THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: Business and Capitalism

The World Dream Bank:
Business and Capitalism

Business, corporations, and capitalism in dreams. I know, I know--it's scary. Hold my hand, and hang on to your credit card...

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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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	AS OTHERS SEE US: by Wayan; 1993/12/3, a magical flying dream. We're orphans learning to fly by night, when others can't see and define us...
	THE BANKERS' TABLE: by Lily and Wayan; 1991/7/28, a shared psychic dream A friend and I have simultaneous dreams of absurd quarrels over seating bankers at picnic tables...
	THE BOSS'S GUTS: by Wayan; 1993/6/3, a dream on health-sabotage.. Flu. Ow, cramps! But that night I dream of a miner's rebellion against our fat-cat boss. Which side am I on?
	ALL-NIGHT BUFFALO CONVENIENCE!: by Wayan; 1995/7/24, an entrepreneurial dream. A late-night conversation with the proud developer of a new concept in South Asian convenience dining...
	THE BUSINESSMAN IN ANGUISH: by Wayan; 1991/7/2. Digital dream painting. I dreamed this was in our civic museum: a painting of the central dynamo of our world finally erupting...
	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...
	THE CORE ISSUE: by Wayan; 100K, 1992/6/25, a dream from multiple viewpoints The tale of a gray heart trying to heal leads to unicorn-hostage drama in the Transamerica Pyramid... CAUTION: SEX, MAFIA THREATS, VIOLENCE
	THE COST OF ECO-REGULATIONS: by Wayan; 1997/2/14, a dream edict. I dream an economist admits not only that eco-regs pay off, but that economic theory is faulty. Dream on!
	COYOTE PAJAMAS: by Wayan; 1983/12/17, a Dantesque dream-epic. I'm Coyote, keeping the Business Prophet from taking over Dante's Peak. But it turns too personal... CAUTION: IDIOTIC VIOLENCE
	A CRAIGSLIST BARGAIN: by Wayan; 2006/10/1. A dream of another life; possible ESP. I’m an Asian kid in Pacifica, California. My parents annoy me, so I offer them for sale on Craigslist. A cop appears...
	CRIMECON 90: by Wayan; 1990/3/27, a dream about capitalism. I did what I love. The money didn't follow. So now I have to guard a crimeboss at a theft convention... CAUTION: INEVITABLE CHEKHOVIAN SHOOTOUT
	DAD ON THE BOARD: by Wayan; 1981/2/12, a dream of business as usual. How my dad got onto the board of directors and made the organization his own...
	DISSECTING PESSIMISM: by Wayan; 1997/4/14, a stubbornly educational nightmare . A serial killer stalks our office, and our bosses deny it. When we defend ourselves, things turn weird... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	DRAMATIC PARASITES: by Wayan; 1995/6/28, a dream on fear of success. I project I'll make a lot more money soon. Good, now I can support all my lazy friends! Wait...
	EARTH'S BEING MURDERED: by Wayan; 1996/7/13, a nightmare. Mute, paired images, contrasting life with the death we're spreading. And then finally the dream speaks: CAUTION: READ THE TITLE AND GO SABOTAGE SOMETHING!
	FINANCIAL PORN: by Wayan; 1980/12/24, a Christmas dream on capitalism. On Christmas eve, I ask my dreams what they think of our annual orgy, and... CAUTION: THE F WORD AND THE C WORD (CAPITALISM)
	MY GAMESHOW PRIZE: by Wayan; 1998/1/6, a let-down dream. I win a prize on a gameshow, but collecting is another story, since the show is run from Hell...
	COYOTE SENT ME CASH!: by Wayan, 3.1MB (MP3 + lyrics), a 2007 jazz-rap telling a 1982/10/11 psychic dream. A true tale proving the Trickster God really will provide. We're lilies of the field!
	HELP YOUR NEIGHBOR: by Wayan; 2 illus., 1994/2/18, a comic nightmare. I'm an organic almond grower who's solved the Luminous Snail problem. But my neighbor has an agenda...
	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...
	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...
	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?
	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
	JUST SAY NOSE: by Wayan; 1989, nondream digital poster-poem-rant. What really built Silicon Valley? Oh, sugar, coffee, speed and cocaine, mostly... CAUTION: DRUGS ON THE JOB
	LET'S PLEASE THE RICH: by Wayan; 1998/6/24, a disgusting proposal The rich block reform. So let's offer the rich and power what they really want: ranking and attention... CAUTION: CHIMPONOMICS
	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
	MAGIC SCHOOL: by Wayan, 1982/1/26: a waking event and replying dream. Phyllis Schlafly, who killed the Equal Rights Amendment, provokes a dream of being Captain Kirk trapped in a magic school with no way out but the graduate exam... Can I learn the lesson of the tree? CAUTION: POLITICAL JOURNALISM BEFORE THE DREAM. OH NO!
	MENAGE A THREE, MOVE TO PAREE: by Wayan; 1986? Sketch of recurrent dream theme I was a young dream-artist out of place in the Silicon Valley...
	THE MUEZZIN WHISTLE: by Wayan; 1994/7/14, a brief cynical dream. I argue to a friend that Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Capitalism are more alike than they admit...
	MUIR ON MARS: by Wayan; 1994/5/14, a dreamtale. I'm John Muir reborn on Mars, supporting Mars First against tree-cutters, who poison their enemies...
	MY EX-WIFE: by Wayan; 1982/3/23, a dream on delusions. My ex-wife breaks in, but acts like I'm the one who crawled back to her... and I don't HAVE an ex-wife! CAUTION: ADULT THEMES. REALLY, REALLY STUPID ADULT THEMES.
	MY LIFE CHANGED: by Wayan; 1993/6/15, the plain truth. Advice from a successful writer of worstsellers to all you aspiring failures: unfame has its price...
	THE NESS MAN, or, HOW TO HEAL: by Wayan; 50K total, 1994/4/13, a mythic dream. Mythic creatures round a woodland pool want to heal a businessman. Do too many cooks spoil the soup?
	NET PROFITS: by Wayan; 1998/7/14, a dream of family values and Web credit. At a family picnic, my sisters and I fish for scholarships and grants. They put down my art, my website...
	NOW DON'T PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH: by Wayan; 1998, pencil sketch of 3 recurring dream figures. It's hard being even mildly multiple. Here three of my least compatible personalities line up and...
	ODE TO SPAM: by Wayan; 2007/10/11, a poem about the wonders of email Why couldn't Adam Smith (that fool Pandora) keep our glittering greed in the box asleep?
	OHLONE AT THE MALL: by Wayan; 1994/2/1, a dreamfable. I see two Ohlone women around 1900, starving, naked, despised, their land stolen--and still happy...
	ONLY A PIECE OF PAPER: by Wayan; 1980/12/15, a dreamsong. Kate Wolf sings that ads are way dirtier than porn. But my memory slowly twists her message...
	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...
	RACK: by Wayan; 2006/4/4; a comic business-bondage dream My friend Chris gets tied up at the office--that’s his job, looking martyred! But when the boss is away... CAUTION: NUDITY
	SALESCURVE MOUNTAINS: by Wayan; 1995. Detail of a nondream digital poster. The unemployed angel with her resume is the Goddess of Freedom...
	SO ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION: by Wayan; 78K: 640 x 480, 1990? Digital picture-poem I had a horrible realization that computers are useless, and I tried to make it beautiful...
	SPUTTERNIK: by Wayan; 1979, a Beat poem: the comedy of the streets. A street poet preaches a gospel of smallness, until he pokes at capitalism in a slightly too personal way...
	(TOPOGRAPHY OF) EXCESS: by Wayan; 1997. Digital painting on digital painting. They call it the information highway because we're all supposed to march in formation...
	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...
	USEFUL PIGS: by Wayan; 1995/1/2, a comic nightmare. In my nightmare, TV ads push new, supposedly eco-friendly uses for pigs, until this alarming ad...
	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...
	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