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TRUST

Dreams of faith and trust. And, of course, of mistrust--all the way up to clinical paranoia...

I've given up trying to figure out rules for what figures you can trust in dreams. The only rule is, there are none. You have to judge case by case. Besides, people change.

Oh, you don't think the figures you meet in dreams are people? Then they'd be pretty stupid to trust you...

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	ATTAHUAH: by Jamie Sawyer; summer 2015, a postapocalyptic lucid dream of vengeance Four guys plot to enslave my girl and kill me; I have lucid powers, and kill them instead. My girlfriend Attahuah gets poisoned, but... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, DECEIT
	AYRES: by Wayan; alarming nondream discovery 2006/5/4, and subsequent revelations The therapist my parents made me see as a kid got convicted of molesting his child clients. But not all. I played an evasive waiting game for three awful years under his leering scrutiny. So, can evading a molester still traumatize? Oh yes... CAUTION: CHILD NEGLECT & ABUSE
	BEGGARS IN SPAIN: by Wayan; 1994/12/10, a dream on reason & intuition's mutual mistrust Two rivals stand for reason & intuition. Why can't they cooperate, see each others' virtues? Trained insecurity...
	BLACK MAGIC: by Wayan; 1986/11/10, a dream of love and rage; Chapter 8 of UNICORN TAG, though it can stand alone. A packet of magic soupmix sends me upstairs to a secret wizards' lab. They've summoned a demon they can't handle: the furious Black Unicorn...
	THE BLACK WAVE: by Wayan, 2016/10/18, a poem on a hypnogogic healing dream After days sick, I open myself to unseen spirits and let a black wavefront go through me--and the healing begins. But what did I let in? CAUTION: MYSTICISM & FETISHISM DON'T MIX
	THE BLIP: by Wayan; 1982/5/4, a brief surreal dream on... beautyism? A bubble of spacetime distortion lands in an awkward place, making people mistrust the unlucky recipient...
	BOND: by Wayan; 1981/10/31, a nightmare where I'm the nightmare. I'm James Bond. Captured and questioned, I lie to the enemy: the senators of the Committee on Intelligence Activities. Till I see myself through their eyes... CAUTION: SPY SEX, SPY MENTALITY
	BUCKLES: by Wayan; 1988/11/2, a nondream intuition saving my pants (if not my butt) A weird urge insists "Do laundry NOW!" I go. My housemate Liz is there! I open a machine and find the buckles for the overalls I lent Liz for a Halloween costume. She swears "I looked everywhere..." CAUTION: FLAMES E.S.P. DENIERS
	BURN: by Sierra Loucks; 1990?, a five-year-old's nightmare I was at the beach with my friends. It was fun. But gradually they were laughing at me, not with me. Then they picked up burning sticks... CAUTION: GRUESOME
	CLAY BEHEADER: by Wayan; 1983/7/28, a nightmare offer. A woman's stalked by a clay monster that eats heads. But it has a proposition for both of us... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MONSTER
	THE DARII: by Wayan; 1994/8/15, a predictive dream of another life. I'm trying to prevent a race war, but can I kill someone I admire? And if so, can I live with it? CAUTION: RACISM, VIOLENCE, INTENSE GUILT
	DECLARING INDEPENDENCE: by Patricia Garfield c.1946, Fiona '51, Lenore '58 & Helen '62 Four teens dream their moms are monsters: Patricia sees hers as a demonic doll, Fiona finds her mom's a wolf, Lenore's is a grinning vampire, and Helen's is a bossy, punitive octopus...
	DOPPELGANGER: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; 6-page hostage-dream comic; shamanic? Tony works as a courier in Sarajevo till he inadvertently delivers a bomb. Held by a warlord for months, he dreams within the dream, and draws those dreams... CAUTION: GRIM
	EDWIN'S DREAM: by soon-to-be-King Edwin, c.616, as told by the Venerable Bede; a nagging dream King Ethelfrid bribes Redwald to turn over his guest, Edwin. Edwin dreams an angel warns him, swearing to save him if he'll convert. Redwald's wife tells him "Don't betray a guest." Once Edwin's king, that dream-angel demands his fealty... CAUTION: SHODDY SPIRITUAL BARGAINING
	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...
	EVASIVE MANEUVERS: by Wayan, 1986/9/17, a doubly predictive dream DREAM: Landsmen betray their mermaid lovers in a harbor full of towers that seem tilted and broken from under the sea. NEXT MORNING: My boss asks me to track down a new translation of Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid. AFTERNOON: I find a book on IQ tests that include spatial questions full of broken geometric shapes--familiar shapes... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS
	THE EVEREST MARATHON: by Wayan; 1986/4/12, a wild dream epic, part 3 of Unicorn Tag. In the great race up Everest, I become an e-snake, cross 3 eco-bubbles, beg a wary deer-taur to splice my spine, help Ariane my childhood crush, and solve the Dream Equations. Climbing Everest takes not strength but... trust?
	EYEBOLT: by Wayan; 2005/10/1, a squeamish advisory dream I’m on a train in Britain, sitting across from a respectable-looking woman with a large bolt sticking in her eye...
	A FEEL-BAD MOVIE: by Wayan; 2009/1/8, a dream about why dreamwork's so hard A great director alternates hits and bombs, because in half his films he sets out to trouble his viewers. Here's one...
	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...
	GIMME YOUR CAR: by Wayan; 1987/9/16, a predictive/warning dreamlet Dream: a woman wants to drive my old hippie bus. But a tire's missing! She pushes. I don't think it's safe... Next evening: my housemate wants to drive my old hippie bus. She pushes, but I don't think it's safe...
	THE GIRL IS ARMED: by Wayan; 2009/1/28, three diagnostic/advisory dreams. An abused girl survives grotesque situations to become a job/health counselor with a talking sofa... CAUTION: BUTT-SNIFFING GIANT
	HALF-TWIN: by Wayan; 1995/7/4, a dream on the real roots of trust In a world obsessed with genes and pecking order, we're half-sisters-- very different, yet we support and trust one another. Our society's just wrong!...
	THE HEIDEGGARIAN BARBARIAN: by Jo, 2007/02/02, a dream of hopping between two characters I was two-thirds of a love triangle, but I always lost out. Flying was some consolation... CAUTION: RAT DEATH, EVIL WHALES AND ADULTERY
	THE HOG AND VIBRATOR SHOW: by Wayan; 2014/11/7, an obscene comic nightmare The gameshow has two old men humping sextoys on the floor as the audience watched. That wasn't the gross bit. It was when they released the hogs... CAUTION: OBSCENE GAMESHOW. EVEN MORE THAN USUAL.
	HOT-AIR FEMINISM: by Wayan; 2019/1/3; a harsh political dream The latest MeToo meme is to leave a door open at night with a heater on, so a hot-air plume marks a refuge for women in danger--or, of course, burglars! So I stalk our neighborhood locking doors... CAUTION: DECRIES HOT-AIR NAÏVETÉ
	I'M NOT BAD FOR A ROBOT MOM: by Wayan; 1993/11/12, an evaluatory dream. I’m an android struggling to raise a boy genius. But even human moms of prodigies share my problems!
	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...
	ISHI AND SNOID: by Wayan; 1993/8/4, a dream on uncomfortable growth I'm a California Indian wandering through time, keeping our secret of time-travel from reckless white guys...
	JEAN ARP'S OCTOPUS: by Wayan; 2001/2/26; a surreal dream of my surreal reaction to a surrealist and his... lunch A library shows me surrealist Jean Arp's sketchbook. One Eschery sketch with repeated focal points is hypnotic. But they also show me his lunch, and I try to eat it! I fail. Head & gut disagree. Stuck Arp-way... CAUTION: NEVER EAT 12-YEAR-OLD SUSHI
	THE KEY TO OUR INHERITANCE: by Wayan; 2010/9/12; a nightmare whose victims organize The dead treasure-hunter's will ordered us, his heirs, to convene in the wood. Attacked there by a knight in armor, we near-strangers must unite to win our...
	LION RIDER: by Jo Equinity; c. 2000?, an anticipatory consoling dream I dreamed I was riding a lion. A few days later, when my husband suddenly left me, I recalled the dream and...
	THE MADONNA SPEAKS: by Carolee Schneemann, 1971; a Goddess-encounter dream The Labyrinth of the Madonna's Tears provoked a dream of the Goddess telling me "My forgotten sanctuaries are all around you now. You have only to see with your own eyes...
	THE MOTORCYCLE-BOOK: by Alyse and Tim, 1979 or before, complementary dreams ALYSE dreams Tim drives a motorcycle-book up a hill, but she doesn't LIKE riding so fast... TIM dreams a wise woman tested him, but found him unqualified to play teacher to Alyse...
	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...
	MY WILDCAT WOUND: by Wayan; 1994/7/8, a dream on gender trauma. I'm a wildcat in a cat/fox team led by a woman who wants us to merge with a man/wolf team... CAUTION: LANGUAGE
	NINA'S RING: by Nina's clown, 1955/4/20, a lifesaving intuition While rehearsing our circus act I mentally saw Nina's ladder breaking loose. Next day, a supporting ring snapped. Being forewarned, I pulled hard...
	ONE FRUIT REMAINS UNEATEN: by Catshall; November 1983, a journal dotted with dreams My day life as an artist and explorer of the San Francisco underground scene gets regularly commented on by my dreamlife... CAUTION: SEX, BONDAGE
	OPHIDIOPHOBIA: by Wayan; 1986/2/12, a dream on race and religion. I'm a therapist with a client diagnosed paranoid--but are his doctors racist? He's not just black, but scaly...
	OTTER NERD FROM TITAN: by Wayan; 2012/4/15 & sequel-dream (2013/2/9), a dream-poem on social skills A suspicious exobiologist warns me that otter from Titan may not be the amiable, nerdy celebrity it seems. But...
	OUR BEST SONG: by Wayan; 1983/10/25, a decade-long dream of song and flight. The artcops search-and-destroy our flying band, and my wings are shorn. But ten years later, songless, apathetic, I climb through my TV--and the women of Vietnam show me a new way to fly... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, ATTITUDE, ALTITUDE
	PALM DREAM: by Skip Renker, 1984 or earlier, a slow nightmare? or a subtle challenge? After lifeline and heartline, the palm-reader points to a rope ladder heading for Orion. I climb. But it goes brittle, splinters. I flail. She reads, long-distance, one more line: "Wings", she calls. "Wings."
	PANIC ATTACK IN MY SLEEP; 2012/1/11 by Rainier Mathee; a nightmare on every level No work, no friends, no lover. People power-drill their own skulls. My uncle's going insane. And when I call 911... CAUTION: BLEAK
	PARANOID HABITS: by Wayan; 1994/10/4, a hypnotic diagnosis. A hypnotist elicits a personality inside me who says he obliges my paranoia by giving me weird luck...
	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
	PESSIMIST HELIX: by Wayan; 1996/6/9, a wise time-travel dream. I work the info desk in a futuristic library. But one question leads me into a DNA-helix, a tornado of doubt...
	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...
	PINBALL SHOWDOWN: by Wayan; 1995/3/18, a flirty game-playing dream. I suspect the pinball champion of Jupiter is cheating. I try to scare her psychic confederate out of hiding...
	THE PIRATE TWINS: by Wayan; 1996/7/25, a dreamtale on intrigue. I love the Twins. They love intrigue. So when a hired crocodile sabotages our Egyptian treasure-hunt... CAUTION: BAD GIRLS
	PRRL: by Wayan; 1997/1/17, an intergalactic dream. I'm an ambassador from the Milky Way to the energy-beings who rule the Magellanic Clouds. Or am really just their pet?
	PUFF TIDE: by Wayan; 1993/5/1, a nightmare on indulging rage and tears. I'm swept off sea-rocks, as my scaly guardian watches calmly--letting me drown in the tears I shed... CAUTION: DROWNING
	QUEEN COBRA: by Wayan; digital painting of a 1987/1/15 dreamlet. I asked "I'm still scared to date anyone. Why? What's my next step?" That night, I was answered... CAUTION: SEXUAL IMPLICATIONS
	HIS RACIST SON: by Wayan; 1994/1/8, an incubated dream offering two diagnoses Suddenly I hate and fear black kids in school! The counselor says I'm clinically paranoid: I need drugs! My dad says "How strange, how sad." And goes home to light a candle at his shrine to the Confederacy... CAUTION: INDUCED RACISM
	RAETHE: by Wayan; 1990/4/19; a delicate follow-up dream, drawn & poemed In the Cave of the Ant Ambassador, I meet his mate, a beautiful translucent fox named Raethe. Way happier with her mate (& body!) than in that dream just two months ago...
	RATTLER BY THE CONTROLS: by Wayan; 1978/10/19, an anti-phallic-symbol dream. I dreamed I was riding a huge toy train, and a gigantic rattlesnake was at the controls...
	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
	RESCUE FEVER: by Wayan; 1994/2/3, a dreamtale on rescue fantasies. A refugee girl crawls into my bed. We become lovers. I protect her. But over time... am I holding her back? CAUTION: ABUSE? OR NOT?
	RICH BITCH: by Wayan; 1979/10/20, a dream on money, sex and class. I dreamed I met a wealthy werewolf. My parents were leftists and told me the rich are wicked--but... CAUTION: INDECENT T-SHIRT, INDECENT WEREWOLF
	THE RULES OF THE GAME: by Wayan; 1992/11/30, a Gestaltish dream. The Inner Theater. I'm duelling someone who keeps changing the rules. But so can I... can we make a deal?
	SALIA AND CHUR: by Wayan; 1989/2/25, a psychic Star Trek dream. Our starship signs up a strange new woman whose quirks turn out to be fallout from slavery... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES
	SATYR: by Wayan; 1999/4/1, a frustrating wish-fulfillment dream (yes, both). I'm a faun, the oracle for a Greek village. But my predecessor set up rituals I want to change... CAUTION: SEX, PAGANISM, SELF-SATYRE
	SEX THERAPY: by Wayan; 1998/5/18, a dream on the messiness of healing. Both of us were abused as kids. Sex is hard. So we go to a therapist who has us act out sex on the floor... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES
	A SHELLFISH EPIPHANY: by Wayan; 1996/6/14, a spiritual dream. Our family of Japanese pearldivers is cast away on an atoll. One day, lonely, scared, I cast away fear...
	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
	SILK PINS: by Wayan; 1992/5/13, a self-mocking dream. I'm a trade rep for Terra, on a new world. But an old rival, a rep from another world, arrives, and...
	SILKY CROSSES THE ATLANTIC: by Wayan; dreamed 1982/8/24, painted 1994 (acrylic/ink/xerox). After I fled my batterer, I was afraid to love--afraid I'd give up my freedom again for mere kindness...
	SISTERS' PSYCHODRAMA: by Christine Downing; before 1986, recurring dream of a Hadean abduction In psychodrama, my sister/lover did a happy childhood scene--till the actors took her down a trap door into the underworld. And I knew I'd have to go down after her...
	THE SKIN SECEDES: by Wayan; 1990/1/30, an unappetizing dream. A baby's own skin secedes, forming a snake. It prepares to eat the skinned baby. Shall I intervene?
	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
	SOUL-BOARD: by Wayan; 1989/1/12, a dream poem. Africa. My horse trusted me as we faced lions and fire, but to face the Soul-Board, he must trust himself...
	SPLINTER: by Wayan; 1981/3/14, a dream of love and nagging. I love Splinter, but her mom insists I got BOTH of them pregnant. Then I notice I'm pregnant too... CAUTION: SEX, NAGGING
	SPOCK'S SPIRITS: by Wayan; 2000/3/12, a financial-advice dream. Lost in a dark maze of machine-shops, I follow Mr. Spock, who's drunk, and talks to tree-spirits... CAUTION: ALCOHOL AS INSPIRATION?
	SPY WITH A BUN: by Miss C, 1918, a dream experiment urged by J.W. Dunne DREAM: I meet a woman with a bun hairdo, black skirt, black & white striped blouse. I think she's a spy! TWO DAYS LATER: I meet that woman--bun, skirt, blouse. And all the hotel guests here say she's a spy...
	STRYCHNINE FORGIVENESS: by Wayan; 2008/3/31, a diagnostic nightmare I meet a woman on an oxcart who's sure we all want to poison her-- but in a way her affliction's made her forgiving, even noble... CAUTION: MADNESS
	SURF THE SAN ANDREAS: by Wayan; 2008/8/21, 3 short dreampoems, Dreamverse #11 Through twin gates of dream--not ivory and horn any more, but fear and trust... Three castles on the sea: a Mock Kremlin, a Ship of Toiletpaper, and a Ship of Brick and Beer... A mad old surfer of the San Andreas Fault, impossibly riding earth-change...
	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...
	TAROT: FRIENDSHIP (3 of cups): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. Three friends in a garden pledge loyalty forever with a toast of the wine of the heart...
	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
	THEA'S HOUSE: by Wayan; 1987/3/23, a life-changing dream. I dreamed the Earth Goddess invited me to live with her. She was lonely to be seen for who she was...
	THERAPHOBIA, OR GOOD SENSE?: by Wayan; 1994/5/30, a journal extract I misname my feelings: depressed for sad, paranoid for wary, phobic for scared. It has consequences...
	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
	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
	TIMESHOT!: by Wayan; 1999/1/2, a warning dream. I provoke a shooting! Wandering through time, I forget how much some cultures fear witches...
	TITANIA: by Wayan; 1981/12/7, 83/1/7 & 2/13 and 84/10/2, a dream-epic in installments Clarence the sappy angel from It's A Wonderful Life and Milton's Lucifer land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're fine as is, but the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full palette of feelings. Like the feeling she's fake...
	TRENCHCOAT ANGELS: by Wayan; 2010/1/21; a flying diagnostic visitation dream I'm flying around a half-built house when I'm cornered by three scary archangels in trenchcoats. But they want my help...
	TRISKELION; 2011/6/21 by Wayan; a repeated false-waking dream of dating advice I wake up in a weird sexual situation. But I'm still dreaming--I wake again to find I'm in an even weirder sexual situation. But I'm still... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, (ANTI?)ROMANTICISM
	TRUST YOUR CANOE: by Wayan; 2012/8/16, two diagnostic dreamlets I ride a magical self-guiding canoe, seeking the right beach and cove for me. Even when the boat climbs hills so I can explore inland, I expect it to fail...
	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
	UNKNOWING: by Wayan, 640 x 480, 1995. Digital picture of a nondream delusion. "I believe, O lord/ Help thou mine unbelief"--as a kid I thought this meant "God, keep me skeptical"...
	THE UNWILLING GUIDE: by E.M. Martin; 1914/12/29, a nightmare of occupied England In a wood full of snipers, Martin has a hard moral choice: lead, leave or turn some possible spies...
	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
	VAMPIGS AND SMILES: by Wayan; 1991/12/9, an advisory dream. Our landlady was a friend, but she broke our rental agreement. Talk, compromise, or rent strike?
	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
	WARIA: by Wayan; 1987/3/23, digital painting of a pointed advisory dream. My life was a sex disaster. I felt ugly and sick. Then I dreamed I found a counselor who really helped. But my parents warned me against her. Why? They explained: WARNING: NUDITY
	WASTE: by Wayan; 1990/5/7, a desert singles poem, 11 images. A road trip through New Mexico mutates into a tour of my relationship disasters...
	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!
	WE MARCHED THROUGH THE CITY OF SAINT FRANCIS: by Wayan; 1982/5/1?, a dream-tinged poem. After a peace march in San Francisco, I saw us as deer, and Americans as dogs. Yet WE frighten THEM...
	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
	WHAT MEN HIDE BEHIND: by Wayan; 1992/11/30, an alarming comic dream The real pursuit of happiness: she pursues me, and I run in shame and hide! But she's persistent...
	THE WHEEL by Nancy Price; 1948, an early, intense dream of Future Shock. Lost in an industrial maze, my memories hopelessly outdated, I resign myself to the Wheel...
	WITCH, FLY FREE!: by Wayan; 1997/5/3, a predictive dream. A castle of witches in Europe. Persecuted for centuries, they're wary. Still, such a treasure-trove of kindred spirits! Can I find a witch to love? CAUTION: PAGANS CRIPPLED BY SIEGE MENTALITY...
	WITWEET WAYAN: by Wayan, 1979/1/10, a dream of butch and femme. Six generations in the future, I find a poodle who can defuse the bomb my snotty friends can't... CAUTION: MAD SCIENTIST, EXHIBITIONIST GIRLFRIEND, POODLE MOCKERY
	WYVERN: by Wayan; 1997/9/3 to 9/18, 22" ceramic sculpture; recurring dream figure. I dreamed of a dragon-woman on a reef. She was my guardian, but she let me drown! She had her reasons... CAUTION: SCALY NUDITY
	YEATS: by Wayan; 1990/1/1, a nondream poem wrestling with Yeats's dreams & visions Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted?
	YEW: by Mrs. Cl. of S.; 1670 or 71; a risky dream-prescription. In a dream, a dead friend told Mrs. Cl. how to cure her daughter's chronic illness: the yew tree. But yew is toxic...
	YUM YUM!: by Wayan; 1985/1/31, a smelly dream. DAY: a toxic potluck. Not the first! But this time I say no... DREAM: I'm a scent-oriented alien, tossing stinkbombs back...