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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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	ALL MANNER OF THINGS THAT BEGIN WITH M: by Wayan; 1995. Digital collage of dream images A painting of mountains, manes, mermaids, moons, mattresses, mouths, maples, mohawks, mice and men... CAUTION: NUDE M-THINGS
	AMBIVALENT? NO! (YES): by Wayan; 108K, 1990. Digital panorama of dream-characters. A chronological orgy of my self-images from childhood on: horses, geeks, girls, satyrs, boys, monsters... CAUTION: SEX
	ARBORETUM CAT: by Wayan; acrylic nondream landscape, 1999/4/14. Golden Gate Park's arboretum, in San Francisco, is home to feral cats, skunks, raccoons, people...
	BELL CURVE IN THE DARK: by Wayan; 1982/8/17, a dream fable. A human pinball game played in the dark, with bells for stoppers, sorting people into a Gaussian bell-curve...
	THE BIOSPHERE VARIATIONS: by Wayan; 15 MB, 2004-6, a set of sculpture-photo-drawing-travelog-webmazes: Tour beautiful, bizarre worlds most exobiologists would write off as hopeless for life, and meet the natives... CAUTION: SEXY ALIENS, WEIRD CUSTOMS, EVOLUTION
	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
	CLOUD OF GLORY: by Wayan, 1986/5/19, a dream on lost identity. Abducted as a kid by alien angels, raised in a luminous cloud, I find it hard to keep a human perspective...
	DEER SORCERESS: by Wayan; 1981/5/18, a dream on the virtues of chaos. A witch-girl turned to a deer flees hell-hounds who just CAN'T get organized...
	THE DISPLAY: by Wayan; 1997/10/17, a natural history dream. I'm trapped in a nature documentary about mating displays among humans... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, PBS NARRATION, AND OTHER EMBARRASSMENTS
	E PLURIBUS UNUM: by Wayan; 1999. Digital painting of allegorical orgy America isn't the Melting Pot. It's the Humping Pot... CAUTION: THE BEAST WITH 300,000,000 BACKS
	FAMILIAR WOOD: by Wayan; 1994/11/10, a dream of the borderzone. Downtown San Francisco hides a magic wood, full of talking tigers. I must enter it to live a while...
	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...
	GARDEN OF THE GODS: by Wayan; 1995/10/6, a dream of slowth. In the Garden of the Gods, I sit through sun and rain. For the gods aren't the gardeners, but the crop...
	HERON HAREM: by Wayan; 1981/6/14, a dream with a moral. I'm a heron working in the Civil Service. I want to blow the whistle, but then how would I support my... CAUTION: BIRD-SLAVERY?
	HUNT OF THE UNICORN: by Wayan; 1989/5/18, an overlooked psychic dream. I marry, just to get into a clannish world where I'm seeking symbiotic unicorns. But I end up hunted too...
	I GOT OUT: by Wayan; 1992/1/4, a psychic dream; 9-page comic, 500K (or open page by page: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9) I flee our love triangle when Abe turns mean. He's telepathic, but I have a plan: the goldfish, the snakepit, the underworld... CAUTION: THREESOME, SCARY BOYFRIEND, SNAKE HEADACHES, MOTORCYCLE FATALITY
	ID FLOWERS: by Wayan; 1989/10/8, a dream of wish and fear The villagers warned me not to walk in the alien graveyard; for at night, the Id flowers wake...
	IN THE SHADOW OF MAN: by Wayan; 850K, 3 illus., 1994/3/4, a dreamfable on needs. I'm a lab animal who discovers voice software and creates a personal zine, testifying for our rights...
	JAREDIA: by Wayan; 770K, 26 illus, early 2003, a nondream sculpture/photoessay/travelog. I tilted the Earth to created a tropical supercontinent from Bali to Tierra del Fuego. What will evolve there--and on the new tropical Antarctica?
	JOIN THE HUMAN RACE: by Wayan; 1985/2/11, a Gordian dream. My shortcut in a marathon bogs down in a maze full of psychoanalysts! So I climb the walls and...
	JOVE'S LIMBO: by Wayan; 1994/11/27, a dream of astral muckraking. Half elvish, rejected, I wander the worlds, and find a limbo built by Zeus--but do the inmates deserve it?
	LYR: by Wayan; 7MB, 2005, 80 pages w/200+ drawings and maps; a virtual planet A vast sea-world with 8 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species... CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION!
	MAELEN AND ME: by Wayan; 1972/5/1, a transmigrational dream. I'm a psychic circus animal who's just managed to teleport my humanoid girlfriend. It's for our act, but... CAUTION: PETTING
	MOONCAT: by Wayan; 150K, 1995/11/26; a subtle dream of sonar Near a mysterious sculpture garden on the moon, lives the blind, bike-riding sage I seek: Moon-Cat...
	PRISONS AND STRIPES: by Emily Joy; 2007/10/4, a lucid dream. In a museum full of spacetime-bubbles holding lost souls, the museum-goers are as weird as the exhibits...
	RANI: by Wayan; 120K total (8 illus.), 1994/1/28, a dreamtale on choice. A Borges story of a were-tiger provokes a dream of a ranch crawling with weird women. But I LIKE them... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
	REFLECTIONS IN THE POOL: by Wayan; 184K total, 2 panoramas; a 1994/7/2 dream. Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love. Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace? CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL
	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...
	ROAR!: by Wayan; 2000/4/3, not exactly a nightmare... Night. A jungle full of prowling lions and leopards. So naturally, I get up on a rock and roar back...
	THE SEMI-INTELLIGENT ANIMAL PROBLEM: by Wayan; 1986/4/6, a dream. The army breeds smart animals. Scientists fear they'll upset ecosystems. No one speaks for the creatures... CAUTION: DIRECT ACTION
	SLEAZE: by Cecy and Wayan; 1991/7/28; subtle shared dreams. Our ranch has arsonist neighbors who call the cops and blame us for it! Meanwhile, my friend dreams...
	SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: by Wayan; 1978/10/26, a dreamtale. A demigoddess and a wizard meddle with humans. But do even THEY know what they're assembling?
	THARN: by Wayan; 8.3MB (45 p, 200+ ill.), 2006, a nondream virtual world: maps, photos, portraits, tours Tour a rugged, spectacular moon with air and water in deep canyons sheltering a dozen intelligent species CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, SCIENCE
	TOES: by Wayan; 7K, 1990 Digital nondream image My foot is a torso and my toes sprout conflicting personalities... CAUTION: STUPID CARTOON NUDITY
	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...
	TWO-HEADED BEAST: by Wayan; 333K total, 12 images, 1997/7/31, a Gothic dream. In Castle Frankenstein, will Mary Shelley wed Elmer Fudd? His two-headed monster has marital advice...
	UNICORN ORGY: by Wayan; 400K total, 20 illus., 1997-2004; sculpture, 1'x2'x2'. A sculpted orgy of unicorns, dryads, and werewolf-satyrs designed to stand sideways on your wall... CAUTION: SEX
	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!
	WATERCATS: by Wayan; 170K, 1987/9/10; a psychic dream of another life. I'm a biologist who finds an 'extinct' species in a slum. But the survivors speak: they tell me I'm one of them, just hypnotized to think I'm human... And when I wake, another kind of cultural hypnosis is exposed:
	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...