There are also a few waking-world pieces on language--mainly on animal language. Since talking animals have been so long relegated to the province of dreams, I thought, now that more facts are in, it's only fair to show that dreams were years ahead of the scientific mainstream.

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	ANIMAL SPEECH, ANIMAL ESP: by Wayan; 1997/7/31, from Wayan's journal. When you really observe animals in language programs it's obvious WE'RE the ones missing a lot...
	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...
	DEAF TO MY SIGNS: by Wayan; 1997/6/17, a wise frustration dreamtale. Watching a slideshow, in a room of deaf women, I find no one can hear me in either English or Sign...
	ELF ETYMOLOGY: by Wayan; 1997/7/14, a linguistic postmodern dream. We escape the trolls, but then our author, Tolkien, breaks in to explain a word, and the rest of the night...
	GERRYMANDERING DESIRE: by Wayan; 1994/1/20, a modest sexual orientation proposal The two commonest sexual orientations have no names, or even concepts! Yet they're obvious, once... CAUTION: THE TRUTH THAT DARE NOT BE TOLD
	I DREAM OF DERIVERRANS: by Wayan; 1982/11/16, a Joycean dream of surrender. I must rescue Ann Soforth from righteous rapists, then Paul McCartney from a musical curse... CAUTION: ABUSED CHILD, JOYCEAN LANGUAGE
	LET ME REVISE THAT...: by Wayan; 1998/8/28, a dream of clarity. I pray to the Love Goddess for help, but then realize there's a problem with my phrasing... CAUTION: UNROMANTIC
	LIES!: by Wayan; 1992/7/10, a dream that thinks it's a two-page novel. To investigate a criminal couple, I have to lie. And that's hard, since all my lies turn true... CAUTION: NEW AGE AND FILM NOIR DON'T MIX
	MAYAN DOOR: by Wayan; 2008/3/21, a character-evaluation dream. The Mayan cave was a door between worlds. But also a model of the character you need to walk through that door...
	MIRIEL INTERRUPTUS: by Miriel and Wayan; 1978/9/5 and 1978/9/6; two embarrassing parallel dreams Wayan dreams he and his sister grope toward sex in the kitchen, when two of her friends burst in... Miriel dreams she's having sex with a boy from her choir, when two of her friends burst in... CAUTION: FRUSTRATION, INCEST, CAUGHT IN SEX
	NATIVE LANGUAGE: by Wayan; 1996/11/17, a dream about senses and speech. I'm at the beach, seeing it through English linguistic filters. Or do I? Is there a language under language?
	NEUTRALITY'S ROOMMATE: by Emily Joy; 2007/4/19, a spooky dream. At our commune's new house, pandemonium breaks out when our matriarch meets a spook. Can we live together in peace?
	NEW LEVEL!: by "Julian"; 2006/5/22, 3 gamelike dreams in one night, two of them epic My mom and I road-duel an alien beetle, then investigate a deepspace Marie Celeste; then I spy for the Angevin Empire to protect the Crown Jewels...
	NO “I": by Wayan; 2003/10/22, a dream of identity loss. I’m in San Francisco trying to throw Sauron’s Ring into the Cracks of San Andreas. But a sexy sorcerer steals my sense of I! How can you act without a self?
	POTLATCH SMOKE: by Wayan; 1988/5/10, a dream of shamanic responsibility. Refugees flood the spirit worlds! War looms. Wolf, Silky, Dr Who, even the Bug-Goddess of Love are alarmed. I'm just a blonde ditz, but I help inspect realities till we trace the source: a Tlingit potlatch? Why?
	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...
	SELVDROLLA: by Havelock Ellis; before 1922, an ignored prescriptive dream A doctor recommends Ellis try "selvdrolla", but he gets off so much on the strange name he forgets the prescription...
	THE SERMON OF CARMEN DOG: by Wayan; 1990/9/10, the ultimate public-speaking nightmare. Animal poets at an open mic. My turn! And I find... I'm one. A creature without grammar...
	SPEAKING FERN: by Wayan; 1991/3/25, a dream-prank. A dead fern in my backyard starts sending me messages in some strange language...
	SWIMMING IN VAN GOGH'S OCEAN: by 'Amandaclay'; c. 2011/12/9, a dream of love and beauty On a cruise to Catalina Island, I find friends, a boyfriend and a magical sea of color...
	TARDIS GAZEBO: by Wayan; 230K, a 3-page digital dream-comic, 1993/2/17 Solve a hieroglyphic riddle and you can fly, shapeshift, work magic! But someone doesn’t want me solving that riddle...
	THEY FEED THEY LION: by Philip Levine; late 1960s; a dream-poem A phrase spoken by a workmate triggers two dreams, the parents of this poem; it emerged a few days later as you see it... CAUTION: POLITICAL RAGE, SURREALISM
	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...
	TV DEVIL FLU: by Wayan; 1994/10/24, a short dreamtale. A "friend" gives me her TV. Turns out there's a small-minded devil in it who cheats on all his deals...
	TWENTY-SIX LETTERS, or, A Complete Summary of Poesy; early August 1992 by Wayan and Cory; a haiku slam? You get 26 dice with letters on every face. Roll them all. Your haiku must use every letter. Go!
	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...
	A WORD DREAM: by Maude Meagher; before 1936, a wild word-association dream. I often dream of words forming on a page as their corresponding images dance around me. Here's an example...
	YES, EMMA, ONE POUND ONIONS: by a Canadian girl; before 1961, a precise yet counterproductive predictive dream I was in a small room with a single bare lightbulb and an old man at a desk writing. The phone rang. He answered it and said, 'Yes, Emma, one pound onions, a dozen oranges." Two days later...

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