Free Speech and Censorship
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AMERICAN FILM RATINGS MAKE VIOLENCE SEXY: by Wayan; 1996/4/9, a rant and a proposal. Sex-and-violence is one word in America, because our ratings system TEACHES us to link them... CAUTION: THE F-WORD AND SENSIBLE IDEAS |
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THE ANCIENT BOOK: by Wayan; 1993/11/11, a political dreamfable. I'm a schoolkid in the future who finds an ancient book the censors somehow missed... |
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THE ANT REPRESENTATIVE: by Wayan; 1996/3/18, a romantic dream of bugs. I fall in love with a diplomat from a hive mind. Am I luring her into dangerous individuality? |
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THE BIBLE REDUCED TO FLOWERS: by Wayan; 1994/9/8, a dream of the future. In the future, books morph as they crawl round the web, till just the popular bits are left... CAUTION: YOU TOO COULD BE CENSORED |
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THE BLOOD OF CHRIST (BUT, MOM!): by Anna Kingsford; 1879/10/17, a doctrinal dream gets personal I say Christ’s “blood” is a metaphor for “spiritual perfection.” My mom says "You're killing me; please repent"... |
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THE BOARD OF KIBITZERS: by Wayan; 1993/10/18, a pseudo-psychic dream about dreams. My therapist changes into a good ol' boy? I can handle that. But that State Board of Kibitzers behind him... |
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BOLLYWOOD LOVE: by Wayan; 2009/4/12, a movie dream (duh!); Dreamverse #51 I dream the universe runs on Bollywood rules. I can stand the constant singing and breakdancing; what gets under my skin is that Bollywood Code... |
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BRUNO'S DREAM: by Giordano Bruno, 1578, a cosmological dream Bruno flew through space--not crystal spheres, not Heaven, not even the Copernican solar system, but interstellar space. He saw the stars were suns, those suns had planets, and those planets bore life... CAUTION: BURNED ALIVE BY THE INQUISITION |
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BUT THAT'S BESTIALITY!: by Wayan; 1994/10/29, an alt-world dream. In a world with a dozen intelligent species, dominated by dinosaurs, I get in trouble for publishing a kinky tale of forbidden mammal love... |
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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... |
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CHAPERONE AND REBEL: by Wayan; 1998/5/18, a flirtatious dreamtale. A girl with a magic swimsuit flashes me, as her Iranian fundamentalist aunt glares from beyond the veil... CAUTION: NUDITY? OR ILLUSION? |
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"CLIT!": by "D'Jeanna"; 2009/9/11, a breakthrough dream after coming out The day after my mom outed me to my dad, I dream a great storm has passed and everything's just glowing... |
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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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DREAM LOVERS: by Wayan; 1995/9/11, a dream on shame. This dream's not about a man whose dream lovers keep materializing till the bed overflows. This dream's about who those lovers are and what the neighbors will think... CAUTION: SEX |
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THE DREAM POLICE: by Wayan; 1994/4/6, a dream on persecution. The police confiscate my therapist's copies of my dreams, and try me for obscenity! So why do I help?... |
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EDITORS: by Gavin Ewart; late 1970s, recurring nightmares of censorship. My new editor starts rejecting my poems. My new new editor rewrites them for me. I feel lucky not to be arrested... |
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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... |
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A FOUNTAIN IN THE ARMENIANS: by Pauline Ramsey; early July 2006, a clairvoyant dream? I spoke a proverb I’d never heard of when I woke. So I Googled it, and found it had meaning--dark meaning... CAUTION: TURKISH JINGOISTS WILL NOT LIKE THIS DREAM |
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FRIDA'S PRISON PAINTINGS: by Wayan; 2010/11/19, a Frida Kahlo-inspired dreamlet Frida's battered sister Cristina Kahlo dances nude and gets jailed by the Office of Homeland Security. Frida padints her in prison... |
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FUTURE BOOKS: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a dream lesson on reading In a repressive, thought-controlled future I find some old banned books; I tell my student "Reading these makes life more interesting--and angry..." |
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THE GOLDEN PAW: by Wayan; 2009/4/12, a dream on speaking up An Oxford teaching assistant sexually blackmails one of his law students, but to his shock she goes public... |
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GOSPEL GIRL: by Wayan; 1986/11/17, a stubborn dream. I'm a girl in a desert who God tells to preach a new gospel. But the locals, unlike ancient Rome, have guns... CAUTION: VIOLENT MARTYRDOM |
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HAWK CENSORS: by Wayan; 1988/7/7, a surreal predictive dream on censorship All the photos of hawk people I can find show them with bizarre genitalia: males with hawk-heads for penises, and females with nothing. Blank! Then I go to work... CAUTION: REVERSE SEXISM |
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HE LOOKED SOURLY: by John Dee; 1582/11/24, a mage's dream of dying, and after. The foremost wizard of Shakespeare's age dreams he's dead. They're burning his books, but that doesn't bother him... |
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I HAD A WHITE BANDAGE: by Jack Kerouac, July 1957, a dream of triumph despite adversity Wounded, bandaged, chased by cops, I end up heading a huge children's parade, marching to Mongolia. No secret what it's about--On The Road was just published... |
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JENNIFER MONTGOMERY: by Wayan; 1995/4/24, a film review Montgomery's film about her teenage affair with a pedophile is troubling enough before the FBI tries to blackmail her... CAUTION: MOLESTATION/ABUSE ISSUES |
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JOAN GRANT GETS SOME ADVICE: by Joan Grant; c.1923, an inspirational interlude. Writer Joan Grant, who was a psychic and trance channeler, got a sort of reading herself, from H.G. Wells... |
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MAGIC SCHOOL: by Wayan, 1982/1/26: a waking event and replying dream. Phyllis Schlafly, killer of the Equal Rights Amendment, provokes a dream of being Captain Kirk trapped in a magic school with no way out but the graduate exam. Can I learn the lesson of the tree? CAUTION: POLITICAL JOURNALISM BEFORE THE DREAM. OH NO! |
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MAYAN DOOR: by Wayan; 2008/3/21, a character-evaluation dream. The Mayan cave was a door between worlds. But also a model of the character you need to walk through that door... |
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MEMORY SNIP!: by Wayan; 1999/5/15, a dream on the cost of kindness. My friend Mark does something I thought impossible: removes a snippet of my memory. Disastrous! CAUTION: VIOLENCE... SORT OF |
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MICROGRAPH: by Wayan; 1991? Illuminated page on psychic dreaming A mad experiment one night in Micrography, with a midnight rant for scripture and my girlfriend for God... CAUTION: BLASPHEMY OF SOME KIND OR OTHER |
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MIKE DIANA, JAILED FOR SACRILEGE: by Wayan; 1994/6/23; a real-life nightmare. Unfortunately, this is not a dream at all... |
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MIRRORCUNT: by Wayan; 2011/3/24, a peculiar erotic dream image After singing dream songs on stage, I dream of a girl on a talkshow displaying the strangest vagina in history... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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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... |
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MY THREE HUSBANDS: by Wayan; 1981/2/26 & 1991/5/26, dreams drawn as a 15-page comic I'm three women at once! We marry a unicorn, a goat philosopher, and a magic talking cat. But cops raid our furry commune... CAUTION: INTERSPECIES MARRIAGE, TEEN SEX, BAD COPS |
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NAZIS BURN MY ART: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; the primal art-nightmare Nazis call my simple architectural drawing a social protest, take it at gunpoint, and toss it in the ovens. The commander mocks me with its ashes... |
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NEW LEVEL!: by "Julian"; 2006/5/22, 3 gamelike dreams in one night, two of them epic My mom and I road-duel an alien beetle, then investigate a deepspace Marie Celeste; then I spy for the Angevin Empire to protect the Crown Jewels... |
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ORGY BELOW THE SURFACE: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; an embarrassing dream Under the surface of my comics panels, a tiny horde is having an orgy. I can't publish this, it's too embarrassing! Wait a minute. That one is me... CAUTION: MICRO-ORGY |
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THE PAINT KIDS: by Wayan; 1996/11/23, an apparent predictive dream. Two child artists mail themselves to me in their paint kit, and start a painting orgy that gets messy in more ways than one... CAUTION: PEDOPHILIA, OR MAYBE PEDOPHOBIA |
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PALM: by Wayan; 1994/12/9, a dreamtale on solitude. I hang my artshow, but cut my palm. So I dream of a palm tree whose only problem is the road it's by... |
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PERISSA: by Wayan; 1997/9/13, a sexy dream-comic (small screen, slow loading? Illus. text) When Perissa, an exhibitionistic centaur, bares her body in a crowded Coliseum, she also bares a human-supremacist plot... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM |
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POKING THROUGH THE NET: by Wayan; 1993/8/6, a dream on evading repression. Cultists must wear a burqa and confess their sins daily. So why's their beach such a pickup scene? CAUTION: NUDITY UNDER FISHNETS |
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PRAYER (WE SHALL BE REBORN): by Wayan; 1997-2000 digital picture-poem. Be a web junkie. Instead of driving around in a gas-hog, you'll save the planet by staying in, passive... CAUTION: NUDITY; MOCKS GOD, CARS, AND WEB-PORN--IS NOTHING SACRED? |
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REJECTED! SO?: by Wayan; 2004/11/12, a dream of political AND personal advice A middle-class girl rejects me, and a newsman declares my politics irrelevant. "Liberal media" my ass... CAUTION: POLITICS |
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ROAR!: by Wayan; 2000/4/3, a nightmare transformed by a bluff Night. A jungle full of prowling lions and leopards. So naturally, I get up on a rock and roar back... |
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RUG-SHAG: by Wayan; 1994, digital; a sexy daydream that suddenly found a voice. I just wanted to imagine getting licked by a nice friendly escapist dog on a nice shaggy rug, but... CAUTION: BESTIALITY! SEX! METAPHYSICAL DOUBTS! |
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SAMURAI LIBRARIAN: by Wayan; 1982/10/20, a dream that dreamwork is samurai discipline I wrote my dreams each morning no matter what--even if I it made me late for work. They assumed I was sloppy, lazy, spacy. No; disciplined about priorities! |
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SAMURAI MARE: by Wayan; 1993/2/23, a time-travel dream. A feral mare will only let me ride her if I quit being a Japanese diplomat and become... a Samurai! |
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SELF-CENSOR?: by Wayan; 2022/11/4, an art-dream about dreams themselves I'm in an art class drawing a dream image--a dog-taur or wolf-taur girl. But I hesitate to draw her flashing me as she did in the dream. Should I risk offending half my class, or make her modest and innocuous? CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY |
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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 |
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SEVEN SQUARED: by Wayan; 1994/2/18, a dream about the IQ closet. In our wizard-war, I've hidden my nature. At last I come out; but I can't tell the whole truth... |
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THE SEX WORKSHOP: by Wayan; 1997/4/6, a dream on taking the next step. The teacher of our sex workshop picks me for a demonstration in front of everyone. Gulp... CAUTION: WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK? |
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SHHHH!: by Wayan; 1981, daydream in ink. A sudden image of a woman whose other lips not only talked, they wouldn't shut up. Worse yet, they... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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SPLINTER: by Wayan; 1981/3/14, a dream of love and nagging. I love Splinter, but her mom insists I got BOTH of them pregnant. Then I notice I'm pregnant too... CAUTION: SEX, NAGGING |
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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... |
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A STAGE FRIGHT: by Wayan; 1993/11/17, a revealing automatic writing-trance I froze in dance class when I followed anyone else's script. Was it fear? A dragon inside said no... |
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STANLEY, or, GOOD DOG!: by Wayan; 1994/6/1, a dream on... obedience. My friend Stanley is a social icebreaker: blundering in where I'm too shy, and too thick-skinned to worry much. He is what he is. So why am I mad at him? |
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STATUES ON ICE: by Wayan; 2021/3/12, a dream of blue politics Weird blue snow covers a dump of unwanted historical statues, but they seem less political than... strange. Is that a griffin? What's really getting covered here? |
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SUPERNOVA ERA: by Liu Cixin; 1989/6/4, a dream inspiring a science fiction novel During Tiananmen, I was in Beijing for a conference. I heard chaotic noise outside, and the muffled sounds of gunfire. I dreamed a star painted the sky an eerie purple-green. Children sang, marching over snow, rifles fitted with bayonets... |
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SUZETTE: by Wayan; 1981/2/20, a defiant sex/art dream with no one to defy I dreamed I drew our dog and me mating, then found the drawing on a gallery wall for all to see... CAUTION: CARTOON BESTIALITY |
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SWISS-CHEESE FAIRY: by Wayan; dreamed 1983/7/15, sculpted 2000: ceramic/wire/silk, 17" I met an elfin girl who's tattooed realistic vaginas all over her body, as... decoys? For she has... CAUTION: NUDITY, TATTOOS, TABOOS... |
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TACKY IS AN ANGLO IDEA, or, NEW BRACELET!: by Wayan; 1983/6/22. A bilingual undream. I like bad taste. Taste always tasted like another Anglo conspiracy to keep me from having fun... |
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THE TALE OF A MISFIT COCK: by Wayan; 1999/1/25, a media-fable dream. I'm in Japan, where Rumiko Takahashi tells me of a tragic chicken who longs to be a lounge singer... |
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TANKBUSTERS: by Wayan, 2020/5/21, a dystopian dream with political advice In a near-future dictatorship, Democrats are afraid to take any action. But in a suburban lot, I find a burned-out tank. I need to find these rebels who can defeat military-grade repression... CAUTION: GRIM |
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TAROT: OUTSTANDING (The Seven of Wands): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. How rare it is to meet the Outstanding whose thinking, sensing, feeling and intuition all work... |
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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... |
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THAT GORGEOUS BLONDE DANCING BARE-BREASTED: by Jack Kerouac, mid-October 1952 A sex-fantasy dream that shifts backstage and gets real In Charlotte they want to lynch her just for dancing. I protest. As she leaves town, she tells me... |
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THIEF OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1996/11/29, a sexy soul-swap dream; a 22-page comic (or text w/pics) I was a mermaid trying to find Count Coyote's stolen dreams, so I could marry my human girlfriend... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, LESBIAN MARRIAGE, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
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TIAMAT'S REBELLION: by Wayan; 1988/1/1, a dream about neoteny. That day: I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah. That night: I dream she leads a revolution on a starship against her elders... |
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UN-AMERICAN FANTASIES: by Wayan; 1996/7/19, a dreamtale. The All-American Family visits the fabulous Un-American Fantasy Store, where Mom is in for a shock... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY, LANGUAGE |
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UTOPIA: by Wayan; 37 p, 3.9 MB, 2007/5/9, a painted improv exploring... wishes? An improvised painting-series exploring my obsession for Utopia--and your deafening silence... CAUTION: IDEAS, FURRY NUDITY, THAT GOSH-DARN MODERN ABSTRACT ART |
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A VALLEY NEAR HOPE: by Wayan; 1984/10/17-19, an epic dream. I wander a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who love unicorns but fear cyborgs, who love ants but fear unicorns! And while the Three Tribes squabble, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four aspects of my tetrahedral soul... CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING |
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VIEWPOINT: by Wayan; 1991/6/9, a dream on pastlife amnesia. I ask to see my past lives, and dream of a viewpoint where I can--but this Mormon ranger... |
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A VISION: by Denise Levertov, 1965 or '66, a poem from hypnogogic vision? daydream? Two archangels meet; one red and gold winged, one blue and green. In heaven, form reveals worldview. Yet these two souls in dispute are great; rather than fight they appreciate... |
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WHISTLE: by Dr William Hammond, c.1865; a self-flagging predictive nightmare On a long steamboat voyage, a living skeleton swaps a warning for my watch; when the whistle sounds, the boiler will blow. As it does, I dive in the river and wake to discover a real whistle... CAUTION: UNCANNY SYNCHRONIZATION? |
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WHO CENSORS BIRTH?: by Wayan; 1994/5/2, a dream speculation. I'm assisting a hard birth as photos are shot for an article. Why's birth so rarely seen, what do we fear? |
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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! |
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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! |
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YEATS: by Wayan; 1990/1/1, a nondream poem wrestling with Yeats's dreams & visions Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted? |
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