THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: Comics

The World Dream Bank:
Comics

Dreams drawn as comics, plus a few dreams I originally drew as comics but presented here as illustrated texts, since the original comics layout was just too detailed for the current low-resolution state of the Web. There are a few non-dream comics, and a few non-comics dreams that are ABOUT comics, comix (American undergrounds), cartoons, animation, manga, and anime...

But mostly, these are just examples of another way to render dreams--one that has a profoundly different effect than either text or pictures alone. A middle way, and one I highly recommend all dreamers at least try.

RELATED TOPICS: CATALOG of my printed comics, picture books etc - illustrated Web stories (text with floating images) - posters and picture-poems - dream-image pinups: babes and hunks - dreams and movies - TV dreams - books, writers and writing - dreamwork in general - 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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	AMERICAN TANKA: by Wayan; 290K, eight images, 1995; acrylic on 30" disk, telling a 1989/7/26 dream. I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night...
	BIRDSUIT: by Wayan; 4 pages, 200K total, 1983/2/17; dream-comics. I try to fly in my birdsuit before I have feathers! Can I? Starring the cast of Three's Company... CAUTION: LAME SEXUAL INNUENDO TYPICAL OF THREE'S COMPANY
	BONK VERONICA: by Wayan; 400K total, 1997/4/1, 9 illus.; two comic nightmares on body image. The world's first all-bulemic band, Veronica and the Vomits, provokes a riot at our local punk club. So I go to Anorexic Bootcamp and join an army of models learning self-defense under fire, as calories and fat jokes whiz by... CAUTION: SKINNY GIRLS WHO MAKE YOU WANT TO BARF--no wait, that's a bad idea!
	BORN IN A CAVE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2007/4/20 to 2007/8/9, a painted series of rite-of-passage dreams. I keep dreaming of awkward but successful transitions into new life, and paint them all in one landscape...
	BOY BODY: by Wayan; 200K total? Dream-comic on body image. A recurring childhood dream on how weird a boy-body is when you've been a girl too many lifetimes. CAUTION: PUBLIC HUMILIATION, NUDE MONSTERS, SILLY GENITALIA
	THE BRIDGE: by Wayan; 190K total, 1990-91. A 3-page dream-comic. The Hunt of the Unicorn (yeah, guess who I am), as I fly through the worlds fighting Reaganism... CAUTION: MOCKS THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR
	BROWN DRESS: by Wayan; 265K; nine-page digital comic of a sexy healing dream, 1984/2/11. A champion swimmer tells me how she turned a sexual humiliation into excitement and liberating power... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, SHAME, PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY
	CAPITOL REEF: by Wayan; 277K, 1996. Cartooned daydream of a mid-air (or is it mid-water?) orgy News of a new national park fused with a science show on cleaner-fish spur a fantasy of dolphins, cats and... CAUTION: FISH ORGY; MOCKS THE ANGEL MORONI, TOO
	CECY'S SUBMISSION: by Wayan; 157K total, 1996/6/4, a sex-farce dream. My writer-friend Cecy will do anything to get published. Anything? Oh, believe me, ANYTHING... CAUTION: BONDAGE, not to mention POSTAGE
	CHUNKS, or, BABEZILLA!: by Wayan; two dreams 1990/10/4 and 1991/9/4 told as digital comics. I meet a giant psychic baby feared by 12-step people. So I go to the beach and find I'm a shark-bit girl who can have her missing chunks sewn back in--if I still have room for them...
	CITY OF BEES: by Wayan; 1994/8/2, a diagnostic dream-comic. A bee-doctor in the city of Propolopolis diagnoses me as having a rare syndrome, Ambition Denied...
	CUBIST CHARLIE BROWN: by Wayan; 1977/4/1, a cubist nightmare. We're Cubist cartoon characters, trapped in a strip gone mad. But my dad stays calm! Too calm... CAUTION: SEAS OF BLOOD... OR IS IT RED INK?
	DOME: by Wayan; 250K, 1999/1/31, a dream peeling off a lie. I'm actress Nicole Kidman, clinging to the dome of City Hall like King Kong, ripping it to shreds! Why? CAUTION: VANDALISM, REVERSE SEXISM, EXHIBITIONISM
	DREAMTALES: by Wayan; 200K, 1996-2006, a dream-comics book in progress. "I've always dreamed other lives. Other bodies. Other times. Other worlds. I draw my lives..."
	ECCENTRIC: by Wayan; 100K, a two-page comic of a 1990/5/17 dream. I'm a small planet in an eccentric orbit: a one-day summer, a two-day winter. Rest and hibernate, or... CAUTION: SLACKER ETHIC
	A FAMILY ALBUM: by Wayan; 197K total: ink, digital tints; 1980ish; overview of family nightmares. A series of family shadows, as I saw them then. These scenes are NOT literal, do I make myself clear? But these tensions were real... CAUTION: GRIM! SEXUAL VIOLENCE, INCEST, MUTILATION
	A FINAL GOODBYE: by Justin Hall; dreamed summer 2001, drawn 2003; comic of a lucid dream on closure. I found myself in a cafe in Amsterdam--or was it Sevilla?--with Kevin, who I knew was dead... CAUTION: GRIEF
	FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 1.5M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic. I had a spectacular dream one night, that lasted many days in dream-time--a true other life. It wasn't Earth, and we weren't human. I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. I woke on deck deep in the night, my friends curled around me, and realized I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a grown woman, marry and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right... If 1500K is too big to load, try it in parts: 1: HOME, 450K, 2: VOYAGE, 680K, 3: BACK 400K. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
	FISHERGIRL IN WATERCOLOR; OVAL: by Wayan; 1996, watercolor of a 1996/7/15 dream scene. A watercolor portrait of Leaf and me on our boat in the lost city, from the dream FISHERGIRL... CAUTION: TRIBAL NUDITY
	FIVE HEARTS: COMIX: by Wayan; 699K, dreamed 1989/1/11; a sexy psychic unicorn dream. Too big? Page by page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Or text version: FIVE HEARTS I'm a nurse pulled through a glowing well to a world ruled by a five-hearted unicorn, who wants me to... CAUTION: SEX FANTASIES, LONGING, MELANCHOLIA
	FLOWERING:: by Wayan; 215K, 1996, pencil, digital tinting; nondream portraits. Sketches from a San Francisco street music festival where, after a long sleep, I woke up sexually at last... CAUTION: NYMPHETS, QUEERS, AND OTHER REAL PEOPLE
	FLY, DANCER!: by Wayan; 1993/4/2; an advisory dream. In my ballet class. The others were learning to leap, but I wanted to FLY. So I went outside alone...
	FOR THEM: by Wayan; 1995/12/1, a dream of outcasts. On the Night Train out of my small-town life, I meet the town rebel. But she's misplaced her tongue... CAUTION: PETTING; UNNERVING TONGUE
	GHOST DOGS: by Wayan; 107K, digital comic of a 1993/4/2 dream of temptation. I meet a wolf who invites me to join Dr Who's pack of sexy Ghost Wolves. There's just one catch... CAUTION: FLIRTATIOUS WOLVES
	GOLD EATER: by Wayan; 560K, 9-page comic of a 1993/1/15 dream. I'm an orphan shapeshifter enslaved by a gold-eating monster. But I meet a cat-girl with a hammer... CAUTION: BAD FOSTER-DAD; CAPITALIST MONSTER; VIOLENCE TO INNOCENT VENDING MACHINES
	THE GOLDEN KEY: by Wayan; 200K, 1996/7/9, a subtle dream lesson . I was so lonely the potheads on Haight looked good. I dreamed I had the Golden Key, but under a cheap sodium streetlamp, ALL my keys looked gold! Then I met true gold: a woman meditating until she shone... CAUTION: NUDITY, HAIGHT ST DECADENCE AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
	GROUND ZERO: by Al Davison; 2001/9/9, a predictive dream-comic. Two days before 9/11, I dream I'm a child at ground zero, mourning the devastation--and witnessing rebirth.
	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
	HIS DEER WIFE: by Wayan; 195K, 20 images, 1995/7/9, a parallel world love story. I'm a slave, a scribe in the house of a Captain of the New Aztec Empire, when he brings home a wife... CAUTION: SLAVE SOCIETY, SEX, SPOUSAL ABUSE/NEGLECT
	I GOT OUT: by Wayan; 1992/1/4, a psychic dream; 9-page comic, 500K (or open page by page: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9) I flee our love triangle when Abe turns mean. He's telepathic, but I have a plan: the goldfish, the snakepit, the underworld... CAUTION: THREESOME, SCARY BOYFRIEND, SNAKE HEADACHES, MOTORCYCLE FATALITY
	I MIST MY SISTER: by Cory and Wayan; 212K, 1992/9/20; Cory's healing dream triggers one by Wayan. My housemate's sore back is healed by a dream. So I ask for the same, and get this dream of incest... CAUTION: KARMA, SEX/NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES
	I WAS AN ELEPHANT HANDLER: by Wayan; 1989/4/3, a genderbent stagestruck dream. I was an elephant trainer longing to be a star--to win the girl on the flying trapeze. Who's probably straight... CAUTION: FLIRTING LESBIANS, OR POSSIBLY ELEPHANTS, OR MAYBE LIBRARIANS
	IRONY: by Wayan; 300K, 2007/6/15. A comic burned into (what else?) an ironing board I’m so sick of irony I decide to get my sense of irony surgically removed and replace it with... CAUTION: PLAYING WITH FIRE
	JILL THE PEST: by Wayan; 240K, 2001/2/22, a nondream visionary comic. I had a headache and couldn't sleep. I started drawing, and asked for a cure. And a cartoon angel said... CAUTION: TANTRUMS, MASTURBATION, JUNKFOOD, ANGELIC SCOLDING
	A KNIFE AT HIS THROAT: by Wayan; 177K, 1991; a political dream-fable. A courtroom hostage-drama where I'm forced to commit... tracheotomy! And then the Gulf War begins... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	LILY OXYGEN: by Wayan; 500K, 16 illus.; dreamed 1984/1/19, drawn 2000; a strong psychic dream. I'm Emily Dickinson reborn in 2100 as a peaceful breeder of hydroponic lilies, till my dad drafts me as an Arctic energy-prospector, where I meet a ghost, a fiery Beast, a new me, and the girl of my dreams... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, NUDE PROSPECTORS, GNOMIC DICKINSON QUOTES
	LITTLE NEMO: by Wayan; 2005/2/6; a little rant on the first dream-comic. Windsor McCay's dream-comic "Little Nemo" is spectacular, but plotless and passive. Or is it? Dreamwork is gradual...
	LOUSE: by Wayan; ink, 1982: an embarrassing true story. Getting rid of lice was easy. Harder was quelling the gossip and rumors from my co-workers and boss... CAUTION: A LOUSE OF A BOSS
	MAKING PROGRESS STANDING STILL: by Wayan; 1990; digital comic of a dream. A dream that climbed from guilty longing to an exciting climax on the Escalator of Love... CAUTION: CARTOON SEX, NUDITY, GENDER POLITICS
	THE MAN WITH THE GUITAR: by Wayan; 233K, 7 illus., 1992/7/4, a psychic dream. A volcano erupts in San Francisco! No human could survive the blast, but one researcher does--what IS he?
	THE MERMAN'S LOVER: by Wayan; 422K, 1991-93; a sex daydream treated four ways. Four versions of an underwater meeting between lovers, one terrestrial, one marine... CAUTION: ORAL SEX
	THE MUMMY: by Wayan; 2003/10/13, a Rarebit Fiend nightmare. A horror film and Rick Veitch's dream-comix provoke a nightmare warning me that guilt about my dad is wrecking my life...
	MY GATE: by Wayan; 500K, 8 illus., 1996/5/29; a breakthrough dream. The full moon rose, I turned into Weregirl, did the Moondance, and gnawed open the lock on my heart... CAUTION: NUDITY
	MY THREE HUSBANDS: by Wayan; 745K (15 p), a digital comic drawn 1991 from a 1981 dream. Or view page by page: Cover, p.1, p.2, p.3, p.4, p.5, p.6, p.7, p.8, p.9, p.10, p.11, p.12, p.13, p. 14. I'm three women who marry a unicorn, a goat philosopher, and a magic cat.. We form a commune, but the police quarantine us... CAUTION: INTERSPECIES MARRIAGE, UNDERAGE SEX, and BAD COPS
	MY TREE: by Wayan; 170K, 12/12/2007, 2-page comic of a persistent delusion. I keep feeling I'm a reincarnated rainforest creature just passing for human. When all I want is... CAUTION: TOBACCO
	THE OTTER'S MOM: by Wayan, 171K, a dream-comic (or 12K text version). 1996/5/29; a dream of the future. A brilliant, orphaned ottercub meets the last Tasmanian Wolf, who makes a hard choice I couldn't. Or did I?
	THE PEAK WHERE I DIED: by Wayan; 1983/1/16. A dark dream-comic. I froze to death trying to climb an icy peak. But I try again, and this time, no holds barred. Wow, am I selfish! But alive...
	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
	RABBIT WORLD: by Wayan; 260K total, 6-page comic of a 1990/9/26 dream. I'm a telepathic rabbit defending our world from space-laser attack. We do, but do we modernize too much? CAUTION: IDEAS
	RACCOON MOON: by Wayan; 1993/11/22; a short psychic dream. A precognitive dream about levitating snake girls, raccoons, and lunar eclipses. CAUTION: MY SNAKE BREASTS
	RANI: by Wayan; 120K total (8 illus.), 1994/1/28, a dreamtale on choice. A Borges story of a were-tiger provokes a dream of a ranch crawling with weird women. But I LIKE them... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
	REFLECTIONS IN THE POOL: by Wayan; 184K total, 2 panoramas; a 1994/7/2 dream. Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love. Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace? CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL
	RIDING MY UNICORN: by Wayan; 1993? Digital picture-poem of incubated vision. I'm single and feeling shy. So I asked my dreams for an image of my true love, and got... CAUTION: SEX
	RING OF WHITE WATER: by Wayan; 350K total, 14 illustrations, 1983/1/30, a major dreamtale. I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. One of my tour group jumps ship: she's scared of the white water of rocky relationships ahead... CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS...
	SAMURAI MARE: by Wayan; 1993/2/23, a time-travel dream. A feral mare will only let me ride her if I quit being a Japanese diplomat and become... a Samurai!
	SAX: by Wayan; 300K total, 8 pp, 1991/5/31, a digital comic--a true story. Alone in my blue room, I heard sax music. Two sunbathers were jamming outside my window... CAUTION: SEX AND SAX
	SOUL-BOARD: by Wayan; 1989/1/12, an illustrated dream poem. Africa. My horse trusted me as we faced lions and fire, but to face the Soul-Board, he must trust himself...
	SPACE NEEDLE: by Wayan; 85K total, 1995/8/24, an architecterotic dream. I'm a kid again, gawking at the Space Needle. But a woman stands before it, who no one else can see: CAUTION: NUDITY, A SEXUAL PERSPECTIVE
	A SPHINX'S SKETCHBOOK (COVER): by Wayan; 560 x 700, 1994/7/19. Cover of a book telling my dream of a sphinx who visits humanity and leaves her sketchbook with notes...
	SUSHI CIRCUS: by Wayan; 1982/2/17, an illustrated psychic dream. When I flee the Psychodrama Circus to avoid being stabbed, it explodes! But it's the sushi that really upsets me... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MAKI
	TEHURA TRIES COMICS: by Wayan; 1994/7/19. pencil, Xerox, erasable crayon. I dreamed a sphinx artist visited humanity and drew the crazy natives. I copied her sketchbook and notes... CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM, SLACKERISM, ACTUAL IDEAS
	TEST: by Wayan; 1994. Dream-inspired digital poster/quiz. I dreamed I had to take a bewildering test on who is allowed in the military. I flunked. So will you... CAUTION: MOCKS HOMOPHOBES
	THEY DON'T BELIEVE ME: by Wayan; 550K total, 15 illus., 1989/10/4, an unbelievable dream. My dog and I are abducted by aliens who turn us into cats. We escape, and turn feral to survive. I'm back in school now, and in therapy... but how we got back, and what happened along the way, even my own shrink won't believe... CAUTION: LEWD SQUID AND KLEPTOMANIAC BUGS
	THE THIEF OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 200K, an illustrated dream-play, 1996/11/29. I was a mermaid trying to find Count Coyote's stolen dreams, so I could marry my human girlfriend... CAUTION: GAY MARRIAGE, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
	THREE-EYED WOLF: by Wayan; 1993/12/14. Digital comic of a dream, done movie-poster style A 'toon liberation dream. I cartooned a new self and slowly she grew realer, until she ran Disney... CAUTION: FRANK SINATRA SWEARS
	TOO MUCH TO BEAR: by Wayan; 1997/4/28, an alternate-world nightmare that knew its math. I dreamed that nouveau-riche half-ton polar bears invaded San Francisco, evicting us locals... CAUTION: VIOLENCE COMING TO YOUR TOWN SOON
	TRUSTING FOXES: by Wayan; 175K, 2 big pp, 1997/8/20, a comic of a psychic dream. A lawyer sends me a letter full of fox-girls! In Asia foxes mean trouble, but instantly I know they mean...
	TWO-HEADED BEAST: by Wayan; 333K total, 12 images, 1997/7/31, a Gothic dream. In Castle Frankenstein, will Mary Shelley wed Elmer Fudd? His two-headed monster has marital advice...
	UNDER THE FUR: by Wayan, 700K total (5 p, 140K each), 1997/10/7; a color dream-comic (or plain text version, just 10 K) A strange creature slunk into our yard, carrying a skunk lunch. But she dropped her fur coat, and...
	UNDER THEIR MASKS: by Wayan; 2000/3/17, an ecdysiastic dream Masked champions of Good and Evil fight, peeling off layers till they're elven-thin--what's left to hide?...
	UTOPIA: by Wayan; 37 p, 3.9 MB, 2007/5/9, a painted essay on... wishes? An improvised painting-series exploring my obsession for Utopia--and your deafening silence... CAUTION: IDEAS, FURRY NUDITY, THAT GOSH-DARN MODERN ABSTRACT ART
	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
	WILLPOWER (HAPPINESS): by Wayan; 1991/1/17, a didactic dream. At age 90, the first female high-rise steelworker tells me why she did it--and why she regrets it...
	WING IT: by Wayan, 1995/12/23? 1 MB, a 9-page improv comic. An art experiment--the only rule is DRAW--no models, no ideas, no plans, not even dreams. Drawing from the void!
	WOLFWALL: by Wayan; 106K, 1995-1999. Digital image of daydream/trance Drew all night in a trance and only learned at dawn what this flirting otter and wolf were trying to tell me... CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL THEME