSE, THE F-WORD |
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 |
BUNNY INTERVIEW: by Eva Belanger, art by Jesse Reklaw; pre-2000; a guilt-relief dreamlet |
Reporters interview my pet rabbit without my permission. Have I neglected her? She says "Things have been pretty good." I'm relieved, but ask why she never spoke before... |
BURNING HOUSE: by Graciela Iturbide; date uncertain; a Pygmalion dream |
My home was burning; I despaired. All my negatives would be lost. But some figures arose from their photos and walked out of the fire... |
CABIN IN THE SKY: by Wayan; 2005/7/25, a nervous, guilty dreamlet of escape |
Bart Simpson leads me down from the Cabin in the Sky back to being... grounded? |
CALIBAN IN ENGLAND: by Theodore Weiss; 1966 or 67; a dream-play never written |
As I wrote a poem on Caliban, I dreamt I was him: taken to Shakespeare's England, shown as a freak, I must escape to save Miranda and Prospero from assassins... |
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 |
CHANGING IDENTITIES: by Mary Arnold-Forster; 1910-14? a dream of alternating selves. |
I was the new girl among rich students, then an adult among snobs, then a girl again--always craving freedom... |
CHICKEN DREAM POEM: by Hastings Wyman, Jr., pre-1983, a dream of liberation |
A mass breakout of baby chicks. They say "Now we know how, so we'll go where we choose." And maybe it's about more than chickens... |
CLAY BEHEADER: by Wayan; 1983/7/28, a nightmare offer. |
A woman's stalked by a clay monster that eats heads. But it has a proposition for both of us... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MONSTER |
CLIFFMARE: by Wayan; 1988/10/8; a dream of lust vs freedom. |
I was a wild mare in heat, torn between longing for sex, touch, love...and the fear of being tamed. CAUTION: HORSE FRUSTRATION |
CLOSE THE GATE: by Emily Joy; 2004/11/19, a dream of decision. |
My foxy lover teases and tempts, but I can't let him into the patio for fear he'll hurt the rabbits… CAUTION: UNFUNNY BUNNY PUNS |
CO-DRIVE: by Wayan; 2008/6/24, a dream of escape... through cross-gender cooperation? |
I escape a dark cell, cram with friends into a car and co-drive to LA, steering along with a woman in my lap... CAUTION: EITHER SEX SYMBOLISM, OR SOMETHING MORE SUBVERSIVE |
A COLONY IN THE HOLLOW HILLS: by Wayan; 1997/8/14, a dream of responsibility. |
Hong Kong's not devolving to China, but to Faerie. As governor, I have to defend human rights, so... |
COMING TO THE JUMPING OFF PLACE: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 92/5/1, painting of an escape dream |
Trapped on an island, spied on and controlled, we decide to jump off a cliff and die; but as we jump, a spirit sneaks us off be reborn... |
COYOTE'S DINNER PRAYER: by Wayan; 1998/6/5. A waking prayer-poem for you hungry coyotes. |
Coyote's pagan parody of the Christian Lord's prayer. Well, actually, it's kind of sweet.. CAUTION: SACRILEGE, ESPECIALLY THE BIT ABOUT TEMPTATION |
CREATURE BECOMES CREATOR: by Wayan; 2015/2/5, three linked advisory dreams on world trends |
A weird little forest god bred me from an ordinary deer into a creature who can almost pass for human. But World War 2 killed my god, and now I'm growing into... CAUTION: NUDITY, CROSSBREEDING |
CYCLES AGO: dream by Maud Gonne, poem by WB Yeats; late July 1891, a dream-poem |
We were as if brother and sister of old in the desert land; they sold us in slavery together before this life had begun... |
DAMOCLES LODGE: by Wayan; 1998/12/22, a dream on what hangs over us. |
I meet a nice werewolf in a hall of past-life junk, so sharp and rusty we dare not play... |
THE DEER PARTY: by Wayan; 1986/4/10. A magical dream |
Chapter 1 of a nine-story series: UNICORN TAG. A sentient factory shows me a gene-tweaked future where the Deer Party agitates for liberty, equality and fertility. In that future I learn I too may not be human... |
THE DENUNCIATION: by Georges Perec; August 1972, a dream of war-trauma finally healing? Dream #124 |
1941. My dad and I are denounced to the SS. We're put in with monsters; I'm a snake or fish myself. But the Nazis become a photo album, I go to a memorial, I cry, it's 1947, peace... CAUTION: HOLOCAUST MEMORIES |
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 |
DEVANGELS: by Wayan, 2017/4/27, a numinous but ambivalent dream |
After a hard day in the recording studio, I dream of powerful yet obedient devil-angels; quiet for now, but I fear they'll decide shamans like me are abominations... CAUTION: ANGELS? GOLEMS? DEVILS? |
DEYUPPIFIER: by Wayan; 1985/11/6 a gleeful dream fable. |
I built a sex-maze to reprogram businesspeople, but I only grasp its meaning when I fuck City Hall... CAUTION: SEX, LANGUAGE, RADICAL POLITICS |
DID YOU THINK IT WOULD BE EASY?: by Wayan; 1995/1/15, a dream of slow liberation. |
Our Appalachian town revolts against fundamentalists, but brainwashing takes time to undo... CAUTION: SEX AND INJUSTICE |
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... |
DONE FOR: by the Reverend Francis Kilvert; 1872/10/14, a nightmare within a nightmare |
I dreamt a friend poisoned me. I "woke" and slew him in fury. But guilt gnawed me. I confessed and was due to hang... CAUTION: NOT A CALM GUY |
DRACULA'S SANDWICH: by Brenda Ferrimani; 1997/8/22, a death/rebirth nightmare-painting |
Dinner with Dracula goes well, considering, except for the mayonnaise. But suddenly I'm drowning! No one sees or hears me. Am I a ghost, am I dead or alive? And how would anyone notice? |
DREAM?: by Kjartan Arnorsson; fall 1993, a dream in shocking contrast to waking life. |
On my way to a wedding, I dream I'm in a war. I liberate a camp of prisoners. But one man's so injured he can't be moved. We have to leave him behind. My rescue of his fellows has effectively killed him... CAUTION: GUILT AND LIFE-QUESTIONING |
DREAM SHORTAGE: by Wayan; 1985/12/1, an appropriately short dream. |
I meet two women in dream-prison. One's a giant, one a miniature. A fairy? She says, 'No, I'm..." |
DREAMKU, JANUARY 2007: by Roswila; various dates up to January 2007; 31 dream-poems--mostly haiku |
A month of dreams full of science fiction: galactic navigation, spacedragons, oppressed fairies, alien love... |
ELF CIRCLE; 2011/3/19 by Wayan; a complex advisory dream. |
After trespassing in a staff-only part of Faerie, I'm cast out. Only I'm cast like a seed, meant to grow a new elf circle... |
EMPEROR OF THE GALAXY: by Wayan; 1988/1/31, a political dreamtale. |
The Emperor of the Galaxy can't publish his anti-slavery book as himself, so he quits to become a slave... |
THE ENCHANTED WOMAN: by Anna Kingsford; Feb. 1877, an epic prehistoric dream. |
Goaded by a green spirit of envy, an Ice Age sorceror kidnaps Adam's Eve, arresting human evolution... |
THE ERTHEDNI: by Wayan, 1977/1/8, three transformation dreams, the last with advice |
1: I'm starving in a lush valley; a cult claims all the food, the water, even the air. 2: I'm drowning in a cage but find a corner with water I can breathe--just barely. 3: I'm a merman with a wise friend who hints I need to leave those who starve & drown me... CAUTION: DOMESTIC BATTERING (OFFSTAGE) |
ESCAPE BY INTUITION: by Wayan; 2010/1/11; four dreams of breaking through |
I must see a community as a whole, and intuit my way out of a sealed room, and spot details, and join a trio in bed... CAUTION: NUDITY IN LAST DREAM |
ESCAPE FROM PBS!: by Wayan; 1992/9/17, a trapped-in-TV nightmare. |
I'm trapped in a TV documentary on nuclear war! Better dive through a TV screen and find a safe sitcom... |
EXECUTE ME!: by Wayan; 2014/1/27, a harsh revolutionary dream |
I'm condemned to die for fighting a regime that's killed my minority with impunity for centuries. I have no regrets. They'll hesitate now, knowing they too can die... |
EXIT THROUGH THE DUNGEON: by Wayan, 1982/5/23, trance-drawing experiment with surprise advice |
I turned off my conscious judgment and just drew. Two paths appeared--one led to psychodrama, then parental prison; the other, into the underworld of dreamwork... CAUTION: NUDE DREAM-SELVES |
EXPLOITED UNICORN: by Wayan, 2019/1/11, a disturbing dreamlet |
Night, downtown. A unicorn in tears, chained to her... barker? owner? pimp? "Just $300" he yells. But for what? Magic? Sex? Healing? CAUTION: PROSTITUTION? SLAVERY? GIG ECONOMY? |
FAERIE: by Wayan; 1995/7/18 & 95/8/6: two linked dreams of postmodern Faerie, with sketches |
I'm the daughter of a mortal doctor working in Faerie as it faces social upheaval (and I look for a decent date...) |
FAMILIARS: by Wayan; 1986/4/2, a dreamtale on the dark side of reading. |
In ancient Britain, as Christianity moves in, I'm a slave--sailing through centuries, but never free... |
FAWN AND DEMON: by Wayan; 1990/7/15, twin dreams of desire. |
A doe I meet is as horny and shy as me. We're similar: torn between desire and fear... Then I meet a slacker succubus. She may just let herself get seduced toward freedom... CAUTION: SEX |
FERRYGOAT: by Wayan; 2009/8/15, a dream warning what I was becoming; Dreamverse #48 |
That levitating bear's not tightrope-walking--she rides a goat strung like soap-on-a-rope. A goat that's me! I'm eating... CAUTION: UGH! |
FIRE-CATS: by Wayan; 1981/10/10; twin dream-poems on over-discipline |
For mere disobedience, I EXECUTE a forest-fire-fighting cat! So next I'm trapped in a security-obsessed job; how do I like it? I flee...
| FIRST NIGHT IN FIJI: dreamed May 1980 by S---; an unheeded warning dream
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Far from home, about to wed a man I barely knew, I dreamed I was a lion in an open cage I dared not leave... |
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... |
FLIGHT: by Denise Levertov; 1945; a dream poem |
I meet William Blake! He says "The will is given us that we may know the delights of surrender." While in my bedroom... |
FLY-PARADISE: by Wayan; 1978/12/15, an automatic-writing poem that worked like an advisory dream |
I'm a fly lured to a bright but sealed window. The only way out is to ignore the light and brave the dark--and only when a door opens. Patience AND boldness... |
FOR THEM: by Wayan; 1995/12/1, a dream of outcasts. |
On the Night Train out of my small-town life, I meet the town rebel. But she's misplaced her tongue... CAUTION: PETTING; UNNERVING TONGUE |
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 |
FRANKLIN'S TOWER: by Wayan; 2008/2/13, a meditative music-dream |
After a trip to a failing mall, an old Grateful Dead song haunts my dreams. Mall, song; opposite political poles... CAUTION: HIPPIE/JEFFERSONIAN DEISM |
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 |
FRIDA'S PRISON PAINTINGS: by Wayan; 2010/11/19, a Frida Kahlo-inspired dreamlet |
Frida Kahlo's battered sister Cristina dances nude--and gets jailed by the Office of Homeland Security! Frida protests by painting her in prison... |
F--K GRIFFIN: by Wayan; 1993/9/17, an embarrassing advisory dream. |
It's nice hearing everyone praise my sex crimes, but I need to pull the dog from the golden horn... CAUTION: SEX, LANGUAGE (OBVIOUSLY), GENERAL WEIRDNESS |
GALLEY SLAVE: by Wayan; 2008/11/27, a punning career-advice dream; Dreamverse #47 |
Shipwrecked and claimed as salvage on Crete, Ed the writer became a dishwashing slave! In contrast, Marie the musician... |
GAMESTERS: by Wayan; 1990/8/31, a dream on slavery. |
Forced to turn gladiator, I learn these slaves think our free world outside is just another game... |
GIFTSHOP OF THE DAMNED: by Carmen Knoke, art by Jesse Reklaw; pre-2000; a comic nightmare |
It was Christmas and we needed to buy gifts. But the shopping dragged on and when at last we went to the register, the sales clerk laughed... |
GIRL-HEAP, OR CHOICE?: by Wayan; 1998/10/29, a dream on initiative. |
I'm on a women's sports team, and I should be in paradise. But I want more; not love exactly, but... |
THE GIVE-AWAY: by Wayan; 1982/6/7, a career nightmare. |
My parents pray for my success, and arrange a great learning opportunity for me. Really. |
GLASS EATER: by Wayan; 1982/12/10, a dream on managing ESP. |
I live in an asylum for fragile psychics. When one man over-uses his talent, he compulsively eats glass... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
GOLD EATER: by Wayan; 1993/1/15 dream drawn as 9-page comic. |
I'm an orphan shapeshifter enslaved by a gold-eating monster. But I meet a cat-girl with a hammer... CAUTION: BAD FOSTER-DAD; CAPITALIST MONSTER; VIOLENCE (TO VENDING MACHINES) |
GRIMOIRE AND PACT: by Wayan, 2013/8/4, twin dreams of infestations of... health? illness? sex? magic? |
Two sisters want to lick me all over, but they lick everything; weird gut-fauna make them immune to toxins... Fairy eggs infest my home--become worms, then tiny horses, then mothwinged hobbits, then adult fairies.... CAUTION: NUDE EQUINES & FAE; PARASITES (OR SYMBIOTES?) |
HALF-COCKED: by Larry Vigon; 2004/1/4; an alarming dream |
I'm in the army, in line for a prostitute. An earlier dream cut my cock in two. It heals, but my stodgy technique bores my assigned girl; and the cops break the legs of girls who try to leave. A riot begins--can I even escape? CAUTION: STARTS SORDID, ENDS BRUTAL |
THE HEDGEHOG DISPENSARY: by Wayan; 2004/10/2, furtopian watercolor 12-page dreamcomic (or text + pics) |
A rabbit shaman makes his student drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. How to free her? CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR |
HEIST THE GOLDEN EGGS!: by Wayan; 2008/7/18, a dream of do-it-yourself tech--and ethics |
Two teens crack a bank with a homemade rocket--but forgot a crowbar! Caught, but the bank can't press charges; the kids have proof the bank uses slave labor... CAUTION: DISSES CAPITALISM |
HER HANDS ARE TIED: by Wayan, 1992/4/17, a dream advising a different therapist |
I had a chronic illness doctors said was psychosomatic. So I saw Ani, a therapist... I dream we're prisoners. Ani leads a successful escape, but then walks around oblivious that her hands are still tied! I offer to untie her; she seems not to hear me. Great in a crisis, but oblivious to chronic stuff? To me? Not the best fit... |
HERON HAREM: by Wayan; 1981/6/14, a dream with a moral. |
I'm a heron working in the Civil Service. I want to blow the whistle, but then how would I support my... CAUTION: BIRD-SLAVERY? |
HIPPIE MISSILES: by Wayan, 1990/7/23, twin dreams of risky leaps leading to flight |
1: I try to grow feathers and fly, but half-fail, half-succeed--experience two bodies at once... 2: I fly to escape a hippie cult. They fire heat-seeking missiles! But I may be too cool to track... |
HIS DEER WIFE: by Wayan; 1995/7/9, a dream of love in a parallel world. |
I'm a slave, a scribe in the house of a Captain of the New Aztec Empire, when he brings home a wife... CAUTION: SLAVE SOCIETY, SEX, SPOUSAL ABUSE/NEGLECT |
THE HONEST INMATE: by Wayan; 1997/5/8, a dreamfable on truthfulness. |
I'm a psychopath in a prison for the insane. But I fall in love, and change. Blunt honesty fuels the change... |
HUMMINGBIRD HANDS: by Ranjit Bhatnagar, art by Jesse Reklaw; pre-2000; a freed-by-music dream |
A mind-control drug urges her to strangle her loved ones, but to beat the curse she busies her fluttering hands with bluegrass banjo... |
I NEVER SAW JUNG DIE: by Larry Vigon; 2003/11/28; a quasi-Jungian dream |
My nonexistent brother is a bank robber about to be arrested; he says "I never saw Jung die." Meaning not that Jung's alive, but just... |
I WAS A SEX SLAVE: by Wayan; 1994/11/20, a dream on isolation |
I'm a slave dancer. I run for it, and make it over the border. But my owner comes looking for me... CAUTION: NUDITY, SLAVE SOCIETY |
IN THE CAMP (THE NAKED POEM): by Karl Patten; 1972/10/27; a death-camp poem dictated in a dream |
Fat Max eats with Heinrich the guard on Tuesdays. He talks too much. You and I are hungry. Tonight... The poem appeared in the dream as it appears on the page--words, even punctuation... CAUTION: DEATH CAMP, DEATH PLOT |
IN THE SHADOW OF MAN: by Wayan; 1994/3/4, a dream on how to escape the cage |
I'm a lab animal who discovers voice software and creates a personal zine, testifying for our rights... |
IN WOMEN'S PRISON: by Wayan; 1994/7/23, a dream of faith. |
A woman in prison loves her counselor, but she's a barely literate hooker--she knows he won't love her back... |
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... |
ISIS HELPS TERRI GARR: by Wayan; 1988/3/27, a distractable dream . |
How Terri Garr the cat-woman finally escapes Anorexic Prison, and what happened to the baseball glove... |
IT IS THE ONLY WAY!: by Rick Veitch; c.1960; a child's career-predicting dream |
My bedroom window is choked with dirt. I dig up to the surface and find a man reading comics. He says 'It is the only way!'... |
IT WASN'T EASY: by Wayan; 1983/2/24, a dream of escaping my family's unrealism |
An Arabian prince kidnaps my girlfriend and me. We eventually escape his flying palace, but she gets trapped in Victorian underwear, while I escape feuding politicians by turning myself into a truck tire. NOT a smart move... CAUTION: BOGUS VICTORIAN SEX-EUPHEMISMS |
JANE IN VAIN: by Wayan; 1997/3/6, a dream that's not about class. |
A prisoner's allowed to see his middle-class lover only in a seedy bar by the jail. But she likes the place... CAUTION: THE JOYS OF SLUMMING |
KARMA AND HER SISTERS: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/27, a happy sexy flying dream that turned tragic. |
One boring lonely day, I meet a cute teenage bunny who wants to play with me! But half an hour later… CAUTION: LANGUAGE, INTERSPECIES FLIRTING, AND LOSS |
THE KEY IS HERE, BUT BEWARE; 2012/3/8 by Eleanor; nested nightmares of enlightenment |
The moment I find the Key, I'm possessed! I wake to find it's just a nightmare. Only who's broken into my house?... CAUTION: DEMONIC POSSESSION & EVERYDAY PSYCHOPATHS |
THE KEY TO HIS LIFE: by an English rebel's wife; 1745; a lifesaving oracular/psychic dream. |
Twice a condemned man's wife dreamt of a key lost in rubble below a wall. The second time she went out to find it... |
KICK HER: by Wayan; 1994/8/9, a gameshow nightmare. |
I'm a blonde gameshow bimbo. Each week, I'm beaten up. Ha ha ha! But my bruises are real. At last, I... CAUTION: GAMESHOW FROM HELL |
KIOSK: by Wayan; 1994/5/1, a 4-page dreamcomic on the power of song (or illustrated text version) |
I'm a sexy singing beast, the Krelkin, trying to lure the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk... CAUTION: NUDITY, INTERSPECIES FLIRTATION |
KITTENS OR MOM?: by Jesse Reklaw; 1976-77, recurring nightmares of a choice |
I was in Hell. My mom was in a cage suspended over lava. The devil gave me a cruel choice: "Fry up these kittens or let your mom drop!" CAUTION: CRUELTY |
LBJ OR WOODROW?: by Lyndon Baines Johnson; July-Sept 1955 and Feb-Mar 1968, recurring paralysis dreams |
From the neck up I was me; from the neck down, Woodrow Wilson in his old age, paralyzed. My presidential aides divided up my duties, and ignored me... |
LBJ SHACKLED: by Lyndon Baines Johnson; c.1962, a nightmare foreseeing his presidency |
I started to get up from my chair, but I couldn't move. I looked down at my legs and saw they were manacled to the chair with a heavy chain... |
LBJ'S CAGE: by Lyndon Baines Johnson; May-June 1924, recurring teenage nightmares |
I found myself in a cage, with only a bench and piles of old books. A mirror showed I was old and twisted with speckled skin. In horror I said "I must get away"... |
LBJ'S RIVER NIGHTMARE: by Lyndon Baines Johnson; Feb-Mar 1968, a nightmare on political paralysis |
I was trapped in a river, trying to swim to shore. But I was in a powerful eddy. No matter which way I swam... |
LBJ'S STAMPEDE: by Lyndon Baines Johnson; 1913-14?, a childhood nightmare anticipating a presidency |
As a boy I dreamt I was trapped in a wooden chair, paralyzed, as a stampede rushed toward me, just as my grandmother was paralyzed and chair-bound... |
LEARN TO FLY: by Hexx-Kitty; 2006/7/15, a nightmare image. |
This big red rabbit in a straitjacket was chasing me through a big gothic mental asylum. Scared me silly... |
THE LEASH: by Wayan; 1995/6/26, a dreamfable. |
Alien abductions upset us--being studied, treated like animals. But isn't that how we treat other species-- study, exploit, ignore their feelings? That night, I dream one dog on a leash paralyzes a civilization... |
LET ME PASS!: by Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree; January 1974, a punning gender nightmare |
Alli/Tip is lured/tricked into a pen full of women, and tries to get out by repeating this ambiguous plea... |
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? |
LION NOW, EMANCIPATION LATER: by Wayan; 2000/5/5, two dreams as my dad lay dying |
We must hunt a man-eating lion to protect our village--our village full of slaves. But we can't deal with our looming social crisis now--gotta focus on the lion in front of us.. CAUTION: SLAVERY, ILLNESS, DEATH |
LIONS AND TIGERS: by William Archer's friend; before 1924, a zootheological dream. |
At the zoo, Archer's friend found the tigers caged but the lions roaming free. The reason? Lions fear hell, but tigers... |
LOUSY DREAM: by Jack Kerouac, early Dec? 1952, a rage-filled nightmare |
In America the woman has the Police State Telephone in one hand and My Child swathed in incredible bills in the other... Ah, Kafka, you never had it so good... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, MISOGYNY |
MA HAS GONE TO FRISCO: by Jack Kerouac, late June? 1953, a back-in-school dream ending in revelation. |
I walk the corridors smiling, realizing for the first time that I don't have to go to high school---because I'm a great writer... |
MANSON'S CAGE: by Wayan; 1992/9/10, a nightmare. |
At the end of my long, tiresome tour of Hell, it's feeding time in the cage of the Manson cult... CAUTION: SO MEAT REALLY IS MURDER! |
MARIAH: by Wayan, 1994/9/23, a mystical flying dream. |
An un-jealous wind lifts me above the San Francisco hills, so I can hunt for my love: the Muse... |
MARTIAN AIRLOCK and JAGUAR MASK: by Wayan, 2015/6/22, twin shamanic near-nightmares |
Jaguar Mask: a were-jaguar stuck in human form asks me to sew a new jaguar face on."But won't it hurt?... Martian Airlock: I'm suitless on Mars. Freezing, choking, I dive into an airlock & slam the switch--but it's sabotaged... |
MEAD'S ADVICE: by Beverly O'Neill; late 1970s?, a dream on seeking a female rolemodel |
I try hard not to invade Margaret Mead's privacy, but I need her advice; after I find a fruit true growing in a forgotten room, she unbends... |
MEGALITHIC BREAKOUT: by Wayan, 2019/8/29; a half-lucid dream--that needed to be |
I'm a kid imprisoned in an empty stone castle. Squeeze through a stone slit, and prepare to drop ten feet down the face of a great stone gate. But I go lucid, and my dream and waking body-senses conflict... |
MOLLY'S PROSTHETIC: by Wayan, 1994/9/22, a dream predicting a mood drug will fail |
My dad's new wife is a collie. Naturally, she wants a prosthetic arm. But she has no site to bind it to... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, LEERING BUSINESSMAN, DOG WIFE |
MOM THINKS I'M ON A LEASH: by Wayan, 2019/3/10; an unheeded warning dream |
My late mom Marcy shows up at work. "Check in weekly or we'll stop your allowance." But my parents don't support me! I left my family and earn my own pay. No leash! I refuse. Months later, as I recover from serious work-induced illness, I see the dream wasn't about family values (ugh). What I needed to check in with was... mortality. Was death. |
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... |
THE MOUSE BANNER: by Wayan; 1986/9/4, a dream fable. |
I'm a mouse with a protest banner saying "FREEDOM!", having a slight argument with a cat... |
MUSTARD REVENGE: by Wayan; dreamed 1982/2/15, a nightmare sympathizing with the enemy |
After eating iffy food, I had gut pains all night--but I dreamed of rebels with swords fighting a fascist empire. Were my dreams siding with the food? Well, no... |
MY CUBIST CONSCIENCE: by Wayan; 1982/8/5; a dream warning of overharsh ethics. |
I dreamed I was trapped in the maze of my pacifist vegetarian feminist anarchist eco-conscience... |
MY PEGASUS: by Regina van der Poel; 2000/6/1, a dream of my Life Painting |
I free a friend unjustly imprisoned. On the run, we encounter our Life Paintings. Mine is a beautiful pegasus flying. But on its back is a monkey in a red suit... |
MY PET MONSTER: by Katie Hofgard; 2005/5/17?, an erotic nightmare |
I'm a sexy monster, but my sister sells me to the Devil as his bride... CAUTION: SEXY CREATURE, ROTTEN SISTER |
NOT A THING: by Wayan; 1981/3/1, a shocking dream. |
What if your mind doesn't think it's yours? What if it's not so sure you're even a person? |
NUKING HOOVER: by Wayan; 1997/2/16, a dreamtale about illness. |
J. Edgar Hoover, founder of the FBI, stages a coup. Do we accept him as dictator, or nuke Washington? CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
OFFICE NIGHTINGALE: by Wayan; 1982/9/21, a dream warning I'm in the wrong place |
I'm a lonely bird flying in a glass office. Seeking friends, seeing reflections, I fly into windows. Ow! There's hope of escape only where no false friend beckons... |
THE ONION: by Sunshine; 2015/3/16, a magical dream voyage |
My love and I steal the only onion in the world! To make our getaway we sail off the edge of the earth... |
PATIENCE: by Wayan; 1998, waking cartoon summation of my life. |
On my bad days, as I'm shackled to the wall of my illness or shyness... |
PEACHES AND CHERRIES: by Phyllis Davidson, 1977 and early 80s? two dreamlets of being inanimate |
PEACHES: after painting a peach all day, I find I AM one, reclining on a mound of cottage cheese... CHERRIES: after a day in Reno, I find I'm a wheel in a slot machine, whirling, coming up cherries... |
PIG YOYO: by Wayan; 1987/11/21, a dream on how to end self-torture. |
A hog is tied so it bounces in a fountain, and at the bottom of each bounce, a fork jabs it! How to free this yoyo pig? CAUTION: PAIN |
PONYGIRL'S DIET: by Wayan; 2010/3/31, a furry health-advice dream |
I dream of a half-pony half-human girl who can't eat either hamburgers or hay. She figures out an appropriate diet... |
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... |
PRRL: by Wayan; 1997/1/17, a galactic dreamtale. |
I'm in the Magellanic Clouds, an ambassador to the energy-beings who rule them. Or am really their... pet? |
THE RED SPHERE: by Madeline; 2006/12/13, twin (diagnostic? psychic?) nightmares |
Calmly, I watch a girl trapped in a lab try to escape, and die; and watch a man lose his head to a hungry thing... CAUTION: GRUESOME |
REDNECKS: by Tad Ramspott; c. 2000/10/20, a dream of shadows and underdogs |
I face two gunmen fleeing an invasion of dragons I support--since inside I'm a dragon. But I won't hurt them. Why? |
REJECT THE TRUMP GIG: by Wayan; 2017/7/5, a dream warning me not to sell out |
Now and then I model. I'm offered a gig doing ads for Trump--at $1000 a session! Tempting, but no. As I go home, my cabbie is shocked--"I'd take that gig!" "But would you really?"... CAUTION: HARSH TO COMPROMISERS |
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? |
RING OF SIX: by Wayan; 2018/11/30; an advisory dream of alternate lives |
Six women in six similar feudal empires swap places repeatedly. They can never meet, but they can leave notes, each helping out the next soul to swap in... CAUTION: ADVANCED DREAMWORK |
THE RUNES: by Denise Levertov; c.1963, an identity-bent oracular dream |
I'm a small child in Finland writing out the meaning of three ancient runes about trees, ships and elbow room. They seem to hold serious advice... |
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"... |
SALIA AND CHUR: by Wayan; 1989/2/25, a psychic Star Trek dream. |
Our starship signs up a strange new woman whose quirks turn out to be fallout from slavery... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES |
SARITA'S DREAM: by Sarita Johnson, 1980/8/17, epic dream with a surreal ending |
Cops hunt my girlfriend & me all over town. Strangely, whenever I ask them to back off, they do! Alma's resigned--lets them arrest her and put her on a raft. But she turns into a... |
THE SEA WOLF'S BRAIN: by Wayan; 1999/11/21, a psychic dream. |
For years the Sea-Wolf enslaved me. He said I had to fight him and win to be free. I'm ready at last... |
SECRET SCREEN: by Wayan; 2018/4/19 and 2018/5/16, three linked dreamlets of escape |
A friend nags me to be lookout as he steals a cult's papers. I know it'll end in murder, but foresight paralyzes me! In a videogame that keeps freezing unplayably, I find a button calling up a secret screen of second chances... I'm lost in a grim basement, but two kids show me a cobwebbed glass door you can walk through like air... |
SELL THE GODS, AND RAISE HELL!: by Wayan; 1994/1/26, a dream riddle. |
Reactionaries smash a paper. To rebuild, the editor must sell the sacred tiki carvings! But gods don't LIKE being sold... CAUTION: MORAL QUANDARY |
THE SEMI-INTELLIGENT ANIMAL PROBLEM: by Wayan; 1986/4/6, a dream. |
The army breeds smart animals. Scientists fear they'll upset ecosystems. No one speaks for the creatures... CAUTION: DIRECT ACTION |
SENTENCED TO CHEESE: by a Birmingham physician; early 1850s? a classic subliminal nightmare |
One night as I slept over a cheese shop, I dreamt I was trapped in a huge cheese, as a rat-horde gnawed... CAUTION: YOU ARE LUNCH |
THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY: by Wayan; 1989/7/8, a comic nightmare, possibly telepathic. |
My sisters get bored with the game of power, so I watch TV-- until it melts, and a terrifying giant rises to chases me... |
SHAKE! 1995; digital Muybridge tribute by Wayan. |
I love what dancers look like, seen over time, in strobe photos. Like weird undersea growths... WARNING: NAKED CATS |
SHASTA OCCUPATION: by Wayan; 1996/11/1, a dream of telepathic spill-over. |
I'm teaching in a wizard's college near Mt Shasta when one astral world decides to occupy another... |
SHE IS THE SNAKE: by Sharon Stricker, 1980, a warning dream from a censored goddess |
I had to decide if I'd help keep Janine out of jail. But outside, she'd headed back for the spoon. That night I dreamed a huge beautiful snake bit my writing hand, telling me "Don't go to court. Stay home and write." I obeyed her... CAUTION: JUNKIE, RESCUER |
A SHELLFISH EPIPHANY: by Wayan; 1996/6/14, a spiritual dream. |
Our family of Japanese pearldivers is cast away on an atoll. One day, lonely, scared, I cast away fear... |
SHRUNKEN MEN: by Wayan; 1992/2/21, a dream on the masculinity crisis. |
Day: Robert Bly's book Iron John, claiming men need male mentors, annoys me. Dream: the giants co-opted Captain Picard of Star Trek, but we don't need him to rebel... CAUTION: MOCKS ROBERT BLY |
THE SHY ORGY: by Wayan; 1983/3/10, a sex dream with a nonsexual predictive side |
Swimming in Spokane, I meet two teenage girls and we have a... shy orgy? Next day I go to a play... and see the two on stage! I still dismiss the dream as a fantasy--consciously. But unconsciously I start taking action... CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX |
SILKY'S REVOLUTION: by Wayan; 1995/9/4, a historical dream. |
I'm in an alternate-history American Revolution with Silky the talking black mare. We sail for Europe as diplomats... |
SLAVE’S CHOICE: by Emily Joy; 2007/4/8; a dream of a rock and a hard place. |
At boot camp for sex slaves, a rapist makes me a surprisingly tempting offer. But it’s really not about sex at all, is it? CAUTION: ORAL SEX, OUTRAGEOUS COMPARISON |
SLAVES DON'T DANCE: by Wayan; 1999/8/1, a 17-page Shakespearean dream-comic (or ill. text) |
Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm forced to nurse her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is... |
SLAVE MARKET: by Wayan; 1998/9/10, a dreamtale on freedom. |
Business solved the problem of cheap foreign labor: slavery's legal again. So our firm buys cheap losers... |
SLAVES ON RED MARS: by Wayan; 1999/8/15, a dreamfable on will. |
As Mars demands independence from Earth, Jovians enslave us all! Now freedom-fighting is personal... |
SLEAZE: by Cecy and Wayan; 1991/7/28; subtle shared dreams. |
Wayan: A sleazy brother calls the cops, blaming us for a fire he set... Cecy: A sleazy brother calls in a fire while not even trying to put it out... |
SLIDES: by Wayan; 2018/1/28, a surreal playful flirtation dream |
I cross San Francisco on public transit--a network of children's slides. One leads into... A wormhole full of aliens, where a goofy-haired reporter interviews a hacker... |
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... |
SPIDER CRONE: by Wayan; 2019/12/20, a nightmare of helpful advice |
Lost in the rainforest of Olympic National Park, I stumble into the wrong cabin: the hut of Time herself. Or is she? She asks me to clean up, but spare her web... |
STEP THIRTEEN: by Wayan; 1997/7/8, a rebellious dreamtale. |
Two big spoiled realities pester me to take care of them. At last I go on shamanic strike... |
SWAN: by Wayan; 1995/4/8, a transformation dream; 3-page dreamcomic (or as ill. text) |
I wake amnesic in a cabin in Alaska, in a dress printed with self-putdowns. I track down the wizard who cursed me. He turns me into a swan! Worse? No! His first curse was on a human being, and now I'm a bird. My mind is free!... |
TAROT: MINE CHILD: by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. |
Deep in the strata inside you, gems lie waiting in the dark for this child to dig them free... |
TAROT: THE SULKY: by Wayan; Tarot card of a dream, 1979/4/17. |
This grumpy little greenish Scotsman rode a 'sulky', a one-man buggy, pulled by a playful black mare. I worried her clowning was a safety valve leaving her unfree... |
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... |
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... |
TEN CHAMBERS: by Ben Bamber; Jan. 2000, a dream on free will vs. predestination |
I flew through a huge space habitat with ten chambers and thousands of people unaware they were caged... |
TEN THOUSAND MAD GHOSTS: by Wayan; 1996/9/3, a psychic nightmare. |
A toxic site in Silicon Valley isn't a chemical spill, but angry ghosts, killed in a camp and forgotten... CAUTION: THE CAMP TURNS OUT TO BE REAL |
THEATER HOSTAGE: by Christine M, 2002/10/22, an apparently clairvoyant dream |
Gunmen held me hostage in a grand hall; at last they shot me. Next day: the Moscow Theater hostages... |
THREE FLYING DREAMS: by Sharad Chandra, before 1988, mystical advisory dreams |
1: I ask how to fly. "Breathe air from high levels; its light and purity will wash away earth's heaviness..." 2: To join a flying game, you must cut off your own head! Players acquire new heads and can work miracles... 3: I float up to reach a book in a shop. People call the police but I defiantly soar--over Paris, up to the stars... |
TIGER TALL: by Wayan; 1992/7/3, a marathon dream. |
I'm a tiger from Planet Cat, visiting Earth to run in San Francisco's "Bay to Breakers" race. I knew racial tensions were high, but why is William S. Burroughs out to kill me? Oh. Because... |
TO HELL: by Katie Hofgard; 2003/4/19?, a nightmare of loyalty |
I loyally served a demon who punished me until at last he sent me to hell. And STILL I didn't rebel... CAUTION: BLOODY ABUSE |
TOP-DOWN FREEDOM: by Wayan; 1984/7/19, a dreamtale. |
The government quietly ends all taxes and services in a small town just to see what'll happen... |
TRUE LOVE = CHOICE! by Ms. Mira; Jan. 2008, a dream-lesson on compassion and free will. |
I'm on an alien world inside the minds of two women and a child struggling with moral choices in a civil war... CAUTION: DEATH, LOSS |
TURTLE HARANGUE: by Wayan; 1997/1/29, a warning dream. |
A man mocks a turtle he caught, calling it "inept"--he knows adept turtles, then? I distract this fisherman-ranter while the turtle quietly tiptoes... |
MY TUTELARY UNCLE: by Wayan; 1993/5/28, a shamanic dream. |
I'm half Anglo, half Kwakiutl. My uncle the shaman died, but he still wants to teach me his medicine... |
UGLY AND HAPPY: by Wayan; 640 x 400, ca. 1991, digital finger-painting. |
I try to make beauty, try to be beauty, but all the while, this voice keeps snickering... |
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 my disguise can't last much longer: I ate a magical herb, and I'm growing... |
UNICORN TIMEFORKS: by Wayan; dreamed 2019/5/25, a shamanic warning dream |
A man enslaves a unicorn and makes her split time, for his profit! But the timeforks don't heal as he expected. So the unicorn takes unilateral action (sorry). Those time-forks look like our current political war. Prepare for sharp kicks... |
UNDO THE PARALYSIS: by Wayan; 1985/7/14, a dream on persistence. |
In a future society, I'm deliberately, permanently paralyzed. Yet my home-grown cure slowly works... |
THE VAT MESSIAH: by Wayan; 1985/2/27, a major dreamtale. |
In our cult, we lie in vats of goo till we grow wings. But we're feared more than we knew... CAUTION: SPECIST LYNCH MOB, NUDE IN SCHOOL, LESBIAN FEELINGS, OBSCENE CARROT |
THE VIDEOGRAPHER'S APPRENTICE: by Wayan; 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) |
THE VOICE OF GOD: by Wayan, 1993/1/31, a psychic nightmare-epic. |
Half-mad with fear, I massacre a cult, till my gun manifests stigmata: a gory miracle. Then I'm a cultist, resisting the Voice of God pushing all us mortals to murder in His name. I woke up haunted, and wondered for weeks what this was about... until the Waco Massacre. CAUTION: CREEPY VIOLENCE, CREEPY GOD, CREEPY PREDICTION |
WATERSHIP DOWNTRODDEN: by Wayan; 1983/6/22, a dream of another life. |
I'm an intelligent rabbit in an alphamale's harem, organizing a feminist movement... |
WE TALK IT OVER IN HIS BRAIN: by Wayan; 1989. Digital portrait of dream characters. |
My personality is borderline multiple: they veto and sabotage each other if not consulted first via dreams... |
WHITE HORSES, FIVE TALENTS: by Regina van der Poel; 1999/10/29, a dream equinifying talents |
I meet a man in a box. A mob wants to attack him. But five white horses defend him! One's a unicorn. I know each horse is a talent, but only recall one when I wake: clairvoyance... |
THE WHO IN HELL AM I: by Wayan; 1984/1/28, a stubborn dream. |
I'm Pete Townshend of the Who, climbing stubbornly out of Hell by noticing what I don't want... |
WHY PROGRESS IS SLOW: by Wayan; 1991/1/26 & 2/16, twin timetravel dreams |
Time-hopping through centuries, I learn how slow deep social change is. How we cling to the old horrors! |
WINDOW IN THE SKY: by Emily Joy; 2006/10/15, an epic, flying, apocalyptic dream |
When my friends and I learn to fly, all of Middle Earth turns against us! Fleeing from Saruman's army, I discover the backstage truth about our world... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, DOOM, PHYSICS! YODA IN THE TUB! |
WIRES: by Wayan; 1957-1963, a recurrent childhood nightmare resolved by drawing, 1999/12/8 |
I was bodiless but trapped. All I could see were these moving wires. Whenever a knot drifted by... CAUTION: MADNESS, TORMENT, TELEPATHY, SEXUAL REBELLION |
WITCH, FLY FREE!: by Wayan; 1997/5/3, a predictive dream. |
A castle of witches in Europe. Persecuted for centuries, they're wary. Still, such a treasure-trove of kindred spirits! Can I find a witch to love? CAUTION: PAGANS CRIPPLED BY SIEGE MENTALITY... |
THE WITCH-PIMPS NEXT DOOR: by Wayan, 2015/12/19, a dream on healing from abuse |
First I dream the neighbors are powerful witches offering dog-collared children to the local men. Later, on a train, I meet two kids who managed to escape... CAUTION: CHILD ABUSE, NUDITY |
THE WORM: by Emily Dickinson, mid-1870s?, a nightmare-poem |
Emily Dickinson ties up a worm she mistrusts. Bad move! It grows into a talking snake with a score to settle... |
XALGRIIN IN THE LAB: by Emily Joy, 2006?, odd dream scene |
Xalgriin is a sweet stegosaurus boy locked up in a research lab, planning to free not just himself but others... |
YEATS: by Wayan; 1990/1/1, a poem wrestling with Yeats's visions. |
Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted? |
ZEMMYO: by Myoe Shonin; c.1221/4/20, a spiritual Pygmalion dream. |
A doll sent from China breaks into tears over her exile here in Japan. I reassure her and she becomes real... |
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