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	ALICE'S POEM: by Lewis Carroll; 1872, a poem on dreams Are dreams really so ephemeral? Lewis Carroll, who built the Alice books from dream-fragments, wasn't so sure...
	AMPLIFIER: by Alder; 1999/11/13, a dream on self-underestimation I was always the weakest magic-worker I knew. But when demons threatened my grandchild...
	ANARCHIST FAIR: by Wayan; 2005/4/5, a drastic dream-song, with chords At an anarchist fair in San Francisco, a 13-year-old punkette genius sings some shocking advice to me...
	AQUARINA PRODIGY: by Wayan; 2009/10/15, a dream poem with sketches; Dreamverse #60 A child prodigy stands out in a chorus line of waterdancers. Her body and energy are a patchwork of young and old...
	THE ARTIST'S WAY: by Wayan; 1994/6/10, a visual-pun dream. I'm a parade route. A group of child artists walks all over me. But their soles are bare, so I don't mind...
	ATLANTIS: 5. COASTAL; c. 1993 by Mark Doty; elegiac poem, one of six, three dream-based A plumber's daughter brings home a sick marsh bird and tries to save it...
	THE AXE OF DEATH: by Catherine McDiarmid Paton; c. 1830, a grisly predictive nightmare. She dreamt Death attacked her but her youngest daughters bravely fought back--and died. Three months later... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	BABY HITLER'S DOG; 2012/2/7 by Wayan; a grotesque time-travel dream (of health advice?) An old actor tells me "I met Hitler when we were both babies. I knew what was coming and I wanted to kill him, but...
	BABY, I'LL BLOW YOUR MIND: by Wayan; 1995/3/21, a surreal nightmare Allied submarines attack the giant Nazi toddler who's hunting us with sonar, occupying my playroom... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND GUILT
	THE BAR PET: by Wayan; 1994/12/4, a disorienting dreamlet. I meet a sex-kitten in the Underground Cartoonists' Bar, but her body language makes no sense to me... CAUTION: UNDERAGE FLIRTATION... OR IS IT?
	BEETLE: by Daniel Quinn; spring 1941; a life-defining shamanic dream A black beetle points out I'm not needed or at home in the human world, and insists my lifework is elsewhere...
	BILLIE: by Billie's Mom; 1945/1/20, a psychic warning dream My son Billie, his Navy uniform soaking wet, cried "Oh, Mom--it's so terrible!" and shrank into a baby again as I held him... CAUTION: EXPLOSION
	THE BIRD MARATHON: by Wayan; 120K, 1982/7/10, a half-nightmare, 3 illus. A bizarre marathon, and the Princess is the prize. But she doesn't WANT to be, so she sets out... CAUTION: BLOODY BIRD
	BLACK PUPPETEER: by Anonymous #2; 1930s, an eerie dreamlet. My friend F. was with a child in a garden, but every move the child made was controlled by a weird figure behind her...
	BODY-SWITCH: by Wayan; 2000/6/10; a dream of a castaway soul Spies kidnap a girl and move her soul into a madwoman’s body. Can she survive? Recover? Even thrive?
	BOOK OF GOLD: by a four-year-old; before 1961, an apparent telepathic flash A woman urged her friend to give her daughter a musical education. Without hearing this, the child went hunting for...
	BORN IN A CAVE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2007/4/20 to 2007/8/9, a painted series of rite-of-passage dreams. I keep dreaming of awkward but successful transitions into new life, and paint them all in one landscape...
	BOY IN THE GATEWAY: by "Anonymous #18"; before 1963, a small warning dream I was at school, walking through the gate to the playing fields, discussing our next match, when a boy crashed into me...
	BOY SCOUTS: by a Maryland woman; before 1961, a predictive warning dream I dreamed my son, just a toddler, followed two small Boy Scouts down to the creek, where he drowned. That morning, on my curb, two...
	BOYS WHO RUN WITH THE SCISSORS: by Wayan; 1986/1/26, a shamanic dream-joke. Women who run with the wolves? Ha! In Mongolia, the only ones who can beat lightning-demons are...
	BRIGHT NICHES IN THE CASTLE WALL: by Jenny Badger Sultan; summer 2003. A painting of a series of dreams. Dreams warning of mania and paralyzing shame alternate with calm dreams of life and growth...
	BUFFALO PERSON: by Plenty Coups, summer 1857; a child's time-traveling, tribe-saving dream I was led into the future, where all the buffalo disappeared, to meet a frail old man by a ranch house...
	BURN: by Sierra Loucks; 1990?, a five-year-old’s nightmare I was at the beach with my friends. It was fun. But gradually they were laughing at me, not with me. Then they picked up burning sticks... CAUTION: GRUESOME
	BURN HIS TREE: by Emily Joy; 30 K, 2007/2/7; two linked nightmares on art Malevolent artwork terrorizes my baby and me! What's to be done?...
	CATRISE: by Wayan; 2000/2/21, a sexy flying dream; acrylic painting. I'm an alien exchange student in Palo Alto High School. I get stared at--they wear clothes, they don't fly... CAUTION: FELINE NUDITY
	CHANGING IDENTITIES: by Mary Arnold-Forster; 1910-14? a dream of alternating selves. I was the new girl among richer students, then my adult self among snobs, then a schoolgirl again--always craving freedom...
	CHAPERONE AND REBEL: by Wayan; 1998/5/18, a flirtatious dreamtale. A girl with a magic swimsuit flashes me, as her Iranian fundamentalist aunt glares from beyond the veil... CAUTION: NUDITY? OR ILLUSION?
	CHOREOGRAPHY: by Wayan; 2006/9/7, a nightmare of murder in plain sight. At a beach, a mob of kids stage an intricate practical joke full of coordinated “accidents.” How many of the jokers knew the end was death? CAUTION: MALICE
	CLASS HAMSTER: by Wayan; 2008/11/13, an educational nightmare I tour a middle school paralyzed by delinquents, and learn this is normal now...
	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
	A CRAIGSLIST BARGAIN: by Wayan; 2006/10/1. A dream of another life; possible ESP. I’m an Asian kid in Pacifica, California. My parents annoy me, so I offer them for sale on Craigslist. A cop appears...
	CUBIST CHARLIE BROWN: by Wayan; 1977/4/1, a cubist nightmare. We're Cubist cartoon characters, trapped in a strip gone mad. But my dad stays calm! Too calm... CAUTION: SEAS OF BLOOD... OR IS IT RED INK?
	DEAD, NOT STUPID: by Wayan; 2000/1/20, a (psychic?)dreamtale. My little sisters tell the detectives, "Daddy's ghost has a message for you" but they don't listen...
	THE DESTRUCTION OF HAWAI'I; 2004/9/2 by Anonymous #37; a short apocalyptic nightmare I was a small boy living on Oahu. Out my front door I saw a 20-mile-tall wall of flames stretching across the horizon...
	A DIFFICULT PATH: by Anna Kingsford; 1877/11/3, an advisory dream. I lead my daughter up a thorny path, but she’s getting badly scratched. Shall I leave her in that fishing village? She wants to...
	DINAH’S ADVICE: by Wayan; 2007/1/14, a false-waking advisory frustration dream I struggle to write down a bizarre dream clearly and simply, but both pens and paper have mutated. Then a child prodigy explains “dreams don’t always want to be linear”...
	DIPHTHERIA SPECK: by an Outback man; before 1961, a diagnostic dream with a tight deadline I dreamed our physician said our son had diphtheria. When I woke, we found a tiny white spot in his throat. But by the time the doctor arrived...
	DIRECT ACTION SAVES THE SHIP: by Alder; 2006/11/5; a dream-fable with instant replay. A bomb's planted on our ship! But when a teen finds it, rather than fetch a responsible adult...
	DOUBLE DREAM: by "Anonymous #23 & 24"; before 1963, two clearly linked false-predictive dreams--but who influenced who? Mother and daughter both dream Mum runs over a little girl. Next morning she spots the girl in the road and misses her. But bystanders seem not to see the child...
	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...
	DREAMKU, SEPTEMBER 2006: by Roswila; thirty dream-haiku with various dates from 1960-2006 One dream-poem in haiku style each day for a month! Ghosts, snow, penguins, yoga babies, elves who leave their tree...
	DREAM LOVERS: by Wayan; 1995/9/11, a dream on shame. This dream's not about a man whose dream lovers keep materializing till the bed overflows. This dream's about who those lovers are, and what the neighbors will think... CAUTION: SEX
	DREAM-TAN: by Madellyne Waugh; late April 2010, a digital, institutional avatar I've been drawing a personification of the World Dream Bank. Nerdy, but most of your readers are nerds...
	ELEVEN CENT ORACLE: by Wayan; 1998/11/12, an epic future dream. I'm a migratory girl who's lost my tribe. I find eleven coins, cross the world, and pay the Oracle...
	EMPTY-EYED CREATURES: by Wayan; 1996/12/9, an animal Zen dream. I lose myself, but I get some startling advice from a convent-school kid with empty eyes...
	FALSE ALARM: by Wayan; 1996/5/23, a nightmare I lived as a kid. In school, I'm seen as a freak--lied to, set up for little pranks. Not by my classmates--my teachers...
	A FEEL-BAD MOVIE: by Wayan; 2009/1/8, a dream about why dreamwork's so hard A great director alternates hits and bombs, because in half his films he sets out to trouble his viewers. Here's one...
	FLEEING KAMPUCHEA: by Laura Lawrence; early 1990s?; recurring nightmares to heal a future patient My Cambodian village was burned, my family murdered. At 12, I was the oldest survivor; I led a band of kids toward the border...
	FLOCK WISDOM: by Alder; 1958, a magic comic frustration dream My eighth grade class is a flock of birds migrating south for the winter, but we don’t migrate the easy way...
	FLUID DREAM CONNECTIONS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2003/11/8 and 2007/3/14; linked dreams of pods A pod of whales in the sky and a circle of children dressed like seed-pods both beg me to interpret them...
	FOUR-ARMED SINGER: by Wayan; 1996/5/16; a dream of baring your soul . In our mutant future, a lovely horse-tailed four-armed girl sings her heart out--as clubgoers ignore her... CAUTION: NUDE CABARET
	FOX-BOY: by Wayan; 1997/2/28, a dream fable. A boy offends his uncle the King, who transforms him into a fox. Grounded! But Fox-Boy runs away...
	FOX-MOTHER: by Wayan; 2008/8/12, a dream poem; Dreamverse #2. The goddess of the Cult of Clutter catches a little thief, and tastes her to see if she’s worthy...
	FRANKLIN'S NECK: by a dying Kansas grandmother; 1953/7/5, an unheeded warning nightmare "Oh no" she moaned. "I don't want Frankie to go to that camp. He must not go there." She began to cry...
	GHOST GATOR: by Wayan; 1984/10/9, a lip-reading dream. A child from another universe materializes--part way. Too bad we called in that expert from Stanford...
	GOLD EATER: by Wayan; 560K, 9-page comic of a 1993/1/15 dream. 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 INNOCENT VENDING MACHINES
	GOLD VERSUS DIAMONDS: by Wayan; 1972/1/20, a dream fable. We're children seeking gold in a fairy wood. We dig where the elf-kids played, but their parents show up...
	GROUND ZERO: by Al Davison; 2001/9/9, a predictive dream-comic. Two days before 9/11, I dream I'm a child at ground zero, mourning the devastation--and witnessing rebirth.
	HIT OR MISS: by "Anonymous #20"; before 1963, a successful warning dream I dreamed I hit and killed a small boy in the road. Three weeks later in Manchester I swerved and just missed the same boy ..
	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
	HIJACK! The Christmas Special: by Wayan; 2012/4/13, a trapped-in-bad-TV dream. I'm stuck on a jet full of cartoons. We get hijacked by a kid who just wants pilot practice, and then a cactus counterhijacks us... CAUTION: THE F-WORD
	HOT, BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED: by Wayan; 1981/5/8, a dreamtale. In a club, a new genderbending band. One singer gets me hot, but completely confused--for good reason... CAUTION: SEXUAL SITUATIONS, GENDERBENDING
	HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT: by Wayan; 1994/4/3, a dark dream. As my grandmother is dying, I have a dream about what really went on in her house... CAUTION: CHILD SLAVERY
	HYPNOGOGIC ASSAULT: by Dr Simon Forman; 1559-63, recurring hypnogogic images. From age six on, Simon nightly climbs mountains and faces roaring floods in a sort of naptime bootcamp...
	I AM THREE: by Wayan; 1957-58, my three earliest dreams. My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child...
	IN THE ENEMY MINE: by Wayan; 1986/1/11, a psychic dream. On Mars, a child-sacrificing cult of miners wants to kill me, but something strange happens....
	INVOKE THE ANIMAL POWERS (or was it PROVOKE?): by Wayan; 2008/9/9, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #24 A children's performance of "Where the Wild Things Are" turns into a riot-orgy. Why do I think it's all about politics? CAUTION: WILD THING ORGY
	IRISES: by Frederic Mistral; 1834, a four-year-old's ecstatic dream That day Frederic, craving irises, fell in the water three times. At night he swam through a warm-water iris paradise...
	A JOB WELL DONE: by Wayan; 1981/3/2; a dream-farce. The tale of a fawn named Fawn and her mom, a bank-robbing hippopotamus... CAUTION: GLAMORIZES THIS ALARMING TREND
	JOVE'S LIMBO: by Wayan; 1994/11/27, a dream of astral muckraking. Half elvish, rejected, I wander the worlds, and find a limbo built by Zeus--but do the inmates deserve it?
	JUMBLE by Nancy Price; 1948, a comically exaggerated predictive dream A bewildering dream of a boy's borrowed bath, absconding renters' furniture and fly-eating turns real a few weeks later...
	KARMA AND HER SISTERS: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/27, a happy sexy flying dream that turned tragic. One boring lonely day, I meet a cute teenage bunny who wants to play with me! But half an hour later… CAUTION: LANGUAGE, INTERSPECIES FLIRTING, AND LOSS
	THE KENNERBIRD: by Wayan; 1973/5/20; a naive shamanic dream. I'm a cartoon flamingo; with my sisters, the frog and the rabbit-squirrel, I meet our Maker--the cartoonist...
	KIDS' WORLD: by Wayan; 1996/8/2, a dream on solitude. The children of some castaways refuse to go 'home': to them, this shore IS home. So what won't I leave?
	THE KING OF PERSIA: by Wayan; 1990/4/1, an annoying family dream. My dad has a time machine, so he generously invites the King of Persia over. And offers him MY room...
	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
	THE LAST MASS: by E.M. Martin; 1914/11/23, a dream of war invading a peaceful dreamland For years Martin's dreams were all set in a peaceful parallel world. He hoped it was immune from WWI, but...
	LITTLE BAD DREAM CHARM: by Kathy Fagan; 2001? A slip-filled dream-poem Half asleep, I scrawl a nightmare of trying to rescue gasping boyfish, but my dreamwriting goes wrong too...
	LIZARD HUSBAND: by Xanthe, 1990/8/30; a nightmare marriage. I visit the underworld court of the Lizard King, but I can’t leave: he makes me Queen... CAUTION: MARITAL RAPE (NON-GRAPHIC)
	LOSE YOUR TEMPER!: by Emily Joy; 2007/8/30, a tough-love dream. My mom hires a therapist who really goes for my throat! Why is she so desperate to make me lose my... CAUTION: OVER-THE-TOP CONFRONTATION
	LUCKY STARR: by Wayan; 1964, an early, cryptomnesic dream. I fell asleep reading a book I'd read years before. I finished it in my dreams. Every word in place. How?
	LYIN' WAYAN: by Wayan; 1996/4/10, a warning nightmare. A mob of kids chases me chanting "Lyin' Wayan!" I get dizzy and fall off a bridge... THEN comes trouble! CAUTION: FATAL FALL
	LYNN HALL'S "FLYAWAY": by Wayan; 1997/7/6, a journal extract on religious abuse A book that kept me up late. Ariel and Robin get abused as subtly, as deniably as me and my sisters... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS/PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE
	MANDALA DURING A TIME OF WAR AND DISINTEGRATION: by Jenny Badger Sultan; Jan-Feb 2003, painting of a dream-series My dreams were troubled by war. So I painted them in concentric rings--lotus, fire, children, animals, and nightmares...
	MARTIAN TIME-LOOP: by Wayan; 1994/5/2, a dream of the future shaping the past. I'm a small boy in a ship docking in Mars Orbital Station. I meet a strange man: myself as an adult! Uh-oh...
	MATURITY: by Wayan; 1989/1/26, a dream on bluntness. Beverly Cleary's Ramona is a popular teen, but she's having a nervous breakdown. And her best friend... CAUTION: STUDENT-TEACHER AFFAIR
	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...
	MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN: by Wayan; 1992/9/5-6, a diagnostic dream. I'm in a tribe of post-Crash kids with psychic powers, trying to keep nukes from rising again... CAUTION: VIOLENCE TOWARD CHILDREN
	MILK ADDICTS: by Wayan, 1974/6/2, an early psychic dream. I'm in what seems to be a village of very conservative Muslims. But they're really alien castaways...
	THE MUSTACHE PRAYER: by Wayan; 1983/9/11, a dream on wishes' limits. I help a mutant boy find others like him, and learn why some prayers are ungrantable...
	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...
	NAPPING IN PATERSON: by a Paterson mom; before 1961, a lifesaving intuitive flash I was downtown when I knew I had to hurry home. It was full of gas. Our two-year-old had turned on all the stove jets as my husband napped...
	NED'S KISS by Ned's mom and sister Ethel; before 1961, cledonic dreams of a playful revenant I wished I could kiss my son farewell. That week, Ethel called. "I dreamed Ned kissed you, not me! I was hurt. He laughed like anything and kissed me too..."
	NEWT WEDDING: by Emily Joy; spring 1995, 100k, a six-year-old's epic dream Through wild jungles and over the Mattress Mountains, I lead a giant purple newt to love...
	NOW WE ARE 48: by Laurel Blossom, 1991; a dream-poem of a rescue. At the beach I dive into deep water to save my drowning friend Kathy, and find it’s not so clear who’s who...
	ON MOLLY'S FOREHEAD: by Wayan, 1988/11/19, a spiritual sex dream. A child of radicals goes wild in Rio. When we bail her out, we find she's had a strange enlightenment... CAUTION: UNSAFE SEX
	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...
	THE OTTER'S MOM: by Wayan, 171K, a dream-comic (or 12K text version). 1996/5/29; a dream of the future. A brilliant, orphaned ottercub meets the last Tasmanian Wolf, who makes a hard choice I couldn't. Or did I?
	THE PAINT KIDS: by Wayan; 1996/11/23, a possibly psychic dream. Two child artists mail themselves to me in their paint kit, and start a painting orgy that gets messy... CAUTION: PEDOPHILIA, OR MAYBE PEDOPHOBIA
	THE PERFECT MUSICAL GENIUS: by "Agnes"; before 1922, a Romantic romantic dream. I'm to be martyred. I ask if the man I love can strangle me. Yes! I say farewell to our hermaphroditic genius baby...
	POISONED!: by Wayan; 1994/6/20, three linked dreams. Poison takes many forms, from attitudes to environmental by-products to actions done deliberately...
	POLYGAPO: by a Washington woman, fall 1951, a detailed unlikely predictive dream I sat thinking "Now that boy will jump the fence"--and he did; "that boy will chase the dog"--and he did; "the girl will..."
	PONYBOY: by Wayan; 140K total, felt pen, acrylic, ink, illustrating a 1982/12/9 dream. The child who runs with wild horses finds the secret spy-room of dreams! But no one's watching...
	PREEMIE; 1951/10/30 by an Oklahoma woman; a predictive dream We were looking at our three-pound premature baby girl. Though tiny she was bright-eyed, active, perfect...
	PRODIGIES' ODDITIES: by Wayan; 1994/2/2, a confession. I suspect we child prodigies and geniuses are as unlike the gifted as normal people. So here's a checklist... CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED
	THE PRODIGY-ALLERGY LINK: by Wayan; 1994/7/21, a clipping and reactions Child prodigies may develop allergies due to immunosystem damage from too much testosterone in utero...
	PRODIGY SUPPORT: by Wayan; 1994/7/21, a clipping and reactions News of a child prodigy who was given the support I wasn't, triggers a flood of envy and bitterness...
	PUPPY: by Wayan; 1990; digital picture from a set of dreamlets... A picture that freaks out even my friends. But its crudeness hid an unexpectedly subtle message... CAUTION: SEX, BESTIALITY
	HIS RACIST SON: by Wayan; 1994/1/8, a dream on family hypocrisy. Suddenly I hate and fear black kids in school! The counselor says I'm clinically paranoid: I need drugs! My dad says "How strange, how sad." And goes home to light a candle at his shrine to the Confederacy... CAUTION: INDUCED RACISM
	RECURRING SCHOOL NIGHTMARE: by Julie Doucet; July 1995, a dream of... oh, read the title! Trapped in elementary school, Julie is forced to study the alphabet until she declares "I'm a professional cartoonist, goddammit!"...
	RED LIGHT by Nancy Price; 1948, a predictive dream of the past! I'm in my home town, but at two times at once! Murderous boys explain why: I died here in 1861...
	REQUIEM FOR GINGER: MAGNIFICAT: by Lily; 2008/1/31, a dream on facing loss. I dream I’m telling a tall tale about a cat-funeral with hung-over mice pulling the hearse. But it all turns a bit too real...
	RESCUE FEVER: by Wayan; 1994/2/3, a dreamtale on rescue fantasies. A refugee girl crawls into my bed. We become lovers. I protect her. But over time... am I holding her back? CAUTION: ABUSE? OR NOT?
	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...
	SASQUATCH FOOTPRINT: by Roswila; May 1996, a dream-poem on the loss of wildness I meet a female Bigfoot, who, to my surprise, quietly speaks my tongue. She's mourning the death of her infant son...
	SEARCHING FOR THE DEAD: by Acucena Q., 2007/3/4, a puzzling quest dream. I searched rivers and lakes around the world for someone dead. But the living people I met were as strange as ghosts...
	A SEX KITTEN: by Wayan; 1999/1/29, an embarrassing dream. A creature that's half kitten and half baby wants me to masturbate it... I'm reluctant, but when I do... CAUTION: SEX
	SHIELDS FROM THE GODDESS: by Wayan; 38K total, 1996/8/3, a dream that's a slap in the face. A Goddess-worshiping general gets a visit from her twin daughters who bring a puzzling message...
	THE SHIP'S BOY: by Wayan; 1996/12/1, a dreamtale. Dinosaur people demand to take our Ship's Boy with them. But he knows them! They RAISED him?
	SHIRT GIRL: by Zooop and Wayan; 1993/10/17, a shared, embarrassing telepathic dream. A fictional niece acting sexy in a shirt, plus... water balloons? I woke, and a friend told me HER dream... CAUTION: DREAM INCEST, KIDS WITH GUNS, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS
	SILKY SHIELDS A VANDAL: by Wayan; 1994/8/6, a cautionary dream. I'm a kid in a classroom someone's trashed. Our teacher goes ballistic. But was the gypsy girl framed?
	SILKY SINGS WITH WEREWOLF BOY: by Wayan; 1998; 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
	SNOT-BIRD FORGERY!: a gross dream by Samuel Pepys, 1667/6/29, and a nightmare by Thomas Macaulay, c.1857 Samuel Pepys dreamt of kidneystones, pee, come, & snot--or did he? Thomas Macauley dreams his niece confesses...
	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 and I blurt out the truth behind our idiotic waking world! And wake believing it...
	SPECKLED EGGS: by Starvibes; 2008/6/16, a dream of intrigue. I dreamed of speckled eggs, Caribbean drug traffickers and of almost drowning near a sinking boat...
	SPHINX UP A TREE 1 (BROWN): by Wayan; 360 x 450, sketch 1980s? Digital 2001. A preteen sphinx pleased with herself and her treebranch world...
	SPILL SPELL: by Wayan; 1995/9/30, a mini-dream. I'm a Lapp boy in northern Finland, studying shamanism. So why do I pour coffee down a driveway?
	SPIRAL LAUGHTER: by Alder; 1953, a child's feverdream The world is a whirlpool, a black and white spiral pulling me down toward a black hole, and it’s laughing...
	SPLASH!: by Wayan; acrylic, 12" triangle, late 2002; dream painting. While I study how humans went extinct, my daughter happily splashes in the sea...
	STALAGMITE VALLEY: by Maude Meagher; 1902?-07, a recurring childhood dream. I found myself upon a stone pillar in a valley. Invisible people sat on other stalagmites, but my voice couldn’t reach them...
	STARFISH: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 1985; a multileveled, doubly predictive dream A sacred starfish piloting a Cessna plane survives a crash. But can it survive a boy's clumsy rescue efforts?
	HER STINGY DAD: by Wayan; 1998/7/29, a dreamtale on ambitions. A single dad loves his daughter, but is so pathologically cheap he's teaching her an unintended lesson... CAUTION: CHILD NEGLECT
	STOP OBAMA'S ASSASSINATION: by Wayan; 2012/2/10. A dream about politics? Or health? Two child prodigies fail to stop the assassins stalking President Obama, but a geeky guy with a home-made laser...
	THE STYGIAN SENTINELS: by SAO (Shawn Allen O'Neal); 1970s, a recurring astral dream. The couple guarding the bridge over the River Styx, the Crocodile King and the Geisha Queen, rarely seemed to agree...
	SUN AND MOON: by Katherine Mansfield; 1918/2/9, a dream-story I dreamed a short story--even its title. Not that I read it. No, I lived it, through the eyes of a 5-year-old...
	SUNLIGHT'S THE CURE: by Wayan; 1990/12/29, a dreamtale. I find the cure for an alien plague, then visit the world it came from, to find it has a curious variant... CAUTION: SEX CUSTOMS OF THE NEWT PEOPLE! MY COUSIN'S GAY WEDDING!
	THE TAKEOVER: by Lee Olivier; 2004/6/28, a triple diagnostic nightmare An alien is taking over our world, and I feel so helpless that even when I wake I want to just forget the dream...
	TAROT: MINE CHILD: by Wayan; 31K. Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. Deep down in the strata inside you, gems lie waiting in the dark. Waiting for this child to dig them free...
	THE THIRTIES REVISITED: by Maxine Kumin; late 1970s; a dream-poem Dreams of my childhood--bootlegger dad, critical mom, gun-happy uncles, slaughtered squirrels, slaughtered Jews...
	THREE DREAMS: by Robley Wilson; July 4, 1975?; a dream-poem Dead fish in a poisoned stream, dead kittens in a pit... and advice from the woman who revives them with a touch.
	TORCH-BEARER: by Queen Hecuba of Troy; c. 1220 BC, an alarming dream. Hecuba dreams she gives birth, not to a child but a flaming torch! But she lets Paris live... CAUTION: MORAL NO-WIN SITUATION
	TRANSFUSION by a New York woman; 1950s? (over a 5-year span), three predictive dreams I dreamt of the Du Pont lab where I'd work, then the hospital where my sister-in-law would need a transfusion, then my of neighbor's coffin...
	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
	TWO BISHOP APPLICANTS: by Wayan; 1984/11/21, a dreamtale. My mind and my soul both apply for a job in Stanford Cathedral. Their rivalry grows to a shamanic duel...
	TWO POLLYS: by Lewis Carroll; 1879/5/15, a dream of psychological splitting. With no sense of incongruity, I planned to take the child Polly with me to the theatre, to see the grown-up Polly act...
	UN-AMERICAN FANTASIES: by Wayan; 1996/7/19, a dreamtale. The All-American Family visits the fabulous Un-American Fantasy Store, where Mom is in for a shock... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY, LANGUAGE
	UNDER THE FUR: by Wayan, 700K total (5 p, 140K each), 1997/10/7; a color dream-comic (or plain text version, just 10 K) A strange creature slunk into our yard, carrying a skunk lunch. But she dropped her fur coat, and...
	UNIVERSITY OF THE SIERRA: by Wayan; 1975/10/10, a pun-studded dream poem Jealous of newlyweds, I grind my teeth to splinters. But the Great Ice did that to Sierra granite, and that turned out fine...
	VERA AND HER PRIDE: by Bethany Sellers; 2005, a dream-portrait of an inner feline family. I found myself in a whole pride of cat-people like me, each one representing some side of me...
	VICARIOUS ATONEMENT: by Anna Kingsford; 1880/1/31, an anti-shamanic dream Kingsford meets a girl who burns herself as a protest. K flips out! She rants “This is wrong!” when help is what’s needed... CAUTION: RANT MIDWAY YOU'RE BETTER OFF SKIPPING
	WALTER'S DIVE: by Walter's father; before 1961, a predictive dream disastrously forgotten I dreamt my son Walter drowned in the creek by a certain tree. I woke in tears, and resolved to warn him...
	WASP: by Madellyne Waugh; 2010/4/22, a punning dream on... guilt? A giant insect chases me around our school gym. A girl reassures me it's harmless but I'm sure it's a wasp...
	WHITE-FACED: by John A. Symonds; 1861/7/3, a mutation nightmare My face was leprous white like parchment; my eyes shone with a cold blue eerie light. I shrieked "Papa, don't you know me?"...
	WHY ARE WE AFRAID TO DIE?: by Hopper; summer 2008, an astral-interview dream. I meet a ghost girl and ask her about death. I figure she knows first-hand. And she tells me...
	WINTER DREAMS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; winter of late 2004/early 2005, a painted series of color-dreams. After teaching a class on color, I had a set of vivid dreams about color, and tried fusing them into one painting...
	WORLD TOUR: by Sharon Boyle; 1937?, a nightmare told to her mom, poet Kay Boyle This little man comes into the chapel, makes a fascist salute, and catches fire. He burns right down to his shoes...
	YELLOW CRANE: by Na Liu; spring 1976, a recurrent childhood flying dream. Each spring my mom took us up to Yellow Crane Tower, and that night I dreamed I rode the crane over the city of Wuhan...