Mouth, Lips, Kisses
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ALP VARK: by Wayan; 1983/11/24-25, an epic comic psychic dream.
I'm kissed by the Holy Aardvark, but my bond with my dad is strained by ESP he can't accept... |
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AMBIVALENT? NO! (YES!): by Wayan; 1990/1/3. Digital panorama of dreamselves over a lifetime. A chronological orgy of my self-images from childhood on: horses, geeks, girls, satyrs, boys, monsters... CAUTION: CARTOON SEX |
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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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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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A BIG WET KISS TO YOU, TOO: by Wayan, 1999/11/9, a dreamlike ceramic. My abstract sculpture just got fishier and fishier, til it grew these big red lips... |
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BITE THE BULLET: by Wayan; 2000/1/25, a flightmare. We unearthed a sacred treasure, but now a mob of believers are out to lynch us! I better fly... CAUTION: SACRILEGE AND BAD PUNS |
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BLOODLINES: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2005/7/30, 9/1 and 9/3; a compound dream-painting A man obsessed with blood and death disturbs me, but I have to admit I share his interests... Next the blood comes home; a surgeon wants to flay my tongue... Next, witch-children rebel against a bloody flossing ritual and fly away on broomsticks... |
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BLUE LIPS, GOLD EYES, ORANGE JUICE: by Wayan; 1997/5/8, a warning dream. In a world where respectable men wear masks, an old, old man rebels in the crudest way he can... |
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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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BONK VERONICA: by Wayan; 1997/4/1, 9-page dream-comic on body image The world's first all-bulemic band, Veronica and the Vomits, provokes a riot at our local punk club. So I go to Anorexic Bootcamp where models learn self-defense under fire, as calories and fat jokes whiz by... CAUTION: BARF, HORNY ANOREXIC, FOOD FIGHT |
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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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CAKE HORSE: by Colleen D. McManus, art by Jesse Reklaw; pre-2000; a surreal warning dream? The cake horse resented my taking one slice out of him; but he let me. No second slice, though! He just laughed at me--through his bad teeth... |
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THE CARDINAL: by Wayan; 1994/9/4, a grouchy little dream. A Holy Cardinal enters my bedroom and demands I kiss his ring. I suggest something he can kiss, and... CAUTION: CHRISTIAN MEGALOMANIA, PAGAN RUDENESS |
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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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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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THE DAYS WHEN WOMEN WERE BEING HURT: by Anonymous #40, 1996?, a surreal dream I was big as the world, so whole cars fit in my vagina. But men were selling women to supermarkets, to be cooked & resold. So I crossed the Atlantic sea-floor on foot... CAUTION: CAR SEX. NO, NOT SEX IN CARS... |
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DEER PEOPLE, BREAST-SHY: by Wayan; 2021/7/30, a dream with predictive tinges DREAM: bisexual deer-people go on dates. Despite their fur, they seem shy about breasts. WAKE: read Alison Bechdel's latest confessional comic. Bisexual phase, shy about breasts... CAUTION: POSSIBLY PREDICTIVE; TOPLESS DEER |
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DOG BITES CAT: by Wayan; 2015/2/17; a grating dream-poem I get bullied into dogwalking. A biter--leaves a cat bloody. You'd think a talking dog'd listen. But Cheney... |
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FOOD CAME BETWEEN US: by Wayan, 1993/4/25, an incubated epic diagnostic dream. The terror of Navy breakfast, the joy of filterfeeding, how to marry pudding, and a sniper lunch with kisses... |
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GET THEIR ATTENTION: by Wayan; 1999/4/24, a queer little dream. My friend Linda and I are walking in the Castro, when a tourist girl jams her tongue in Linda's mouth... CAUTION: SERIOUS TONGUE |
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HER FIRST INCARNATION: by Wayan; 1983/11/10, a dream of a surreal shamanic duel Forced into a duel, I let my spirit fight for me using Boomerang Blades. But my enemy becomes giant floating sticky lips! My spirit finds incarnation confusing... |
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THE ICE CREAM KISS: by Wayan; 1993/11/27, an uncomfortable dream. I'm Joe Leaphorn, in (of all places for a Navaho detective) a coven in San Francisco watching a creamy... |
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KISS OF A SAVAGE: by Wayan; 1993/10/28, a dream of deep time. I wake to find I'm a museum exhibit 15,000 years from now--a primitive man... |
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KISS THE GLASS: by Wayan; 1979/9/23, a dream on priorities. My parents' house is now a sex club. I walk in, and meet my soulmate! But in awkward circumstances... CAUTION: SEX |
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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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KOLCHEC: by Al Davison (Jan.1977-1978) & Sara Welponer 2000, sketches of a shared dream-figure AL repeatedly drew a bizarre, recurring dream-guide named Kolchec; years later he met SARA, who'd painted her dream-guide, a distinctive spook named--oh, take a guess... CAUTION: WILL DISTURB ESP SKEPTICS |
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LAURIE ANDERSON SHENANIGANS: by Larissa King, art by Jesse Reklaw; pre-2000; a surreal dream I'm watching MTV. Laurie Anderson gets inside my remote control. I try to change channels and she turns my head into an apple. I grope for a potato peeler, and carve a new mouth... |
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LEONARDO'S BIRD: by Leonardo da Vinci, c.1455, a bizarre childhood dream or vision--or real memory? The black bird hovered above my cradle, and several times struck me with its tailfeathers between my opened lips... |
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MAFIA DENTIST: by Wayan, 2007/7/10; a predictive comic nightmare. My dentist (a Haitian Mafia leader) sends a message to my dad (also a Mafia don) by dental cruelty.... |
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THE MUSTACHE PRAYER: by Wayan; 1983/9/11, a dream on wishes' limits. I help a mutant boy find others like him, and learn why some prayers are ungrantable... |
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MY LIPS ARE SEALED: by Wayan, 1989/6/3, a moody, psychic, epic, two-part dream. I'm a Romantic poet who defeats the curse of the fountain, to marry; but when our daughter's grown, a new curse strikes me mute, paralyzed. And I mistake this for old age! Then, in real life, my dad wakes up from a nap paralyzed... |
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NED'S KISS by Ned's mom and sister Ethel; pre-1961, cledonic dreams of a playful revenant I wished I could kiss my son farewell. That week, Ethel called. "I dreamed Ned kissed you, not me! I was hurt. He laughed like anything and kissed me too..." |
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NOSER: by "Anonymous #13"; pre-1963, a predictive dream An orange tiger with wolf ears jumped on me. I was surprised but not scared, as if it were just a big dog. The next day, shopping, my daughter thrust an orange wolf-eared hand-puppet in my face, jaws open... |
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ON HER FOURTH BODY: by Wayan; 1993/11/25, a predictive dream-comedy. A gengineered singer (born a cow, became a horse, then a shark, now a sexy Mare Chanteuse) solves a mystery that stumped even Mr. Spock. Next day, I see a film--a mystery solved by a... |
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ON MOLLY'S FOREHEAD: by Wayan, 1988/11/19, a spiritual sex dream. A child of radicals goes wild in Rio. When we bail her out, we find she's had a strange enlightenment... CAUTION: UNSAFE SEX |
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ORAL ORGY: by Wayan; 1983/8/24; a predictive sex-dream with a political & scientific agenda I dream Public Broadcasting System actors rebel on camera and have an oral-sex orgy! Next day, NPR has a call-in show, and suddenly they're arguing in favor of oral sex... CAUTION: SEXUAL POLITICS |
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ORANGE: by Jim Shaw; c.1994; a wordplay dream? A coy, giggling giant orange bounces onto a man's bed, trying to seduce him, and... |
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OTTO SUGGESTION TO A HORSE IN DRAG: by Wayan; 1995/8/8, a dream on body image. My uncle mocks the racehorse he rides! Smears lipstick on this stallion, calls him a wimp... Why? CAUTION: DREAM PUN, NUDE MARES |
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PARVATI SAWS THE WALL: by Wayan; 2013/6/26, a dream-poem about a Himalayan kook Martial-arts student Parvati just won't fight the teacher she loves (too much!)-- not even for her final exam. Instead she gets a rotary saw and... |
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PLUM CRAZY: by Wayan; fall 1973, an early surreal but nondream poem Plums float through the autumn air, sending us airmail kisses. If we'll accept delivery... |
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PORTRAIT OF LADY DRACANTHRA: by Wayan; mid-2001, acrylic dream painting. Among the family portraits in the hall of my ancestors was this one of a formidable old... woman, I guess. |
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ROCKET BREATH: by Wayan; 1989/2/17, a physics dream. Floating in my parents' house, I get trapped in free-fall! How can I get a grip? (Nothing symbolic here!) |
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SELF-MADE COW: by Wayan; 2013/4/10, a surreal psychic dream. I'm in Santa Cruz with my friend, a shocking-pink stuffed toy cow with sewed-on accessories: big red lips, a floral wig, and a third eye. I wake, draw the dreamcow--and my sister calls from Santa Cruz to sing me a song about... |
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SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CONVOLUTED TONGUE: by Wayan; 1999/9/1; pencil mirror-drawing. Einstein's tongue got its own poster, why shouldn't mine? After all, even the Ein Tongue can't do this... |
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SHHHH!: by Wayan; 1981, daydream in ink. A sudden image of a woman whose other lips not only talked, they wouldn't shut up. Worse yet, they... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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SKUNK? SWALLOW!: by Wayan; 1981/5/7, a dream-joke with a point. When I see two scary men on the trail, naturally, I swallow my skunk! I really don't recommend... |
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THE SMILING SHAW MACHINE: by W.B. Yeats; 1894/4/19, a nightmare about popular success. After Shaw's Arms and the Man eclipsed my own play The Land of Heart's Desire, I dreamt I was haunted by... |
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SPEWING WINE: by Wayan; 1992/8/17, a Freudian-slip dream baring family dysfunction My family moves into a damp, leaking basement. My dad just sneers at us for fussing about the cold, the damp, the mildew, the leaks. "I'll show you REAL leaking..." |
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STALLION, NOT MARE: by Wayan; 2018/2/12, a road-rage weirdo provokes an even weirder dream DAY: a stranger screams "BITCH! Plant a TREE!" Thinks I'm female and wants to fight over an old bumper sticker? DREAM: I'm a horse detective. In shades, lipstick, & high heels I try to pass as a mare. Absurd! A stallion in drag... CAUTION: HORSE NUDITY. OH WAIT, THAT'S NORMAL. |
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SWAB'S DOG: by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1744/4/8, a warning dream Swedenborg cuddles a talking dog who asks after its old master, Swab, and then kisses Swedenborg, grossing him out. But he wakes knowing just what his doggy pest represents... |
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SWALLOWED!: by Wayan; 1990/7/30, a warning dream. An ancient pictograph inspires me to try a meditative technique: shrinking and letting myself be eaten... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
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SWALLOWING NUMBERS: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995; a surreal eating dreamlet I was late for something, so I opened my pocket watch and swallowed a bunch of numbers... |
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SYLVIA, OR, PUN-DREAMS: by Hervey de Saint-Denys, early 1860s? 4 dreams of French puns A comet grows hair, a girl named Rosalie becomes a bed of roses, writing in a beautiful hand appears on a beautiful hand, and Sylvia becomes a talking forest bird... |
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TASTEBUDS AND LIARS: by Wayan; 1993/8/7, a dreamtale. I was warned Wolf-Cats turn on people, but I still befriended one. Now I'm looking down its throat... |
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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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THROATS and SLOT MACHINE: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995, two odd dreamlets THROATS: Men put babies into giant throats inset in a funhouse wall; SLOT MACHINE: I see a slot machine generating random art-speak phrases... |
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THE TIGER'S THROAT: by Wayan; 1994/4/12, a psychic dreamtale. I'm walking down a tiger's throat, but it's not what you think. Diagnosis! My friend suddenly couldn't roar. She's here too, exploring her own trachea.... |
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TIME PIRATES: by Wayan; 1979/6/6, a genderbent pirate dream about... healthcare? I'm a modern girl facing pirates from the 17th Century Caribbean. Outgunned, but I have something intimidating to bluff with: perfect teeth... |
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TOADFISH TOWERS: by Wayan; 1992/8/6, a psychic little dreamtale. I'm in Houston, gawking at giant starfishy towers looming through the smog. Their shapes are familiar... |
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TYPEWRITER: by Kevin King, before 1983, an ink-noir nightmare I dreamed my mouth was full of typewriter keys and a typewriter ribbon issued from the back of my head. Joan was hanging out the window by the ribbon. I reached for her, but my hands kept hitting the space bar, and down... |
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VALENTINE: by Wayan; 1989/2/14, a nondream picture-poem A lipstick poem for that stickiest of holidays... |
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THE VAT MESSIAH: by Wayan; 1985/2/27, an epic dream of magic, flight, and sex In our cult, we lie in vats of goo till we grow wings. But we're feared more than we knew... CAUTION: SPECIST LYNCH MOB, NUDE IN SCHOOL, LESBIAN FEELINGS, OBSCENE CARROT |
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WALRUSHMORE: by Wayan; 1982/1/8; a dream pun with political bite In my sister's house I saw a magazine cover showing that famous national monument in the Black Hills: Mt Walrushmore... |
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WENDY NEGLECTED: by Wayan; 1996/7/22, a paradoxical dream. Ari neglects Wendy till she doubts she's sexy. I show her she is. But am I using her too? CAUTION: SEX TALK |
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WEREDOGS AREN'T RACIST: by Wayan; 1974/3/31, a surreal sarcastic dream I'm a girljock waiting to see a movie when a weredog in line involuntarily shifts from dog to human, and a Berkeley radical takes offense at the symbolism... CAUTION: SNIPPY ABOUT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS |
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A WISE WRITER PROTECTS HER EYES: by Wayan; 1998/8/19, an advisory dream. A writer I meet is either flirting with me obscenely, or advising me about eyecare, or... are those the same? CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM |
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WITNESS: by Patagia, 2006/2/16, a poem of a redemptive nightmare A woman I had wronged set her pit bull on me! Hand in its jaws, I gave in, and we both began crying... |
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WOLF DROOL: by Wayan; 2011/12/16, a seeming sex dream that's really health advice! Miniaturized, smuggled over a border inside a she-wolf's mouth, I long for where I got briefly hidden--her labia. But healing first, sex later! CAUTION: FURRY SMUT; WEIRD SCIENCE (BUT REAL!) |
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