THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TIMELINE: 1989

Dreams listed by date:
1989

For me, a year of defining myself. I took my first art class, hoping to find kindred spirits. Instead I was treated as the odd one out, both for my medium (digital) and my content (dreams). My dreams started suggesting I do what all misfits do: move to San Francisco. How about you?

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1989

	READABLE DREAMS: by Wayan; 1989-92; a 3-year inner debate on how to present dream-art How do we make dream narratives readable, when most readers are raised to think they're nonsense?
	MINER'S LETTUCE: by Wayan; 1989/1/4, an indigestible little dream. Our cowboy posse tracks a fugitive to a strange amethyst mine, where we're offered peculiar jobs...
	THE SKULLS AND CORN: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 1989/1/10, painting of an initiatory dream. I'm shown corn plants growing from skulls, and it seems like I must plant some skull-corn myself...
	FIVE HEARTS: COMIX: by Wayan; 699K, dreamed 1989/1/11; a sexy psychic unicorn dream. Too big? Page by page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Or text version: FIVE HEARTS I'm a nurse pulled through a glowing well to a world ruled by a five-hearted unicorn, who wants me to... CAUTION: SEX FANTASIES, LONGING, MELANCHOLIA
	SOUL-BOARD: by Wayan; 1989/1/12, an illustrated dream poem. Africa. My horse trusted me as we faced lions and fire, but to face the Soul-Board, he must trust himself...
	BREEDISM: by Wayan; 1989/1/16, a snappish dream of the future. I'm a reporter interviewing survivors of a plane crash--a puma and a pit bull. Can I survive the survivors?
	LIZ: by Wayan; 1989, digital painting of a daydream. I'm not sure just where she slithered out from, but she looks like more fun than most mammals... CAUTION: LIZARD BREAST
	MATURITY: by Wayan; 1989/1/26, a dream on bluntness. Beverly Cleary's Ramona is a popular teen, but she's having a nervous breakdown. And her best friend... CAUTION: STUDENT-TEACHER AFFAIR
	SHAPESHIFTER FEVER: by Wayan; 1989/1/30, a dream poem. A summer love affair with a shapeshifting alien turns awkward when she gets a high fever, and... CAUTION: UGH!
	THE BORIS BADENOV SOLUTION: by Wayan; 1989/2/10, a dream of puns. My evil twin, Boris Badenov, wants $8000 or else. I ask my dreams for a solution, and get one...
	VALENTINE: by Wayan; 1989/2/14, a nondream picture-poem A lipstick poem for that stickiest of holidays...
	THE FURNITURE: by Wayan; 1989/2/17, a physics dream. My sister Althea meditates. With her aura quiet, I mistake her for furniture! That blind to the physical...
	ROCKET BREATH: by Wayan; 1989/2/17, a physics dream. Floating in my parents' house, I get trapped in free-fall! How can I get a grip? (Nothing symbolic here!)
	GURU GUTS: by Wayan; 1989? Digital sketch of my perceptual world. If it takes a whole village to raise a child, it also takes a lot of guts to raise a kundalini. Voila!
	PIER'S END: by Wayan, 1989/2/21, a Raymond Chandler dreamtale. My detective lover warned me, "Stay away!" Now I'm trapped. Dare I follow the lion over the edge?
	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 the effects of slavery... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES
	LOVE DAY: by Wayan; 1989/3/21, a sitcom dream. On Love Day you can't mock anyone's come-on, of course; but in the bar "Cheers", Carla's mad at Diane... CAUTION: PRO-BIGAMY?
	CENTAUR BY SARTRE: by Wayan; 1989/3/28; an oracular dream A sea-centaur explains why some dreams don't LIKE to surface to so-called consciousness... CAUTION: WET T SHIRT, EXISTENTIALISTS, HARPOONS
	SMOKING REX : 25K, 1989/3/29, a dream of alliance. A cigar-smoking tyrannosaur's moved into the neighborhood, upsetting us bluebirds and vampire bats...
	I WAS AN ELEPHANT HANDLER: by Wayan; 1989/4/3, a genderbent stagestruck dream. I was an elephant trainer longing to be a star--to win the girl on the flying trapeze. Who's probably straight... CAUTION: FLIRTING LESBIANS, OR POSSIBLY ELEPHANTS, OR MAYBE LIBRARIANS
	DOG ON THE RAMP: by Wayan; 1989/4/6, a dream of love in a time of bias. My friend Lisadia sneers at a dog-girl's attempts to beautify her starship. I'm shocked--she's openly specist... CAUTION: SPECISM
	MY ALIEN ABDUCTION: by Wayan; 1989/4/6, a dream on reserving judgment. I'm on a forced march, captured by alien mercenaries. But they're nicer than you'd think--it's their human boss...
	BLOODY STYX!: by Wayan; 1989; digital painting of nondream vision. What I saw in the river bordering the land of the dead... CAUTION: GORE, BUT RESTRAINED, TASTEFUL GORE
	BOY TRANCE: by Wayan; 1989, a digital sex change. Boys still get portrayed as businesslike in sex, girl as floating orgasmic jellyfish. Time for a sex change... CAUTION: SEX AND LIMP RUBBER ARMS
	HUNT OF THE UNICORN: by Wayan; 1989/5/18, an overlooked psychic dream. I marry, just to get into a clannish world where I'm seeking symbiotic unicorns. But I end up hunted too...
	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
	MY LIPS ARE SEALED: by Wayan, 1989/6/3, a moody, psychic, epic dream. A two-part dream: I'm a Romantic poet who defeats the curse of the fountain, to marry; but when our daughter's grown, a new curse strikes me mute, paralyzed. And I mistake it for old age! Then, in real life...
	THE SEA-HAG RIOT: by Wayan; 100K, 1989/6/5, a wild dream hiding a warning. Aliens, hypnotherapy, dancing molars, riots, witches, flying pianos, lettuce... yet there is a point.
	THUMBS: by Wayan; 1989/6/12, a dream vignette. All over the planet, hands have gone soft, pliable. I meet some animals evolving into people and advise them:
	I HELD THE SUN ROSE: by Wayan; 1989, redone 1994. Digital painting inspiring a dream inspiring a 2nd painting. After I drew this I dreamed I was chasing stars with a long-tailed friend, and in the end we caught the Sun... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	AMONG COLUMNS: by Wayan; 1989/6/19, digital picture of psychic dream A psychic dream about a New York ballet student who was a black panther. Lower case...
	ELBERETH PAUSES: by Wayan; 1989/6/26, a dream on postwar ethics. After the Lord of the Rings falls, Elbereth herself is sent to heal the land. But she has a troubling neighbor...
	THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY: by Wayan; 1989/7/8, a psychic nightmare. My sisters get bored with the game of power, so I watch TV instead. But it melts, and a huge terrifying figure rises...
	AI ZHONG!: by Wayan; 1989/7/21, a short psychic dream A small, clear, simple precognitive dream... and its un-small, un-clear, un-simple cause...
	SEA OF TIME: by Wayan; 100K, 640 x 480, 1989/7/26/7/26. Digital picture. I dreamed I was drowning in the Sea of Time, where dragons asked me questions. PAINFUL questions...
	AMERICAN TANKA: by Wayan; 290K, eight images, 1995; acrylic on 30" disk, telling a 1989/7/26 dream. I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night...
	PHARAOH HOOKS: by Wayan; 1989/7/31, a deadpan joke of a dream. My sister and her friend the snake-woman tell me the facts of life: the golden hooks, the piglets... CAUTION: UNRELIABLE GYNECOLOGY
	WORD AND DEED: by Wayan; 1989/8/1, a embarrassing dream fable. In bed with my sister and Emmanuelle of the sex films, I learn a little something about denial... CAUTION: SEX, INCEST, INSIGHTS
	HARD DISK POND: by Wayan; 1989/8/27, a dream of art as a door. We build a huge hard disk that's a virtual pond--a gate to other worlds! But not for reptile brains...
	CHURCHES BURN WHEN YOU LEARN TO FLY: by Wayan; 1989/9/1, a didactic flying dream. I pay the price, but learn the difference between merely getting off the ground, and true mastery...
	GOTTA BE ME, OR...: by Wayan; 1989/9/5, a dream fable. A friend tells me her sex fantasies. We try playing the roles, but not being ourselves has a weird side-effect... CAUTION: SEX GAMES
	BEAST BIRTHS: by Wayan; 1989/9/19, a dream of family secrets. My family has a hidden gene for incest--and griffins. When I bring the family skeleton from the closet... CAUTION: MENTIONS RAPE, INCEST
	IF YOUR HEART IS BEAT: by Wayan; 640 x 480, 1990. Digital picture-poem. When your brain-cops are edgy, you're getting warm!
	UNRESOLVED OR JUST... DIFFERENT?: by Wayan; 1989/9/26, a dream on dreams. In my dreams, a co-worker tells me HER dreams. Their focus is utterly unlike mine! Dream goals differ...
	THE BRIDGE: by Wayan; 190K total, a 3-page comic, 1990-91, from two linked dreams, 1989/5/28 and 10/1. The Hunt of the Unicorn (yeah, guess who I am), as I fly through the worlds fighting Reaganism... CAUTION: MOCKS THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR
	THEY DON'T BELIEVE ME: by Wayan; 550K total, 15 illus., 1989/10/4, an unbelievable dream. My dog and I are abducted by aliens who turn us into cats. We escape, and turn feral to survive. I'm back in school now, and in therapy... but how we got back, and what happened along the way, even my own shrink won't believe... CAUTION: LEWD SQUID AND KLEPTOMANIAC BUGS
	BLUE EAGLE: by Xanthe; 1989/10/6, a dream that said it wasn't for me I met a great blue eagle waiting to get into a library--but not to hunt books...
	FOUR-EYED BABY: by Xanthe; 1989?, a Jungian dream I met some little hunchbacks in the woods who showed me a newborn baby growing from the moss...
	MASK: by Wayan; 1989, digital painting of my dream-self in a day-situation. I'm a unicorn in a life-drawing class, feeling more naked than the model... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
	FIGURE DRAWING: NOW HOLD THAT POSE: by Wayan; 1989 digital sketch of model clowning.. A model who created absurd, impossible poses, and held them heroically... CAUTION: SILLY NUDITY
	ID FLOWERS: by Wayan; 1989/10/8, a dream of wish and fear The villagers warned me not to walk in the alien graveyard; for at night, the Id flowers wake...
	PATH: by Wayan; 57K; dream figures (1989/10/12) invade a waking landscape. My art teacher said "Draw a spiritual experience." I did, but that night, I dreamed of sharp-toothed... CAUTION: TOPLESS MEDITATION.
	OTTERS DON'T FAKE: by Wayan; 125K total, a dreamtale with 2 illustrations, 1989/10/15. I'm scared to show my dream-paintings to my art class. That night I find an large otter in my bed... CAUTION: SEX
	INUIT MEDITATION: by Wayan; 1989/11/16, a surreal dream-comedy. I'm the first tuna to get a scholarship to Stanford. Naturally I sign up for a course in Inuit Meditation...
	GRAMPA HAS SPOKEN: by Wayan; 1989/11/26, an oracular dream. In a worldwide junkyard full of warring spooks, I finally meet the one whose message I need to hear...
	DATIN' DEMON: by Mark Varitz and Wayan; 1989/12/3; Mark's dream triggers one by Wayan. I meet my personal demon, and discover it has a personal demon: me! Am I worse than my Shadow? CAUTION: CRUDE LANGUAGE
	I WANT MY INHERITANCE: by Wayan; 1989/12/18, an obsessive dream. My relatives call me a blonde bimbo and won't give me my inheritance, so I take drastic steps... CAUTION: MORAL HAIRSPLITTING
	THE IRRATIONALITY OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 1989/12/31, a New Year's dream. On TV, the first Jungian anima to leave the unconscious is granting an interview. But the questions are...
	WE TALK IT OVER IN HIS BRAIN: by Wayan; 1989. Digital portrait of dream characters. My personality is borderline multiple: they veto and sabotage each other if not consulted first via dreams...