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THE ADDICTION: by Wayan; 1988/1/26, a thoughtful nightmare I'm addicted to faraway trains. I quit cold turkey, but I shake the house down! Junkie poltergeists... CAUTION: DRUG ADDICTION. SORT OF. |
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ANGERHELM: by Wayan; 1994/11/11, a reassuring nightmare. In one long night I hike out of Obligation Hell all the way to Inner-Freedom Heaven... |
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ARAGORN'S LIVER: by Wayan; 1983/1/29, a health-warning nightmare. I'm a hobbit in Silicon Valley, stalking Ring-wraiths down El Camino. But one of them's stalking me... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, HYPNOTIC GASLIGHTING |
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AS OTHERS SEE US: by Wayan; 1993/12/3, a socially astute flying dream. We're orphans learning to fly by night, when others can't see and define us... |
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AUSPICIOUS TRACTOR HATE: by Wayan; 1984/4/17, a triumphant frustration dream! A party for me and my shadow, to celebrate that we haven't killed each other, just HATE each other... |
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A BEAM OF FLIGHT: by Wayan; 1992/4/19, a dream of love and shellshock. I'm a dance teacher, I'm King Kong, I'm a shell-shocked elf, I'm a wild bird flying... CAUTION: GAY-POSITIVE ROLE MODELS, OH NO! |
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BLACKSLIME TOWER: by Wayan; 1986/11/13; a transformation dream with political tinges Humanity's trapped in a Quad, overseen by the Guardians of Blackslime Tower. Feather by feather, I grow wings, and plot to escape with the Flying Cat... CAUTION: THE SLIME IS REAGANOMICS |
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THE BURBS: by Wayan; 1990/7/1, a true-story poem. A perfectionist gardener builds perfect planterboxes while his seedlings starve. And so I left the burbs... |
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THE CAMBODIAN GIRL: by Wayan; 1996/4/2 dream, sculpted 1998/11/9. VERY mixed media--the boat is warped wood. And the story is warped more... CAUTION: SEX, SHAME FROM EARLY TRAUMA |
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CANDLEPOWER by Wayan, 1987/9/15, a predictive dreamlet DREAM: Outage! I bike through dark streets. One bay window glows--room lit by a glowing woman reflected in many mirrors... NEXT EVE: Outage! I bike home through dark streets. One bay window glows--room lit by candles reflected in many mirrors... CAUTION: NUDITY; APPARENT E.S.P. |
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CATRISE: by Wayan; 2000/2/21, a sexy flying dream; acrylic painting. I'm an alien exchange student in Palo Alto High School. I get stared at--they wear clothes, they don't fly... CAUTION: FELINE NUDITY |
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CIRRUS: by Wayan; 1982/12/7, a dreamlike but waking skyscape. I was hunting edible fungi in Foothill Park near Palo Alto when I saw this... |
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CRIMECON 90: by Wayan; 1990/3/27, a dream about capitalism. I did what I love. The money didn't follow. So now I have to guard a crimeboss at a theft convention... CAUTION: INEVITABLE CHEKHOVIAN SHOOTOUT |
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DOG IN A CASSOCK: by Wayan, 1972/2/3, a comically surreal dream-poem A master criminal is tracked down by a hound in a monk's robe who's introduced to me as... the President of the United States? |
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EMPTY-EYED CREATURES: by Wayan; 1996/12/9, an animal Zen dream. I lose myself, but I get some startling advice from a convent-school kid with empty eyes... |
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ERMINE, or, GOTHMOG'S GHOST: by Wayan, 1984/2/11, a gender-bent & species-bent warning dream I'm a delicate little ermine-chinchilla whose best friends are all sewer rats. They push their food and drink on me, and I nibble to be polite... |
FRISCO GONE: by Catshall; c. 2014/10/23, a nondream haiku on a flooded city |
old Frisco gone, high-rise condos obscure the view: hives for techie... |
GHOST GATOR: by Wayan; 1984/10/9, a lip-reading dream. |
A child from another universe materializes--part way. Too bad we called in that expert from Stanford... |
HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT: by Wayan; 1994/4/3, a dark dream. |
As my grandmother is dying, I have a dream about what really went on in her house... CAUTION: CHILD SLAVERY |
ICERINK: by Wayan; 1980/8/23, a warning dream. |
Psychodrama seemed like a way to meet cool people. But when I dreamed they were ice-skating rioters... |
INUIT MEDITATION: by Wayan; 1989/11/16, a comically surreal dream. |
I'm the first tuna to get a scholarship to Stanford. Naturally I sign up for a course in Inuit Meditation... |
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... |
JUST SAY NOSE: by Wayan; 1989, nondream digital poster-poem-rant. |
What really built Silicon Valley? Oh, pizza, sugar, coffee, speed and cocaine, mostly... CAUTION: DRUGS ON THE JOB |
THE KEROUAC TREE: by Wayan; 2 ill., 1983/3/18, a dream of fame and time. |
The true story of the very first tree-hugger. Not Kerouac! You'll never guess. In fact, you'll say it's impossible... |
KIM SINGS, CAPOTE DIES: by Wayan; 1984/8/27, a murky telepathic dream of secrets |
A psychic dream revealing my co-worker's secret desire gets tangled with the death of Truman Capote... |
LUNAR WEDDING: by Wayan; 1987/2/5, a poem of a surreal futuristic dream |
I'm at a fancy wedding on Mars, I think, but slowly realize the black sky and huge blue ball mean this lawn is on... ...the Moon. In the open. What are we breathing? Well... old money, I think. |
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! |
THE MONEYBIRD: by Wayan, 2005/3/18, a dream-poem on renunciation. Stupid renunciation. |
Inspired by a bird who weaves her nest of dollar bills, I become a sort of monk, sweeping, renouncing wealth--but my monastery's a Silicon Valley BART station... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
NET PROFITS: by Wayan; 1998/7/14, a dream of family values and Web credit. |
At a family picnic, my sisters and I fish for scholarships and grants. They put down my art, my website... |
OFFICE NIGHTINGALE: by Wayan; 1982/9/21, a dream warning I'm in the wrong place |
I'm a lonely bird flying in a glass office. Seeking friends, seeing reflections, I fly into windows. Ow! There's hope of escape only where no false friend beckons... |
OLD AND IN THE WAY: by Wayan; 1999/5/3, a veiled predictive dream. |
On the street called Old And In The Way, I meet a psychic I crushed on as a kid, and then, in a hearth, fight the tentacled alien who's been stalking me... |
OLD HAT: by Wayan; 1988/1/5, a "normal" (i.e. incoherent) dream. |
The Goddess gave birth in my workplace. Her fever-dreams become real around us... CAUTION: BIRTH SCENE, LIBRARIANS' ORGY |
OPELS, OPALS: by Wayan; 1990/6/10; two dreamlets that turn out to be predictive |
I'm car-buying. My friend has an Opel, but it's sluggish AND a gas hog. How can a car be both? Then... I notice a jar of opals that my grandpa gave me has grown dull with algae! Sheesh, more opals gone bad... I wake and head to work. But at a bottleneck, I'm blocked by this loud group talking on and on about... |
OTTERS DON'T FAKE: by Wayan; 1989/10/15, a sex dream that's not about sex at all. |
I'm scared to show my dream-paintings to my art class. That night I find an large otter in my bed... CAUTION: SEX |
OWL GUARDIAN: by Wayan; 1986/6/6, a psychic dreamlet |
A giant luminous guardian owl baffles and intimidates me but after seeing a play next evening, it makes more sense... |
PESCADERO MONET: by Wayan; 1983/11/4, a happy art-cult dream. |
Monet is over 100 now, living in an art colony. I visit him, but my parents come along. Bad idea... |
PHILOSOPHER: by Wayan; 1992/7/31. Nondream digital picture-poem. |
I worked at Stanford too long. I got tired of observing the mating displays of the purple-prose patriarch.. CAUTION: NUDE ACADEMIC GROUPIE |
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 |
QUIT THAT LAB!: by Wayan; 1999/5/2, a deductive nightmare. |
I'm working alone in the lab at night, when the lab gear wakes up and tries to kill me... |
RANI: by Wayan; 1994/1/28, a dream about choice, with 8 illus. |
A Borges story of a were-tigress provokes a dream of a ranch crawling with weird were-women. Weird, but I LIKE them... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
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! |
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... |
SHAKE! 1989/8/11, rev.1995; digital Muybridge tribute by Wayan. |
I love what dancers look like, seen over time, in stroboscopic photos. Like weird undersea growths... WARNING: NUDE CAT PEOPLE |
SHOCKWAVE: by Wayan; 1996/7/27, a predictive nightmare. |
My childhood home explodes into a vast pyroclastic cloud that comes boiling toward me, miles away... CAUTION: DOOM |
SLEIPNIR: by Wayan; 1987/3/31, a dumb physics dream. |
I'm at a physics conference. A new force has been discovered that may just allow travel faster than light. Strange, how'd the Vikings know?... |
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... |
STAY GROUNDED!: by Wayan; 1988/2/27, an unexpectedly grounded dream. |
I'm playing poker with a dragon. But we barely dare move: we're both crackling with thousands of volts... |
SUSHI CIRCUS: by Wayan; 1982/2/17, an illustrated psychic dream. |
To avoid being stabbed, I flee the Psychodrama Circus. Wisely--the place explodes! But it's the filling of the sushi roll that really upsets me... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MAKI |
TEN THOUSAND MAD GHOSTS: by Wayan; 1996/9/3, a psychic nightmare. |
A toxic site in Silicon Valley isn't a chemical spill, but angry ghosts, killed in a camp and forgotten... CAUTION: THE CAMP TURNS OUT TO BE REAL
| THAT WIND: by Wayan; 1986/8/29; an undream poem on a daymare |
Nightmares can warn. But when awake, what warning can you get from nonstop ill-luck? |
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 |
THIRD EYE: by Wayan; 2009/3/25, three diverse dreamlets on the same theme: enlightenment |
1: Three sisters flash me; one has a third eye in there! Clothed, it's blind. Was she just enlightening herself? 2: In the future, most cars self-drive. I'm the last driver using my own muscles and mind. Can I hold out? 3: A friend charts all of history's wars to prove: democracies don't fight each other. So to get peace... CAUTION: NAKED EYE |
THIS CAN'T BE REM!: by Wayan; 1981/8/18, a predictive stinky dream. |
An article claimed smell is rare to absent in dreams. My dreams felt insulted and sent me a stinky one! But why THAT stink? Well... next morning on my way to work... |
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... |
TWO BISHOP APPLICANTS: by Wayan; 1984/11/21, a surreal but mercilessly logical dream. |
My mind and my soul both apply for a job in Stanford Cathedral. Their rivalry grows to a shamanic duel... |
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... |
UNICORN TAG: by Wayan; 1986, a linked series of illustrated dreams.
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Animal teachers, mostly equine, drag me (as I scream NO!) beyond plain dreamwork into shamanism... Chapter 1: The Deer Party: by Wayan; 6 illus. Chapter 2: Ariane's Honeymoon: by Wayan; 8K Chapter 3: The Everest Marathon: by Wayan; 1 illus. Chapter 4: Who'll Be My Love?: by Wayan; 100K, 4 illus. Chapter 5: Dreamrider: by Wayan; 7K, a nondream interlude Chapter 6: Half Shaman, Half Statesman: by Wayan; 170K, 4 illus. Chapter 7: Eight To A Horn: by Wayan; 2 illus. Chapter 8: Black Magic: by Wayan, 7 illus. Chapter 9: Misfits On Mars: by Wayan; 300K, 7 illus. |
VARTENA: by Wayan; 1986/9/9, a psychic nightmare. |
I'm the referee, or 'Vartena', of a violent high-school game of waterpolo. A friend nearly drowns! Next day... |
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! |
YOU CHIPHEAD! : by Wayan, 1997/1/31, a sarcastic dream. |
Chips are faster than brains these days, so everyone's upgrading--everyone but me... |
YUPPIE BREAKUP: by Wayan; 1991/5/22, a dream on values--or the lack thereof. |
A yuppie idealist discovers her boyfriend's a cheerful opportunist, and they disentangle their lives... CAUTION: SEX IN REVERSE |
ZOMBIE RUSH-HOUR: by Wayan; 1993/12/14, a predictive nightmare. |
I'm in an apartment co-op in Silicon Valley where people share their skills--till rush hour begins... |
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