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ABOVE THE WHITE TOWER: by Wayan; 1990/1/14, a flying sex-change dream of love Flying in a wild wind, I mate mid-air with an alien, get pregnant, change sex, fight the inlaws... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
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ADOPT A SON TO WIN A MATE: by Wayan; 2010/11/24; a dream of priorities I'm a big cat lonely in this human city. Wish I had a mate! But as soon as I take responsibility for an orphaned boy, in walks an older girl... |
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ALBATROSS LOVE: by Havelock Ellis; c. 1880?, a dream of unrequited love An albatross with beautiful eyes transformed into a woman. But her nose remained a beak! She asked... |
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ALL THE ANIMALS: by Sharon Lynn Pugh; c.1986, an epic, species-bent, funny, feminist dream-within-a-dream I'm a fox-woman. A human man courts me--insultingly. I dream my brain grows till my head hurts, till it splits open, till light gets in. I rant at the last dragon. Strange but kindly, he gives me a picnic... |
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AMERICAN WIDOW: by Alissa Torres; February 2002, a dream of her husband lost on 9/11 High-voltage traces of our lust and love flowed through our mattress nightly... until one night when the power surged and overflowed. Then I felt you... |
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AMIDA: by Lady Sarashina, 1055/10/13, a dream of a salvation-offer Three years before her husband died and she was left alone, Sarashina dreamt Amida Buddha stood in her garden and told her "Later I shall return to fetch you"... |
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ANIMAL HEAVEN: by Wayan; 2008/8/16, an astral dream-poem; Dreamverse #6. At a party in Animal Heaven, I fall for a rabbit-girl doomed to be human dinner. But how can I rescue her? I'm Fate's part-time intern! CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, INCOMPETENT ANGEL OF DEATH |
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ANNABEL ROSE: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/14, a ghostbusting dream on... love? sex? what? Edgar Allen Poe confronts his dead girlfriend, who wants to drag him into the grave with her... CAUTION: HUNGRY GHOST, SEX TALK |
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ANNIE, GET YOUR GOWN!: by Wayan; 1988/9/14, a comic dream. I'm Annie Oakley, sharpshooter, facing something scarier than gunmen: a formal ball introducing me to my new husband's family--Austrian aristocracy! What's an American gal to do? |
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ANSWERING JUNG: by Wayan; 2005/7/5, a dream parodying one of Jung's key dreams After reading Jung's dreams, I have an anti-Jungian dream of sexy nightmare-statues waiting to come alive, like the tree I draw & bring to life with my literally magic marker... CAUTION: NUDE STATUES |
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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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A PEEL FOR APPROVAL: by Wayan; 1990/9/24, a cautionary dream Ariana's a brilliant young writer, but how she plans to escape her family is alarming... CAUTION: TEEN PREGNANCY, SKIN MAGS, HORRIBLE CAREER PLANNING |
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ARIANA'S EVENING: by Andrea McFarland; 2022/4/28, a dream of a long-lost love Fifty years after I drove him away with high-school idiocy, I get one last kiss before... |
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ARIANE'S HONEYMOON: by Wayan; 1986/4/11, a dreamlet meant to shock; ch.2 of UNICORN TAG, a set of nine linked dreamtales. I married my childhood crush. Happy, till I overhear her tell my sister what she really thinks of... CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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ARISTOTLE'S WIVES: by Wayan, 1984/5/20, a dueling-philosopher dream. Aristotle keeps marrying my friends and fucking them up. So I challenge Mr. Logic to a shamanic duel... CAUTION: THE F-WORD. OOPS, TOO LATE! LESBIAN FISH, TOO. |
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THE ARTIFACT: by Wayan; 1983/1/16, a gender- & species-bent dream of the far future I was a reptilian archeologist, a million years from now. What I dug up at the beach threatened my marriage... |
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ASTRID AND ME: by Wayan, 2019/12/18, a dream inspired by a film--seen after it. DREAM: I'm a girl in love with an underage abused girl (using me to heal?) But gossips (& the Swedish navy) won't let us be... FILM: A Swede gets his teenage assistant pregnant--and small-town gossips blame her. So she writes Pippi Longstocking... CAUTION: TEEN SEX; ESP? |
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AT THE BISEXUAL BALL: by Wayan; 1997/6/21, a dreamtale. How I found out what I really wanted at the bisexual ball. Really, I'm not disappointed... CAUTION: OH COME ON, READ THE TITLE |
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ATLANTIS; c. 1993 by Mark Doty; six elegiac poems, three dream-based In our marshlands, tides, birds, dogs come and go; but must our friends and lovers, too? CAUTION: AIDS DEATHS |
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AVENUE OF TREES: by Anonymous #34; July 1911?, early 1924?, 1934/3/30, & Jan. 1947; four death-omen dreamlets, one predictive Every decade or so, I dream a loved one says farewell and walks down an avenue of trees. I wake to find that person's dying... |
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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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AWK!: by Wayan; 1988?, a trance drawing of a body state When I met someone attractive, my head flamed, burning my body like a wax candle... |
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BALANCE?: by Wayan, 1984/10/10, a dream about dreams. Silky, my sentient starship, gives me a scolding about playing it safe... |
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THE BASEBALL KISS: by Wayan; 1983/8/4, a dreamtale on choice. The Prime Minister of England breaks my nose, so I become a flock of squirrels to seek revenge. But maybe I should I let it go... |
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BASEBALL NAGA: by Wayan; 1971/7/12, a sexy snake dream. Our toy train full of nude baseball players went under the park sprinklers, so naturally our shortstop shelters her friend the outfielder snake. But in there? Isn't it just as wet in there? CAUTION: SCALY SEX |
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BATHSHEBA AT BELVEDERE: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1982 (mid-Dec?); a subtly feminist dream Boating, we land on a cape and find a house with a Rembrandt on the wall--Bathsheba holding a letter from David her lover, pregnant with thoughts as well as child... CAUTION: NUDE SKETCH |
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A BEAM OF FLIGHT: by Wayan; 1992/4/19, a dream of love and shellshock. I'm a dance teacher, I'm King Kong, I'm a shell-shocked elf, I'm a wild bird flying... CAUTION: GAY-POSITIVE ROLE MODELS, OH NO! |
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BEAR READ DUNE: by Wayan; dreamed 1981/1/28, painted 10 years later. There are many astral planes--this world's just the cellar. A cat and a bird in love, a literate bear and I guard the astral stair... |
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BEAUTY, BRAINS, WARMTH: by Wayan; 1987/11/28, a didactic dreamtale. The Goddess won't tell me who to seek, to love, just WHAT to seek--and what not to... CAUTION: DIVINELY SANCTIONED TRIGAMY? |
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THE BEE QUEEN: by Wayan; 1997/6/26, a hard-headed dream. Two time-traveling paleontologists get a gift from their friend the Bee Queen. A gift with six-inch fangs... |
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BEHIND THE SCREENS: by Wayan; 1984/2/12, a vivid sex dream that hid a warning I hide a catgirl behind Japanese screens. We have hot sex now & then--but usually I ignore her... CAUTION: SEX; NEGLECT |
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LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI: by John Keats, April 1819, a sexy nightmare poem A knight falls in love with a fey woman, until her previous victims warn him in a nightmare that she is... CAUTION: GOTH TO THE MAX |
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BETRAY MY ANIMAL FRIENDS: by Wayan; 1999/11/12, a dream of brainwashing. As humans settle infospace, will we cheat other species trying to evolve into people? Are we already doing it? Admiring & documenting creatures we've written off as doomed? CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES; DISTURBING PREMISE |
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A BIKE ODYSSEY, or, ARABELLA'S ARTIFACT: by Wayan; 1994/7/24, a day trip echoed in a dream. DAY: I bike across San Francisco writing down what I actually see. DREAM: I'm an abused English heiress with a dangerous alien artifact... CAUTION: HAUNTED BY CHILD ABUSE |
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BLAME IT ON RIO: by Wayan; 1984/4/13, a quietly psychic dreamtale. I dream a sexy softball pitcher strikes everyone out. Next day, my friend brings her home, and... CAUTION: LESBIAN DATING |
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BLESS MY PHOBIA: by Wayan; dreamed 1992/8/15; story + silk painting. I was Eve's guardian angel the second time round, and I blew it again. But this time, it came out right.... CAUTION: BREASTS AND BEASTS |
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BOB THE TREE: by Catshall; c. 2013/6/21, a dream-haiku on our marriage I dreamt Bob was a tree-god enthroned in ivy. I said... |
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BOLLYWOOD LOVE: by Wayan; 2009/4/12, a movie dream (duh!); Dreamverse #51 I dream the universe runs on Bollywood rules. I can stand the constant singing and breakdancing; what gets under my skin is that Bollywood Code... |
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BREAD CHESS: by Helen's fiancé; 1930-33, a detailed psychic dream Stalin's police held my fiancée incommunicado. But I dreamt of her prison, cellmate, and the odd game they played... |
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BREAKING THROUGH HER SHELL: by Mimi c.1985, as told to Patricia Garfield, a what-if dream A bride flies as a ghost, invisible, inaudible, sealed in a crystal shell; a guide shows her what'll happen if she can't shatter her armor and show her love... |
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BRITISH TRIANGLE: by Wayan; 2019/8/18, a dream of another life. I'm a middle-aged British writer in a triad with a sculptor and a dairy farmer who seem happy sharing me. But it's a small town, so we must be discreet... CAUTION: TRIAD THAT WORKS |
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BRUSHWOOD BELLY: by An the Black; Easter 1003, a bizarre predictive dream. An dreams a scary woman pulls his guts out and fills him up with brush! He wakes, gets gutted in a feud, and then... CAUTION: BLOODY VIKINGS! |
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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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BURN THE EGGS: by Wayan; 2008/1/20; a magical advisory nightmare with 15 sketches. Fighting an absolutist theocracy, my dragon-soul burns the church's dragon-nursery. The cost is terrible: a black vortex... CAUTION: ROMANTIC THREESOME GETS BURNED |
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THE BUTTON IN LOVE: by Wayan, 2009/10/20, two surreal dreamlets on romantic cluelessness A glowing sentient autistic button falls in love with a small boy; then I try to make two friends change orientation and fall in love by singing 'Molly Malone'... CAUTION: JUST... WRONG |
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BYRON’S DREAM: by Lord Byron; 1816, a dream of a love denied An epic dream on the lifelong effects of unrequited love, compressed into seven stanzas... |
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CAIRO GIRL: by Wayan; 2008/2/18, a feverdream shifting from nightmare to joy I'm lost in the angry streets of Cairo. But I meet a goth-girl with moth-antennae: a jinni who's working for longterm change. She takes me home... CAUTION: MOTH NUDITY |
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CALIBAN IN ENGLAND: by Theodore Weiss; 1966 or 67; a dream-play never written As I wrote a poem on Caliban, I dreamt I was him: taken to Shakespeare's England, shown as a freak, I must escape to save Miranda and Prospero from assassins... |
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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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CINCINNATI HUNCH: by Anonymous #56, 1969/9/8, predictive hunch & clairvoyant dream My husband had to go to Cleveland. I FOUGHT to keep him from flying out of Cincinnati; he took a night train. I dreamt I was flying, falling, and woke feeling the house shake. Later that day, my sister called to tell me... CAUTION: DID SHE SAVE HIS LIFE? WIKIPEDIA CASTS DOUBT. |
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CLAN TAUR: by Wayan; recurrent dream-family (best example: 1987/1/9); pencil studies 1998-2002. I keep dreaming I'm in a multispecies family full of centaurs and satyrs, having a reunion at the beach... CAUTION: NUDE BEACH, STRANGE RELATIVES |
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A CAT AND HER GIRL: by Wayan; 1979/5/15, a deep little dream. I'm a doctor in the future, trying to heal the neurolink between a girl and her cat... |
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CAT COUPLE: by Wayan; 1996/4/30, a drawn digital prayer or wish. I cover my computer's desktop with this image tiled endlessly. And will, till the lesson sinks in... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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CAT PEOPLE KISSING: by Wayan; clay carving of dream figures, 1996/8/29, 8" tall. An early dream-based sculpture carved out of dry white clay as if it were soft stone... |
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CAT SPEAKS ARMENIAN: by Wayan; 2019/5/17, a dream on the odds of finding love I meet a big cat who seems invisible to most humans. She talks in Armenian speech balloons. Too bad she already has a boyfriend! But her mere existence proves there's hope for me... |
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CAT-FOX: by Wayan, 2022/4/7, a surreal covid-frustration dream I live in a highrise. But a fox appears on our balcony! Through the glass door, he flirts with our pet cat-fox. But wild foxes can carry distemper, so I keep the door locked. Useless! This urban pioneer is talented. He steps through the glass... |
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CENTAUR BEACH: by Wayan; 1990. Two images from a set of recurring dreams. Me and my sisters at the beach. Strangers rarely think we're related, and you can see why... |
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CENTAUR QUARTET: by Wayan; 1982/2/26, 83/12/24 & 84/10/16, recurring dreams of my spirit family. Can our interspecies family survive? Our very instincts clash around solitude/boundaries, sex and incest CAUTION: SEX, INCEST, REPRESSION/DENIAL |
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CHAPLIN: by Wayan; 1974/5/22, a dream on loneliness. I'm Charlie Chaplin doing magic tricks with the Ring of Power. And I don't even WANT power, just love... |
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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 CHINESE PROFESSOR'S WIFE: by Wayan; 1997/2/4, a dream on abuse. My neighbor thinks I'm sleeping with his wife, who he abuses. Only I think she may be me... CAUTION: IMPLIED BATTERING |
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CLAIRE'S NAMES: by Wayan, 1998/1/11, a dream of love and pushing limits. My skateboard-riding mermaid girlfriend and I bind ourselves together by the magical power of names... |
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"CLIT!": by "D'Jeanna"; 2009/9/11, a breakthrough dream after coming out The day after my mom outed me to my dad, I dream a great storm has passed and everything's just glowing... |
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CLOSE THE GATE: by Emily Joy; 2004/11/19, a dream of decision. My foxy lover teases and tempts, but I can't let him into the patio for fear he'll hurt the rabbits… CAUTION: UNFUNNY BUNNY PUNS |
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COEURL: by Wayan; 1980/2/26, a dream of surprise transcendence I'm trapped in an alien hotel, my true love has gone radioactive, and the only way out is to turn into a giant, scary... CAUTION: CLOSET LESBIAN. LITERAL CLOSET. |
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COLT TABOOS: by Wayan; 1972/3/27, a puberty dream. A castle with horse statues in the moat. Only... one of them is alive! He's my lover... CAUTION: EVERY SEX TABOO YOU CAN THINK OF |
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COMICS & DREAMJOURNAL: by Rick Veitch, Jan 1974, a life-path dream I'm trying to jam together my dream diary and my first comics. My grandmother's skeptical. But at last, with an audible 'click', dreams and comics suddenly merge... |
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COMMUTE: by a Massachusetts woman, pre-1961, a recurrent telepathic prompt I pick up my husband at the train station daily, but he never calls--I just know when he arrives... |
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CORPSE-BUG: by Wayan; 1994/12/1, an allegorical sex nightmare. I'm a hippie girl in San Francisco, in hard times. To escape the Four Horsemen, I lie down with Death... CAUTION: GANGS, CREEPY SEX |
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CORRIDOR: by Barbara Heninger 1996/12/23, a dream-poem. In the dream-corridor of the many doors, I meet my husband, my lover, and my daughter... |
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CRAZY JANE GROWN OLD LOOKS AT THE DANCERS: by W.B. Yeats; spring 1929?, a dream-based poem Crazy Jane watches a dancing couple's passionate games, and envies even their hate; to her, it's part of love... |
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A CREATURE: by Albert Grass, 1938? Or Zoe Beloff, c.2008? An early Freudian dream-comic--or a hoax! Dream: wild animals race across Paris, but in my hotel lobby, a small creature on my shoulder murmurs "Je t'aime." Awake, I know those racers from the themepark where I work. But the creature takes me way back--to Paris, 1918... CAUTION: ONE-NIGHT STAND |
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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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CRUISE: by "Michelle", 1990s; a recurrent predictive dream I never go on cruise ships but I keep dreaming I'm on one and meet the same man, and marry him..... |
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CYCLES AGO: dream by Maud Gonne, poem by WB Yeats; late July 1891, a dream-poem We were as if brother and sister of old in the desert land; they sold us in slavery together before this life had begun... |
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DAD RETURNS: by Larry Vigon; 2003/8/25; a classic dream of a revenant I'm in a restaurant when my dad walks in. He looks great; he has both legs again. We talk, say "I missed you", we hug lovingly... |
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DAD'S DATES: by Wayan; 2008/8/17, a dream poem, Dreamverse #8. After my mom's death, my dad starts dating again, while I hide out and wince. Can't I do anything positive? |
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DALMATIAN MARE: by Wayan; 1987/8/22; a dream on hiding and showing off. I dreamed of South American musical intrigue in a grand hotel. Enter a polka-dot shapeshifter... |
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DANCING WITH EMILY BRONTE: by Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree; 1943?, a literary love-dream Alli/Tip could only imagine loving the strange, intense, and unavailable--and Bronte was all three.. |
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DEER SORCERESS: by Wayan; 1981/5/18, a dream on the virtues of chaos. A witch-girl turned to a deer flees hell-hounds who just CAN'T get organized... |
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A DIFFICULT PATH: by Anna Kingsford; 1877/11/3, an advisory dream. I lead my daughter up a thorny path; she’s getting scratched. She'd rather stay in that fishing village below... |
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DINO FOR A NIGHT: by Wayan; 2017/7/9, a sci-fi-movie dream poem I'm turned into a small dinosaur and treated as a guard dog. But I meet a dino girl. We have fun, once we see it's a movie--they won't kill off the love interests. Hollywood rules make us invulnerable... |
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DIURNAL AND NOCTURNAL WORLDS: by Wayan; 1993/11/8, an epic dream of the multiverse. Round the ring of twelve worlds and their twelve gods, seeking one god who's giving me grief... |
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DO YOU LOVE ME, JOHN?: by Wayan; 1991/7/6, a dream on the courage of the shy. I dream of a future where blondes are a too-cute endangered species. How can they survive? Like this... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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THE DOG KING: by Wayan; 2009/9/28, a short dream poem with portrait; Dreamverse #55 Around royalty, protocol gets complex. I love the Dog King; despite her title she's female. Does that make her a... |
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DON'T YOU HEAR THAT WHISTLE BLOWIN...: by Denise Levertov; 1974/9/6; a dream poem 4 AM. A train wakes us all. We watch it pass, thinking of lost friends. And then I wake again to find... |
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DRAGON/WOMAN: by Pam Cardiff, 1994/6/20, a dream of a dad's curse A mage turns his daughter into an ugly dragon. She pines for a sailor, but though they make beautiful music with magic crystals, he rejects her... |
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A DREAM by Barry Cornwall, before 1819; a dream of a mytho-historical tour I go back 3000 years to the Judgment of Paris, then at Babylon's height see King Nebuchadnezzar, then the doomed lovers Antony & Cleopatra, then Triton and the Nereids celebrating a divine birth... CAUTION: DENSE CLASSICAL REFERENCES |
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THE DREAM: by Theodore Roethke; before 1958; a dream-poem? Or not? A mysterious night-encounter with a shapeshifting spiritwoman as elusive as Roethke’s poetry... |
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A DREAM OF ROSES: by Kathleen Raine, between 1965 & '71; a colorful warning dream I walked a vast rose garden, but all were Ophelia's yellow blooms of love forsaken; not one was the color of love's true flower... |
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DREAM OF THE DANCE: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 2006/10/16, a dream-painting After our trip to Turkey, I dreamed I was dancing in a heavy black robe like those the Turkish women wore... |
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DREAMKU, JANUARY 2007: by Roswila; various dates up to January 2007; 31 dream-poems--mostly haiku A month of dreams full of science fiction: galactic navigation, spacedragons, oppressed fairies, alien love... |
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DREAMSTONES: by Patricia Garfield; 1978/8/4, a dream of summoning a goddess In the cave, I chanted "Come Kama, Come Love..." and a procession of strange creatures came down the stone steps; squirrels, peacocks, a blue birdlike being with golden headdress, and then the Goddess of Love. Her form shocked me... |
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EAGLE AND GEESE: by Penelope of Ithaka; c.1240 BCE, a subliminal, self-interpreting dream I dreamt an eagle slaughtered my twenty geese. I wept until he spoke to me: "Take heart! I am thy husband..." |
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EAGLES IN LOVE WITH A SWAN: by Thorstein Egilson; c. 982 AD, a twenty-year predictive dream Before his daughter's even born, Thorstein dreams two eagles in love with a swan kill one another in rivalry over her... CAUTION: PATRIARCHAL BARBARIANS |
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EASTER HEALING: by "Clairity"; 2008/03/23, a joyful lucid dream I will a clay cat to come to life, then start healing real cats and dogs and... |
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EDWIN'S DREAM: by soon-to-be-King Edwin, c.616, as told by the Venerable Bede; a nagging dream King Ethelfrid bribes Redwald to turn over his guest, Edwin. Edwin dreams an angel warns him, swearing to save him if he'll convert. Redwald's wife tells him "Don't betray a guest." Once Edwin's king, that dream-angel demands his fealty... CAUTION: SHODDY SPIRITUAL BARGAINING |
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EIGHT ELFLOCKS: by Wayan; 2007/8/11, an absurd psychic sex dream. I learn weird sex positions from an abused elf, have calligraphic orgasms, and then I, uh, turn on my stereo... CAUTION: SEX, ESP, ANORGASMIA, PAST LIVES, ABUSE ISSUES |
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THE ENCHANTED WOMAN: by Anna Kingsford; Feb. 1877, an epic prehistoric dream. Goaded by a green spirit of envy, an Ice Age sorceror kidnaps Adam's Eve, arresting human evolution... |
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ENKIDU: by Gilgamesh of Uruk, c. 2750 BCE, an early prophetic dream The hero Gilgamesh troubles his city till he dreams the gods will send him a best friend & lover, Enkidu... CAUTION: SEX |
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EXPLORATION: by Wayan; 1998/2/27, a dream on leaving your safe zone. Hide-and-seek on an alien world ends in a sexy encounter--and a startling insight on BELIEF... CAUTION: SEX |
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FAIRE DINOSAUR: by Wayan; 1981/5/5. A dream of forbidden love. I fall in love with a sexy T. Rex at the Renaissance Faire. Then things get weird... CAUTION: DINO ABUSE |
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FAIRY WIFE: by Wayan; 1985/1/17, an epic dream of love and choice. A fairy woman and a mortal man? Can't work! They're flighty, we're crude. Doomed, right? Well, some people are so sure of it they decide to help things along a bit. Or a lot... |
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FAMILIARS: by Wayan; 1986/4/2, a dreamtale on the dark side of reading. In ancient Britain, as Christianity moves in, I'm a slave--sailing through centuries, but never free... |
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FARM LIFE: by Emily Y. Chan, 2022/1/22 or before; dream painting I was working at a farm with a two-headed dragon creature as my companion. One head was very loyal and the other head absolutely hated me. I always forget which is which... |
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FEATHERHOLDERS: by Wayan; 2020/5/18, a dream of a strange career My friend Xanthe steals a sorceror's magic feathers and creates a police force to curb the misuse of magic. But I'm no featherholder; I'm the dispatcher... |
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FETAL PAUSE: by Wayan; 2008/8/31, a nightmare-poem, Dreamverse #17 As I write a sad sex dream, a madman curls up fetally in the road outside my window. I'm slow to call 9-1-1, and... |
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FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 2.6M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic. I had an epic dream lasting subjective weeks--a true other life. It wasn't Earth and we weren't human. I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. One night, my friends curled round me, I saw I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a woman, marry, and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right... 2600K loads slowly? Try it in parts: 1: HOME, 650K, 2: VOYAGE, 1200K, 3: BACK 750K. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
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FIVE ELVISH DREAMS: by Dolores J. Nurss; 2005/6/10-2005/6/19, an incubated lucid-dream sequence 1: I visit Elrond and Bilbo in Elvenhome, but overthinking traps me in a timeloop; 2: Elrond says he renounces seriousness for joy, and plans a great, inclusive party; 3: I feel unworthy, but set out on a desert quest with Elrond's young apprentice; 4: I meet joyful, drunken, singing elves but hide in a tree, too shy to join in; 5: I meet a nervous elven singer and a dolphin trapped in a tiny pool in my bedroom... |
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FLIGHT, MARGARET, MOUSE, DOG: by Paul Nash, dreamed 1895-9 + Feb. 1913; art by Dave McKean As a child, landscape artist Paul Nash dreamed of flying over the countryside of southern England. But he was threatened by the legendary Black Dog... |
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FLYING, FIGHTING, LOVE: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/4/23, a dream of... oh, guess! Swedenborg fights a flying woman over a lake, then is in bed with another. After some language and privacy problems, all goes so well he thinks they've made a child... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, SEX |
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FOINBREK THE MOOSE: by Wayan; 1993/12/4, a dreamtale on love and work. My lesbian twin, who lives in the unemployment line, falls in love with a pushy moose from Brooklyn... CAUTION: INEPT SEX |
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FOUR PERCEPTUAL SCREENS: by Wayan; 2018/1/24, a dream urging me to drop some armor--but not all I dream my Doors of Perception have four layered screens to keep out mosquitoes, when one is plenty... |
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FRACTURE SPEEDS MARRIAGE: by Wayan; 2001/1/1, a dream of advice on health and romance. A baseball star got her leg broken. It stalls her career, but helps her marriage. Did she need a "break"? Do I? |
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(A DREAM OF) FRANCES SPEEDWELL: by Robert Graves; 1971?, a dream-poem Decades ago, I was too shy to talk to Frances. Now I'm going upstairs with a girl who looks like her but... |
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GARDENIAS: by Laurel and Frank, 1979 or before, shared marital-advice dreams Laurel and Frank each dream the gardenia in their bedroom went neglected & unwatered, but with care is now blooming again... |
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(ON THE OLD) GENDER TRAIL: by Wayan; late 1995, digital picture-poem with dream intrusions. For me, the path to love is difficult, elusive, convoluted... |
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GIRAFFE CAMOUFLAGE: by Wayan; 2020/9/1, a dream of the anti-closet? A human and a talking giraffe fall in love. But some hunters still shoot animal people. So he camouflages her with paint. Bright paint. Now she's more visible than ever! Not that I can criticize his eccentricities. I'm in love with a unicorn songwriter... CAUTION: FURRYPHILIA |
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GIVE TRAVIS ONE MORE CHANCE: by Wayan; 1980/10/13, a desperate dream. I'm detective Travis McGee's lover. But we always die by the book's end! My solution is drastic... CAUTION: HARD-BOILED HANDGUNS |
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GOLD NECKLACE: by Elaine, c.1970, told to Ann Faraday; a subliminal or psychic warning dream DREAM: My husband was slipping a gold necklace onto a slim, dark girl I'd never met. I woke and sketched it... AFTER: He was having an affair with the girl, and gave her the necklace the night of my dream--her birthday... |
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THE GOLDENE BOOK OF VENUS: by Anna Kingsford; 1881/3/15-16, a poem read in two dreams Poem from a book on how love can save lives & souls, read in two dreams of a Renaissance astrologer's library... |
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GOOD DOG!: by Wayan; 1992/4/15; sketch of inner me, doggily insecure. The shy, doggy need for reassurance I often crave from a lover--do I crave a mistress, an owner?... CAUTION: NUDITY, PILLOW TALK |
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GRAMPA GOT AIMED: by Wayan; 1987/6/17, a psychic dream. The girl I love has a family that'll stop at absolutely nothing to destroy us. But I'll fight for love... CAUTION: SEX; EMOTIONAL VIOLENCE; MOLESTATION HISTORY |
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THE GREAT PEACE: by George Antheil; early 1922; two predictive dreams that change a pianist's life I dream it's after a great war; I hear the music I must write, and meet the girl I must marry... |
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GUDRUN'S FOUR HUSBANDS: by Gudrun Osvifursdottir; summer 988, plus spring 1026
Four childhood dreams predicting Gudrun's life; plus a predictive dream by her husband Thorkell Eyjolfson Gudrun dreams of four treasures: a hood, a bracelet, a ring, a jeweled helm. Her cousin sees them as four marriages... |
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GUILTLESS LIAR & HONEST EXHIBITIONIST: by Wayan; 2020/9/2, a dream on sex? Or politics? I fall for a girl whose charm turns out to be partly her utter lack of worry and guilt--as she lies & cheats! At last I face facts, and drop her. I end up with a quieter but honest girlfriend, though she too has quirks... CAUTION: PUBLIC SEX, POLITICAL INTERPRETATION |
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GYRLFALCON: by Wayan; 1971/11/26, a genderbent, speciesbent & predictive dream I'm a Gyrlfalcon in a theater, fighting the Wolverine and his Morlocks with my lover the Green Lion... |
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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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HAPPINESS UNBLOCKS ART: by Wayan; 1997/7/7, nondream book review An insight about a fictional character who unblocks her creativity changes my own life strategy... |
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HEIRESS AND MORTAL: by Wayan; 2011/2/16, a dark advisory dream I'm a misfit--a mortal in an immortal world. Then I meet a girl with an unpredictable illness... |
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HELL IS HEAVEN!: by John Keats; 1819, a happy scandalous dream I dreamt I was in the outermost circle of Dante's Hell, among condemned lovers, floating forever, in love, in bliss... |
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HER ONLY FRIEND: by Wayan; 1996/7/1, a dream of worms turning. A sorceress trains a kid as a prostitute who'll spy on her powerful clients. But her training has side effects... CAUTION: EXPLOITED KIDS |
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HER STINGY DAD: by Wayan; 1998/7/29, a dreamtale on parental ambition-stunting A single dad loves his daughter, but is so pathologically cheap he's teaching her an unintended lesson... CAUTION: CHILD NEGLECT |
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"HIS BALL IS EMPTY": by Wayan; 1982/3/23, an epistolary advice-dream. A letter to Miss Hornyhearts compares the writer's lover and husband. Some sharp advice for nice boys... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
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HIS DEER WIFE: by Wayan; 1995/7/9, a dream of love in a parallel world. I'm a slave, a scribe in the house of a Captain of the New Aztec Empire, when he brings home a wife... CAUTION: SLAVE SOCIETY, SEX, SPOUSAL ABUSE/NEGLECT |
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HIS VISIT HOME: by Anonymous #26 as told to Louisa Rhine; 1924/5/15, a predictive hypnogogic dream I saw my husband come to my bedside, smile, visit our little son in his crib. Then he vanished. But at dawn, my husband, dressed exactly as in my... |
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HOLD HEAD: by Wayan; 1993; nondream digital sketch. This started as an exercise in dramatic figure-drawing and shifted round into an exorcise in guilt... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL CONFESSIONS |
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THE HONEST INMATE: by Wayan; 1997/5/8, a dreamfable on truthfulness. I'm a psychopath in a prison for the insane. But I fall in love, and change. Blunt honesty fuels the change... |
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THE HORSE VOTERS: by Wayan; 1995/4/30, a time-travel dream on... race? I'm back in the 19th century, learning that horse breeders cross-bred more than the public thinks. One suggests I look hard in the mirror... CAUTION: UNSEEMLY SENATORIAL DISCOURSE |
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HOT TO TROT or BRAIN TRAUMA or HUMPIN' THE HOG or SAD-EYED SWAN OF LOVE: by Wayan; 1993/8/4, a bizarre, epic dream on finding your way I'm a mare hot to trot (and get laid) in the Big City, but my gay Star Trek friend's brain trauma makes her a clueless alien with a bo(a)ring sexlife--until a sad swan enfolds her in love... CAUTION: ALIEN POSSESSION, CARTOON PIG SEX, SMOKING SWANS |
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I DREAM OF... ME: by Linda Medley; 1990 or 91, a dream-comic, the seed of Castle Waiting I wake in a hobbit-hole. My love looks worried. What's wrong with me? A badger takes me to see wizard Sean Connery, who gives me feathers to eat, and I become... |
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I DREAMT I WAS SOMEONE ELSE: by Moonlit Jade, c.2000, a child's genderbent dream I dreamt I was an adult, and male. I was hiking in the snow with my girlfriend or wife. I felt protective--and utterly at home in this quite different body. If dreams process our daily experience, what did this dream draw on? |
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I GUESS IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY PARTY: by Jack Kerouac, early Oct.1952, a transcendent nightmare? My party's a slow disaster. Talk, booze, pot, sex--nothing works out. What will Mom think? At last, trapped in an office, I get the Message... |
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I MIST MY SISTER: by Cory and Wayan; 1992/9/20; a dream-comic. Cory's healing dream triggers one by Wayan My friend Cory's sore back is healed by a dream. So I ask for the same, and get this dream of incest... CAUTION: KARMA, SEX/NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES |
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I WON'T DIE TILL LOVE DIES: by Wayan; 1981/1/21, a divine dream . I meet the mermaid goddess of love in her pool, but when she advises me, I dispute one small point... |
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IGUANA: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995, two surreal dreamlets on water damage In a flooded room, an indignant iguana scolds me, while my wife Marnie checks her computer implant for water damage... |
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THE ILL-FORMED TALE: by Wayan; 160K, 1981/4/7, a wild dream anti-epic. To reach the Peak of Happiness on the Isle of Dreams, I must pass four Perils--but they're all backwards... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS NUTS, KNIVES, NUDE ALIENS, BACKWARD PLOT... |
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ILLUSION: by Georges Perec; December 1968, a prose-poem of a nested false-waking dream. Dream #4 I am dreaming. She's beside me. I tell myself I'm dreaming. I wake. She really is beside me. Delirious joy. I embrace her. I wake... |
IMPERSONAL ORGY: by Wayan; 1997/9/18, a temptation dream--or an un-temptation dream?. |
At the beach, my friends start a sleepy anonymous orgy... I'm single and frustrated, but is this what I want? CAUTION: SEX |
IN MY DARKEST HOUR: by Arlo Guthrie; 1967, a song heard in a dream. |
A man in a castle plots against his enemies, while his rebel-daughter meets her lover outside... |
IN THE FORM OF WOMEN: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/7/3, the earliest recurrent dream-symbol? |
Swedenborg tenderly says goodbye to a lover. A few nights later he realizes his dream lovers repeatedly represent scholarly fields! An avid scientist, he find research as sexy as, well, sex... |
IN WOMEN'S PRISON: by Wayan; 1994/7/23, a dream of faith. |
A woman in prison loves her counselor, but she's a barely literate hooker--she knows he won't love her back... |
THE INCEST DREAM: by Maxine Kumin; 1979? a dream-poem |
As my brother was dying, I had a series of vivid premonitory dreams about him. But I was unprepared for... |
INSURANCE: by a young widow; 1947, a dream of lucrative ghost advice |
After my husband's death, I dreamed he pointed at a small black bag I hadn't opened. It held insurance policies... |
INVISIBLE GIRLFRIEND: by Wayan, 2023/4/11, a baffling predictive dreamlet |
DREAM: in my car, the window crank turns on its own; my invisible girlfriend is crawling out the window! She's turned so quiet & private. Have I seen the last of her? Well, not seen... NEXT DAY: I stumble on a one-off manga about an invisible girl; but the artist writes "I decided not to make her a regular--too quiet & private, & I can't draw her feelings"... CAUTION: GLASSY NUDITY, E.S.P. SPECULATION |
IS LONGING A RIGHT?: by Wayan; 2021/6/26, a dream on willpower & guilt |
I'm in a dance class where we built not just muscle strength but strength of will, too: the idea's to magically summon your soulmate through sheer longing! And my classmates succeed--intermittently... CAUTION: QUEER THINKING |
ISLE OF THE BLEST: by Wayan; 1990/11/9, painting inspired by series of fox-dreamlets |
I'm a Japanese werefox, longing to reach the Isle of the Blest; but dare I swim for it? |
IT DOESN'T ADD UP: by Wayan; 1995/6/26, an arithmetical dream. |
Dream math often seems bad, but I think the discrepancies are a signal, not noise... |
JACK IN THE DITCH: by Jack's mom; 1944/6/6, 6/7 & 6/8, three apparently telepathic dreams |
Jack was a parachutist on D-Day. His mom dreamt of the strafings, the ditch he hid in, the deaths of his comrades... |
JAKE'S MAGIC CARPET; 2006/12/12 by Zhea Zarecor; a reconciliation dream that grew to something more |
Not long after Jake died, I dreamed he took me on a magic carpet ride. Since then, I've been flying... |
JASON: by MariNaomi; 1989, a romantic-warning nightmare |
The Mummy chases me, then unwraps his bandages to show the mutilated face of my boyfriend. "I'm getting out of jail!" he says. Then the phone wakes me. My boyfriend. He says "I'm getting out of..." CAUTION: CODEPENDENCE, MUTILATION, GUILT AND GRIEF |
JUST SEX AND IDIOTS: by Wayan; 1998/2/22, a political dating dream. |
A sex dream warning "to find your soulmate, learn to spot the opposite: cute political and spiritual idiots..." CAUTION: SEX AND POLITICS |
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