THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TIMELINE: 1999

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1999

For me, a year spent learning to read music and sing in front of others--terrifying for me. I also started painting large, and regularly sculpting dreams. All these things had something in common--allowing myself and my projects a solid physical presence. I never had.

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1999

	BOYS: by Wayan; 1993-99, a gender-equity poem. When girls get their clits cut, even the UN takes notice. But mutilate boy genitals, and... big yawn! CAUTION: TALK ABOUT SEX AND VIOLENCE--BUT HEY, IT'S ONLY BOYS
	TIMESHOT!: by Wayan; 1999/1/2, a warning dream. Wandering through time, I forget how much other cultures fear witches. I think I provoke a shooting!...
	DAWN'S TOILET: by Dawn Z and Wayan; 1999/1/6, two strongly parallel dreams Wayan dreams of surprising Dawn on the toilet while she dreams that flushing away evidence of Foul Play won’t work...
	WHICH ROAD? 36K, 1999/1/13. Digital sketch of a dream. I was on a path winding over grassy hills, while humans zoomed by on a freeway below...
	ZOOOP'S MAZE: by Zooop and Wayan; 1999/1/21, apparent shared/telepathic dreams. I wander a sunken maze, meet a playful woman, find a hidden treasure. Meanwhile, my friend Zooop...
	THE STONE THE BUILDER REJECTED: by Wayan; 1999; plaster sculpture ca. 9" across. I love curves, not the chunky forms of this machine-ruled world...
	THE TALE OF A MISFIT COCK: by Wayan; 1999/1/25, a media-fable dream. I'm in Japan, where Rumiko Takahashi tells me of a tragic chicken who longs to be a lounge singer...
	A SEX KITTEN: by Wayan; 1999/1/29, an embarrassing dream. A creature that's half kitten and half baby wants me to masturbate it... I'm reluctant, but when I do... CAUTION: SEX
	DOME: by Wayan; 250K, 1999/1/31, a dream peeling off a lie. I'm actress Nicole Kidman, clinging to the dome of City Hall like King Kong, ripping it to shreds! Why? CAUTION: VANDALISM, REVERSE SEXISM, EXHIBITIONISM
	SELF-PORTRAIT AS A YOUNG COYOTE: by Wayan; 1999. Acrylic on wood, 23 x 15". Portrait of a dream self. I'm more a dream artist than a realist, but one day I set up a mirror and looked in it...
	MOTHER SUPERIOR: by Wayan; 1999/2/18, a nightmare with psychic tinges. A creepy visit to the Leather Nuns: as fierce as Beorn in The Hobbit, but less hospitable...
	MINOR SURGERY: by Wayan; 1999/2/2, a dream misinterpreted. A man goes in for minor surgery and wakes up changed. I feel creepy, but for all the wrong reasons...
	CUTTLEBONE: by Wayan; 1999, sculpture, 7", plaster/acrylic; a nondream improv. If you can't tell what it is from the thumbnail, cheer up. It's indescribable full-size, too.
	LET ILLNESS GO: by Wayan; 1999. Acrylic/digital painting of a meditation not a dream. Illness is such a handy excuse when you need solitude, care, rest, or just time to think... but...
	WHITE-KNUCKLE FAIRNESS: by Wayan; 1999/3/23, a dream of not being me. I'm a saurian forced to duel with a volatile friend. Wanting to fight fair, I don't just file down my spurs...
	THE BLACK EGG: by Wayan; 1999/3/25, a psychic dreamtale. My crazy friend Wayne goes bowling for busses with a black egg. Wait! Crazy? Or... predictive? CAUTION: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE BEHAVES DISGRACEFULLY
	MARE PASS: by Wayan; 1999, crayon sketch of daydream or hypnogogic image. Climbing a meadowy pass between wooded spurs, I found I'd been climbing a mare's mane...
	SATYR: by Wayan; 1999/4/1, a frustrating wish-fulfillment dream (yes, both). I'm a faun, the oracle for a Greek village. But my predecessor set up rituals I want to change... CAUTION: SEX, PAGANISM, SELF-SATYRE
	DAWN'S DREAM: by Dawn Z and Wayan; 2.3MB (MP3 + lyrics), 1999/4/1, a rock song telling a dream My friend Dawn dreamed she crawled into a dumpster to live, and at last felt at home, secure...
	NIGHTMARE'S EAGER: by Wayan; 1999/4/6, a short dream about dreams. I meet a Nightmare in heat who wants me. A human girl by me says I'll catch an equine sex-disease... CAUTION: SEX TALK
	SPACE PIE: by Wayan; 1999/4/8, a sociological jungle-gym dream. I'm a Latina crossing the border at a nightmare bridge, while an Anglo harangues me on the Space Race...
	ARBORETUM CAT: by Wayan; acrylic nondream landscape, 1999/4/14. Golden Gate Park's arboretum, in San Francisco, is home to feral cats, skunks, raccoons, people...
	THE EFFECTS OF PSYCHIC INVASION: by Wayan; 1999/4/17, a dreamtale on ESP. What are the psychological effects of growing up psychic, as others' thoughts and feelings invade you? When other's BODIES invade yours, it's molestation...
	MY GUINEA-BISSAU REVOLUTION: by Wayan; 1999/4/24, a dream of necessary pain. My part in the revolution in Guinea-Bissau: substantial, but not exactly planned. I just wanted out... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	GET THEIR ATTENTION: by Wayan; 1999/4/24, a queer little dream. My friend Linda and I are walking in the Castro, when a tourist girl jams her tongue in Linda's mouth... CAUTION: SERIOUS TONGUE
	NOT SELF DEFENSE!: by Wayan; 1999/4/29, a warning dream. I'm Tarzan, fighting off attackers. But I kill one helpless prisoner! Am I going too far? CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	QUIT THAT LAB!: by Wayan; 1999/5/2, a deductive nightmare. I'm working alone in the lab at night, when the lab gear wakes up and tries to kill me...
	HERMIT IN THE PIPE: by Wayan; 1999/5/2, a dream of the end. I'm a holy man sneaking into a sewerpipe at the beach, to pop anxiety pills in shame. Do they even work? CAUTION: CHEMICAL CRUTCHES
	LACED WITH TERROR: by Wayan; 1999/5/3, an anti-nightmare. Researchers show me weird little objects like shoelaces that drive people mad with fear...
	OLD AND IN THE WAY: by Wayan; 1999/5/3, a veiled predictive dream. On a dead-end street, I meet a beautiful psychic and fight a tentacled monster that's stalked me for years...
	DOG AIRPORTS: by Wayan; 1999/5/4, a dream of misplaced worship. Okinawa in the far future, when the world is run by dogs. Except they worship us, and we aren't there...
	RAPID TRANSIT: by Wayan; 1999, acrylic watercolor, 14x17", nondream trance painting. I was just sitting, minding my own business when these golden wedge-birds divebombed me...
	FIGURE DRAWING: BIG SQUARE STUDIO: by Wayan; 370 x 380, 1999/5/5? In life drawing class, the model built a sort of green island/nest in the sea of grubby students... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	FIGURE DRAWING: REDHEAD SITS IN DIAMOND: by Wayan; 630 x 630, 1999/5/12 A sophisticated composition for a sophisticated model. Or at least seasick... CAUTION: NUDITY, NAUSEA...
	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
	MEMORY SNIP!: by Wayan; 1999/5/15, a dream on the cost of kindness. My friend Mark does something I thought impossible: removes a snippet of my memory. Disastrous! CAUTION: VIOLENCE... SORT OF
	SO AROUSAL MEANS REM?: by Wayan; 1999/5/19, a dream on dreams. My sexual orientation shifts arbitrarily, turned on one second, off the next. Who's at the controls? CAUTION: SEXUAL CONFUSION
	PISSING MEMORIES: by Wayan; 1999/5/20, a dreamtale on non-sabotage. I desperately need to pee, but my bladder's full of two kinds of emotional trauma, and each blocks the other! CAUTION: BATHROOM PSYCHOLOGY
	THE MORAL INTELLIGENCE OF CHILDREN: by Wayan; 1999/5/24, a rant on giftedness and fragility Robert Coles wrote a book on kids' moral sense, but his examples don't tell me what they tell him...
	KICK THE PRESIDENT: by Wayan; 1999/6/1, a dream on consequences. I win a free game of Kick the President. But what if everyone can see your kick-ass Prez but you? CAUTION: THIS DREAM IS MONITORED BY THE SECRET SERVICE
	ZYGOTE: by Wayan; 1999, a comic astral vision. It's true: after death, angels advise you where to go next. But what if you get an over-eager travel agent?
	E PLURIBUS UNUM: by Wayan; 1999. Digital painting of allegorical orgy America isn't the Melting Pot. It's the Humping Pot... CAUTION: THE BEAST WITH 300,000,000 BACKS
	RAIN OF WOMEN: by Wayan; 1999/6/11, a warning nightmare. Women rain out of the sky. People shrug "Suicides." I don't believe it--and what if one falls on me? CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	XANTHE'S TUNNEL: by Xanthe and Wayan; 1999/6/11, two psychic little dreams. I'm a dyke playing baseball in Golden Gate Park. Some guys harass us and run into a tunnel. I follow...
	ELVEN DANCER: by Wayan; 1999, 14" mixed-media sculpture of waking fantasy. I'd been reading Francesca Lia Block's I WAS A TEENAGE FAIRY... CAUTION: NUDITY
	GRAVE: by Wayan; 1999, a poem of everyday life, if this is your everyday life. So I looked out my window and saw this guy burying a tiny robed woman in a trench in the street...
	TOVE JANSSON DRAGON: by Wayan; 1999 sculpture: papier-maché, marbles. Dreamlike but nondream, 11". I kept seeing the image of a creature like someone in a Tove Jansson book...
	WHO WERE THEY?: by Wayan; 1999. Digital sketch of daydream. Who were they? I don't know. But they were doing something powerful on top of that mountain.
	CROSSTIME HEALTH RISK: by Wayan; 1999/7/23, a warning dream of parallel worlds. A man learns to hop between time-branches, but like all transportation, this has epidemiological risks...
	THIRTY THOUSAND RADIATORS: by Wayan; 1999/7/30, a dreamtale. I dream normal women don't turn me on--I like the 30,000 little aliens who just landed! I wake to see an ad about them on a passing bus... and it turns out I'm NOT still dreaming...
	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...
	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?
	OOPSPACE: by Wayan; Wayan; a daydream/tribute watercolor, 1999 The poet e.e. cummings drew a book of astral fairytales with watercolors that felt a bit like my dreams...
	SLAVES ON RED MARS: by Wayan; 1999/8/15, a dreamfable on will. As Mars demands independence from Earth, Jovians enslave us all! Now freedom-fighting is personal...
	SLEEPING BEAUTY: by Wayan, 1999/8/22, a warning dream on quitting too soon. A girl lies dreaming in the street; no one can wake her. At last I yell "Face it, she's dead!" But is she? I never try a kiss...
	THE LAST LUNAR STORM: by Wayan; 1999/8/27, a dream of a future squared. Lunar terraforming lags behind Mars; a global ice storm hits, like the early days. But the future...
	A DRY DREAM: by Wayan; 1999/8/30, the opposite of a wet dream. A nightmare turns to a sex dream turns to a weird demonstration just how out-of-body a dream can get... CAUTION: PUZZLING SEX
	CARYATID SWEET, GUIDE SOUR: by Wayan, 1999/9/2, a dream about that crazy conscious. My guide in India says the Third World's doomed, but a stone dancer in the ruins winks behind his back... CAUTION: NAKED CARVINGS
	MIGRATION THROUGH FIRE: by Wayan; 1999/9/3, a dream of what matters. I'm a shaggy primitive whose tribe's outgrown our caves. We migrate, and meet two new species of people...
	NATURE DEFIES CONTOUR: by Wayan; 500 x 600, 1999. Ink and acrylic painted on with a stick, 14 x 17" It's not nice to outline things that don't want to have outlines...
	SO TIRED OF MY BONES: by Wayan; 1999. Ink painted on with cardboard wedges, acrylic wash. In my drawing class it was antlers and bones and skulls, death death death till I was tired of MY bones...
	REHEARSING THE LOVE SCENE: by Wayan; 1999/9/17, a dream of advice. An insecure girl who looks like my anima is rehearsing a controversial love scene with an alien wolf...
	SADDLED WITH AUTISM: by Wayan; 1999/10/1, a dreamtale. I'm autistic; a TV host encourages me and another autistic kid to have sex on the air... CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX ON NATIONAL TV; SERIOUS FINGER-POINTING
	SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CONVOLUTED TONGUE: by Wayan; 1999. Pencil and charcoal mirror-drawing, 18"x24". Einstein's tongue got its own poster, why shouldn't mine? But let's see even the Ein Tongue do this one...
	KOKO'S LOSSES: by Wayan; 1999/10/9, an elliptically predictive dream. Koko the gorilla has had some terrible setbacks lately... the double amputation, especially...
	BONOBO AND BEAR: by Wayan, 1999/10/14, a mystic war movie. The gods of our cave-past and star-future fight over us--using us, of course. After I see the toll it's taking on a bonobo buddy of mine, I decide to bring the war back home, and go gunning for God--BOTH of them... CAUTION: APES AND EXPLOSIVES DON'T MIX
	SEAMY REALITY: by Wayan; 1999/10/21, a semi-psychic dream. Sharp seams between realities cross Silicon Valley; I end up in the Dark Castle of the Oracle. When I wake...
	JULIE'S DATING AD: by Wayan; 1999/10/24, a singles dream. Why'd Julie write a singles ad with insane, sky-high demands, when she just wants a nice relaxed guy?
	RUNNER WITH A PORPOISE: by Wayan; 1999/10/30, a dream of spirits. A Japanese high school athlete has no friends, till she starts meeting animal spirits on her long solo runs...
	ANGELUNE: by Wayan; 364 x 481, 1999. Acrylic painting The joyful animal-angel I feel myself to be in my happiest dreams.
	LE BON DIEU (Around #2): by Wayan; 1999; digital portrait of dream-selves. Soul-Poodle is torn between Le Bone Dieu and Dancing Pussy. Who will our horny dogma chase? CAUTION: MUTT SMUT
	A BIG WET KISS TO YOU, TOO: by Wayan, 1999, 280K; a dreamlike ceramic. My abstract sculpture just got fishier and fishier, til it grew these big red lips...
	CRAG: by Wayan; 1999; foot-high sculpture of a daydream. Who sculpts landscape? So I tried a crag with a pool in a hollow on its knee, windows like red eyes...
	SCONCES: by Wayan; 2 illus., 1999. Dreamlike but functional sculptures. Flame-like sculptures meant to hang on the wall and cup living plants...
	DRESSER GUARDIAN: DRAGON: by Wayan; 1999. Dream-figure portrait, acrylic, 6x5" A guardian figure who recurs in my dreams, painted on my dresser to guard my sleep-journeys...
	DRESSER GUARDIAN: MER-ANGEL: by Wayan; 1999. Dream-figure portrait, acrylic, 5x5" A guardian figure who recurs in my dreams, painted on my dresser to guard my sleep-journeys...
	THE VEGETABLES OF SHADOW: by Wayan; 125K, 1999. Nondream surrealist art technique. Make silhouettes of your beloved vegetables; then listen to the spaces between... CAUTION: LEWD SQUASH
	THE ROAD OF MY LIFE: by Wayan; 1999, pencil; a life-map. The white road is my life history, told in women: friends, lovers, relatives, ancestors--and one past life...
	ROAD Detail: MY GRANDMOTHER AND MOTHER WHEN YOUNG: by Wayan; 500 x 330. They were both beauties and look rather feline to me--I'm drawn to feline beauties still, and wonder... CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES
	ROAD Detail: FRIENDS AND LOVERS: by Wayan; 630 x 390. Friends, and lovers, and some who got away. And the big question mark in the future...
	ROAD Detail: SISTERS, COUSINS, NIECES: by Wayan; 450 x 680. "Go back! Wrong way!" says the sign--not because the past is dead, because it isn't... CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES
	WIRES: by Wayan; 1999, 14 x 17", crayon, resolving a recurrent childhood nightmare. I was bodiless but trapped. All I could see were these moving wires. Whenever a knot drifted by... CAUTION: MADNESS, TORMENT, TELEPATHY, SEXUAL REBELLION
	BETRAY MY ANIMAL FRIENDS: by Wayan; 1999/11/12, a dream of brainwashing . As humans settle infospace, will we cheat other species trying to evolve into people? CAUTION: DISTURBING
	AMPLIFIER: by Alder; 1999/11/13, a dream on self-underestimation I was always the weakest magic-worker I knew. But when demons threatened my grandchild...
	THE MIWOK RITE: by Wayan; 1999/11/20, a dream fable. A ritual in a future society makes me laugh. I tease a futurian, insist it's really a old Miwok rite...
	THE SEA WOLF'S BRAIN: by Wayan; 1999/11/21, a psychic dream. For years the Sea-Wolf enslaved me. He said I had to fight him and win to be free. I'm ready at last...
	LOCAL STYLE: by Wayan; 1999/11/24, an assumption-reversing dream. Brunch, a terrace restaurant, some cute women. I say hi and politely grope them... why do I feel odd?
	BOXES, or, THE THRILL OF DRAWING: by Wayan; 18 x 24", 1999, nondream nonlife pencil sketch. I was supposed to be studying perspective but I went beyond the box...
	TOUGH GLOVE: by Wayan; 1999/12/4, a dreamtale. I finally find a way to safely indulge in heavy petting (as well as puns) with the cat...
	WOLF AND BURROWING OWL: by Wayan; 1999/12/5, a scientific fairytale dream. A burrowing owl invites her friend the wolf over for tea. It sounds very Beatrix Potter, but...
	THE HERBIVORE'S EXCEPTION: by Wayan; 1999/12/6, a dream of snapping. A beautiful herbivore suddenly eats one of its friends! Bloody. Who or what is this warning me about?... CAUTION: YUCK, MEAT REALLY IS MURDER
	THE PYRAMID COW: by Wayan; 1999/12/18, a dreamtale. Protestors occupy the Transamerica Pyramid and install a cow as CEO... a Cash Cow?
	CHELSEA AND THE PRESIDENTIAL COMPLEX: by Wayan; 1999/12/25, an odd political (?) dream. I was hot tubbing and flirting... so how'd I end up as Chelsea Clinton running for office?
	COYOTE ANGEL: by Wayan; 1999-2000, sculpture of dream figure.. A shapeshifter caught in the moment of transformation, just as her arms unfold into smoky wings... CAUTION: NUDITY
	OPEN YOUR CAGE: by Wayan; 1999; penciled collage of dream characters The cover of a collection of 11.5 dream-tales in glorious detailed Web-unfriendly black and white....
	WAYAN’S STUDIO: by guess who; 200K, art 1999, text 2007; sketches of my art workspace These sketches bare my work process: I multitask, but without planning, in a flow state. I really do “follow my bliss”!