THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TIMELINE: 1997

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1997

I don't know how this year was for you, but for me... the Internet boom hit San Francisco. We got evicted, our house sold. House-hunting, getting together with friends to buy a house... We did, and the seller pocketed the down payment but wouldn't leave the house...
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1997

	AROUND LAKE ERIE AND ACROSS THE HUDSON: by Rachel Hadas; 1997?, a dream-poem. My dead friend Charlie and his sister and I are driving around Lake Erie. We know it’s a dream and he’s dead, and yet we’re joyous...
	BLACK WINTER: by Jeff Knabel; 1997, a dream-song from a possibly predictive nightmare I dreamed a large meteor had struck the Earth. I found my Dad just as the shockwave hit... CAUTION: APOCALYPSE
	WYVERN: by Wayan; 1997, 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
	A GREAT NIGHTMARE, or, The Autistic Dream Lecturer: by Wayan; 1997/1/2, a diagnostic nightmare. I dream I'm addressing a dream convention, but I'm autistic! I MUST act bizarre, just to function...
	ORBITING MOM: by Wayan; 1997/1/7, an uh-oh dream. I'm trying to get a moontan when my mom appears. My astral body starts orbiting her like a moon. Uh-oh...
	TOPOGRAPHY OF EXCESS: by Wayan; 1997. Digital painting on digital painting. They call it the information highway because we're all supposed to march in formation...
	PRRL: by Wayan; 19971/17, a galactic dreamtale. I'm in the Magellanic Clouds, an ambassador to the energy-beings who rule them. Or am really their... pet?
	THE OBSERVER EFFECT, OR, WATCH THE WATCH: by Wayan; 1997/1/21, a dream of time and opticks. After seeing an Einstein biography I find myself in the bathrooms of Thought-Experiment High, and... CAUTION: DARK SIDE OF AN ICON
	VOW, CHOP, DOOR: by Wayan; 1997/1/26, a psychic dreamtale. I make a weird vow--while I absent-mindedly slice up other people's cars! The next day... CAUTION: DREAM VANDALISM
	TURTLE HARANGUE: by Wayan; 1997/1/29, a warning dream. A man mocks the turtle he caught, calling it "inept"--what's an adept turtle, then? I distract the guy while it...
	YOU CHIPHEAD! : by Wayan, 1997/1/31, a sarcastic dream. Chips are faster than brains these days, so everyone's upgrading--everyone but me...
	OBISPO'S OUT OF RANGE: by Wayan; 1997/2/2, a dreamtale on ESP. I move hundreds of miles away to escape my family's psychic broadcasts. Pathetic, but... does it work?
	THE CHINESE PROFESSOR'S WIFE: by Wayan; 1997/2/4, a dream on abuse. My neighbor thinks I'm sleeping with his wife, who he abuses. Only I think she may be me... CAUTION: IMPLIED BATTERING
	THE ABUSE PANELISTS: by Wayan; 1997/2/6, nondream journalism A whole convention of adults abused as kids shows me how hard it is to hide the damage... CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES
	BESTIALITY: by Wayan; 1997/2/6, essay with implications for dreams breaking taboos A capsule history of a taboo that changed startlingly over 3000 years... does sin depend on timing? CAUTION: SEX TALK, TABOOS
	THE PROWLER: by Wayan; 1997/2/4, an illustrated dreamtale. My sister hears a prowler. I go out blind in the dark, and learn she's right. But what a strange intruder!
	THE FIREBREAK OF MEN: by Wayan; 1997/2/13, a herstorical dream. The Europeans have another great war, killing off their men. Will that break the cycle of violence? Like a...
	THE COST OF ECO-REGULATIONS: by Wayan; 1997/2/14, a dream edict. I dream an economist admits not only that eco-regs pay off, but that economic theory is faulty. Dream on!
	FREE WAY? DETENTION FOR YOU!: by Wayan; 1997/2/14, a dream of the wages of fun. Zooming on freeways--carless levitation! But the Principal tries to punish us. And we resist... don't we?
	NUKING HOOVER: by Wayan; 1997/2/16, a dreamtale about illness. J. Edgar Hoover, founder of the FBI, stages a coup. Do we accept him as dictator, or nuke Washington? CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	COLOSTRUM FIRST!: by Wayan; 1998/2/27, a short psychic dream. A dream of exhibitionist girls playing with breast milk turns out not to be symbolic, but psychic... CAUTION: BREASTS
	FOX-BOY: by Wayan; 1997/2/28, a dream fable. A boy offends his uncle the King, who transforms him into a fox. Grounded! But Fox-Boy runs away...
	ARMLESS: by Wayan; pencil tinted digitally, 1997; dream figures, but not a dream scene A strange, horny, frustrated being, part human part horse, who lacks hands to hold the centaurs... CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL TENSION
	HORSELIKE BUT NOT: by Wayan; portrait of dream figure, 1997, acrylic, 14 x 17" My anima Silky finds it hard to go back to classic hooves, now that she's tried opposable thumbs...
	JANE IN VAIN: by Wayan; 1997/3/6, a dream that's not about class. A prisoner's allowed to see his middle-class lover only in a seedy bar by the jail. But she likes the place... CAUTION: THE JOYS OF SLUMMING
	SILKY RELENTS: by Wayan; 1997/3/8 a dreamtale on undoing old injustice. My anima Silky plans to kill a man who hurt her. Instead, we make them re-enact it, with variations...
	SAFETY GETS ME HOT: by Wayan; 1997/3/27, a dream on sensitivity. I'm trapped in a post-apocalypse pulp story! Fun for my readers, but not for me! How to escape?
	POLES NOW, TROPICS LATER: by Wayan; 1997/3/27, a dream on the pace of change. I'm a Martian revolutionary, making the glaciers grow. The equator's still dry, but change is coming...
	BONK VERONICA: by Wayan; 400K total, 1997/4/1, 9 illus.; two comic nightmares on body image. The world's first all-bulemic band, Veronica and the Vomits, provokes a riot at our local punk club. So I go to Anorexic Bootcamp and join an army of models learning self-defense under fire, as calories and fat jokes whiz by... CAUTION: SKINNY GIRLS WHO MAKE YOU WANT TO BARF--no wait, that's a bad idea!
	THE SEX WORKSHOP: by Wayan; 1997/4/6, a dream on taking the next step. The teacher of our sex workshop picks me for a demonstration in front of everyone. Gulp... CAUTION: WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK?
	GIRL WITH A PROBLEM: by Wayan; 1997/4/12, a surreal dream. I date a girl with a mysterious syndrome, but soon I become a monkeyfaced con-man. And SHE becomes...
	DISSECTING PESSIMISM: by Wayan; 1997/4/14, a stubbornly educational nightmare . A serial killer stalks our office, and our bosses deny it. When we defend ourselves, things turn weird... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	STICKY FINGERS: by Wayan; 1997/4/18, a dream on self-judgment A woman masturbates constantly at work, then greets businessmen with her hot sticky handshake... CAUTION: SEX
	TELEPATHY VERSUS AUTISM: by Wayan; 1997/4/19, an utterly dreamlike but waking vignette A weird little identity-confusion at a dance suggests I'm simultaneously psychic, autistic, and... stupid.
	SUTRO RUINS: by Wayan; 1997, pencil/digital; waking landscape though it doesn't look it. The ruins of the Sutro Baths in San Francisco were the setting for an otherworldly dream...
	RUM JUNGLE: by Wayan; 1997? digital; map of the dreamworld. Think of your dreams as a rainforest, clearcut every morning--unless you make the effort to remember... CAUTION: TINY NAKED ANGELS
	THE THREATENERS: by Wayan; 1997/4/23, a small psychic dream. Two gunmen break in, call me by a strange name, and demand I repay a loan I never borrowed...
	WORM WIZARD, or, TITMAN'S CHAIR: by Wayan; 1997/4/23, a dream of bamboozlement. In the castle of a wizard who's a were-worm, I let myself become my best friend's chair! Generous, huh?
	WOODCUT: by Wayan; 1997-1999. Digital "woodblock print" of dream-self. Cartoony self-portrait as I paint with Persephone's pomegranate paintbrush. A mock woodblock print... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
	TOO MUCH TO BEAR: by Wayan; 1997/4/28, an alternate-world nightmare that knew its math. I dreamed that nouveau-riche half-ton polar bears invaded San Francisco, evicting us locals... CAUTION: VIOLENCE COMING TO YOUR TOWN SOON
	DURING DREAM-DROUGHT: by Wayan; 1997/5/7, a journal exerpt. Sitting in an eviction-lawyer's waiting room, of all places, I discover my next artistic direction...
	A PULP MYSTERY: by Wayan; 1997/5/7, a nightmare. A detective talks all his suspects into suicide. But they still bury me in wood pulp and beat me to death... CAUTION: BAD POLICE PROCEDURE
	BLUE LIPS, GOLD EYES, ORANGE JUICE: by Wayan; 1997/5/8, a dreamfable. In a world where respectable men wear masks, an old, old man rebels in the crudest way he can...
	A HOT SKATER: by Wayan; 1997/5/8, a suggestive dream. A skater so hot, she tears her clothes off and starts melting the ice! I'm shy with her: thin ice, you know... CAUTION: NUDITY, CRUDITY
	THE HONEST INMATE: by Wayan; 1997/5/8, a dreamfable on truthfulness. I'm a psychopath in a prison for the insane. But I fall in love, and change. Blunt honesty fuels the change...
	WITCH, FLY FREE!: by Wayan; 1997/5/8, a dreamfable. A castle of witches in Europe. Persecuted for centuries, they're wary. Can I find a good witch to love? CAUTION: PAGANS CRIPPLED BY SIEGE MENTALITY...
	PALE BLUE: by Wayan; 1997/5/12, a dream on denial. I pray for love and promptly meet Blue, whose mom treats her like a kid. We change that, but it's messy...
	HEALING DANCE: by Wayan; 1997/5/14, a dream of shamanic shop talk. A shaman designs a rite to focus the village's healing attention on her client; the rest is just showmanship...
	HORSEFALL... AND WORSE: by Wayan; 1997/5/15, a political nightmare. Corruption in my town causes a bizarre death. But is that all? I smell smoke--will the city burn?
	A STAB OF ANGER: by Wayan; 1997/5/24, a Jurassic Park dream. By a midnight lake, I comfort an abused girl in the mud. But then two figures with long knives appear...
	ALPHA RALPHA BOULEVARD: by Wayan; 1997? Watercolor 14" x 17" A path arching up into the sky--an image that recurs in my dreams...
	GET YOUR BODY BACK: by Wayan; 1997/6/11, a dreamed parable. A man dies--his body's chopped up. He ends in Hell. But he's a stubborn guy; he wants his body back. So...
	HUNT AND PECK: by Patagia; 1997/6/16, a dream on the creative non-struggle. I'm a brown sparrow scratching in the dirt, looking for bugs. Focused, tireless, I hunt and peck...
	DEAF TO MY SIGNS: by Wayan; 1997/6/17, a wise frustration dreamtale. Watching a slideshow, in a room of deaf women, I find no one can hear me in either English or Sign...
	TEMENOS: by Wayan; 1997/6/17, a psychic dream. I'm at a Robert Bly camp for men only. But I'm no man--not even human--some faun or satyr-like species... CAUTION: A TEMENOS IS A SACRED PHALLIC IMAGE
	POWER OFF: by Wayan; 1997/6//17, a dream of brainwashing. Captain Kirk (Starfleet, retired) saves us all from terrorists at a powerplant, but he forgot something...
	AT THE BISEXUAL BALL: by Wayan; 1997/6/21, a dreamtale. How I found out what I really wanted at the bisexual ball. Really, I'm not disappointed... CAUTION: OH COME ON, READ THE TITLE
	THE BEE QUEEN: by Wayan; 1997/6/26, a hard-headed dream. Two time-traveling paleontologists get a gift from their friend the Bee Queen. A gift with six-inch fangs...
	ANTLIA: by Wayan; 1997/6/29, a dreamtale. I meet a judge from the newly discovered galaxy Antlia, and learn distance can lend objectivity...
	MY DEWCLAW: by Wayan; 1997/6/30; dreams within dreams within dreams Body after body is peeled away revealing truth inside truth... CAUTION: GROTESQUE
	THE HAND THAT WAKES: by Wayan; 1997; acrylic study of what makes us forget dreams. I was painting to a sad scary song by Laurie Anderson that goes "This is the hand... the hand that takes..."
	CRYSTAL AND GUNSEL: by Wayan; 1997/7/2, a nightmare--psychic or not? Gunsel kills my friend Crystal in a flaming aircar crash. But that's not enough--he comes back, and... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	A RENAISSANCE WOMAN: by Wayan; 1997/7/3, a dreamtale. I'm an abused girl turning tricks to survive. But this is San Francisco: I join a prostitutes' co-op, and meet... CAUTION: PROSTITUTES WITH SELF-RESPECT, OH NO!
	LYNN HALL'S "FLYAWAY": by Wayan; 1997/7/6, a journal extract on religious abuse A book that kept me up late. Ariel and Robin get abused as subtly, as deniably as me and my sisters... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS/PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE
	HAPPINESS UNBLOCKS ART: by Wayan; 1997/7/7, nondream book review An insight about a fictional character who unblocks her creativity changes my own life strategy...
	STEP THIRTEEN: by Wayan; 1997/7/8, a rebellious dreamtale. Two realities pester me like big spoiled babies to care for their mythic figures, till I go on shamanic strike...
	THE TORTURER: by Wayan; 1997/7/13, a predictive nightmare A traveling torturer chooses me for his victim. He has the right. I bluster, but when at last I have to sleep... CAUTION: NO PAIN, BUT GORE
	ELF ETYMOLOGY: by Wayan; 1997/7/14, a linguistic postmodern dream. We escape the trolls, but then our author, Tolkien, breaks in to explain a word, and the rest of the night...
	THE ROSA PARKS EFFECT: by Wayan; 1997/7/21, a political dream. The mayor declares war on bikers, blames us for gridlock! I dream of Rosa Parks' influence and realize...
	MOON BLOOMS: by Wayan; 1997/7/22, a dream on traces of love. Everyone has a personal moon. At first, mine disappointed me, till a bard dumped his trash on it, and...
	IN THE BIG BURN: by Wayan; 1997/7/22, a postnuclear dream. I love a girl who wants to settle in a radioactive jungle, a scar from an ancient war. Stay or go?
	EVOLUTION'S DULL: by Wayan; 1997/7/22, a science rant. Evolution is like baseball--a game of inches, efficiency, constraints. Surely we can do better.... CAUTION: CONTAINS THOUGHT
	SYLVIA: by Wayan; 1997/7/29, an illustrated dream. Sylvia, the fabulous Dog Singer, leads me through a spy film, a French romantic farce, Fellini's Rome...
	UNDER THE HEIRESS'S SPELL: by Wayan; 1997/7/30, a wish-fulfilment fable. A glamorous heiress casts a spell that spills over, so I can have anyone I see! But who DO I see?...
	HUNG BY ELDER: by Wayan; 1997/7/30, a nightmare. A disowned heiress and I sneak onto the family estate, but they'll go pretty far to hide their skeletons... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	ANIMAL SPEECH, ANIMAL ESP: by Wayan; 1997/7/31, from Wayan's journal. When you really observe animals in language programs it's obvious WE'RE the ones missing a lot...
	TWO-HEADED BEAST: by Wayan; 333K total, 12 images, 1997/7/31, a Gothic dream. In Castle Frankenstein, will Mary Shelley wed Elmer Fudd? His two-headed monster has marital advice...
	GANDHI RUNS: by Wayan; 1997/8/1, a fusion dream. Gandhi and I must run barefoot across a burning racetrack miles wide... the Ascetic Desert?
	WERE-TROUT: by Wayan; 1997/8/2, a dating-advisory dream. I'm a one-legged hopping hermit in the ruins of LA, and my only hope for love is to conjure a girl from a...
	CHESS DEVIL: by Wayan; 1997/8/5, a humiliating nightmare. I try to rescue my girl friends losing to a devil in boat-chess, but they'd rather be with him... CAUTION: BAD GIRLS
	GHOSTS PUSH TOWARD THE SUICIDE DOOR: by Wayan, 1997/8/7, a nightmare that wants a break. I live in a haunted house where ghosts push you to suicide. But they're as tired of it as I am...
	I CAN'T JOIN THE TRIBE: by Wayan; 1997/8/12, a nightmare on madness. After the eco-crash, I try to join a tribe in the jungle that was Oakland. But they reject me, for good reason...
	A COLONY IN THE HOLLOW HILLS: by Wayan; 1997/8/14, a dream of responsibility. Hong Kong's not devolving to China, but to Faerie. As governor, I have to defend human rights, so...
	MY PRIZE: by Wayan; 1997/8/15, a short psychic dream on inner critics. A teen awards me prizes for art and writing. I wake to see her on TV--a gymnast after a prize herself...
	MY FLUORESCENT WORLD: by Wayan; 1997/8/16, a psychedelic dream. I always thought I saw differently than others, but when someone builds the Goggles...
	THE RING'S ELBOW ROOM: by Wayan; 1997/8/17, a dreamtale. Widely held notions manifest easier. I could forge Sauron's Ring, and it'd really work! But do I want to?...
	TRUSTING FOXES: by Wayan; 175K, 2 big pp, 1997/8/20, a comic of a psychic dream. A lawyer sends me a letter full of fox-girls! In Asia foxes mean trouble, but instantly I know they mean...
	DARE TO BE FAT!: by Wayan; spinoff picture from a 1997/8/20 dream. I was an anorexic fox-girl, till this phrase galvanized me. Now I pump iron and eat what I like, and...
	SHY FOX: by Wayan; 2 images, digitally tinted pencil, spinoffs from a 1997/8/20 dream. I love to play, but I'm a shy fox. And pushing myself to be socially brave has unforeseen drawbacks...
	WOMBERS: by Wayan; 1997/8/23, a journal entry on peace-at-any-price personalities Nancy Friday describes a certain kind of guy disturbingly like me, and I realize chronic illness has made me...
	BERYL'S KUNDALINI: by Wayan; 1997/8/26, a clarifying dream. My friend Beryl's ghost makes mad love to me--just long enough to swipe my Kundalini energy... CAUTION: SUCCUBISM?
	UNHAPPY CAMPERS: by Wayan; 1997/9/1, a stupid dream. Since when is a dream of a disastrous camping trip a medical diagnosis? It depends on your pun-tolerance...
	CLIFTON: by Wayan; 1997/9/6, a journal entry on a 20th Century man rather like me. Mark Clifton wrote science fiction tales of mutant psychic geniuses--only he wrote from life...
	THE DOOR GIRL: by Wayan; 1997/9/6, a road-not-taken dream. A doorway not taken (for the most sensible of reasons) provoked a magical dream of what I missed...
	SPIT DOOR: by Wayan; 1997/9/7, a flying dream. I have a job setting up secret doors to other realities and creating paths through our world between them...
	PERISSA: by Wayan; 660K total (15 images); 1997/9/13, a sexy political dream. When Perissa, an exhibitionistic centaur, bares her body in a crowded Coliseum, she also bares a racist plot... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM
	FREE THE HICK? A Dream Left Hanging: by Wayan; 1999/9/15, a frustrating dream. Our team acquires unnoticeability, and sets out to free the Hick from the Submerged Court. But is that wise?
	DRAGGED TO HER HEART'S DESIRE: by Wayan; 1997/9/16, a dream with a lesson. The friends of a touchy aviator have to kidnap her just to give her a present... and WHAT a present...
	IMPERSONAL ORGY: by Wayan; 1997/9/18, a temptation dream--or an un-temptation dream?. At the beach, my friends start a sleepy anonymous orgy... I'm single and frustrated, but is this what I want? CAUTION: SEX
	I TOSSED MUSIC: by Wayan; 1997/9/19, an advisory dream. I asked my dreams "should I return to school?" They replied with this bizarre tale of sabotage... CAUTION: VIOLENCE TO DUMB INSTRUMENTS
	CHINA AND AMERICA: by Alder and Wayan; 1997/9/23, telepathic dreams. Two giants wrestle in the Chinese mountains. Who'll win, Red or Yellow? But when I wake...
	COOL: by Wayan; 1997/9/23, a waking-world street observation. Suddenly I see the notion of "cool" as just another Euro theft. Being cool shouts "I'm insecure"...
	THE RUNNING: by Wayan; 1997/9/27, a dream on sensitivity and the reverse. I couldn't make it to Spain to see the Running of the Bulls, so I found an American equivalent...
	SUMMON A MENTOR: by Wayan; 1997/10/6, a parabolic dream on wishes. I turn shy with women I like. So I wish for a dating coach, who appears! Then I feel dumb: how come I...
	THE TAPED WOUND: by Wayan; 1997/10/7, a dream on old tapes... My wound's taped up, but hurts bad. I peel off the bandage... nothing! Gone. So I check my other body...
	UNDER THE FUR: by Wayan, 700K total (5 p, 140K each), 1997/10/7; a color dream-comic (or plain text version, just 10 K) A strange creature slunk into our yard, carrying a skunk lunch. But she dropped her fur coat, and...
	A SQUID STRATEGY: by Wayan; 1997/10/7, a dream warning. Giant squid start surfacing at popular beaches and eating people. Not the form of first contact we'd hoped... CAUTION: YOU ARE LUNCH
	HEBREW RADIO RITE: by Wayan; 1997/10/12, a cynical mystical dream. An ancient rite has headgear that today picks up radio stations. What'd it pick up in ancient times?
	FRUIT RIGHT OFF THE TREE!: by Wayan; 1997/10/16, a dream of dating advice A woman discovers that her new use for a truck with a telescoping arm has philosophical consequences...
	SQUIGGLE BIRD: by Wayan; 480 x 640, 1997. Just an abstract birdlike acrylic squiggle I liked. Sorry, no story...
	THE DISPLAY: by Wayan; 1997/10/17, a natural history dream. I'm trapped in a nature documentary about mating displays among humans... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, PBS NARRATION, AND OTHER EMBARRASSMENTS
	SHOOT ME, I'M LUCID!: by Wayan; 1997/10/17, a dreamtale. I distract a mad gunner in a crowd--I suspect I'm dreaming, but still... This may be noble, but is it healthy? CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS ON THE NEXT CRAZED KILLER YOU MEET
	ARCHANGEL: by Wayan; 1997/10/19, a dream-farce--or is it? Sure I've been through hell, but how the hell did that get me elected archangel? And why's my butt itch? CAUTION: ITCHY BUTT
	AMAZON A(U)NTS: by Wayan; 1997/10/28, a nightmare. I camp in the Amazon but in the morning find I slept on top of something disturbing...
	THIEU, I'M SORRY: by Wayan, 1997/11/1, a troubling dreamtale. Visiting Time City, I witness the "suicide" of a woman named Thieu but suspect it was really assassination... CAUTION: SUICIDE? MURDER?
	CHRYSALIS: by Wayan; 1999 acrylic painting of two dreams, 1997/10/6 and 1997/11/8. Ballooning over Middle Earth with a metamorphosing butterfly-girl, we drift into forbidden territory:
	MORAL FIBER: by Wayan; 1997/11/10, a dream of trouble in Ecotopia. We hippies won, but now we're backward and isolated; it's time we joined the rest of our alternate Earth...
	FUTURIANS: by Wayan; 1997/11/11, a dream on innocence. A time-loop introduces me to a future self full of innocent enthusiasm. Maddening! CAUTION: LANGUAGE
	THE LITERAL EMPIRE: by Wayan; 1997/11/17, a dream on flexibility. I join the alliance against aliens blind to humor and metaphor, who are invading funny-animal planets...
	PEGASUS-CENTAURESS WITH BLUE WINGS: by Wayan; 1997/11/19-1998/4/2, a sculpture fusing two dreams. I wanted the joy of running and leaping as a horse, plus the bluebird of happiness, so...
	THE DREGS EFFECT: by Wayan; 1997/11/19, a waking insight on artists in therapy Artists have their own strange culture, and we can unintentionally mislead therapists unfamiliar with us... CAUTION: THERAPESE
	UNICORN ORGY: by Wayan; 400K total, 20 illus., 1997-2004; sculpture, 1'x2'x2'. A sculpted orgy of unicorns, dryads, and werewolf-satyrs designed to stand sideways on your wall... CAUTION: SEX
	AELFWINE: by Wayan; 1997/12/4, a dream on dreams. I meet the Child who Dreams the World, go to a lucid-dreaming party, and find the Body under the Bed...
	NIXON NOSE: by Wayan; 1997/12/10, a short psychic dream. A dream girl with a giant ski-jump nose turns out to be more literal than she seemed...
	PRAYER (WE SHALL BE REBORN): by Wayan; 640 x 480, 1997-2000 Digital picture-poem. Be a web junkie. Instead of driving around in a gas-hog, you'll save the planet by staying in, passive... CAUTION: NUDITY; MOCKS GOD, CARS, AND WEB-PORN--IS NOTHING SACRED?
	UFOLUTION: by Wayan; 1997/12/19, a comic science rant Okay, say evolution is driven by things (I don't care what) besides natural selection. How could you tell?