Horses
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ABJECT OBJECT: by Wayan; 1992/5/11, a nondream digital picture-prose-poem It's OK to be a sex object as long as you're also a subject. What's no fun is being an abject... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL FEARS/SHYNESS |
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AL CAPP'S HORSES: by Wayan; 1988/4/12, a dream predicting an odd image, palette and painting style I dream cartoonist Al Capp switched late in life to painting horses in a weird expressive style; I wake, write the dream, rush to work to find a painting of horses in a weird expressive style CAUTION: CAUSTIC TO E.S.P. DENIERS |
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THE AMAZONS' OFFER: by Wayan; 2012/6/13, a mystical sexy dream poem. A horde of wild women camp in my yard and practice leaping through invisible spacetime portals. They invite me along... CAUTION: FEATHERED, PAINTED NUDITY |
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AMERICAN TANKA: by Wayan; dreamed 1989/7/26, painting-poem-story on 30" disk, 1995. I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night... |
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ANIMAL DREAMLETS: by Wayan; 1996/11/20, four dream vignettes A night of gorilla-guerillas, feminist backlash among wolves, and horse-ballerinas, first in chorus lines, then a sexy soloist... |
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ARCTIC UNICORN: by Wayan; 1989/8/2, a self-flagging predictive dream I'm in a gypsy wagon that always creeps north; to break the spell, I need an arctic unicorn. Four days later, at work at the library, a new book appears: Nancy Luenn's Arctic Unicorn... |
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ASLAN SWOOPS: by Wayan; 1985/1/19, a dream of the wrath of a right-wing god I'm in a cafe in Narnia when the lion-god Aslan attacks a giraffe for the mortal sin of dating a zebra. And why not? Oral Roberts University just banned interracial dating... CAUTION: CRINGEWORTHY CHRISTIANS |
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THE B SIDE OF THE PENIS: by Wayan; 1996/8/26, a sex dream about reprogramming. I erase my sexual tape, and start over. Am I male, female, gay, straight? Uh-oh! What SPECIES? CAUTION: MESSY SEXUAL BOOBOOS |
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BLACKGROUND: by Wayan; 2023/3/14-4/4, a booklet of improv paintings on dreamwork Inspired by Lynda Barry, I fill a black-paged book with 20 improv paintings. They grow into a tour of my dreamwork led my anima Silky, a nightmare... |
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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... |
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BONYTAUR PERSPECTIVE: by Wayan; 2023/6/8, an aesthetic-clash dream I look down on scrawny centaurs with cropped manes & tails: butch minimalism. Unsexy! Then I'm down among them. Now they have big eyes, luxuriant manes and tails: femme excess. I find this sexy... CAUTION: CENTAUR NUDITY |
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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? |
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CAKE HORSE: by Colleen D. McManus, art by Jesse Reklaw; pre-2000; a surreal warning dream? The cake horse resented my taking one slice out of him; but he let me. No second slice, though! He just laughed at me--through his bad teeth... |
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THE CENDANCERS: by Wayan; 2011-16, a 32-figure sculpture project with 250+ pics A wild troupe of sexy, surreal, centaurlike dancers mostly built from Barbie dolls... CAUTION: EXPLICIT NUDITY, FUR, BARBIE |
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CENTAUR BEACH: by Wayan; 1990. Two images from a set of recurring dreams. Me and my sisters at the beach. Strangers rarely think we're related, and you can see why... |
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CENTAUR QUARTET: by Wayan; 1982/2/26, 83/12/24 & 84/10/16, recurring dreams of my spirit family. Can our interspecies family survive? Our very instincts clash around solitude/boundaries, sex and incest CAUTION: SEX, INCEST, REPRESSION/DENIAL |
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CENTAURPEDE: by Wayan; a bizarre 1983/3/15 dream predicts a bizarre art job in 2002! Like a long molecule floating in darkness, this dream creature could loop and link to itself... CAUTION: EQUINE NUDITY, LANGUAGE |
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CHE FANNO GLI INGLESI?: by William Archer; 1917/7/30, a senseless dream. To help the King of Italy, I become a baker in Baluchistan-- learning Norwegian, levitating, meeting quaggas, riding landslides... |
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CHIDI AND PONY-MISTRESS: by Wayan, 2019/9/25, a mysterious dream Ethics professor Chidi from The Good Place, painted purple, tells me he's in love with the Mistress of the Herd, a mix of Circe, Dr. Moreau & My Little Pony, who radiates spells of love & beauty... CAUTION: WEIRD IMAGERY, CRYPTIC, NUDE PONIES |
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CHOCOLATE BALLS: by Wayan, 2022/5/10, a surreal furry dream on Covid bloat I find I'm a self-made... critter. A plushie sewn with zippers so I can stuff any bits of me that seem flat or limp. But my filling's not cotton, polyester or foam. It's chocolate! So I have... CAUTION: CRUDE DREAM, AWFUL PUN |
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CLAN TAUR: by Wayan; recurrent dream-family (best example: 1987/1/9); pencil studies 1998-2002. I keep dreaming I'm in a multispecies family full of centaurs and satyrs, having a reunion at the beach... CAUTION: NUDE BEACH, STRANGE RELATIVES |
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CLIFFMARE: by Wayan; 1988/10/8; a dream of lust vs freedom. I was a wild mare in heat, torn between longing for sex, touch, love...and the fear of being tamed. CAUTION: HORSE FRUSTRATION |
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COLT TABOOS: by Wayan; 1972/3/27, a puberty dream. A castle with horse statues in the moat. Only... one of them is alive! He's my lover... CAUTION: EVERY SEX TABOO YOU CAN THINK OF |
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COMPLIANCE: by Wayan; 1984/12/20 & 2021/1/9, twin dreams 36 years apart showing cryptomnesia 2021: I dream I'm confessing to friends how I'm over-compliant. I wake, and start transcribing my 1984 journal. Turn the page and find a dream of a horny stallion who's disturbingly over-compliant... CAUTION: KINKY STALLION |
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CONRAD'S CRASH: by Jessie Conrad, 1905?, a clairvoyant or telepathic nightmare Night. Rain. A hansom cab. The horse slips on the wet pavement, toppling the cab with my husband inside. I woke sure it happened. Next morning a postman tried to tell me of the crash, but I told him... |
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CONTRACT CLOAKS FOR COURIERS: by Wayan; 2019/5/30, a dream on enforcing contracts After a day of medical mess-ups, I dream whites routinely cheat super-fast Native American pony couriers, till the riders demand showy down payments called Contract Cloaks. Now cheats'll get publicly exposed... |
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A CONVERSATION WITH ANOREXIA: by Wayan; 1994/6/25; two wild shamanic dreams. That day I read Hilde Bruch's "Conversations with Anorexics" and face the fact I am one. That night, in the land where anorexic horses heal, I enter the Kiva of Shamanic Pamphlets, and... |
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COWBOY, HORSE, CAT: by Rick Veitch, Nov 1973, an initiatory dream A graduation parade has a papier-maché cowboy (hollow ego?), a giant rampaging stallion (unconscious), and a mama cat who calms him (anima)... |
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CRAZY HORSE'S DREAM: by Crazy Horse; summer 1854 (age 11-12) a life-predicting dream I saw a man riding across the face of a lake. Bullets and arrows flew at him, but all missed. He reached the shore. Men who looked like him rose from the ground, and pulled him down... CAUTION: GENOCIDE DIRECT, GENOCIDE BY PROXY |
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CREAM-COLOURED HORSES: by a friend of Carl Jung's; before 1951, a predictive dream He dreamed of a street with a cathedral, and round the corner, two cream horses pulling a fancy carriage. In Spain on vacation, he saw the street and the church. To test the dream, he turned the corner to see if... CAUTION: CALLS E.S.P. & SYNCHRONICITY TWO PROBLEMS NOT ONE? |
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CRITTERS OF THE MONTANA FRONT: by Wayan, 2022/5/31, a watercolor warning dream DAY: I admire Hannah Hinchman's watercolors of Montana and Vad Yakovlev's digital art of Equestria. DREAM: I meet & sketch a coyote girl, a whack-a-mole mare, and a leering herder of shadowsheep... |
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CYCLOTRON OF FLOWERS: by Wayan; 2015/9/13, a surreal dreamscene done as an imagist poem Night. Rider and mount gallop in a ring, leaving a luminous spiral wake of glowing flowers. Power builds, but when the spiral gate opens, where will it lead? |
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DALI CENTAUR: by Wayan; 1981/12/12; a surrealist nightmare. I dreamed I saw what looked like an ink sketch by Dali of a horse--but I was dead wrong... CAUTION: YUCK |
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DALMATIAN MARE: by Wayan; 1987/8/22; a dream on hiding and showing off. I dreamed of South American musical intrigue in a grand hotel. Enter a polka-dot shapeshifter... |
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DATE GHOST: by Wayan; 1983/11/26, nondream surreal painting of a shyness fit I tried to date a nice young butterfly but was stopped by a monster who was... my own wings? CAUTION: UNDERAGE BUG |
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DEER VERSUS PIGS: by Wayan; 2015/5/20; twin dreams; joking or serious? Deer-mares join our theatre class. Adorable! Then pig people. Not adorable. I wake & sketch them. Hear voices--sexy singing deer on TV! Wow, my dream was predictive! And then I wake AGAIN... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY |
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DE GAULLE: by Hélène Cixous, 1998/5/20; a dream perhaps hiding a political metaphor General De Gaulle gives me a ride in his armchair with the plexiglass roof. Alarming--since he drives backward at full speed... |
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DONNA'S FALLOUT: by Wayan, 1972/2/6, 2/26, 2/29 & 3/4: sonnets & watercolors of 4 sex dreams. When I was 17, an older girl pushed booze at me and came on to me... in front of my parents and teachers! For months, I had ambivalent sex dreams trying to process what Donna taught me--not all of it negative... CAUTION: WEIRD SEX; ADULTS BEHAVE BADLY |
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DREAMKU, JUNE 2006: by Roswila; various dates up to June 2006; thirty dream-haiku Daily dream-poems in haiku style, nonstop for a month. A flood of animals, revenant ghosts, sex changes... |
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DREAMKU, MARCH 2007: by Roswila; various dates up to March 2007; 31 dream-poems--mostly haiku Dream poems laid out like a calendar. Themes? Horses, camels, abused girls, vampires--all want their freedom... |
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EDGE: by Wayan; 1992?, digital painting of a nondream vision. A robed figure crowds a wild horse to a cliff-edge. One's my body, one's my soul. But which?... |
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EL ASNO!: by Wayan; 1995/1/20, a political dreamtale. In a field in the Central Valley, I face the Terror of California... CAUTION: FIENDISH LEFTIST PROPAGANDA |
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ENTER, NERO!: by Emperor Nero; c. 58 CE, a series of guilty surreal nightmares. After murdering his mother, Nero dreams he's losing control: ships drift, statues chase him, and his own tomb says... |
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EQUESTRIAN NUNAVUT: by Wayan, 2017/4/27, a dream of a utopia in an unlikely place After a hard day in the recording studio, I dream of our wiser successors, after we drown America: the sentient equines of Greenland and Nunavut... CAUTION: SKINNYDIPPING UNICORNS |
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ERECTION 2000: by Wayan, 2000/11/28; ceramic sculpture 9" tall; response to stolen 2000 election. A candidate glad to shake your hand... though not all you voters will want him to... CAUTION: ANOTHER PRICK RUNNING FOR OFFICE |
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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 |
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FAMILIARS: by Wayan; 1986/4/2, a dreamtale on the dark side of reading. In ancient Britain, as Christianity moves in, I'm a slave--sailing through centuries, but never free... |
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FANTASTIC RIDE: by Marie-Claude Girondé, spring 2007?, a dream painting. The dreamer overflows from her egg, spills out to become a waterfall, a stampede of horses... |
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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 |
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FLANDERS: by Rachael Dutton, c.1981; a dream painting whose dream is lost In the field, a huge dog whose markings form the image of a running horse. So who am I dreaming of? Horse or hound? |
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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... |
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THE FLYING HORSES OF MIEN MO: by Jack Kerouac, Nov/Dec? 1957, a persistent numinous image I'm in Mexico. The mountain of the gods looms over Coyacan. Around it, silhouetted on the rising moon, wheel terrifying griffinlike winged horses wearing capes... |
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FOX AND THE EYE OF GOD: by Wayan; 1984/8/14, a predictive mythic dream DREAM: I hike up my Career Path into the hills. On a snowfield, a bird and a fox create the eye of God, who banishes all evil! NEXT DAY: I read a novel full of images out of the dream... |
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FRIEND-RING: by Wayan; 2017/1/6, a dream of divine intervention--My Little Pony style I'm a horse chosen by the gods to join a Friend-Ring--a group mind. That's great for the street crazies I get to help heal. Not so great for me, injected with madness... CAUTION: CRITIQUES THE CULT OF FRIENDSHIP |
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FROM THE BOOK OF TIME: by Mary Oliver; c.1998, a poem of a transformation-dream The white horse, Earth, ambles on between the stars, and then unfolds into a swan... |
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FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH: by Roswila, August 2002; a dream-poem illustrating dream reentry My horse and I dove into a lagoon and sought buried treasure on the sea-floor. What are we really after? |
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THE GHOST IN MIRIEL'S BUG: by Miriel & Wayan; 1985/10/1, an apparently shared dream WAYAN: I dream a transparent ghost steals my sister Miriel's white VW bug... MIRIEL: I dream about a ghost and my old white VW bug that was stolen... CAUTION: E.S.P. CLAIM |
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GOD DRESSED YE, MARE: by Wayan; Christmas carol misheard 1968/12/25, dreamt I sang 1984/9/16, & drew 2008/6/28. At 15 I misheard God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen and liked my version better. "Lit muffin, rude Esmé"... |
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GOLD EATER: by Wayan; 1993/1/15 dream drawn as 9-page comic. I'm an orphan shapeshifter enslaved by a gold-eating monster. But I meet a cat-girl with a hammer... CAUTION: BAD FOSTER-DAD; CAPITALIST MONSTER; VIOLENCE (TO VENDING MACHINES) |
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GOLDIE AND GRIMOIRE: by Wayan, 1987/3/2, a dream foreseeing My Little Pony? I get a crush on two mare-girls--sunny palomino Goldie is cute, but it's dark-silver, lunar Grimoire that really stuns me... CAUTION: EQUINE NUDITY, ESP REFERENCES |
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GRAVESTONE: by "Miss S."; late 1930s-1946, a recurring clairvoyant/predictive nightmare I'm walking up a churchyard path. My hair clings to me, damp. Horses wander. I'm drawn to one graveside... |
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THE GRIFFINS' LESSON: by Wayan, 2018/6/1, a pair of predictive dreamlets I live through two teens' nightmares, then "wake" with them to find they were drugged by a third party! Why? Then I'm with a cheery wagon-crew of flirting griffins & talking horses, pulling a cart made of grammar or logic. Six days later... detailed images from both dreams appear on TV! CAUTION: CREEPY, THEN SAPPY, THEN FREAKY |
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GRIMOIRE AND PACT: by Wayan, 2013/8/4, twin dreams of infestations of... health? illness? sex? magic? Two sisters want to lick me all over, but they lick everything; weird gut-fauna make them immune to toxins... Fairy eggs infest my home--become worms, then tiny horses, then mothwinged hobbits, then adult fairies.... CAUTION: NUDE EQUINES & FAE; PARASITES (OR SYMBIOTES?) |
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GUDEA'S TEMPLE: by Gudea of Lagash; c.2125 BCE: one of the first false-waking or nested dreams A winged god whose body's a wave urged me to do... what? I couldn't understand him! I woke... A scribe with a shining stylus listed stars; an architect gave me plans and a brick-mold. I woke again! My dream had clarified itself. So I built the temple shown me, aligned with those stars... |
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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 |
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HER CUTIE MARK: by Wayan, 2016/8/7, a dream fusing Shakespeare & My Little Pony After seeing The Tempest with a tattooed Miranda, I dream she has a Cutie Mark on her flank-- a logo showing her life-purpose, her life-path. Except she's outgrowing it... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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HER HORSE: by Wayan; 1985/5/14, a dream fable about bodies. A farm girl seems to be sexually exploiting her dog and horse, but their auras tell another tale... CAUTION: SEX SYMBOLISM |
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A HISTORY OF ENERGY: by Wayan; 2021/2/19, a dream warning we're all shortsighted I dream of a parade or train of energy sources--human muscle, horsepower, coal, oil, gas, solar... But the train's ultimate engine is in our future, and is impossible--a dragon riding a broomstick... |
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HORSE-DOG: by Wayan, 1982/2/1, a rambling, scattered but predictive dream I cross the Mushroom Desert, meet a blue-tailed squirrel & a horse-size dog, then zombie-vampire suburbanites. NEXT DAY: an artist sends me a flyer with a new dream painting--a huge dog whose fur-patterns depict a horse... CAUTION: SYNCHRONICITY |
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HORSE IN A TAILWIND: by Wayan; 1982; study of a dream character It looks like a study of negative shapes, but if you happen to be a part-time horse, like me... |
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HORSE THIEVES: by Plenty Coups, early 1870s?; a practical psychic or subliminal dream Thieves stole 100 of our horses. The tracks suggested white men, but that night my dream Helpers declared them Sioux. We tracked them across Montana... |
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THE HORSE VOTERS: by Wayan; 1995/4/30, a time-travel dream on... race? I'm back in the 19th century, learning that horse breeders cross-bred more than the public thinks. One suggests I look hard in the mirror... CAUTION: UNSEEMLY SENATORIAL DISCOURSE |
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HORSEFALL... AND WORSE: by Wayan; 1997/5/15, a political nightmare. Corruption in my town causes a bizarre death. But is that all? I smell smoke--will the city burn? |
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HORSELIKE BUT NOT: by Wayan; portrait of dream figure, 1997, acrylic, 14 x 17" My anima Silky finds it hard to go back to classic hooves, now that she's tried opposable thumbs... |
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HORSES OF THE AQUARIUS: by Wayan, recurring dream 1956-8, poem '72/6/24, art 82/12/11 My earliest memory's a recurring dream: I'm a wild horse near Shiprock, recurrently dreaming that I'm a human child! The two lives alternated for years, each a dream to the other... |
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HOT TO TROT or BRAIN TRAUMA or HUMPIN' THE HOG or SAD-EYED SWAN OF LOVE: by Wayan; 1993/8/4, a bizarre, epic dream on finding your way I'm a mare hot to trot (and get laid) in the Big City, but my gay Star Trek friend's brain trauma makes her a clueless alien with a bo(a)ring sexlife--until a sad swan enfolds her in love... CAUTION: ALIEN POSSESSION, CARTOON PIG SEX, SMOKING SWANS |
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I AM THREE: by Wayan; 1956-58, my three earliest dreams. My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child... |
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IN THE COURSE OF WORK: by Marie-Claude Girondé, spring 2007?, a dream sculpture Is that a madwoman riding a horse, or a cougar pouncing on a deer, or are these dream-creatures wildly making love? |
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IN THE FOG: by Wayan; 1989/4/5, nondream (I swear!) digital landscape. This place isn't out of my dreams, it just looks like it. It's real real real... |
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INDIANS OCCUPY DANCE CLUB: by Wayan; 2012/8/31; a dream of biased art I try to correct An ink sketch in a magazine shows a new Ghost Dance invading city clubs. But the (biased?) artist uglifies the Indians, horses and giraffes dancing... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY; JAUNDICED ART/REPORTING |
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INVOKE THE ANIMAL POWERS (or was it PROVOKE?): by Wayan; 2008/9/9, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #24 A children's recital of "Where the Wild Things Are" turns into a riot-orgy. And it feels... political? CAUTION: WILD THING ORGY |
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JOYOUS RIDE: by Janis Amatuzio, c. 1953; an ecstatic childhood dream of flight with a guardian angel I was about three. A big, luminous figure said he would be my guardian always. We went horseback riding in the sky... |
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KICK AUTHORITY: by Wayan; 1989/10/25. Early digital painting of a dream figure. Question authority? Nah. They always have such excuses! Kick authority entirely! Just say no. |
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THE LABORATORY UNDERGROUND: by Anna Kingsford; 1880/2/2; an animal-rights nightmare. I find myself in a vault with tables where half-dissected animals writhe. Hidden in each was a human shape... CAUTION: GRUESOME |
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THE LADY LOVES THE HORSE by Wayan, 1990/9/28; a dream mocking fake humility Richard Russo writes that Westerners cannot dream like tribal people. So I dream Russo's the Cubist Dictator of Dreams! I prefer the part-equine Lady Demicorn, and the Fat Meditating Dog, and the Birdiesattva... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
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LET ME DREAM!: by Marie-Claude Girondé, spring 2007?, a dream painting. The dreamer becomes a horse, the horse becomes a unicorn. Dreams have their own quests apart from the conscious... |
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LIBERTÉ: by Marie-Claude Girondé, c. 2005?, a dream painting. "Freedom is a gift you give yourself." But it doesn't always involve seahorses or babycarriages covered in quills... |
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THE LION LIES DOWN WITH THE MARE by Wayan, 1986/6/7; a surreal predictive dream THAT DAY: a play in the park about human-car hybrids. Jaguar girl, Mustang boy! Surreal. THAT NIGHT: Lions & jaguars hunt a mustang, but she flirts instead of fights, and soon... CAUTION: INTERSPECIES SEX |
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LITTLE NEMO'S BED: by Winsor McCay; c. 1906, a famous if probably fictional dream icon Little Nemo's bed gets restless and takes him for a wild ride through town and up onto roofs... |
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THE LONGING TO BE SAVED: by Maxine Kumin; 1980? a poem based on recurring nightmares I save our horses from a fire, but they run back in. Then it's my family I must save from themselves. At last, it's my turn... |
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LUCID LIVING: by Wayan; 2007/4/8, a quasi-lucid dream of the future with 9 illustrations Honesty induces a joyful state with lucidlike powers. So I bike across the Lake of Time, open the book of my future, and see... CAUTION: SEXY SKETCHES FROM THE FUTURE |
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A MATE FOR THE BLACK STALLION: by Roswila; 2009/3/15, a dream-poem A mare's brought in to save a rare bloodline. She's young but as extraordinary as her mate: part filly, part feline... |
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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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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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MIKA'S DREAM HORSE: by Mika, August 1977, dream painting At a dream workshop for kids in San Francisco, Mika painted this dream-character... |
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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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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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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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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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A NEVADAN ASS: by Wayan, 2007/5/17, a dream-poem on sabotage in art AND love DREAM: on a Nevada ranch, I'm a were-horse into mares--when I'm human. And when I'm a stallion? Why, cowgirls! Always date the wrong species--just to be sure of rejection. NEXT DAY: I let a class of commercial artists critique my dream-comix. Just to be sure of rejection... CAUTION: FURRYPHILIA, SELF-SABOTAGE |
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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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NIGHTMARE TRANSUBSTANTIATION: by Wayan; 2015/2/10; a gross-out but predictive nightmare I'm in a basement, forced to enact a ritual where I must mate with, then FEED on, a flayed creature... I wake shaken, open a random book--and it describes the ancient Celtic rites of Epona... CAUTION: BESTIALITY, MATE-DEVOURING |
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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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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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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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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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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 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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OVERLAY: by Wayan; 1984/2/11, 1995/8/26, and 2004/9/11, 3 dreams shape a 9-page comic on living with ESP Dreams of translucent fairies, centaurs, robots & gnomes prompt me to cartoon on transparent overlays to show how dreamworlds overlay ours... |
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PASS, MARE: by Wayan; 1982/3/13, a sex dream about letting your animal side lead A deer-girl turns into a talking mare. We make love. Then, relaxed, she leads me over a pass from suburban isolation into a wider social world... CAUTION: TALKING HORSE SEX |
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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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PEGASUS LANDS: by Roswila; early 1990s? A collaborative haiga [picture-poem] of a dream Haiku by Roswila of a dream of meeting a winged horse, illustrated by her late friend Janet... |
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PESCADERO MONET: by Wayan; 1983/11/4, a happy art-cult dream. Monet is over 100 now, living in an art colony. I visit him, but my parents come along. Bad idea... |
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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 |
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PIXY CONCUSSION: by Wayan; 2006/3/11, a diagnostic sex-dream comic, 9 p. (or illus. text) Janet's obsessed with a creepy guy till her pixy friend Kay decides to "knock some sense into her cunt"--literally... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, NASTY LOVE SPELL, PIXIE NUDITY |
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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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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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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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QUADRUPLE WEDDING: by Wayan; 1995/5/15, a unifying dream. Day: Why did I get sick from figure-sketching? Guilt? Dream: I'm at a group wedding; shall I wed a dwarf, a feral boy or a horse? |
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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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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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RUNAWAY HORSE: by J.W. Dunne, spring 1904; a mixed predictive dream NIGHTMARE: a huge horse goes wild, leaps a fence and chases me. NEXT DAY: a horse does just that--yet every detail's different... |
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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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SHARPSHOT: by Wayan; 1977/4/3, a surreal poem of a warning nightmare When I was being battered, I dreamed where it would end if I didn't leave: dead wife, shot husband... CAUTION: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE |
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SIGNORINETTA: by Alfred Douglas; late May 1908, a predictive (and profitable) dream. I dreamt a grey filly won the Derby. My friend, a fan, said no fillies were racing this year; but he forgot one named... |
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SILKY AT THE MIKE: by Wayan; 1983/12/23, sketch of recurring dream Ours is a mixed-race family, and my sister takes after the horse side. No hands, but can she sing!... |
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SILKY SINGS WITH WEREWOLF BOY: by Wayan; 1996/7/10; dream figures on bedspread, 5'x7' My anima the singing horse was encouraging a shy werewolf boy to give it a try... CAUTION: UNCLAD HORSE CHANTEUSE |
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SILKY'S INVERSION: by Wayan; dreamed 2014/4/24, a surrealist dream My anima, a black mare, is upside down, hanging on the ceiling! Rears downward. And she's changed sex! Not a mare today, a stallion! A gay, humanophilic stallion... CAUTION: VERY QUEER FLIRTATION |
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SILKY'S MASSAGE: by Wayan; 1981/2/2, a dream on workaholism, with 2/16 follow-up I tried to cartoon a joyful dream but nightmares kept intruding. Finally, aching, I half-slept... My spirit guide Silky came, and said the obvious, and stretched my sore neck and back... CAUTION: NUDE ANIMAL DANCE TROUPE |
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SILKY'S REVOLUTION: by Wayan; 1995/9/4, a historical dream. I'm in an alternate-history American Revolution with Silky the talking black mare. We sail for Europe as diplomats... |
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SILKY'S SONNET: by Wayan; 1983/6/15, a love-poem to a nightmare. A love poem to the black mare I keep meeting in my dreams, who finally married me... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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SILKY'S WOODCUTS: by Wayan, 2006/12/15, an art-prompt dream with spiritual overtones I dreamed I'd made a set of woodblock prints showing a scene from varied times & angles: my anima Silky, part girl part mare, contemplates another set of prints--famous Zen ones... |
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SISTERS OF THE INTERFACE: by Wayan; 1983/12/21, a shamanic dreamtale. My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet... |
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SLEIPNIR: by Wayan; 1987/3/31, a dumb physics dream. I'm at a physics conference. A new force has been discovered that may just allow travel faster than light. Strange, how'd the Vikings know?... |
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SLITHY: by Xanthe; 1989-90, a recurrent dream image An amber stream recurring in my dreams led me to meet a huge, strange being, Slithy... |
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SNOW STALLION: by Wayan; 1994/6/4, a tangled political/spiritual dream. I'm a peace terrorist trapped in Squaw Valley, herded like a mare by a huge stallion made of snow... And then the dream shifts. I blurt out the truth behind our idiotic waking world! And wake believing it... CAUTION: MERMAID AND HORSE NUDITY |
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SO ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION: by Wayan; 1990? Lost digital picture-poem restored. I had a horrible realization that computers are useless, and I tried to make it beautiful... |
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SOUL-BOARD: by Wayan; 1989/1/12, a dream poem. Africa. My horse trusted me as we faced lions and fire, but to face the Soul-Board, he must trust himself... |
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SPIROGRAPHY: by Wayan; 1997/9/29, a one-page cartooned spiral autobiography Laying my timeline in a Fibonacci spiral, it's clear great changes come in a pattern-- as soon as I've digested the last couple, a new revelation/revolution appears... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, HEAVY ISSUES |
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SPORE FOREST: by Wayan; 1998. Watercolor, digital tweaking. Daydream image.. No dream, no plot. I saw myself as a horse grazing in a forest of giant mosses, lifting spore-packets... |
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STALLION, NOT MARE: by Wayan; 2018/2/12, a road-rage weirdo provokes an even weirder dream DAY: a stranger screams "BITCH! Plant a TREE!" Thinks I'm female and wants to fight over an old bumper sticker? DREAM: I'm a horse detective. In shades, lipstick, & high heels I try to pass as a mare. Absurd! A stallion in drag... CAUTION: HORSE NUDITY. OH WAIT, THAT'S NORMAL. |
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STRUCK BY THOUGHT: by Wayan; dreamed 1956-7, 71/11/26, 78/12/28, 82/10/5, & 83/9/12 A picture-poem experiment: one dream per stanza! Five short dreams exploring the weight of culture on our animal selves... |
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SUMMONING SHADOW: by Jo Equinity; 2006. Three meditative paintings apparently cause a miracle. I had to sell my horse Shadow, but I missed him so much I painted him. As I finished, a strange impulse led me... |
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TANYA'S DREAMS: by Tanya, as told by Gayle Delaney, Jan 1971-June '72; a set of 6 breakup dreams My friend Tanya tries hard to save her marriage, but in her dreams Isidora Duncan, Carl Jung, even the gods themselves warn her to face their deep incompatibility... |
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TAROT: THE COP (Knight of Swords): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. The card of force sparingly needed. The Knight says, "Sometimes ya gotta bust a few heads..." |
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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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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... |
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THREE HORSE MARSH: by Wayan; 1983/9/27. Acrylic triptych, each panel 18 x 24", group ca. 2x5' Dream-inspired landscape with herons and wild horses in a vaguely Japanese style... |
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TRIGO: by Edith L. Willis; 1929/6/4, an induced automatic-writing prediction (profitable, too) In an idle moment I held a pencil and asked the air who'd win the Derby. 'Trigo' meant nothing to me, but was listed at 32 to 1, so... |
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TROUT BECK by Nancy Price; summer 1933, an aerial comic dream-epic I'm carried off by a crane to meet birdfish, singing sheep, fell-spirits, mad shopkeepers and devil-bulls... |
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UNSWEPT HOUSE: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/4/1, a flying-searching-unreadiness spiritual dream Swedenborg flies on horseback through a house seeking someone. One room's clean, lit, full of people, but most are empty and dirty. Longing to meet God is not enough! He's only cleaned up one aspect of his life... |
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WATER, HORSE, TWO SUNS: by Dong Feng, 370s CE, a lifesaving dream A murder case. But the suspect had gone to an interpreter and told of an ominous dream. The investigator saw its strange images might be puns, naming the real killer--and they did... |
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A WHITE-FACED MARE, 29 YEARS LATER: by an Iowa grandma; 1918, a predictive dream My grandmother dreamt a white-faced black mare trampled me in our orchard. We had no such mare. But 29 years later, I boarded a man's two mares... |
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WHITE HORSES, FIVE TALENTS: by Regina van der Poel; 1999/10/29, a dream equinifying talents I meet a man in a box. A mob wants to attack him. But five white horses defend him! Well, one's really a unicorn. I know each horse is a talent, but only recall one when I wake: clairvoyance... |
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THE WHITE MARE OF TRANSFORM RANCH: by Wayan; 1982/2/18, a dream of my anima I visit a dude ranch where you learn to turn into other species--see how others live. A white mare I barely recognize says Hello... |
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THE WILD HUNT: by Wayan; 1998/7/24, a dream of myth--or abuse?. We're exploring the English farm we inherited, when The Wild Hunt storms over the hill... |
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WING IT: by Wayan, 1995/12/29-1996/2/14, a 9-page improv comic. An art experiment--the only rule is DRAW without preconceptions-- no models, no ideas, no plans, not even dreams. Drawing from the void! |
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WITCHMARE SEDUCES TWILIGHT: by Wayan; 2021/3/12 & 13, a dream with a confirming follow-up DREAM: Witchmare the sorceress patiently wins over Twilight, a unicorn who thought she was straight. NEXT NIGHT: at a queer picnic, I find I know my orientation--witches! But I'm less sure what sex I am... CAUTION: LESBIANS, UNICORNS, FANART, COMPLEXITY |
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THE WIZARD'S HORSE: by Wayan; 2018/9/3, a magical dream about... toxic waste? I'm a wizard's horse, trying to warn him about a toxic spell on a roadside corpse... Wake into a second dream, but try to return to being a dream-mare and warn my rider... And then wake to realize my Nightmare was warning about a home-renovation project! |
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"YOU'RE SO GAY!": by Wayan; 2013/1/24. A psychic dream of a time-short oracle.
I'm in line to meet a shockingly accurate psychic. But she's running late, so as I frame my question... CAUTION: I'M NOT GAY BUT I SURE AM QUEER |
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YOUR DREAM LIKES YOU: by Wayan; 3 ill., 1991-2007; three maxims from my anima. You say you want to remember your dreams, but do you write down what you DO recall? And ACT on it? |
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YOUR TURN: by Julian Green; 1933/10/18, a surreal but fair-minded dream. I was nineteen again, riding my horse down a bad road in Virginia. After three hours, my horse spoke up... |
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ZEBRA RUN AND FLOW: by Alan Underwood, 2012/6/12, a scenic dreamlet Zebra emerge from the lake. They glide as if swimming, and the air has an odd shimmer; did they bring the depths along? They seem to be having great fun ducking branches and vaulting brambles. Such agility and grace! |
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