Leadership
Dreams of leaders and leadership. I've focused on leaders who think of the future and take responsibility for group welfare (as opposed to dreams of personal guides, guardians and mentors). Sadly, many of the dreams depict our real leaders as irresponsible or corrupt.
RELATED TOPICS: some leaders: royalty & aristocracy - presidents - religious leaders - personal guides, guardians and mentors - Related themes: power - politics - class - status and hierarchy - anarchy and direct action - initiative - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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THE AMBASSADOR PRO TEM OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1993/3/1, a dream about dreams. The real Ambassador of Dreams was moonlighting, so I had to step in and explain dreams to the waking world... |
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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... |
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THE ANT REPRESENTATIVE: by Wayan; 1996/3/18, a romantic dream of bugs. I fall in love with a diplomat from a hive mind. Am I luring her into dangerous individuality? |
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ANTIGRAVITY RESEARCH: by Mary Arnold-Forster; 1905?, a dream of teaching dreamflight I show the Royal Society how to fly! Confidence is the key. I teach a hesitant Fellow to lift off... |
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THE ANTLIAN JUDGE: by Wayan; 1997/6/29, an otherworldly dream. On an alien world I meet a judge from the newly discovered galaxy of Antlia, and learn distance can lend objectivity... |
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ARCHANGEL: by Wayan; 1997/10/19, a dream-farce--or is it? Sure I've been through hell, but how the hell did that get me elected archangel? And why's my butt itch? CAUTION: ITCHY BUTT |
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THE ARRIVAL: by Elizabeth Gibbons, 2014; a spiritual dream about dreams I'm a priestess from an island of women; I meet an angel who charges me to harvest all the dreams of the world... |
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ARROW OF FIRE: by Archbishop Anselm, King William Rufus & a monk, 1100/8/1, 3 predictive dreams Anselm dreams God orders King William's death by an arrow of fire; the King dreams his blood covers the sun. Waking, he mocks a third man's ominous dream, goes hunting, and dies bloodily at sunset, an arrow in his heart... |
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ASK ME ANYTHING: by Wayan; 1975/1/31, a backstage dream. It was a dark and stormy night. I was lost, till I stumbled on God in her underground control room. God was helpful. Too helpful... |
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AVOID THE MATRIARCH: by Wayan; 2011/7/8; a dream of, well, avoidance I love a girl in a big Singapore clan whose matriarch hates me. But the omens say confronting her will be disastrous... |
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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 so I wanted to kill him, but then I'd BE him..." |
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BADGE SLANDER: by Wayan; 1993/4/18, a psychic nightmare. I dream I'm being slandered by the leaders of a dream organization! Turns out it's quite true... |
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BASTARD UNICORN: by Wayan; 2012/6/28, a dream about ambition Since I'm half-unicorn, my ambition drives me to share power and help the whole herd--that's how unicorns rise. But among human politicians... |
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BATTERED, WITH SYRUP: by Wayan; 1998/11/6 & 11/21, two healing dreams. I'm a battered girl who sings in a mall. The Dictator (of all people) helps me start healing and learn to fly... CAUTION: BATTERING AND ITS CONSEQUENT DAMAGE |
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THE BATTLE OF PHILIPPI: by Augustus Caesar's friend; 42 BCE, a lifesaving dream Augustus was ill, but a friend's dream prompted him to leave his tent before Brutus's assassins... |
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BEFORE BED: by Mary Ruefle, ca. 1995, a dream-poem on stewardship In the cathedral, before the nation, I solemnly crown someone with my own detached head... |
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BIRDS AT WAR: by Martín Painemal Huenchual, 1973/12/11, a warning dream DREAM: Millions of birds were at war, tearing one another apart. It was out of control, thousands and thousands... DAY: Pinochet's coup took Chile. Alerted by the dream, Painemal went into hiding and lived--unlike thousands... CAUTION: EXTRAPOLATIVE OR PSYCHIC? |
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BIRDS ON FIRE: by Wayan; 2008/9/15, a political dream-poem, Dreamverse #26 George Bush leads a hill-tribe raid against the hill-tribe led by Osama bin Laden... and I'm stuck between... CAUTION: ANTI-HEROES, POLITICAL PREDICTION |
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BLOW 'EM UP!' and POKER FACES: by Wayan; 1992/7/2; two dreams on denial and sabotage. Would the Revolutionaries in the Basement really blow up the Committee of Idealists upstairs? CAUTION: MAD BOMBERS! WELL, GRUMPY ONES |
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BLUE SOUP, NO SPARK: by Wayan; 1985/6/1, an epic dream on outgrowing God A visit to a world where they fear blue soup ends in death and resurrection, so I'm pissed at my boss--God. CAUTION: DEATH, REBIRTH, SACRILEGE... JOB BURNOUT |
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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... |
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BUGS AND ROOSEVELT: by Wayan; 1982/5/2, a wild predictive dream illustrated as an epic poem I'm Bugs Bunny. I torment Daffy Duck till I learn that in many time-branches the New Deal happened late... or never. I decide to prod a reluctant Franklin Delano Roosevelt... CAUTION: FIRESIDE PETTING, DUCK TORTURE, BAD POLITICS |
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CALPURNIA'S DREAM: by Calpurnia and her husband Julius Caesar; 44(BCE)/3/14, two warning dreams. The night before Caesar's assassination, he dreamed he flew above the clouds and met Jupiter; his wife Calpurnia dreamed he'd be stabbed, and begged him not to go out, but politics... |
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THE CHIANG-SHIH: by Julian Garberson; 2004/8/23, a surreal Han Dynasty nightmare A vampire wrestler on the Throne of Heaven pins me. Visualization and prayer don't free me--in fact, they get me killed... |
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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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THE CIRCUS HUMANS' DESERTION: by Wayan; 1988/2/19; an epic holy dream. I join a circus, but soon all the best carnies sail off to the Blessed Isles. The circus animals pitch in and carry on--clumsy and lonely. Then a divine herald arrives from the Isles: Donald Duck! He says... |
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A CLINTONIAN AFFAIR: by "Kate"; 2008/2/18, a dream of strange political bedfellows indeed Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush were having a secret love affair, and I was sharing their bed... |
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A COLONY IN THE HOLLOW HILLS: by Wayan; 1997/8/14, a dream of responsibility. Hong Kong's not devolving to China, but to Faerie. As governor, I have to defend human rights, so... |
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COYOTE PAJAMAS: by Wayan; 1983/12/17, a Dantesque dream-epic. I'm Coyote, keeping the Business Prophet from taking over Dante's Peak. But it turns too personal... CAUTION: IDIOTIC VIOLENCE |
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COYOTE'S VAULT: by Wayan; 1994/5/4, a shamanic dream of the future. One of the Time Vaults has opened. That means a historical crisis is at hand. Guess who gets to go in... |
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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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CROCODILE KING: by Christina Rossetti; 1855/3/9, a weird dream-poem she may have faked. On the Euphrates, a monstrous crocodile eats all his kin. But when a winged ship appears, he feigns remorse... |
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CURMUDGEON I: by Wayan; 1981/7/24, a silly dream. That broccoli business made the new pope controversial, but when he goes off to find his girlfriend... CAUTION: CATHOLIC SACRILEGE I'M SURE |
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CURSE HER IN THE OAK: by Wayan; 2009/9/28, dream poem on an odd job; Dreamverse #56 I'm a girl in rural Victorian England working as the county's magical protector. I have my hands full: a gang of thievish orphans has holed up in an invisibility tree! Showdown at the oak... |
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DANCE OF THE SUN: by Wayan, 1972/10/23, an epic mystical dream I cross a hostile continent to a magic commune, fall in love with a flying girl who slaps a soul-spark into my head, and follow an alien goddess leading the Dance of the Sun... |
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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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DOCTOR WHO AND DEATH: by Wayan; 1984/6/30, a hopeful dream of betrayal. Dr Who, that lovable BBC alien, grows a sappy flower-face and allies with Death. An alarming turn-around! What's he up to? CAUTION: GOOD DOCTOR GOES BAD? |
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THE DOOMED TRAIN: by Anna Kingsford; Nov. 1876, a galvanizing political nightmare We were on a train headed for a crash. No one was in the engine. Rather than jump, my friend insisted we try... |
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DRAGON-JEWEL: by Wayan; 2013/6/27, a 1001 Nights epic dream disturbingly predictive of ISIS In Old Palmyra, I stumble on a dragon-hoard. Wizards and caliphs hunt me--how to get out of town? Magic carpet? No. I put on a brown coat, borrow a delivery bike, and slowly pedal... |
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DRAGON-NURTURER: by Bo Ji, 204 BCE, a prophetic dream Bo Ji, a minor concubine in the early Han court who'd never even met the Emperor, dreamt a dragon slept in her lap. Next night the Emperor summoned her; the child they conceived became one of China's best rulers... |
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DREAMWORK IN A DECADENT AGE: by Wayan; 1997/11/19, a short essay Sprague De Camp says religions seduce us with emotional comfort. But is dreamwork religion or science? |
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THE DUKE OF VENICE: by Wayan; 1981/5/25, a dream on moneyphobia. The Duke complains things just aren't what they were. As I hear what he liked, I'm increasingly... |
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ELBERETH PAUSES: by Wayan; 1989/6/26, a dream on postwar ethics. After the Lord of the Rings falls, Elbereth herself is sent to heal the land. But she has a troubling neighbor... |
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EMPEROR HEDGEHOG: by Emperor Wu Cheng, early 560s CE, a nightmare self-portrait The Emperor dreamt a monster hedgehog terrorized his city. On waking, he ordered the slaughter of every hedgehog in town. People started seeing him as the killer hedgehog! Soon he was deposed... |
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EMPEROR OF THE GALAXY: by Wayan; 1988/1/31, a political dreamtale. The Emperor of the Galaxy can't publish his anti-slavery book as himself, so he quits to become a slave... |
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EVIL ARCHY: by Wayan; April 2008; a non-dream poem in terze rima Money, power, race and gender stifle my working friends less than hierarchical structures... |
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EXECUTE ME!: by Wayan; 2014/1/27, a harsh revolutionary dream I'm condemned to die for fighting a regime that's killed my minority with impunity for centuries. I have no regrets. They'll hesitate now, knowing they too can die... |
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FAKE IT!: by Electra Johannes and Patagia; 2007/9/22 and 2007/9/23, linked dreams. Patagia dreams she fakes a Hindu rite, causing Electra to dream she fakes leadership in a refugee band. But are they faking? |
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FERDINAND'S ASSASSINATION: by Joseph Lanyi; 1914/6/28, a historic predictive dream. Lanyi dreamed in detail of the assassination of his friend Archduke Franz Ferdinand hours before it happened... |
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FLEEING KAMPUCHEA: by Laura Lawrence; early 1990s?; recurring nightmares of a future client's life My Cambodian village was burned, my family murdered. At 12, I was the oldest survivor; I led a band of kids to the border... |
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FLYING TO SAFETY: by JahaRa2010, c.1982, a dream of flight & teaching flight Our group's being hunted. We flee into a cave. A gulf ahead that we can't jump. We have to fly. I know how, and I teach the kids among us quickly enough, but the adults are scared to try... |
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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... |
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FRANCHISE!: by Wayan, 1995/10/12, a dream-comic (ill. text ed.) with a serious warning. I was the first woman made High Commissioner of Baseball. One day a team of mutants begs a franchise... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, BAD TEAMWORK, HORNY BEES |
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FREEBIRD TOWER: by Wayan; 1975/1/10, a rebellious flying dream I was a bird-girl, the pet of some rich, royal humans. I summoned a storm of rebel birds, flooding the moat and driving out our owners... CAUTION: BIRDGIRL NUDITY |
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GAIA'S SONG: by Wayan, 2.1MB (MP3 + lyrics), 2002, an old folk ballad on robotics Gaia appears in a warning vision. However, she's not addressing humanity, but our silver successors... |
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GARGOYLE GO-BETWEEN: by Wayan; 1996/11/22, a Hogwartish dream. I'm odd kid out in my wizard school till gargoyles raid us, and I puzzle out their tongue, to become... |
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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 |
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THE GIANT: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a dreamlet on rage about... what? At a beach, a man attacks the genitals, buttocks and thighs of a giant who sits half in the surf, ignoring him... CAUTION: NUDITY, MUTILATION ATTEMPTS |
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GLADSTONE AND DISRAELI by Edward Maitland, 1881/2/1; a character-reading dream The two great political leaders of the Victorian Age bare their souls to me. Gladstone's ashamed that he betrayed his ideals; Disraeli dances about, vilifying his loathed rival, but he feels no shame at all... CAUTION: VICTORIAN PROSE, BAD POLITICIANS |
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GOBLET OF GOLD: by Sophocles, between 450-406 BCE; a detective dream. A huge gold cup was stolen from the Temple of Hercules. Sophocles thrice dreamt Hercules named the thief... |
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GOD'S SONG: by Mike Marrelli, 3.4MB (MP3 + lyrics) God tells all! "I admit I've a split personality..." |
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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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GOLDEN CHAIN: by Cicero, 46/1/1 or 45/1/1 BCE, a prescient dream by an anti-interpretationist Dream-skeptic Cicero dreamed a youth descended from heaven on a golden chain. The next day he first met Octavius, and exclaimed "but there is the actual boy I dreamed of!" The boy became Augustus Caesar, presiding over Rome's golden age... |
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GOSPEL GIRL: by Wayan; 1986/11/17, a stubborn dream. I'm a girl in a desert who God tells to preach a new gospel. But the locals, unlike ancient Rome, have guns... CAUTION: VIOLENT MARTYRDOM |
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GREAT GODDESS, or, SACRIFICE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 1970; an epic painting of a troubling dream I'm a priestess standing on a stone terrace, holding a ritual axe. Before me kneels a sacrifice to the Goddess... |
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A GREAT NIGHTMARE, or, The Autistic Dream Lecturer: by Wayan; 1997/1/2, a diagnostic nightmare. I dream I'm addressing a dream convention, but I'm autistic! I MUST act bizarre, just to function... |
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GREENBIRD SAVIOR: by Wayan; 1983/6/2, a divine comedy. Time-travel the Navaho way! But our bread-pipe gets hijacked, so we call the Bird. Who shows up, all right... CAUTION: NON-STANDARD SAVIOR, EVIL DREAM PUNS |
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GUARDIAN ANGELS FEUD: by Wayan; 1995/10/9, an epic, heretical dream. You know angels feud over regional underfunding of Divine Grace. But you don't know how low they'll go... |
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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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A GUINEA-BISSAU REVOLUTION: by Wayan; 1999/4/24, a dream of necessary pain. My part in the revolution in Guinea-Bissau: substantial, but not exactly planned. I just wanted out... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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GUNTRAM'S SNAKE by King Guntram, c.570 CE; a profitable out-of-body dream On a hunt, Guntram took a nap. His courtier saw a snake emerge from his mouth; it tried to cross a creek. The courtier lay his sword out like a bridge, and the snake crossed, climbed a hill, and went in a hole. It returned and crawled in Guntram's mouth. He woke and said "I was crossing a river on a great iron bridge..." |
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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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HEAL THE WORLD!: by Wayan; 2011/8/17, a messianic-inadequacy dream (now there's a new type!) I can heal people with a touch. But they don't want to be merely restored, but resculpted... CAUTION: TRANNIES AND FURRIES LEAVE THE CLOSET |
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THE HEDGEHOG DISPENSARY: by Wayan; 2004/10/2, furtopian watercolor 12-page dreamcomic (or text + pics) A rabbit shaman makes his student drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. How to free her? CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR |
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HELL-BOUND TRAIN: by Franz Jaegerstetter, summer 1938; a political dream I was ordered to join Hitler's army. I dreamt a booming voice proclaimed, "This train is going to Hell!" So I... |
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HELL-CHESS and COMING CAUSES AMNESIA: by Wayan; 1985/3/10, twin surreal dream-poems Hell Chess isn't just black and white. Living women, from weak pawns to transcendent rainbow queens... Coming Causes Amnesia: reincarnation, 69, and plate tectonics all fuse in lava-hot orgasm... CAUTION: ORAL SEX IN DREAM TWO |
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HELL-TORNADO: by Wayan; 1988/7/2, a dream on social engineering. Who built the tornado in the Heartland, that sucks anyone who opens their spirit-wings down to Hell? CAUTION: BAD THEOLOGY, WORSE PHYSICS |
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HERON HAREM: by Wayan; 1981/6/14, a dream with a moral. I'm a heron working in the Civil Service. I want to blow the whistle, but then how would I support my... CAUTION: BIRD-SLAVERY? |
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HIDE THE LIST!: by Anonymous; c. 1550, a recurrent warning dream. A London Protestant dreamed Bloody Mary would find the congregation's member-list and burn them all... |
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HILLARY AND TEAL: by "A 24-Year-Old Californian Woman"; around 2008/2/28, an absurd political dream Hillary Clinton hid her cancer, but the GOP found out. So a monster kidnaps Rainbow Brite, and... |
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HITLER'S CAR: by Wayan; 1982/6/9, I review a creepy book. Then my dreams review ME. A book claims Hitler led not a political party but a cult out to apply mystical theories--like Manson! Then I dream... CAUTION: BIG RANT, SMALL DREAM |
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HOBBIT SNIPER: by Wayan; 1998/10/13, a dream on strategy. I'm a sniper in a desert battle of men against hobbits. Guilty for not fighting openly, but that'd be suicidal... CAUTION: MATH AND WAR |
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THE HOLY HARP: by Wayan; 1994/3/22, a dream of musical guilt. The Goddess's harp, that calls in the seasons, just passed on. But the new harper has a shocking admission... |
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HOP TO THE SHAH: by Wayan; 2010/5/18, a flying political dream Diplomacy's failed. To stop the impending Iranian War single-handed, I hop like a monster flea across Iran to corner the New Shah... |
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A HOTEL ODYSSEY: by Wayan; 1994/2/21, a Borges dream. I live in the Infinite Hotel, but the other guests in my wing are no fun. It's time to set sail... |
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I THOUGHT HE LIKED ME: by Wayan; 1994/8/16, a dream of rejection... or worse. I join the Seattle Tribal Council, which of course means marrying them all. The husband I'm to sleep with on our Council Honeymoon seemed to like me, till he pulls that practical joke... CAUTION: GROSS! |
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I HAD A WHITE BANDAGE: by Jack Kerouac, July 1957, a dream of triumph despite adversity Wounded, bandaged, chased by cops, I end up heading a huge children's parade, marching to Mongolia. No secret what it's about--On The Road was just published... |
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I'M NOT THE DIRECTOR!: by Federico Fellini; Oct. 1961, a dream pun on denying your lifework I'm the director of an airport. A mysterious Mongolian traveler lands. Let him in or not? I try to avoid the decision by lying--say "I'm not the director!"... |
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ICERINK: by Wayan; 1980/8/23, a warning dream. Psychodrama seemed like a way to meet cool people. But when I dreamed they were ice-skating rioters... |
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ICK! DOGS!: by Wayan; 1990/1/3, a Star Trek dream. I'm Jean-Luc Picard, and my Enterprise has been taken over by a pack of brilliant, paranoid wolves... |
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IGNORABLE DRAGON: by Wayan; 2019/4/13; a dream of brain-unwashing Out my window, a dog is fighting a snake. A dog with bat wings. A dog big as a horse. A griffin! Big as a bus now. A dragon! What spell made me mistake THAT for a dog?... |
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ILLUSIONISTS DON'T RULE: by Wayan; 1996/8/26, a dream on the strength of logic. I read Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind; I dream I'm a pilot who deduces an alien illusionist's in my plane... |
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IN THE SHADOW OF MAN: by Wayan; 1994/3/4, a dream on how to escape the cage I'm a lab animal who discovers voice software and creates a personal zine, testifying for our rights... |
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INDIA ON THE SECURITY COUNCIL?: by Wayan; 2000/4/21, an annoying dream on peace. India wants a seat on the UN Security Council, but what of Pakistan? The UN has a modest proposal... |
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INVADE GREECE, OR ELSE!: by Xerxes I and his uncle Artabanus; 480 BCE, three linked, deceitful dreams. Xerxes twice dreams a god orders him to attack Greece. So he asks his uncle to dream of the god to confirm... |
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IS GOD GOD?: by Wayan; 1984/6/17, a dream of the school of hard knocks. God watches over me--to slap me down. If God is even God. So I set out to learn about this jerk-God... |
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THE ISLAND FURIES: by Wayan; summer 1975, a dream of self-control. When warring Greek isles kill a peacemaker, her three best friends start a vendetta! But she wanted peace... CAUTION: HATE NURSED TOO LONG |
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IT'S A DEAD MAN'S PARTY: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a nightmare of identity. I find myself at a creepy party supporting a dead man who's running for office. And am I Dan Quayle? CAUTION: HORROR BEYOND HORROR. YOU ARE DAN QUAYLE. |
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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... |
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JOSEPH AND THE PHARAOH: by Joseph, a cupbearer, a baker & a Pharaoh, c.1673-1660 BCE; six surreal dreams Joseph as a teen dreams sheaves of his brothers' grain bow to his; then the sun, moon & stars bow to him. Eleven years later, in prison, Joseph interprets two cellmates' dreams as premonitory, and gets both right. Two years later, he interprets two bizarre dreams troubling the Pharaoh, thus saving Egypt from famine... CAUTION: BRONZE AGE FUN! NEAR-FRATRICIDE, SLAVERY, EXECUTION, FORCED MARRIAGE... |
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JUNG'S PREMONITIONS OF WORLD WAR I: by Carl Jung, 1913-1914; five ignored warnings. Jung was told in dreams and visions that Europe would soon drown in blood. But he just couldn't believe it... |
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"JUST A FEW MORE YEARS!": by Wayan; 2008/1/2, a nightmare on the coming crash I found myself defending humanity before an astral jury, begging them to delay the great die-back... |
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KIBBLE FROM HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1986/10/13, a dream on love and money. I'm a dog princess, on a world where kibble falls from heaven. When I meet our species' guardian angels... CAUTION: DOG NUDITY, LAWYERS |
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KING-MAKERS: by Wayan; 2000/2/21, a dream of mediation. I'm a political aide to the leader of a hot-tempered, clawed, fanged alien people. And then my boss dies... |
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A KNIFE AT HIS THROAT: by Wayan; 1991/1/1; a political dream-cartoon-fable A courtroom hostage-drama where I'm forced to commit... tracheotomy! And then the Gulf War begins... CAUTION: CARTOON VIOLENCE |
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KUBLAI KHAN'S DREAM: by Kublai Khan, c.1251, an architectural dream Coleridge's dream-poem describes a palace itself inspired by a dream! Kublai Khan dreamt of a huge yet delicate "pleasure dome", sketched it, and sent scouts to find a site matching... |
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LEARNING SCALES: by Wayan; 1985/6/26, an epic dream of Chinese dragons. I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost. We need an Imperial Dragon... |
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LET'S PLEASE THE RICH: by Wayan; 1998/6/24, a disgusting proposal The rich block reform. So let's offer the rich what they really want: ranking and attention... CAUTION: CHIMPONOMICS |
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LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION DREAM: by Abraham Lincoln, ca.March 31 1865, a predictive nightmare. Lincoln dreamt his body was lying in state in the White House. A guard said he'd been assassinated. Two weeks later... |
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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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LIU AND YI (not to mention Kong!): by Liu Bang's mom, 257 BCE, and Yi Yin's mom, c.1600 BCE; birth-related dreams Liu Bang's mom dreams a spirit is making love to her. Her husband sees the spirit is a dragon! Her baby grows up to found the Han... Yi Yin's mom dreams a spirit warns "if water pours from your mortar, run!" She does, and survives a flood, to help found the Shang... CAUTION: LIKELY JUST FOLKLORE |
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THE LIZARD LESSON: by Wayan; 1996/12/12, a hard-hittin' shamanic dream. I'm a shaman in Nunavut who has to teach a guy in a lizard suit (and his foxy niece) that reparations have limits... |
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LOOKING FOR LIBRIUM: by Jim Shaw; Jan. 1995?, a mutant Biblical dream After fighting off an electrified Orson Welles, I meet the twelve vulture-pine-politicians climbing Mt Sinai, looking for librium... |
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MAGIC SCHOOL: by Wayan, 1982/1/26: a waking event and replying dream. Phyllis Schlafly, killer of the Equal Rights Amendment, provokes a dream of being Captain Kirk trapped in a magic school with no way out but the graduate exam. Can I learn the lesson of the tree? CAUTION: POLITICAL JOURNALISM BEFORE THE DREAM. OH NO! |
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THE MAN AT THE END OF THE PASSAGE: by John Hubbard c.1915? a surprise-ending dream War between a big conformist land and a small land devoted to quality. Big Land's rulers all die, but at last, sheer numbers defeat the smaller land. Now their leader, beaten and starved, awaits the sword at the end of the hall... CAUTION: POLITICAL? ACCORDING TO CARL JUNG! |
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MAN OVERBOARD: by Sir Stephen King-Hall; 1916, a lifesaving premonition acted on I was officer of the watch in the Southampton. I knew that as we passed an islet a mile ahead, a man would fall overboard... |
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MIGRATION THROUGH FIRE: by Wayan; 1999/9/3, a dream of what matters. I'm a shaggy primitive whose tribe's outgrown our caves. We migrate, and meet two new species of people... |
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MISFITS ON MARS: by Wayan; 1986/11/20, an epic dream; the climax of the dreamseries UNICORN TAG. From the punk clubs of Frisco to the Safeways of Si Valley to the vermilion sands of Mars, Silky the were-nightmare fights for the Misfits against every cliche in science fiction... |
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MOOSE: by Wayan; 1984/3/12, a dream on the blessings of curses. How the Supreme Court gave my brother antlers, and where his soul went: where I'll go, now that I know... |
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MORAL MINNOWS: by Wayan; 1992/9/15, a sociopolitical dream. A dream explaining why everyone with any moral vision gets filtered out of politics now... |
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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... |
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S TREE: by King Nebuchadnezzar II; c. 583 BCE, a predictive dream Nebuchadnezzar dreams a voice from heaven commands a great tree be cut; Daniel interprets this as a prediction the king will go mad for 7 years... |
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NIXON AND CHOU: by John Wren-Lewis, c.1973, a character-evaluation dream of Ann Faraday DREAM: I'm in the White House. Nixon blows his nose on the curtains! I think "despite his crudity, he reached out to China." DAY: my wife Ann has a cold--she's Nixon! The dream concedes she has private flaws, but she's pioneered dream research... |
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NERO'S TOOTH: by Vespasian, c.65 CE, an oracular dream fulfilled alarmingly soon Vespasian dreamed he and his family would rise only when Emperor Nero lost his teeth. The next day, a surgeon happened to show Vespasian a tooth he'd just extracted from... |
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ORDEAL BY INFRASTRUCTURE: by Wayan; 1987/11/22, a Clintonian dreamtale--before Clinton! I want to join the inner circle of America's political elite. But to do that I have to survive the Ordeal by Infrastructure... |
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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... |
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OUR GOVERNOR: by Wayan; 1990/3/28, an anti-death-penalty dream. I force the governor's chief aide to tour the new prisons for us artists, fags, and niggers. He's appalled--but how many more noses must I rub in the governor's racism? CAUTION: THE N-WORD |
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PAUL AND THE DISCIPLES OF JESUS: by Anna Kingsford; 1877/7/17, an indignant channeled dream Jesus's disciples kvetch that Paul, who never knew Jesus, twisted his clean simplicity into a religion... CAUTION: JARGON, HERESY (on one side or other) |
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THE PEN: by Elector Frederick of Saxony; 1517/10/30, a predictive political dream. Frederick dreams a monk writes words on the door of Wittenburg’s church with a pen so big it pokes the Pope. The next day... |
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PERISSA: by Wayan; 1997/9/13, a sexy dream-comic (small screen, slow loading? Illus. text) When Perissa, an exhibitionistic centaur, bares her body in a crowded Coliseum, she also bares a human-supremacist plot... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM |
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PERPETUA'S LAST DREAM: by St Perpetua; 203 CE, a flying, sex-changing, defiant dream. Facing death the next day in a Roman arena, Perpetua dreams of the spiritual duel behind the physical one... |
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PETER PAN SYNDROME: by Wayan; 1995/1/10, a dream on those books... I meet Peter Pan grown up: a stark, fey prince in exile. Why do only I see him and the Lost Children? Oh. |
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POD WAR: by Wayan; 1979/10/14, an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" dream Emotionless pod-people surround the last free humans. I fight for humanity, but I'm not human or pod--I'm... |
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THE POWER OF SUGGESTION: by Wayan; 1995/10/11, a dream on shamanic tactics. After studying assertion in dreams, I find I'm a shaman in an African village, troubled by a young rival... |
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PRIVACY GROWS CHARACTER: by Wayan; 1996/7/5, a psychologically astute dream. A scholar on Middle Earth warns our obsession with public transparency keeps our psychology crude... |
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PROPHETIC DREAM OF BUDDHA'S FATHER: by King Suddhodana, c.563 BCE? an uneasy dream Suddhodana dreams of great upheavals; no courtier can interpret the dream. An ascetic claims the upheaval will be for the good, then... turns into an owl?! CAUTION: PERHAPS NOT ENTIRELY ACCURATE |
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PRRL: by Wayan; 1997/1/17, an intergalactic dream. I'm an ambassador from the Milky Way to the energy-beings who rule the Magellanic Clouds. Or am really just their pet? |
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PUTIN GETS OFF: by Wayan; 2022/2/22, a gross political dreamlet. A library book with a brutal attack & rape scene has pages stuck together. Why? Some trollish reader masturbated all over it! Oh. Not an orgasm, a wargasm... CAUTION: HARSH TOWARD PUTIN (AND HIS AMERICAN BRO) |
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REFLECTIONS IN THE POOL: by Wayan; 184K total, 2 panoramas; a 1994/7/2 dream. Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love. Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace? CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL |
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RETURN FROM EXILE: by Anonymous #48, early 1994?, a fierce political dream I'm a rebel leader released from prison only to find my people beaten down and malnourished. I swear to eject our oppressors despite the price of war. ... |
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REVOLUTION IS MESSY: by Emily Joy; 2006/4/26, a political dream When whites invade, two shapeshifting Native American cubs resist architecturally... |
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RING OF WHITE WATER: by Wayan; 1983/1/30, an epic astral dream. I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. A girl in my tour group jumps ship: she dreads the white water of rocky relationships ahead... CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS... |
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RIVER CROSSING: by Harriet Tubman; mid to late 1850s; a lifesaving intuition Leading a party out of slavery, I got off the road when God warned me to. He insisted I must ford a cold river. Turned out the slaveowner had posted a reward at the station ahead; we were saved by divine guidance... |
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THE ROSA PARKS EFFECT: by Wayan; 1997/7/21, a political dream. The mayor declares war on bikers, blames us for gridlock! I dream of Rosa Parks' influence and realize... |
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SABOTAGED BOAT: by C. G. "Chinese" Gordon; c.1861-4, a recurrent warning dream I recognized the saboteur. If I had neglected that dream warning we all would likely have drowned... |
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SAGAN: by Wayan; 1996/5/3, a psychic dream in response to Carl's challenge. DAY: on the radio Carl Sagan calls those who've experienced ESP or UFOs "proto-fascists"... DREAM: a flying pewter teapot orbits a round blue vase--like a starship round the Earth... NEXT WEEK: My mom calls. She's selling that pewter pot after a century in the family... CAUTION: DISSES SAGAN |
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SELL THE GODS, AND RAISE HELL!: by Wayan; 1994/1/26, a dream riddle. Reactionaries smash a paper. To rebuild, the editor must sell the sacred tiki carvings! But gods don't LIKE being sold... CAUTION: MORAL QUANDARY |
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SHRUNKEN MEN: by Wayan; 1992/2/21, a dream on the masculinity crisis. Day: Robert Bly's book Iron John, claiming men need male mentors, annoys me. Dream: the giants co-opted Captain Picard of Star Trek, but we don't need him to rebel... CAUTION: MOCKS ROBERT BLY |
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SIEGFRIED MUST DIE: by Carl Jung; 1913/12/18, an archetypal (and predictive?) dream. Jung and a little brown man shoot down Siegfried the German Hero, riding his chariot of bones. Wait... his what? CAUTION: GRIM |
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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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SLAVES ON RED MARS: by Wayan; 1999/8/15, a dreamfable on will. As Mars demands independence from Earth, Jovians enslave us all! Now freedom-fighting is personal... |
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SMOKING REX: by Wayan; 1989/3/29, a dream of unlikely alliance. A cigar-smoking tyrannosaur moves into our neighborhood, upsetting us bluebirds and vampire bats. So we... |
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SORB TRUCE: by Wayan; 2008/9/1, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #20 In a desert crawling with aliens who can absorb your mind, I propose a truce, and gain... |
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A SQUARE IN THE HAND: by Anna Kingsford; 1887/4/12, an epic nightmare with a twist I'm a French revolutionary facing a firing squad. But palmistry predicts I'll be strangely saved... |
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STARHAWK THE WITCH: by Wayan; 1983/8/19, 6. illus., an epic, milestone dream. DAY: I read Starhawk's Dreaming the Dark, on building unity, undoing capitalism; DREAM: I'm forced to become Time Pilgrim, warning of the dangers of community--indeed, of unity... |
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STOVE: by a dwarf in the royal court of Wei (445-225 BCE); a brave truth-to-power dream Wei Linggong was an autocrat heeding only one minister. A dwarf bravely told him "I dreamt you were no imperial sun warming all, just a stove, and your crony hogs all your warmth..." |
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THE STUTTER: by Wayan; 1995/9/7, a religious dreamtale. Half our religion-founders were just one guy, repeating till he got it right. Practice makes perfect! |
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TAROT: (THE CHARISMATIC) LIZARD: by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. The card of driven leaders. It's so refreshing to hear someone honest and passionate. Right? Well... |
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TAROT: THE MAGENTA MESSIAH: by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. True teachers and leaders do exist, with vision enough to make seeds (and people) sprout... |
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TEXANS: by Wayan, 2018/8/22, an alternate-world dream The Lone Star Planet--worldwide Texas--is weirdly empty. No kids at all! Instead, teens ping into existence pre-formed. An alternate Earth with no concept of change? |
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THIEF OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1996/11/29, a sexy soul-swap dream; a 22-page comic (or text w/pics) I was a mermaid trying to find Count Coyote's stolen dreams, so I could marry my human girlfriend... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, LESBIAN MARRIAGE, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
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THE THING ABOUT DREAMS: by Julia Wertz, a dream autobiography, 1980-2010 As a kid, my nightmares were of Sesame Street characters. In my teens I graduated to slasher nightmares and recurring lucid dreams. Alcohol trashed my dreams for years, but now they're not nightmares--just surreal. Hitler wrecks my sex life! What a spoilsport... CAUTION: (MOSTLY FRUSTRATED) SEX |
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THREE-EYED WOLF: by Wayan; 1992/12/14. Digital comic of a dream, done movie-poster style A 'toon liberation dream. I cartooned a new self and slowly she grew realer, until she ran Disney... CAUTION: FRANK SINATRA SWEARS |
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TIAMAT'S REBELLION: by Wayan; 1988/1/1, a dream about neoteny. That day: I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah. That night: I dream she leads a revolution on a starship against her elders... |
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TIME-BUBBLE: by Wayan; 2008/9/1, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #19 In a city crawling across a marshy world, I find a detonating bomb frozen in a time-ball. Why not detonate it somewhere harmless, why carry this around? |
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TIMEDOORS OF THE GODS: by Wayan; 1998/2/17, a mysterious initiatory dream. I'm mortal, yet I'm offered a residency in the Commune of the Gods, along with Xena the Amazon Warrior and... Little Red Riding Hood? |
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TITANIA: by Wayan; 1981/12/7, 83/1/7 & 2/13 and 84/10/2, a dream-epic in installments Clarence the sappy angel from It's A Wonderful Life and Milton's Lucifer land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're fine as is, but the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full palette of feelings. Like the feeling she's fake... |
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TORCH-BEARER: by Queen Hecuba of Troy; c. 1270 BCE, 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 |
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TRUMP ON THE RUN: by Wayan; 1990/3/8, a suspiciously predictive dream The manhunt is on for Donald Trump, rich sociopath. But he too is pursuing something: happiness... |
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TWO BISHOP APPLICANTS: by Wayan; 1984/11/21, a surreal but mercilessly logical dream. My mind and my soul both apply for a job in Stanford Cathedral. Their rivalry grows to a shamanic duel... |
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UNCONTROLLED TIME TRAVEL: by Jo; 2007/7/13, a time-slipping dream. I'm a drug-addicted amateur dramatist. A businessman and I bring humanity back from extinction, but... CAUTION: TORTURE (brief), ADVOCACY OF WAR, HUMAN EXTINCTION (offstage) |
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AN UNDERCOVER TROLL: by Wayan; 1994/7/6, a dream of personal growth taken too far... Disguised as a literary troll, I spy on the Neo-Nazis, but my disguise can't last much longer: I ate a magical herb, and I'm growing... |
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UNICORN AND A.I.: by Wayan, 2023/1/12, twin dreamlets on how the other half lives UNICORN EMISSARY: I meet a unicorn diplomat in Japantown. Beautiful, formidable... THE A.I. WHO RUNS THE WORLD: I meet and then briefly become our world's leader; before the strain of it wakes me, I learn she rules mostly by not meddling... |
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THE UNWILLING GUIDE: by E.M. Martin; 1914/12/29, a nightmare of occupied England In a wood full of snipers, Martin has a hard moral choice: lead, leave or turn some possible spies... |
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VERTICAL PLANES: by Wayan; 1990/3/7, an astral pirate dream. We're air pirates running a music shop, till our biplanes are hijacked by cat angels! Furious, we set out... |
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VRILLASSA'S ONLY PRIEST: by Jo; 2007/2/10, a dream of meeting God A job as the only priest on an island colony sounded perfect, only I'm the wrong religion... CAUTION: DOGMATISTS AND DEAD BIRDS TALKING |
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WAITING FOR PIGFALL: by Wayan; 1979/10/31, a puzzling Halloween dream. The messiah of a suicide cult prepares to ritually sacrifice me. Then a miracle occurs! But... whose? |
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WAPATO BIRDS: by Wayan; 1986/2/2, a subtly psychic dream. I'm a Wapato Bird: part crane, part elk, part tree-bud. Despite my shyness, I must lead our people's migration to the Grand Teton lakes... |
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WASHINGTON'S DUNE: by Wayan; 1992/1/18, a dream on perseverance. George Washington faces sniper fire, kamikaze birds and critics claiming the fight for freedom is doomed... |
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WATERSHIP DOWNTRODDEN: by Wayan; 1983/6/22, a dream of another life. I'm an intelligent rabbit in an alphamale's harem, organizing a feminist movement... |
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WINDOW IN THE SKY: by Emily Joy; 2006/10/15, an epic, flying, apocalyptic dream When my friends and I learn to fly, all of Middle Earth turns against us! Fleeing from Saruman's army, I discover the backstage truth about our world... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, DOOM, PHYSICS! YODA IN THE TUB! |
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WOLVES EVOLVE: by Wayan, 1983/11/11, a Darwinian dream. After seeing 'Rear Window', Grace Kelly and I are wolf children in a pack that's quickly evolving into... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, CHILD SEXUALITY, WOLF-SLANDER |
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"YOU'RE NOT MY BOSS!": by Wayan; 2019/6/27, a disturbing political dream In a busy, shorthanded market, the store owner's running a checkstand. He mistakes me for an employee and starts ordering me around... CAUTION: AGE & GENDER... BIAS? OR INFORMED JUDGMENT? |
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ZERO SUM: by Wayan; 1996/5/29, a game-theory dream. I'm lecturing to a crowd: "Love's a win-win game, and abuse, lose-lose. But blame is zero-sum..." |
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ZILLIONAIRE'S TOWER: by Wayan; 2012/2/9, a financial climbing dream My mild yuppie friend Lou climbs a bank tower to reach his rich mentor, and wins an internship. But as he swears his oath to Get Rich Quick... CAUTION: DISSES CUTTHROAT CAPITALISM |
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