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ALICE'S LETTERS: by "Alice"; late 1960s?, a dream of spiritual advice I mail some letters that will solve everyone's problems, but a man argues we need problems... |
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ALIENS, MONSTERS, WITCH: by Judy Landaiche; 1991/11/8, a dream on judging by appearances Our starship crashed on an alien world. Humanoid aliens attack us. A witch saves us. A second kind of alien attacks; again she saves us. A third--ugly, monstrous--and the witch goes off with them! Turns out they're friendly... |
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ALL THE ANIMALS: by Sharon Lynn Pugh; c.1986, an epic, species-bent, funny, feminist dream-within-a-dream I'm a fox-woman. A human man courts me--insultingly. I dream my brain grows till my head hurts, till it splits open, till light gets in. I rant at the last dragon. Strange but kindly, he gives me a picnic... |
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ANCIENT RUINS, AND A GIFT FROM DEEP OCEAN: by Jenny Badger Sultan; two dreams (2016/11/19, 2017/1/18) on dreamwork, memory & amnesia 1: Ruins in India. Fascinating but age-blurred; wish I could see the carvings better... 2: Giving presents at a party, I hand a girl a vertebra from the abyss, encrusted with jewel-like barnacles... |
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ANOCHE / LAST NIGHT: by Antonio Machado; c. 1900; a joyful dream poem Last night, as I slept, I dreamt--illusion blessed!--that I had a beehive, here inside my heart... |
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ANTS AT A PICNIC: by Wayan; 1984/11/16, dream-poem from predictive dreamlet DREAM: Ants invite me to a picnic. But one of the dishes they serve is--other ants! NEXT DAY: I'm invited to a picnic. And my friend, munching, says... CAUTION: BUG-EAT-BUG WORLD |
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BAND-AIDS: by Bagheera Pardus; c.1985, a lucid re-entered nightmare turned to joy. Giant snakes chased me. I go lucid, turn & slay one. As I woke, the snakes cried. So I re-entered... CAUTION: SNAKES, BEHEADING, REHEADING |
BONE CARVINGS: by Larry Vigon; c.1999; a numinous dream with silly illustrations |
At the beach, a deaf boy with a strong aura asks "Are you here for the coin?" He buries horse skeletons in the sand; the bones are carved with symbols... |
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... |
BREAK / FAST: by Roswila; c. 1987, a poem of a predictive dream |
My friend stuffs a broken feeder with birdseed. I worry it'll attract too many wild birds. He laughs "Exactly!"... |
BROKEN GLASS by Nancy Price; 1948, a dream of working to death. |
Helping out talking animals until I'm exhausted, I suffer a fatal accident. What am I being warned of? |
BYE-BYE, OLD FILM!: by Wayan; 1981/1/24, a psychic dream, with a 2015/5/22 follow-up. |
My friends destroy all my old films and give me a 'new' one--but it's from 1900! Then I wake to find... |
CATFISH RESCUE: by Nick Munford, art by Jesse Reklaw; pre-2000; a dream of shamanic kindness |
I run away. A car nearly hits me and I fall into the lake. But a kindly catfish drags me to an underwater phone booth... |
CHUNKS, or, BABEZILLA!: by Wayan; two dreams 1990/10/4 and 1991/9/4 told as digital comics. |
I meet a giant psychic baby feared by 12-step people. So I go to the beach and find I'm a shark-bit girl who can have her missing chunks sewn back in--if I still have room for them... |
COME FLY WITH ME: by Lilian Verkins; 2012, painting of a joyful if secretive flying dream |
I flew over a beautiful park where I taught others how to fly. But there were people who I didn't want to see me flying. I stood mid-air above them, and they didn't spot me... |
CORVI AND FEY: by Wayan; 2016/6/14, a shamanic dream of reuniting estranged symbiotes |
I visit a world of ravenish people, the Corvi, who banished their longtime partners, the wish-granting Fey, calling them parasites. I decide to meddle... | THE CRANE SPOKE: by Thomas Takashi Tanemori; 1945/8/5, a child's dream foreseeing Hiroshima |
A crane came and spoke to me, reassuring me "I'll be back" even as a great fire burned it. It returned as a white butterfly. Next morning, as we played hide and go seek, I shut my eyes and counted to... CAUTION: CIVILIANS MASSACRED |
CRUISE: by "Michelle", 1990s; a recurrent predictive dream |
I never go on cruise ships but I keep dreaming I'm on one and meet the same man, and marry him..... |
DELBOEUF'S FERN by Joseph Delboeuf; 1862; the first cryptomnesic dream quoted by Freud. |
Delboeuf, ignorant of botany, dreams of feeding lizards a fern called Asplenium ruta muralis; years later he finds both lizards and fern in books he read and forgot years before the dream... |
DICKENS AND CAFTAN: by Anonymous #55, 1970/12/24 & 29, predictive dreams |
CAFTAN: My ultra-conservative brother wears a caftan. No way! I woke amused. But later that day, he gave me a Christmas present... DICKENS: A voice rants "I love Dickens! It has to be Dickens!" Next evening on Night Gallery, Agnes Moorehead begs for... |
DOG BITES CAT: by Wayan; 2015/2/17; a grating dream-poem |
I get bullied into dogwalking. A biter--leaves a cat bloody. You'd think a talking dog'd listen. But Cheney... |
DRAGGED TO HER HEART'S DESIRE: by Wayan; 1997/9/16, a dream with a lesson. |
The friends of a touchy aviator have to kidnap her just to give her a present... and WHAT a present... |
DREAM MILKING: by Wayan, 2000/6/30, a dream warning of overwork... but awake or asleep? |
After a hard day getting a "free" bed, I dream my milker comes to drain my dreams. Wait...did I agree to this? Or does milking drain objections, too? CAUTION: CREEPY |
DRILL TO FLOW: by Wayan; 2011/4/8, an anti-frustration dream |
A panel of argumentative gods grant me a spare lifetime of piano practice. It takes that long, but... |
EFFECTIVENESS: by Wayan; dreamed 2008/6/13, an advisory dreamlet |
I'm forced to retake a course labeled Logic. It's not logic. The teacher says "I teach Effectiveness." And proves it: I lack a prospectus, so he folds the sheet into a paper airplane and sails it perfectly across the room to me... |
EMISSARY: by Wayan; 2000/3/22, an astral dreamtale. |
I signed a prenatal agreement for weird, uneven luck to turn my life toward art and spirit. I want to broaden it, but I've lost the contract! So my spirit wife Silky sets out to find it... |
ERICEPAEUS: by a multilingual woman, c.1918/12/25; a psychic dream told to Jung |
Jung's patient dreamed of a strange name, Ericipaeus. She didn't know Jung had been studying a minor god named, he thought, "Ericapaeus". He'd misread the manuscript; the name was actually spelled a third way... |
ESCAPE: by Harriet Tubman; 1848?-49, recurring dreams of freedom |
I dreamed of flying like a bird over beautiful meadows to a border or river I couldn't cross. But ladies in white helped pull me over. After I did escape, I met some of those ladies and knew by their faces who I could trust... |
FALADA: The Goose Girl's Best Friend: by Mardi Storm, recurring predictive dreams c.1975-79, sculpted c.2000 |
I had recurring dreams in which a talking horse’s head was nailed to a tree. Strangely, this was before I read "The Goose Girl" in Grimm's fairytales... CAUTION: GRIMM ALL AROUND |
FALCON AND FÜHRER: by Miriel; 1985/7/31, an epic flying/transformation dream |
A mysterious "Führer" hypnotized all my companions. So I become a human-sized falcon and hunt him... |
FAMILY STORE: by Mark Ian Barasch's father, c. 2000; a subtly psychic dream healing a family |
I dream my son the writer's living above our old family store, the one that failed in the Depression...
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FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 2.6M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic. |
I had an epic dream lasting subjective weeks--a true other life. It wasn't Earth and we weren't human. I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. One night, my friends curled round me, I saw I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a woman, marry, and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right... 2600K loads slowly? Try it in parts: 1: HOME, 650K, 2: VOYAGE, 1200K, 3: BACK 750K. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
FISHERGIRL IN WATERCOLOR; OVAL: by Wayan; 1996/7/26 pencil & watercolor |
Leaf and me, on our boat in the lost city, from the epic dream FISHERGIRL. My first sketch of the dream... CAUTION: TRIBAL NUDITY |
FLOATING HORSES: by Wayan, 1972/8/10, a flying/transformation dream advising patience |
That day, I did bad art. That night, my friend & I get turned into levitating horses-- though some of our fellow fliers, like the mummified Inuit, are kinda creepy... |
FLY AWAY HOME: by Wayan; 1996/12/26, a dream of flight and kindness. |
I'm an alien castaway, hiding my wings. But Earth feels like home now! If I could fly here, would I stay? |
FLYING UNICORNS' GIFTS: by Lily Michaud; 2007/9/5, an advice-dream inside a flying dream |
Flying unicorns hang out with me and my friends, sending us dreams full of useful advice--and more concrete gifts... |
THE GEYSER: by Wayan; 2014/3/22, a mock Dickinson poem on a dream telling us what to be |
I dream my sister has an epiphany--we should relax, blur our boundaries, and just be sloppy old Geysers of Good. Surprisingly, my financier mentor agrees... CAUTION: DECLARES CAPITALISM OBSOLETE |
THE GHOSTMASTER: by Wayan; 1992/6/16, a dreamtale of the Shadow. |
I win a starship from the hostile Ghostmaster; in space I gain the confidence to confront him, and find... |
GIRAFFE MISSION, or, THE 17TH FOOT: by Wayan, 2017/1/30, a Seussy dreampoem on breadth of view |
I was in the Mission with friends. A giraffe saw me as narrowminded, and lifted me up to show me HIS viewpoint. No insights--till we topped the roofline... |
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. |
GOLD EGG: by James Russell Lowell: 1850s? a dream-poem |
I dreamt a couple toss out a shabby old hen. But it lays golden eggs! She becomes an eagle and carries me off to... |
GOLD NECKLACE: by Elaine, c.1970, told to Ann Faraday; a subliminal or psychic warning dream |
DREAM: My husband was slipping a gold necklace onto a slim, dark girl I'd never met. I woke and sketched it... AFTER: He was having an affair with the girl, and gave her the necklace the night of my dream--her birthday... |
GREEN DRAGON BANE: by Tom LogosEinTheos, 2019/5/13, a dream of an odd gift |
I'm in a cavern. A large green & brown dragon goes over to a machine and gives me a green egg. A gift. It comes to me this is "dragon bane"... |
THE GURU OF CASH: by Wayan; 2009/7/7, a comic predictive financial dream |
My friend Dawn drags me to a cultish workshop. But I fall asleep! Or is that bad? The Financial Guru awards me $1250 for spiritual napping... CAUTION: RIDICULOUS UNTIL... |
HALF SHAMAN, HALF STATESMAN: by Wayan; 1986/4/21, a parallel-world dream: Chapter 6 of UNICORN TAG |
I get a scholarship to Shaman U. Some of my classmates are Terran, but I still don't fit in, because... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
HELP YOUR NEIGHBOR: by Wayan; 1994/2/18, a comic nightmare. |
I'm an organic almond grower who's solved the Luminous Snail problem. But my neighbor has an agenda... |
HOP: by Emily Joy, Maddie, and Kathe, 2004/3/31; three linked dreams of a single character |
Three friends in one bed dream three dreams in one night about a talking rabbit with a persistent request... |
I DREAM OF... ME: by Linda Medley; 1990 or 91, a dream-comic, the seed of Castle Waiting |
I wake in a hobbit-hole. My love looks worried. What's wrong with me? A badger takes me to see wizard Sean Connery, who gives me feathers to eat, and I become... |
JACOB'S LADDER: by Jacob, grandson of Abraham; c. 2050 BCE; a self-fulfilling prophetic dream. |
Jacob dreams of angels climbing to heaven. He meets God, who promises the Holy Land to him and his tribe. Jacob uncritically accepts... |
THE LOST RING: by Helen Fraser; 1924; an astral lost-and-found dream |
A friend in Heaven promises Helen a lost ring would return to her. Three days later it did; but its path had been strange... |
LOUSE: by Wayan; ink, 1982/5/21: an embarrassing true story. |
Getting rid of lice was easy. Harder was quelling the gossip and rumors from my co-workers and boss... CAUTION: A LOUSE OF A BOSS
| MARABOU MONSTER: by Rustling Leaves; dreamed 2014/3/15 |
I've got too many obligations, an elderly relative to care for, and now giant birds are invading my house. CAUTION: STALKING, KILLER BIRDS |
MIRIEL, DON'T GO IN!: by Wayan; 1982/10/6, a dream of a stunted planet's stunted god. |
God offers gifts to pilgrims, so my sister enters his door. Fierce light shoots out... |
MR. WILLOW AND THE LOCUSTS: by a Yi Valley magistrate, Dec. 1641?, as told by Pu Songling; a shamanic dream |
As locusts advanced on his farm district, a magistrate dreamt a Mr. Willow had advice. He took it. Bearing a gift of rice wine, he sought out the Goddess of the Locusts, and... |
MUIR ON MARS: by Wayan; 1994/5/14, a dreamtale. |
I'm John Muir reborn on Mars, supporting Mars First against tree-cutters, who poison their enemies... |
MUSTARD VAMPIRE : by Wayan; 1984/3/1, a warning dream. |
I love a cute vampire. She's willing to go on a diet. Even so, do I have enough blood to spare? |
MY PRIZE: by Wayan; 1997/8/15, a short psychic dream on inner critics. |
A teen awards me prizes for art and writing. I wake to see her on TV--a gymnast after a prize herself... |
NIBBLING FRUITS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/2/3; a painting from an advisory dream |
I am given a gift of "Nibbling Fruits" which only I may eat--because I've been feeding everyone but me... |
O LA LA, WHAT A STRANGE DREAM: by Julie Doucet; 1989, a comic space sex dream |
Mom gave me cookies for my three-year solo spaceflight. Special cookies for both ends of me... CAUTION: NUDITY, BAD SEX ADVICE |
OCTOPIA: by Wayan; 1996/3/21, a spiritual dream-comic on play; ill. text version |
I'm a stratospheric bat who finds a flying swastika. Is it creeping fascism? Or a Hindu blessing? Neither! It's an Octopian frisbee. I return it... |
ON BEING NEEDY/NEEDED: by Roswila; February 2002, a dream-poem |
In her kitchen she offers me shortcake. She's short herself, for she gives away all to everyone--only her bodiless head is left... |
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? |
ONE-EYED BOY: by Roswila; 2009/4/5, a dreamku on the limits of desire |
You'd think his Christmas wish would be "a new eye"; well it was, in a way... |
OTTER MEDICINE: by The-Fringe, a Crow healer, early 1850s; a shamanic dream with physical effects |
I slept on an island in a scalding hot spring, praying for a dream. I got one--and woke up on the shore... |
PASS THE VIAL ON: by Wayan; 2000/4/18, a dream of renunciation |
A vagabond king showed me the way into Faerie, and it made my fortune. But now it’s time to pass the gift on... |
PEACOCK KINGS: by Myoe Shonin; 1196/8 or 1196/9, an ecstatic dream |
I meet two Peacock Kings bigger than human beings, who chant blessings until I wake with tears drenching my pillow... |
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... |
PINKIE CLEANS THE WINDOWS OF PERCEPTION: |
by Wayan; 2017/2/5, an advisory dream fusing Aldous Huxley & My Little Pony. My new housemate Pinkie is a party animal, but she's really nice. She climbs a high ladder to help wash my Windows of Perception. Then our unicorn friend Rarity walks in. She warns me to pace this renovation project... CAUTION: PONIES |
PLAYMATES: by J.S., c.1893, a childhood dream |
When I was little, two boys with strange laughs invited me to play. Their house was crowded and underground. After I came back out, I realized their home was a grave and they were ghosts. They gave me a power... |
PLUMBER'S HELPER: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1981/12/8; a punning spiritual dream |
A stopped-up mystical toilet gets cleared by an unexpectedly colorful tool; but then, you never anticipate what'll unplug your, um, "head"... |
PLUTO: THE NEWEST PLANET: by Lena, 2022/3; a dream warning of coming change |
A disintegrating board game reminds me to take time to enjoy things beyond work and activism... CAUTION: NUDITY, TRANSGENDER, ASTROLOGY |
RAGS TO RICHES: A FIGHT FOR LOVE: by Hyal; October 2006, a dream of courage. |
I was just a street rat, but I danced with the princess at a ball, and fell in love. Three rich suitors pulled their blades... |
MY RAPPEL-MAD SISTER: by Wayan; 1984/7/14-15, twin dreams on being halfway. |
My sister hoists us up to the Goddess's country too early, or too late: the ice is thawing, treacherous... |
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 |
REGEANA’S DRAGON: by Regeana; 1996/3/9, a dream of generosity |
The jewels in the hoard had strange powers, but the advice of the dragon guarding them was even stranger... |
RELIEF CARAVAN: by Marilyn Stablein; 1968, a dream while visiting Nepal... for six years |
Famine. Our Tibetan monastery's prayers are answered. A caravan of yaks comes over the pass, bearing... |
SCARAB: by a patient of Carl Jung's; c.1925? a predictive/synchronistic dream |
As she told me her dream of receiving jewelry--a golden scarab-- I heard a tapping on the window behind me. I opened it. In flew... |
SEE-THROUGH BAGS: by Marilyn Stablein; 1968, a dream while visiting Nepal... for six years |
I give plastic sandwich bags to people in Tibet. They go wild for them. Shortage! An air shipment from Delhi breaks open; Tibetans with butterfly nets... |
SKUNK SEEKS THAILAND: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a dreamlet of shamanic kindness |
One night I meet a giant talking skunk and its pup, who asks how to walk to Thailand... |
SOLOMON'S CHOICE: by King Solomon, c. 970 BCE; a god's dream-bargain | As his reign begins, King Solomon worries he's inadequate. He dreams God offers him one gift, of his choice--but what would help the most? |
SOVEREIGN: by Anonymous #62, before 1921, an oracular psychic dream |
I was a missionary in South Africa, staying overnight in a remote village high in the Drakensberg. A man rode up; Six nights ago he was told in a dream to find me here in six days. He gave me a single gold coin, and left. Why?... CAUTION: FAILURE OF IMAGINATION? |
SPHINX'S WOOD: by Wayan; 1981/11/19, a dream of puns, riddles and advice |
After my dad lets me down I dream black may be white, and white, black--if you're a Sphinx... |
THE SWEET WALL: by Wayan; 2011/5/8, a charming but mysterious dream vignette |
A lonely little girl plays on a swing in her yard. A shy young faun or satyr who has a crush on her conjures up a strange gift: a translucent wall of candy... |
THE SWORD DANCE: by Wayan; 1988/4/29, a very unlikely predictive dream. |
I visit my friend Xanthe's lungs, where I meet a swordswoman in a red bikini. I get a unicorn pendant, go lucid, and become a heron too, but next day, it's the red-bikini-swordswoman I actually meet... |
TERRIBLE HORSE: by Louise Bogan; 1941, poem of a healing dream |
A stallion reared to strike me. He was all the fear and rage I’d repressed... A woman said “offer him... |
THREE DREAMS: by Al Davison and two friends, 1985, a shared nightmare |
I dreamed I checked my neighbor's flat for prowlers; I got shot and fell out a window. The same night my neighbor dreamt she asked me to check her flat, I got shot and fell out a window; the same night her best friend dreamt she came by and saw from street level the gunmen and my fall out the window... CAUTION: VIOLENT ATTACK FROM THREE VIEWPOINTS |
THREE WAYS TO FLY: by Wayan; 2010/11/10, a dream urging the World Dream Bank to shift |
I'm shown pictures of three different magical ways to fly. But the third shows no actual flight--just someone giving away the magical means... |
TIME WITH A NIGHTHEAD: by Barbara Gordon Paine; c.1960, a nightmare-poem on overconfidence |
A toy's delivered, unasked. A jumping jack. It tries to eat me! I defeat it but then peer in the box to be sure... |
TO SAVE HUMANITY: by Roz Chast, 2023 or before, a spit-swappin' dream |
Worldwide drought. I have a mutation making me produce lots of saliva, so to keep people alive, I drool into their open mouths. Gross, but it's take my drool or die... CAUTION: UGH |
TRANSFUSION by a New York woman; 1950s? 3 predictive dreams over a 5-year span |
I dreamt of the Du Pont lab where I'd work, and my neighbor's future coffin, and the hospital where my sister-in-law would get a transfusion... |
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 |
TUBA BEANS: by Wayan; 1996/3/24, a Star Trek dream. |
Changelings invade our orbital station, selling drugs, kidnapping teachers--but Constable Odo can handle that. What's weird are the beans pouring out of that kid's tuba... |
TWO GUITARS: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 2000; a multileveled psychic dream |
I dream my daughter's selling two unused guitars. They seemed symbolic until I told her the dream and... |
UMBRELLA: by "Anonymous #"17; pre-1963, a helpful cryptomnesic/predictive dream |
My wife dreamt where to find her lost umbrella; the next day she did. But the finder said word for word what she had in the dream... |
UNGIRDLE THE TREE: by Wayan; dreamed 2018/10/6, a shamanic warning dream |
I'm a girl living alone in a forest. I go patrolling after a storm and find a red cable strangling a tree. Though scared, I climb up and tear it off. But there are more... CAUTION: POLITICAL INTERPRETATION |
VERITY'S WINGS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/8/21; painting in the Box of Dreams |
My friend Verity's given a beautiful set of wings. I'm envious until I consider what angel wings imply... |
WEAVING MATS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/3/15; a predictive dream from the Box of Dreams |
In a camp, women wove mats. I was tempted to try. But it was months before I learned what they'd really been weaving.. |
WHISTLE: by Dr William Hammond, c.1865; a self-flagging predictive nightmare |
On a long steamboat voyag, 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? |
WHITE LOON: by White Loon, 1870s?, an initiation-negotiation dream |
At ten, I fasted a long tedious time. I dreamed a bird offered me showy gifts, but I kept to my grandmother's advice: never take the first offer. At last a big, strange bird from the north, a white loon, offered me long life and health; that I accepted! So now I'm called... |
WINDFALLS IN EDEN: by Wayan, 2000/3/30, a religio-politic dream. |
I'm a part-owner of Eden, harvesting windfalls. But a renter says his Landlord promised him all the apples... |
WORKIN' FOR PEANUTS: by Wayan; 1990/12/11, a crude but perceptive dream. |
I'm an elephant working in a diner. In the bathroom, I inadvertently summon the Genie of the Urinal... CAUTION: PISSED PACHYDERM |
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