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ALL MANNER OF THINGS THAT BEGIN WITH M: by Wayan; 1995. Collaged dream images A painting of mountains, manes, mermaids, moons, mattresses, mouths, maples, mohawks, mice & men... CAUTION: NUDE M-THINGS |
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AZOREAN PAN: by Wayan; 1988/6/3 & 6/6, two subtly predictive dreamlets on a Greek god 1: On a mid-Atlantic islet, a farm family plays music to summon the Greek god Pan. It works! 2: A mystical picturebook shows Pan & his mermaid lover. Again I'm told music summons Pan! CAUTION: GOAT-GOD NUDITY |
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BLUE MER-ANGEL: by Wayan; 2000, ceramic sculpture, 11.5" long. Seems strange to have no hands. How do dolphins get things done? By not needing to get things done? CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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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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DATIN' DEMON: by Mark Varitz and Wayan; 1989/12/3; Mark's dream triggers one by Wayan. I meet my personal demon, and discover it has a personal demon: me! Am I worse than my Shadow? CAUTION: LANGUAGE, NUDE MONSTERS |
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DREAMTALES: by Wayan; 1996-2006, a 250-page collection of dream comics "I've always dreamed other lives. Other bodies. Other times. Other worlds. I draw my lives..." |
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DRESSER GUARDIAN: MER-ANGEL: by Wayan; mid-May 1999. Dream-figure portrait, acrylic, 5x5" A guardian figure who recurs in my dreams, painted on my dresser to guard my sleep-journeys... |
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THE ERTHEDNI: by Wayan, 1977/1/8, three transformation dreams, the last with advice 1: I'm starving in a lush valley; a cult claims all the food, the water, even the air. 2: I'm drowning in a cage but find a corner with water I can breathe--just barely. 3: I'm a merman with a wise friend who hints I need to leave those who starve & drown me... CAUTION: DOMESTIC BATTERING (OFFSTAGE) |
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EVASIVE MANEUVERS: by Wayan, 1986/9/17, a doubly predictive dream DREAM: Landsmen betray their mermaid lovers in a harbor full of towers that seem tilted and broken from under the sea. NEXT MORNING: My boss asks me to track down a new translation of Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid. AFTERNOON: I find a book on IQ tests that include spatial questions full of broken geometric shapes--familiar shapes... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS |
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FEVER DREAMS: by Wayan; 1993/9/8, a set of wild feverdreams. While my body expels a kidney stone, weird scenes happen on the astral plane. At least I get to dip the pope. CAUTION: PAIN, PEE, POPE |
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FOAM, FURS, DREAMS: by Wayan; 2012-16, a blog on sewing giant dream plushies; 43 dreams! My dreams urge me to build furry dream creatures with joints, muscles & bones, then to heal myself by mating with them... CAUTION: FETISHISM, FURRY NUDITY & SEX |
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FOUR ELEMENTALS: by Wayan, four recurrent 2009 dream-figures, 2010/1/1 to 1/14 For the New Year, I draw a group portrait of the old year's main dream-figures. Four needs came up constantly... |
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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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IN IO: by Wayan, 1981/8/7, a wild otherworldly dream with 3 illustrations. I live on Io. It's nicer than its photos. At least inside, where the oceans are--where I grow a second head... |
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JESSICA THE MERMAID: by Jessica, mid-1977, dream-provoked dream At a dream workshop for kids, James's trickster dream-figures provoked Jessica to dream one chased her; fleeing, she jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge, became a mermaid, and married the trickster... |
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KORE: by Ann McCoy; 1986, a dream of the Goddess inspires an epic drawing My guide to the archeological site was veiled, but soon she revealed her scales and gills. A little girl led a procession in, to reconsecrate the Temple of Isis... |
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LAMIA by Wayan, 1988/11/1 with a nightmare by John Ruskin, 1869/11/1 I ask my dreams about sex, and get... sex on a beach with a sea-serpent girl--a lamia. But she gets queasy-- landsick! Too hot for her up here. Help her back in the sea. What a contrast with Ruskin's lamia nightmare... CAUTION: SCALY SEX |
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LORD OF THE UNDERWORLD by Wayan, 1989/2/11; a chthonic transformation dream While spelunking, I blunder into the Lord of the Underworld's court where dragons swim--and become one! My human friends stare at me, coiled with my two mates. Do they even know me now? CAUTION: SCALY THREESOME |
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LUCID FLIGHT TO VALHALLA: by Paul W. Coca; 1991/4/5, a lucid flying sex dream I realized I was dreaming, and flew. My friends were skeptical and held me down a while, but soon I had them flying too. At a party in Valhalla, I made love with a mer-angel named Ealswa... |
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MANATEE: by Wayan; 1989/5/12-1992; digital nondream painting. Beauty's link to status and privilege bothers me. The pretty get perks (or parks), while we uglies... CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, AND A BLOOD FLOWER |
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MERBOY: by Al Davison, 1961, a joyful dream remembered from infancy At around one year old, Al dreamed, while in hospital, that he was a merboy leaping from the sea, trying to figure out how to swim in the air, too... |
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MERMAID CULT: by Wayan; 2022/6/30, a dream-poem on... envying party animals? I meet a cult worshiping a mermaid who just wallows in a puddle, teaching her followers absolutely nothing; she just wants admiration for her looks... CAUTION: CARTOON BREASTS |
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A MERMAID DISH: by Wayan; 1994/11/13, a parabolic dream A mermaid friend invites me to see an underwater experiment in the Golden Gate... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS |
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THE MERMAID'S DRESSING ROOM: by Wayan; 1993/12/18; a dream on how to evolve. At Sea-Dragon State Park, I climbed down to the sea serpent's dressing room after the show, and found... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS |
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MERMAID, MARE, AND SEA-STAR: by Wayan; 1983/3/23; daydream of sea-love I was a mermaid summoning a great storm to carry my love to me--and my love was a red sea-mare... |
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THE MERMAID TOW: by Wayan; 1994/2/17, a rescue-fantasy dream. I rescue some drowning kids by turning into a mermaid, but towing one girl has an unexpected effect... |
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MERMAID VERSUS TRUMP: by Wayan, 2020/1/7, one of twin warning dreams Agents of Donald Trump with knives trap a mermaid. I jump one of them, and she escapes, towing me with her. She assumed humans just hate merfolk, but I know... CAUTION: HARSH WARNING ABOUT TRUMP |
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THE MERMAN'S LOVER: by Wayan; 1991-93; a sex daydream treated four ways. Four versions of an underwater meeting between lovers, one terrestrial, one marine... CAUTION: ORAL SEX |
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MER-TIGER: by Wayan, 2014/9/21-2016/7/7; a nondream surreal soft-sculpture used as a dream-tool! I got a big thrift-store toy tiger to shade my head as I slept (which worked; better dreams in the tiger's shadow!) then sewed on a crest, mane, fishtail, fins... CAUTION: PLUSHIE/SEXTOY |
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MITHRAN'S LAKE: by Wayan; 1988/1/17, a predictive dream justifying personal reserve. DREAM: Gay boys, underage girls & my own sister all mock me, sure I want their forbidden sexual fruit at a beach where grotesque trees make their own precipitation and salt-dunes spill into saturated, toxic brine... NEXT DAY: I read Margaret Atwood's The Salt Garden--sex, guilt, and grotesque trees in saturated, toxic brine. CAUTION: SEXUAL GUILT, EXHIBITIONIST TWEENS, APPARENT E.S.P. |
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MY DREAM OF CELIBACY: by Sibbie O'Sullivan, c.1984, a flirty lost-opportunity mermaid dream I lie on the bottom of the pool. The life guard lifts me in his strong arms. We flirt till my legs fuse, ready to go deep; but he says "It's only a part-time job" and turns away. In day, the highschool pool lies empty, widowed of water... |
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NAIAD AND GOD-DOG: by Wayan; 1980/11/7, a manipulative dream-tragedy. I love a Naiad who's lost her God. Tragedy strikes us. I'm devastated till I meet the aliens who explain... |
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OVERLAY: by Wayan; 1984/2/11, 1995/8/26, and 2004/9/11, 3 dreams shape a 9-page comic on living with ESP Dreams of translucent fairies, centaurs, robots & gnomes prompt me to cartoon on transparent overlays to show how dreamworlds overlay ours... |
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PINK CHILD AND PRESTON: by Katie Hofgard; 2005/5/7?, a sexy dream of childhood My boyfriend and I are beings with pinkish joints... CAUTION: SEXY CREATURES |
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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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A RETRIBUTION OF MERMAIDS: by Bruno Oliveira; summer 2011, a treasure-finding dream Despite corporate crooks, missiles and floods, Angelina Jolie and I find the lock of mermaid hair... |
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A SPHINX'S SKETCHBOOK: by Wayan; dreamed 1994/7/2 & 7/19; a 23-page dream-comic I find the sketch-journal of a beautiful winged sphinx who left her mythic isle to explore a great city of crazy bipeds, called San Francisco... CAUTION: SPHINX SEX, SPHINX ATTITUDE |
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THAR SHE BLOWS!: by Madeline; 2008/3/27, a pirate mermaid shipwreck sex dream. On the run I meet a lycan, a pirate, and a mermaid. She causes a flood, and something floats by I just have to grab... CAUTION: INTERRUPTED SEX |
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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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TREE, RIVER, BIRD, MOON: by Davi Kopenawa, 1959-62, a child's shamanic dreams I climbed a tree with a beautiful view, but climbing down I fell, and woke. I visited the people under the river. A beautiful ayocora bird danced for me. But so did the moon spirit, baring its fangs. Terrifying! |
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UNICORN, MERMAID: by Wayan; 1987/11/15, dream figures; primitive (16-color) digital art. A unicorn wades in the shallows to meet a mermaid. Are they lovers now, or just headed that way?... |
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WEREMAIDS: by Wayan; 2020/5/14, a species- and gender-bent dream. I'm a weremaid, able to pass as human but growing a tail in water. I meet a cute but sad girl, and deduce she may be like me--just in the closet. Worse! Turns out she thinks she's a freak... CAUTION: DAMAGE FROM CLOSETING |
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