THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TIMELINE: 2000

Dreams listed by date:
2000

Early this year, my dreams turned dark and strange, full of ghosts, paralysis, and death. In April my father abruptly went paralyzed, and in September he died. The shock of it made me start wondering what I wanted to make of MY life before the deadline arrives.

I started reading the journals I'd kept since my teens, and from those thirty thousand dreams, began building this site--partly as a tribute to my dad, who encouraged my dream-stories and art, but mainly just to have FINISHED something.

In summer, as I started typing up, editing, and illustrating this panorama of my entire dreamlife, my dreaming stopped. Oh, my REM didn't stop, but I woke with amnesia. All I had was the hazy feeling I should work on the website, not analyze any more dreams. I even dreamed that my dream-drought would be at least a year long, and was voluntary: I was sending my anima out into the astral plane as My Emissary, to change my contract with Life... and I wouldn't really be whole till she returned.

So I filled my days with work, and my nights with sleep, and forgot my dreams.

I lived, for the first time in my life, like an American.

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2000

	THE COIL: by Wayan; 1999-2000. Model for a mad instrument that might just work. A spiral dream-instrument I'm building, that's easier to play than a piano or guitar, and a lot snakier...
	LONELY NO MORE: by Wayan; 115K, 2000, a sculpture of American singlehood. The Dating Fairy, built on lonely evenings waiting for her to call me back--whoever "her" was that week... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES
	DEAD, NOT STUPID: by Wayan; 2000/1/20, a (psychic?)dreamtale. My little sisters tell the detectives, "Daddy's ghost has a message for you" but they don't listen...
	BITE THE BULLET: by Wayan; 2000/1/25, a flightmare. We unearthed a sacred treasure, but now a mob of believers are out to lynch us! I better fly... CAUTION: SACRILEGE AND BAD PUNS
	YOU'RE THE EAGLE: by Wayan; 2000/2/8, a dream fable. A hermit spends his life wrestling with shadows. His only disciple becomes famous. Who was happier?
	SELF-MADE GIRLS: by Wayan; 2000/2/15, a public dream. Two souls coalesce from bars of light into human beings by the power of words. Words like stupid, ugly...
	CATRISE: by Wayan; 2000/2/21, a sexy flying dream; acrylic painting. I'm an alien exchange student in Palo Alto High School. I get stared at--they wear clothes, they don't fly... CAUTION: FELINE NUDITY
	KING-MAKERS: by Wayan; 2000/2/21, a dream of mediation. I'm a political aide to the leader of a hot-tempered, clawed, fanged alien people. And then my boss dies...
	BUTTERFLY HABITAT: by Wayan; 2000/3/3, a dream about amnesia. 'You always hurt the one you love', but this girl seems unaware she's proving it's true for ecology too...
	SPOCK'S SPIRITS: by Wayan; 2000/3/12, a skewed Trek dream. Lost in a dark maze of machine-shops, I follow Mr. Spock, who's drunk, and talks to tree-spirits... CAUTION: ALCOHOL AS INSPIRATION?
	A FRUGAL GHOST: by Wayan; 2000/3/12, a skewed Trek dream. A Scottish ghost leads us on a treasure hunt, but insists we stop to pick up small change. But it adds up...
	UNDER THEIR MASKS: by Wayan; 2000/3/17, an ecdysiastic dream Masked champions of Good and Evil fight, peeling off layers till they're elven-thin--what's left to hide?...
	EMOTIONAL PALETTE: by Wayan; 2000/3/22, an indescribable dream. My spirit-wife and I spend our last evening together painting. Not with colors--with emotions...
	EMISSARY: by Wayan; 2000/3/22, an astral dreamtale. I signed a prenatal agreement for weird, uneven luck to turn my life toward art and spirit. I want to broaden it, but I've lost the contract! So my spirit wife Silky sets out to find it...
	WINDFALLS IN EDEN: by Wayan, 2000/3/30, a religio-politic dream. I'm a part-owner of Eden, harvesting windfalls. But a renter says his Landlord promised him all the apples...
	ROAR!: by Wayan; 2000/4/3, not exactly a nightmare... Night. A jungle full of prowling lions and leopards. So naturally, I get up on a rock and roar back...
	THE STAGMAN: by Wayan; 2000/4/7, waking landscape with dream figure. A slightly surrealized San Francisco landscape--not that it needed much help... CAUTION: PINK PAGAN TOES
	THE ARMS POLICY: by Wayan; 2000/4/7, a nightmare. The government has a harsh policy on armed dissidents. Not the kind of arms you think... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	A GLUM BAR: by Wayan; 2000/4/12, the quietest of nightmares. My house is a bar that never closes. You know what a gay bar is. Well, we're the opposite: a.... CAUTION: BAD VIBES
	PASS THE VIAL ON: by Wayan; 2000/4/18, a dream of renunciation A vagabond king showed me the way into Faerie, and it made my fortune. But now it's time to pass the gift on...
	FROG: by Wayan; 120K, 2000/4/19, a narrative digital picture-poem I was single and tired of kissing frogs. Then I realized--I AM one. Or worse: a pretentious polliwog...
	THE NEPALESE DROP: by Wayan; 2000/4/20, a predictive nightmare. I climb a crumbling slope to a cliff with a Himalayan view; I slip, and no one lifts a hand to help as I...
	INDIA ON THE SECURITY COUNCIL?: by Wayan; 2000/4/21, an annoying dream on peace. India wants a seat on the UN Security Council, but what of Pakistan? The UN has a modest proposal...
	RUBBERNECKER: by Wayan; dreamed 2000/4/24; a ghost comedy. I dreamed of a woman whose jeep stalls on the Antarctic ice. Along comes the ghost of a Volkswagen...
	BOIL THE CORD, or, A Dinner Date with the Faerie Queene: by Wayan; 2000/4/27, an anorexic dreamtale. I seek a stolen magic necklace, but end up dating the thief, an elf-queen with STRANGE taste in cookery... CAUTION: BAD SOUP
	HARPY: by Wayan; 2000/6/2, a stylized nightmare My dad's paralyzed, my car's stolen. So I dream a stylized harpy made of steel, like a living Calder statue, holds three girls hostage...
	BODY-SWITCH: by Wayan; 2000/6/10; a dream of a castaway soul Spies kidnap a girl and move her soul into a madwoman's body. Can she survive? Recover? Even thrive?
	PATCHEN'S ANGELS: by Wayan; 115K total, sometime in 2000, nondream crayon/digital drawings. I always liked the little creatures in picture-poet Kenneth Patchen's wild collage-pages...
	SPIRITUAL TESTS: by Wayan; 2000/8/28, a predictive dream As my dad lies dying, I dream my sister and I face spiritual tests given by slacker angels who'd rather be on TV. Learn to let go!
	UNICORN ROUND: by Wayan; 2000/9/18, nondream; acrylic on a vinyl record. Yellow fireflies circling round the horn of a reclining red unicorn, in the evening...
	THE RAINBOW SLEEPER: by Wayan; 107K, 2000/9/20, sculpture of a dream ABOUT a sculpture/9/20. In Rainbow Food Co-op, a huge statue of a sleeping woman emerged from the floor, shedding shoppers...
	ARSON MUSIC: by Wayan; 2000/10/4, a parallel-world dreamlet Driving through California farm hills with subtly different natural laws, I find social consequences. Can physics create evil?
	SOUL-SHARD: by Wayan; 2000/10/5, a rebellious dream I’m a wolf in an ashram studying astral travel with my spirit-wife. Our souls blend a bit, enraging our guru, a Hindu god, who sends demons to make us stop this spiritual “contamination”...
	BLUE MERANGEL: by Wayan; three views 40K total. 2000/10/30, ceramic sculpture, 11.5" long. Seems strange to have no hands. How do dolphins get things done? By not needing to get things done? CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	SNAKE COIL: by Wayan; 82K total, two views of dream-sculpture, Nov 2000. I tried to be like my classmates--use tools, control what I made. But I couldn't. It came alive, and...
	(THE MOON IS PROPELLED BY) REELS OF LIGHT: by Wayan; 2000/11/17. Digital painting of the dream-process. The moon's a sailing ship propelled not by wind but light: the light of night-movies. Dreams...
	FASHION SHOOT: by Wayan; 114K, Oct-Dec 2000; nondream ceramic sculpture 10.5" long. Inspired by a fashion outtake of model and director clowning. I fused the director and the camera, and... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	ERECTION 2000: by Wayan; 60K; ceramic sculpture, 9" tall; response to stolen 2000 election. A candidate glad to shake your hand... though not all you voters will want him to... CAUTION: ANOTHER PRICK RUNNING FOR OFFICE