THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: Workaholism

The World Dream Bank:
Workaholism

Dreams about workaholism--the most prevalent addiction here in America. Even a casual browse of this list will make it obvious the Americans have gotten to me, too--my dreams are full of warnings I work too much and play too little. And I'm locally famous for refusing to give in and get a real job... so what does that make the rest of you?

RELATED TOPICS: weird dream jobs - career advice in dreams - play - addictions and 12-step programs - 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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	BIRD CRASH: by Emily Joy; 2007/3/12, a set of didactic nightmares Such pressures there are on the sick to act well! I implore you, ignore them all... CAUTION: EXPLODING TEACHER
	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
	CECY'S SUBMISSION: by Wayan; 157K total, 1996/6/4, a sex-farce dream. My writer-friend Cecy will do anything to get published. Anything? Oh, believe me, ANYTHING... CAUTION: BONDAGE, not to mention POSTAGE
	CHICKENS: by Wayan; 1998/6/6, a journal extract on survival I realize how strongly environmental illness sculpts my view of the world... CAUTION: CHICKEN BONDAGE
	DEYUPPIFIER: by Wayan; 1985/11/6 a gleeful dream fable. I built a sex-maze to reprogram businesspeople, but I only grasp its meaning when I fuck City Hall... CAUTION: SEX, LANGUAGE, POLITICS
	ECCENTRIC: by Wayan; 100K, a two-page comic of a 1990/5/17 dream. I'm a small planet in an eccentric orbit: a one-day summer, a two-day winter. Rest and hibernate, or... CAUTION: SLACKER ETHIC
	EDGE: by Wayan; 1992?, digital painting of a nondream vision. A robed figure crowds a wild horse to a cliff-edge. One's my body, one's my soul. But which?...
	FLYING UNICORNS' GIFTS: by Lily Michaud; 2007/9/5, an advice-dream inside a flying dream Flying unicorns hang out with me and my friends, sending us dreams full of useful advice--and more concrete gifts...
	HEADEGG (Black-Eyed Bird of Pain): by Wayan; 1983/10/24; acrylic painting of a headache-trance. I was cartooning with a headache. It took over and started drawing for me...
	HEALING THE RING: by Wayan; 1984/8/22, a nightmare on... anger? I bear a Ring of Power meant to corrupt me. I cleansed it, at a cost, but can't wield it till I've read its spell...
	I LET RATS: by Wayan; 1994/4/22, a nightmare on appeasement. A bold rat comes right up to me. I don't want to provoke it, so I stay quiet. And let the rats... CAUTION: UGH!
	ICARIAN PAIN: by Wayan; 125K, 3 ill., 1982/10/19, a dream of shyness, and flying, and pinching yourself. I meet some cute dancers, but rather than flirt, I just try ballet leaps too. I get more than I bargained for...
	IS SOLITUDE HOLY?: by Wayan; 1998; a watercolor on dreamwork's isolation. When I compare Julia Butterfly up her tree with those hermits who sat atop columns in the desert...
	JUST SAY NOSE: by Wayan; 1989, nondream digital poster-poem-rant. What really built Silicon Valley? Oh, pizza, sugar, coffee, speed and cocaine, mostly... CAUTION: DRUGS ON THE JOB
	LEARNING SCALES: by Wayan; 1985/6/26, an epic dream of Chinese dragons. I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost. We need a Dragon...
	MENAGE A THREE, MOVE TO PAREE: by Wayan; 1986? Sketch of recurrent dream theme I was a young dream-artist out of place in the Silicon Valley...
	PIXY: by Wayan; 200K, 2006/3/25, six images; a diagnostic sex dream? Janet's obsessed with a creepy guy, until her friend Kay--a pixy--decides to knock some sense into her cunt... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, EMBARRASSING SITUATION, NASTY LOVE SPELL
	RACK: by Wayan; 2006/4/4; a comic business-bondage dream My friend Chris gets tied up at the office--that’s his job, looking martyred! But when the boss is away... CAUTION: NUDITY
	REST TOO: by Wayan; 1999. Acrylic on 12" LP; a life-sketch with a lesson. The mysterious glyphs above the model's head are dream-language, warning me to... CAUTION: NUDITY
	SILKY SHIELDS A VANDAL: by Wayan; 1994/8/6, a cautionary dream. I'm a kid in a classroom someone's trashed. Our teacher goes ballistic. But was the gypsy girl framed?
	SLAVES DON'T DANCE: by Wayan; 400K (17 ill.), 1999/8/1, an epic Shakespearean dream. Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm made nurse to her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is...
	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...
	SPOCK'S SPIRITS: by Wayan; 2000/3/12, a skewed Trek dream. Lost in a dark maze of machine-shops, I follow Mr. Spock, who's drunk, and talks to tree-spirits... CAUTION: ALCOHOL AS INSPIRATION?
	SPORECOUNT: by Wayan; 105K, 1990/1/5, a dreamtale on change-phases. I'm a hot archeology student till I open the wrong tomb. A plague turns us into green moldy monsters... CAUTION: DISEASE, DEATH, GRIEF, SHAME
	STINKING RICH: by Wayan; 1993/1/20, a dream about class. I envy and resent a rich family's mansion so much I break in and sabotage their giant meat freezer... CAUTION: HOSTILITY, ENVY, WASTE OF BAD FOOD
	TAROT: MINE CHILD: by Wayan; 31K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. Deep down in the strata inside you, gems lie waiting in the dark. Waiting for this child to dig them free...
	TAROT: REST!: by Wayan; 17K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. The card of fatigue and rest. Tarot's so primal--never a dull moment. Well, take a break...
	WOLF, NO WOLF: by Wayan; 1996/7/24, a nondream rant on place. Is there really that much difference between the rootless yuppies flooding the West, and war refugees?