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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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	AROO'S ENGINEERS: by Wayan; 1984/11/9-10, a Hawaiian dream epic. The Engineers make Eden logical. But the blimps go blind, and a demon gets published. Can I escape the hell they've made?
	BELT-SNAKE MYOPIA: by Wayan; 1983/12/25, a dream of innocent sabotage. A shy woman's belt slowly comes alive, but like most snakes, it has weak eyes. Would glasses help?...
	BITTER JADE: by Wayan, 1983/4/8, a dream on change. Why's Jade the bitter artist throw me at her happier, calmer daughter? Wait, is Jamie the new ME? CAUTION: SEX
	THE BLAMMOR: by Wayan; 1984/4/20, four linked private-eye dreams. I'm a Fast-Food Detective tracking a kidnapper-sorceress. Castles, magic carpets... and unexpected love. CAUTION: SEX TALK
	CHEAPSHIP!: by Wayan; 1996/8/6, a nightmare on my own stinginess. I'm a crewman on a ship that's falling apart, and I do mean that literally...
	CUT-RATE TREATMENT: by Wayan; 1993/8/10, a tale half-dreamed, half-lived. That day, I met a wildly neurotic therapist; that night, I met a woman forced to get discount ob/gyn exams from her stingy husband's doctor buddy... can you say "boundary violation?" CAUTION: SEXUAL HUMILIATION
	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?
	GLASS GAME: by Wayan; 1985/9/23, a nightmare. A swimming pool game with color-sorted broken glass. It's social! It's fun! The whole family can play! CAUTION: BLOODY IDIOTS
	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...
	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
	HILLBILLY ECO-REVOLT: by Wayan; 1985/6/12, a diagnostic eco-dream. A poor planet with one city. Urban technocrats and hick ecologists have conflicting development models... CAUTION: TOO REAL TO BE FUN
	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...
	THE KEYRING OF ATTACHMENTS: by Wayan; 1974/5/31, a dream gone too far. Swayed by sinister surgeons, I go all Buddhist and give up my attachments, including various organs... CAUTION: DIVESTABLE GENITALIA
	THE MONK STRUCK BY VISION: by Wayan; 1979 or 1980, sketch of visionary stress. I sympathize with visionaries whose gift is so urgent and extreme, most would call it illness...
	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...
	OVERWHELMED YOSEMITE DAD: by Wayan; 1998/9/25, a warning dream. Mom's gone, and our writer/bohemian dad's caring for us alone, now. He's barely coping. And he's me...
	PLANETOCOPIA: by Wayan; 2006/6/3, an annex to the Dreambank with 16 nondream imaginary worlds. A mix of sculpture, drawings, travel writing... science and art. Alternate Earths, possible futures, and pure experiments in planetology, biology, sociology. Most of them teem with intelligent creatures--alien Edens! CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, COMMIES, EVOLUTION
	POLTERGEIST: by Wayan; 1983/11/17, a confusing dreamtale. A living camera edits us all: the dappled hawk-man, the slutty candidate, the blue businessmen who give such bad advice when you pull the thorns from their feet. And my sweet sad hell-hound...
	SHOWERED WITH WISHES: by Zooop; 2007/3/12, a dream that enough is enough I took my cellphone into the shower. I couldn’t find the shampoo, and idly typed SHAMPOO in, and... CAUTION: NOW YOU KNOW WHO STOLE YOUR ODD SOCKS
	SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE? PLEASE, MISTRESS, NO!: by Wayan; 1981/7/18, a meditation on meditation. A rant on over-disciplined Americans (NOT under; we just think we are) taking up spiritual disciplines...
	TAROT: RENUNCIATION (8 of cups): by Wayan; 41K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. Giving up a wall of material treasure for the moonlit path...
	TAROT: THE ANOREXIC DANCER: by Wayan; 30K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. The card of excessive self-denial, whether compulsive or artistic or spiritual...
	THARN: by Wayan; 8.3MB (45 p, 200+ ill.), 2006, a nondream virtual world: maps, photos, portraits, tours Tour a rugged, spectacular moon with air and water in deep canyons sheltering a dozen intelligent species CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, SCIENCE
	THE TRAIN ON TIME CAFE: by Wayan, 1981/12/20, a major dreamtale. Silicon Valley goes enthusiastically fascist. I hide in a berry patch. They build a shining world, and then...
	WERE-TROUT: by Wayan; 1997/8/2, a dating-advisory dream. I'm a one-legged hopping hermit in the ruins of LA, and my only hope for love is to conjure a girl from a...
	WHEN THE SPIRIT MOVES YOU: by Wayan; 1996/5/1, an alternate-world dream. An empire of creatures who go into seasonal heat has affected its human neighbors--or bred a new type...
	WORKIN' FOR PEANUTS: by Wayan; 1990/12/11, a crude but perceptive dream. I'm an elephant working in a diner. In the bathroom, I inadvertently summon the Genie of the Urinal... CAUTION: PISSED PACHYDERM

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