THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: Eating Disorders

The World Dream Bank:
Eating Disorders

Dreams and visions about anorexia, bulemia, compulsively eating junkfood, allergenic foods or downright toxic foods... but mostly anorexia, since I suffered from it for several years. (I recommend Overeaters Anonymous. At least in San Francsisco, they host support groups for anorexics as well as overeaters; there's something about physically meeting a whole room of people like me that I couldn't get online.)

RELATED TOPICS: food - abiku (the longing for the spirit world) - You Are Lunch - allergies - addictions and 12-step programs - body image - see Links page for support groups - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

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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	ANOREXIA NIRVANA: by Wayan; 106K, 1993, digital picture-poem of my astral reality. I was anorexic for years; I only mastered it when I saw it was a hunger for the spirit world...
	AWAKENING HURTS: by Wayan; 1993/7/4, a dreamtale. An old friend's awakening from anorexic asexuality. Puberty at 30? And wait a minute... is she me?
	BAGHEERA SUGGESTS LOVAGE: by Wayan; 1993/7/31, a Jungle Book dream The panther in the Jungle Books was really female. I grew up with her cub...
	A BIKE ODYSSEY: by Wayan; 1994/7/24, a day trip echoed in a dream. By day, I bike across San Francisco; by night, I'm an abused English heiress with a dangerous artifact... CAUTION: MOLESTATION BY DISSOLUTE COUNT
	BILL COSBY'S WIFE: by Wayan; 1994/5/5, an insulting dreamtale. I'm Bill Cosby's wife, finding it hard to cook for him without a stove or fridge... CAUTION: SLANDER, I HOPE
	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...
	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!
	CENTAUR: PAULINA AT SUNSET: by Wayan; 210K, 1988? Dream-influenced life studies Worried you're anorexic? Gain weight, yet stay slender! Become a centaur, like model Paulina Porizkova... CAUTION: NUDITY and BODY IMAGE/ANOREXIA ISSUES
	A CONVERSATION WITH ANOREXIA: by Wayan; 1994/6/25; two wild shamanic dreams. That day I read Hilde Bruch's "Conversations with Anorexics" and face the fact I am one. That night, in the land where anorexic horses heal, I enter the Kiva of Shamanic Pamphlets, and...
	CROSS THE BLACK RIVER ONE DEATH AT A TIME: by Wayan; 1990? Astral landscape Buddhism is a 12-step program; it has its pitfalls for those of us who already detach all too easily...
	CROWBOTTLE: by Wayan; 1998/1/2, a dream of a wise foolish act. It was on a beach. Inside, a black thing squirming. Despite all the tales of vengeful djinn, I pull the cork...
	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
	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...
	DEER AND SANDSTORM: by Wayan; 1993/3/17, a pre-fever dream. I'm in a hotel by the Great Salt Lake . Deer roam the halls and lap at the drinking fountain...
	DOCTOR WHO AND DEATH: by Wayan; 1984/6/30, a hopeful dream of betrayal. Dr Who, that BBC perennial, allies with Death. An alarming turn-around! What's he up to? CAUTION: NICE ALIEN GOES BAD?
	DOPPELBRUDER: by Wayan; 1985/5/9, a dream of a self at war over... labels? Lured to a parallel, feudal world by a marriage-vow, I'm trapped in my double's arrogant, twisted mind...
	EAT MORE FIBER: by Wayan, 1996/8/8, a nutritious little dream. Concerned about my health, I up my fiber intake. But not from the usual sources, though... CAUTION: BAD DIETARY ROLE MODEL
	EEL TOWER: by Wayan; 1981/4/23, a dream of longing. I dreamed living in a body of flesh is like being trapped on a sinking cruise ship... CAUTION: NUDITY (but she's just crying, not giving that guy a blowjob, okay?)
	ELEGANTE (ELLE EST GAUNTE): by Wayan; 1983, nondream body-image painting. Every year, as Americans get fatter, the fashion gets thinner (and I look more normal)...
	FIRST DATE: by Wayan; 1991/10/20, a true story. I have weird, bad luck around dating. Finally I go on a picnic with Page, and the Great Fire begins...
	FLOWERING:: by Wayan; 215K, 1996, pencil, digital tinting; nondream portraits. Sketches from a San Francisco street music festival where, after a long sleep, I woke up sexually at last... CAUTION: NYMPHETS, QUEERS, AND OTHER REAL PEOPLE
	FLYING UNICORNS' GIFTS: by Lily Michaud; 2007/9/5, an advice-dream inside a flying dream Flying unicorns hang out with me and my friends, sending us dreams full of useful advice--and more concrete gifts...
	F--K GRIFFIN: by Wayan; 1993/9/17, an embarrassing advisory dream. It's nice hearing everyone praise my sex crimes, but I need to pull the dog from the golden horn... CAUTION: SEX, LANGUAGE (OBVIOUSLY), GENERAL WEIRDNESS
	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?
	GIFTED CHILDREN NEED...: by Wayan; 1980, a journal extract on geniuses. Advice of a specialist on the care and feeding of child prodigies, embarrassingly relevant for adult geniuses...
	GLASS EATER: by Wayan; 1982/12/10, a dream on managing ESP. I live in an asylum for fragile psychics. When one man over-uses his talent, he compulsively eats glass... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
	HARD DISK POND: by Wayan; 1989/8/27, a dream of art as a door. We build a huge hard disk that's a virtual pond--a gate to other worlds! But not for reptile brains...
	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
	HOT TO TROT, or, BRAIN TRAUMA, or, HUMPIN' THE HOG, or, SAD-EYED SWAN OF LOVE: by Wayan; 120K, 1993/8/4, a wild dreamtale. I'm a mare, hot to trot in the Big City (and get laid), but my gay Star Trek friend's brain trauma has made her a clueless alien with a bo(a)ring sexlife--until a certain swan enfolds her in love... CAUTION: ALIEN POSSESSION, CARTOON PIG SEX, SMOKING SWANS
	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..."
	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 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...
	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...
	LEARNING SCALES: by Wayan; 1985/6/26, an epic dream of Chinese dragons. I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost. We need a Dragon...
	LOVE OR HATE?: by Wayan; 1994/5/4, an untwisted dream. My sister and I are groping toward sex when our mom bursts in. Her scolding's not what I expect... CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES, PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY
	MATRONIZED: by Wayan; 1996/5/25, a real-life vignette. An older woman I know nags me about food. Suddenly my mind flips our genders and weights...
	A NIGHT ON MOUNT DIABLO: by Wayan, 1984/6/8, an allegorical four-phase dream. I'm attacked by a narcissist firebird, a rabid rattler-manticore, a masochist bear, and a sexless succubus... CAUTION: INEPT DEMONS
	PEGASUS: by Wayan; 1991. Digital "woodblock print" of recurring dreamfigure. This strong slender mare is how most of my flying dreamhorses look: a practical lot, they know...
	PULLED UNDER: by Wayan; 1976/4/15, a nightmare. One by one, we're pulled under the water, the earth... eaten. That's the fate of all flesh. And we're flesh. CAUTION: HORROR
	THE ROYAL NONESUCH: by Wayan; 1988/4/15, a dream on the media. My mom and sister take me to see a bondage film. But the movie steals my pants! I should have known... CAUTION: WORSE THAN PEEWEE HERMAN
	THE SEA-HAG RIOT: by Wayan; 100K, 1989/6/5, a wild dream hiding a warning. Aliens, hypnotherapy, dancing molars, riots, witches, flying pianos, lettuce... yet there is a point.
	STARVATION?: by Wayan; 1995/8/28, a journal extract on body image. On a poster of a model who's around my weight, someone's scrawled STARVATION IMAGERY... CAUTION: DEFENSE OF SKINNY PEOPLE
	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
	SUCKER!: by Wayan; 1990? Crayon, 12" square. Health reminder.. I was anorexic for years before I found I was allergic to many foods--I had good reason not to eat!...
	TAROT: THE ANOREXIC DANCER: by Wayan; 30K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. The card of excessive self-denial, whether compulsive or artistic or spiritual...
	TAROT: THE SMORGASBORD OF LIFE: by Wayan; 42K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. You get to fill one tray. Guns sex jewels pot hamburgers TV boredom God power thrills love? Choose!
	WARIA: by Wayan; 640 x 450, 1989, digital image based on a 1987/3/23 dream. My life was a sex disaster. I made myself ugly and sick. But then one night I dreamed I found a healer... WARNING: NUDITY
	WASTE: by Wayan; 100K, 1990/5/15, a desert singles poem, 11 images. A road trip through New Mexico mutates into a tour of my relationship disasters...
	WERE-COMPOSER: by Wayan; 1995/2/15, a trashy dream. I help a brilliant, starving composer turn his family curse into a profitable business...