THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: FASHION

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Clothes and Fashion

Clothing, fashion, shoes, accessories, make-up, hair and styling. My dreams seem to confuse these with masks and disguises, but of course clothes and makeup are supposed to enhance and bring out the real you, not falsify you. Right? I said, right?

Well, I've suspected that's why so many people in my dreams go naked. Nudity's not always about sex--it can mean honesty, too.

The World Dream Bank has 2100 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, 2001-2010.

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	THE ASHE SISTERS: by Wayan; 2010/1/26, a dream portrait. My two moms sell art fabrics designed by these grayish batwinged sisters whose new ad campaign pushes the edge... CAUTION: ADS WITH NUDE BATS
	THE BLIP: by Wayan; 1982/5/4, a brief dreamtale. A bubble of spacetime distortion lands in a very awkward place...
	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...
	BROWN DRESS: by Wayan; 265K; nine-page digital comic of a sexy healing dream, 1984/2/11. A champion swimmer tells me how she turned a sexual humiliation into excitement and liberating power... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, SHAME, PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY
	BROWNIE: by Wayan; 1984/9/26, a sexy dreamtale. At last my girlfriend and I manage to peel off the Brown Dress of Shame, and ... CAUTION: SEXUAL HEALING
	CHANGING IDENTITIES: by Mary Arnold-Forster; 1910-14? a dream of alternating selves. I was the new girl among richer students, then my adult self among snobs, then a schoolgirl again--always craving freedom...
	CLONE BREAKUP (illus. text) or CLONE (5p. comic): by Wayan; 1994/2/27, a psychic dream on the need to stand out. I model with ten blonde clones. They want to be seen as individuals, so it's their last fashion show before they...
	CLOTHES MAKE THE HERO: by Wayan; 1995/4/9, a dream of the power of tackiness. I always laughed at those silly superhero outfits. But when it's my turn to fly, I find out why... CAUTION: LANGUAGE
	THE CULT OF DIRTY LAUNDRY: by Wayan; 1993/10/2, a dream-critique. I find the feminist principle "the personal is political" leads to some alarming consequences for privacy... CAUTION: POLITICS
	DREAMKU, SEPTEMBER 2006: by Roswila; thirty dream-haiku with various dates from 1960-2006 One dream-poem in haiku style each day for a month! Ghosts, snow, penguins, yoga babies, elves who leave their tree...
	THE DREAMSUIT: by Wayan; 1992/7/12, a dream on unconscious programming. An experimental helmet knocks me out. I'm groggy, miserable, till I learn what it did to others...
	AN ELECTORAL DRAGON: by Wayan; 1998/10/21, a quasi-lucid dreamtale. In a world of bad haircuts, I meet a dragon running for office. But is this real, or a dream? Yes! It's...
	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)...
	EYELASH GUY: by HareTrinity; 2003?4?5?, a fortunately nonrecurring dream A coach-driving vampire seemed kind of cute until he raped me. If that's even his real face... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE
	A GUINEA-BISSAU REVOLUTION: by Wayan; 1999/4/24, a dream of necessary pain. My part in the revolution in Guinea-Bissau: substantial, but not exactly planned. I just wanted out... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	HIS DEER WIFE: by Wayan; 195K, 20 images, 1995/7/9, a parallel world love story. I'm a slave, a scribe in the house of a Captain of the New Aztec Empire, when he brings home a wife... CAUTION: SLAVE SOCIETY, SEX, SPOUSAL ABUSE/NEGLECT
	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
	INGENIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS: by Elizabeth Kew; 1930s?, a cynical dream come true. My friend put an ad on her gown, so I try one on our house. I have big ideas for more, but a pickpocket steals them and...
	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?
	INVOKE THE ANIMAL POWERS (or was it PROVOKE?): by Wayan; 2008/9/9, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #24 A children's performance of "Where the Wild Things Are" turns into a riot-orgy. Why do I think it's all about politics? CAUTION: WILD THING ORGY
	JUMBLE by Nancy Price; 1948, a comically exaggerated predictive dream A bewildering dream of a boy's borrowed bath, absconding renters' furniture and fly-eating turns real a few weeks later...
	LILY OXYGEN: by Wayan; 500K, 16 illus.; dreamed 1984/1/19, drawn 2000; a strong psychic dream. I'm Emily Dickinson reborn in 2100 as a peaceful breeder of hydroponic lilies, till my dad drafts me as an Arctic energy-prospector, where I meet a ghost, a fiery Beast, a new me, and the girl of my dreams... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, NUDE PROSPECTORS, GNOMIC DICKINSON QUOTES
	LION IN A LEISURE SUIT: by Wayan; 1974, nondream doodle that shouldn't be here. It's the 1970s. What's a lion to do? Get fern-bar camouflage: a suit and an I'm-a-bohemian moustache...
	MATURITY: by Wayan; 1989/1/26, a dream on bluntness. Beverly Cleary's Ramona is a popular teen, but she's having a nervous breakdown. And her best friend... CAUTION: STUDENT-TEACHER AFFAIR
	MOLLUSCUM FIBROSUM: by Havelock Ellis; c. 1920? A surreal dream of... sex? medicine? A woman models an elegant gown baring her breasts. All five of them. Wait, those aren’t breasts, they’re...
	MUSICIAN AND FOXTAIL, by Wayan, 2009/2/14, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #40 In Palo Alto I meet strange musicians in the rain, and realize kitsune aren't born but made...
	THE MUSTACHE PRAYER: by Wayan; 1983/9/11, a dream on wishes' limits. I help a mutant boy find others like him, and learn why some prayers are ungrantable...
	MY MOTHER'S CLOSET: by Rachel Hadas, c. 2000; a dream-poem triggering a 2008/9/16 dream by Chris Wayan I was in my mother's closet, trying on her outfits, and trapped in Hamlet, too...
	NAMELESS HAT: by Elizabeth Kew; 1930s?, a comic dream. Giant worms put me on trial for wearing a nameless hat, but it turns out I like their punishment, so I taunt the judge...
	NOCTURNAL HAIRCUTS: by two of Pliny the Younger's servant boys; 96 AD. Subliminal? Oracular? Prank? All three? Two boys dream robed figures climb in the window to cut their hair--and find, awake, someone has. While Pliny learns...
	HIS NORI SUIT: by Wayan; 1992/9/4, a dream on isolation. Down at the tideline, a man dressed in seaweed disproves John Donne's adage...
	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...
	PHILOSOPHER: by Wayan; 1992. Nondream digital picture-poem. I worked at Stanford too long. I got tired of observing the mating displays of the purple-prose patriarch.. CAUTION: NUDE ACADEMIC GROUPIE
	RAGS TO RICHES: A FIGHT FOR LOVE: by Hyal; October 2006, a dream of courage. I was just a street rat, but I danced with the princess at a ball, and fell in love. Three rich suitors pulled their blades...
	(THE MEANING OF) RINGS AND TURQUOISE: by Wayan; 1998/11/1, a dream on independence. I'm in the park, feeling sad, till a girl on the lawn near me semaphores a message via rings and turquoise... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
	SEWING ADVICE FROM CANNIBALS: by Elias Howe, 1845, an inventor's helpful nightmare. Howe's sewing-machine design didn't work until, one night, warriors stuck him in a soup-pot, jabbing him with needle-sharp spears... CAUTION: OUCH!
	SHIELDS FROM THE GODDESS: by Wayan; 38K total, 1996/8/3, a dream that's a slap in the face. A Goddess-worshiping general gets a visit from her twin daughters who bring a puzzling message...
	THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME: by Wayan, 2002/3/17, digital study of dream figure--sort of Usually I wobble on high heels--but with four feet, I may be stable enough to follow the Yellow Brick Road... CAUTION: NUDITY
	TIAMAT'S REBELLION: by Wayan; 2 ill., 1988/1/1, a dream about neoteny. I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah. I dream she leads a revolution on a starship...
	WOLVES IN THE BOOTH: by Thordhr "the Terror"; c.1000, a warning dream Thordhr dreams a pack of wolves attack him in a trade-booth! He wakes sure the trade-fair will be trouble...