DREAM PUNS
And isn't the waking mind about as skittish as you can get?
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| ALICE'S POEM: by Lewis Carroll; 1872, a poem on dreams Are dreams really so ephemeral? Lewis Carroll, who built the Alice books from dream-fragments, wasn't so sure... |
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ARISTOTLE'S WIVES: by Wayan, 1984/5/20, a dueling-philosopher dream. Aristotle keeps marrying my friends and fucking them up. So I challenge Mr. Logic to a shamanic duel... CAUTION: THE F-WORD. OOPS, TOO LATE! LESBIAN FISH, TOO. |
| | ARTSHOW IN A DREAM: by Wayan; 1983/9/18, a dream poem with 3 illustrations A jaundiced dream of an art show that spelled out just how deeply I reject the rules behind modern art... |
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AWK!: by Wayan; 1988?, a trance drawing of a body state When I met someone attractive, my head flamed, burning my body like a wax candle... |
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BELL CURVE IN THE DARK: by Wayan; 1982/8/17, a dream fable. A human pinball game played in the dark, with bells for stoppers, sorting people into a Gaussian bell-curve... |
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BEYOND THE BUOYS: by Wayan; 1981/2/12, a short dreamfable. I'm a fairy queen at the beach, chasing a girl who's a strong swimmer. Yep, she swims beyond the buoys... CAUTION: BAD LESBIAN PUNS |
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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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BLIND TO THE CUES: by Wayan; 1996/10/2, a dream of blinders. A sexy pool-playing friend in a short skirt leans over an invisible, virtual-reality pooltable, but I'm blind to... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, TRULY CLUELESS GUY |
| BLUEBEARD DRAG: by Wayan; 2008/9/5, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #22 On the waterfront, I meet a seductive girl. Well, guy. Well, serial killer. Um, I think I'll leave now... CAUTION: HOMOPHOBIA OR SURVIVAL INSTINCT? |
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LE BON DIEU (Around #2): by Wayan; 600 x 600, 1999. Digital picture. Soul-Poodle is torn between Le Bone Dieu and Dancing Pussy. Who will our horny dogma chase? CAUTION: MUTT SMUT |
| BONES DON'T LIE: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/13, a gruesome nightmare on guilt. I know I'm a murderer; what isn't so clear is what I killed and why... CAUTION: DISMEMBERMENT, GUILT, DREAD |
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BOOKSTORE ILLUSION: by Wayan; 560 x 680, erasable crayon 14x17", 1986? I was in the Stanford Bookstore and saw this strange visual pun across the room... or did I? CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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THE BORIS BADENOV SOLUTION: by Wayan; 1989/2/10, a dream of puns. My evil twin, Boris Badenov, wants $8000 or else. I ask my dreams for a solution, and get one... |
| BRIDGE, MOON, PROFESSOR, SHOES: by Dorothea Tanning; 2003? Poem of a flying dream The moon invites me to go flying, but I get tired of magic and just want to go shopping... |
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BRIGHT NICHES IN THE CASTLE WALL: by Jenny Badger Sultan; summer 2003. A painting of a series of dreams. Dreams warning of mania and paralyzing shame alternate with calm dreams of life and growth... |
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BURN HIS TREE: by Emily Joy; 30 K, 2007/2/7; two linked nightmares on art Malevolent artwork terrorizes my baby and me! What's to be done?... |
| CAT AND CRAB: by Wayan; 1981/3/12, a dream about teasing?. My cat keeps going into heat and sneaking out for sex with my godmother's pet crab, and... CAUTION: SEX, BAD PUNS, CRABBINESS |
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CLOSE THE GATE: by Emily Joy; 2004/11/19, a dream of decision. My foxy lover teases and tempts, but I can't let him into the patio for fear he'll hurt the rabbits… CAUTION: UNFUNNY BUNNY PUNS |
| THE CONCHES: by Wayan; 1996/5/23, a dream about projections. A visit to the Conches, a strange race who are only people intermittently, seasonally... |
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| COW PUNS: by Wayan; 1983/5/14, an ethological dreamlet. The pecking order (goring order?) of cows explains why our leaders stink... |
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| DAWN'S DIVORCE: by Dawn Z; 2002/3/1-21, an outrageous dream sequence While going through a painful breakup, I kept having sexy, lucid, psychic dreams... |
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| DAWN'S TOILET: by Dawn Z and Wayan; 1999/1/6, two strongly parallel dreams Wayan dreams of surprising Dawn on the toilet while she dreams that flushing away evidence of Foul Play won’t work... |
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| DICTY: by Wayan; 1990/5/?, a rantish poem on high-tech distraction A catalog of American addictions and the absurd distinctions we make between them.... CAUTION: EMBARRASSING DRUG LIST |
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DOME: by Wayan; 250K, 1999/1/31, a dream peeling off a lie. I'm actress Nicole Kidman, clinging to the dome of City Hall like King Kong, ripping it to shreds! Why? CAUTION: VANDALISM, REVERSE SEXISM, EXHIBITIONISM |
| DON'T SLOW FOR KITTENS: by Wayan; 1986/3/8, a pointed little dream. I'm running along a freeway, pacing a cheetah. But the kittens can't keep up... |
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DRAGON'S EYE VIEW: by Wayan; 1987/3/7, a dream through other eyes. From Baffin Bay to suburbia, dragons are everywhere... if you look with a dragon's eye... |
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ELEGANTE (ELLE EST GAUNTE): by Wayan; 1983, nondream body-image painting. Every year, as Americans get fatter, the fashion gets thinner (and I look more normal)... |
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FLUID DREAM CONNECTIONS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2003/11/8 and 2007/3/14; linked dreams of pods A pod of whales in the sky and a circle of children dressed like seed-pods both beg me to interpret them... |
| FOOTPRINT: by Wayan; 1980/1/11, a dream of the floating world. I'm jogging in Yosemite. A man tells me I'm possessed. There IS something in my shoe... |
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FOX-MOTHER: by Wayan; 2008/8/12, a dream poem; Dreamverse #2. The goddess of the Cult of Clutter catches a little thief, and tastes her to see if she’s worthy... |
| FRACTURE SPEEDS MARRIAGE: by Wayan; 2001/1/1, a dream of advice on health and romance. A baseball star breaks her leg (with a little help from the other team). It delays her career but but speeds her marriage. Did she NEED a....break? |
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| FROG ORDERS: by Wayan; 1986/7/4, a dream on piety. I'm in medieval England on a mission from God, but I meet a Priestess on a mission from...well, we argue. |
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GREENBIRD SAVIOR: by Wayan; 1983/6/2, a divine comedy. Time-travel the Navaho way! But our bread-pipe gets hijacked, so we call the Bird. Who shows up, all right... CAUTION: NON-STANDARD SAVIOR, EVIL DREAM PUNS |
| HAVE YOUR COCK AND EAT IT TOO: by Wayan; 2007/4/14, a dream of happy autocannibalism I grew extra penises which bud off me like fruit. So I fry them up like sausages, and... CAUTION: GENITALIA FOR LUNCH |
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HUNT AND PECK: by Patagia; 1997/6/16, a dream on the creative non-struggle. I’m a brown sparrow scratching in the dirt, looking for bugs. Focused, tireless, I hunt and peck... |
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I AM A SILKY IN THE SEA: by Wayan; 1986? Watercolor on shapeshifting in dreams. "I am a man upon the land; I am a Selkie in the sea..." Silky or selkie means a were-seal... |
| I DREAM OF DERIVERRANS: by Wayan; 1982/11/16, a Joycean dream of surrender. I must rescue Ann Soforth from righteous rapists, then Paul McCartney from a musical curse... CAUTION: ABUSED CHILD, JOYCEAN LANGUAGE |
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IF YOUR HEART IS BEAT: by Wayan; 1989. Nondream, digital graffiti-poem-poster. When your brain-cops are edgy, you're getting warm! |
| JACK DANIELS: by Wayan; 1983/10/14, three short dreamtales. Three dream-reactions to a (real) psychic experiment that went badly awry... |
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JACKPOT: by Catshall; 2007/5/29. A dream on sex, art and change--a flood of change! How did my bondage dream turn into a slot-machine jackpot? And what kind of change is pouring out?... CAUTION: (CON)SENSUAL BONDAGE |
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JOIN THE HUMAN RACE: by Wayan; 1985/2/11, a Gordian dream. My shortcut in a marathon bogs down in a maze full of psychoanalysts! So I climb the walls and... |
| KIDNAP LI PO!: by Wayan; 1990/1/16, a poetic dream. I dream a Chinese fable: how the poet Li Po was abucted by the gods, till they face heavenly justice... CAUTION: ABDUCTION, DRUNKS, EVIL PUN |
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| LITTLE BAD DREAM CHARM: by Kathy Fagan; 2001? A slip-filled dream-poem Half asleep, I scrawl a nightmare of trying to rescue gasping boyfish, but my dreamwriting goes wrong too... |
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| LOSE YOUR TEMPER!: by Emily Joy; 2007/8/30, a tough-love dream. My mom hires a therapist who really goes for my throat! Why is she so desperate to make me lose my... CAUTION: OVER-THE-TOP CONFRONTATION |
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| MAN TRIUMPH ANT: by Wayan; 1990, a lost typographical picture-poem The image got lost, but the words survived, so here's the poetic saga of an ant that left th' farm... |
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| MINER'S LETTUCE: by Wayan; 1989/1/4, an indigestible little dream. Our cowboy posse tracks a fugitive to a strange amethyst mine, where we're offered peculiar jobs... |
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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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NEWT WEDDING: by Emily Joy; spring 1995, 100k, 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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A NIP IN THE EVENING: by Wayan; ink 1980 tinted 2000; daydream image. Like a lot of playful beasts, I like a friendly nip in the evening... |
| THE OBSERVER EFFECT, OR, WATCH THE WATCH: by Wayan; 1997/1/21, a dream of time and opticks. After seeing an Einstein biography I find myself in the bathrooms of Thought-Experiment High, and... CAUTION: DARK SIDE OF AN ICON |
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OCARINA, or, MILLION-YEAR SENTENCE: by Wayan; 1972/5/27, a lucid / predictive dream. I go lucid and drive my bed to the Nevada desert where I see my next million years. And so far, it’s been true... |
| 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? |
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OWLYCAT: by Wayan; 1983? Daydream of night being. At the time I didn't even notice the pun... |
| PAGES: by Wayan; 1993/9/2, a predictive dreamtale. Book pages, Tarot's four Page cards, being paged, and a girl named Page, add up to warn me I'm not being honest with myself or my friends... |
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PALM: by Wayan; 1994/12/9, a dreamtale on solitude. I hang my artshow, but cut my palm. So I dream of a palm tree whose only problem is the road it's by... |
| PHARAOH HOOKS: by Wayan; 1989/7/31, a deadpan joke of a dream. My sister and her friend the snake-woman tell me the facts of life: the golden hooks, the piglets... CAUTION: UNRELIABLE GYNECOLOGY |
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| PIKE JOURNAL: by Wayan; 1984/11/14, a small psychic dream. I'm peeking at Pike's Peak with Gregory Peck, as we seek my dream-journals in the Hawaiian jungles... CAUTION: STUPID PSYCHIC PUNS |
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PUMA ORGY: by Wayan; 1988: 14 x 19", erasable crayon, illustrating a 1988/2/5 dream. I dreamed I had to go through the Animal Orgy to get to the City of the Shining Spirits on the horizon... CAUTION: STRANGE SEX |
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A RENAISSANCE WOMAN: by Wayan; 1997/7/3, a dreamtale. I'm an abused girl turning tricks to survive. But this is San Francisco: I join a prostitutes' co-op, and meet... CAUTION: PROSTITUTES WITH SELF-RESPECT, OH NO! |
| ROBOT DREAMS: by Wayan; 1985/2/5, a dream on dreamwork. I'm a robot in high school. I have my first dream, but I'm deaf to its message cuz it's not spectacular... |
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RUNNER WITH A PORPOISE: by Wayan; 1999/10/30, a dream of spirits. A Japanese high school athlete has no friends, till she starts meeting animal spirits on her long solo runs... |
| A SHELLFISH EPIPHANY: by Wayan; 1996/6/14, a spiritual dream. I'm a Japanese pearldiver; our family's cast away on a coral islet. One day, lonely, scared, I cast away fear... |
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| SEWING ADVICE FROM CANNIBALS: by Elias Howe, 1845, an inventor's helpful nightmare. Howe's sewing-machine design didn't work until, one night, warriors stuck him in a soup-pot, jabbing him with needle-sharp spears... CAUTION: OUCH! |
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| THE SINGLE DIE: by Wayan; 1994/10/17, a dream parable on child prodigies. My sisters play with dice. Miriel can influence them telekinetically, but she can't hold them: too young to have thumbs! |
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| SLEEPERS ALL: by Wayan; 2008/8/22, a dream poem, Dreamverse #12. I'm going mad! I'm an insomniac trapped in a flat full of snoring writers and reporters... |
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SPEAKING FERN: by Wayan; 1991/3/25, a dream-prank. A dead fern in my backyard starts sending me messages in some strange language... |
| SPEWING WINE: by Wayan; 1992/8/17, a disgusting dreamtale. My family moves into a damp basement. My dad just sneers at the leaks. "I'll show you REAL leaking..." |
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| SPUTTERNIK: by Wayan; 1979, a Beat poem: the comedy of the streets. A street poet preaches a gospel of smallness, until he pokes at capitalism in a slightly too personal way... |
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| SQUASH WITH WHITE SAUCE: by Wayan; 1983/12/17, not a symbolic dream, no no I'm in a department store trying on clothes when I notice there's a large zucchini growing from my crotch... CAUTION: SQUASHY PENIS, ICKY RECIPE |
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| SURF THE SAN ANDREAS: by Wayan; 2008/8/21, three short dreampoems, Dreamverse #11. Through twin gates of dream -- Dream-castles on the sea, lovely and lame -- A surfer of the San Andreas Fault |
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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 |
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TARDIS GAZEBO: by Wayan; 230K, a 3-page digital dream-comic, 1993/2/17 Solve a hieroglyphic riddle and you can fly, shapeshift, work magic! But someone doesn't want me solving that riddle... |
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TAROT: THE UNICORN QUEEN (Queen of Swords): by Wayan; 30K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. Having (or living with) a sharp mind is like living with a unicorn. That horn can kill or heal... |
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THOSE BITCHES! OOPS, I MEAN... GREAT GODDESS!: by Wayan; 1988/8/19, a dyslexic dream. I live in a beehive. We must mate with dogs. I'm assigned a bitch. But I'm allergic to gods! Oops, I mean... CAUTION: SEXUAL THEME, DOGGESS WORSHIP |
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TIME IS A CROC: by Wayan; 80K total, 1993/3/29, a dream on time. Golfing in the basement! But the ball lands in another world, where the water hazards are hazards... |
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TOES: by Wayan; 7K, 1990 Digital nondream image My foot is a torso and my toes sprout conflicting personalities... CAUTION: STUPID CARTOON NUDITY |
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TOPOGRAPHY OF EXCESS: by Wayan; 1997. Digital painting on digital painting. They call it the information highway because we're all supposed to march in formation... |
| TORTILLA EARS: by Wayan; 1994/6/2, a short shamanic dream. Why's Mexico City built where it is? And why is corn called "ears"? It turns out these questions are linked... |
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| TOUGH GLOVE: by Wayan; 1999/12/4, a dreamtale. I finally find a way to safely indulge in heavy petting (as well as puns) with the cat... |
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| TWO BISHOP CANDIDATES: by Wayan; 1984/11/21, a dreamtale. My mind and my soul both apply for a job in Stanford Cathedral. Their rivalry grows to a shamanic duel... |
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| UNHAPPY CAMPERS: by Wayan; 1997/9/1, a stupid dream. Since when is a dream of a disastrous camping trip a medical diagnosis? It depends on your pun-tolerance... |
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VIRGIN ON THE VERGE: by Wayan; 640 x 680 tall, 1992. Digital picture/poem/rant. Ever since I was battered I feel like a virgin again: longing, but wary--scared where sex may lead... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES |
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WINDBAG!: by Wayan; 1980s, ink tinted digitally; dream image I didn't even think of "windbag" since it didn't talk a bit. That bag was all action--full of flying magic... |
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