Spinning Dreams, 1995
Reconstructed below is the seed of the World Dream Bank--its first hundred pages or so, uploaded 1995. Yes, '95 is correct! That early site, called Spinning Dreams, hosted by the Center for Electronic Arts in San Francisco, was one of the world's first websites. (And its code still shows it, sigh!)
I thought records for this early site were lost forever, but recently, between some old sketches, I found a scrawled notepage in pencil and feltpen dated 1996. A few titles were unrecognizable (lost files? retitled?), but out of 100 or so I traced 93. Some are much revised now, with newer illustrations; but these were the early core texts. Stone Age archeology!
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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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ALONE IN THE DARK IN THE WILD: by Wayan; 1980/7/24, a vision-quest nightmare. A nightmare of a killer who I let torment me because it's better than being alone... |
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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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AMONG COLUMNS: by Wayan; 1989/6/19, digital picture of psychic dream A psychic dream about a New York ballet student who was a black panther. Lower case... |
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ANOREXIA NIRVANA: by Wayan; 1993, a digital picture-poem of astral temptation. I was anorexic for years; I only mastered it when I saw it was a hunger for the spirit world... |
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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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BODIES DIFFER: by Wayan; 1991? Nondream digital picture-poem summing up a life. Hawk Girl and Pearl Dragon sing a love-duet on the joy of allergies... |
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THE BRIDGE: by Wayan; a 3-page comic from two linked dreams, 1989/5/28 & 1989/10/1. The Hunt of the Unicorn (yeah, guess who I am), as I fly through the worlds fighting Reaganism... CAUTION: MOCKS THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR |
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BROWN DRESS: by Wayan; 1984/2/11, 9-page digital comic of a sexy healing dream. A champion swimmer tells me how she turned a sexual humiliation into excitement and liberating power... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, SHAME, PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY |
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THE BUSINESSMAN IN ANGUISH: by Wayan; 1991/7/2. Digital dream painting. I dreamed this was in our civic museum: a painting of the central dynamo of our world finally erupting: the Businessman in Anguish. |
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CENTAUR BY SARTRE: by Wayan; 1989/3/28; an oracular dream A sea-centaur explains why some dreams don't LIKE to surface to so-called consciousness... CAUTION: WET T-SHIRT, EXISTENTIALISTS, HARPOONS |
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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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CHINA BEACH: by Wayan; 1992/10/9. Digital painting of a nondream life-shift.. That moment when you tire of your old trauma and suddenly turn to the sun. Or fun. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES |
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CLIFFMARE: by Wayan; 1988/10/8; a dream of lust vs freedom. I was a wild mare in heat, torn between longing for sex, touch, love...and the fear of being tamed. CAUTION: HORSE FRUSTRATION |
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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 CORE ISSUE: by Wayan; 1992/6/25, a dream from multiple viewpoints The tale of a gray heart trying to heal leads to unicorn-hostage drama in the Transamerica Pyramid... CAUTION: SEX, MAFIA THREATS, VIOLENCE |
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COYOTE PAJAMAS: by Wayan; 1983/12/17, a Dantesque dream-epic. I'm Coyote, keeping the Business Prophet from taking over Dante's Peak. But it turns too personal... CAUTION: IDIOTIC VIOLENCE |
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COYOTE SENT ME CASH!: by Wayan, 1982/10/11; a psychic dream, sung 2007 (MP3 + lyrics). A true tale proving the Trickster God really will provide. We're lilies of the field! |
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COYOTE'S VAULT: by Wayan; 1994/5/4, a shamanic dream of the future. One of the Time Vaults has opened. That means a historical crisis is at hand. Guess who gets to go in... |
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CRAWL: by Wayan; 1995/5/14. Digital collage inspired by dreams, provoking another dream! I dreamed I couldn't walk on water like Jesus, but I COULD crawl on it! A baby miracle. CAUTION: NUDITY |
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CRISP: by Wayan; 1991? Digital poster on Web art. Is digital Web blather any better than old-fashioned, live, analog blather? CAUTION: STUPIDITY |
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CURSING ISABELLA: by Wayan; 1992/8/19, a thoughtful dream of sorcery. How I cursed Isabella the sofa sorceress, cursed her with a blueberry. And why that stinks... CAUTION: UNDER THE MAGIC, IDEAS |
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CYCLOPS, or, THE ANSWER TO MY PRAYER: by Wayan; 1993/8/24, a spiritual nightmare. In the far future, I relive Odysseus' tale. To save my life I must give up realistic hope, and focus on... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MONSTERS |
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DEAD RIGHTS! DEAD RIGHTS!: by Wayan; 1983/10/1, a dream of the other side. I die young, to get it over with, like chickenpox. As I slowly revive, I face bias against the dead. So.. |
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DEANNA ON THE MAYAN STEPS: by Wayan; 1992/7/8, a nightmare poem. Climbing a Mayan pyramid in Yosemite with Deanna Troy from the Starship Enterprise, we meet a gunman who wants to sacrifice... |
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THE DEER'S HOLY LAKE: by Wayan; 1995/5/15, a dream of holy turf. A magic lake where deer glide on water... so I try it. And start to realize I could build such a lake... |
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DIANE DUANE'S DRAGON: by Wayan; 1994/2/27, a predictive dream image. A quiet, mysterious dream image that turned out to refer to the future, not the past... |
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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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DRYAD IN WINTER: by Wayan; digital and crayon, 1992/6/2; dream-figure portraits I relate so easily to animals, it's odd how ambivalent I felt about trees... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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THE EGG PROBLEM: by Wayan; 1990/3/2, digital painting of a magical dream. I'm an intellectual ballerina trying to stop zombies hatching from stone eggs, but I succeed only when I become a dragon using touch, scent and visualization to persuade the eggs... |
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EIGHT TO A HORN: by Wayan; 1986/4/25, a magical dream, Chapter 7 of UNICORN TAG. In the middle of Nowhere Desert, I meet a telepathic unicorn who's stuck with a false safety-tag... |
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ENJOY LIFE: by Wayan; 1983/8/24 dream inspires 1990/1/31 digital painting-experiment This image is senseless, but I have an excuse: I was watching TV in my dreams. TV on another world... |
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ESCAPE FROM PBS!: by Wayan; 1992/9/17, a trapped-in-TV nightmare. I'm trapped in a TV documentary on nuclear war! Better dive through a TV screen and find a safe sitcom... |
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THE ETHICS OF LUCIDITY: by Wayan; 1994/2/19, a thoughtful dream on time and cause. I'm at a symposium on how our beliefs alter not just the future, but the PAST... CAUTION: CONTAINS IDEAS |
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FATHER LOOMS: by Wayan; 1983/?, a nonliteral diagnostic nightmare. I was a 30ish woman discovering that my chronic pelvic inflammation was from childhood molestation... CAUTION: MOLESTATION IN DREAM-PAST |
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FIVE HEARTS: by Wayan; dreamed 1989/1/11; sexy psychic unicorn dream-comic (text only: FIVE HEARTS) I'm a nurse pulled through a glowing well to a world ruled by a five-hearted unicorn, who wants me to... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX FANTASIES, LONGING, MELANCHOLIA |
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FLY, DANCER!: by Wayan; 1993/4/2; an advisory dream. In my ballet class, we were learning to leap. But I wanted to FLY. So I went outside alone... |
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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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FOXES: by Wayan; 1989/4/12. Digital nondream painting. Long ago I saw a marvelous Hiroshige print of a fox convocation, lit by moon and foxfires... CAUTION: LESBIAN SPOOKS |
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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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GHOST DOGS: by Wayan; a 1993/4/2 temptation dream done as a 1-page digital comic I meet a wolf who invites me to join Dr Who's pack of sexy Ghost Wolves. Just one catch nobody mentioned. To be a ghost, you have to... CAUTION: FLIRTATIOUS WOLVES |
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GOLD EATER: by Wayan; 1993/1/15 dream drawn as 9-page comic. I'm an orphan shapeshifter enslaved by a gold-eating monster. But I meet a cat-girl with a hammer... CAUTION: BAD FOSTER-DAD; CAPITALIST MONSTER; VIOLENCE (TO VENDING MACHINES) |
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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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A HOBBIT IN L.A.: by Wayan; 1990/1/8, a dream on wishes. I'm a hobbit woman in Los Angeles, hiding a magic weapon from Sauron. No, not THAT weapon. The wishing-bucket... |
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HOBBIT SNIPER: by Wayan; 1998/10/13, a dream on strategy. I'm a sniper in a desert battle of men against hobbits. Guilty for not fighting openly, but that'd be suicidal... CAUTION: MATH AND WAR |
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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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I FIGHT FOR BEAUTY: by Wayan; 1990/1/1, an incubated dream within a dream within a dream. From Hawaii to Wyoming, I fight for beauty, always waking to find I'm someone new... |
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I GOT OUT: by Wayan; 1992/1/4, a psychic dream drawn as a 9-page digital comic I flee our love triangle when Abe turns mean. He's telepathic, but I have my escape all planned: the goldfish, the snakepit, the caves... CAUTION: THREESOME, SNAKES, MOTORCYCLE FATALITY |
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I HELD THE SUN ROSE: by Wayan; 1989/6/18; digital painting inspiring a dream inspiring a 2nd painting. After I drew this I dreamed I was chasing stars with a long-tailed friend, and in the end we caught the Sun... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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I WANT MY INHERITANCE: by Wayan; 1989/12/18, a dream on family brainwashing. My family calls me a blonde bimbo and won't give me my inheritance, so I take drastic steps... CAUTION: MORAL HAIRSPLITTING |
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I WAS AN ELEPHANT HANDLER: by Wayan; 1989/4/3, a genderbent stagestruck dream. I was an elephant trainer longing to be a star--to win the girl on the flying trapeze. Who's probably straight... CAUTION: FLIRTING LESBIANS, OR POSSIBLY ELEPHANTS, OR MAYBE LIBRARIANS |
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ICK! DOGS!: by Wayan; 1990/1/3, a Star Trek dream. I'm Jean-Luc Picard, and my Enterprise has been taken over by a pack of brilliant, paranoid wolves... |
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ID FLOWERS: by Wayan; 1989/10/8, a dream of wish and fear The villagers warned me not to walk in the alien graveyard; for at night, the Id flowers wake... |
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THE IRRATIONALITY OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1989/12/31, a New Year's dream. On TV, the first Jungian anima to leave the unconscious is granting an interview. But the questions are... |
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LEARNING SCALES: by Wayan; 1985/6/26, an epic dream of Chinese dragons. I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost. We need an Imperial Dragon... |
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THE LIMIT OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE: by Wayan; 1974/3/13, a dream of madness. Deep in the caves, a Voice announces I've gone as far as the human mind can stand. But ahead, I see... |
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LOON LADDER: by Wayan; 1993/5/13. A dream of rising above. I had this near-nightmare about climbing a DNA stair up to the sky, and stepping off... CAUTION: NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES |
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LURK: by Wayan; digital collage of a year's dreaming, 1995/3/5. There's power in dark memories--creatures of the deep strata. But the flowers of now are just as real... |
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MAGIC SCHOOL: by Wayan, 1982/1/26: a waking event and replying dream. Phyllis Schlafly, killer of the Equal Rights Amendment, provokes a dream of being Captain Kirk trapped in a magic school with no way out but the graduate exam. Can I learn the lesson of the tree? CAUTION: POLITICAL JOURNALISM BEFORE THE DREAM. OH NO! |
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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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MOOSE: by Wayan; 1984/3/12, a dream on the blessings of curses. How the Supreme Court gave my brother antlers, and where his soul went: where I'll go, now that I know... |
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MY NAME IS WAYAN: by Wayan, 1986/5/23, a dream of names and manes. A conversation with a telepathic unicorn-lion reveals that my true name is Wayan. And my species?... |
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MY THREE HUSBANDS: by Wayan; 1981/2/26 & 1991/5/26, dreams drawn as a 15-page comic I'm three women at once! We marry a unicorn, a goat philosopher, and a magic talking cat. But cops raid our furry commune... CAUTION: INTERSPECIES MARRIAGE, TEEN SEX, BAD COPS |
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NIGHT MARE: by Wayan; 1990/11/23; digital painting inspired by a friend's dream. I dreamed I was a feral mare: gentle, affectionate, sensual, but gone wild, wary of being tamed again... |
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ORIOLE GIRL: by Wayan; 1992/1/23, psychic dream told as illustrated poem. While conducting a census of fairies in Golden Gate Park, I fall in love with an abused oriole-girl, and we try to heal one another... CAUTION: AWKWARD SEX |
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OSENTO: by Wayan; 1991/2/15. Digital painting based on a dream. Osento is a bath house that my friends all love. But women only. So I dream I change sex just to... CAUTION: NUDITY, GRATUITOUS HAPPINESS |
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OUR BEST SONG: by Wayan; 1983/10/25, a decade-long dream of song and flight. The artcops search-and-destroy our flying band, and my wings are shorn. But ten years later, songless, apathetic, I climb through my TV--and the women of Vietnam show me a new way to fly... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, ATTITUDE, ALTITUDE |
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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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PUPPY: by Wayan; a set of 1984-5 dreamlets; digital story-painting 1990/11/25 I tried to have sex with a puppy in heat, but she was just too small for me. An image that freaks out even my friends! But its crudity hid an unexpectedly subtle message... CAUTION: SEX, BESTIALITY |
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RATTLER BY THE CONTROLS: by Wayan; 1978/10/19, an anti-phallic-symbol dream. I dreamed I was riding a huge toy train, and a gigantic rattlesnake was at the controls... |
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RECOIL: by Wayan; 1995. Digital portrait of dream figures. Puzzled me why I (the girl on the left) was so outraged about the gift of a perfectly nice levitating flower... CAUTION: NUDITY, INGRATITUDE, WITCHCRAFT, ELVIS |
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RUM JUNGLE: by Wayan; 1996/1/22, digital painting-poem on dreaming Think of your dreams as a rainforest, clearcut every morning--unless you make the effort to remember... CAUTION: TINY NAKED ANGELS |
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SAMURAI LIBRARIAN: by Wayan; 1982/10/20, a dream that dreamwork is samurai discipline I wrote my dreams each morning no matter what--even if I it made me late for work. They assumed I was sloppy, lazy, spacy. No; disciplined about priorities! |
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SHAPESHIFTER FEVER: by Wayan; 1989/1/30, a dream poem. A summer love affair with a shapeshifting alien turns awkward when she gets a high fever, and... CAUTION: UGH! |
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SILKY CROSSES THE ATLANTIC: by Wayan; dreamed 1982/8/24, painted 1994 (acrylic/ink/xerox). After I fled my batterer, I was afraid to love--afraid I'd give up my freedom again for mere kindness... |
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SOUL-BOARD: by Wayan; 1989/1/12, a dream poem. Africa. My horse trusted me as we faced lions and fire, but to face the Soul-Board, he must trust himself... |
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SPORECOUNT: by Wayan; 1990/1/5, a dreamtale on patience through change. I'm a hot archeology student till I open the wrong tomb. A plague turns us into green moldy monsters--at first... CAUTION: DISEASE, DEATH, GRIEF, SHAME |
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STARGIRL: by Wayan; 1993. Digital image of altered state I squabble with my body so much! But now & then, in orgasm, we dissolve into stars and become... CAUTION: SEX POETRY |
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TAHOE DRAGON: by Wayan; 1980/8/16, a dream of flight and fire A dragon killed a friend, and threatened worse. I had to fight. We dueled mid-air, over Lake Tahoe... |
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TELEPATH TREES: by Wayan; 1993/9/11, a how-the-other-half-lives dream with 7 pics I dream Edward Abbey shows me a secret grove of telepath trees. That night, in my dreams inside my dream, they meet me... |
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THEA'S HOUSE: by Wayan; 1987/3/23, a life-changing dream. I dreamed the Earth Goddess invited me to live with her. She was lonely to be seen for who she was... |
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THEY DON'T BELIEVE ME: by Wayan; 1989/10/4, an unbelievable dream with 15 illus. My dog and I are abducted by aliens who turn us into cats. We escape & go feral to survive. How we got back, and what happened along the way, even my own shrink refuses to believe... CAUTION: LEWD SQUID AND KLEPTOMANIAC BUGS |
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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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TICHANE: by Wayan; 1992/11/7. Nondream digital "woodblock print". What the world looks like when you have environmental illness, like me... |
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TIGER TALL: by Wayan; 1992/7/3, a marathon dream. I'm a tiger from Planet Cat, visiting Earth to run in San Francisco's "Bay to Breakers" race. I knew racial tensions were high, but why is William S. Burroughs out to kill me? Oh. Because... |
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TOES: by Wayan; 1990 digital cartoon-map of dreamselves My foot is a torso and my toes sprout conflicting personalities... CAUTION: NUDE CARTOON |
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TOWERS: by Wayan; 1998/11/15, digital. Based on flying dreams (but no specific dream) Cities are fun when you're a bird--all those updrafts and perches and nests with great views... |
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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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THE VOICE OF GOD: by Wayan, 1993/1/31, a psychic nightmare-epic. Half-mad with fear, I massacre a cult, till my gun manifests stigmata: a gory miracle. Then I'm a cultist, resisting the Voice of God pushing all us mortals to murder in His name. I woke up haunted, and wondered for weeks what this was about... until the Waco Massacre. CAUTION: CREEPY VIOLENCE, CREEPY GOD, CREEPY PREDICTION |
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WARIA: by Wayan; 1987/3/23, digital painting of a pointed advisory dream. My life was a sex disaster. I felt ugly and sick. Then I dreamed I found a counselor who really helped. But my parents warned me against her. Why? They explained: WARNING: NUDITY |
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WATERCATS: by Wayan; 1987/9/10; an epic, clear predictive dream I dream I find a few 'extinct' watercats--in a slum! They talk. They say I'm one of them, brainwashed to think I'm human. I wake, go to a dinner, and hear a tale of... watercats! |
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WAYAN SAYS: by Wayan; dreamed 1986/5/23 & 1991/7/25, silkpainting 1992/5/9, digital 1994/2/25 I'm a lean loose cheetah who works best in short bursts and long lazy rests. If I start acting human, I overwork... |
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WHO'LL BE MY LOVE?: by Wayan; 1986/4/14, a dream noir farce; part 4 of UNICORN TAG. I'm a hardboiled detective wincing as I grill a meek little psychic (probably me) about squish-softboiled topics like unicorns and love... CAUTION: SMUTTY UNICORN MAKES EVEN COPS BLUSH |
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WOLVES EVOLVE: by Wayan, 1983/11/11, a Darwinian dream. After seeing 'Rear Window', Grace Kelly and I are wolf children in a pack that's quickly evolving into... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, CHILD SEXUALITY, WOLF-SLANDER |
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ZELIG FLIES: by Wayan, 1984/4/29, a psychic, lucid dream epic. I careen from a sacrificial marriage-altar to the Oracle Harper's secret pool, into the jaws of Leviathan and the joys of lucid flight, shifting from male to female and gay to straight--till I meet the Dragonfly People themselves... CAUTION: STUPID, STUPID SEX CULT! |
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