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Workaholism and Burnout

Dreams about workaholism--the most prevalent addiction here in America. Even a casual browse of this list will make it obvious the Americans have gotten to me, too--my dreams are full of warnings I work too much and play too little. And I'm locally famous for refusing to give in and get a real job... so what does that make the rest of you?

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	BAD NANCY!: by "Nancy"; March 1985, a prodromal/diagnostic dream A second me punches me in the breast. I fight back, yelling "Bad Nancy! Bad Nancy!" Five months later I find a malignancy...
	BIRD CRASH: by Emily Joy; 2007/3/12, a set of didactic nightmares Such pressures there are on the sick to act well! I implore you, ignore them all... CAUTION: EXPLODING TEACHER
	BLEEDING HEART, the SELF-HEALING CORPSE, and IN THE FUTURE DESERT: by Wayan; 250K, 10 illus., 2002/5/29 to July 2004, a diagnostic, predictive dream-series. A tree-girl moves to Hollywood to make film deals, but jealousy stabs her... CAUTION: BLOODY ASSAULT, GAY DRYADS, MUTANT NUDITY
	BROKEN GLASS by Nancy Price; 1948, a dream of working to death. Helping out some talking animals, helping to exhaustion, I suffer a fatal accident. What am I being warned of?
	CECY'S SUBMISSION: by Wayan; 157K total, 1996/6/4, a sex-farce dream. My writer-friend Cecy will do anything to get published. Anything? Oh, believe me, ANYTHING... CAUTION: BONDAGE, not to mention POSTAGE
	CENTAUR AUDITION: by Wayan; 2012/1/7, a dream about undreams, and a sequel 2012/1/30, a Pygmalion dream Non-dream centaur ballerinas invade my dreams, because they long to be in the World Dream Bank... CAUTION: BARBIE CENTAUR NUDITY, CASTING-COUCH SYNDROME
	CHICKENS: by Wayan; 1998/6/6, a journal extract on survival I realize how strongly environmental illness sculpts my view of the world... CAUTION: CHICKEN BONDAGE
	COCO CHANEL'S PUSSY: by Wayan; 2010/4/26; a film-pun-sex dream Coco Chanel's fashion workers all want me to have (public) sex with Coco's cat, so she'll stop screwing them financially... CAUTION: SEX KITTENS
	DEADWOOD, or, MAO'S ONEIROLOGIST: by Wayan; 1976/4/2, a career-advisory dream-poem Trapped in the Cultural Revolution, I can't reach the Himalayas. So I fly around the base of the Stairway to Heaven...
	DEYUPPIFIER: by Wayan; 1985/11/6 a gleeful dream fable. I built a sex-maze to reprogram businesspeople, but I only grasp its meaning when I fuck City Hall... CAUTION: SEX, LANGUAGE, POLITICS
	DREAMKU, JANUARY 2007: by Roswila; various dates up to January 2007; 31 dream-poems--some longer forms than haiku A month of dreams full of science fiction: galactic navigation, spacedragons, oppressed fairies, alien love...
	ECCENTRIC: by Wayan; 100K, a two-page comic of a 1990/5/17 dream. I'm a small planet in an eccentric orbit: a one-day summer, a two-day winter. Rest and hibernate, or... CAUTION: SLACKER ETHIC
	EDGE: by Wayan; 1992?, digital painting of a nondream vision. A robed figure crowds a wild horse to a cliff-edge. One's my body, one's my soul. But which?...
	FERRYGOAT: by Wayan; 2009/8/15, a dream warning what I was becoming; Dreamverse #48 That levitating bear's not tightrope-walking--she rides a goat strung like soap-on-a-rope. A goat that's me! I'm eating... CAUTION: UGH!
	FLYING UNICORNS' GIFTS: by Lily Michaud; 2007/9/5, an advice-dream inside a flying dream Flying unicorns hang out with me and my friends, sending us dreams full of useful advice--and more concrete gifts...
	HEADEGG (Black-Eyed Bird of Pain): by Wayan; 1983/10/24; acrylic painting of a headache-trance. I was cartooning with a headache. It took over and started drawing for me...
	HEALING THE RING: by Wayan; 1984/8/22, a nightmare on... anger? I bear a Ring of Power meant to corrupt me. I cleansed it, at a cost, but can't wield it till I've read its spell...
	I LET RATS: by Wayan; 1994/4/22, a nightmare on appeasement. A bold rat comes right up to me. I don't want to provoke it, so I stay quiet. And let the rats... CAUTION: UGH!
	ICARIAN PAIN: by Wayan; 125K, 3 ill., 1982/10/19, a dream of shyness, and flying, and pinching yourself. I meet some cute dancers, but rather than flirt, I just try ballet leaps too. I get more than I bargained for...
	INDUSTRY'S SHORE: by Wayan; 2008/9/24, a dream poem; Dreamverse #30 In the hills above a polluted shore, I find hidden valleys with huge rare trees, and realize it's my choice...
	IS SOLITUDE HOLY?: by Wayan; 1998; a watercolor on dreamwork's isolation. When I compare Julia Butterfly up her tree with those hermits who sat atop columns in the desert...
	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
	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...
	MENAGE A THREE, MOVE TO PAREE: by Wayan; 1986? Sketch of recurrent dream theme I was a young dream-artist out of place in the Silicon Valley...
	NO VACATIONS?: by Wayan; 1999/8/14, a spiritual nightmare. Before I was born, I set up this life to learn loneliness, boredom and fear. Good move, soul! No vacations?
	PAPA: by Hélène Cixous; 1006/5/15; a revenant dream I'm in my papa's waiting room. I beg him to take a break from his patients now that he's dead, and walk with me...
	PIXY CONCUSSION: by Wayan; 200K, 2006/3/25, six images; a diagnostic sex dream? Janet's obsessed with a creepy guy, until her friend Kay--a pixy--decides to knock some sense into her cunt... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, EMBARRASSING SITUATION, NASTY LOVE SPELL
	RACK: by Wayan; 2006/4/4; a comic business-bondage dream My friend Chris gets tied up at the office--that’s his job, looking martyred! But when the boss is away... CAUTION: NUDITY
	REBORN IMMORTAL: by Reneta Scian; 2010/1/3, a three-stage flying dream First I try to break the sound barrier like my girlfriend. Nope! Then I fly slowly to her apartment. Nothing flashy, but I make it. Last, I flash back to ancient China, where I land at a candle-lit temple dedicated to... me?
	REST TOO: by Wayan; 1999. Acrylic on 12" LP; a life-sketch with a lesson. The mysterious glyphs above the model's head are dream-language, warning me to... CAUTION: NUDITY
	SILKY SHIELDS A VANDAL: by Wayan; 1994/8/6, a cautionary dream. I'm a kid in a classroom someone's trashed. Our teacher goes ballistic. But was the gypsy girl framed?
	SLAVES DON'T DANCE: by Wayan; 400K (17 ill.), 1999/8/1, an epic Shakespearean dream. Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm made nurse to her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is...
	SLEEPERS ALL: by Wayan; 2008/8/22, a dream poem, Dreamverse #12 I dream I'm an insomniac trapped in a flat full of snoring writers and reporters. Wait a minute...
	SO ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION: by Wayan; 1990? Digital picture-poem destroyed and resurrected. I had a horrible realization that computers are useless, and I tried to make it beautiful...
	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?
	SPORECOUNT: by Wayan; 105K, 1990/1/5, a dreamtale on change-phases. I'm a hot archeology student till I open the wrong tomb. A plague turns us into green moldy monsters... CAUTION: DISEASE, DEATH, GRIEF, SHAME
	STEAMROLLER: by Richard Wilbur, late 20th Century; an embarrassing dream. As the steamroller flattened me I tried to rise above it all and my body became quite a lovely stained-glass window...
	STINKING RICH: by Wayan; 1993/1/20, a dream about class. I envy and resent a rich family's mansion so much I break in and sabotage their giant meat freezer... CAUTION: HOSTILITY, ENVY, WASTE OF BAD FOOD
	TAROT: MINE CHILD: by Wayan; 31K. Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. Deep down in the strata inside you, gems lie waiting in the dark. Waiting for this child to dig them free...
	TAROT: REST!: by Wayan; 17K. Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. The card of fatigue and rest. Tarot's so primal--never a dull moment. Well, take a break...
	THE WEEPING BRAIN: by Wayan; 2010/12/5; an anti-workaholic nightmare poem My sister just bought a biocomputer: an enslaved human brain in a box of weeping skin...
	WOLF, NO WOLF: by Wayan; 1996/7/24, a nondream rant on place. Is there really that much difference between the rootless yuppies flooding the West, and war refugees?