THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TIMELINE: 1982

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1982

The Reagan years! The world asleep, turned inward. And me? Powerful mythic dreams start tearing open my suburban cocoon... Centaurs, exploding circuses, wizard-schools and money from God! Still, the old life clung.

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1982

	BURMA SHAVE: by Wayan; 1982, a poem on dreams. If you dream, don't drive. If you drive, don't dream. A public safety message from the other world.
	MAGIC SCHOOL: by Wayan, 1982/1/26: a waking event and replying dream. Phyllis Schlafly, who killed 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!
	FACE-BEETLE: by Wayan; 1982/2/13, a nightmare with career advice. A monstrous Kafka beetle grows gradually out of my face. And it's a MESSAGE...
	MOTH GIRL SIPS EARTHFLOWER: by Wayan; 1982, sketch of a daydream. The bud she sits on is the moon...
	SUSHI CIRCUS: by Wayan; 1982/2/17, an illustrated psychic dream. When I flee the Psychodrama Circus to avoid being stabbed, it explodes! But it's the sushi that really upsets me... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MAKI
	THE WHITE MARE OF TRANSFORM RANCH: by Wayan; 1982/2/18, a dream of a dream-grown-up. I visit a dude ranch where you learn to be other species. A white mare I barely recognize says hello...
	THE LEMON SEA: by Wayan; 1982/2/22, a dream warning. I wake up as someone else. I go through her working day, till Captain Kirk comes to take me to...
	CENTAUR QUARTET: by Wayan; main dream 1982/2/24, a major dreamtale, illustrated. Can our interracial family survive? Not just cultural conflict, but our instincts clash around sex--and incest... CAUTION: SEX, INCEST ISSUES, DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
	MERCURY: by Wayan; 1987/3/7, dream-poem of a lost future. Mercury didn't spin! One side fire, one side ice. We farmed in domes, between--until the sun brightened... CAUTION: BAD SCIENCE
	CASSANDRA AND OTTER: by Wayan; 1982/3/14, a reassuring nightmare. I take Cassandra's prophecies seriously, but she can't make sense of my future. So we go see an otter with a crystal ball. But he's put in this new security system...
	FOOT ON THE GAS: by Wayan; 1982/3/16, a creepy little warning dream. My car's idling too fast. After hours of diagnosis, I notice a foot's on the gas! Only it's not MY foot...
	MY EX-WIFE: by Wayan; 1982/3/23, a dream on delusions. My ex-wife breaks in, but acts like I'm the one who crawled back to her... and I don't HAVE an ex-wife! CAUTION: ADULT THEMES. REALLY, REALLY STUPID ADULT THEMES.
	"HIS BALL IS EMPTY": by Wayan; 1982/3/23, an epistolary advice-dream. A letter to Miss Hornyhearts compares the writer's lover and husband. Some sharp advice for nice boys... CAUTION: LANGUAGE
	THE SHADOW OF FREUD: by Wayan; 1982/3/28, a psychological dream. I find a lost book of Freud's with a radical idea: Jung's Shadow is real, but there's a second Shadow:
	ART TAKES GUTS: by Wayan; ink, 11x14", 1982, a waking confession. Why this site? Because if I'm around when you see my dream art, I feel like THIS......
	CATGIRL HOODED IN SNOW: by Wayan; 1982, ink sketch of daydream, 11 x 14". I was never sure where her winter cloak ended and her winter coat began...
	AT LEAST HE'S A DOCTOR: by Wayan; 1982/4/7, a sharp warning dream. I'm a Puertorriqueña girl. I fall for an Anglo doctor, but he's not what he seems... CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX, CREEPY GUY, VICIOUS FIGHT
	BAR BET: by Wayan; 150K, 6 images, 1982/4/2, a dream-quest. On a bar-bet, we seek God. We reach the Isles of the Blessed, but they're too complacent. We want the wild God, the real God, the Bad Taste God. Onward, pagan questers! Because we want to win our bet. CAUTION: LAZY-ASS ANGELS
	FLOATING: by Wayan; ink with acrylic wash 1982, digital tweaking 1997; sketch of daydream. Hokusai's wild mad lines inspired me to draw myself his way, floating asleep on the astral sea... CAUTION: NUDITY
	WE MARCHED THROUGH THE CITY OF SAINT FRANCIS: by Wayan; 1982/5/1?, a dream-influenced poem. After a peace march in San Francisco, I saw us as deer, and Americans as dogs. Yet WE frighten THEM...
	THE BLIP: by Wayan; 1982/5/4, a brief dreamtale. A bubble of spacetime distortion lands in a very awkward place...
	WELL-MEANING GRASS: by Wayan; 1982/5/17, a diagnostic Trek dream. On a world of designer genes, the Prime Minister tries to kill the Bug Princess by deluding an innocent lawn...
	THE ICE EXPRESS: by Wayan; 1982/5/19, a dream on memory vs. expression. The trans-arctic Ice Express, blinded by birds, gets off-track and blocked by oddly rectangular ice floes...
	THE WRAITH OF KHAN: by Wayan; 1982/6/2, a dream on brains I'm being stalked by Ricardo Montalban, playing Khan, from Star Trek. Why him, why me? I know why.
	UNICORN SIXTY-NINE: by Wayan; 1982, ink, a recurring nondream sexfantasy. A bizarre image I had of unicorns whose horns really were horny, with some maidens and princes... CAUTION: LEERING SEX! LURID COLOR! LAME LINES!
	THE GIVE-AWAY: by Wayan; 1982/6/7, a short nightmare. My parents pray for my success, and arrange a great learning opportunity for me. Really.
	HITLER'S CAR: by Wayan; 1982/6/9, I review a creepy book. And then my dreams review ME. A book claims Hitler's circle was a cult, not a party, out to apply mystical theories--like Manson! Then I dream... CAUTION: RABID RANTING
	SURRENDER DARCY!: by Wayan; 1982/6/14, a dreamtale on pride and prejudice. I'm Doctor Who, being chased by an air-surfer who demands we give up a reserved, proud man... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	HORSE IN A TAILWIND: by Wayan; 1982; study of a dream character It looks like a study of negative shapes, but if you happen to be a part-time horse, like me...
	THE TUBA MAN: by Wayan; 1982/7/8, a career-advice dream. Tuba Man plays from the top of a tower, even when Loveless Man opens fire; for music is life to him...
	TWO INUIT WERE TALKING: by Wayan; ink 1982, digital color 1998; nondream fantasy. Two Inuit talk of sun and moon and birds and little ghosts who sneak up on you...
	THE BIRD MARATHON: by Wayan; 120K, 1982/7/10, a half-nightmare, 3 illus. A bizarre marathon, and the Princess is the prize. But she doesn't WANT to be, so she sets out... CAUTION: BLOODY BIRD
	TWO INUIT WERE TALKING: by Wayan; ink 1982, digital color 1998; nondream fantasy.
	MEDITATION BLUES: by Wayan, 1983, nondream sketches of meditative state. Meditation's hard for me; I expect to turn on instantly, like a lamp plugged into Enlightenment...
	THE MELTING POT: by Wayan; 480 x 400, 1982/7/30. Erasable crayon, 14 x 17". They were swimming in the glowing, molten pool of the Melting Pot, and beckoned me to join them... CAUTION: SUICIDE SOUP?
	MY CUBIST CONSCIENCE: by Wayan; 465 x 560. 1982/8/4, 14 x 17." Ink, Sanford erasable crayon. I dreamed I was trapped in the maze of my pacifist vegetarian feminist anarchist eco-conscience...
	BELL CURVE IN THE DARK: by Wayan; 1982/8/17, a dream fable. A human pinball game played in the dark, with bells for stoppers, sorting people into a Gaussian bell-curve...
	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...
	THE RINGMAN'S SQUIRREL: by Wayan; 1982/9/17, a dream of a time after us. One day, in the ruins of an American city whose name was lost, I met a Ringman under an oak... CAUTION: GROSS WORK, IF YOU CAN GET IT
	STRUCK BY THOUGHT: by Wayan; dream-poem, main dream 1982/10/5. Short dreams sharing a theme: the burden of a big brain on its animal bearer...
	MIRIEL, DON'T GO IN!: by Wayan; 340 x 570, 1982/10/6, an illustrated dream. God offers gifts to pilgrims, so my sister enters his door. Fierce light shoots out...
	COYOTE SENT ME CASH!: by Wayan, 3.1MB (MP3 + lyrics), a 2007 jazz-rap telling a 1982/10/11 psychic dream. A true tale proving the Trickster God really will provide. We're lilies of the field!
	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...
	SAMURAI LIBRARIAN: by Wayan; 1990. Digital self-portrait as a dream-samurai I wrote my dreams each morning no matter what--even if I was late for work. They thought I was spacy...
	(IN THE) REHEARSAL ROOM: by Wayan; 360 x 600, 1982/10/20. A dream on shyness. I dreamed my fears faded like ghosts, as we made love in the rehearsal room. But invisible is not gone... CAUTION: SEX
	THE TOAST OF CREATION: by Wayan; 1982? Nondream crayon/ink image How the world was really created. God said "Let it be well done" and it was well done. CAUTION: TECHNOLOGICAL BLASPHEMY
	I DREAM OF DERIVERRANS: by Wayan; 1982/11/16, a Joycean dream of surrender. I must rescue Ann Soforth from righteous rapists, then Paul McCartney from a musical curse... CAUTION: ABUSED CHILD, JOYCEAN LANGUAGE
	THE ROCKS OF EDEN: by Wayan; 560 x 460, 1982/11/28. A proud angry picture-poem during a hard time, when great gifts flowed through my hands...
	PONYBOY: by Wayan; 140K total, felt pen, acrylic, ink, illustrating a 1982/12/9 dream. The child who runs with wild horses finds the secret spy-room of dreams! But no one's watching...
	GLASS EATER: by Wayan; 1982/12/10, a dream on managing ESP. I live in an asylum for fragile psychics. When one man over-uses his talent, he compulsively eats glass... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
	"NOHOR!" YELLED THE NIGHTMARE: by Wayan; 1982/12/27, a passionate nightmare. I dreamed a black mare was howling "Nohor!" At first I thought she meant "I'm not just a horse", but... CAUTION: SEXUAL ISSUES
	HAWK ANGEL: by Wayan; 1982/12/28; a dream on rejecting hearsay. I dreamed I met a sort of hawk angel, but there was this preachy guy between us... CAUTION: NUDITY
	ART TAKES GUTS: by Wayan; ink, 11x14", 1982, a waking confession. Why this site? Because if I'm around when you see my dream art, I feel like THIS......
	CIRRUS: by Wayan; 580 x 450, 1982? Crayon, 11x14"; a waking skyscape. I was hunting edible fungi in Foothill Park near Palo Alto when I saw this...
	PURR: by Wayan; 650 x 500, 1982, 11x14", acrylic watercolor of a dream. A dream about our family's black cat Persephone, who had to make a decision...