SWIMMING
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| AFTER THE FLOOD AND THE PIG-EARED BABY ALLIGATOR: by Skiznot; 1994-96, an oracular dream My hometown floods. I swim after some strange fish and find a scientific community where a scaled baby tells me who I am... |
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AQUARINA PRODIGY: by Wayan; 2009/10/15, a dream poem with sketches; Dreamverse #60 A child prodigy stands out in a chorus line of waterdancers. Her body and energy are a patchwork of young and old... |
| BIRTH, INITIATION, INDIVIDUATION: by Anonymous #6; summer 2007?, a dream of ascent to a new level I swim the flooded tunnels and pass the crocodiles to enter the house of mystics... but now what? |
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BOATS: by SAO (Shawn Allen O'Neal); March 2001, a doubly predictive dream. Were the rowdy face-boats really ghosts haunting this old house, harbingers of my future online... or both? |
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BROWN DRESS: by Wayan; 265K; nine-page digital comic of a sexy healing dream, 1984/2/11. A champion swimmer tells me how she turned a sexual humiliation into excitement and liberating power... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, SHAME, PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY |
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CAPITOL REEF: by Wayan; 277K, 1996. Cartooned daydream of a mid-air (or is it mid-water?) orgy News of a new national park fused with a science show on cleaner-fish spur a fantasy of dolphins, cats and... CAUTION: FISH ORGY; MOCKS THE ANGEL MORONI, TOO |
| DUCK HUNT: by Craig, age 4; 1950/11/18, an ignored predictive nightmare "I dreamed you were in the water, Daddy. There was tall grass all around, and you kept trying to come out of the water to me..." |
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ENLIGHTENMENT: by Brenda Ferrimani; 1999/3/9, painting of a non-apocalyptic dream A crowd watches from shore as a great glowing meteor descends into the sea. I fear a tsunami, but... |
| EVERLASTING AND PERPETUAL NIGHTMARE: by Shawn King; c. 2009/2/10; two installments of a lifelong nightmare Lucifer throws firebolts from a Montreal tower as monsters stalk people on the streets; then a great flood washes us away... |
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| FRANKLIN'S NECK: by a dying Kansas grandmother; 1953/7/5, an unheeded warning nightmare "Oh no" she moaned. "I don't want Frankie to go to that camp. He must not go there." She began to cry... |
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| FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH: by Roswila, August 2002; a dream-poem illustrating dream reentry My horse and I dove into a lagoon and sought buried treasure on the sea-floor. What are we really after? |
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| GLASS GAME: by Wayan; 1985/9/23, a nightmare. A swimming pool game with color-sorted broken glass. It's social, it's fun! The whole family can play! CAUTION: BLOODY IDIOTS |
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HAENA TWILIT COVE: by Wayan; 1984/10/31, a predictive dream. Landing in Hawaii, I dream of a magical twilit cove I must swim across. The eve of leaving, there it is... |
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I DIDN’T DIVE IN: by Herbert Read; before 1938, a dream-poem experiment. I watched her dive into the lake and not come up. Her golden cloak floated on the water. I hesitated just a moment, and... |
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I WON'T DIE TILL LOVE DIES: by Wayan; 1981/1/21, a divine dream . I meet the mermaid goddess of love in her pool, but when she advises me, I dispute one small point... |
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IRISES: by Frederic Mistral; 1834, a four-year-old's ecstatic dream That day Frederic, craving irises, fell in the water three times. At night he swam through a warm-water iris paradise... |
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ISLE OF THE BLEST: by Wayan; 1990, painting inspired by series of fox-dreams I'm a Japanese werefox, longing to reach the Isle of the Blest; but dare I swim for it? |
| JUMP OVERBOARD: by Graham Greene; 1925/12/11, a possibly psychic nightmare. Wednesday night I dreamed I had to jump overboard... that night there was a wreck off the Yorkshire coast in a storm and the captain ordered his men to jump into the sea... |
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THE LADY BATHES IN GRIEF: by Wayan; 1983/5/31, a long-haul psychic dream. Why'd a spirit-woman come to our reservation to mourn a drowned guy? Her mirrors & candles tell us... |
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A LAKE DEMON: by Wayan; 1979/11/3, an anti-lucid dream. I walk through worlds, fight a deadly lake demon, and work magic--but I mustn't go lucid... |
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LEARNING SCALES: by Wayan; 1985/6/26, an epic dream of Chinese dragons. I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost. We need a Dragon... |
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LIBERTÉ: by Marie-Claude Girondé, c. 2005?, a dream painting. "Freedom is a gift you give yourself." But it doesn't always involve seahorses or babycarriages covered in quills... |
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A LOVE AFFAIR: by David B.; 1993/3/23, a 11-page comic of a dark dream My lover's face is shadowed and we are never alone together. Things slip from film-noir to open nightmare when... CAUTION: SEX, DEATH, GUILT |
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THE MERMAID TOW: by Wayan; 1994/2/17, a rescue-fantasy dream. I rescue some drowning kids by turning into a mermaid, but towing one girl has an unexpected effect... |
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NAIAD AND GOD-DOG: by Wayan; 1980/11/7, a manipulative dream-tragedy. I love a Naiad who's lost her God. Tragedy strikes us. I'm devastated till I meet the aliens who explain... |
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NOT OUR HAWAI'I: by Wayan; 2008/8/20, a dream poem; Dreamverse #10 My sister & I swim round a weirdly shrunken Pacific, until, near Fiji, we blunder too close to the drain... |
| NOW WE ARE 48: by Laurel Blossom, 1991; a dream-poem of a rescue. At the beach I dive into deep water to save my drowning friend Kathy, and find it’s not so clear who’s who... |
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OH, WAIT: by Wayan; 2008/10/3, an illustrated dream poem; Dreamverse #32 I'm a spy tracking down coinlike bombs. Fighting a double agent, I fall in love! So I suggest her gang rob golden-parachute bankers... CAUTION: POOLSIDE SEX |
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OSENTO: by Wayan; 1991/2/15. Digital painting based on a dream. Osento is a bath house that my friends all love. But women only. So I dream I change sex just to... CAUTION: NUDITY, GRATUITOUS HAPPINESS |
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THE PEAK WHERE I DIED: by Wayan; 1983/1/16. A dark dream-comic. I froze to death trying to climb an icy peak. But I try again, and this time, no holds barred. Wow, am I selfish! But alive... |
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PUFF TIDE: by Wayan; 150K, 1993/5/1, a nightmare on indulging rage and tears; 8 illus. I'm swept off sea-rocks, as my scaly guardian watches calmly--letting me drown in the tears I shed... CAUTION: DROWNING |
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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 |
| A RETRIBUTION OF MERMAIDS: by Bruno Oliveira; summer 2011, a treasure-finding dream Despite corporate crooks, missiles and floods, Angelina Jolie and I find the lock of mermaid hair... |
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RING OF WHITE WATER: by Wayan; 1983/1/30, an epic astral dream. I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. One of my tour group jumps ship: she's scared of the white water of rocky relationships ahead... CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS... |
| SEARCHING FOR THE DEAD: by Acucena Q., 2007/3/4, a puzzling quest dream. I searched rivers and lakes around the world for someone dead. But the living people I met were as strange as ghosts... |
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| SEPTIC: by Steve (age 6), before 1961, a recurring predictive nightmare For three weeks he wakened nearly every night, screaming in fright; he said he "fell in a hole." Then, one snowy day... |
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SIPHONIAN QUARTET: by Wayan; 2010/4/10, four baffling parallel-world dreams Purple squid saboteurs flood our cliffhouse; my oyster-ranching girlfriend has a snotty aunt; I wake in a stranger's bondage dream and hate it; shepherds watch for gliderwolves on the ocean floor... CAUTION: EMBARRASSING BONDAGE DREAM |
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SQUISH!: by Farelle-Moon; early 2006, drawn 2006/4/6, a comic furry sex dream I went to bed with a stuffed wolf, and found myself in a hot tub with a cute wolf guy, only now I seemed plush... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY |
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STREAMLINING: by Wayan; 2004/11/10, a dream within a dream I dream I'm an otter, and wake into a dream about sculpture--and learn my style's due to my species... |
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SURF DREAMS, DEEP DREAMS: by AE (George Russell) and Wayan; 1918 and 1996, twin images of our limited conception of dreaming What you call dreams are just the surf-zone between waking and dream! Swim out past the foam to the deeps and you'll find... |
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SWIMMER: by Wayan; 1992, a digital sketch of daydream. Swimming down among the tentacles didn't bother me. I wanted that ball. But I didn't see the BIG eye... |
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SWIMMER IN BLUE: by Wayan; 1984? about 11x14", crayon of recurring dream image. I have recurring dreams of a figure broken up by hair the color of the background... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
| SWIMMING CATS: by Starvibes, 2012/1/20, a mysterious dream image Following two cats at night, I watched in amazement as they dove in and swam gracefully across a swimming pool... |
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| SWIMMING IN VAN GOGH'S OCEAN: by 'Amandaclay'; c. 2011/12/9, a dream of love and beauty On a cruise to Catalina Island, I find friends, a boyfriend and a magical sea of color... |
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| THAR SHE BLOWS!: by Madeline; 2008/3/27, a pirate mermaid shipwreck sex dream. On the run I meet a lycan, a pirate, and a mermaid. She causes a flood, and something floats by I just have to grab... CAUTION: IMPLIED SEX |
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THINGS WASH OFF: by Wayan; 2009/4/22, a dream fingering the cause of a breakup; Dreamverse #49 Those Hollywood lovers in the tub seem perfect together, until... oh, read the title! CAUTION: RACE- AND GENDER-BENDING |
| THIRTY DAYS; 1980/4/15-16 by Wayan; a poem on an ill-timed premonition--or something worse Did hotspring-sex turn creepy because I sensed the madman stalking us? Or did sex-without-love summon him? CAUTION: CREEPY SEX, PREMONITIONS |
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| VARTENA: by Wayan; 1986/9/9, a psychic nightmare. I find myself coaching a violent version of water polo called Vartena. A friend near-drowns. The next day... |
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| WALTER'S DIVE: by Walter's father; before 1961, a predictive dream disastrously forgotten I dreamt my son Walter drowned in the creek by a certain tree. I woke in tears, and resolved to warn him... |
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WATERCATS: by Wayan; 170K, 1987/9/10; a psychic dream of another life. I'm a biologist who finds an 'extinct' species in a slum. But the survivors speak: they tell me I'm one of them, just hypnotized to think I'm human... And when I wake, another kind of cultural hypnosis is exposed: |
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