Dreams listed by date:
2000
I started reading the journals I'd kept since my teens, and from those thirty thousand dreams, began building this site--partly as a tribute to my dad, who encouraged my dream-stories and art, but mainly just to have FINISHED something.
In summer, as I started typing up, editing, and illustrating this panorama of my entire dreamlife, my dreaming stopped. Oh, my REM didn't stop, but I woke with amnesia. All I had was the hazy feeling I should work on the website, not analyze any more dreams. I even dreamed that my dream-drought would be at least a year long, and was voluntary: I was sending my anima out into the astral plane as My Emissary, to change my contract with Life... and I wouldn't really be whole till she returned.
So I filled my days with work, and my nights with sleep, and forgot my dreams.
I lived, for the first time in my life, like an American.
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STOP RESISTING; 2000/1/2 by Anonymous #37; nightmare of injustice I'm sentenced for a crime I didn't commit; then the bailiff beats me for "resisting", though I'm not... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, SWEARING |
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COYOTE ANGEL: by Wayan; 2000/1/3, sculpture of dream figure. A shapeshifter caught in the moment of transformation, just as her arms unfold into smoky wings... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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BOYS DON'T CRY: by Wayan; 2000/1/7, twin sex nightmares reacting to a movie seen two days later! DREAM 1: My date Lana changes to my housemate Alder to my dead friend Beryl, who talks of pastlife trauma... DREAM 2: Sexy deer-girls and ice dancers get me and my sister hot, but a ghost disrupts impending incest... TWO DAYS LATER: I see Boys Don't Cry--settings, situations, characters & even names from my dream! CAUTION: DEER BREASTS, NEAR-INCEST, FILM ON TRANNYCIDE |
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OPEN YOUR CAGE: by Wayan; 2000/1/10; penciled collage of dream characters The cover of a collection of 11.5 dream-tales in glorious detailed Web-unfriendly black and white.... |
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TEN CHAMBERS: by Ben Bamber; Jan. 2000, a dream on free will vs. predestination I flew through a huge space habitat with ten chambers and thousands of people unaware they were caged... |
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DEAD, NOT STUPID: by Wayan; 2000/1/20, a (possibly predictive) ghost dream My little sisters tell the detectives, "Daddy's ghost has a message for you" but at first they don't listen... |
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SELF-PORTRAIT AS A YOUNG COYOTE: by Wayan; 2000/1/23; portrait of recurring dream self. I'm more a dream artist than a realist, but one day I set up a mirror and looked in it... |
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PATCHEN'S ANGELS: by Wayan; 2000/1/23, nondream crayon/digital drawings. I always liked the little creatures in picture-poet Kenneth Patchen's wild collage-pages... |
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BITE THE BULLET: by Wayan; 2000/1/25, a flightmare. We unearthed a sacred treasure, but now a mob of believers are out to lynch us! I better fly... CAUTION: SACRILEGE AND BAD PUNS |
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SPIDER TOILET: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 2000/2/7 hypnogogic image and 2000/2/17 nightmare First a lone image on waking, of a woman cradling a skeleton; ten days later, a nightmare of spiders swarming out of my toilet, covering me... |
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YOU'RE THE EAGLE: by Wayan; 2000/2/8, a dream fable. A hermit spends his life wrestling with shadows. His only disciple becomes famous. Who was happier? |
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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... |
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SPIDER TOILET: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 2000/2/7 hypnogogic image and 2000/2/17 nightmare First a lone image on waking, of a woman cradling a skeleton; ten days later, a nightmare of spiders swarming out of my toilet, covering me... |
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CATRISE: by Wayan; 2000/2/21, a sexy flying dream; acrylic painting. I'm an alien exchange student in Palo Alto High School. I get stared at--they wear clothes, they don't fly... CAUTION: FELINE NUDITY |
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KING-MAKERS: by Wayan; 2000/2/21, a dream of mediation. I'm a political aide to the leader of a hot-tempered, clawed, fanged alien people. And then my boss dies... |
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BUTTERFLY HABITAT: by Wayan; 2000/3/3, a dream on the price of memory. 'You always hurt the one you love', but this girl seems unaware she's proving it's true for ecology too... |
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SPOCK'S SPIRITS: by Wayan; 2000/3/12, a financial-advice 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? |
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A FRUGAL GHOST: by Wayan; 2000/3/12, a financial-advice dream. A Scottish ghost leads us on a treasure hunt, then insists we stop to pick up small change. But it adds up... |
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UNDER THEIR MASKS: by Wayan; 2000/3/17, an ecdysiastic dream Masked champions of Good and Evil fight, peeling off layers till they're elven-thin--what's left to hide? They can't keep stripping forever... |
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EMOTIONAL PALETTE: by Wayan; 2000/3/22, an indescribable dream. My spirit-wife and I spend our last evening together painting. Not with colors--with emotions... |
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EMISSARY: by Wayan; 2000/3/22, an astral dreamtale. I signed a prenatal agreement for weird, uneven luck to turn my life toward art and spirit. I want to broaden it, but I've lost the contract! So my spirit wife Silky sets out to find it... |
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WHEN BLOOD FLOWS, THE DANGER IS PAST by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2000/3/23 & 2000/4/19, twin dreams of carved women A woman is knifed by the sea. I cradle her, but she's probably dying... For my intitiation-ordeal, I have to cut designs in my own back! I can't reach, so... |
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LONELY NO MORE!: by Wayan; 2000/3/27, 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 |
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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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ROAR!: by Wayan; 2000/4/3, a nightmare transformed by a bluff Night. A jungle full of prowling lions and leopards. So naturally, I get up on a rock and roar back... |
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THE STAGMAN: by Wayan; 2000/4/7, waking landscape with dream figure. A slightly surrealized San Francisco landscape--not that it needed much help... CAUTION: PINK PAGAN TOES |
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THE ARMS POLICY: by Wayan; 2000/4/7, a nightmare. The government has a harsh policy on armed dissidents. Not the kind of arms you think... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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A GOTHIC TALE: by Roswila; 2000/4/7, a dream-poem Nightwalkers lured our empath away. We come to their castle to rescue her. But she's pregnant with magic. Will she come or stay? |
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A GLUM BAR: by Wayan; 2000/4/12, the quietest of nightmares. My house is a bar that never closes. You know what a gay bar is. Well, we're the opposite: a.... CAUTION: BAD VIBES |
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MUSHROOM-SHAPED ROCK: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 2000/4/14, a happy dream I climb a huge mushroom-shaped rock rising from a hotspring and prepare to dive in... |
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PASS THE VIAL ON: by Wayan; 2000/4/18, a dream of renunciation A vagabond king showed me the way into Faerie, and it made my fortune. But now it's time to pass the gift on... |
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FROG: by Wayan; 120K, 2000/4/19, a narrative digital picture-poem I was single and tired of kissing frogs. Then I realized--I AM one. Or worse: a pretentious polliwog... |
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WHEN BLOOD FLOWS, THE DANGER IS PAST by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2000/3/23 & 2000/4/19, twin dreams of carved women A woman is knifed by the sea. I cradle her, but she's probably dying... For my intitiation-ordeal, I have to cut designs in my own back! I can't reach, so... |
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THE NEPALESE DROP: by Wayan; 2000/4/20, a predictive nightmare. I climb a crumbling slope to a cliff with a Himalayan view; I slip, and no one lifts a hand to help as I... |
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INDIA ON THE SECURITY COUNCIL?: by Wayan; 2000/4/21, an annoying dream on peace. India wants a seat on the UN Security Council, but what of Pakistan? The UN has a modest proposal... |
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RUBBERNECKER: by Wayan; dreamed 2000/4/24; a ghost comedy. I dreamed of a woman whose jeep stalls on the Antarctic ice. Along comes the ghost of a Volkswagen... |
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BOIL THE CORD, or, A Dinner Date with the Faerie Queene: by Wayan; 2000/4/27, an anorexic dream I seek a stolen magic necklace, but end up dating the thief, an elf-queen with STRANGE taste in cookery... CAUTION: BAD SOUP |
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LION NOW, EMANCIPATION LATER: by Wayan; 2000/5/5, two dreams as my dad lay dying We must hunt a man-eating lion to protect our village--our village full of slaves. But we can't deal with our looming social crisis now--gotta focus on the lion in front of us.. CAUTION: SLAVERY, ILLNESS, DEATH |
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"YOU'RE INSANE": by Wayan; 2000/5/26, a nightmare warning I've been misjudged DAY: My dad's sick; my mom nags me to visit, though hospitals endanger me (weak immune system). DREAM: My parents say "You're insane. We must take control of your life." So I divorce my family... CAUTION: UGLY FAMILY VALUES |
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VIEWFINDER: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2000/5/31, a dream-ritual declined A friend explained she planned to be a human viewfinder, bendng into an arch for a male spirit to dive through. I didn't want to risk it... |
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MY PEGASUS: by Regina van der Poel; 2000/6/1, a dream of my Life Painting I free a friend unjustly imprisoned. On the run, we encounter our Life Paintings. Mine is a beautiful pegasus flying. But on its back is a monkey in a red suit... |
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HARPY: by Wayan; 2000/6/2, a stylized nightmare Day: my dad's paralyzed, and my car's stolen. Dream: a harpy made of steel, like a living Calder statue, holds three girls hostage... |
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BODY-SWITCH: by Wayan; 2000/6/10; a dream of a castaway soul Spies kidnap a girl and move her soul into a madwoman's body. Can she survive? Recover? Thrive? The TV dance show helps... |
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CAT WITH A KNIFE: by Wayan, 2000/6/24, a nightmare of a Jungian Shadow changed by patience A guy threatens me with a knife. I sit on him and wait patiently. Slowly he turns into a huge black cat! I set him free in a garden... |
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DREAM MILKING: by Wayan, 2000/6/30, a dream warning of overwork... but awake or asleep? After a hard day getting a "free" bed, I dream my milker comes to drain my dreams. Wait...did I agree to this? Or does milking drain objections, too? CAUTION: CREEPY |
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SELF-POSSESSED: by Wayan; a 2000/7/10 dream of a ghost (representing the World Dream Bank itself?) In a pizzeria, customers walk blindly through a ghost; briefly possessed, they echo his moods. But for such an insubstantial figure, he seems strangely stable... |
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APPLY FOR PRIORITY: by Wayan; 2000/7/11, a dream about taking yourself seriously While building the World Dream Bank, I dream a hacker says "certain remarkable sites get free fast access; you should apply..." |
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SPIRITUAL TESTS: by Wayan; 2000/8/28, a predictive dream As my dad lies dying, I dream my sister and I face spiritual tests given by slacker angels who'd rather be on TV. Learn to let go! |
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UNICORN ROUND: by Wayan; 2000/9/18, nondream; acrylic on a vinyl record. Yellow fireflies circling round the horn of a reclining red unicorn, in the evening... |
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THE RAINBOW SLEEPER: by Wayan; 2000/9/20, sculpture of a dream about a mega-sculpture In Rainbow Food Co-op, a huge statue of a sleeping woman emerged from the floor, shedding shoppers... |
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ARSON MUSIC: by Wayan; 2000/10/4, a parallel-world dream on ethics Driving through California farm hills with subtly different natural laws, I find social consequences. Can physics create evil? |
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SOUL-SHARD: by Wayan; 2000/10/5, a rebellious dream I’m a wolf in an ashram studying astral travel with my spirit-wife. Our souls blend a bit, enraging our guru, a Hindu god, who sends demons to make us stop this spiritual “contamination”... |
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GIRL IN THE WATER: by Wayan, 2000/10/7, twin dreams on... dreamwork? In a California with no Gold Rush, wild deer carry a girl over the San Fernando hills to a secret dream-pool... Then in a Japantown hotel lobby, that girl floats meditating in a huge aquarium, as local gossips lie about her... |
REDNECKS: by Tad Ramspott; c. 2000/10/20, a dream of shadows and underdogs |
I face two gunmen fleeing an invasion of dragons I support--since inside I'm a dragon. But I won't hurt them. Why? |
BLUE MERANGEL: by Wayan; three views 40K total. 2000/10/30, ceramic sculpture, 11.5" long. |
Seems strange to have no hands. How do dolphins get things done? By not needing to get things done? CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
VERITY, TOO?: by Wayan; 2000/11/5, a comic nightmare with good advice--if I avoid Freud! |
My art mentors turn on me! My mom the painter says I'm genetically inferior, and then my art teacher Verity sits on my head (ow!) and chants... |
SERAFINA AND RAM DASS: by Wayan; a 2000/11/6 dream anticipating an 11/9 experience with auras |
A Finnish shaman/witch gives me a lesson in night flying; in the waking world I meet Ram Dass and sense him speak astrally before his body can get the words out... CAUTION: HIGH MYSTICAL QUOTIENT; IF ALLERGIC, AVOID |
SNAKE COIL: by Wayan; 2000/11/1-14, dream-sculpture. |
I tried to be like my classmates--use tools, control what I made. But I couldn't. It came alive, and... |
RAPID TRANSIT: by Wayan; 1999 hypnogogic image; watercolor 2000/11/15. |
I was just sitting, minding my own business, when these golden wedge-birds and a tiny flying white mare divebombed me... |
REELS OF LIGHT PROPEL THE MOON: by Wayan; 2000/11/17; ink/digital sketch of the dream-voyage. |
The moon's a sailing ship propelled not by wind but light: the light of night-movies. Dreams... |
SONG FOR THE DANCE: by Roswila; 2000/11/25, a dream-poem |
A joyful song about ignoring your critics. The last stanza came verbatim from the dream... |
FROGWOMAN MARCH: by Wayan; 2000/11/26, poem of a surreal but almost plausible dream. |
Two protesters, under the weight of full scuba gear and flippers, waddle toward City Hall--the first steps of a transcontinental march. Or at least transcontinental waddle... |
ERECTION 2000: by Wayan, 2000/11/28; ceramic sculpture 9" tall; response to stolen 2000 election. |
A candidate glad to shake your hand... though not all you voters will want him to... CAUTION: ANOTHER PRICK RUNNING FOR OFFICE |
FIGURE DRAWING: DAPPLED: by Wayan; 2000/11/29, pastel digitally tweaked. |
A pensive leonine woman resting on a tilted rock. A life drawing with certain imaginary spots. CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
FASHION SHOOT: by Wayan, 2000/11/30; nondream ceramic sculpture 10.5" long. |
Inspired by a fashion outtake of model and director clowning. I fused the director and the camera, and... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
LION-GIRL TRIANGLE: by Wayan; 2000/12/11, an uncomfortable sex-dilemma dream, possibly predictive |
I'm a betrothed teenager having to choose between mates, in an alternate Africa where lions are another tribe of people--and occasionally adopt humans... CAUTION: NUDITY |
ON THE SEASHORE: by Gabrielle Bell; between 1998-2002; a lucid dream-comic |
I'm on a beach in Mexico with a baby--my only souvenir of an affair I can't recall. I'm a mom? My whole life will change! Wait. Is this real, or... |
THE COIL: by Wayan; 1999-2000. Mad instrument design that might just work |
A spiral dream-instrument I'm building, that's easier to play than a piano or guitar, and a lot snakier... |
CHICKADEES: by Peggy Bowman; c.2000?, a poem on a flying dream. |
I dream of chickadees, bold and talkative; I fly with them. Below, a hurdy-gurdy man celebrates our play. Notes rise up, take wing like little birds, and fly with us... |
DANCE OF THE ENIGMAS: by Brian Harp; 2000, a dream of a sphinx-riddle |
She asked "What, plus a teaspoon of knowledge and a teaspoon of wisdom, makes three teaspoons of nothing?" |
DOOR OF ETERNITY: by Marie-Claude Girondé, early 2000s, a painting on dreamwork's layeredness. |
"If you put an ear to the door of books and the doors of the night, if you pay attention, you can hear the conversation of poets..." |
FAMILY STORE: by Mark Ian Barasch's father, c. 2000; a subtly psychic dream healing a family |
I dream my son the writer's living above our old family store, the one that failed in the Depression... |
I DREAMT I WAS SOMEONE ELSE: by Moonlit Jade, c.2000, a child's genderbent dream |
I dreamt I was an adult, and male. I was hiking in the snow with my girlfriend or wife. I felt protective--and utterly at home in this quite different body. If dreams process our daily experience, what did this dream draw on? |
JACKIE: by Lindsay Vanhove, early 2000s? Premonitions and a dream prompting a bird-rescue |
I dreamed a big black bird shared our house, and whenever I walked a certain street, I had flashes of raising a corvid. On day, on that street, I saved a jackdaw hit by a car. Her broken wing has healed; now she flies in and out of our house as she pleases... |
KOLCHEC: by Al Davison (Jan.1977-1978) & Sara Welponer 2000, sketches of a shared dream-figure |
AL repeatedly drew a bizarre, recurring dream-guide named Kolchec; years later he met SARA, who'd painted her dream-guide, a distinctive spook named--oh, take a guess... CAUTION: WILL DISTURB ESP SKEPTICS |
LION RIDER: by Jo Equinity; c. 2000?, an anticipatory consoling dream |
I dreamed I was riding a lion. A few days later, when my husband suddenly left me, I recalled the dream and... |
MY MOTHER'S CLOSET: by Rachel Hadas, c. 2000; |
a dream-poem provoking a 2008/9/16 dream by Chris Wayan I was in my mother's closet, trying on her outfits, and trapped in Hamlet, too... |
TWO GUITARS: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 2000; a multileveled psychic dream |
I dream my daughter's selling two unused guitars. They seemed symbolic until I told her the dream and... |
BROTHER: by Noelle Stevenson; c.2000-2012?, recurring rescue dreams |
I kept dreaming of a boy in striped pajamas. I had to save him every night. Until one night I failed. I just couldn't. I knew who he was--my brother who... CAUTION: DEATH |
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