THE WORLD DREAM BANK ON CD-ROM

• THE CD-ROM is an exact mirror of the website--I burn them to order, so I guarantee it's up-to-date: all web pages, indexes, illustrations and links. It works just like the site--only a lot faster. Copy the whole CD to your hard drive and it really zooms.
• COMPATIBILITY: Any open source, Mac OS 9 or newer, and Windows 98 or newer.
• THE WAIT: I fill orders within a week of getting them. Since you get my current working copy of the site, it's more up-to-date than the Web version, which I only update every month or so.
• THE PRICE: $10-25, sliding scale. If you work, send me about an hour's pay. If you don't work or have really low pay, send the minimum. You don't have to prove anything, I trust you. Sliding scales may be unfamiliar to you but they're a local custom in San Francisco arts community. If it seems weird, by all means pay $25; you'll be subsidizing some low-income dreamers and artists.
• TO ORDER: Send order and $10-$25, to Chris Wayan, 242 Prentiss St, San Francisco, CA 94110 USA
  Sorry, I don't have PayPal set up right now. Just lazy.
• QUESTIONS? Email wdreamb@yahoo.com

I'm in a band called the Krelkins--Mike Marrelli on guitars and bass, Nic Griffin on accordion, Erik Gross on drums, Chris Wayan on keyboards; we all sing. We compose all our own songs, many of them from dreams. We aim to be the next Beatles. (Of course I'm also painting dream-art, working as the handyman for our co-operative house, trying to print out the last pages of a graphic novel (Dreamtales), and tapping out code every night for these !#$*!! webpages too...) The equipment's there, the music's written, the songs are (mostly) arranged, the band is recording (eight good tracks now--Aug 2014) but everything takes time. Daily do I offer up prayers to my savage deity: "Great Goddess, let this be the last take!" And lo, it isn't.

Tentative songlist for Meet the Krelkins:

• A Tour of your Brain
• Coyote Sent Me Cash!
• Dawn's Dream
• Do What You Love and the Money Won't Follow
• Gaia's Song
• God's Song
• I Wanna Be
• Pink Ears
• Saboteur
• The Busy Ness Man
• Memory Pie
• Migrate through Fire
• Toothy Little Women
• Engendering Dysphoria

I'm listing this CD prematurely because I want people to nag us so we'll finish sooner.

Other unrecorded dream-songs are on the site as lyric-and-chord sheets, like Anarchy Fair; others are like The Busy Ness Man, presented as prose. We're working that one up as a sort of five-minute micro-opera in six voices (yeah, there are only three of us, but we're all schizoid, so that works out neatly.)

Hey, if you've recorded a CD, and have hard-won advice (sound studio versus do it yourself?), we'd love to hear your experiences:
wdreamb@yahoo.com

ART PRINTS

• The newly expanded Print Gallery lists higher-resolution, printable artpieces on the World Dream Bank. Sorry, I no longer print out the dream art myself; too time-consuming!
• I might strip the words off a picture or otherwise customize it if you ask sweetly and send me your favorite dream...

I'm scanning/converting all my books and comics for the Web as fast as I can but they're superdetailed and often need tweaking. Patience! See the comics list.

DREAMTALES

I've always lived other lives in my sleep. Other bodies, times, worlds. Each tale is such a life.

	DREAMTALES collection, coming as soon as I find a publisher or save up enough to print it myself. 250 pages of COLOR dream-comics! Includes full-color editions of: BIRDS AND BOYS (see below) A SPHINX'S SKETCHBOOK (see below) OPEN YOUR CAGE (see below) FISHER GIRLS (for a low-resolution web version, see: Fisher Girls) THIEF OF DREAMS (see below) BRAVE NEW MILLENIUM (new stuff nowhere else) 2006, approx 8x11", 250 pp.
	Dreamtales 7: BRAVE NEW MILLENNIUM: The Faerie Queen steals me to nurse an anti-changeling Polar bears vie for power in the new City Hall The Hedgehog Dispensary: a rabbit-shaman's apprentice screws up... A dryad filmmaker flirts with the wrong Xena extra... 52 pp color comics. Just done. Don't know about printing/binding/cost yet!
	Dreamtales 6: THIEF OF DREAMS: Just another lesbian gothic mermaid detective dream... 24 pp comic, 8.5" by 11"; FULL COLOR. My longest, most ambitious dream-comic ever. $24.
	Dreamtales 5: OPEN YOUR CAGE: a collection of a dozen dream-comics, including: Elmer Fudd as Frankenstein, Perissa the centaur exhibitionist, an army of anorexics and the world's only all-bulemic band. (Uh-oh, just lost some fans). psychic dreams about fox-spirits and a volcanic guitarist, and half a dozen more. 1999, 40 page comics collection, $8
	Dreamtales 4: MONEY TALKS: Thirty-one short dreams about money and financial advice, with COLOR illustrations. Buddha's vending machine, demon poker, Trump on the run, utopias on Saturn... To my surprise, they added up to a dream-philosophy about money and prosperity in general. 1998, half-size (about 5.5" by 8"), COLOR, 28 pages, $8.
	Dreamtales 3: BIRDS AND BOYS: BIRDS AND BOYS, like OPEN YOUR CAGE, is a collection of pencil-shaded comics too detailed for the Web, including: A dream-statue garden and the Cat Guru's skate-athon on the moon. Were-Girl gnaws on my gate, explains life, moondances, and draws us her interpretation of a Dickinson poem. Emily rules! How I became a swan. Petting the cat gets out of hand. Why I draw more dreams where I'm a girl than a boy. I face death by gang-rape or by Kafka Bug. A dream-report on our newest national park, the sextopia of Capitol Reef. The happy tale of Octopus Esthetics. I'm a sexy singing beast freeing the Prisoner from REM's Moral Kiosk. I'm the first woman baseball commissioner, and a team of monsters want a franchise. First psychologist on the moon--or is he a groundhog? 32 pp comics collection $8.
	Dreamtales 2: WING IT!: A non-dream experiment--a solo jam in which I don't copy life, dreams, plans, ideas--just draw from the spontaneous void. Images and characters emerge, take over, and evolve... It'll get you doodling. 1996, pencil, 12 pages, $3.
	Dreamtales 1: A SPHINX'S SKETCHBOOK: An artistic sphinx plays tourist in San Francisco, draws the natives, and falls in love... A tribute to Gauguin's journal of Tahiti. This was my first nondigital comic, drawn in lush and intricate grayscale with an exotic new art tool called a "pencil". 1994-5. 24 pages, $5.
BOOKLETS
	Books of dream-comics and illustrated dream stories, ALL COLOR, trade paperback size (about 5x8"). All these dream stories are on the website now, but if you just gotta have print...
	DUMB DREAMS: pointless dreams of pigs, poets, pregnancy, precognitions, penises, Persians, and other unspeakable subjects. A sampler from the dream humor page. Illustrated dreamtales, early 2001, 16 pages. $5.
	HIS DEER WIFE: I'm a slave, a scribe in the house of a captain of the New Aztec Empire, when he brings home a wife... 16 pp., illustrated dream-story, 2000, 16 pages. $5.
	BIRTH DREAMS: A book of eleven illustrated dreams of pregnancy, birth, otters, breastfeeding, runaways, monkeys, menstruation, marsupiality, and other taboo subjects. 1998, 16 pages. $5.
	I MIST MY SISTER: Unrequited love's even harder when it's incest. A healing dream. 1993. 10 pages, $4.
	MY THREE HUSBANDS: I'm three women at once! We marry magic animals from other worlds and form a commune. A dream of sexual wildness and censorship. 1991. 16 pages, $5.
	BROWN DRESS: I'm a 12-year-old girl growing up in a slum, turning shame and sexual trauma into courage and excitement. My favorite early work, and my most personal. 1990-1, 10 pages, $4.

CAUTION! These are uncensored dream stories for mature readers. Your brain may fry, your mom may turn purple, your government may fall. Cultural and legal codes are a chaotic patchwork, so I can't predict local reactions to this stuff.

What's "mature" mean? If you can handle the website, the books are similar: some sexy scenes, rather casual nudity and swearing, green feminist queer politics, and cheerful pagan blasphemy.