THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: Climatology

The World Dream Bank:
Climatology and Climate Change

Dreams of climatology and climate change--mostly, of course, of global warming, but also the occasional ice age. A few non-dream entries show virtual worlds of climatological interest.

RELATED TOPICS: Terraforming other worlds - ecology and its subtopics - 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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	ARAGORN'S LIVER: by Wayan; 1983/1/29, a nightmare. I'm a hobbit in Silicon Valley, stalking Ring-wraiths down El Camino. But one of them's stalking me... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, MADNESS?
	BERNAL ISLET IN 2250: by Wayan; 175K (6 ill.), 2007/4/2, an undream painting My neighborhood becomes a Huck Finn Eden after global warming turns it into a tropical island... CAUTION: NUDITY, AMBITOPIA
	BLOW 'EM UP!' and POKER FACES: by Wayan; 1992/7/2; two dreams on denial and sabotage. Would the Revolutionaries in the Basement really blow up the Committee of Idealists upstairs? CAUTION: MAD BOMBERS, OR AT LEAST GRUMPY ONES
	BODIES DIFFER: by Wayan; 1991? Nondream digital picture-poem summing up a life. Hawk Girl and Pearl Dragon sing a love-duet on the joy of allergies...
	THE CITY, NOT LONG AFTER: by Wayan; 1998/4/22-30, acrylic cityscape of our flooded future. What my home town will become, if you fools keep burning gas and spewing CO2 in the air...
	DUBIA: by Wayan; 800K, 20 photos, summer 2003, a nondream sculpture/prophecy/travelog. What Earth will look like 1000 years from now, with doubled CO2, flooded coasts and melted poles... CAUTION: CALLS GEORGE W. BUSH A BIG FAT LIAR
	FUTURES: by Wayan; 2003/9/22, a nondream ecological sculpture series A set of travelogs (with orbital photos) of Earth, Mars and Venus on the same day--as they are 1000 years from now...
	THE GOD-STAFF: by Wayan; 1995/4/9, a warm-globe dream. In our steamy future, after the cities drown, I'm hiking through Rainbow Tunnel, when I meet a holy man...
	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...
	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?
	THE LAST LUNAR STORM: by Wayan; 1999/8/27, a dream of a future squared. Lunar terraforming lags behind Mars; a global ice storm hits, like the early days. But the future...
	LIGHTEN UP, ROADS!: by Wayan; 1994/6/28, a dreamed eco-proposal. Recycling used paint to lighten pavements could lower continental temperatures a fraction of a degree...
	LYR: by Wayan; 7MB, 2005, 80 pages w/200+ drawings and maps; a virtual planet A vast sea-world with 8 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species... CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION!
	MARS REBORN: by Wayan; 1MB, 27 photos, 15 pp, 2003/9/22, a sculpture, a tour guide, a virtual world Mars as it will be 1000 years from now, terraformed. A guided tour with photos...
	MERCURY: by Wayan; 1987/3/7, dream-poem of a lost future. Mercury didn't spin! One side fire, one side ice. We farmed in domes, between--until the sun brightened... CAUTION: BAD SCIENCE
	OISIN: by Wayan; 200K, 2005, 4 maps and images; a nondream virtual world A model of a Europa-like moon with life under thinly ice-covered seas...
	MY PAST CHANGES SO: by Wayan; 1985, a poem on healing-stages. It takes time to build yourself out of found objects and trash...
	NO ONE'S OUT TO GET ME: by Wayan; 1993/12/14, a subtle nightmare. I always thought learning no one's out to get me would be a GOOD thing...
	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
	POLES NOW, TROPICS LATER: by Wayan; 1997/3/27, a dream on the pace of change. I'm a Martian revolutionary, making the glaciers grow. The equator's still dry, but change is coming...
	PRAYER (WE SHALL BE REBORN): by Wayan; 640 x 480, 1997-2000 Digital picture-poem. Be a web junkie. Instead of driving around in a gas-hog, you'll save the planet by staying in, passive... CAUTION: NUDITY; MOCKS GOD, CARS, AND WEB-PORN--IS NOTHING SACRED?
	A PRISONER OF ZEN: by Wayan; 1980/11/19, a dream on isolation. The Pope spears our Inuit captain and the Mystic, who turns solitary--a prisoner of Zen. Can I free him?
	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...
	SIPHONIA: by Wayan; 1MB, 25 p, 2006, a nondream virtual world, in progress; maps, tours First, suck up 90% of Earth's seas. Now wait a million years for life to adapt. Tibetan plateaus above steamy new Deeps ruled by giant parrots, ravens and otters...
	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
	TILT!: by Wayan; 250K, 10 illus., 2002-3, a nondream world-building game. I drilled new poles in my globe and tilted the Earth. Ice Age or Carboniferous? Flood or drought? Come visit tropical Antarctica, the Thai Desert, the Hawaiian glaciers, the jungles of France!
	TRAIL OF POGS: by Wayan; 2002/9/6, my dreams' response to the first Burning Man dream-workshop A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us...
	VENUS UNVEILED: by Wayan, 2004/8/30; 4.5MB; a virtual world with 130 photos, maps, portraits. Tour Venus as it will be in 1000 years, after terraforming: paradise for dozens of intelligent species!
	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...
	WHAT THE PTEROS TELL: by Wayan; 1995/9/11, an archeometeorological rant. The size of ancient flying creatures implies that Earth may lose more atmosphere over time than we think...
	XANADU: by Wayan; 600K, 2006/6/6, a nondream virtual world An alternate Titan, Titan as it should have been, with ethane seas full of life...