THE WORLD DREAM BANK: I-J

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	I AM THREE: by Wayan; 1957-60, my three earliest dreams. My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child...
	I AM A SILKY IN THE SEA: by Wayan; 1986? Watercolor on shapeshifting in dreams. "I am a man upon the land; I am a Selkie in the sea..." Silky or selkie means a were-seal...
	I AM NOT A MAN: by Wayan; 1996/11/28, a dream of Middle Earth. I can help slay a monster and save my friends--if I deny I'm human. My denial has consequences, but it's true...
	I AND I, or, RENTADATE: by Wayan; 1983/6/18, a dream of ego-loss... or multiplication. After the revolution, I rule. But I get out of touch. So I throw a party and invite me, myself and I...
	I BLUSH TO REPORT: by Wayan; 1986/12/11, two stupid dreams. Two embarrassing dreams the same night: I learn why I don't have cancer, and I can't buy giant panties... CAUTION: STUPID
	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...
	I DREAM OF DERIVERRANS: by Wayan; 1982/11/16, a Joycean dream of surrender. I must rescue Ann Soforth from righteous rapists, then Paul McCartney from a musical curse... CAUTION: ABUSED CHILD, JOYCEAN LANGUAGE
	I FIGHT FOR BEAUTY: by Wayan; 110K, 1990/1/1, an incubated dream within a dream within a dream. From Hawaii to Wyoming, I fight for beauty, always waking to find I'm someone new...
	I GOT OUT: by Wayan; 1992/1/4, a psychic dream; 9-page comic, 500K (or open page by page: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9) I flee our love triangle when Abe turns mean. He's telepathic, but I have a plan: the goldfish, the snakepit, the underworld... CAUTION: THREESOME, SCARY BOYFRIEND, SNAKE HEADACHES, MOTORCYCLE FATALITY
	I HELD THE SUN ROSE: by Wayan; 640 x 440, 1989, reworked 1994. Digital picture. 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
	I LET RATS: by Wayan; 1994/4/22, a nightmare on appeasement. A bold rat comes right up to me. I don't want to provoke it, so I stay quiet. And let the rats... CAUTION: UGH!
	I LOST 400 POUNDS!: by Wayan; 1993/6/24, a motivational dream. A gorgeous healer bursts through the wall to tell me "I used to weigh 500 pounds. It kept sex away! But..."
	I MIST MY SISTER: by Cory and Wayan; 212K, 1992/9/20; Cory's healing dream triggers one by Wayan. My housemate's sore back is healed by a dream. So I ask for the same, and get this dream of incest... CAUTION: KARMA, SEX/NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES
	I OVERSLEPT: by Wayan; 1992/6/12, a dream of loss. I oversleep more than usual, and wake to find a friend is dead. Or more than one. Maybe... everyone?
	I THOUGHT HE LIKED ME: by Wayan; 1994/8/16, a dream of rejection... or worse. I join the Seattle Tribal Council, which of course means marrying them all. The guy I'm to sleep with on our collective wedding night SEEMED to like me, till he pulls that practical joke... CAUTION: GROSS!
	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
	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
	I WAS A SEX SLAVE: by Wayan; 1994/11/20, a dream on isolation I'm a slave dancer. I run for it, and make it over the border. But my owner comes looking for me... CAUTION: NUDITY, SLAVE SOCIETY
	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
	I WON'T DIE TILL LOVE DIES: by Wayan; 1981/1/21, a divine dream . I meet the mermaid goddess of love in her pool, but when she advises me, I dispute one small point...
	ICARIAN PAIN: by Wayan; 125K, 3 ill., 1982/10/19, a dream of shyness, and flying, and pinching yourself. I meet some cute dancers, but rather than flirt, I just try ballet leaps too. I get more than I bargained for...
	THE ICE CREAM KISS: by Wayan; 1993/11/27, an uncomfortable dream. I'm Joe Leaphorn, in (of all places for a Navaho detective) a coven in San Francisco watching a creamy...
	THE ICE EXPRESS: by Wayan; 1982/5/19, a dream on memory vs. expression. The trans-arctic Ice Express, blinded by birds, gets off-track and blocked by oddly rectangular ice floes...
	ICERINK: by Wayan; 1980/8/23, a warning dream. Psychodrama seemed like a way to meet cool people. But when I dreamed they were ice-skating rioters...
	ICK! DOGS!: by Wayan; 1990/1/3, a Star Trek dream. I'm Jean-Luc Picard, and my Enterprise has been taken over by a pack of brilliant, paranoid wolves...
	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...
	IF YOUR HEART IS BEAT: by Wayan; 1989. Nondream, digital graffiti-poem-poster. When your brain-cops are edgy, you're getting warm!
	THE ILL-FORMED TALE: by Wayan; 160K, 1981/4/7, a wild dream anti-epic . To reach the Peak of Happiness on the Isle of Dreams, I must pass four Perils--but they're all backwards... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS NUTS, KNIVES, NUDE ALIENS, BACKWARD PLOT...
	I'LL TRY: by Wayan; 1990. Nondream picture-poem. From a paleolithic doodle--an early self-portrait rebelling against my gender, and trying on beauty...
	ILLUSIONISTS DON'T RULE: by Wayan; 1996/8/26, a dream on the strength of logic. I read 'The Closing of the American Mind," and dream I'm a pilot who suspects an illusionist in my plane...
	I'M A VESTA, NOT A MAN!: by Wayan; 1980/1/6, a dream of when it's over. I'm the animal guardian of a deep crater, but when a human girl rejects me, I set out to leave... CAUTION: ORAL SEX, UNREQUITED LOVE, SPECISM
	I'M ALL EARS, DR. ESTES: by Wayan; 1995/6/7, not a dream, a portrait of a radio-trance. Clarisa Pinkola Estes (who runs with the wolves) was on the radio, and this popped out of my mouse...
	I'M AN INTERSEX AND I'M OKAY: by Wayan; 1992/11/7, a body-image dream. I discover I'm not exactly a man OR a woman; so why not throw out their standards and roles and be me? CAUTION: SEXUAL SELF-EXAM
	I'M NOT BAD FOR A ROBOT MOM: by Wayan; 1993/11/12, an evaluatory dream. I'm an android struggling to raise a boy genius. But even human moms of prodigies share my problems!
	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
	IN EL RIO: by Wayan; 1994/5/14, a singles nightmare. My family runs a bar. I walk through, after hours. Who are all these silent figures? CAUTION: UNHEALTHY READING FOR SINGLES
	IN IO: by Wayan, 2 ill., 1981/8/7, a wild otherworldly dream. I live on Io. It's nicer than its photos. At least inside, where the oceans are--where I grow a second head...
	IN MY DARKEST HOUR: by Arlo Guthrie; 1967, a song heard in a dream. A man in a castle plots against his enemies, while his rebel-daughter meets her lover outside...
	IN THE ENEMY MINE: by Wayan; 1986/1/11, a psychic dream. On Mars, a child-sacrificing cult of miners wants to kill me, but something strange happens....
	IN THE SHADOW OF MAN: by Wayan; 850K, 3 illus., 1994/3/4, a dreamfable on needs. I'm a lab animal who discovers voice software and creates a personal zine, testifying for our rights...
	IN THE FOG: by Wayan; 1990? Nondream (I swear!) digital landscape. This place isn't out of my dreams, it just looks like it. It's real real real...
	IN THE VAULT: by Wayan; 1983/4/6, a dream of treasure. I was a sheltered girl till I entered my family's secret ancestral vault. I didn't expect to meet...
	IN WOMEN'S PRISON: by Wayan; 1994/7/23, a dream of faith. A woman in prison loves her counselor, but she's a barely literate hooker--she knows he won't love her back...
	INACTION PAINTING: by Wayan; 102K, 1995-6. Digital dream-figure collage When I see that grim museum shit I start giggling "Boy art!" The guards glare, so I go home and paint like this. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX TALK, LUST FAIRIES AND FLYING TEENY WEENIES
	THE INCIDENCE OF BUDDHAS: by Wayan; 1996/4/24, a dream testing me. I'm in a mall that enlightened customers alter with a thought. But too many Buddhas spoil the architecture...
	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...
	INK MOUNTAIN: by Wayan; 1992/8/5, a tutelary dreamtale. A Himalayan peak boils with warring creatures, but a guru says "They're just your conflicts. Sit, watch..."
	AN INTERVIEW WITH WAYAN: by Wayan; 1994/3/20, an interview. Dream researcher Stephanie Van Zandt Nelson questions me on the roots of the art of dreaming...
	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...
	THE INVESTOR DREAMS A WOLF: by Wayan; 1983/10/30, a dream poem. My dream characters aged and tamed until they sit in a genteel Victorian flat. Then a wolf rappels in...
	INVISIBLE KYOKO: by Wayan; 1995/1/16, a dream on bold and shy. I'm at a party in an air-lake. We fish for a girl who's gone invisible. But... what if we catch her?
	THE INVISIBLE SULKY: by Wayan; 1995/9/20, a dream on resistance. I feel a drag, and take off my safety belt. I find I've been towing an invisible buggy with two men in it...
	IRONY: by Wayan; 300K, 2007/6/15. A comic burned into (what else?) an ironing board I'm so sick of irony I decide to get my sense of irony surgically removed and replace it with... CAUTION: PLAYING WITH FIRE
	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...
	IS A SUN: by Wayan; 1991? Digital nondream picture-poem. Poem by Emily Dickinson on fighting depression, which I get when my neuroallergies are severe...
	IS GOD GOD?: by Wayan; 1984/6/17, a dream of the school of hard knocks. God watches over me--to slap me down. If God is even God. So I set out to learn about this jerk-God...
	IS SOLITUDE HOLY?: by Wayan; 1998; a watercolor on dreamwork's isolation. When I compare Julia Butterfly up her tree with those hermits who sat atop columns in the desert...
	ISHI AND SNOID: by Wayan; 1993/8/4, a dream of stretching. I'm a California Indian wandering through time, keeping the secret of time-travel from the reckless...
	ISIS HELPS TERRI GARR: by Wayan; 1988/3/27, a distractable dream . How Terri Garr the cat-woman finally escapes Anorexic Prison, and what happened to the baseball glove...
	THE ISLAND FURIES: by Wayan; summer 1975, a dream of self-control. When warring Greek isles kill a peacemaker, her three best friends start a vendetta! But she wanted peace... CAUTION: HATE NURSED TOO LONG
	ISLE OF THE BLEST: by Wayan; 1990, painting inspired by series of fox-dreams I'm a Japanese werefox, longing to reach the Isle of the Blest; but dare I swim for it?
	IT DOESN'T ADD UP: by Wayan; 1995/6/26, an arithmetical dream. Dream math often seems bad, but I think the discrepancies are a signal, not noise...
	IT'S A DEAD MAN'S PARTY: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a nightmare of identity. I find myself at a creepy party supporting a dead man who's running for office. And am I Dan Quayle? CAUTION: HORROR BEYOND HORROR. YOU ARE DAN QUAYLE.
	JACK DANIELS: by Wayan; 1983/10/14, three short dreamtales. Three dream-reactions to a (real) psychic experiment that went badly awry...
	JACKPOT: by Catshall; 2007/5/29. A dream on sex, art and change--a flood of change! How did my bondage dream turn into a slot-machine jackpot? And what kind of change is pouring out?... CAUTION: (CON)SENSUAL BONDAGE
	JACUZZI JAIL: by Wayan; 1979/10/12, a dream of parental poison. My family has shackled my little sister in a hot tub full of carcinogenic bubble bath... CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES AND A SLIGHTLY DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
	JADE JACKPOT, or, A HEAP O' CHANGE: by Wayan; 1990/1/7, a dream of shaking down God. I'm slipping dimes into a boulder of jade: a vending machine that fills every order wrong. Why feed it? Well...
	JAMIE THE SORCERESS: by Wayan; 1984/11/14, a characterological dream. I get back from vacation to find the landlady's installed her daughter in our shared house...
	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
	JANEWAY'S TANGO: by Wayan, 1998/10/20, a psychic Star Trek dream. Why is Captain Janeway doing the tango with another woman, in a creek, wearing a mermaid tail?
	JAREDIA: by Wayan; 770K, 26 illus, early 2003, a nondream sculpture/photoessay/travelog. I tilted the Earth to created a tropical supercontinent from Bali to Tierra del Fuego. What will evolve there--and on the new tropical Antarctica?
	JENNIFER MONTGOMERY: by Wayan; 1995/4/24, a journal extract Her film about her teenage affair with a pedophile is troubling enough before the FBI steps in to blackmail her... CAUTION: MOLESTATION/ABUSE ISSUES
	JILL THE PEST: by Wayan; 240K, 2001/2/22, a nondream visionary comic. I had a headache and couldn't sleep. I started drawing, and asked for a cure. And a cartoon angel said... CAUTION: TANTRUMS, MASTURBATION, JUNKFOOD, ANGELIC SCOLDING
	JOAN GRANT GETS SOME ADVICE: by Wayan; 1980/9/23, an inspirational interlude. Writer Joan Grant, who was a psychic and trance channeler, got a sort of reading herself, from H.G. Wells...
	A JOB WELL DONE: by Wayan; 1981/3/2; a dream-farce. The tale of a fawn named Fawn and her mom, a bank-robbing hippopotamus... CAUTION: GLAMORIZES THIS ALARMING TREND
	JOIN THE HUMAN RACE: by Wayan; 1985/2/11, a Gordian dream. My shortcut in a marathon bogs down in a maze full of psychoanalysts! So I climb the walls and...
	JOIN THE WOLVES LATER!: by Wayan; 1980/9/4, a dream of false but useful fear. Shepherding a group of cityfolks through an alien wilderness, I need a werewolf's help. So why do I lie?
	JOKE PILOT: by Wayan; 1995/7/15, a dream of defiance. Among aliens, humans are jokes. Fragile and blind, we can't fly starships. Unless we build our own...
	JOVE'S LIMBO: by Wayan; 1994/11/27, a dream of astral muckraking. Half elvish, rejected, I wander the worlds, and find a limbo built by Zeus--but do the inmates deserve it?
	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?
	JUNG'S DENIAL: by Wayan; 1994/12/16, a journal extract on Jung. Jung's dreams and interpretations show he's a thing-guy not a people-guy. All that architecture!...
	JUNG'S PREMONITIONS OF WORLD WAR I: by Carl Jung, 1913-1914; five ignored warnings. Jung was told in dreams and visions that Europe would soon drown in blood. But he just couldn't believe it...
	JUNK FICTION?: by Wayan; 1990/6/15, a rant on literature's treatment of shamans & psychics At least fantasy and science fiction address my life-issues; "realism" just declares me nonexistent...
	�JUST A FEW MORE YEARS!�: by Wayan; 2008/1/2, a nightmare on the coming crash I found myself defending humanity before an astral jury, begging them to delay the great die-back...
	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
	JUST SEX AND IDIOTS: by Wayan; 1998/2/22, a political dating dream. A sex dream warning "to find your soulmate, learn to spot the opposite: cute political and spiritual idiots..." CAUTION: SEX AND POLITICS