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The World Dream Bank has 1500 dreams and dream images plus 500 other pages on dreamwork and shamanism, creativity, genius, art, surrealism and fantasy. Unless otherwise noted, all material copyright Chris Wayan, 2001-2006.

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	A BEAM OF FLIGHT: by Wayan; 135K, 1992/4/19, a dream of love and shellshock. I'm a dance teacher, I'm King Kong, I'm a shell-shocked elf, I'm a wild bird flying... CAUTION: GAY-POSITIVE ROLE MODELS, OH NO!
	BILL COSBY'S WIFE: by Wayan; 1994/5/5, an insulting dreamtale. I'm Bill Cosby's wife, finding it hard to cook for him without a stove or fridge... CAUTION: SLANDER, I HOPE
	THE BROADS: by Wayan; 1978/11/19, a dream on lowlife potential. Everyone wears a big cowboy beltbuckle. Twist it and your bodymass re-distributes! But mine... CAUTION: CRASS AND CRUDE
	CHANGES, or, A WHISPER OF RESISTANCE: by Wayan; 1980/9/25, a dream of identity-chaos. An identity earthquake that just wouldn't stop. I transform half a dozen times, and so does everyone else...
	CHEAPSHIP!: by Wayan; 1996/8/6, a nightmare on my own stinginess. I'm a crewman on a ship that's falling apart, and I do mean that literally...
	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...
	CYCLOPS, or, THE ANSWER TO MY PRAYER: by Wayan; 1993/8/24, a spiritual nightmare. In the far future, I relive Odysseus' tale. To save my life I must give up realistic hope, and focus on... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MONSTERS
	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...
	HICKOPHOBIA: by Wayan; 320K, 1996/5/13; dream-comix (or plain text version) Whenever I run out of ballet class to Japanese without asking my classmate Wendy out, I change sex... CAUTION: LANGUAGE
	HISTORY CHANGES: by Wayan; 1994/11/22, a dream of an alternate life. I'm the token Chinese guy in a jazz band in backwoods Brazil, in the old colonial days, when...
	A HOTEL ODYSSEY: by Wayan; 1994/2/21, a Borges dream. I live in the Infinite Hotel, but the other guests in my wing are no fun. It's time to set sail...
	THE ICE CREAM KISS: by Wayan; 1993/11/27, an uncomfortable dream. I'm Joe Leaphorn, in (of all places for a Navaho detective) a coven in San Francisco watching a creamy...
	ISHI AND SNOID: by Wayan; 1993/8/4, a dream of stretching. I'm a California Indian wandering through time, keeping the secret of time-travel from the reckless...
	IT'S A DEAD MAN'S PARTY: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a nightmare of identity. I find myself at a creepy party supporting a dead man who's running for office. And am I Dan Quayle? CAUTION: HORROR BEYOND HORROR. YOU ARE DAN QUAYLE.
	THE LADY BATHES IN GRIEF: by Wayan; 1983/5/31, a long-haul psychic dream. Why'd a spirit-woman come to our reservation to mourn a drowned guy? Her mirrors & candles tell us...
	LION-MEN: by Wayan; 1995/7/9, an eye-opening dreamlet. I'm a traveling Zen warrior talking to a circus girl in a barn. Four guys enter--and my life changes forever.
	LOLA: by Wayan; 1995/4/22, a wild dream: psychic, shamanic and... economic? . How the hell do I summarize this? Lola, a werefox I'm hot for, becomes my feudal Japanese brother, and her fox-shape reappears as the truck-driving maid for a Han Dynasty lady. We counter the interdimensional energy vampires by importing ghost unicorns on sailing ships, who have an orgy... Two weeks later it all comes true. Literally? No. But closer than you think....
	MAGIC SCHOOL: by Wayan, 1982/1/26: a waking event and replying dream. Phyllis Schlafly, who killed the Equal Rights Amendment, provokes a dream of being Captain Kirk trapped in a magic school with no way out but the graduate exam... Can I learn the lesson of the tree? CAUTION: POLITICAL JOURNALISM BEFORE THE DREAM. OH NO!
	A MAMMOTH FIGHT: by Wayan; 1996/2/26, a dream of another life. A tacky other life. I'm a fight promoter whose biggest deal ever is maybe too big for me. How'd it become a four-way bout? CAUTION: CRASS ACT
	MARINE GEOLOGY'S NOT IT: by Wayan; 1984/6/2, a dream farce. After finding marine geologists in my chocolate pudding, I'd rather be a Frenchman and insult my wife... CAUTION: DECADENCE
	OPHIDIOPHOBIA: by Wayan; 1986/2/12, a dream on race and religion. I'm a therapist with a client diagnosed paranoid--are his doctors racist? He's not just black, but scaly...
	POIROT: by Wayan; 1994/11/15, an anti-lucid dream. I escape a trap via a plane I manifest. Lucid? Not at all! Why should Poirot bother with such abstractions?
	THE REAL MAO: by Wayan; 2006/7/9 and 7/11: two dreams (one possibly psychic) about an appalling book Jung Chang’s exposé of Mao's brutal deeds and legacy provoke dreams I demand that leaders listen...
	THE SHAMAN INSPECTOR: by Wayan; 1996/7/31, a dream on core values. My work as a federal shaman inspector involves judging a rainbow of traditions by a few basic principles:
	A SHELLFISH EPIPHANY: by Wayan; 1996/6/14, a spiritual dream. I'm a Japanese pearldiver; our family's cast away on a coral islet. One day, lonely, scared, I cast away fear...
	SILK PINS: by Wayan; 1992/5/13, a self-mocking dream. I'm a trade rep for Terra, on a new world. But an old rival, a rep from another world, arrives, and... CAUTION: DRUGS
	TRUE LOVE = CHOICE! by Ms. Mira; Jan. 2008, a dream-lesson on compassion and free will. I'm on an alien world inside the minds of two women and a child struggling with moral choices in a civil war... CAUTION: DEATH, LOSS
	MY TUTELARY UNCLE: by Wayan; 1993/5/28, a shamanic dream. I'm half Anglo, half Kwakiutl. My uncle the shaman died, but he still wants to teach me his medicine...
	AN UNEXPECTED MOVE: by Wayan; 1998/12/17, a peripatetic dreamtale. In the Los Angeles ruins, a wizard-gang jumps us. Trapped, I try a desperate move never seen in LA: I use my feet...
	THE VOICE OF GOD: by Wayan, 1993/1/31, a psychic nightmare-epic. I go half-mad and massacre a whole cult, till my gun manifests stigmata: a gory miracle. Then I'm one of the cult members, struggling to ignore the Voice of God pushing all us mortals to murder in His name. I woke up haunted, and wondered for weeks what this was about... until the Waco Massacre. CAUTION: CREEPY VIOLENCE, CREEPY GOD, CREEPY PREDICTION
	THE WHO IN HELL AM I: by Wayan; 1984/1/28, a stubborn dream. I'm Pete Townshend of the Who, climbing stubbornly out of Hell by noticing what I don't want...
	WHO'LL BE MY LOVE?: by Wayan; 1986/4/14, a dream noir farce; part 4 of UNICORN TAG. I'm a hardboiled detective wincing as I grill a meek little psychic (who might just be me) about embarrassing subjects like unicorns, and love... CAUTION: A UNICORN WHO MAKES EVEN THE COPS BLUSH

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