So what happened? Art, mostly. I went broke this year, and started painting seriously again, joined a cooperative gallery. I've been drawing, painting and writing at a greater pace than when building the World Dream Bank, if that's possible. The chronology is hazy, and I decided against listing these art pieces as new work if they illustrate older dreams; so the list below is mostly nondream work, such as Shiveria, a carefully worked-out alternate Earth, one of a series called TILT!. Doing all the science on these ate up a lot of time...
I still don't dream nearly as vividly as before building the Dreambank. There are so many dreams still crying out to be painted or told or sung... plus, I'm enjoying non-dream art. There is, to my surprise, an undream world out there. With inhabitants and everything...
The World Dream Bank has 1500 dreams and dream images plus 500 other pages on dreamwork and shamanism, creativity, genius, art, surrealism and fantasy. Unless otherwise noted, all material copyright Chris Wayan, 2001-2006.
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RA CATS: by Wayan; 60K total, 2 versions of an image inspired by a cutting-board.
A friend gave me a meat-cutting board, with channels for the blood. Eww. So why'd it become three cats worshiping the sun?
CAUTION: NUDITY |
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TRINITY: by Nashoba Hostina; 2002?. A nightmare of losing your best friends to love...
We were inseparable: the tiger, the fox, and the wolf. Together our magic lit up the darkness around us, until... |
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CLAN TAUR: by Wayan; 620K total, suite of tinted pencil studies of dream-family, 1998-2002.
I keep dreaming I'm in a multispecies family full of centaurs and satyrs, having a reunion at the beach...
CAUTION: NUDE BEACH, STRANGE RELATIVES |
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SKIMMING TOWARD FREEDOM: by Wayan; 2002/1/18, a dream with 3 sketches.
My girlfriend and I can fly, but detectives follow us around. How to lose them? By sticking to the beach and...
CAUTION: BIZARRE CREATURES, FRANK LANGUAGE |
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THIRTEEN PEACE SIGNS IN A TIME OF WAR: by Wayan; early 2002, acrylic sgraffito on wood.
The animal goddess of peace, stubbornly raising her sign, my sign, as you all slide into your nice holy war... |
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DAWN'S DIVORCE: by Dawn Z; 2002/3/1-21, an outrageous dream sequence
While going through a painful breakup, I kept having sexy, lucid, psychic dreams... |
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THE COMING DARK: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 2002/3/2; dream-paintings about one disaster averted, and another... not.
I climb down from a desert cliff before night strands me; but reckless adolescent games in town lead to a crash... |
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A GAMER'S DREAM: by Mark Nelson; 2002/3/5; A collage of real-world events brought into dreams
I face a barrage of deadly challenges out of every action film I've seen and every game I've ever played... |
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THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME: by Wayan, 2002/3/17, digital study of dream figure--sort of
Usually I wobble on high heels--but with four feet, I may be stable enough to follow the Yellow Brick Road...
CAUTION: CENTAUR NUDITY |
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OPEN THE DOOR!: by Wayan; April 2002, acrylic bas-relief of waking fantasy.
I salvaged a door. When I painted it, a fox-woman wanted to open it and get out...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY |
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ELF EYE: by Wayan; 2002/5/20, dream figure in acrylic on wood
A painting's a window into another world--a window opening two ways. People in paintings may be watching us... |
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BLEEDING HEART, the SELF-HEALING CORPSE, and IN THE FUTURE DESERT:
by Wayan; 250K, 10 illus., 2002/5/29 to July 2004, a diagnostic, predictive dream-series.
A tree-girl moves to Hollywood to make film deals, but jealousy stabs her...
CAUTION: BLOODY ASSAULT, GAY DRYADS, MUTANT NUDITY |
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SEAPOLE: by Wayan; 450K, 12 illus, 2003, a nondream sculpture/photoessay/travelog.
Tilt a globe so neither pole has land to build icecaps on, and extrapolate. Earth becomes a warm, flooded world like and unlike ours... |
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PICNIC IN THE RUINS: by Wayan, 2002/9/18, digital painting of dream figure.
On an alternate Earth where centaurs lived in a beach town with old Roman ruins, a local girl invited me on a picnic...
CAUTION: NUDITY |
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A CENTAUR GIRL AND HER DOG: by Wayan; 2002/9/18, dream figure but NOT dream plot
I had hay fever all day, and wished I was at ease in nature, and at ease with my nature. In heat, blissed out, and loved...
CAUTION: CANINE/CENTAUR ORAL SEX |
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SHIVERIA: by Wayan; 840K, 25 ill., 2002-3, travelog/sculpture/sketches of an alternate Earth
I tilted the Earth, and worked out its new ecology--part Mars, part steambath. Visit the Mediterranean Abyss ruled by giant ravens, Patagonia, ruled by mammoths, and Antarctica's jungles, ruled by lemurs... |
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SPLASH!: by Wayan; acrylic, 12" triangle, late 2002; dream painting.
While I study how humans went extinct, my daughter happily splashes in the sea... |