Pencil dream-art L-Z (A-K)
Pencil (and a few charcoal) dream-drawings. I've tinted much of my own pencil work here (example: the lush, tropical FISHERGIRLS) digitally or with crayons. Even drawings that look unaltered usually have their contrasts increased digitally, since raw pencil scans often look washed-out. But despite the tweaks, the art below began as pencil and still show those roots--a focus on composition, line, and gesture, a lightness and sensitivity to grayscale subtleties, hatched shading, and detail.
Not obsessive detail, of course. I'm not one of those. No.
RELATED TOPICS: Other media: dream paintings - photocollages and altered photos - watercolor and silk-dyeing - crayon - pure digital art - ink - felt pen and colored inks - comics - sculpture - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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THE LADY LOVES THE HORSE by Wayan, 1990/9/28; a dream mocking fake humility Richard Russo writes that Westerners cannot dream like tribal people. So I dream Russo's the Cubist Dictator of Dreams! I prefer the part-equine Lady Demicorn, and the Fat Meditating Dog, and the Birdiesattva... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
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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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THE LEAD HAZARD OF WITCHES: by Wayan; 2008/11/21; an alternate-world dream I'm in an America where witches are burned & abused women grow on trees. Yet three of us heal... CAUTION: CREEPY PARALLEL WORLD |
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LEOPARDESS: by Wayan, 1990/5/19; a predictive dreamlet Dream: a house-share with this leopardess might be a bit crowded. But she's so much FUN! Next day: I visit a house in the woods with the most catlike senior tenant ever... |
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LEOPARDS AT THE FRINGE: by Wayan; 2014/3/28; poem of a cryptomnesic species-bent thespian sex dream I'm at the Fringe Festival, onstage in a Performance Orgy, playing two roles: a leopard with human pets and a leopard's human pet. But I'm not quite playing... CAUTION: STAGED ORGY |
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LESBOY: by Wayan; 1996/5/20, a dream on one's identity and place. My Aunt Squid advises me to join a lesbian artists' co-op. But I'm a man! Not for long, though... CAUTION: NUDE SUNBATHING, GENDER BEWILDERMENT |
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LETTERMAN: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a surreal dreamlet Sharon Stone kisses David Letterman, and his head starts distorting as she rants about the film industry's baby-actor monopoly... |
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LIFECYCLE: by Wayan; 1980s. Pencil sketch of daydream The life-loop. A woman bears a child who grows up to become herself, who bears a child who... CAUTION: SKETCHY NUDITY |
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LILY OXYGEN: by Wayan; dreamed 1984/1/19, drawn 2000; a strong psychic dream. I'm Emily Dickinson reborn in 2100 as a breeder of hydroponic lilies, till my dad drafts me as an Arctic energy-prospector, where I meet a ghost, a fiery Beast, a new me, and the girl of my dreams... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, NUDE PROSPECTORS, GNOMIC DICKINSON QUOTES |
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LION-GIRL TRIANGLE: by Wayan; 2000/12/11, an uncomfortable sex-dilemma dream, possibly predictive I'm a betrothed teenager having to choose between mates, in an alternate Africa where lions are another tribe of people--and occasionally adopt humans... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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THE LION LIES DOWN WITH THE MARE by Wayan, 1986/6/7; a surreal predictive dream THAT DAY: a play in the park about human-car hybrids. Jaguar girl, Mustang boy! Surreal. THAT NIGHT: Lions & jaguars hunt a mustang, but she flirts instead of fights, and soon... CAUTION: INTERSPECIES SEX |
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LION SUIT by Wayan, 1987/5/4; a short dream-poem; predictive or clairvoyant? DREAM: A series of old films with Erroll Flynn looking shy in his glasses, and his... lion suit? NEXT DAY: Hunting pumas is legalized; the paper shows a sit-in full of people in lion suits... |
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THE LIZARD LESSON: by Wayan; 1996/12/12, a hard-hittin' shamanic dream. I'm a shaman in Nunavut who has to teach a guy in a lizard suit (and his foxy niece) that reparations have limits... |
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LOOKING FOR LIBRIUM: by Jim Shaw; Jan. 1995?, a mutant Biblical dream After fighting off an electrified Orson Welles, I meet the twelve vulture-pine-politicians climbing Mt Sinai, looking for librium... |
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LUNCH WITH THE STARS: by Wayan; 1981/2/2, a dream on beliefs. I'm in a loving animal dance troupe, but wake to find I'm alone. For consolation, I eat at The Terrace, and meet stars. Not film stars... |
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LYIN' WAYAN: by Wayan; 1996/4/10, a warning nightmare. A mob of kids chases me chanting "Lyin' Wayan!" I get dizzy and fall off a bridge... THEN comes trouble! CAUTION: FATAL FALL |
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LYR: by Wayan; 7MB, 2005, 80 pages w/200+ drawings and maps; a virtual planet A vast sea-world with 7 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species... CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION! |
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MAELEN AND ME: by Wayan; 1972/5/1, a transmigrational dream. I'm a psychic circus animal who's just managed to teleport my humanoid girlfriend. It's for our act, but... CAUTION: PETTING |
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MAGIC FINGER: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1982 (May?); a nightmare veering into mystery Morocco. Horseback mercenaries attack a town. A boy says "Take their lifestyle, and you must remove their brains." A protective Hand of Fatima dissolves, leaving a finger, a feather, a... vagina. "What a slit!" We burst into laughter... |
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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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MAGICAL GRADUATION: by Wayan, 2018/4/22, twin dreamlets on letting go and being yourself I befriend author Andre Norton--an ageless high-school kid writing enthused fan fiction, forever... I find my Niche--the stone nook that decides if I'm a journeyman mage! Here comes my prophecy... |
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MAGICAL LIGHT: by Wayan; 1985/10/8, a dream on micromania Linda Evans of Dynasty survives a shapeshifters' war, though her mansion's wrecked. She meets a caped superhero--and superdog, and supercat, squirrel, hamster, mouse! These micro-heroes make me see I too have been minimizing my own bravery... |
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MAHAKALA, MOZART, AND THE CRIPPLED BIRD: by Wayan; 1985/4/17, a dream on facing shadows The Christian God vs Mahakala, Buddhist god of right anger! War in Middle Earth, as Pink Floyd sings... |
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THE MAN WHO DESERVED TO DIE: by Jim Shaw; c.1994; a dream of moral rescue I don't want to kill my friend, though his clothes say I must. But a sculptor lets us sit on her metal trees and drink tea instead... |
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THE MAN WITH THE GUITAR: by Wayan; 1992/7/4, a psychic dream-comic (or illus. text)) A volcano erupts in San Francisco! No human could survive the blast, but one researcher does--what IS he? |
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MANSON'S CAGE: by Wayan; 1992/9/10, a nightmare. At the end of my long, tiresome tour of Hell, it's feeding time in the cage of the Manson cult... CAUTION: SO MEAT REALLY IS MURDER! |
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MANTA-SQUID: by Wayan; 1986/3/13, a nightmare on the Senoi hoax DAY: I read an exposé on "Senoi dreamwork"--the Malaysian Senoi people disavow it. Some white guy just made it up! DREAM: I'm a dream researcher in Malaysia. A manta-squid attacks! Now the "Senoi" focus on my needs makes sense... CAUTION: TENTACLE-RAPE ATTEMPT |
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MARIAH: by Wayan, 1994/9/23, a mystical flying dream. An un-jealous wind lifts me above the San Francisco hills, so I can hunt for my love: the Muse... |
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THE MARTIAN FEUD: by Wayan; 1994/3/10, a warning dream. On Old Mars, before it died, two rival families' teasing finally goes too far, despite the whale's warning... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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MAYAN DOOR: by Wayan; 2008/3/21, a character-evaluation dream. The Mayan cave was a door between worlds. But also a model of the character you need to walk through that door... |
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MCKILLIP'S NEW BOOK: by Wayan; 2010/7/23, an epic literary dream I'm inside a magical novel by Patricia McKillip, amid tricksters, cosplayers, spooks, sex changes, levitation and (sigh) cops... CAUTION: COYOTE SEX |
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MENDELIAN CHIMERAS: by Wayan; 2015/1/1, a New Year's dream warning of medical uniqueness I meet a girl who's a Mendelian hybrid of human, animal and peavine! But I'm no more human than she is... |
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MICMAC TOWERS: by Wayan; 2010/6/12, a quietly predictive surreal dream I dream squatters build surreal towers in a city of junk. I wake, go to a movie, and see... |
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MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN: by Wayan; 1992/9/5-6, a literary/diagnostic dream. I'm in a tribe of post-Crash kids with psychic powers, trying to keep nukes from rising again... CAUTION: CHILD SOLDIERS |
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MIDWAY: by Wayan; 1994/2/4, twin shamanic dream-lessons. I'm cold and dark and disoriented! What am I doing wrong? Nothing--I'm just halfway to Alpha Centauri... |
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MIGRATING BREASTS: by Wayan, 1988/11/9; a sacred-surreal-sexy-stupid dream A priestess guarding a Thai temple in the forest has a strange problem: her breasts rebel, escape and scurry round like hamsters under her skin; they don't like that Buddhist restraint... CAUTION: WARDROBE MALFUNCTION |
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MIGRATION THROUGH FIRE: by Wayan; 1999/9/3, a dream of what matters. I'm a shaggy primitive whose tribe's outgrown our caves. We migrate, and meet two new species of people... |
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MIRRORCUNT: by Wayan; 2011/3/24, a peculiar erotic dream image After singing dream songs on stage, I dream of a girl on a talkshow displaying the strangest vagina in history... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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MIRYAM'S THEFT: by Wayan; 1996/9/24, a psychic dream on being used I'm a ghost dwarf in love with a Lady trapped in a magic Arabian castle. But our love is being used... CAUTION: SEX, BETRAYAL, SACRILEGE |
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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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THE MOOMIN COMMISSIONERS OF TIME: by Wayan; 2008/9/17, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #27 A new Eve asks the Time Commission to send her and her baby back to Ethiopia 45,000 years ago. But they're shy Moomintrolls, not humans... |
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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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THE MOUSE BANNER: by Wayan; 1986/9/4, a dream fable. I'm a mouse with a protest banner saying "FREEDOM!", having a slight argument with a cat... |
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MS. TRUST: by Wayan; 1993/11/4, a dream of a guarded angel. I meet my own mistrust: an angel who can't trust ME! So she turns me into a football-playing ant... |
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MUGS: by Wayan; 1985/12/25, a dream of weird Christmas gifts A shop sells coffee cups covered in tales & creatures begging to be drawn... |
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THE MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE THEORY: by Wayan; 1996/11/6, a dream on synergism. A girl and two cybersnakes are clever but murderous. But when apart, they're not mean at all! Not sin--synergy... |
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MUSICIAN AND FOXTAIL, by Wayan, 2009/2/14, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #40 In Palo Alto I meet strange musicians in the rain, and realize kitsune aren't born but made... |
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A MUSLIM CHEETAH: by Wayan, 2004/12/2, a dream of fundamental ambivalence A cheetah is a saboteur for a violent Islamic group. I'm attracted, but tear into her; "You plant bombs in the name of a rulebook meant for apes not cats!" CAUTION: NUDE CHEETAH; CRITIQUES HOLY BOOKS |
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MY FUTURE ART: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995; a self-fulfilling dream prophecy This woman shows me a book of my art. I'm not sure I want to see them--some pieces are from my future... |
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MY GATE: by Wayan; 1996/5/29; a bizarre, joyful dream; 4-page comic (or ill. text version) The full moon rises: I become Weregirl, do the Moondance, and gnaw open the lock on my heart... CAUTION: MOONING |
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MY LITTLE 'POCALYPSE: by Wayan, 2019/5/10; a predictive dream of a TV show making extinction cute The 'toon actors from My Little Pony gleefully volunteer to die horribly in a TV documentary on the impact in Yucatan that killed off the... dinosaurs? No! Unicorns, griffins, pegasi and dragons! As I draw the dream, I get an email from the maker of a TV documentary on climate catastrophe... |
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MY MOTHER'S CLOSET: by Rachel Hadas, c. 2000; a dream-poem provoking a 2008/9/16 dream by Chris Wayan I was in my mother's closet, trying on her outfits, and trapped in Hamlet, too... |
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MY SYMBIOTES: by Wayan; 2015/2/8, a dream characterizing our sixth sense, & proposing a seventh I have symbiotes--a dragonlynx and some flannan, like micro-angels with birdfeet & moth antennae. Lynx & flannan embody my sixth and seventh senses... |
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NAVAHO HORSES: by Wayan; 1972/8/1; childhood drawing, feltpen & color pencil A museum sketch of Navaho horses who got me hot--teaching teenage me that my sexual orientation wasn't (only) human... |
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NEOLITHIC: by Wayan; 1992/9/21; a time-travel dream on the roots of art I'm at a Neolithic art show. A Stone Age critic says "Viewers struggle to interpret signs as the signified." I think they're just baffled how those animals can be stuck on a cave wall yet still be running around... |
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THE NEPALESE DROP: by Wayan; 2000/4/20, a predictive nightmare. I climb a crumbling slope to a cliff with a Himalayan view; I slip, and no one lifts a hand to help as I... |
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NEWT WEDDING: by Emily Joy; spring 1995, a six-year-old's epic dream Through wild jungles and over the Mattress Mountains, I lead a giant purple newt to love... |
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NIP OFF HIS NOSE: by Wayan, 2020/2/20, four surreal dreamlets about Covid? or... overwork? 1: I sketch two deer-girls making videos. 2: I pull a man's nose off, and milk the scene for drama before... 3: My old boss is convicted of murder! 4: I wake and two friends interpret #3 as "Overwork is killing you..." I wake again. My dream-notebook's blank. No friends here; their interpretation was a dream too.... CAUTION: NUDE DEER |
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NO MAN IS ISLAND: by Wayan; mid-May 1990, a poem challenging John Donne's, illustrated with dreamselves. No Man is Island. So Men say. I am not a Man... |
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"NO ONE REALLY": by Wayan; 2019/7/13; a ghostly dream of weak borders My new bedroom has huge windows, but no blinds. I pin up bedsheets for now--flimsy. A girl walking by peers in. Wait--we're 50' up! She's in my room--and transclucent. I yell "WHO ARE YOU?" She looks shocked I can see her, says "No one really" and fades... |
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NON OMNIS MORIAR: by Carole Lindberg; Dec. 2012, a comic apocalyptic dream The world was ending. Volcanoes, floods. Refugees trudged by in the mud, carrying their belongings on their backs. I think I better get dressed to go. But I can't find anything appropriate to wear... |
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O MAIDENS IN YOUR SAVAGE SEASON: by Wayan; 2024/4/15, a sex dream on... fish? After reading a manga and gorging on sushi, I dream a mob of little ninjas dressed as catgirls pile on me, begging to be petted. Excitement, guilt... CAUTION: PEDOPHILIA, NON-FREUDIAN INTERPRETATION |
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ODE TO NOT WRITING ODES: by Wayan; 2019/7/17; a nondream non-ode In an Oakland literary salon (no, not an oxymoron) I'm supposed to write an ode. But it's so hot, and I have surreal dreams to sketch... |
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ODESSA STEPS: by Wayan; 2022/3/18, a predictive dream? I hope! A man's stalking me and my friends. We try to escape but a circus is in the way. My friends shrink to babies, so I pop them in a stroller and flee over steep hills, bouncing down stone stairs! "OW!" the babies howl! Hey... why do I feel deja vu? CAUTION: INTERPRETATION INSULTS BOTH RUSSIA AND NATO |
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OGIE YOSHA CHANTEUSE: by Wayan; 1991/8/8; a flirtatious predictive dreamlet I dream I'm jamming with a girl in red--she sings a line, I echo or challenge it, she sings another. Fun! Who is she? I wake realizing the band I saw before sleep, Ogie Yosha, had that back-and-forth style... but no female singer. Sigh! A friend calls. "Didn't you love the lead singer, isn't she cute?" Whaaat? She wasn't there! Until... later that night. CAUTION: POSSIBLE E.S.P. |
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OHLONE AT THE MALL: by Wayan; 1994/2/1, a dream of what matters I see two Ohlone women around 1900, starving, naked, despised, their land stolen--and still way happier than... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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OPEN YOUR CAGE: by Wayan; 2000/1/10; penciled collage of dream characters The cover of a collection of 11.5 dream-tales in glorious detailed Web-unfriendly black and white.... |
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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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ORBITING THE CRYSTAL PALACE: by Wayan; 1998/1/12, a dream of making a home. A wild flying dream lands me among feral children fighting to live in a glass conservatory of lost flowers... |
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THE OTTER'S MOM: by Wayan, 1996/5/29; a dream-comic of the future. A doomed, orphaned ottercub meets the last Tasmanian Wolf, who makes a hard choice I couldn't. Or... did I? CAUTION: BIRTH SCENE (MARSUPIAL/NON-GORY) |
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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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AN OUTGROWN BED: by Wayan; 1990/10/14, a dream of growth and time. I'm a girl in a Catholic school. But a magazine and my too-small bed combine to change my life... CAUTION: MASTURBATION, QUEER-POSITIVE, CHRISTIAN-NEGATIVE |
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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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OWL SHOT: by Wayan; 2007/2/15, a predictive dream DREAM: I'm hiking in a local preserve when a jay with a handgun shoots an owl... A MONTH LATER: the first owls to resettle my urban county nest in a nearby park... A MONTH LATER: they're dead. One was shot; its mate died of grief. |
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PAGES: by Wayan; 1993/9/2 & 9/3, punning predictive dreams. Dream-journal pages, Tarot's four Page cards, getting paged,and a girl named Page--all warn me I lie to myself about what I want... |
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THE PAINT KIDS: by Wayan; 1996/11/23, an apparent predictive dream. Two child artists mail themselves to me in their paint kit, and start a painting orgy that gets messy in more ways than one... CAUTION: PEDOPHILIA, OR MAYBE PEDOPHOBIA |
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PALACE OF GOOD POLICY: by Wayan; 2023/11/2, an anti-cynical political dream One night I meet a robot and an alien staring in a shop window at a photo of a Gothic chapel. They're shocked--it's a Galactic legend, the Palace of Good Policy. Pure myth! Or is it? |
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PARROT SITTER: by Wayan; 2021/11/19, a flying-pulp-fiction-babysitting dream A girl becomes a raven to cross a pond. Asks me to fly across carrying her (flightless) pet parrot in a bag. I do, but later the parrot falls downstairs. So yuppies call me an irresponsible pet owner... |
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PASS, MARE: by Wayan; 1982/3/13, a sex dream about letting your animal side lead A deer-girl turns into a talking mare. We make love. Then, relaxed, she leads me over a pass from suburban isolation into a wider social world... CAUTION: TALKING HORSE SEX |
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PEACOCK KINGS: by Myoe Shonin; 1196/8 or 1196/9, an ecstatic dream I meet two Peacock Kings bigger than human beings, who chant blessings until I wake with tears drenching my pillow... |
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THE PEGASI TUB: by Wayan; 2013/11/9, a fun, flirty dream I felt I didn't deserve After a rainy hike I'm cold and muddy. In the camp's hot tub, six girls splash and play. They welcome me, but I feel shy. They slowly become winged ponies! Were-Pegasi... CAUTION: HOT-TUB NUDITY |
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A PEGASUS-DRAGON SCRIPTS MY LIFE: by Wayan; 2017/12/4, a dream of my... creator? Turns out my life's a TV show. My scriptwriter is half pegasus, half dragon, and my own humanity has been her science-fictional imagination all along... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY |
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PENGUINS TALK ONLY TO...: by Wayan; 1987/7/25, a comic dream-poem. Talking animals flood my bedroom. Well, they'll talk to me--but they're cliquish. Hippos snub cats snub bears snub deer, and no one talks to penguins, for... |
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PENTALEMMA: by Wayan; 2002/3/10 to 2006/5/1?, a 13-page nondream improv-comic on deep goals Hypnotized in therapy, I saw AT LEAST five competing goals tugging at me like gravity fields. Naturally I drew them. Come tour the Inner Solar System of our desires... CAUTION: NUDITY (BODY, HEART, BRAIN, SOUL) |
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PERISSA: by Wayan; 1997/9/13, a sexy dream-comic (small screen, slow loading? Illus. text) When Perissa, an exhibitionistic centaur, bares her body in a crowded Coliseum, she also bares a human-supremacist plot... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM |
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PET ME DARE!: by Wayan; 1996/2/7, a sexy healing dream; 2p. dream-comic (or ill. text) After whining all day that I lost my anima, I dream I'm petting a cat. Who purrs, and grows, and grows, and purrs "Pet..." CAUTION: PUSSY TROUBLE |
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PICNIC IN THE RUINS: by Wayan, 2002/9/18, digital painting of dream figure. On an alternate Earth where centaurs lived in a beach town with old Roman ruins, a local girl invited me on a picnic... CAUTION: NUDE CENTAUR |
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PIE HOLE: by Wayan; 2021/9/12, an Emperor's New Clothes dream with a twist I'm shyly making love with a classmate, Cynthia. Classmates gawk & point, through the pie-hole in the ceiling. But our perspective reveals that under our critics' skirts... CAUTION: UPSKIRT NUDITY |
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PIED MAGE: by Wayan; 1995/2/6, an architectural dreamfable. A wizard into spots and dots invites me into his beach house, hungry for advice on his peculiar fears... |
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PINKIE CLEANS THE WINDOWS OF PERCEPTION: by Wayan; 2017/2/5, an advisory dream fusing Aldous Huxley & My Little Pony. My new housemate Pinkie is a party animal, but she's really nice. She climbs a high ladder to help wash my Windows of Perception. Then our unicorn friend Rarity walks in. She warns me to pace this renovation project... CAUTION: PONIES |
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PITS OF POWER: by Wayan; 2005/11/16, a dream of rival miracles One tribe builds earth-magic pits that can teleport you or grant wishes. But the other tribe's more powerful flow-state magic is harder to define... CAUTION: SEX FANTASY GRANTED |
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PIXY CONCUSSION: by Wayan; 2006/3/11, a diagnostic sex-dream comic, 9 p. (or illus. text) Janet's obsessed with a creepy guy till her pixy friend Kay decides to "knock some sense into her cunt"--literally... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, NASTY LOVE SPELL, PIXIE NUDITY |
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PLESIOSAUR: by Wayan; 1985/9/5, a comic medical nightmare. An itchy patient of mine insists he's turning into a four- headed, man-eating plesiosaur. He left one thing out... |
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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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PLUMBER'S HELPER: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1981/12/8; a punning spiritual dream A stopped-up mystical toilet gets cleared by an unexpectedly colorful tool; but then, you never anticipate what'll unplug your, um, "head"... |
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PLUTO THAWS: by Wayan; 1973/1/19, a mythic dream set on Pluto. A quarrel between psychic adepts heats up to a war, thawing Pluto. What will the ice-tribes wish for? |
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POINTED EARS, POINTED DREAM: by Wayan, 2019/1/4, a surreal dream I walk home in cold rain; my hooded robe soaked. It has holes for my long pointed ears. Hit a thriftshop to buy a dry one, and run into two girls I crushed on but ran away from: Danielle is comforting Cary who's crying. Their ears are pointed too. Wait--who are we?... CAUTION: GUILT FOR SINS OF OMISSION? |
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POISONED!: by Wayan; 1994/6/20, three linked diagnostic dreams. Poison takes many forms, from attitudes to environmental by-products to actions done deliberately... |
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POLYGON DREAMS: by Wayan; 2007/4/23, a 32-page comic on the effects of shapes What if comics panels and layouts weren't so square? I try triangles, pentagons, hexagons, circles, spirals--and some serious stuff pops out... CAUTION: IDEAS, OCCASIONAL NUDITY, MENTIONS ABUSE |
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PONYGIRL'S DIET: by Wayan; 2010/3/31, a furry health-advice dream I dream of a half-pony half-human girl who can't eat either hamburgers or hay. She figures out an appropriate diet... |
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POOL OF TRUTH: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1983/10/1; a dream of shamanic descent Night. A massive crash on the highway. Bodies strewn. Sickened, I descend a spiral stair to the Pool of Truth. It gives no answers. Women spout platitudes. I go on, in pain, down past the polar bears... CAUTION: THE DEAD |
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PORTALS: by Wayan; 2020/7/30, a dream about family, uh, bonding... I sneak into a mansion where a mom & daughter bond by interrogating willing victims who get off on the bondage. Later, Inquisitor Girl and I are waiting to use a teleportation gate and discover we have something in common: not just weird moms, but even weirder dads... CAUTION: KINKY FAMILY VALUES |
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PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD: by Wayan; 2009/10/19, an illustrated dream poem; Dreamverse #61 I get stuck with a one-year mandatory gig as President of the World, just as Saudi Arabia collapses, and fools rush in... |
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PUBLIC EVENTS vs. SNAKES FROM INDIA: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1984/6-7, a dream contrasting faiths I meet a Mormon art-educator I know. We're so different! Then I get a call from India. My friend tells of an erotic Hindu bas-relief of women and snakes... |
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PURE LOVE: by Wayan; 1986/10/9, an epic time-travel dream with ego shifts Two shapeshifters meet, fight and love over the centuries-- and I live out scenes from both their long lives... |
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QUEEN KONG: by Wayan; 1986/3/17, a surreal dream of nerd defiance A giantess strides across the desert. The Great White Hunter fires his elephant gun, but the books she's made of stop his bullets. I think I'll join the Queen Kong Library... |
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RABBIT-EARED DOE: by Wayan; dreamed 2008/4/29, a dream of statues come passionately to life A hunter catches a Rabbit-Eared Doe by her yard-long ears, pulls on them like reins, and mates with her! She doesn't object; maybe ear-pulling's normal for her. Should I intervene? I can't tell if this is love or rape! CAUTION: STRANGE FURRY SEX |
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RAINBOW SPLASH: by Wayan, 2023/4/23, a furry-porn dream hiding art advice! I'm in an alt-world Berkeley where mythic creatures shop on College Avenue. Marigold the unicorn flirts with me. Rainbow Dash the pegasus has turned male. Very very male... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY (AND CRUDITY) |
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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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RAZOR GHOST: by Wayan; 1974/5/5, a nightmare posing a problem. A man slowly walled in by neighbors till he died, is now a mad, murderous ghost. And he's me! Can I exorcise MYSELF? CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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READABLE DREAMS: by Wayan; 1989/10/12, 1992/9/1-9/18; a 3-year meditation on treating dreams as art How do we make dream narratives readable, when so many readers are brainwashed to think they're nonsense? |
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RED-SPATTERED DANCERS: by Wayan, 2023/2/15, a surreal predictive dream DREAM: I climb a stair to a surreal space where kids dance in tights spattered with wet red paint. NEXT DAY: I watch Wednesday--Wednesday Addams dances & gets spattered with wet red paint... CAUTION: NUDITY, ESP SPECULATION |
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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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RESHAPE MY FACE: by Wayan; dreamed 1988/9/21; a dream on the benefits of indulgence Lounging in the sun, I do a magical make-over--molding my bones to give myself more room for intuition, judgment, nerve--all the while feeling shallow & indulgent for self-improving!... |
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REVOLUTION IS MESSY: by Emily Joy; 2006/4/26, a political dream When whites invade, two shapeshifting Native American cubs resist architecturally... |
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RHAMPHORHYNCHUS: by Wayan; 1996/11/12, a waking premonition. Biking, I find myself chanting a dinosaur name--Rhamphorhynchus. I don't even know what kind it is. At home I open a novel, and a Rhamphorhynchus appears, politely defined for me by our obliging universe... CAUTION: E.S.P.? |
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THE RICH WRECK THE WELL: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995, a dream of Heaven A movie version of heaven. Souls line up for rejuvenation from a great fountain. But fat old rich guys crash the line, demanding to be first... CAUTION: UGLY NUDITY, UGLY BEHAVIOR, POLITICALLY PREDICTIVE |
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RING-DUEL: by Wayan; dreamed 1988/12/21; a transformation dream on reclaiming your power A mad scientist sneaks me into a museum that holds the Ring of Power I made at 14. I put it on, and slip into the spirit world--as a dragon! An ice-drake sent by Sauron comes to duel me for my Ring... |
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RING OF SIX: by Wayan; 2018/11/30; an advisory dream of alternate lives Six women in six similar feudal empires swap places repeatedly. They can never meet, but they can leave notes, each helping out the next soul to swap in... CAUTION: ADVANCED DREAMWORK |
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THE ROAD OF MY LIFE: by Wayan; 1999/12/12, pencil; a life-map. The white road is my life history, told in women: friends, lovers, relatives, ancestors--and one past life... |
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ROAD Detail: MY GRANDMOTHER AND MOTHER WHEN YOUNG: by Wayan; 1999/12/12 They were both beauties and look rather feline to me--I'm drawn to feline beauties still, and wonder... CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES |
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ROAD Detail: FRIENDS AND LOVERS: by Wayan; 1999/12/12. Friends, and lovers, and some who got away. And the big question mark in the future... |
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ROAD Detail: SISTERS, COUSINS, NIECES: by Wayan; 1999/12/12 "Go back! Wrong way!" says the sign--not because the past is dead, because it isn't... CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES |
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RORAIMA JUMP: by Wayan; dreamed 2016/9/18, a surreal dream of deadly outrage I'm a Brazilian in the Olympic waterfall-jumping finals. The Russian & American cheat--threaten my family. I snap! Fight recklessly, knocking them off their ropes. We all tumble down the cliff... CAUTION: BULLYING, VIOLENT REVENGE |
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RUBY UNICORN: by Wayan; dreamed 2012/11/15; a sculptural dream. THAT DAY: My bandmates want to record crowd-pleasing songs. I want to record our strangest ones... THAT NIGHT: In a woman's art studio, I'm struck by a low, feline, muscular unicorn mare, carved out of a giant ruby. I ask, and she says "Oh, that's not mine. I found it in the trash"... |
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RUSTY UNDERWORLD: by Wayan, 2023/9/23, a chthonic news-dream I'm in a vast cavern full of skyscrapers--sucked into the underworld. Rusty steel plates cover their now-useless windows. In the shadows, horned, fanged businessdevils scurry by... |
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SALTY DOG: by Wayan, 2024/1/24; a surreal prescriptive dream I sit on a half-flooded pier and read a dream-journal--the first ever written by a dog. But I can't interview the dreamer; the dog followed a fad diet and just died of excess salt... |
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SATURN BEACH: by Wayan; 1990/4/18, a playful advisory dream Sunbathing on Saturn's rings with a girl who's preparing for reincarnation--like me. She's cute, but she chucks litter in the Bay of Rebirth. Maybe not Ms. Right, then... |
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SATYR AND TWILIGHT: by Wayan; 2018/9/1, an epic dream perhaps foreseeing the pandemic A spell kills off nearly all humanity and mutates the rest of us. Now I'm a satyr living in a co-op home with unicorns, dryads, cattaurs, and shy vampires. Thing is, I prefer the Apocalypse to what came before... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
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SEA MASSAGE: by Wayan; 1995/10/3, a puzzling dreamtale. I can fly and breathe water. So I fly into art-rich mansions, though not to steal--I earn plenty from undersea massage... |
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SAURIANS: by Wayan; 155K, 1992, 4 digital dream portraits. In dreams, I kept meeting a dinosaurian person who was proud, strange, beautiful. S/he introduced me to two sisters I just had to paint... |
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A SEAMY REALITY: by Wayan; 1999/10/21, a surreal predictive dream. Sharp seams between realities cross Silicon Valley; I end up in the Dark Castle of the Oracle. When I wake... |
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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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SELF-POSSESSED: by Wayan; a 2000/7/10 dream of a ghost (representing the World Dream Bank itself?) In a pizzeria, customers walk blindly through a ghost; briefly possessed, they echo his moods. But for such an insubstantial figure, he seems strangely stable... |
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SELL THE GODS, AND RAISE HELL!: by Wayan; 1994/1/26, a dream riddle. Reactionaries smash a paper. To rebuild, the editor must sell the sacred tiki carvings! But gods don't LIKE being sold... CAUTION: MORAL QUANDARY |
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SHANGRI-LA: by Wayan, 1973/11/13, a teen's mystical dance-party dream I visit Shangri-La, the ancient Tibetan valley of refuge. Unicorns graze. We drive around on car-sheep. Robin Hood rebels against the Priestess of Gloom. Pilgrims in silly gauze robes arrive. Or are they just tourists? Oh, well. Toga party! CAUTION: GAUZE ROBES, NUDE UNICORNS |
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SHARKBIT AND WARY: by Wayan; 2017/11/17, a dream explaining my own social caution At the beach, I see a swim team wading in. One girl teases a laggard wader, not seeing her huge scar. She says "I won't swim till the shark-risk is mapped"... |
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SHRIEK ADOPTION: by Wayan; dreamed 2015/8/23, a dream-poem exposing self-sabotage A man adopts two orphaned, talented musical griffins. But their previous guardians were so traditionalist & stifling that the cubs want to BURN all their instruments... |
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SILKY AT THE GATE: by Wayan; 2016/2/26, dream of a statue come alive My girlfriend, a lifesize doll in the shape of a feline centaur, gradually comes alive, walking around on her own and flirting with me... CAUTION: NUDE CAT-TAUR |
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SILKY CLEANS THE UNDERWORLD: by Wayan; 2023/5/26, a heartening surreal dream I'm lost in the underworld again. Happens a lot lately. But I run into my anima Silky, in yellow boots and a safety vest, blasting clean the walls of the land of the dead... |
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SILKY THE PEGASUS: by Wayan; 1984/12/11; a guided flying dream My anima, a pegasus mare, leaps out of a girl's book and teaches us to fly up to an astral land... CAUTION: FLIRTY PEGASUS |
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SILKY'S BRIDGE: by Wayan, with brief parallel dream by Liz; 1987/5/7, apparent shared dreams WAYAN: I'm a cat climbing on sea-cliffs. Fear I'll fall. Run into Silky, an archer firing a line across to an islet. Now the Deer People can build their gossamer bridge... LIZ: I was hiking along a trail atop sea-cliffs. But I feared I'd fall... |
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SING TO SUMMON COURAGE: by Wayan, 2019/4/21, a surreal dreampoem Day: an exhibitionist teen uses sex to sell charity cupcakes, while her mom glares... Dream: I date the exhibitionist, but her dad imposes weird trials, as I sing for courage... |
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SISTERS OF THE INTERFACE: by Wayan; 1983/12/21, a shamanic dreamtale. My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet... |
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SIX DREAMS: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a very busy night! 1: A flooded bathroom becomes 2: a glass water-piano; 3: my friend strips in a restaurant, so 4: they serve me gutted dog. 5: Dolls teach prostitution, as 6: a rhino rubs up to an elephant-bear... |
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SKEPTIC AND DRAGONFLY: by Wayan; 1988/1/28 and 2/8, twin flying dreams. Big Blonde and her officemates don't believe in flight; but the dragonfly-girl I meet hatched in mid-air... |
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SKUNK SEEKS THAILAND: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a dreamlet of shamanic kindness One night I meet a giant talking skunk and its pup, who asks how to walk to Thailand... |
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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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SLEAZE: by Cecy and Wayan; 1991/7/28; subtle shared dreams. Wayan: A sleazy brother calls the cops, blaming us for a fire he set... Cecy: A sleazy brother calls in a fire while not even trying to put it out... |
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SMALL MIRACLES: by Wayan; 2008/9/7, two dream-poems (Tiny Scientists and Barberry); Dreamverse #23 Things start materializing in my house: first three tiny naked scientists, then a huge impossible fruit... CAUTION: NUDE SCIENTISTS |
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SNAPDRAGON by Wayan; 2009/12/17, an illustrated dreampoem. I'm a werewolf-girl in love with a gender-dysphoric weredragon in love with a man who's very, very patient with all our crazy shiftiness... CAUTION: NUDITY (SKIN, FUR and SCALE), SHIFTY PEOPLE (BI, WERE and QUEER) |
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SNOW STALLION: by Wayan; 1994/6/4, a tangled political/spiritual dream. I'm a peace terrorist trapped in Squaw Valley, herded like a mare by a huge stallion made of snow... And then the dream shifts. I blurt out the truth behind our idiotic waking world! And wake believing it... CAUTION: MERMAID AND HORSE NUDITY |
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SO GUARDED A SKIN: by Wayan; dreamed 1983/6/11, a dream of a Freudian... blurt? An art critic asks me what I think of a sexually explicit nude, and I find myself blurting nearly the opposite of my conscious opinion... CAUTION: NUDE SKETCH |
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SOCK PUPPETS OF THE GODS: by Dee and Wayan; 1994/4/14. Parallel shamanic dreams! I dream I'm suicidal; but I'm saved when I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern, from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but the challenges slowly get more spiritual. NEXT DAY: I learn what my shaman-friend Dee just dreamed. And now I'm unsure whose dream this is... CAUTION: IDEAS |
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SORTING HAT, DRUNKEN CAT: by Wayan; 2013/10/18, a steadily mutating warning-dream I discover a Sorting Hat, as in Harry Potter--and it moves in with us. Our cat crawls in and plays peekaboo. She becomes a teenager eager to get drunk at Thanksgiving--like every adult in her life. But she's not puking drunk like them, so she must be OK! Just as I think I am--I only overwork to exhaustion. CAUTION: DRUNK TEEN CAT, SEVERELY ALCOHOLIC ADULTS |
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SPACE NEEDLE: by Wayan; 1995/8/24, an erotic dream on architecture. I'm a kid again, gawking at the Space Needle. But a woman stands before it, who no one else can see: CAUTION: NUDITY, A SEXUAL PERSPECTIVE |
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SPACE PIE: by Wayan; 1999/4/8, a sociological jungle-gym dream. I'm a Latina crossing the border at a nightmare bridge, while an Anglo rants at me about the Space Race... |
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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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SPHINX'S WOOD: by Wayan; 1981/11/19, a dream of puns, riddles and advice After my dad lets me down I dream black may be white, and white, black--if you're a Sphinx... |
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SPIN, SPIN, FLY AGAIN: by Wayan; 2009/8/8, Shakespeare in drag inspires a flying-dream & poem Night. I'm scared of the men in the park--till I see they're all gay. I dance, and as darkness flares to dawn, remember how to fly--regain my falcon-wings... |
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SPIROGRAPHY: by Wayan; 1997/9/29, a one-page cartooned spiral autobiography Laying my timeline in a Fibonacci spiral, it's clear great changes come in a pattern-- as soon as I've digested the last couple, a new revelation/revolution appears... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, HEAVY ISSUES |
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SPLITTING THE ATOM: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, an antitherapy dream? In a dark classroom, my shrink was demonstrating atom-splitting with a glowing ping pong ball. I was glad I wasn't in that class... |
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SPONTANEOUS DUCK: by Wayan; 2010/9/14, two dreams on feeling magically inadequate I spy on a girl learning magic in a quilted ditch. She lets me join her telekinesis lesson! Can my mind move a balloon? Then I tour a witch-world where normality's shameful. One kid's not witch or normal--he keeps turning into Donald Duck! CAUTION: DISNEY = DISABILITY? |
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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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SQUIRREL GIRL: by Wayan; 1973/10/19, a dream poem of love & rockets Squirrel Girl and I try to find a private room, but Hal the mad computer in 2001 spies on us and our spaceship captain orders us to clean the ion tubes... CAUTION: SQUIRREL NUDITY |
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SQUIRREL QUESTIONS: by Wayan, 2024/2/16; a surreal, cryptic dreamlet A mom & daughter caught a squirrel robbing their guaranteed rodent-proof birdfeeder. He speaks English so they demand to know how he did it. But he knows they won't hurt him... |
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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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STARHAWK THE WITCH: by Wayan; 1983/8/19, 6. illus., an epic, milestone dream. DAY: I read Starhawk's Dreaming the Dark, on building unity, undoing capitalism; DREAM: I'm forced to become Time Pilgrim, warning of the dangers of community--indeed, of unity... |
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STUCK SNAKE: by Wayan; 2011/9/8; a set of dreams that out-Freud Freud Girls flash and strip and crawl into bed with me, but I'm blind to their interest-- till I become a snakeboy and discover the real limitations of phallic symbolism... CAUTION: NUDITY, STUPIDITY |
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SUMMON A SECOND HER: by Wayan; 2010/3/9, a time-loop dream I meet a flutist I like, but she's busy playing. So I conjure a second her with free time to listen to herself with me... |
THE SUMMONERS: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995, a mysterious dream |
Two nude women (drawn Wally Wood style) dance ritually in a forest, summoning a worm-snake-dragon with a ring of fangs... CAUTION: NUDITY |
SURVIVOR'S CURIOUS: by Wayan; 2010/7/7, a dream of an inner guard relaxing |
As we cross a scary ledge, my tough survival-guide, always no-nonsense before, finally willing to consider... intellectualism, dating, ethics... fun? |
SUZETTE: by Wayan; 1981/2/20, a defiant sex/art dream with no one to defy |
I dreamed I drew our dog and me mating, then found the drawing on a gallery wall for all to see... CAUTION: CARTOON BESTIALITY |
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... |
SWAN: by Wayan; 1995/4/8, a transformation dream; 3-page dreamcomic (or as ill. text) |
I wake amnesic in a cabin in Alaska, in a dress printed with self-putdowns. I track down the wizard who cursed me. He turns me into a swan! Worse? No! His first curse was on a human being, and now I'm a bird. My mind is free!... |
SWEATERPANTS FOR CHRIST!: by Wayan; 2011/6/30, a comic sartorial nightmare poem |
I pull my mom's sweater onto my legs but get tangled (and bits of anatomy dangle). Worse, I'm emulating Jesus. Is this any way to get a date? CAUTION: WARDROBE MALFUNCTION, GENDER MALFUNCTION, MOM MALFUNCTION |
SYBIL SUE FLANNERY: by Wayan, 1986/10/29, a dream noir. |
I'm Sybil Sue, a hard-boiled shapeshifting shamus, on the track of the most wanted bankrobbers in LA: the Bad Girls... CAUTION: IN BETWEEN GUNSHOTS, THE BAD GIRLS SWEAR |
TAKE STOCK OF YOUR PELVIS: by Wayan; 1980/1/11, a sexual dream that isn't. |
A friend stockpiling for Armageddon shows me what I thought was lust is really a need to learn... pelvic anatomy? Why? CAUTION: NUDITY; LANGUAGE; WE FIND OUT WHY |
TANGUY: by Wayan; 1963-4, childhood surrealist drawing. | No, not a guy with a tan. Yves Tanguy was a sailor who became a Surrealist. When I was nine or ten, his work inspired me to try my first landscape drawings... |
THE TAO OF DENNIS THE MENACE: by Wayan; 1986/4/17, a dream of a wise mentor. |
Chased by purple squid from Jupiter, I seek refuge with a guru the Goddess recommends for me... |
TEHURA TRIES COMICS: by Wayan; 1994/7/19. pencil, Xerox, erasable crayon. |
I dreamed a sphinx artist visited humanity and drew the crazy natives. I copied her sketchbook... CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM, SLACKERISM, ACTUAL IDEAS |
TEMPLE OF DREAMWORK: by Wayan, 2006/11/13, a flying & predictive dream |
DAY: I have to read three academics who mock ancient, shamanic and modern amateur dreamwork as superstition. DREAM: I'm learning to fly in the Temple of Dreamwork, next to a cute new colleague. NEXT DAY, I meet her... CAUTION: APPARENT E.S.P.; DISSES ACADEMICS |
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 |
TERESA'S BILLBOARDS: by Wayan; 1988/5/1, a dream about trust. |
Teresa mistrusts men. Her best friend Sabina comes on to me in front of Teresa, who blames me... CAUTION: NUDITY, BETRAYAL, GENDER PARANOIA |
THARN: by Wayan; 2006, 45 p, 200+ ill., a nondream virtual world: maps, photos, portraits, tours |
Tour a rugged, scenic moon with air and water in deep canyons sheltering a dozen intelligent species CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, SCIENCE |
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME: by Wayan, 2002/3/17, digital study of dream figure--sort of |
Usually I wobble on high heels--but with four feet, maybe I can follow the Yellow Brick Road... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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 |
THREE WAYS TO FLY: by Wayan; 2010/11/10, a dream urging the World Dream Bank to shift |
I'm shown pictures of three different magical ways to fly. But the third shows no actual flight--just someone giving away the magical means... |
THREE WOMEN IN ONE: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1984/2/5; a multiple-self dream |
Intimidated by stylish friends, I split in three--myself, and a small child nursing at the breast of an earth-mother priestess--or Earth herself... |
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... |
THROUGH WALLS TO SEX CLASS: by Wayan; 2017/6/22, a therapeutic/advisory dream |
A trusted college advisor says "Slip through cracks in the classroom walls!" There's no direct route. Yoga to taekwondo to ballet to... a sex workshop! CAUTION: ABOUT SEX |
TIAMAT'S REBELLION: by Wayan; 1988/1/1, a dream about neoteny. |
That day: I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah. That night: I dream she leads a revolution on a starship against her elders... |
TIE MARK UP: by Wayan, 2019/2/1, three dreams warning lifelong habits demand serious change |
1: Crystal-skulled wizards, dino & lionfolk parade by. 2: I curl up with three skittish beasts. Patience! 3: My friend Mark tries to rape me. I tie him up, seek a restraining order. Will the cops believe me? CAUTION: RAPE ATTEMPT |
TIGER HONEYMOON: by Wayan, 1987/3/16, a dream of a trickster |
I buy a charming ruin in the woods. Newlywed tigers prowl! The tiger bride tells me "He expects predictability. But I'll show him what a tiger really is..." |
TIME WARRIOR: by Katie Hofgard, c. 2004, a daydream on transformation |
She was a girl playing in the woods when she found the dying silver fox. His body transformed into a fox-mask. His spirit said "When you come of age..." |
TOO MUCH TO BEAR: by Wayan; 1997/4/28, an alt-world 10p. dream comic or text w/pics |
I dreamed that huge nouveau-riche polar bears invaded San Francisco, evicting us locals... CAUTION: CORRUPTION, URSACIDE, MATH! |
TORCH THE ROSE-ROT: by Wayan, 2024/7/24, surreal dream written as poem |
I'm a rabbit girl living in New Orleans. Humid summer. My roses all died; a rot that needs to be disinfected. So I light a torch and burn them back... CAUTION: HARSH POLITICAL INTERPRETATION |
TOWER OF THE MARTIAN DEAD: by Wayan, 1983/7/7; a dream-poem of an exo-Valhalla |
Climbing a mountain on Mars, I reach a hall where I'm transformed into a cryophilic being. Then I feast on methane soup with the heroic Martian dead... |
THE TRAIN ON TIME CAFE: by Wayan, 1981/12/20, an epic political dream. |
Silicon Valley goes enthusiastically fascist. I hide in a berry patch. They build a shining world, and then... |
TRITONIAN FOXTAUR U.: by Wayan; 2016/9/10, a wish-fulfilling dream set on Triton |
I'm an exchange student at the Solar System's best university for the magic arts; my classmates are methane-breathing foxtaurs... |
TWO DRUNKS: by Wayan, 1995/10/26, nondream fantasy; color pencil. |
A tribute to Hokusai's sketches. A crane and a fairy were out drinking, and now can't fly home... |
TWO-HEADED BEAST: by Wayan; 1997/7/31, a 5-page Gothic dream-comic (or as illus. text) |
In Castle Frankenstein, will Mary Shelley wed Elmer Fudd? His two-headed monster has marital advice... |
TWO WITCHES: by Melissa McClanahan, 2013/9/8, a short painted dream-comic |
Two witches, maiden and crone, ride a flying monster made of two magically fused trolls. But I know somehow that the two are really just aspects of a single powerful sorceress... |
UNDER THE FUR: by Wayan, 1997/10/7; a 5-page dream-comic (or as ill. text) |
A strange creature slunk into our yard, carrying a skunk lunch. But she dropped her fur coat, and I recognized a kindred spirit... |
UNGIRDLE THE TREE: by Wayan; dreamed 2018/10/6, a shamanic warning dream |
I'm a girl living alone in a forest. I go patrolling after a storm and find a red cable strangling a tree. Though scared, I climb up and tear it off. But there are more... CAUTION: POLITICAL INTERPRETATION |
UNICORN AND A.I.: by Wayan, 2023/1/12, twin dreamlets on how the other half lives |
UNICORN EMISSARY: I meet a unicorn diplomat in Japantown. Beautiful, formidable... THE A.I. WHO RUNS THE WORLD: I meet and then briefly become our world's leader; before the strain of it wakes me, I learn she rules mostly by not meddling... |
UNICORN MENTALITY: by Wayan; dreamed 2008/7/16, a dream of unicorn art spilling over into reality |
Dreamworkers gawk at sexy unicorn drawings all over my bed. One friend's part unicorn. The other? I wonder... Ten years later, having learned I have a rare mutation making me not too human, the dream feels half-predictive... CAUTION: UNIPORN? |
UNICORN TIMEFORKS: by Wayan; dreamed 2019/5/25, a shamanic warning dream |
A man enslaves a unicorn and makes her split time, for his profit! But the timeforks don't heal as he expected. So the unicorn takes unilateral action (sorry). Those time-forks look like our current political war. Prepare for sharp kicks... |
UNICORNS, ARABIAN NIGHTS... STARSHIP?: by Wayan, 2023/12/3, a dream predicting 3 incompatible motifs |
I find myself on the bridge of a starship. But the décor is Arabian Nights--and half the crew are unicorns, grazing built-in flowerbeds. Some humans on board treat them as mere pets. But one's piloting the ship... CAUTION: PREDICTIVE |
A VALLEY NEAR HOPE: by Wayan; 1984/10/17-19, an epic dream. |
I wander a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who love unicorns but fear cyborgs, who love ants but fear unicorns! And while the Three Tribes squabble, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four aspects of my tetrahedral soul... CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING |
VELOCIRAPTORS AND BANANAS: by Wayan; 1994/2/6, a predator-advisory dream. |
After a visit from our landlady's angry, crazy son I dream hungry velociraptors invade our house... |
VERTICAL PLANES: by Wayan; 1990/3/7, an astral pirate dream. |
We're air pirates running a music shop, till our biplanes are hijacked by cat angels! Furious, we set out... |
THE VIDEOGRAPHER'S APPRENTICE: by Wayan; 1994/7/29, a predictive/warning dream. |
Blondie Wiggle builds a Video Igloo. But I'm allergic--TV kills me! A BAD omen for our video project... CAUTION: TV KILLS (BUT YOU KNEW THAT) |
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 |
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! |
WAX WALL, PUMA COMA: by Wayan; 2022/8/8, 3 surreal genderbent time-bent dreams |
I'm a demon girl out to sabotage a pirate radio station by climbing a tall wall of glowing wax, carrying a comatose mountain lioness on my back! |
WAYMO BALLOONISTS: by Wayan; 2021/7/16, a surreal predictive dream |
Huge balloons labeled "Waymo" in bad Chinese are taking over San Francisco. But the sexy balloonists seem to be more into masturbation than conquest... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM OR OBJECTIFICATION? |
THE WELL OF WOMEN'S WISDOM: by Wayan; 1991/3/25, a dream on gradualism. |
I find the Well of Women's Wisdom. Lucky I'm female tonight! A girl sneers "Narrow!" Is it, or her? |
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 |
'WE'RE ALL HUMAN': by Wayan; 1987/3/13, a dream trial. |
For flirting in the astral cafeteria, we all get sentenced to group therapy-- till I catch the lie in my life. What lie? Read the title... |
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 |
WERE-TROUT: by Wayan; 1997/8/2, a dating-advisory dream. |
I'm a one-legged hopping hermit in the ruins of LA, and my only hope for love is to conjure up a girl out of a trout and a puppy... |
WERTZ!: by Wayan; 2023/10/14, a night of cartoonist-inspired dreams |
After seeing Julia Wertz's cartoon history of her entire dreamlife (on one big page!) I dream Wertz style all night! I don't mind the nightmares--what gets me down is comics' black & white... CAUTION: NIGHTMARES, SEX |
WHY COWGIRLS LOVE BROCCOLI: by Wayan; 1987/8/19, a surreal dream of love. |
I'm a cowgirl in Nevada circa 1900. In the canyon below Haunted Mansion, I meet a broccoli-green lizard girl. Naturally I help a lady in distress... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE |
THE WILD HUNT: by Wayan; 1998/7/24, a dream of myth--or abuse?. |
We're exploring the English farm we inherited, when The Wild Hunt storms over the hill... |
WING IT: by Wayan, 1995/12/29-1996/2/14, a 9-page improv comic. |
An art experiment--the only rule is DRAW without preconceptions-- no models, no ideas, no plans, not even dreams. Drawing from the void! |
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 |
WIZARD GIZZARD: by Wayan; 1996/8/5, a diagnostic dream. |
I have a tummy ache. Our local wizard says "no wonder, with fascists occupying your colon"... CAUTION: TREATMENT NOT A.M.A.-APPROVED |
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!) |
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 |
WORKIN' FOR PEANUTS: by Wayan; 1990/12/11, a crude but perceptive dream. |
I'm an elephant working in a diner. In the bathroom, I inadvertently summon the Genie of the Urinal... CAUTION: PISSED PACHYDERM |
THE WRAITH OF KHAN: by Wayan; 1982/6/2, a dream on brains and consequences |
I'm being stalked by Ricardo Montalban, playing Khan, Captain Kirk's enemy on Star Trek. Why? Oh, I know why! |
A WRITER'S MUSE: by Wayan, 1996/12/7, a dreamfable on creativity. |
A writer's found in his office mating with an ash-covered creature! But could she be his muse? CAUTION: NUDITY OR NOT? SEX OR NOT? NO ONE QUITE KNOWS... |
XALGRIIN IN THE LAB: by Emily Joy, 2006?, odd dream scene |
Xalgriin is a sweet stegosaurus boy locked up in a research lab, planning to free not just himself but others... |
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! |
ZENNA CAT: by Wayan; 1972/10/13, a childhood dream. |
My cat dissolves in the shower. I follow her to a telepathic world. I want to stay, but can I?... |
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