World Dream Bank timeline: 2002

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2002

I swore I was quitting in 2001! My dreams had dried up from too much website-building, and I had said it all.

So what happened? Art, mostly. I went broke this year, and started painting seriously again, joined a cooperative gallery. I've been drawing, painting and writing at a greater pace than when building the World Dream Bank, if that's possible. The chronology is hazy, and I decided against listing these art pieces as new work if they illustrate older dreams; so the list below is mostly nondream work, such as Shiveria, a carefully worked-out alternate Earth, one of a series called TILT!. Doing all the science on these ate up a lot of time...

I still don't dream nearly as vividly as before building the Dreambank. There are so many dreams still crying out to be painted or told or sung... plus, I'm enjoying non-dream art. There is, to my surprise, an undream world out there. With inhabitants and everything...

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	THIRTEEN PEACE SIGNS IN A TIME OF WAR: by Wayan; early 2002, acrylic sgraffito on wood. The animal goddess of peace, stubbornly raising her sign, my sign, as you all slide into your nice holy war...
	SKIMMING TOWARD FREEDOM: by Wayan; 2002/1/18, a dream with 3 sketches. My girlfriend and I can fly, but detectives shadow us. How to lose them? By sticking to the beach and... CAUTION: BIZARRE CREATURES, FRANK LANGUAGE
	SPEAKING ABOUT ART WITH THE AFRICAN BEINGS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2002/1/19, a dream-painting of a dream about dream-painting! I'm teaching an art class full of strange masklike beings. We debate art as spontaneous process, versus art as planned product...
	AMERICAN WIDOW: by Alissa Torres; February 2002, a dream of her husband lost on 9/11 High-voltage traces of our lust and love flowed through our mattress nightly... until one night when the power surged and overflowed. Then I felt you...
	ON BEING NEEDY/NEEDED: by Roswila; February 2002, a dream-poem In her kitchen she offers me shortcake. She's short herself, for she gives away all to everyone--only her bodiless head is left...
	DAWN'S DIVORCE: by Dawn Z; 2002/3/1-21, an outrageous dream sequence While going through a painful breakup, I kept having sexy, lucid, psychic dreams...
	THE COMING DARK: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 2002/3/2; a dream on one disaster averted, and one... not. I climb down a cliff before night strands me; but in town, risky adolescent games cause a crash...
	A GAMER'S DREAM: by Mark Nelson; 2002/3/5; A collage of real-world events brought into dreams I face a barrage of deadly challenges out of every action film I've seen and every game I've ever played...
	PENTALEMMA: by Wayan; 2002/3/10 to 2006/5/1?, a 13-page nondream improv-comic on deep goals Hypnotized in therapy, I saw AT LEAST five competing goals tugging at me like gravity fields. Naturally I drew them. Come tour the Inner Solar System of our desires... CAUTION: NUDITY (BODY, HEART, BRAIN, SOUL)
	THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME: by Wayan, 2002/3/17, digital study of dream figure--sort of Usually I wobble on high heels--but with four feet, maybe I can follow the Yellow Brick Road... CAUTION: CENTAUR NUDITY
	A HUNDRED-FOOT BEAGLE: by Wayan; 2002/3/22, an identity- and gender-bent dreamlet I'm my friend Dawn, at a convention for my job. But I get insulted. I walk out. Lost in endless parking lots, by a dumpster, I make a bizarre wish... CAUTION: APPARENT TELEPATHY
	POLE OF THE EMPIRE STATE: by Wayan; 2002/3/26, a 9/11 nightmare about... suspension? I find myself clinging to a pole as tall as the Empire State Building. Can I slide down without falling? Or burning from friction? And... what's down there?
	OPEN THE DOOR!: by Wayan; April 2002, acrylic bas-relief of waking fantasy. I salvaged a door. When I painted it, a fox-woman wanted to open it and get out... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY
	KITSUNE (FOX-GIRL) BY MOONLIGHT: by Wayan; 2002/5/1 dream prompting a paint experiment In a Japanese house I met a charming red-headed girl and had this weird urge to scratch her pointed ears. Oh! She's a kitsune!...
	WHITE-HAIRED WOMEN: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 2002/5/4, a dream painting I'm in a ring of seven white-haired women, our arms all interlocking. When I woke I had fun working out the pattern of those interlinked arms...
	ELF EYE: by Wayan; 2002/5/20, dream figure in acrylic on wood A painting's a window into another world--a window opening two ways. People in paintings may be watching us...
	BLEEDING HEART, the SELF-HEALING CORPSE, and IN THE FUTURE DESERT: by Wayan; 2002/5/29 - 2004/5/11, a diagnostic, predictive dream-series; Bleeding Heart as comix A tree-girl moves to Hollywood to make film deals, but jealousy stabs her... CAUTION: BLOODY ASSAULT, GAY DRYADS, MUTANT NUDITY
	RIDE THE GODS OF THE HAND: by Larry Vigon; 2002/6/13; an oracular dream Predawn. The beach. A gypsy goddess rises from the waves. She says "Begin to ride the gods of the Hand, in London." I say "What?"... CAUTION: CRYPTIC BUT FIRM
	WORLDSTONES: dreamed fall 1895 & Aug 1898 by Mark Twain, & 2002/6/27 by Robert Moss Mark Twain dreams we're cells inside God, and writes of Huck Finn among the microbes. A century later, unaware of Twain's dreams, Robert Moss...
	FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH: by Roswila, August 2002; a dream-poem illustrating dream reentry My horse and I dove into a lagoon and sought buried treasure on the sea-floor. What are we really after?
	THE MAN WITH THE SNAKE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2002/9/3, dream of an aborted shamanic duel I stood in the desert preparing for a contest with a man and his snake. But he cheated! Then my cat Lulu intervened...
	PICNIC IN THE RUINS: by Wayan, 2002/9/18, digital painting of dream figure. On an alternate Earth where centaurs lived in a beach town with old Roman ruins, a local girl invited me on a picnic... CAUTION: NUDE CENTAUR
	A CENTAUR GIRL AND HER DOG: by Wayan; 2002/9/18, dream figure, waking fever-fantasy I had hay fever all day, and wished I was at ease in nature--in heat, blissed out, and loved... CAUTION: CANINE/CENTAUR ORAL SEX
	FARTER AND CONE: by Larry Vigon; 2002/10/5; a scatalogical skating dream I'm in a theater waiting for a woman onstage to fart human speech; but I have to skate away on a tipped-over traffic cone...
	THEATER HOSTAGE: by Christine M, 2002/10/22, an apparently clairvoyant dream Gunmen held me hostage in a grand hall; at last they shot me. Next day: the Moscow Theater hostages...
	BED VORTEX: by Wayan; 2002/10/24, an abstract Halloween portrait of the hypnogogic state I sculpted a plaster abstract, then found it wasn't. A vortext of bedsheets, faces, hands, bodies...
	SPLASH!: by Wayan; 12" acrylic painting, late 2002, from 1983/1/16 dream. While I study how humans went extinct, my daughter happily splashes in the sea...

	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...
	CLAN TAUR: by Wayan; recurrent dream-family (best example: 1987/1/9); pencil studies 1998-2002. I keep dreaming I'm in a multispecies family full of centaurs and satyrs, having a reunion at the beach... CAUTION: NUDE BEACH, STRANGE RELATIVES
	RA CATS: by Wayan; 2002, an image inspired by a cutting-board. A friend gave me a meat-cutting board, with channels for the blood. Eww. So why'd it become three cats worshiping the sun? CAUTION: NUDITY
	TRINITY: by Nashoba Hostina; 2002? A nightmare of losing best friends to romantic love We were inseparable: the tiger, the fox, and the wolf. Together our magic lit up the darkness around us, until...
	MURDERS IN HAYWARD: by Anonymous #5; c.2002 or 2003, a psychic nightmare. I dream I live in Hayward, California. One day my family's murdered. Years later I find that dream-street is real...
	ROYA'S BIRD: by Roya, before 2002, a joyful afterlife dream Roya's mother-in-law had a painful death. Roya dreamt she met her, a joyous bird, who had forgotten the pain of death just as we forget the pain of birth... CAUTION: NICE, BUT NOT EVIDENCE
	SEAPOLE: by Wayan; 20 illus., 2002-3, a nondream sculpture/photoessay/travelog. Tilt a globe so neither pole has land to build icecaps on, and extrapolate. Earth becomes a warm, flooded world like and unlike ours...
	SHIVERIA: by Wayan; 2002-3, travelog/sculpture/sketches of an alternate Earth I tilted the Earth, and worked out its new ecology--part Mars, part steambath. Visit the Mediterranean Abyss ruled by giant ravens, and Patagonia, ruled by mammoths, and Antarctica's jungles, ruled by lemurs...
	THROWN FREE: by Robert, before 2002, a warning dream DREAM: a car crash; my parents both die, though my sister & I are thrown free, unhurt. DAYS LATER: Aunt & uncle invite me on a car trip; my dad says no, I have to study. TWO WEEKS LATER: Aunt & uncle die in a head-on; their kids are thrown free...
	TIGER'S EYE CAVE: by Brian MacGregor, 2002-2003?, a predictive dream I dreamed of this tree growing out of a cave-mouth. Years later, in Guatemala, I was shocked to encounter my dream. That tree and that cave were all too surreal...
	DEERMAN'S CHALLENGE: by Melissa McClanahan, 2002?-2007?, a recurring nightmare figure I used to dream of this violent anthropomorphic being. At times I'd put on his deer-skull head and become him, inflicting and inciting violence. Naming him gave me some control...