THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: Centaurs

The World Dream Bank:
Centaurs
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Centaurs, other humanoid/equine mixes, and a number of variant 'taurs built on similar body plans, like cheetaurs and foxtaurs.

For the Greeks who invented the whole idea, centaurs seemed to have meant animality dominating humanity; though a few centaurs symbolized natural wisdom, most were brutal. Mine seem gentler--but then, I grew up in the 20th Century, with its atrocities rooted not in animal passion but ideology. Discipline seems safer as a bedroom sport than a public ideal...

So I think my dream-centaurs mean harmony between body and mind. I concede that I draw them more like they're just sex symbols, which they also are for me... but that's not surprising. My self-image is equine--my very first memory is of being a horse, then waking up human, a human child, and my equine dreams have never stopped. I've been, loved, mated with, even married horses. I see and read horses like people, and now and then I've actually forgotten which species I'm talking with. When I meet people with horse auras, I know I've found friends.

So enjoy the pinups, but be aware there's something underneath the sexy fantasies of fusion. Freud was wrong--spirituality isn't always just a mask hiding sex.

Sometimes it's the other way round.

RELATED TOPICS: horses - animal people - pegasii (winged equines) - unicorns - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

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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	ARMLESS: by Wayan; pencil tinted digitally, 1997; dream figures, but not a dream scene A strange, horny, frustrated being, part human part horse, who lacks hands to hold the centaurs... CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL TENSION
	BANANA MOON: by Wayan; 149K total: painting of dream figures, 1998, acrylic on wood, 36 x 48" My figure-painting class here in San Francisco has a diverse student body, but not THIS diverse... CAUTION: NUDITY
	BERYL BORROWED IT: by Wayan, 1986/3/8, an absurd dream. My friend Beryl borrows my ass and legs to become a centaur so she won't fall over. I want them back, so... CAUTION: CRUDE AND STUPID
	THE BIRD-TAMER: Wayan, 1980s, ink, erasable crayon; nondream vision. How a centaur tames birds in the Sierra Nevada...
	BURMA SHAVE: by Wayan; 1982, a poem on dreams. If you dream, don't drive. If you drive, don't dream. A public safety message from the other world.
	CENTAUR BEACH: by Wayan; 1990. Two images from a set of recurring dreams. Me and my sisters at the beach. Strangers rarely think we're related, and you can see why...
	CENTAUR CIRCLES: by Wayan; 1991. Early, experimental digital painting. An experiment with digital textures that fascinated me. Not a dream, just feels like it.
	A CENTAUR GIRL AND HER DOG: by Wayan; 2002/9/18, dream figure but NOT dream plot I had hay fever all day, and wished I was at ease in nature, and at ease with my nature. In heat, blissed out, and loved... CAUTION: CANINE/CENTAUR ORAL SEX
	CENTAUR: PAULINA AT SUNSET: by Wayan; 210K, 1988? Dream-influenced life studies Worried you're anorexic? Gain weight, yet stay slender! Become a centaur, like model Paulina Porizkova... CAUTION: NUDITY and BODY IMAGE/ANOREXIA ISSUES
	CENTAUR BY SARTRE: by Wayan; 1989/3/28; an oracular dream A sea-centaur explains why some dreams don't LIKE to surface to so-called consciousness... CAUTION: WET T SHIRT, EXISTENTIALISTS, HARPOONS
	CENTAUR SHASTA: by Wayan; 1987? Dream figure in another dream-setting Just a really cute guide to the centaur country around their holy mountain, Shasta... CAUTION: BREAST
	CENTAUR SOCCER: by Wayan; ink sketch of daydream I'm not a big soccer fan. I'd play more if only I had enough feet...
	A CENTAUR SPLITS: by Wayan; 1988/1/12, a Gestalt dream. A centaur divorces, into a unicorn and an unfinished faun-girl, who argue "Forward!" "Not ready!"... CAUTION: TRANSPARENT BREASTS
	CENTAUR WITH STAFF OF POWER: by Wayan; 11x14", ink 1986, tinted 2001; a daydream.. Not from a dream, just felt like it...
	CENTAUR AND STAR: by Wayan; 640 x 500, 1994. Digital picture. I'm a centaur. I never left Eden. I'm still in the Garden. You are too, every night, in dreams... CAUTION: BREASTS
	CENTAUR QUARTET: by Wayan; 1980-84, a dream-series on shamanic families. Can our interracial family survive? Not just cultural conflict, but our instincts clash around sex--and incest... CAUTION: SEX, INCEST ISSUES, DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
	CENTAURPEDE: by Wayan; 90K; a 1983/3/15 dream predicts a bizarre art job in 2002! Like a long molecule floating in darkness, this dream creature could loop and link to itself... CAUTION: EQUINE NUDITY, LANGUAGE
	WOBBLY CENTAUR: Wayan; digital sketch 1990 based on dream I can't trace. Wise advice from a funny looking centauress at a nude beach... CAUTION: CRUDE NUDE
	CHAKAT: by Katie Hofgard; 2003/4/22?, a dream self-portrait I dreamed I was a cattaur...
	CLAN TAUR: by Wayan; 620K total, suite of tinted pencil studies of dream-family, 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
	CLAYMATES: by Wayan, 1968-70, three mythological claymation figures. In my teens, I knew I wasn't human. So I sculpted and animated and fell in love with and worshiped furry figurines...
	COLLISION COURSE: by Wayan; May 1998; digital sketch of waking life-situation. Being a hippie artist in San Francisco today feels like being an animal in an African game park...
	DALI SKETCH: by Wayan; 1983/12/12; a surrealist nightmare. I dreamed I saw what looked like an ink sketch by Dali of a horse--but I was dead wrong... CAUTION: YUCK
	DEER JESUS: by Wayan; 1988/12/25, a revisionist Christmas dream. The Three Wise Men are a centaur, a lion-man, and a doe-girl. But there's no Christ in the manger, so... CAUTION: NUDITY
	FOUR-LEGGED MONK: by Centaurquad; June 1983; a sexy transformation dream My boyfriend's a student in an exotic monastery. But under his robe, he's gotten a bit exotic himself... CAUTION: SEXUAL DREAM
	THE EVEREST MARATHON: by Wayan; 1986/4/12, a wild dream epic, part 3 of Unicorn Tag. During the great race up Everest, I become an e-snake, cross three eco-bubbles, beg a wary deer-taur to splice my spine for me, help Ariane (a childhood crush on the run from sentient tanks), and solve at last the Dream Equations... I learn climbing Everest doesn't take strength, but... trust?
	THE LIMP: by Wayan; 1986/7/18, a dream on difference I was working for a London architect. His son thought people shunned him for his limp, but...
	LYR: by Wayan; 7MB, 2005, 80 pages w/200+ drawings and maps; a virtual planet A vast sea-world with 8 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species... CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION!
	OMELET BEACH: by Wayan; 2007/1/15, a dream on how things look through your third eye An alien beach scene--as seen through eyes that see bodies’ energy fields more than surface forms...
	THE NESS MAN, or, HOW TO HEAL: by Wayan; 50K total, 1994/4/13, a mythic dream. Mythic creatures round a woodland pool want to heal a businessman. Do too many cooks spoil the soup?
	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, I may be stable enough to follow the Yellow Brick Road... CAUTION: NUDITY
	PEGASUS-CENTAURESS WITH BLUE WINGS: by Wayan; 1997/11/19-1998/4/2, a sculpture fusing two dreams. I wanted the joy of running and leaping as a horse, plus the bluebird of happiness, so...
	PERISSA: by Wayan; 660K total (15 images); 1997/9/13, a sexy political dream. When Perissa, an exhibitionistic centaur, bares her body in a crowded Coliseum, she also bares a racist plot... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM
	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: NUDITY
	PLANETOCOPIA: by Wayan; 2006/6/3, an annex to the Dreambank with 16 nondream imaginary worlds. A mix of sculpture, drawings, travel writing... science and art. Alternate Earths, possible futures, and pure experiments in planetology, biology, sociology. Most of them teem with intelligent creatures--alien Edens! CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, COMMIES, EVOLUTION
	THE PROWLER: by Wayan; 1997/2/4, an illustrated dreamtale. My sister hears a prowler. I go out blind in the dark, and learn she's right. But what a strange intruder!
	THE SAN DIEGO CENTAURS: by Wayan; 1985/1/9, a slice-of-life dream. In San Diego, I fly around disrupting the UFO games in the junkyard, till I reconnect with a centaur friend
	THE SEA-HAG RIOT: by Wayan; 100K, 1989/6/5, a wild dream hiding a warning. Aliens, hypnotherapy, dancing molars, riots, witches, flying pianos, lettuce... yet there is a point.
	SERRANA: by Wayan; 2MB, Oct-Dec 2004, a sculpture/webtour with 60 maps, photos and 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
	SISTERS OF THE INTERFACE: by Wayan; 1983/12/21, a shamanic dreamtale. My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet...
	TAROT: THE CENTAUR (Ace of Pentacles): by Wayan; 360 x 528. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. Mind and body integrated. S/he can hold up even the world-serpent that the gods couldn't lift... CAUTION: ANDROGYNOUS CENTAUR BREASTS
	TEN TRIALS: by Wayan; 101K, 1976/10/2, a dream of love distracted. While living with violent Kay, I dream I meet a nice moth-girl. But we must undergo ten trials. Mustn't we? CAUTION: RELATIONSHIP TROUBLES, BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT
	THARN: by Wayan; 8.3MB (45 p, 200+ ill.), 2006, a nondream virtual world: maps, photos, portraits, tours Tour a rugged, spectacular moon with air and water in deep canyons sheltering a dozen intelligent species CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, SCIENCE
	VIRGIN ON THE VERGE: by Wayan; 640 x 680 tall, 1992. Digital picture/poem/rant. Ever since I was battered I feel like a virgin again: longing, but wary--scared where sex may lead... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES
	WHICH ROAD? 36K, 1999/1/13. Digital sketch of a dream. I was on a path winding over grassy hills, while humans zoomed by on a freeway below...
	VIXENTAUR: by Wayan; 150K, 2006/8/20; dream-inspired terracotta statue Mixing two dream-motifs, I imagine an odd fox-taur people with intricate reproductive patterns--up to four parents each! CAUTION: WEIRD SEXUAL CUSTOMS, NUDE CLAY FOX