LUNA
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APOCALYPSE OF THE MOON: by Carl Linkhart, 1997 or before; dream poem/painting The far future. The moon falls to Earth. But then... the moon unfalls! Golden light nurtures a rebirth of our dying ecology & civilization... |
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BRAID OF SILENCE: by Wayan; 1989/1/24, a brief dream-poem We're slaves on the moon. But we're slowly stretching our freedom in the shadows, undoing the Braid of... |
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BRIDGE, MOON, PROFESSOR, SHOES: by Dorothea Tanning; 2003? Poem of a flying dream The moon invites me to go flying, but I get tired of magic and just want to go shopping... |
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CRESCENT CAT: by Wayan; 2011/2/17, a painting critiqued by a dream My dream critiques a non-dream artpiece. Does it only count as dream-art when your dream urges changes, or is creativity partly knowing when to stop? |
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THE DOOR THROUGH DEATH: by Wayan; 1981/10/25; a Greco-Egyptian nightmare poem At death's door, my friend lets Cerberus devour her, so I can enter Death's pyramid alive and expose the truth about the afterlife... CAUTION: FATAL DOG ATTACK |
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DREAMKU, JUNE 2006: by Roswila; various dates up to June 2006; thirty dream-haiku Daily dream-poems in haiku style, nonstop for a month. A flood of animals, revenant ghosts, sex changes... |
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EAT THE MOON: by Wayan; 2013/9/4; a weird shamanic dream-poem Lights on the moon! Future cities shine. Gotta fix that time-slip. But in shaman-space, the moon's a deerskull up a tree! I take it down, pocket its jewel-city-eyes and try to stew the moon. I'm Coyote, so my cookery goes wrong... |
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FULL MOON KIDNAP: by Wayan; 2018/4/30, a dream warning that recurrent illness shapes the psyche Every full moon, kidnappers jump me. Sometimes I escape, but when they succeed, they torture me till the moon wanes. They're careful to leave no physical scars... |
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GROUNDHOG DAY: by Wayan; 1994/9/2, a dream-comic (or text with pix) James Hillman is the first psychologist on the moon! He sees a shadow and panics like a groundhog--mistakes it for Death. Not his own shadow, but MINE... |
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HOWL: by Wayan; June 1983, a picture-poem on a daydream of deep time Surely the dinosaurs were as vocal as their little cousins, the birds. But bass to the birds' soprano! So when dinos sang to the moon... |
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THE LAST LUNAR STORM: by Wayan; 1999/8/27, a dream of a future squared. Lunar terraforming lags behind Mars; a global ice storm hits, like the bad old days. But the future... |
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LUCID ON THE MOON: by Wayan; 1980/2/23, a long-term psychic dream. I'm on the run, on the moon. Cyborgs toss bombs at me. Yikes! Is this what melted Mare Orientalis? CAUTION: NUCLEAR IRRESPONSIBILITY |
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LUNAMOTH (Around #11): by Wayan; soon after 1998/8/7; 2 portraits of a dream-self, one digital, one acrylic Day Me curls up and Night Me unfolds: a girl with dark moth-wings, not angel-white but camouflaged... |
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LUNAR REPUBLIC BORDERGUARD: by Wayan; 1996/8/30 sculpture of 1995/11/14 dream. A looming figure on the border of the new Lunar Republic, who told me it's time to turn from war to art... |
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LUNAR WEDDING: by Wayan; 1987/2/5, a poem of a surreal futuristic dream I'm at a fancy wedding on Mars, I think, but slowly realize the black sky and huge blue ball mean this lawn is on... ...the Moon. In the open. What are we breathing? Well... old money, I think. |
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MOON AND FIRE RISING: by Jenny Badger Sultan; dreamed c.1994/3/10 (+ earlier dream images, one from 1969) A dragon-woman showed me a cache of art. When I painted her face I recalled seeing it in a dream decades ago in a mirror... CAUTION: DRAGON BREASTS |
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MOON BLOOMS: by Wayan; 1997/7/22, a dream on traces of love. Everyone has a personal moon. At first, mine disappointed me, till a bard dumped his trash on it, and... |
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MOONCAT: by Wayan; 1995/11/14; a subtle dream-comic about sonar. text version Near a mysterious sculpture garden on the moon, lives the blind, bike-riding sage I seek: Moon-Cat... |
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MOONMARE (Around #6): by Wayan; ca. 1998/7/23. Digital drawing made deep in art trance. I made a cold moon of burnished metal, rusted and scraped. But then this warm mare reared... |
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THE MOONS OF THE NEXT TEN DAYS: by Wayan, 1983/3/7, an otherworldly predictive dream Two moons rise. From one unpeels a sort of rind; on it I see the future tracks of these moons' shadows and tidal sway on Earth, predicting ... |
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NO ROOM ON THE MOON!: by Wayan; 2014/7/7; poem of a frustrating surreal dream I want to catch a crescent moon home--our transit system's been buying up old moons and running them across town--but tourists reserved all the seats... |
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OUT OF BODY TO THE MOON: by Hervey de Saint-Denys, 1860?-67? Early out-of-body dream I rise out of my body, find I'm invulnerable, visit the moon, with its volcanic rocks, re-enter my body, "wake" and write the dream--only to wake again and find all my notes gone!... |
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PAD ON THE FLOOR: by Cory and Wayan; 2020/9/13, parallel, apparently telepathic dreams. CORY: I'm in a government complex. Tired, but guards harass me. At last they let me nap on a floor pad. WAYAN: I'm in the Student Union. Need to study, but guards harass me. Yet they let my friend sleep on a... CAUTION: APPARENT E.S.P. |
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POX: by Wayan; 2021/2/10, a short undream poem Smallpox is extinct. No need to worry. But the pocked face of the rising moon reminds me malice, madness, incompetence and black-market greed, our four horsemen, aren't extinct... CAUTION: ODE TO SMALLPOX, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? |
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RANGE: by Wayan; three 2019/8/19 advisory dreamlets plus 2020/1/8 followup 1: My dad can't see my world. Literally can't see my world... 2: The House of Busyness is unlivable--busy, crowded, noisy... 3: Achievement takes twelve factors; any one can block you... |
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REELS OF LIGHT PROPEL THE MOON: by Wayan; 2000/11/17; ink/digital sketch of the dream-voyage. The moon's a sailing ship propelled not by wind but light: the light of night-movies. Dreams... |
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THE SATURATION DIAL: by Wayan; 2015/11/7, a surreal lucid dream with a control knob! Night. Two moons. I go lucid! Find a knob adjusting the dream's color saturation. Dial it up--and meet ghosts of pure color, invisible til I luridified... |
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SHOVED OFF A CLIFF: by Wayan; 2017/9/7, a nightmare-warning (I'd asked what to do next). Atop a sea-cliff, I meet a young couple in love. One look at me and they push me off! When I see I can't save myself, I try to take them with me... CAUTION: NIGHTMARE BARING UGLY TRUTHS |
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O SONHO VIVIDO: by Angelique Benicio, betw. 2008-'23, a lunatic dream-painting The red string tying that creepy puppet to the child sitting on the moon has broken... |
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STRUCK BY THOUGHT: by Wayan; dreamed 1956-7, 71/11/26, 78/12/28, 82/10/5, & 83/9/12 A picture-poem experiment: one dream per stanza! Five short dreams exploring the weight of culture on our animal selves... |
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TAROT: THE MOON (Full Tide: Life): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1979. Time, tide, cycles. In the full phase, life brims over. Time for passion & action... |
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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... |
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TEN CLARKS AND LOISES: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, an epic dream on... poseurs? Hand-puppets, a devil and a witch, have sex, and implant a lunar ghost embryo into Lois Lane; now Lois & Clarkes, ten clones each, pretend to be puppets... CAUTION: PUPPET SEX; EVERYONE A FAKE |
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THANK THE MOON I HAD THE STRENGTH TO STOP!: by Wayan; summer 1978; song-inspired image. The moon as an early gilled fetus. I feel like a half-developed creature walking around in your dry air... |
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WEREWOLF PARADOX: by Garvin Jabusch, art by Jesse Reklaw; pre-2000; an ironic nightmare I must outrun the rising moon so I don't turn into a wolf and kill my friends, but only a werewolf is swift enough to... |
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WHAT! MORE?: by Wayan; 300 x 500, ink 1985, digital color 2001. The world needs Zen cards, to balance out the Tarot. So here's my Zen pack--all one of them. One too many. |
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WITWEET WAYAN: by Wayan, 1979/1/10, a dream of butch and femme. Six generations in the future, I find a poodle who can defuse the bomb my snotty friends can't... CAUTION: MAD SCIENTIST, EXHIBITIONIST GIRLFRIEND, POODLE MOCKERY |
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A WORD DREAM: by Maude Meagher; before 1936, a wild word-association dream. I often dream of words forming on a page as their images dance around me. Here's an example... |
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