THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: the Net

The World Dream Bank:
Computers and the Net

Dreams of the online world--from how computers alter the creative process (a big one for me personally) to the transformation of work and workplaces, to the social effects of the Net.

RELATED TOPICS: robots and artificial intelligences - what if you're an AI?: cross-platform dreams - TV dreams - news media - oracles - community and belonging - literary dreams - movie dreams - language - 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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	ART TAKES GUTS: by Wayan; ink, 11x14", 1982, a waking confession. Why this site? Because if I'm around when you see my dream art, I feel like THIS......
	THE BIBLE REDUCED TO FLOWERS: by Wayan; 1994/9/8, a dream of the future. In the future, books morph as they crawl round the web, till just the popular bits are left... CAUTION: YOU TOO COULD BE CENSORED
	BOX: by Wayan; 1991? Digital self-portrait as dreamer trapped on the Web.. So exactly how is posting all these dreams different from crawling naked inside your screen?. CAUTION: NUDITY
	CHAPERONE AND REBEL: by Wayan; 1998/5/18, a flirtatious dreamtale. A girl with a magic swimsuit flashes me, as her Iranian fundamentalist aunt glares from beyond the veil... CAUTION: NUDITY? OR ILLUSION?
	YOU CHIPHEAD! : by Wayan, 1997/1/31, a sarcastic dream. Chips are faster than brains these days, so everyone's upgrading--everyone but me...
	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...
	CRISP: by Wayan; 1991? Digital poster on Web art. Is digital Web blather any better than old-fashioned, live, analog blather? CAUTION: STUPIDITY
	THE DIADEM RATIO: by Wayan; 1994/8/14, an absurd dream scene. I stumble into the middle of my own dream and struggle to figure out just what the hell I'm talking about...
	DRAGONFLY ANTENNA: by Wayan; 1980s. Ink, newsprint. A surreal memory. I'm just old enough to recall forests of fishbones and dragonflies on every roof...
	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...
	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...
	FRAMED!: by Wayan; 2006/10/18, a political nightmare. To fight the drug trade, cute little blonde cops plant packets on men in the park. And when I resist... CAUTION: BAD COPS
	HARD DISK POND: by Wayan; 1989/8/27, a dream of art as a door. We build a huge hard disk that's a virtual pond--a gate to other worlds! But not for reptile brains...
	HAWK RIDGE: by Wayan; 1988; Primitivist (and primitive) nondream digital painting Early wild and wobbly computer art, reveling in those lush luminous colors...
	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
	MODELING A ME: by Wayan, 1994/8/29, a mirroring dream I find a 3D program that shows your true self, the self that can love, IS love. And my wireframe is...
	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...
	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?
	POKING THROUGH THE NET: by Wayan; 1993/8/6, a dream on evading repression. Cult members must wear a chadoor, and daily confess their sins. So why's their beach such a pickup scene?
	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?
	REINDEER FOREST: by Wayan; ca. 1985, nondream ink sketch, approx 9x14" Reindeer linked by their heads--curiously analogous to language, or culture, or the Web, isn't it...
	SELL THE GODS, AND RAISE HELL!: by Wayan; 1994/1/26, a dream riddle. Reactionaries smash a paper. To rebuild, the editor must sell tiki carvings! But gods don't LIKE being sold... CAUTION: MORAL QUANDARY
	SHOWERED WITH WISHES: by Zooop; 2007/3/12, a dream that enough is enough I took my cellphone into the shower. I couldn’t find the shampoo, and idly typed SHAMPOO in, and... CAUTION: NOW YOU KNOW WHO STOLE YOUR ODD SOCKS
	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...
	TAROT: MEDIA MINDFUCK (2 of swords): by Wayan; 32K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. The traditional figure is blindfolded, holding two crossed swords. I used crossed TV antennae...
	TIBETAN DISASSEMBLY: by Wayan; 2007/7/5, a dream of a desperate ploy A woman in Tibet disassembles herself! A local god hires her spirit, but she uses the office equipment... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
	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...
	TRAVEL: by "SchlofM"; 2008/2/10, a dream about protection I'm on a wild trip to who knows where, with my young-again mom and my dead dad... and who's that other guy?
	THE WEB-BIRD LED ME: by Wayan; 115K, 1994. Digital sketch of a vision... of this dreamsite?. Maybe the web like a shining dove will lead me out of my lonely cave into the light. The glaring light. Wait! CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	YEATS: by Wayan; 1990/1/1, a poem wrestling with Yeats's visions. Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted?