Animal People, M to R
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MAELEN AND ME: by Wayan; 1972/5/1, a transmigrational dream. I'm a psychic circus animal who's just managed to teleport my humanoid girlfriend. It's for our act, but... CAUTION: PETTING |
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MAELSTROM AND BORE: by Wayan; 1995/1/23, poem telling a predictive dreamlet. An avian friend of mine researches a whirlpool. But it doesn't want to be studied, and it has friends too... |
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MAGICAL LIGHT: by Wayan; 1985/10/8, a dream on micromania Linda Evans of Dynasty survives a shapeshifters' war, though her mansion's wrecked. She meets a caped superhero--and superdog, and supercat, squirrel, hamster, mouse! These micro-heroes make me see I too have been minimizing my own bravery... |
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MAMA BEAR'S ADVICE: by Wayan; 1985/12/8, a dream on love-tactics. A bear-girl seduced by her coyote professor gets a little advice on revenge from her anthropologist mom... |
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MAMMAL FLOWERS: by Wayan; 1991. Digital painting on recurring dream situation. Since I dream I'm an animal a lot (or I'm an animal that wakes to find it's human a lot) hands fascinate me... |
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A MAMMOTH FIGHT: by Wayan; 1996/2/26, a dream of another life. A tacky other life... I'm a fight promoter. But my biggest deal ever is growing out of my control. Mammoth versus Rex, sure. But now it's a four-way bout--schoolbus, whale... CAUTION: CRASS ACT |
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MANATEE: by Wayan; 1989/5/12-1992; digital nondream painting. Beauty's link to status and privilege bothers me. The pretty get perks (or parks), while we uglies... CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, AND A BLOOD FLOWER |
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MAN TRIUMPH ANT: by Wayan; 1990, a lost typographical picture-poem The image got lost, but the words survived, so here's the poetic saga of an ant that left th' farm... |
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MANTA MOTHS: by Wayan; 1990/10/3, a transcendental nightmare echoing a dream 8 years before, (1982/1/22) Manta Moths pick us off us explorers... or do they? An old scroll spoke of fear leading to transformation... |
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THE MARTIAN FEUD: by Wayan; 1994/3/10, a warning dream. On Old Mars, before it died, two rival families' teasing finally goes too far, despite the whale's warning... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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MASK: by Wayan; 1989/11/21, digital print of dream-me trapped in the day-world. I'm a unicorn in a life-drawing class, feeling more naked than the model... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY |
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THE MATING GAME: by Wayan; 1992/3/18, a dream of spillover. A TV crew invades the house, setting up for a special. I didn't expect to see a president on the work crew... |
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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 |
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MEDITATION: by Marie-Claude Girondé, spring 2007, a dream painting. A jungle cat needs to take time out from a hard day's predation to have a quiet smoke... |
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MENDELIAN CHIMERAS: by Wayan; 2015/1/1, a New Year's dream warning of medical uniqueness I meet a girl who's a Mendelian hybrid of human, animal and peavine! But I'm no more human than she is... |
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A MERMAID DISH: by Wayan; 1994/11/13, a parabolic dream A mermaid friend invites me to see an underwater experiment in the Golden Gate... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS |
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THE MERMAID'S DRESSING ROOM: by Wayan; 1993/12/18; a dream on how to evolve. At Sea-Dragon State Park, I climbed down to the sea serpent's dressing room after the show, and found... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS |
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MERMAID, MARE, AND SEA-STAR: by Wayan; 1983/3/23; daydream of sea-love I was a mermaid summoning a great storm to carry my love to me--and my love was a red sea-mare... |
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THE MERMAID TOW: by Wayan; 1994/2/17, a rescue-fantasy dream. I rescue some drowning kids by turning into a mermaid, but towing one girl has an unexpected effect... |
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MERMAID VERSUS TRUMP: by Wayan, 2020/1/7, one of twin warning dreams Agents of Donald Trump with knives trap a mermaid. I jump one of them, and she escapes, towing me with her. She assumed humans just hate merfolk, but I know... CAUTION: HARSH WARNING ABOUT TRUMP |
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THE MERMAN'S LOVER: by Wayan; 1991-93; a sex daydream treated four ways. Four versions of an underwater meeting between lovers, one terrestrial, one marine... CAUTION: ORAL SEX |
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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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MIGRATION THROUGH FIRE: by Wayan; 1999/9/3, a dream of what matters. I'm a shaggy primitive whose tribe's outgrown our caves. We migrate, and meet two new species of people... |
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MISFITS ON MARS: by Wayan; 1986/11/20, an epic dream; the climax of the dreamseries UNICORN TAG. From the punk clubs of Frisco to the Safeways of Si Valley to the vermilion sands of Mars, Silky the were-nightmare fights for the Misfits against every cliche in science fiction... |
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MISSION CARNAVAL: by Wayan, 2022/7/27; a disorienting dream I'm in a loading dock with the door pulled halfway down, so I have to look between my legs to see the mythical dancers outside--upside down. Wait, why am I hiding in here? Go join... CAUTION: MOCKS PLATO; NUDE CENTAUR, TOO |
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MISTRESS TOOTHSMOOTH: by Yves Delage, 1915/1/20, an early anima dream I'm in the cellar, petting a tiger-cat. She speaks inside my head: "I'm tired of living on bread. I need meat." I make excuses--it's pricy--then see big hanging quarters of meat. I hide them! She says "Call me Mistress Touttmouss"--well, something like that--I know it's English, but can't make it out til I wake, when I see... |
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MOA: by Wayan; 1995/9/9, a dream on assertion. I was an avian Mr Niceguy with sore knees, till I got some advice from my supposedly extinct big brother... |
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MODELING A ME: by Wayan, 1994/8/29, a mirroring dream I find a 3D program that shows your true self, the self that can love, IS love. And my wireframe is... |
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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 |
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MONSTER PROM: by Wayan; Dec? 1993. How parties look when you see auras. If you sense auras, every singles event feels like a scene from Halloween Hell... CAUTION: HORNY MONSTERS |
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THE MOOMIN COMMISSIONERS OF TIME: by Wayan; 2008/9/17, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #27 A new Eve asks the Time Commission to send her and her baby back to Ethiopia 45,000 years ago. But they're shy Moomintrolls, not humans... |
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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... |
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MOONMARE (Around #6): by Wayan; ca. 1998/7/23. Digital drawing made deep in art trance. I made a cold moon of burnished metal, rusted and scraped. But then this warm mare reared... |
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MOOSE: by Wayan; 1984/3/12, a dream on the blessings of curses. How the Supreme Court gave my brother antlers, and where his soul went: where I'll go, now that I know... |
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MOTH GIRL SIPS EARTHFLOWER: by Wayan; 1982, sketch of a daydream. The bud she sits on is the moon... |
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MOTH TRAPS: by Wayan; 1980/1/11, a dream on getting stuck The Agile Beasts build traps to catch Moth Monsters, but Moths may build traps for Beasts... I wake & wonder--could the theater group where I feel subtly unwelcome be the trap? |
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THE MOUNTAIN, THE MAGPIE AND THE ROAD: dreamed 2013/3/26 by Rustling Leaves; epic nightmare
I visit a beautiful artificial mountain with loved ones--but my demons overwhelm me one by one. CAUTION: SUICIDAL FEELINGS, BODY HATE/FATPHOBIA, IMPLIED RAPE |
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MOUNTING PROBLEMS: by Wayan, 2021/5/22; an anti-Freudian punning math dream. I'm a giant wolf with a human girlfriend. A formula says I must shrink until my paws are 128 times the volume of her feet. But I'll still be way too big for sex! Eight seems more like the right volume... CAUTION: HORNY WOLF, MATH, CLIMACTIC PUN |
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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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MS. TRUST: by Wayan; 1993/11/4, a dream of a guarded angel. I meet my own mistrust: an angel who can't trust ME! So she turns me into a football-playing ant... |
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MUGS: by Wayan; 1985/12/25, a dream of weird Christmas gifts A shop sells coffee cups covered in tales & creatures begging to be drawn... |
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MULTIPLE: by Wayan; 1991/11/16; digital picture-poem on seven dream-selves. I have all the signs of multiple personality but memory gaps. Here are the ones I've met and been in dreams. But you all forget your dreams. Don't be too sure you're so unitary... CAUTION: BACKGROUND SEX |
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THE MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE THEORY: by Wayan; 1996/11/6, a dream on synergism. A girl and two cybersnakes are clever but murderous. But when apart, they're not mean at all! Not sin--synergy... |
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MULTIPLEX: by Wayan; 1987/1/9, a dream on multiple dreamselves. Inside my brain's a fractured legislature--a hive-mind where da beez disagreez... |
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MUSICIAN AND FOXTAIL, by Wayan, 2009/2/14, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #40 In Palo Alto I meet strange musicians in the rain, and realize kitsune aren't born but made... |
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MUSKRAT, OTTER, MINK: by J.P., c.1900, a trapper's shamanic-fistfight dream Three men chase me. I can't get away so I turn and fight, and put out one guy's eye. That makes them pause! At last they back away. As they paddle away in a boat, I realize who they are: Muskrat, Otter and Mink... CAUTION: ANTHROPOLOGISTS! |
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A MUSLIM CHEETAH: by Wayan, 2004/12/2, a dream of fundamental ambivalence A cheetah is a saboteur for a violent Islamic group. I'm attracted, but tear into her; "You plant bombs in the name of a rulebook meant for apes not cats!" CAUTION: NUDE CHEETAH; CRITIQUES HOLY BOOKS |
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MY LITTLE 'POCALYPSE: by Wayan, 2019/5/10; a predictive dream of a TV show making extinction cute The 'toon actors from My Little Pony gleefully volunteer to die horribly in a TV documentary on the impact in Yucatan that killed off the... dinosaurs? No! Unicorns, griffins, pegasi and dragons! As I draw the dream, I get an email from the maker of a TV documentary on climate catastrophe... |
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MY NAME IS WAYAN: by Wayan, 1986/5/23, a dream of names and manes. A conversation with a telepathic unicorn-lion reveals that my true name is Wayan. And my species?... |
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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... |
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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 |
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MY SINE-FRIEND: by Wayan; 1984/3/6, an emotional dream of time and rebirth. An animal-girl I know lives like a sine-wave, first forward in time, then backwards, dying at every zero... |
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MY SYMBIOTES: by Wayan; 2015/2/8, a dream characterizing our sixth sense, & proposing a seventh I have symbiotes--a dragonlynx and some flannan, like micro-angels with birdfeet & moth antennae. Lynx & flannan embody my sixth and seventh senses... |
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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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MY WILDCAT WOUND: by Wayan; 1994/7/8, a dream on gender trauma. I'm a wildcat in a cat/fox team led by a woman who wants us to merge with a man/wolf team... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
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MYSTERY BETWEEN: by Wayan; 1985/9/27, crayon and acrylic drawing on dreamnesia. Okay, you got your heaven, and your earth, and between, you got... CAUTION: MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE |
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NAVAHO HORSES: by Wayan; 1972/8/1; childhood drawing, feltpen & color pencil A museum sketch of Navaho horses who got me hot--teaching teenage me that my sexual orientation wasn't (only) human... |
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THE NESS MAN, or, HOW TO HEAL: by Wayan; 1994/4/13, a mytho-musical dream. Mythic creatures round a woodland pool want to heal a businessman. Do too many cooks spoil the soup? |
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NEWT WEDDING: by Emily Joy; spring 1995, a six-year-old's epic dream Through wild jungles and over the Mattress Mountains, I lead a giant purple newt to love... |
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NIC THE UNICORN: by Roger Martinez; 2013; a dream encounter I met Nic as he steppd out of the elevator. We were both spooked. Nic asked if I believed in mermaids and unicorns. I said “yes.” I asked Nic if he believed in dreamers, and after a pause... |
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A NIGHT ON MOUNT DIABLO: by Wayan, 1984/6/8, an allegorical four-phase dream. I'm attacked by a narcissist firebird, a rabid rattler-manticore, a masochist bear, and a sexless succubus... CAUTION: INEPT DEMONS |
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NIGHT FLIGHT: by Catherine as told to Wayan; c. 1962, a recurrent childhood flying dream. My friend Catherine dreamed she was a flying mare with golden hooves. But in real life, she lost them... |
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NIGHT MARE: by Wayan; 1990/11/23; digital painting inspired by a friend's dream. I dreamed I was a feral mare: gentle, affectionate, sensual, but gone wild, wary of being tamed again... |
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THE NIGHTMARE: by Cathy Anderson, 1992?, a poem on mysterious recurring dreams Every night the same nightmare--the creatures take flight again, and I wake shaking... |
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NIGHTMARE'S EAGER: by Wayan; 1999/4/6, a short dream about dreams. I meet a Nightmare in heat who wants me. A human girl by me says I'll catch an equine sex-disease... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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THE NIGHT OF CHANGE: by Wayan; 1994/2/8, a dream on the order of deep changes. Festival night in a strange town, where, one night a year, dancing in the street transforms you into... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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A NIP IN THE EVENING: by Wayan; ink 1980 tinted 2000; daydream image. Like a lot of playful beasts, I like a friendly nip in the evening... |
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NIP OFF HIS NOSE: by Wayan, 2020/2/20, four surreal dreamlets about Covid? or... overwork? 1: I sketch two deer-girls making videos. 2: I pull a man's nose off, and milk the scene for drama before... 3: My old boss is convicted of murder! 4: I wake and two friends interpret #3 as "Overwork is killing you..." I wake again. My dream-notebook's blank. No friends here; their interpretation was a dream too.... CAUTION: NUDE DEER |
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NO BLUE RIDER: by Wayan; 1956-8 recurring dreams; a 1987/6/22 dream brought them back; painted 1996/1/21 My first memory is of being a wild horse, and waking up to find I was now a human child. Franz Marc's "Blue Rider" paintings felt like my dreams; but as I learned of his life... |
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"NOHOR!" YELLED THE NIGHTMARE: by Wayan; 1982/12/27, a passionate nightmare. I dreamed a black mare was howling "Nohor!" At first I thought she meant "I'm not just a horse", but... CAUTION: SEXUAL ISSUES |
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NORASINGH: by Wayan; 1987/1/15, a Tantric Frankenstein dream. I fall in love with my sculpture of a mythical Southeast Asian creature. Then a mad yogi breaks in... CAUTION: SEX, TANTRA, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS |
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NOUVELLE BARBIE BODS: by Patagia, 2012/12/22, a playful poem on a dream-diorama I visited my friend Chris Wayan's workshop and found him building a dance troupe of joyfully obscene centaurs out of Barbie dolls... |
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NOW DON'T PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH: by Wayan; 1998, pencil sketch of 3 recurring dream figures. It's hard being even mildly multiple. Here three of my least compatible personalities line up and... |
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NUKES AND WEREBIRDS: by Wayan, 2020/6/28, a surreal shamanic dream about... Covid? I'm a were-crane in a flock fighting the dreaded Human Flu, setting off sterilizing nukes. But birds aren't great with explosives; I end up hiding from a flash behind Stonehenge megaliths... |
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O MAIDENS IN YOUR SAVAGE SEASON: by Wayan; 2024/4/15, a sex dream on... fish? After reading a manga and gorging on sushi, I dream a mob of little ninjas dressed as catgirls pile on me, begging to be petted. Excitement, guilt... CAUTION: PEDOPHILIA, NON-FREUDIAN INTERPRETATION |
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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... |
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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... |
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OH LEAD MY REM SOUL ON: by Wayan, 1991/9/2 silk painting of shamanic dream process I rise in animal form, and fly to a world as coherent as this one, guided by a greenhaired girl... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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OMELET BEACH: by Wayan; 2007/1/15, a dream on how things look through your third eye An alien beach scene--as seen through eyes that see bodies’ energy fields more than surface forms... |
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ON HER FOURTH BODY: by Wayan; 1993/11/25, a predictive dream-comedy. A gengineered singer (born a cow, became a horse, then a shark, now a sexy Mare Chanteuse) solves a mystery that stumped even Mr. Spock. Next day, I see a film--a mystery solved by a... |
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ON THE NIGHT RIDE HOME: by Wayan; 1971/11/8, a dream-poem on pushing past prejudice As I bike home at night, strange doings--a rat is sacrificed; gemstones delivered; an astronaut shows glowing alien objects; a second rat becomes a... firefighter? |
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OPEN THE DOOR!: by Wayan; April 2002, acrylic bas-relief of waking fantasy. I salvaged a door. When I painted it, a fox-woman wanted to open it and get out... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY |
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OPEN YOUR CAGE: by Wayan; 2000/1/10; penciled collage of dream characters The cover of a collection of 11.5 dream-tales in glorious detailed Web-unfriendly black and white.... |
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OPHIDIOPHOBIA: by Wayan; 1986/2/12, a dream on race and religion. I'm a therapist with a client diagnosed paranoid--but are his doctors racist? He's not just black, but scaly... |
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ORANGE: by Jim Shaw; c.1994; a wordplay dream? A coy, giggling giant orange bounces onto a man's bed, trying to seduce him, and... |
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ORCA TOWS: by Wayan; 1984/5/25, a dream with impact. I show an Ohio friend the latest California sport. But we haven't quite worked out how to land just yet... |
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ORIOLE GIRL: by Wayan; 1992/1/23, psychic dream told as illustrated poem. While conducting a census of fairies in Golden Gate Park, I fall in love with an abused oriole-girl, and we try to heal one another... CAUTION: AWKWARD SEX |
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OTTER NERD FROM TITAN: by Wayan; 2012/4/15 & sequel-dream (2013/2/9), a dream-poem on social skills A suspicious exobiologist warns me that otter from Titan may not be the amiable, nerdy celebrity it seems. But... |
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OTTERS DON'T FAKE: by Wayan; 1989/10/15, a sex dream that's not about sex at all. I'm scared to show my dream-paintings to my art class. That night I find an large otter in my bed... CAUTION: SEX |
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THE OTTER'S MOM: by Wayan, 1996/5/29; a dream-comic of the future. A doomed, orphaned ottercub meets the last Tasmanian Wolf, who makes a hard choice I couldn't. Or... did I? CAUTION: BIRTH SCENE (MARSUPIAL/NON-GORY) |
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OTTO SUGGESTION TO A HORSE IN DRAG: by Wayan; 1995/8/8, a dream on body image. My uncle mocks the racehorse he rides! Smears lipstick on this stallion, calls him a wimp... Why? CAUTION: DREAM PUN, NUDE MARES |
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OUR BEST SONG: by Wayan; 1983/10/25, a decade-long dream of song and flight. The artcops search-and-destroy our flying band, and my wings are shorn. But ten years later, songless, apathetic, I climb through my TV--and the women of Vietnam show me a new way to fly... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, ATTITUDE, ALTITUDE |
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OUR EYES ARE OPEN: by Wayan; 1998? Political painting of my animal anima. As new political outrages flow forth, I feel like a horse wary of a sweet-talking human, and I think... |
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OVERKILL: by Wayan; 1991/11/22. Nondream digital picture-poem-poster. Now the Evil Empire's dead. We're all safe, safe at last. And all the bombs are gone... right? |
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OWL AND CHEESE: by Wayan; 1986/7/8, a dreamtale of a Shadow? An alien woman makes a mess of our economy, ecology, world--but insists she wants to be my friend... |
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OWL GUARDIAN: by Wayan; 1986/6/6, a psychic dreamlet A giant luminous guardian owl baffles and intimidates me but after seeing a play next evening, it makes more sense... |
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OWLOVERS: by Wayan; 1992, digital painting of vivid daydream. My dreams mix sex with warmth, grief, even silliness, but what's with the owls? Bewildering... CAUTION: WEIRD ORGY |
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OWL SHOT: by Wayan; 2007/2/15, a predictive dream DREAM: I'm hiking in a local preserve when a jay with a handgun shoots an owl... A MONTH LATER: the first owls to resettle my urban county nest in a nearby park... A MONTH LATER: they're dead. One was shot; its mate died of grief. |
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OWL TAVERN: by Dan O'Neill; before 1994/11/2, a dream-comic I stumble into a bar where the TV stars from my childhood are drunkenly arguing metaphysics--Howdy Doody, Beany & Cecil, Flipper... |
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OWLYCAT: by Wayan; 1983/3/16, daydream of night being. At the time I didn't even notice the pun... |
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PARALYSIS: by Emily Y. Chan, 2016/5/3 or before; nightmare sketch Had sleep paralysis early one morning while trying to wake up, and "saw" this creature or woman looming over me. She had two spider legs (if more, I couldn't see) and was smiling--with no face. Terrifying. Amazing... |
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PARROT SITTER: by Wayan; 2021/11/19, a flying-pulp-fiction-babysitting dream A girl becomes a raven to cross a pond. Asks me to fly across carrying her (flightless) pet parrot in a bag. I do, but later the parrot falls downstairs. So yuppies call me an irresponsible pet owner... |
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PARROT TAMES BUSINESSMAN: by Wayan; 2011/10/6, a surreal career-advice dream poem My last two businesses went bust. So I let a giant parrot talk me into interviewing her people, who've been settling all those alien ruins in Amazonia. Great career move... |
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PASSION: by Katie Hofgard; 2006, an undream portrait of a complex woman. Talk about mixed messages! Or... is it really? CAUTION: NUDITY, SLIGHT FIRE HAZARD |
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PATCHEN'S ANGELS: by Wayan; 2000/1/23, nondream crayon/digital drawings. I always liked the little creatures in picture-poet Kenneth Patchen's wild collage-pages... |
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PATCHES PAWS AT FLYING FISH-TOAST FRIENDS: by Sarah Silver; 2006/7/26, a hallucinatory image Patches the kitten, my alter ego, paws at flying fish who are also toast-slices... |
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PATH: by Wayan; figures from 1989/10/12 dreamlet invade a waking landscape. My art teacher said "Draw a spiritual experience." I tried, but that night, I dreamed of sharp-toothed... CAUTION: TOPLESS MEDITATORS |
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THE PEGASI TUB: by Wayan; 2013/11/9, a fun, flirty dream I felt I didn't deserve After a rainy hike I'm cold and muddy. In the camp's hot tub, six girls splash and play. They welcome me, but I feel shy. They slowly become winged ponies! Were-Pegasi... CAUTION: HOT-TUB NUDITY |
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PEGASIA: by Wayan; 10MB mini-site (200 maps & images), spring 2006 to present (ongoing); tours of an alien moon. A contest! Here's a wide, fertile world full of empty ecological niches for intelligent creatures. Design one! |
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PEGASUS: by Wayan; 1991. Digital "woodblock print" of recurring dreamfigure. This strong slender mare is how most of my flying dreamhorses look: a practical lot, they know... |
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THE PEGASUS CHILD: by Wayan; 1982/4/4, a dream of family diversity and spiritual advice Dad's human, Mom's a weird owl-lynx, the kid's a baby Pegasus... and I, W.C. Fields, that fat cynical drunken old actor, am the babysitter... |
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A PEGASUS-DRAGON SCRIPTS MY LIFE: by Wayan; 2017/12/4, a dream of my... creator? Turns out my life's a TV show. My scriptwriter is half pegasus, half dragon, and my own humanity has been her science-fictional imagination all along... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY |
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PEGATAURESS WITH BLUE WINGS: by Wayan; 1993/4/2 & 1997/11/19, a sculpture fusing two dreams. I was a ballerina in blue who learned to fly; and I met a centauress who loved dance too. The dancers fused... |
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PENGUINS TALK ONLY TO...: by Wayan; 1987/7/25, a comic dream-poem. Talking animals flood my bedroom. Well, they'll talk to me--but they're cliquish. Hippos snub cats snub bears snub deer, and no one talks to penguins, for... |
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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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PET AD, OR, RENTADOG: by Wayan; 1996/11/9, an illustrated Shakespearean singles-ad. I put a singles ad in our paper, but I just couldn't say what I really wanted to. Now, I can... CAUTION: SEX, DRUGS, AND DOGGEREL |
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PET ME DARE!: by Wayan; 1996/2/7, a sexy healing dream; 2p. dream-comic (or ill. text) After whining all day that I lost my anima, I dream I'm petting a cat. Who purrs, and grows, and grows, and purrs "Pet..." CAUTION: PUSSY TROUBLE |
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PET THE FOX: by Wayan; 1993; improv map of my olfactosphere. Sexual beauty scares me--how I'm affected--how vulnerable I am. An irresistable pheromone... CAUTION: SEXUAL THEME |
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PHARAOH HOOKS: by Wayan; 1989/7/31, a deadpan joke of a dream. My sister and her friend the snake-woman tell me the facts of life: the golden hooks, the piglets... CAUTION: UNRELIABLE GYNECOLOGY |
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PHOTOS LURE SOULS: by Wayan; 2016/3/12, dream of summoning spirits I'm photographing lifesize furry statues. How explicit, how sexy? If I get shots they like, souls will be lured to enter their bodies and bring them alive... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
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PIANIST: by Wayan; 1985, a nondream ink caprice. Love that hair, girl. A very seventies bar-monster... |
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PIANO AND CROCODILES: by Wayan; 1987/9/6, a predictive dream with teeth. My parents host a dinner party, but squeeze us all onto a piano stool. I plink away nervously. The guests flee. My sister blames me, but I suspect it's my dad's pet crocodiles! Next day... |
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PIER'S END: by Wayan, 1989/2/21, a Raymond Chandler dream. My detective lover warned me, "Stay away!" Now I'm trapped. Dare I follow the lion over the edge? |
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PIGEON WITH A HEAD LIKE QUEEN VICTORIA: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 2010/7/26, painting of a pest A pigeon with a head like Queen Victoria's keeps fastening onto my clothing with its beak, and this nagging feels familiar... |
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PINE FOG: by Wayan; 1995; digital improv, collaging dreamfigures. A misty day in San Francisco's Presidio, where migrant pegasii graze on pine-tips and shadow witches nest... |
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PINK CHILD AND PRESTON: by Katie Hofgard; 2005/5/7?, a sexy dream of childhood My boyfriend and I are beings with pinkish joints... CAUTION: SEXY CREATURES |
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PLANET CAT: by Wayan; 1995/11/12, a First Contact dream of love. I'm the first man on Planet Cat, falling in love with my guide. And then I'm the Cat, falling for an alien ape... CAUTION: NUDE CAT |
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PLANETOCOPIA: by Wayan; 2002- (ongoing Sisyphean project) 19 nondream imaginary worlds rendered in text, art, & sculpture. Most teem with intelligent life--alien Edens! CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, MATH, SOCIALISM, EVOLUTION |
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THE PLANETOCOPIA INTERVIEW: David Cole of "Whose Fault is That?" questions Wayan; 2009/5/6. The roots and reasons and back-stories for the nineteen virtual worlds making up Planetocopia... |
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PLESIOSAUR: by Wayan; 1985/9/5, a comic medical nightmare. An itchy patient of mine insists he's turning into a four- headed, man-eating plesiosaur. He left one thing out... |
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PLUSH BEAR: by Wayan; 1994/8/3, a grotesque dream poem. Two mimes terrorize our art class in a stretchable bear-suit. Well, we HOPE it's just a suit... |
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PLUTO THAWS: by Wayan; 1973/1/19, a mythic dream set on Pluto. A quarrel between psychic adepts heats up to a war, thawing Pluto. What will the ice-tribes wish for? |
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POINTED EARS, POINTED DREAM: by Wayan, 2019/1/4, a surreal dream I walk home in cold rain; my hooded robe soaked. It has holes for my long pointed ears. Hit a thriftshop to buy a dry one, and run into two girls I crushed on but ran away from: Danielle is comforting Cary who's crying. Their ears are pointed too. Wait--who are we?... CAUTION: GUILT FOR SINS OF OMISSION? |
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POKEY?: by Wayan; 1993/4/15, a dreamtale on my soul. My lover's turned into a tiny living pull-toy, trapped ankle-deep in a wheeled platform. Can I free her? |
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POLTERGEIST: by Wayan; 1983/11/17, a comic surreal dream. A living camera edits us all: the dappled hawk-man, the slutty candidate, the blue businessmen who give such bad advice when you pull the thorns from their feet. And my sweet sad hell-hound... |
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PONYBOY: by Wayan; 1982/12/9, a dream about the control room of dreams. The child who runs with wild horses finds the secret spy-room of dreams! But no one's watching... |
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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... |
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PORCUPINE HEAD: by Emily Y. Chan, 2024/4/20 or before; dream painting I had a dream I was exploring ruins in a forest, where I encountered this feral girl with a porcupine head.... |
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PORTALS OF THE PAST: by Wayan, 2021/2/6; a timish dream. The time-caves under Golden Gate Park lead to supervillains, magical girls, miniphants, bamboo thugs, adorable dinosaurs, and... pandemics. But is there a way back home? |
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PORTRAIT OF LADY DRACANTHRA: by Wayan; mid-2001, acrylic dream painting. Among the family portraits in the hall of my ancestors was this one of a formidable old... woman, I guess. |
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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? |
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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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PREGNANT WITH KRYTHA: by Wayan; 1998/2/3, a monomaniacal dream My best friend and I are shapeshifters; I seduce him, just so my daughter Krytha can be born... CAUTION: MAMMALIAN NUDITY, PHEROMONAL SEDUCTION, RECKLESS PREGNANCY |
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PROBLEMATIC ASSUMPTION: by Wayan; 1992/3/3, four sexy dreamlets exposing a delusion. DAY: In yoga class, a sexist teacher and angry student don't question assumptions I know are false... DREAMS: I flee sexy but underage Easter bunnies, fox-girl marathoners, a witch and a wolf in love... and a horde of single girls of all ages & species! I run away, because MY problematic assumption is... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, REVERSE SEXISM |
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THE PROWLER: by Wayan; 1997/2/4, an anti-nightmare. My sister hears a prowler. I go out blind in the dark, and learn she's right. But what a strange intruder! |
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PSYCHIC CAT: by Scott Bartell, art by Jesse Reklaw; pre-2000; a comic dreamlet Our neighbors keep dropping by with gifts and favors for our cat. Why? He'd gained magical powers by amassing 10,000 dead mice... |
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PUFF TIDE: by Wayan; 1993/5/1, a nightmare on indulging rage and tears. I'm swept off sea-rocks, as my scaly guardian watches calmly--letting me drown in the tears I shed... CAUTION: DROWNING |
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PULLED UNDER: by Wayan; 1976/4/15, a nightmare. One by one, we're pulled under the water, the earth... eaten. That's the fate of all flesh. And we're flesh. CAUTION: HORROR |
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PUMA ORGY: by Wayan; 1988/2/5, erasable crayon drawing of a dream. I dreamed I had to go through the Animal Orgy to get to the City of the Shining Spirits on the horizon... CAUTION: STRANGE SEX |
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PURE LOVE: by Wayan; 1986/10/9, an epic time-travel dream with ego shifts Two shapeshifters meet, fight and love over the centuries-- and I live out scenes from both their long lives... |
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PURR: by Wayan; Sept. 1981, watercolor of a dream. I dreamed our family's black cat Persephone had to make a life-decision... |
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PUT TWICE AS MUCH IN: by Wayan; 2003/9/22, a dream warning how much it takes to change All the claymation figures I made in my teens are gone but one. And the centauress has a broken hip and spindly leg. I start to mend her, but I need TWICE the clay I thought... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY |
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QUAIL TV: by Wayan; summer 1981, ink, shamanic cave drawing. Quail, spelunking again, finds ancient cave paintings of the Cult of the Fossil TV... |
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QUEEN COBRA: by Wayan; digital painting of a 1987/1/15 dreamlet. I asked "I'm still scared to date anyone. Why? What's my next step?" That night, I was answered... CAUTION: SEXUAL IMPLICATIONS |
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RA CATS: by Wayan; 2002, an image inspired by a cutting-board. A friend gave me a meat-cutting board, with channels for the blood. Eww. So why'd it become three cats worshiping the sun? CAUTION: NUDITY |
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RABBIT-EARED DOE: by Wayan; dreamed 2008/4/29, a dream of statues come passionately to life A hunter catches a Rabbit-Eared Doe by her yard-long ears, pulls on them like reins, and mates with her! She doesn't object; maybe ear-pulling's normal for her. Should I intervene? I can't tell if this is love or rape! CAUTION: STRANGE FURRY SEX |
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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 |
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RACCOON MOON: by Wayan; 1993/11/22; a short psychic dream. A precognitive dream about levitating snake girls, raccoons, and lunar eclipses. CAUTION: MY SNAKE BREASTS |
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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... |
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RAINBOW SPLASH: by Wayan, 2023/4/23, a furry-porn dream hiding art advice! I'm in an alt-world Berkeley where mythic creatures shop on College Avenue. Marigold the unicorn flirts with me. Rainbow Dash the pegasus has turned male. Very very male... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY (AND CRUDITY) |
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RANI: by Wayan; 1994/1/28, a dream about choice, with 8 illus. A Borges story of a were-tigress provokes a dream of a ranch crawling with weird were-women. Weird, but I LIKE them... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
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RAPID TRANSIT: by Wayan; 1999 hypnogogic image; watercolor 2000/11/15. I was just sitting, minding my own business, when these golden wedge-birds and a tiny flying white mare divebombed me... |
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RARE BIT FIENDS: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; a recurring dream personifying dreamwork? The wildcat Rare Bit Fiends slinks out of the hills to stalk and maul dreamers--until one day she rears up to teach a dream workshop... |
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RATTLER BY THE CONTROLS: by Wayan; 1978/10/19, an anti-phallic-symbol dream. I dreamed I was riding a huge toy train, and a gigantic rattlesnake was at the controls... |
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RAVEN AT 5 O'CLOCK: by Raven and Wayan; 1996/11/30. Shared but stupid psychic dreams. My girlfriend Raven dreams I keep poking her awake, while I dream that a giant raven gives me weird advice... |
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RAVEN'S MIRROR: by Wayan, 2022/8/15, a surreal shamanic dreamlet A raven summons a levitating mirror that shows her face as a human, and tries out moods & expressions based on Tarot cards plucked from a tree... |
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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 |
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REBEL OWL: by Wayan; 1971/10/9, a dream so mysterious it mystified its inhabitants My city's invaded and occupied. I become a gigantic Owl and fight with impossible stamina. But in the end I'm dead, stuffed, on a museum wall. Can I let go NOW? CAUTION: WAR |
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REBORN AS A CAT: by Lady Sarashina's sister, April or May 1022, a dream of a friend's past life Sarashina adopts a stray cat with oddly refined manners. Her sister dreams the cat tells of her last life, as the daughter of a high official. The cat does seem to understand human speech... |
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RECOIL: by Wayan; 1995. Digital portrait of dream figures. Puzzled me why I (the girl on the left) was so outraged about the gift of a perfectly nice levitating flower... CAUTION: NUDITY, INGRATITUDE, WITCHCRAFT, ELVIS |
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THE RED BEAST WAS HAPPY: by Wayan; dreamed 1981/11/16, drawn 1983/11, a subtle healing dream I was timid. Red scared me. But this huge confident dream-beast hinted at a new energy... |
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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? |
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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? |
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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 |
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REELS OF LIGHT PROPEL THE MOON: by Wayan; 2000/11/17; ink/digital sketch of the dream-voyage. The moon's a sailing ship propelled not by wind but light: the light of night-movies. Dreams... |
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REFLECTIONS IN THE POOL: by Wayan; 184K total, 2 panoramas; a 1994/7/2 dream. Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love. Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace? CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL |
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REHEARSING THE LOVE SCENE: by Wayan; 1999/9/17, a dream of advice. An insecure girl who looks like my anima is rehearsing a controversial love scene with an alien wolf... |
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REINDEER FOREST: by Wayan; ca. 1985, nondream ink sketch, approx 9x14" Reindeer linked by their heads--curiously analogous to language, or culture, or the Web, isn't it... |
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REVOLUTION IS MESSY: by Emily Joy; 2006/4/26, a political dream When whites invade, two shapeshifting Native American cubs resist architecturally... |
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RICH BITCH: by Wayan; 1979/10/20, a dream on money, sex and class. I dreamed I met a wealthy werewolf. My parents were leftists and told me the rich are wicked--but... CAUTION: INDECENT T-SHIRT, INDECENT WEREWOLF |
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RIDING MY UNICORN: by Wayan; 1993? Digital picture-poem of incubated vision. I'm single and feeling shy. So I asked my dreams for an image of my true love, and got... CAUTION: SEX |
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RING-DUEL: by Wayan; dreamed 1988/12/21; a transformation dream on reclaiming your power A mad scientist sneaks me into a museum that holds the Ring of Power I made at 14. I put it on, and slip into the spirit world--as a dragon! An ice-drake sent by Sauron comes to duel me for my Ring... |
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RING OF WHITE WATER: by Wayan; 1983/1/30, an epic astral dream. I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. A girl in my tour group jumps ship: she dreads the white water of rocky relationships ahead... CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS... |
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ROBOT AND UNICORN: by Wayan, 2022/11/23, a dream of building a rebellion After too much TV, I dream I'm plotting against a regime of suave, treacherous magical beings. But a unicorn sorceress suggests I enlist the robots. She's right--they find plutocratic thaumocracy ugly... CAUTION: ANTI-CAPITALIST |
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RUBY UNICORN: by Wayan; dreamed 2012/11/15; a sculptural dream. THAT DAY: My bandmates want to record crowd-pleasing songs. I want to record our strangest ones... THAT NIGHT: In a woman's art studio, I'm struck by a low, feline, muscular unicorn mare, carved out of a giant ruby. I ask, and she says "Oh, that's not mine. I found it in the trash"... |
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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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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... |
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RUNNING BIRD: by Alder; 1953, a kinetic nightmare with double selves. I'm a flightless bird hopping down a line of marble columns rising from the sea, as they topple behind me... |
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RUNNING START: by Wayan; 1989, a figure study. A rather feline runner poised for the starting gun... |
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