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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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| BETRAY MY ANIMAL FRIENDS: by Wayan; 1999/11/12, a dream of brainwashing . As humans settle infospace, will we cheat other species trying to evolve into people? CAUTION: DISTURBING |
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BRETON SELKIE, or, VERIFY AURAS!: by Wayan; 1995/11/10, a cautionary, possibly psychic dream. I meet a sexy seal-girl. Being single and desperate, I overlook a slight values conflict... CAUTION: DISGUSTING JOB |
| CHELSEA AND THE PRESIDENTIAL COMPLEX: by Wayan; 1999/12/25, an odd political (?) dream. I was hot tubbing and flirting... so how'd I end up as Chelsea Clinton running for office? |
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| DAD'S DATES: by Wayan; 2008/8/17, a dream poem, Dreamverse #8. After my mom's death, my dad starts dating again. He treats his dates like dirt. What can I do? |
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| DATIN' DEMON: by Mark Varitz and Wayan; 1989/12/3; Mark's dream triggers one by Wayan. I meet my personal demon, and discover it has a personal demon: me! Am I worse than my Shadow? CAUTION: CRUDE LANGUAGE |
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| DATING WEIRDOS: by Wayan; 1996/8/12 a short rant. Normal people want someone complementary. Weirdos want someone like them. Why? Economics!... |
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| THE DRAGON'S TEETH: by Wayan; 1994/6/23; a real-life nightmare, a dream mapping out life. I'm dancing on stage, in behavioral space. But right in the middle of the stage, erupt these... teeth? |
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| ELEVEN CENT ORACLE: by Wayan; 1998/11/12, an epic future dream. I'm a migratory girl who's lost my tribe. I find eleven coins, cross the world, and pay the Oracle... | |
| FIRE IN THE CRUCIBLE: by Wayan; 1996/11/5, a confessional essay on genius. A book's example of a mathematical savant made me stop and try to do what he did. I can! Can anyone? |
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| FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 1.5M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic. I had a spectacular dream one night, that lasted many days in dream-time--a true other life. It wasn't Earth, and we weren't human. I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. I woke on deck deep in the night, my friends curled around me, and realized I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a grown woman, marry and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right... If 1500K is too big to load, try it in parts: 1: HOME, 450K, 2: VOYAGE, 680K, 3: BACK 400K. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
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| FREDDY KRUGER'S POLITICS: by Wayan; 1992/8/20, a dream of... ambition?. Freddy has plans for me and Telly Savalas's daughter... but what can he lure us with? What do we want? |
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| HILLMAN ON DAIMONS: by Wayan; 1998/9/7, on Greco-Roman and Jungian ideas of a life-goal James Hillman and my own experience suggest we enter life with an agenda. But what if our goals are sick? |
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| AN INTERVIEW WITH WAYAN: by Wayan; 1994/3/20, an interview. Dream researcher Stephanie Van Zandt Nelson questions me on the roots of the art of dreaming... |
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| IT'S A DEAD MAN'S PARTY: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a nightmare of identity. I find myself at a creepy party supporting a dead man who's running for office. And am I Dan Quayle? CAUTION: HORROR BEYOND HORROR. YOU ARE DAN QUAYLE. |
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| JUNK FICTION?: by Wayan; 1990/6/15, a rant on literature's treatment of shamans & psychics At least fantasy and science fiction address my life-issues; "realism" just declares me nonexistent... |
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JUST SEX AND IDIOTS: by Wayan; 1998/2/22, a political dating dream. A sex dream warning "to find your soulmate, learn to spot the opposite: cute political and spiritual idiots..." CAUTION: SEX AND POLITICS |
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KIOSK: by Wayan; 250K total, 1994/5/1, a major dreamtale, 7 illustrations. I'm a sexy singing beast, the Krelkin, trying to lure the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
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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! |
| MORAL FIBER: by Wayan; 1997/11/10, a dream of trouble in Ecotopia. We hippies won, but now we're backward and isolated; it's time we joined the rest of our alternate Earth... |
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| MORAL MINNOWS: by Wayan; 1992/9/15, a dream of deep politics. A dream explaining why everyone with any moral vision gets filtered out of politics now... |
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| PERSONAL CHAOS THEORY: by Wayan; 1994/12/4, a spiritual math dream. My life is a mess, so I take a class on the four flavors of chaos, and find my Strange Attractors are shifting... |
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SELF-MADE GIRLS: by Wayan; 2000/2/15, a public dream. Two souls coalesce from bars of light into human beings by the power of words. Words like stupid, ugly... |
| SLAVE’S CHOICE: by Emily Joy; 2007/4/8; a dream of a rock and a hard place. At boot camp for sex slaves, a rapist makes me a surprisingly tempting offer. But it’s really not about sex at all, is it? CAUTION: ORAL SEX, OUTRAGEOUS COMPARISON |
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SOCK PUPPETS OF THE GODS: by Dee and Wayan; 100K, 1994/4/14. Parallel shamanic dreams!. A dance classmate asks a bizarre question that haunts me. That night I dream I'm suicidal--nearly kill myself. Then I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern, from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but each time, the challenges get more spiritual. I wake up stunned. Then I learn what a shaman I know just dreamed... and now I'm unsure whose dream this is.. CAUTION: IDEAS |
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TAROT: HOKULE'A (the Star): by Wayan; 30K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. Hokule'a, the "Star of Gladness", guided Polynesians across thousands of miles of ocean... |
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WILLPOWER (HAPPINESS): by Wayan; 1991/1/17, a didactic dream. At age 90, the first female high-rise steelworker tells me why she did it--and why she regrets it... |
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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... |
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