LONGEVITY
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AM I EPHEMERAL?: by Wayan; 2006/7/6, a puzzling dream of alienation I live in a colony of long-lived observers of humanity. But am I one? Or a short-lived human pet? |
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ASK NOT WHAT YOUR CUNT CAN DO FOR YOU: by Wayan; 1989/10/24. A mad nondream digital poster. JFK and Marilyn as our gender archetypes point out the real gender gap: lifespan, not votes! CAUTION: LANGUAGE, BUT I GUESS IT'S TOO LATE NOW |
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BEETLE TIME: by Wayan; 2018/8/18; a dream-poem on time-slip A beetle helps me on a fairytale quest, then founds a great house; but only a year later, he's an ancient patriarch, and I'm still young... |
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CARDANO'S DREAMS: by Girolamo Cardano, 1521 & 1547/8/15, two confusing oracular dreams 1521: I ask a talking ape how long I'll live. "Four years" he says. "No longer?" "No." 26 years later, I'm still hoping to get truth from dream-figures--two dead guys tell me... CAUTION: JUNGIANS BEHAVING BADLY |
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CARTWRIGHT'S HARLEQUIN: by Rosalind Cartwright, 1927? to 2020/12/5? Lifelong recurring dream All her life, Cartwright dreamed of a figure disguised in a harlequin costume; she never saw his face. He always drove her to self-sabotage. But near her death, she dreamt she gave a lecture, and he... |
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THE CHILD ANGEL by Charles Lamb, early 1823, an otherworldly dream on a worldly plight I meet a half-angel half-mortal child, fruit of an illicit affair. Constantly growing pinfeathers, but never mastering flight; ageless, but unable to grow up; at home neither in Heaven nor Earth... CAUTION: 19TH-CENTURY VERBOSITY |
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THE CONDEMNATION: by Georges Perec; Feb. 1972, a dream of cults, persecution, and timeslip. Dream #105 I'm on vacation, but cultists lick my feet--then turn on me, casting stones. But they miss. So I wander the steppe for centuries, until I come to the City of Texas... |
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CREATURE BECOMES CREATOR: by Wayan; 2015/2/5, three linked advisory dreams on world trends A weird little forest god bred me from an ordinary deer into a creature who can almost pass for human. But World War 2 killed my god, and now I'm growing into... CAUTION: NUDITY, CROSSBREEDING |
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DANCING REDWOODS: by Gayle Delaney, 1973 or 74, an incubated dream My fiancé and I got along impossibly well. I asked my dreams "Can this last?" I dreamed we were two redwoods, happy next to one another for centuries... |
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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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FLOYD FREUD: by Wayan; 1983/4/18, a short dream of longevity. After trying "the Interpretation of Dreams," I meet Floyd Freud, who's attracted to the neo-Nazis... CAUTION: INSULTS THE MEMORY OF A GREAT GUY |
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THE FUR SIDE, or, GESTELLA: by Wayan; 2013/7/2; a dream-critique of a feminist fable After reading a fable about a murdered werewolf, I dream a tough old woman with golden wolf eyes joins our school lunch table, where the furry minority sits... CAUTION: CRITIQUES SUSAN PALWICK |
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JASHA EXPLAINS DEATH: by Wayan; ca. 1974/10/1; a 10-page painted comic with recurrent dream figures Deep Duck's interview with Jasha the Krelkin goes rogue, as she urges tossing out human habits like... death? CAUTION: REDWOOD-SPRITE SEX, PEEING ON TREES, DRUNK DUCK |
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KRELKIN: by Wayan; 1974/10/9, on nonhuman figures recurring in dreams My psychology professor insists that nature spirits faded away as science rose. But I still dream of krelkins! Jasha is the one I know best... |
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THE LONGEVITY INSTITUTE: by Wayan, 2019/5/7; a dream on a family mutation On the show Finding Your Roots, it turns out my dad's a genetic experiment born in... 1880?! The experiment worked; my sisters and I are slow-maturing, long-lived mutants... |
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LONGEVITY PLANS!: by Wayan; 1998/8/22, a nondream speculation. Lifespans are growing, but do we incorporate that into our life-planning? Oh, hell, do I plan at ALL? |
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LONGEVITY ROAD: by J.S., c.1898, a predictive life-arc dream I walked along a hilly road with ropes and boxes. My wife vanished in a hollow. But my path went on until the hills were blue in the distance. An old man interpreted... |
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METEOR OR STAR?: by Wayan; 2007/9/17, a dream of uncertainty I'm an anima. But we rarely walk the day-world for long. When will I fade? Ignorance isn't bliss, it's paralysis... |
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MY MOTHER & I: by J.S. & his mother, c.1910?, shared/parallel dreams MY DREAM: I was walking a hilly road, my uncle ahead, my stepdad behind; trying to keep them in sight. My mom appeared and I woke. MY MOTHER'S: the same. She told me hers before I told her mine. She thought it meant my uncle would die first, then me, then... CAUTION: APPARENT TELEPATHY, BUT MISINTERPRETED MEANING |
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NOT A CAT: by Wayan; 2022/11/27, a dream of being a sort-of-ghost I wander New York City, a homeless ageless child, unnoticed--unless I climb stairs. Then people panic--see a huge cat! But today I meet a crew lugging big paintings, who seem blind to cat or child. I think they're art thieves, mid-heist... CAUTION: SHAMANIC INTERPRETATION |
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NUCLEUS: by Wayan, 1979/3/18, a surreal dream of character-insight, set inside an atom I dream my theatre friends are particles dancing inside an atomic nucleus-- particles that reveal their character, motivations and power. And I'm one too... |
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OLD ADAM: by Robert Southey; 1804/12/7, a comic dreamlet. I meet the original Adam. He complains Eve neglects him, but he hopes to meet one of his cleverer descendants... |
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OLYMPUS UNMASKED: by Wayan; 2022/8/10, a far-future dream On terraformed Mars, we set out to climb Mt Olympus without oxygen masks. The first miles are OK, but the air thins until... CAUTION: ANTICIPATED DEATH? |
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PICARDIAN ANGELS: by Wayan; 1993/1/7, a dream of time and wishes. I walk on Martinique with Captain Picard of the starship Enterprise. He's here to see a dreamy boy... |
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PICARD'S ANGELS: by Wayan; 1993/1/7, a poem; alternate treatment of the dream PICARDIAN ANGELS As a boy on Martinique, Jean-Luc Picard wished for so much so hard, his angels have to work overtime... |
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SHE LIVES TO 140: by Wayan; 2017/7/13, a dreamlet urging crankiness I meet a 140-year-old hermit in her black chadoor, skateboarding down a hill near her sacred dream-spring... |
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SOLOMON'S CHOICE: by King Solomon, c. 970 BCE; a god's dream-bargain As his reign begins, King Solomon worries he's inadequate. He dreams God offers him one gift, of his choice--but what would help the most? |
SOUL RESTORED: by Wayan; 2016/12/4, two dreams on deep change |
MY SOUL RESTORED: To hide me as I grew up, someone transplanted a shard of redwood-soul into me, and part of my soul into the tree! But now I'm grown... RED ROBE OF INITIATION: I came to play music, but I'm dragged to the magic-school portal & draped in... CAUTION: MYSTICISM |
TAROT: THE MOON (Ebb Tide: Memory): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1979. |
Time, tide, cycles... At ebb, the hourglass drains, the tide recedes, life hides in the cracks... |
TOLD IN A DREAM: by Kathleen Raine, between 1965 & '71; a mystical dream poem |
A voice tells me I have 100 months to live. I vow it'll be enough to finish my work here... CAUTION: THAT VOICE WAS WRONG |
WHITE LOON: by White Loon, 1870s?, an initiation-negotiation dream |
At ten, I fasted a long tedious time. I dreamed a bird offered me showy gifts, but I kept to my grandmother's advice: never take the first offer. At last a big, strange bird from the north, a white loon, offered me long life and health; that I accepted! So now I'm called... |
WILLPOWER (HAPPINESS): by Wayan; 1991/1/17, a didactic dream. |
At age 90, the first female high-rise steelworker tells me why she did it--and why she regrets it now... |
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