THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: TIME

The World Dream Bank:
TIME

Dreams of time and time-travel--dreams set in the far past or future, dreams of time-machines, dreams of time frozen and time running backward...

Someday I'll go through and subdivide this list into past-dreams, future-dreams, and... other. Yeah, sure. "Jam tomorrow, and jam yesterday, but never jam today."

I have built separate lists for two timish sorts of dream: prediction and precognition and dreams of alternate histories and parallel worlds--sideways time.

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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	THE ANCIENT BOOK: by Wayan; 1993/11/11, a political dreamfable. I'm a schoolkid in the future who finds an ancient book the censors somehow missed...
	ANIMAL DREAMLETS: by Wayan; 1996/11/20, four dream vignettes A night of gorilla-guerillas, feminist backlash among the wolves, and hot horse-ballerinas in chorus lines...
	THE ARTIFACT: by Wayan; 1983/1/16. Narrative dream painting. I was a lizard archeologist, a million years from now. What I dug up threatened my marriage...
	BALOLOKONG: by Wayan, 1984/11/13; a Hopi time-travel dream. The Ice Hotel, where all my selves are sealed. Can we thaw Einstein? Balolokong the Rainsnake says...
	BAST SABOTAGE: by Wayan; 1995/1/22, a dream on dreams. In old Egypt, a part of me sabotages my audience with Bast, the Cat Goddess. Why?
	BATMAN'S LOVE: by Wayan; 1996/3/26, a dream-epic of love and time. A New Age graduation party spurs a wild dream of the spiritual odyssey of Catwoman, starring Alexander the Great, Batman, God, and Rumi the poet (played by Frank Zappa)... CAUTION: MORAL RELATIVITY
	THE BEE QUEEN: by Wayan; 1997/6/26, a hard-headed dream. Two time-traveling paleontologists get a gift from their friend the Bee Queen. A gift with six-inch fangs...
	BELLE OF THE BALL: by Bonnie; 2006/5/2, a sexy ghost dream I’ll win a house if I can survive a night in the Haunted Pavilion! But it turns out I’ve been here before--before I was born... CAUTION: GHOST ORGY
	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
	BLEEDING HEART, the SELF-HEALING CORPSE, and IN THE FUTURE DESERT: by Wayan; 250K, 10 illus., 2002/5/29 to July 2004, a diagnostic, predictive dream-series. A tree-girl moves to Hollywood to make film deals, but jealousy stabs her... CAUTION: BLOODY ASSAULT, GAY DRYADS, MUTANT NUDITY
	BONOBO AND BEAR: by Wayan, 1999/10/14, a mystic war movie. The gods of our cave-past and star-future fight over us--using us, of course. After I see the toll it's taking on a bonobo buddy of mine, I decide to bring the war back home, and go gunning for God--BOTH of them... CAUTION: APES AND EXPLOSIVES DON'T MIX
	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?
	YOU CHIPHEAD! : by Wayan, 1997/1/31, a sarcastic dream. Chips are faster than brains these days, so everyone's upgrading--everyone but me...
	CHRONOPHOBIA!: by Wayan; 1993/7/10, a physicist's nightmare. I find myself driving a speeding car down a freeway--in reverse. And I don't mean the gear...
	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...
	CORPSE-BUG: by Wayan; 200K, 1994/12/1, an allegorical sex nightmare. I'm a hippie girl in San Francisco, in hard times. To escape the Four Horsemen, I lie down with Death... CAUTION: GANGS, CREEPY SEX
	COYOTE'S VAULT: by Wayan; 1994/5/4, a shamanic dream of the future. One of the Time Vaults has opened. That means a historical crisis is at hand. Guess who gets to go in...
	THE CYBEDS: by Wayan; 1995/3/29, a dream on lucid dreaming? The new smart beds stimulate your dreams--but how to program them? We can't even manage VCRs...
	THE DIEBACK: by Wayan; 1998/10/12, an ecological warning dream. A plague begins on terraformed Mars and spreads to Earth. Population biology made it inevitable... CAUTION: OFFSTAGE POPULATION CRASH
	THE DINOSAUR ELEVATOR: by Wayan; 1992/11/22, a paradoxical dream. The dinosaurs I meet manage to prove BOTH time-travel theories! Yet they're contradictory...
	DO YOU LOVE ME, JOHN?: by Wayan; 1991/7/6, a dream on the courage of the shy. I dream of a future where blondes are a too-cute endangered species. How can they survive? Like this... CAUTION: NUDITY
	DOG AIRPORTS: by Wayan; 1999/5/4, a dream of misplaced worship. Okinawa in the far future, when the world is run by dogs. Except they worship us, and we aren't there...
	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
	THE ETHICS OF LUCIDITY: by Wayan; 1994/2/19, a thoughtful dream on time and cause. I'm at a symposium on how our beliefs alter not just the future, but the PAST... CAUTION: CONTAINS IDEAS
	EYEBOLT: by Wayan; 2005/10/1, a squeamish dream I'm on a train in Britain, sitting across from a respectable-looking woman with a large bolt sticking in her eye...
	FAMILIARS: by Wayan; 1986/4/2, a dreamtale on the dark side of reading. In ancient Britain, as Christianity moves in, I'm a slave--sailing through centuries, but never free...
	FIREBIRD AND MINOTAUR: by Wayan; 1996/9/29, 4 images; a diagnostic dreamtale. I'm a cripple watching a sexy Greek Opera starring Whoopi Goldberg. Then I realize I'm in it...
	THE FIREBREAK OF MEN: by Wayan; 1997/2/13, a herstorical dream. The Europeans have another great war, killing off their men. Will that break the cycle of violence? Like a...
	FISHEL AND FRISH AND FIREBIRD: by Wayan, 2003/12/4, a seven-year dream. Why do the guests arriving for our seven-year reunion include part-time giants and dog-headed gods? They tell me...
	FUTILITY: by Wayan; 1973/11/23, a time-machine dream. I'm Liza Doolittle on Mars. With Mr. Wells's Time Machine. Lost, in fact. Can I get home? Should I?
	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...
	FUTURIANS: by Wayan; 1997/11/11, a dream on innocence. A time-loop introduces me to a future self full of innocent enthusiasm. Maddening! CAUTION: LANGUAGE
	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...
	GREENBIRD SAVIOR: by Wayan; 1983/6/2, a divine comedy. Time-travel the Navaho way! But our bread-pipe gets hijacked, so we call the Bird. Who shows up, all right... CAUTION: NON-STANDARD SAVIOR, EVIL DREAM PUNS
	THE HEDGEHOG DISPENSARY: by Wayan; 440K, 27 watercolors, 2004/10/2, a dream of a furry ambitopia. A rabbit shaman orders his apprentice to drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. Ow! Why? Well... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR
	HELP, NOT CURE: by Wayan; 1996/12/26, a dream on autism. Gay angels try to help an autistic woman. Change her past? Only if they pass the Ass-Backward Guardians!
	THE HORSE VOTERS: by Wayan; 1995/4/30, a dream on race? Or... 19th century horsebreeders crossbred more than they admit. One suggests I look hard in the mirror... CAUTION: UNSEEMLY SENATORIAL DISCOURSE
	HUCK FINN'S WISH: by Wayan; 1995/12/8, a dream of flight and sabotage. A mysterious stranger offers free wishes to the kids of Hannibal, Missouri. Tom Sawyer wants to fly, but... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	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...
	I OVERSLEPT: by Wayan; 1992/6/12, a dream of loss. I oversleep more than usual, and wake to find a friend is dead. Or more than one. Maybe... everyone?
	ISHI AND SNOID: by Wayan; 1993/8/4, a dream of stretching. I'm a California Indian wandering through time, keeping the secret of time-travel from the reckless...
	THE ISLAND FURIES: by Wayan; summer 1975, a dream of self-control. When warring Greek isles kill a peacemaker, her three best friends start a vendetta! But she wanted peace... CAUTION: HATE NURSED TOO LONG
	“JUST A FEW MORE YEARS!”: by Wayan; 2008/1/2, a nightmare on the coming crash I found myself defending humanity before an astral jury, begging them to delay the great die-back...
	THE KING OF PERSIA: by Wayan; 1990/4/1, an annoying family dream. My dad has a time machine, so he generously invites the King of Persia over. And offers him MY room...
	KISS OF A SAVAGE: by Wayan; 1993/10/28, a dream of deep time. I wake to find I'm a museum exhibit 15,000 years from now, and I'm an utter primitive...
	LIFECYCLE: by Wayan; 1980s. Pencil sketch of daydream The life-loop. A woman bears a child who grows up to become herself, who bears a child who... CAUTION: SKETCHY NUDITY
	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
	THE LION KING: by Wayan; 1995/9/15, a time-travel dream on social skills. When I wake up, animals rule the earth. How do they cope with specism? Well, it's complex...
	THE LITERAL EMPIRE: by Wayan; 1997/11/17, a dream on flexibility. I join the alliance against aliens blind to humor and metaphor, who are invading funny-animal planets...
	LUCID LIVING: by Wayan; 125K, 2007/4/8, a quasi-lucid dream of the future, with 6 illustrations Honesty induces a joyful state with lucidlike powers. So I bike across the Lake of Time, open the book of my future, and see... CAUTION: SEXY SKETCHES FROM THE FUTURE
	THE MAGIC WORDS: by Wayan; 1974/5/29, an early dream on word-magic. Humanity in the future desperately needs the magic words from the past to free them. But... "pickle?"
	A MAMMOTH FIGHT: by Wayan; 1996/2/26, a dream of another life. A tacky other life. I'm a fight promoter whose biggest deal ever is maybe too big for me. How'd it become a four-way bout? CAUTION: CRASS ACT
	MARJANE: by Wayan; 180K, 11 watercolors, 2005/6/3, a nightmare about... articide? I'm cartoonist Marjane Satrapi. I passively tag along with friends (and a fiance I tend to forget) in the Mission District of San Francisco. But they blunder into real trouble... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	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...
	MARTIAN TIME-LOOP: by Wayan; 1994/5/2, a dream of the future shaping the past. I'm a small boy in a ship docking in Mars Orbital Station. I meet a strange man: myself as an adult! Uh-oh...
	MENTOR: by Wayan; 2001/6/13, six advisory dreamlets. I meet a shapeshifting dream-mentor who warns of plague and war (note the date). Then a sentient book, "The Art of War," gets intimately involved... CAUTION: ELECTRODES, LIBROPHILIA
	MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN: by Wayan; 1992/9/5-6, a diagnostic dream. I'm in a tribe of post-Crash kids with psychic powers, trying to keep nukes from rising again... CAUTION: VIOLENCE TOWARD CHILDREN
	THE MIWOK RITE: by Wayan; 1999/11/20, a dream fable. A ritual in a future society makes me laugh. I tease a futurian, insist it's really a old Miwok rite...
	MY SINE-FRIEND: by Wayan; 1984/3/6, an emotional dream of time and rebirth. An animal-girl I know lives like a sine-wave, first forward in time, then backwards, dying at every zero...
	THE NIGHTMARE EFFECT: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/14, an anti-nightmare. My own fear creates a field of time/speed distortion; can I use it against my attackers?
	OCARINA, or, MILLION-YEAR SENTENCE: by Wayan; 1972/5/27, a lucid / predictive dream. I go lucid and drive my bed to the Nevada desert where I see my next million years. And so far, it’s been true...
	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...
	ORPHEUS AND POOH: by Wayan; 1972/4/9, an early dream epic. I meet my true love during a coup. We go through Hell together, like Orpheus and Eurydice--only we...
	PASTLIFE MIDDEN: by Wayan; 1998/12/28, a past-life dream. I bike deep into Time Hall, barging through security gates of amnesia, to climb the midden of the past...
	PHARAOH HOOKS: by Wayan; 1989/7/31, a deadpan joke of a dream. My sister and her friend the snake-woman tell me the facts of life: the golden hooks, the piglets... CAUTION: UNRELIABLE GYNECOLOGY
	PICARDIAN ANGELS: by Wayan; 1993/1/7, a dream of time and wishes. I walk on Martinique with Captain Picard of the starship Enterprise. He's here to see a dreamy boy...
	POWER OFF: by Wayan; 1997/6//17, a dream of brainwashing. Captain Kirk (Starfleet, retired) saves us all from terrorists at a powerplant, but he forgot something...
	WHY PROGRESS IS SLOW: by Wayan; 1991/1/26 and 2/16, a sociological dreamtale. Time-hopping through centuries, I learn how slow deep social change is. How we cling to our worldviews!
	QUAIL TV: by Wayan; 1980s, ink, shamanic cave drawing. Quail, spelunking again, finds ancient cave paintings of the Cult of the Fossil TV...
	RAZI AND THE HOLY WINO OF SHASTA: by Wayan; 270K, 16 illus., 1994/9/1, a redemptive dream 20,000 years from now, a deer-harpist named Razi finds the Holy Wino's not quite the ruin he seems... CAUTION: BAD PENGUINS, DEER NUDITY, RUDE DRUNK
	A RENAISSANCE WOMAN: by Wayan; 1997/7/3, a dreamtale. I'm an abused girl turning tricks to survive. But this is San Francisco: I join a prostitutes' co-op, and meet... CAUTION: PROSTITUTES WITH SELF-RESPECT, OH NO!
	RIBBING: by Wayan; 1992/12/25, an assertive dreamtale. After seeing 150 years of family photos, I dream of being teased by time-traveling cheerleaders, and...
	THE RINGMAN'S SQUIRREL: by Wayan; 13K, 1982/9/17, a dream of a time after us. One day, in the ruins of an American city whose name was lost, I met a Ringman under an oak... CAUTION: GROSS WORK, IF YOU CAN GET IT
	THE ROAD OF MY LIFE: by Wayan; 1999, pencil; a life-map. The white road is my life history, told in women: friends, lovers, relatives, ancestors--and one past life...
	SAFETY GETS ME HOT: by Wayan; 1997/3/27, a dream on sensitivity. I'm trapped in a post-apocalypse pulp story! Fun for my readers, but not for me! How to escape?
	SALIA AND CHUR: by Wayan; 1989/2/25, a psychic Star Trek dream. Our starship signs up a strange new woman whose quirks turn out to be the effects of slavery... CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES
	SEAMY REALITY: by Wayan; 1999/10/21, a semi-psychic dream. Sharp seams between realities cross Silicon Valley; I end up in the Dark Castle of the Oracle. When I wake...
	SHASTA STANDARDS: by Wayan; 1998/9/19, a dream of social change. In a future where we gengineer ourselves instead of others, we no longer have to choose lesser evils...
	SHEEPISH: by Wayan; 1985/9/24, a stupid psychic dream. Floundering through the snows of 1917, I fall in love with a sheep named Linda Evans, who teaches ballet...
	SHEVEK'S TIME-SLIP: by Wayan; 1996/10/14, a chronohomeostatic dream. Shevek invents time-travel and discreetly alters the past. But the future alters Shevek's present, to make his changes meaningless. Who's sabotaging him? Or should we ask... WHAT?
	SILKY RELENTS: by Wayan; 1997/3/8 a dreamtale on undoing old injustice. My anima Silky plans to kill a man who hurt her. Instead, we make them re-enact it, with variations...
	SILKY'S REVOLUTION: by Wayan; 1995/9/4, a historical dream. I'm in an alternate-history American Revolution with Silky, a black mare. We sail for Europe as diplomats...
	SINGULARITIES: by Wayan, 1994. Digital image of mental state revealed by dreams. Black holes can be scary enough outside you, but what if you have dormant ones inside you?
	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...
	SLEDDING NEAR C: by Albert Einstein; around 1890-95; a transcendent career-advice dream Sledding at night, I approached the speed of light, and the stars turned colors I'd never seen...
	SORRY WE DRANK ALL THE BEER: by Wayan; 1986/6/3, a dream on the use of rage The future. Humanity's trapped--no energy. Because aliens looted our world before we evolved! Now...
	SPLASH!: by Wayan; acrylic, 12" triangle, late 2002; dream painting. While I study how humans went extinct, my daughter happily splashes in the sea...
	STARHAWK THE WITCH: by Wayan; 1983/8/19, an epic dream. I'm forced to become Time Pilgrim, warning history of the dangers of community--indeed, of unity...
	TEHURA TRIES COMICS: by Wayan; 1994/7/19. pencil, Xerox, erasable crayon. I dreamed a sphinx artist visited humanity and drew the crazy natives. I copied her sketchbook and notes... CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM, SLACKERISM, ACTUAL IDEAS
	THEREMIN'S NOT UP AND RUNNING: by Wayan; 1998/8/28, a dreamtale. I'm in Theremin's lab, around 1930, trying to play one of his experimental instruments. Why won't it work?
	THIEU, I'M SORRY: by Wayan, 1997/11/1, a troubling dreamtale. Visiting Time City, I witness the "suicide" of a woman named Thieu but suspect it was really assassination... CAUTION: SUICIDE? MURDER?
	TIMEDOORS OF THE GODS: by Wayan; 1998/2/17, a puzzling dream. I'm a mortal time-tech, living in the Commune of the Gods, when I meet Little Red Riding Hood...
	TIMESHOT!: by Wayan; 1999/1/2, a warning dream. Wandering through time, I forget how much other cultures fear witches. I think I provoke a shooting!...
	THE TOMBSTONE TEST: by Wayan; 1986/8/18, a deceptive dream. I walk in a vast graveyard full of history's most famous people. But it's all fake, built as a test...
	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...
	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...
	TUBA BEANS: by Wayan; 1996/3/24, a Star Trek dream. Changelings invade our space station, testing one kid's split loyalties. But it's the beans that intrigue me...
	UNCONTROLLED TIME TRAVEL: by Jo; 2007/7/13, a time-slipping dream. I’m a drug-addicted amateur dramatist. A fat balding businessman and I bring humanity back from extinction, but... CAUTION: TORTURE (brief), ADVOCACY OF WAR, HUMAN EXTINCTION (offstage)
	THE VAT MESSIAH: by Wayan; 1985/2/27, a major dreamtale. In our cult, we lie in vats of goo till we grow wings. But we're feared more than we knew... CAUTION: A SPECIST LYNCH MOB, NAKED IN SCHOOL, LESBIAN FEELINGS, OBSCENE CARROT
	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!
	VIRGINIA'S TRAIN: by Emily Joy; 2005/9/24, a psychic dream and poem We lose control of our new time machine, which seems to have its own agenda... CAUTION: CONTEMPLATION OF SUICIDE, CHRONOLOGICALLY IMPAIRED DREAMER
	WASHINGTON'S DUNE: by Wayan; 1992/1/18, a dream on perseverance. George Washington faces sniper fire, kamikaze birds and voices claiming the fight for freedom is hopeless...
	WELLS'S QUEST: by Wayan; 1992/7/14, a benevolent dream. I'm on a world inhabited by hobbits when H.G. Wells shows up, looking for a Ring of Power...
	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...
	WITWEET WAYAN: by Wayan, 1979/1/10, a dream of butch and femme. Six generations in the future, I find a poodle who can defuse the bomb my rival girlfriends can't... CAUTION: MAD SCIENTIST, EXHIBITIONIST GIRLFRIEND, POODLE HUMILIATION