THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: FLIRTING

The World Dream Bank:
FLIRTING AND TEASING

Dreams of flirtation, come-ons, sexual compliments and teasing... and, of course, how these messages can go astray. These little love letters are sometimes literal suggestions about someone who's interested in you, but sometimes friendly signals between parts of yourself--lures designed to tempt you in good directions more often than bad.

And a surprising number of these dreams use flirtation symbolically, to stand for interests of quite different kinds. Flirtation can lure you forward through difficult matters, when you're scared, reluctant... or brainwashed not to look.

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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	ADRIAN TRIED: by Wayan, 1991/3/12, an embarrassing dream. Adrian and Jennifer and Michelle try very very hard to get my attention, but I'm a bit oblivious... CAUTION: SEXUAL STUPIDITY
	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
	THE BAR PET: by Wayan; 1994/12/4, a disorienting dreamlet. I meet a sex-kitten in the Underground Cartoonists' Bar, but her body language makes no sense to me... CAUTION: UNDERAGE FLIRTATION... OR IS IT?
	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
	CELEBRATE BOTH: by Henry Sultan, 2005/6/26, a painting that blends two dreams At a snake-weaving party I flirt with my anima, who tells me how the cake fell off the roof. I think “At last we’re really connecting!”...
	CHAPERONE AND REBEL: by Wayan; 1998/5/18, a flirtatious dreamtale. A girl with a magic swimsuit flashes me, as her Iranian fundamentalist aunt glares from beyond the veil... CAUTION: NUDITY? OR ILLUSION?
	CHELSEA AND THE PRESIDENTIAL COMPLEX: by Wayan; 1999/12/25, an odd political (?) dream. I was hot tubbing and flirting... so how'd I end up as Chelsea Clinton running for office?
	CHESS DEVIL: by Wayan; 1997/8/5, a humiliating nightmare. I try to rescue my girl friends losing to a devil in boat-chess, but they'd rather be with him... CAUTION: BAD GIRLS
	A CLINTONIAN AFFAIR: by “Kate”; 2008/2/18, a dream of strange political bedfellows indeed Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush were having a secret love affair, and I was sharing their bed...
	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
	THE CYGNET BALL: by Wayan; 1996/3/26, a dream on assertion. At the Ball, I feel up women, who idly enjoy me like... hors d'oeuvres! Wait, is that what I wanted? CAUTION: WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS
	DETECTIVE DEE: by Wayan; 1992/2/1, a dream on MPD . The clues point toward my own anima as the murderer, but Detective Dee finds the even odder truth...
	THE DISPLAY: by Wayan; 1997/10/17, a natural history dream. I'm trapped in a nature documentary about mating displays among humans... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, PBS NARRATION, AND OTHER EMBARRASSMENTS
	DRAGON BANNERS: by Wayan; 125K, 1987/3/19, a dream on the hollow inside. A dragon's daughter seeking her inheritance defies a sneaky dragon-realtor out to own the world...
	DREAM SHORTAGE: by Wayan; 1985/12/1, an appropriately short dream. I meet two women in dream-prison. One's a giant, one a miniature. A fairy? She says, 'No, I'm..."
	DURING DREAM-DROUGHT: by Wayan; 1997/5/7, a journal exerpt. Sitting in an eviction-lawyer's waiting room, of all places, I discover my next artistic direction...
	EMPRESS AND PIG: by Doug Williams; 2006/10/10, a dream of romantic beginnings A pig led me off my path to meet a lady. I told her my true name, and felt something shift...
	FANFOX: by Wayan; 2001, self-portrait as a fox woman. This foxgirl had my own uneasy mixture of exhibitionism and wariness. Baring sex, but not my face... CAUTION: NUDITY
	FIGURE DRAWING: PEEKABOO: by Wayan; 1995, crayon based on photo Girl peers out from a satin robe hiding only her face. Look at me! Hide! I know those contradictory feelings. CAUTION: NUDITY
	FIRST IMPRESSIONS: by Wayan; 2004/5/20, a dreampoem; Dreamverse #0.. I meet a monster--half earthworm, half giraffe. Then I realize she’s kind of cute...
	FOOD CAME BETWEEN US: by Wayan, 1993/4/25, a tasty dream epic. The terror of Navy breakfast, the joy of filterfeeding, how to marry pudding, and a sniper lunch with kisses...
	GALILEO FALLS: by Wayan; 1979/11/7, a mysterious dream . I was a closet unicorn. SO closet, I didn't even know what a unicorn was, till I went to college and met...
	GET THEIR ATTENTION: by Wayan; 1999/4/24, a queer little dream. My friend Linda and I are walking in the Castro, when a tourist girl jams her tongue in Linda's mouth... CAUTION: SERIOUS 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
	GORDO'S EYES: by Wayan; 1981/2/14, a dream warning. The old cartoon character Gordo has another girlfriend. But his pets say he only loves the hunt, not her...
	GUIDE IN THE RUINS: by Wayan; 1996/11/20, a hopeful dream of ruin. Through vast Soviet ruins to the modest rooms where the new Russia lives. As I fall in love with my guide...
	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
	HILLARY’S EYES: by Margaux Williamson; February 2008, a political romance dream Hillary Clinton was trying to seduce me, and doing a pretty good job, too...
	A HOT SKATER: by Wayan; 1997/5/8, a suggestive dream. A skater so hot, she tears her clothes off and starts melting the ice! I'm shy with her: thin ice, you know... CAUTION: NUDITY, CRUDITY
	ICARIAN PAIN: by Wayan; 125K, 3 ill., 1982/10/19, a dream of shyness, and flying, and pinching yourself. I meet some cute dancers, but rather than flirt, I just try ballet leaps too. I get more than I bargained for...
	KARMA AND HER SISTERS: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/27, a happy sexy flying dream that turned tragic. One boring lonely day, I meet a cute teenage bunny who wants to play with me! But half an hour later… CAUTION: LANGUAGE, INTERSPECIES FLIRTING, AND LOSS
	KIBBLE FROM HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1986/10/13, a dream on love and money. I'm a dog princess, on a world where kibble falls from heaven. When I meet our species' guardian angels... CAUTION: DOG NUDITY, LAWYERS
	MARIAH: by Wayan, 1994/9/23, a mystical flying dream. An un-jealous wind lifts me above the San Francisco hills, so I can hunt for my love: the Muse...
	MY MUSLIM MOTHER-IN-LAW: by Wayan; 1995/3/25, a dream on repression. How exactly did I acquire a mother-in-law snooping on my phone calls, when I don't have a wife?
	NO "I": by Wayan; 2003/10/22, a dream of identity loss. I'm in San Francisco trying to throw Sauron's Ring into the Cracks of San Andreas. But a sexy sorcerer steals my sense of I! How can you act without a self?
	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
	PLANET CAT: by Wayan; 1995/11/12, a First Contact dream of love. I'm the first man on Planet Cat, falling in love with my guide. And then I'm the Cat, falling for an alien ape... CAUTION: NUDE CAT
	POKER WITH A DEMON: by Wayan; 1980/8/15; a comic psychic financial dream. I'm authorized to play high-stakes poker with a scary-looking but rather nice demon...
	POKING THROUGH THE NET: by Wayan; 1993/8/6, a dream on evading repression. Cult members must wear a chadoor, and daily confess their sins. So why's their beach such a pickup scene?
	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
	REHEARSING THE LOVE SCENE: by Wayan; 1999/9/17, a dream of advice. An insecure girl who looks like my anima is rehearsing a controversial love scene with an alien wolf...
	RIBBING: by Wayan; 1992/12/25, an assertive dreamtale. After seeing 150 years of family photos, I dream of being teased by time-traveling cheerleaders, and...
	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
	SHEEPISH: by Wayan; 1985/9/24, a stupid psychic dream. Floundering through the snows of 1917, I fall in love with a sheep named Linda Evans, who teaches ballet...
	SLAVES DON'T DANCE: by Wayan; 400K (17 ill.), 1999/8/1, an epic Shakespearean dream. Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm made nurse to her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is...
	SOCK PUPPETS OF THE GODS: by Dee and Wayan; 100K, 1994/4/14. Parallel shamanic dreams!. A dance classmate asks a bizarre question that haunts me. That night I dream I'm suicidal--nearly kill myself. Then I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern, from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but each time, the challenges get more spiritual. I wake up stunned. Then I learn what a shaman I know just dreamed... and now I'm unsure whose dream this is.. CAUTION: IDEAS
	SPHINX IN HEAT: by Wayan; 150K, 2006/8/20, terracotta dream-statue Trying to sculpt a dream-figure acting blatantly sexual teaches me it's as hard to show lust as supposedly subtler feelings... CAUTION: NUDE SPHINX
	SURRENDER DARCY!: by Wayan; 1982/6/14, a dreamtale on pride and prejudice. I'm Doctor Who, being chased by an air-surfer who demands we give up a reserved, proud man... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	TIGER TALL: by Wayan; 1992/7/3, a marathon dream. I'm a tiger from Planet Cat, visiting Earth to run in San Francisco's "Bay to Breakers" race. I knew racial tensions were high, but why is William S. Burroughs out to kill me? Oh. Because...
	A VALLEY NEAR HOPE: by Wayan; 155K, illustrated, 1984/10/17-19, an epic dream. I'm lost in a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who adore unicorns but hate cyborgs, who think ants are cute, but dread unicorns! And while the Three Tribes love and hate, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four vertices of my tetrahedral soul, but what if I get what I want? Peace, love... transformation? What if those aren't cute and New Age? CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING
	A WISE WRITER PROTECTS HER EYES: by Wayan; 1998/8/19, an advisory dreamtale. A writer I meet either starts flirting with me obscenely, or advising me about eyecare, or... both? CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
	WITWEET WAYAN: by Wayan, 1979/1/10, a dream of butch and femme. Six generations in the future, I find a poodle who can defuse the bomb my rival girlfriends can't... CAUTION: MAD SCIENTIST, EXHIBITIONIST GIRLFRIEND, POODLE HUMILIATION
	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
	A WOMEN'S WORLD: by Wayan; 1996/8/6, a psychic dream. I visit Earth during an all-female era. I'm a woman, can pass for local--so why do I lie to fit in? CAUTION: SEXIST SLUR