THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TIMELINE: 1985

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1985

Computers spread; college libraries install free Macs. The revolution had begun. Personally, the impact was immediate: each night after work, I started typing up my first dreamtales, Vat Messiah, Mahakala, Blue Soup, Learning Scales, and the Black Current. The first steps out of private dreamwork, toward becoming a writer.

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1985

	BAND-AIDS: by Bagheera Pardus; c.1985, a lucid re-entered nightmare turned to joy. Giant snakes chased me, but I went lucid, turned and slew one. As I woke, the snakes were crying. So I re-entered the dream and... CAUTION: SNAKES, BEHEADING, REHEADING
	EXUBERANT BALLOONS: by Pauline Ramsey, c. 1985, a sudden joyful dream image. I stood on a bridge in winter. A skater shot out from the arch beneath, trailing a rainbow of balloons...
	THE SAN DIEGO CENTAURS: by Wayan; 1985/1/9, a slice-of-life dream. In San Diego, I fly around disrupting the UFO games in the junkyard, till I reconnect with a centaur friend
	FAIRY WIFE: by Wayan; 1985/1/17, an epic dream of love and choice. A fairy woman and a mortal man? Can't work! They're flighty, we're crude. Doomed, right? Well, some people are so sure of it they decide to help things along a bit. Or a lot...
	MAELSTROM AND BORE: by Wayan; 1995/1/23, a dream poem. An avian friend of mine researches a whirlpool. But it doesn't want to be studied, and it has friends too...
	YUM YUM!: by Wayan; 1985/1/31, a smelly dream. At work, a toxic potluck. I say no! And dream I'm a scent-oriented alien tossing back stink-grenades...
	ROBOT DREAMS: by Wayan; 1985/2/5, a dream on dreamwork. I'm a robot in high school. I have my first dream, but I'm deaf to its message cuz it's not spectacular...
	JOIN THE HUMAN RACE: by Wayan; 1985/2/11, a Gordian dream. My shortcut in a marathon bogs down in a maze full of psychoanalysts! So I climb the walls and...
	THE VAT MESSIAH: by Wayan; 1985/2/27, a major dreamtale. In our cult, we lie in vats of goo till we grow wings. But we're feared more than we knew... CAUTION: A SPECIST LYNCH MOB, NAKED IN SCHOOL, LESBIAN FEELINGS, OBSCENE CARROT
	RINGSHADOWS: by Wayan; 1985/3/7, an otherworldly ecodream. Earth has rainbow rings. They're braided like Saturn's, so their shadows create tinted microclimates...
	MY PAST CHANGES SO: by Wayan; 1985, a poem on healing-stages. It takes time to build yourself out of found objects and trash...
	DATE GHOST: by Wayan; dreamed 1985? (exact date uncertain); acrylic. I tried to date a nice young butterfly but was stopped by a monster who was... my own wings? CAUTION: UNDERAGE BUG
	MAHAKALA, MOZART, AND THE CRIPPLED BIRD: by Wayan; 135K, 1985/4/17, a dream on facing one's shadow. The Christian God vs Mahakala, Buddhist god of right anger! War in Middle Earth, as Pink Floyd sings...
	DOPPELBRUDER: by Wayan; 1985/5/9, a dream of a self at war over... labels? Lured to a parallel, feudal world by a marriage-vow, I'm trapped in my double's arrogant, twisted mind...
	LOST AGAIN: by Wayan; felt pen, 1985. A dream-sketch. I dreamed I was a bird-person in a post-nuclear future, touring North America the low-budget way... CAUTION: ALL YOU LOVE IS GONE
	BLUE SOUP, NO SPARK: by Wayan; 115K, 1985/6/1, a dream epic. A visit to a world where they fear blue soup ends in death and resurrection, so I'm pissed at my boss--God. CAUTION: DEATH, REBIRTH, SACRILEGE, JOB BURNOUT
	THE WORLD-BIRD: by Wayan; 1985?, crayon, 11x14." Nondream dreamlike image.. The bird that carries the world through space, whose eye is the sun...
	HILLBILLY ECO-REVOLT: by Wayan; 1985/6/12, a diagnostic eco-dream. A poor planet with one city. Urban technocrats and hick ecologists have conflicting development models... CAUTION: TOO REAL TO BE FUN
	THE BLACK CURRENT: by Wayan; 1985/6/16, a slice-of-life dreamtale. A dream-voyage round the world on the Black Current, only to wake up back in my animal village... CAUTION: GORILLA MARRIAGE
	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...
	PIANIST: by Wayan; 1985, a nondream ink caprice. Love that hair, girl. A very seventies bar-monster...
	UNDO THE PARALYSIS: by Wayan; 1985/7/14, a dream on persistence. In a future society, I'm deliberately, permanently paralyzed. Yet my home-grown treatment has an effect...
	REINDEER FOREST: by Wayan; ca. 1985, nondream ink sketch, approx 9x14" Reindeer linked by their heads--curiously analogous to language, or culture, or the Web, isn't it...
	THE DEAD BABY: by Wayan; 1985/8/4 a dream of hope. My sister gives birth during a killer heatwave. The baby's dead. I play with the body, like a chimp... CAUTION: GROSS
	SPIN-WITCH, or, THE MAGIC LIGHTER: by Wayan; 1985/8/10, a dream on defensiveness. Leona's a fighter--she rejects compromisers like her husband, her friends, that girl she's been sitting on...
	"CRY, BABY!": by Wayan, 1985/8/17, dream-farce with a warning. The only man in the Miss America Japanese Tea Ceremony Swimsuit Pageant, I learn a tearful lesson... CAUTION: DYSFUNCTIONAL FLIRTING
	SAMURAI BULLET: by Wayan; 1985 automatic drawing, 3x5", ink; tinted 2001. I didn't know myself what this was about, till I had to write this note--and suddenly I got it...
	GREEN ANGELS: by Wayan; 1985/9/2, a dream-idyll seething with politics. I stalk a platoon of levitating surf-bunnies who may be out to bomb a Greenpeace submarine...
	SHAMISEN: by Wayan; 450 x 500, 1985? Watercolor on wrinkled paper. Me playing the blues on a Japanese shamisen...
	PLESIOSAUR: by Wayan; 1985/9/5, a medical dream. An itchy patient of mine insists he's turning into a four-headed man-eating plesiosaur. He left one thing out...
	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
	SHEEPISH: by Wayan; 1985/9/24, a stupid psychic dream. Floundering through the snows of 1917, I fall in love with a sheep named Linda Evans, who teaches ballet...
	DIANE'S TRIANGLE: by Wayan; 1985/10/18, a psychic warning dream. A disturbing dream of my sister and her best friend turns out to be warning me of a sex secret... CAUTION: SEX, ENVY, KINKY COMPLICATIONS
	WHAT! MORE?: by Wayan; 300 x 500, ink 1985, digital color 2001. The world needs Zen cards, to balance out the Tarot. Here's my Zen pack--all one of them. One too many.
	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
	THE FLASHBACK: by Wayan; 1985/11/28, a dark dream-farce. I'm a monster working in a shopping mall in Stockton, California, when I smell smoke... CAUTION: FILM NOIR SEX
	DREAM SHORTAGE: by Wayan; 1985/12/1, an appropriately short dream. I meet two women in dream-prison. One's a giant, one a miniature. A fairy? She says, 'No, I'm..."
	HIS MINE: by Wayan; 1985/12/2, a wild dream epic. I'm a hobbit seeking Henry Fonda's haunted gold mine, who ends up in a showdown in a shaman's bar...
	MAMA BEAR'S ADVICE: by Wayan; 1985/12/8, a dream on love-tactics. A bear-girl seduced by her coyote professor gets some advice on revenge from her anthropologist mom...
	BEAN BAR: by Wayan; 1985/12/28, a culinary fable. I don't know beans about right action, so the master chef of the Bean Bar, Kokoro, teaches me the stages of true mastery... CAUTION: BEANS
	NIGHT FLIGHT: by Catherine as told to Wayan; 1985, a flying transformation dream.. My friend Catherine dreamed she was a flying mare with golden hooves. But in real life, she lost them...