World Dream Bank timeline: 2004

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2004

There's one blockbuster dream, The Hedgehog Dispensary, illustrated (as an experiment) in watercolor. But mostly I illustrated older dreams this year. Nondream projects include a complex sculpture group called Unicorn Orgy and the huge Venus Unveiled, a portrait of that planet 1000 years from now--when, after heroic engineering, it's more fertile than Earth. Unlike Mars, our Venus data is murky: no photos, just ambiguous radar-scans and blurry altimetry maps. I had to learn orbital mechanics, terraforming, geography, climatology, ecology, sapiogenesis (the evolution of intelligence), then write a dozen regional tours with fake photos and sketches and maps, and a gazetteer describing every feature on Venus as it'd be with seas, decent air, life... As much work as a novel! Maybe I should've just written one, but VENUS UNVEILED was built for the Net from the start, as true hypertext--each tour sets out on a linear path, but forks, so you can wander round the planet, migrating with the natives.

I also went to Burning Man for the first time, showing seven planets in the Center Cafe, including Venus Unveiled. But my car died crossing the Sierra and I came back with a flu-like virus that hung on all year--one reason the list is so short.

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	HALF-COCKED: by Larry Vigon; 2004/1/4; an alarming dream I'm in the army, in line for a prostitute. An earlier dream cut my cock in two. It heals, but my stodgy technique bores my assigned girl; and the cops break the legs of girls who try to leave. A riot begins--can I even escape? CAUTION: STARTS SORDID, ENDS BRUTAL
	FLOWER CONVERSATIONS: by Larry Vigon; 2004/1/12; a surreal psychedelic dream Worms rappeled down from my ceiling. My friend says "I've had great talks with those creatures." They became flying flowers exuding a gas that, if you napped, let you have wonderful conversations...
	I DREAMED MY PILLS WERE TAKING ME: by Wayan; 2004/3/13, a dirty lie. A dream that'd explain why I quit taking Western medicines-- (and why haven't you?) Only I didn't dream it. Just lived it.
	FREAKY DREAM, or, HEART IN MY STOMACH: by Ratiries Steelclaw; c. 2004/3/30, a dream comic I felt like my heart was in my stomach. My friend Lyx opened me up & said "It is." She scolded me for eating it... CAUTION: URP
	UNICORN ORGY: by Wayan; sculpture group based on 1995/4/22 dream, finished 2004/3/30; 1' tall. A sculpted orgy of unicorns, dryads, and werewolf-satyrs designed to stand sideways on your wall... CAUTION: SEX
	HOP: by Emily Joy, Maddie, and Kathe, 2004/3/31; three linked dreams of a single character Three friends in one bed dream three dreams in one night about a talking rabbit with a persistent request...
	HUMMINGBIRD: by Larry Vigon; 2004/4/4; a predictive dream A hummingbird was trapped inside my home. So beautiful. I set it free. The next Saturday, I found this hummingbird on the patio...
	DISTRACTUS: by Wayan, 2004/5/5, a comic sexy diagnostic dream... that baffled me. Sex in a meadow? A protest march distracts us. But a friend warns me of a disease, Coitus Distractus... CAUTION: (DISTRACTED) SEX
	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
	FIRST IMPRESSIONS: by Wayan; 2004/5/20, a dreamsong (MP3+lyrics); Dreamverse #0 I meet a monster--half earthworm, half giraffe. Then I realize she’s kind of cute...
	A TOUR OF YOUR BRAIN: by Wayan's brain, 3.4MB (MP3 + lyrics), May 2004, a rock-jig. A lobe-by-lobe musical tour of your brain with Buddha as your tourguide...
	THE TAKEOVER: by Lee Olivier; 2004/6/28, a triple diagnostic nightmare An alien is taking over our world, and I feel so helpless that even when I wake I want to just forget the dream...
	DESCENDING THE MOUNTAIN TOWER: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 2004/7/6, a dream of grounding The boy and I walk a spiral trail down the mountain to the caves of tears...
	THE CHIANG-SHIH: by Julian Garberson; 2004/8/23, a surreal Han Dynasty nightmare A vampire wrestler on the Throne of Heaven pins me. Visualization and prayer don't free me--in fact, they get me killed...
	VENUS UNVEILED: by Wayan, 2004/8/30; a virtual world with c.200 photos, maps, portraits. Tour Venus as it will be in 1000 years, after terraforming: paradise for dozens of intelligent species!
	THE DESTRUCTION OF HAWAI'I; 2004/9/2 by Anonymous #37; a short apocalyptic nightmare I was a small boy living on Oahu. Out my front door I saw a 20-mile-tall wall of flames stretching across the horizon...
	TRAIL OF POGS: by Wayan; 2004/9/6, my dreams' response to the first Burning Man dream-workshop A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us...
	OVERLAY: by Wayan; 1984/2/11, 1995/8/26, and 2004/9/11, 3 dreams shape a 9-page comic on living with ESP Dreams of translucent fairies, centaurs, robots & gnomes prompt me to cartoon on transparent overlays to show how dreamworlds overlay ours...
	THIRD-PARTY DEFENSE: by Wayan, 2004/9/11, a dream challenging lifelong pacifism DAY: At a party, this stranger keeps sniping at me. I see no gain for me in fighting him, and just leave. DREAM: Aliens attack. They've wiped out other planets, so we fight all-out! Not just for us, for the next species...
	AFTER BIRTH: by Wayan, 2004/9/29, astral acrylic painting Never mind an afterlife! What if, before life, we were spirits with no idea what happens after birth?...
	THE HEDGEHOG DISPENSARY: by Wayan; 2004/10/2, furtopian watercolor 12-page dreamcomic (or text + pics) A rabbit shaman makes his student drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. How to free her? CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR
	F*CK CALIFORNIA!: by Wayan; 2004/10/15, a surreal, embarrassing dream I'm trying to hump the entire State of California. In public, too. What brought THIS on? Well, actually, I know... CAUTION: OBSCENE SITUATION--AND TITLE. OOPS, TOO LATE.
	THE ELEVATOR PROPOSAL: by Wayan, 2004/10/15, a dream baring a subtle lifelong pattern I'm in an elevator with a giant guy with a hotel cart bearing a silver platter. On it, an erect penis. The guy tries to enlist me in his program to... what? CAUTION: CARTOON PENIS
	ALTARED MANSION: by Wayan; dreamed 2004/10/18, a dream on all the world's religions I'm touring a gloomy, firelit Victorian mansion filled with icons and idols from every faith in the world, while this funny theme song loops in my head. What is that song? CAUTION: MUSLIM RANTER; EMBARRASSING SONG
	HAND US THE FRENCHMAN!: by Wayan; 2004/10/24, a comic dreamlet on hippiedom's last gasp The Feds order my friend Mike to hand them a Frenchman we haven't seen in years. Mike substitutes a junk VW...
	CLASH OF KNOW-NOTHINGS: by Wayan; 2004/11/3, a election-day rant We don't face Huntington's Clash of Civilizations. This is a world war--inland reactionaries attack tolerant coasts. CAUTION: POLITICAL IDEAS, POLITICAL RAGE
	STREAMLINING: by Wayan; 2004/11/10, a dream within a dream I dream I'm an otter, and wake into a dream about sculpture--and learn my style's due to my species...
	REJECTED! SO?: by Wayan; 2004/11/12, a dream of political AND personal advice A middle-class girl rejects me, and a newsman declares my politics irrelevant. "Liberal media" my ass... CAUTION: POLITICS
	CLOSE THE GATE: by Emily Joy; 2004/11/19, a dream of decision. My foxy lover teases and tempts, but I can't let him into the patio for fear he'll hurt the rabbits… CAUTION: UNFUNNY BUNNY PUNS
	A MUSLIM CHEETAH: by Wayan, 2004/12/2, a dream of fundamental ambivalence A cheetah is a saboteur for a violent Islamic group. I'm attracted, but tear into her; "You plant bombs in the name of a rulebook meant for apes not cats!" CAUTION: NUDE CHEETAH; CRITIQUES HOLY BOOKS
	SERRANA: by Wayan; Oct-Dec 2004, a sculpture/webtour; 60 maps, photos & sketches A dry little world with many small seas, Serrana has at least six intelligent species and an anarchist culture. It's a tribute to Ursula Le Guin's anarchist utopia, "The Dispossessed", and Kropotkin's theories of biological cooperation... CAUTION: ANARCHIST POLITICS, ALIEN NUDITY

	CHART THE GROWTH: by Brenda Ferrimani; 2004, painting of an incubated, oracular dream I asked my dreams "What's my truest purpose?" I dreamed my body was a tree, and a voice said "Chart the growth"...
	THE DREAM TO LAST YEARS: by Elizabeth Church; 2004? to March 2008; repeated meetings with a guardian--in dreams & out! For five years now I've been dreaming of this guy. Many dreams, same guy...
	EYES INWARD: by Amira Mittermaier, c.2004, a creepy dream of spiritual quest The dream group I've been interviewing in Cairo was in the desert, jamming rods in their eyes and eating batteries to power their inward vision. "That's how they do it," I think...
	GALLERY GAWKERS: by Wayan; 2003-5; sketches of San Francisco characters For two years, I sat at the desk in our co-op gallery, and secretly sketched our bewildered, art-assaulted customers...
	TIME WARRIOR: by Katie Hofgard, c. 2004, a daydream on transformation She was a girl playing in the woods when she found the dying silver fox. His body transformed into a fox-mask. His spirit said "When you come of age..."
	WINTER DREAMS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; winter 2004/2005, a painted series of color-dreams. After teaching a class on color, I had a series of vivid dreams about color, and tried fusing them into one painting...
	THE MÖBIUS STRIP OF GRIEF: by Ruth Stone, 2004-2008; a dream poem You say you're leaving me. I go to grab an ice pick to stab you, but my hand freezes to the ice block on the stair--I dare not even dream of murder. Since... CAUTION: RESPONSE TO SPOUSAL SUICIDE