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SOCIAL ADVICE

Dreams that directly give you advice about friends and social relationships. Remember, these are impossible according to many models of sleep and dreaming, in which dream content is pretty much random. But dreams go on being intelligent anyway. How rude of them!

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	AIR PIRATES IN FAERIE: by Wayan; 1984/8/25, a complex predictive dream DREAM: The future. A party. A woman spills her drink on my white pants. Off to Faerie, where fruit trees are mean... NEXT DAY: I do not wear white pants to Sally's party. So? A woman spills her drink on Sally's white pants... DAY AFTER: I open a book on musicals & see a shot from The Wizard of Oz: Dorothy baiting an angry fruit tree... CAUTION: PREDICTIVE
	AMBITION: by Wayan; 1994/5/25, an odd little dreamlike real-life experience. My intuition led me to a panel discussion of women artists, just to hear one single sentence...
	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...
	BIRD-SENSE: by Wayan; 2013/7/20; Shakespeare improv provokes a dream of having seven senses I dream I have sixth and seventh senses--and wake to realize I do! Just denied them, explained them away... CAUTION: SHAKESPEAREAN HEFT
	BITTER JADE: by Wayan, 1983/4/8, a dream on change. Why's Jade the bitter artist throw me at her happier, calmer daughter? Wait, is Jamie the new ME? CAUTION: SEX
	BLEEDING HEART, the SELF-HEALING CORPSE, and IN THE FUTURE DESERT: by Wayan; 2002/5/29 - 2004/5/11, a diagnostic, predictive dream-series; Bleeding Heart as comix A tree-girl moves to Hollywood to make film deals, but jealousy stabs her... CAUTION: BLOODY ASSAULT, GAY DRYADS, MUTANT NUDITY
	DESOCIA: by Wayan; 2021/3/29, a warning dream A woman camps in the hills with her dad, till he hikes off, indifferent. Not amnesia or dementia; he no longer cares for people. A case of Desocia! As I meet relatives of other cases, I start to suspect I have it myself... CAUTION: ALIENATION
	DINOSAUR BARD: by Wayan, 2005/2/7, a dream-poem advising song Dinosaurs and tigers fill my music club. Not that it takes many to fill it. So spiky! A dino bard croons. A tigress leaps onstage & snuggles up! Music hath charms...
	DRAGGED TO HER HEART'S DESIRE: by Wayan; 1997/9/16, a dream with a lesson. The friends of a touchy aviator have to kidnap her just to give her a present... and WHAT a present...
	THE DRESS CODE OF GOD: by Wayan; 1988/6/1, a didactic if shivery dreamlet Dancers in weird costumes from around the world audition for a contest, but the judge lets them all in, from silly to obscene. Next day, on Doctor Who... CAUTION: POSSIBLY PREDICTIVE; CERTAINLY EMBARRASSING
	ELF CIRCLE; 2011/3/19 by Wayan; a complex advisory dream. After trespassing in a staff-only part of Faerie, I'm cast out. Only I'm cast like a seed, meant to grow a new elf circle...
	FLIER MISJUDGES REEFWORLD: by Wayan; 2018/12/16, an otherworldly dream on... social media? A girl from a low-gravity, dense-air world, where you strap on wings and fly, tours a world of tropical atolls with me. I love sailing, but flight's spoiled her for it--too slow...
	FLY, DANCER!: by Wayan; 1993/4/2; an advisory dream. In my ballet class, we were learning to leap. But I wanted to FLY. So I went outside alone...
	FORKS AND SAUCERS: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a dream on when to quit Tibet, 1910. I find a cult whose ancestors manned a radar station that shot down flying saucers. But were the aliens really hostile? I'm not so sure...
	FOUR OF TEN: by Wayan; 2021/4/3, four examples from ten dreams in one night Books are clothes, and always were. A potato makes me lie, and everyone gets it but me. Sex in a crowd disarms the Mom Squad! And a Mystic Autistic's soul explores my room... CAUTION: PUBLIC SEX? PROBABLY.
	FRIEND-RING: by Wayan; 2017/1/6, a dream of divine intervention--My Little Pony style I'm a horse chosen by the gods to join a Friend-Ring--a group mind. That's great for the street crazies I get to help heal. Not so great for me, injected with madness... CAUTION: CRITIQUES THE CULT OF FRIENDSHIP
	THE FURNITURE: by Wayan; 1989/2/17, a dream on my sixth sense My sister Althea meditates. Her aura gets so quiet that I mistake her for furniture! I'm that blind to the physical... CAUTION: ABOUT AURAS
	GANDHI OR WAR!: by Wayan; 2021/4/26, a dream warning my anger-dialect gets misunderstood DAY: I watch Chef starring Dustin Hoffman as a guy with rage issues--like every guy in the film! DREAM: On a TV show, I must defend my perks from other men. Anger's a male dialect... CAUTION: ANGRY
	GANDHI RUNS: by Wayan; 1997/8/1, a fusion dream. Gandhi and I must run barefoot across a burning racetrack miles wide... the Ascetic Desert?
	A HOTEL ODYSSEY: by Wayan; 1994/2/21, a Borges dream. I live in the Infinite Hotel, but the other guests in my wing are no fun. It's time to set sail...
	I, MEATBALL: by Vladimir Cole, art by Jesse Reklaw; pre-2000; a warning nightmare? I'm chased by spaghetti, snared, sprinkled with parmesan. My hungry classmates loom, and my best friend says...
	IN EL RIO: by Wayan; 1994/5/14, a singles nightmare. My family runs a bar. I walk through, after hours. Who are all these silent figures? CAUTION: UNHEALTHY READING FOR SINGLES
	INVISIBLE KYOKO: by Wayan; 1995/1/16, a dream on bold and shy. I'm at a party in an air-lake. We fish for a girl who's gone invisible. But... what if we catch her?
	JETCATS: by Wayan; 1990/5/24, a surreal dream hiding a message about others Our black cat Purr and our new blonde kitten fly around as if jet-propelled dive-bombing the roof. Alarming, but their cat-reactions aren't like mine-- fast as a test pilot! For me it'd be suicide; for them, just playing...
	THE MELTING POT: by Wayan; 1982/7/30, a dream warning of a conformist circle They were swimming in the glowing, molten pool of the Melting Pot, and beckoned me to join them... CAUTION: SUICIDE SOUP?
	MUSIC SABOTEUR: by Amy, c.1973; Gestalt unveils the saboteur behind a frustration dream At college, my sheet music arrives from home, but vanishes when I try to play--or the piano does...
	THE NIGHT OF CHANGE: by Wayan; 1994/2/8, a dream on the order of deep changes. Festival night in a strange town, where, one night a year, dancing in the street transforms you into... CAUTION: SEX TALK
	OBISPO'S OUT OF RANGE: by Wayan; 1997/2/2, a dreamtale on ESP. I move hundreds of miles away to escape my family's psychic broadcasts. Pathetic, but... does it work?
	POOL ASSASSINS: by Wayan; 2017/3/1, a nightmare after hearing of a real assassination Four women with guns attack me at a public pool. Trapped in the water, can I survive? Only by being ruthless... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	THE PRIME DIRECTIVE: by Wayan; 1994/3/9, a pro-meddling dream. A bunch of primitives try to trick their way into the Federation, slipping around the Prime Directive...
	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...
	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...
	REVERSE MY ARMOR: by Wayan; dreamed 2008/4/14, a dream with bizarre advice I took. All I usually hide, I strip bare, & vice versa. Like that Playboy cartoon with the stockings & gloves--the Femlin! Behaviorally, too, I reverse all my habits and judgments. Perverse, self-destructive! But my life still works... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY. ALSO, A LOSER SUCCEEDS.
	SHARK SENSE: by Wayan; 1988/12/9, a diagnostic circus dream. I'm a circus tiger, then a performing shark. One day, I block my human partner's high dive... Why?
	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...
	SPEAK UP, RISE UP: by Wayan; 1985/5/24, a witnessing-flying advisory dream I bike round the ring of women on the stage. Oracles! Whoever speaks, levitates. One advises me, but I can't act on it--too ill. "Gotta heal!" I blurt. My own oracle..
	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?
	THE TALE OF A MISFIT COCK: by Wayan; 1999/1/25, a media-fable dream. I'm in Japan, where Rumiko Takahashi tells me of a tragic chicken who longs to be a lounge singer...
	TARZAN AND JANE IN SUBURBIA: by Wayan; 1993/7/11, a dreamtale. Well, Tarzan and Jane are living in suburbia now, but though Tarzan's given up so much, Jane complains...
	TSUNAMI: by Wayan; 2011/12/31, a feverdream, maybe predictive, definitely prescriptive I cling alone to the cliffs of Lands End, so when the tsunami hits, I survive. Had I been in the low, crowded Sunset district I'd be dead...
	WILD MAGIC: by Wayan, 2018/1/8, a dream on finding a place A teacher drafts me into her magic class to shake up her sheltered wizard-wannabes. My magic's wild, ignoring spells and rules. I don't think I realized how wild... CAUTION: NUDITY