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AFTER THE BANG: by Wayan; 2001/5/16, a poem on the World Dream Bank. The Big Bang happens, you're inspired, you make something of it... then what? The Big Whimper? |
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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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ART TAKES GUTS: by Wayan; 1982/12/26, ink, 11x14", a confessional doodle. Why this site? Because if I'm around when you see my dream art, I feel like THIS... |
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ASTAIRES: by Wayan; 2015/11/17, a dream about... the Web? A host of Fred Astaires dance mid-air in an endless spiderweb, then pound on typewriters randomly forever... |
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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 |
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BOATS: by SAO (Shawn Allen O'Neal); March 2001, a doubly predictive dream. Were the rowdy face-boats really ghosts haunting this old house, harbingers of my future online... or both? |
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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 |
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CENTAUR AUDITION: by Wayan; 2012/1/7 and 2012/1/30, two linked Pygmalion dreams Non-dream centaur ballerinas invade my dreams, because they long to be in the World Dream Bank... CAUTION: BARBIE CENTAUR NUDITY, CASTING-COUCH OVERTONES |
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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? |
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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... |
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CRISP: by Wayan; 1991? Digital poster on Web art. Is digital Web blather any better than old-fashioned, live, analog blather? CAUTION: STUPIDITY |
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THE DIADEM RATIO: by Wayan; 1994/8/14, an absurdist dream. I stumble into the middle of a dream conversation--on ghosts, tiaras and pigs-- and struggle to figure out what what on earth we were already talking about... |
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THE DOGGYSEY: by Wayan, 2009/11/26, a dream Odyssey predicts my own artistic path I find I'm a fox singing the Disney musical version of a canine epic: the tale of Odysseus the Mutt and his purebred Big Brother vying for the paw of Penelope--and the throne of Ithaka... CAUTION: POLTERGEIST |
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DRAGONFLY ANTENNA: by Wayan; summer 1978. A surreal childhood memory. I'm just old enough to recall forests of fishbones and dragonflies on every roof... |
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DREAM RECALL: by Wayan; 1998/8/1, two dreams on dreaming. Are dreamworlds grim, on average? Do our dreams just express fears, or try to SOLVE our problems? |
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DREAM-TAN: by Madellyne Waugh; late April 2010, a digital, institutional avatar I've been drawing a personification of the World Dream Bank. Nerdy, but most of your readers are nerds... |
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AN ELECTORAL DRAGON: by Wayan; 1998/10/21, a virtual-reality-campaign-ad dream In a world of hideous haircuts (flagging your politics) I meet a dragon running for office. But is this real or a dream? Both/neither! It's... |
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EYEBOLT: by Wayan; 2005/10/1, a squeamish advisory dream I'm on a British train, sitting across from an attractive, stylish woman with a massive databolt stuck in her eye--and I have to unscrew it... |
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FLIER MISJUDGES REEFWORLD: by Wayan; 2018/12/16, an otherworldly dream on... social media? A girl from a low-gravity, dense-air world, where you strap on wings and fly, tours a world of tropical atolls with me. I love sailing, but flight's spoiled her for it--too slow... |
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FOR WORLD DREAM BANKERS: by Patagia; 2007/9/21, a praise-poem for dreamers Dreamwork takes discipline, but writing and painting dreams for others takes even more: courage! |
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FOUR OF TEN: by Wayan; 2021/4/3, four examples from ten dreams in one night Books are clothes, and always were. A potato makes me lie, and everyone gets it but me. Sex in a crowd disarms the Mom Squad! And a Mystic Autistic's soul explores my room... CAUTION: PUBLIC SEX? PROBABLY. |
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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 |
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GOOGLE DREAMS: by Michael Flora; early 2010, three (psychic? cryptomnesic?) dreamlets on names After an article suggests we roam the multiverse in sleep, I dream of three strange names. Awake, I google them... |
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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... |
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THE HAUNTED CODE: by Wayan; 2017/6/16, a warning dream about denying history A mail-order warehouse in Kansas sends ghost-infected software out, causing mayhem. But less than when Kansas exported the killer flu 100 years ago... CAUTION: DISSES KANSAS & CAPITALISM, FOR GOOD HISTORICAL REASONS |
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HAWK RIDGE: by Wayan; 1990/2/15; primitivist digital dream-painting I dreamed I was a gull in Middle Earth fighting Sauron, though he blurred my vision; but my hawk-eyed gullfriends helped me out... |
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HEART CHAKRA: by Wayan; 2011/5/8, a dreamlet blending Indian mysticism and the movie Megamind I'm a digital superhero, rubbing red-orange oil into my fake skin. I have six more colors of oil to rub in, six more chakras to heal. But first things first!... |
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HUMMINGBIRD MEME: by Althea; 2022/1/14, a dream of 15 minutes of fame I rescue a hummingbird who drinks nectar from my ear. It becomes an Internet star. But then a girl rides a waterslide with her tits showing, and my meme is over ... CAUTION: CARTOON BREASTS |
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IGUANA: by Jim Shaw; between 1987 & Jan. 1995, two surreal dreamlets on water damage In a flooded room, an indignant iguana scolds me, while my wife Marnie checks her computer implant for water damage... |
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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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MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES: by Wayan, 2017/9/14, a reassuring dream. Sort of. I worry I'm overworking, but my dream says life's so crash-prone you should let creative frenzy happen... |
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MALWARE IN THE BRAIN: by Wayan, 2017/12/27, a possibly predictive dream. Dream: tourists in our town use brainware to navigate & translate, but it's infected. Turns you fascist. Whaaaat?... Next day: the FBI knocks! Our web provider fingered us as a nest of internet criminals. Thanks, Comcast! Talk about malware... |
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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... |
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MORTAL MIST: by Wayan; 2010/10/19, a lucid dream of a new sort for me I miss all sorts of cues I'm dreaming, but I ignore my conviction I'm awake and try to fly anyway... |
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THE MOST FANTASTIC LUCID DREAM OF MY LIFE: by "Ben"; 2007/8/24, an epic lucid dream I fly, send dreamails, discuss dreams with dream folk, punch a wall to test dream-pain, reach into mirrors... |
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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... |
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NEW LEVEL!: by "Julian"; 2006/5/22, 3 gamelike dreams in one night, two of them epic My mom and I road-duel an alien beetle, then investigate a deepspace Marie Celeste; then I spy for the Angevin Empire to protect the Crown Jewels... |
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NIP OFF HIS NOSE: by Wayan, 2020/2/20, four surreal dreamlets about Covid? or... overwork? 1: I sketch two deer-girls making videos. 2: I pull a man's nose off, and milk the scene for drama before... 3: My old boss is convicted of murder! 4: I wake and two friends interpret #3 as "Overwork is killing you..." I wake again. My dream-notebook's blank. No friends here; their interpretation was a dream too.... CAUTION: NUDE DEER |
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ODE TO SPAM: by Wayan; 2007/10/11, a poem about the wonders of email Softly snows the spam upon my lonely brain, quilting me in flounderdrifts. Shovel it again... |
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PEARL RING: by Ruth M. Bedford, 1938; 3 predictive dreams I dreamt I stepped on my engagement ring and crushed its pearl. Next I dreamt ink stained it. Then I dreamt it fell in the sea, and the brine dissolved it. Then the telegram came: my fiancé... |
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PERFORATED PAPERFEED BACKWARD: by Wayan; 1984/8/27, a predictive dreamlet. DREAM: a weird music player that you feed "tapes" made of Z-folded, perforated paper... backward. NEXT DAY: my boss tries to fix a balky printer by feeding it Z-folded, perforated paper... backward. |
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POKING THROUGH THE NET: by Wayan; 1993/8/6, a dream on evading repression. Cultists must wear a burqa and confess their sins daily. So why's their beach such a pickup scene? CAUTION: NUDITY UNDER FISHNETS |
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PRAYER (WE SHALL BE REBORN): by Wayan; 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? |
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PRINCESS LILY: by Dou Xun, as told by Pu Songling; before 1679: recurring psychic dreams, or fiction? Dou dreams he marries Lily; when a monstrous snake attacks her huge family, he reluctantly hosts them all... when he wakes, they turn out to be bees driven from their hive by a (very real) snake... |
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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... |
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SECRET SCREEN: by Wayan; 2018/4/19 and 2018/5/16, three linked dreamlets of escape A friend nags me to be lookout as he steals a cult's papers. I know it'll end in murder, but foresight paralyzes me! In a videogame that keeps freezing unplayably, I find a button calling up a secret screen of second chances... I'm lost in a grim basement, but two kids show me a cobwebbed glass door you can walk through like air... |
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SELL THE GODS, AND RAISE HELL!: by Wayan; 1994/1/26, a dream riddle. Reactionaries smash a paper. To rebuild, the editor must sell the sacred tiki carvings! But gods don't LIKE being sold... CAUTION: MORAL QUANDARY |
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SHIP OF JADE: by Wayan; 2009/11/7, an illustrated dreampoem on dreampoetry! Dreamverse #64 My dreams are made of lovely carvable jade. Too bad my tools and skills suit our plastic age... |
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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 |
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SO ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION: by Wayan; 1990? Lost digital picture-poem restored. I had a horrible realization that computers are useless, and I tried to make it beautiful... |
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TAKE UP YOUR PENN; Dreamed 2015/12/18 by John Wallace; a sly dream Illusionist Penn Jillette pulls a large-scale prank with an ending not even I see coming... |
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TAROT: MEDIA MINDFUCK (2 of swords): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. The traditional figure is blindfolded, holding two crossed swords. I used crossed TV antennae... |
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THREE WAYS TO FLY: by Wayan; 2010/11/10, a dream urging the World Dream Bank to shift I'm shown pictures of three different magical ways to fly. But the third shows no actual flight--just someone giving away the magical means... |
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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 to backup her memories and... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
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TOPOGRAPHY OF EXCESS: by Wayan; 1996/1/22. Digital painting on digital painting. They call it the information highway because we're all supposed to march in formation... |
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TRAVEL: by "SchlofM"; 2008/2/10, a dream about protection I'm on a trip to who knows where, with my young-again mom, my dead dad, and--who's that guy? |
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TWILIGHT'S OVAL GAME: by Wayan; 2017/10/4, three dreams arguing "Friendship is Magic"--literal magic. 1: I failed to save a magic tree. It fell and killed someone. I'm racked with guilt... 2: A giant pinball game on a tilted oval relief-map. But you can only win as a team of six friends... 3: A Caribbean girl with a weird aura tries to align two magic crystals to heal herself... CAUTION: BREASTS, MY LITTLE PONY AS ROLEMODEL |
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THE WEB-BIRD LED ME: by Wayan; 1992/8/13; digital sketch previsioning the World Dream Bank? Maybe the web like a shining dove will lead me from my lonely cave into the light. The glaring light... Wait! That can't be right! CAUTION: SEPIA HALFTONE NUDITY |
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THE WEEPING BRAIN: by Wayan; 2010/12/5; an anti-workaholic nightmare poem My sister just bought a biocomputer: an enslaved human brain in a box of weeping skin... |
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WERTZ!: by Wayan; 2023/10/14, a night of cartoonist-inspired dreams After seeing Julia Wertz's cartoon history of her entire dreamlife (on one big page!) I dream Wertz style all night! I don't mind the nightmares--what gets me down is comics' black & white... CAUTION: NIGHTMARES, SEX |
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WINK OF A CAR: by Wayan; 2009/5/20, a surreal dream on workaholism. DAY: I work way too much--art projects plus helping a friend get her lost data back... DREAM: A gun nut threatens me, so I claim I bent his gun. Really I just bent spacetime. He flees atop his toy car, letting it steer--it's smarter than he is. That car winks at me... |
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YEATS: by Wayan; 1990/1/1, a nondream poem wrestling with Yeats's dreams & visions Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted? |
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YOU CHIPHEAD! : by Wayan, 1997/1/31, a sarcastic dream. Chips are faster than brains these days, so everyone's upgrading--everyone but me... |
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