THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: FORESTS

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Forests

Dream woods, forests, rainforests, and jungles...

RELATED TOPICS: trees (individual ones) - nature-spirits, including dryads (tree-spirits) - farms - cities - deserts and oases - mountains - beach and shore - lakes and seas - ice - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

The World Dream Bank has 2100 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, 2001-2010.

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	ABOVE SOCIETY: by Jayci Ferrimani; c. 1998, painting of a flying dream with a point I flew over a forest. I noted the trees were all the same, and told myself to remember this...
	BAGHEERA SUGGESTS LOVAGE: by Wayan; 1993/7/31, a Jungle Book dream The panther in the Jungle Books was really female. I grew up with her cub...
	BERNAL ISLET IN 2250: by Wayan; 175K (6 ill.), 2007/4/2, an undream painting My neighborhood becomes a Huck Finn Eden after global warming turns it into a tropical island... CAUTION: NUDITY, AMBITOPIA
	BUFFALO PERSON: by Plenty Coups, summer 1857; a child's time-traveling, tribe-saving dream I was led into the future, where all the buffalo disappeared, to meet a frail old man by a ranch house...
	THE CAT: by David B.; 1991/9/24, an eerie sculpture come alive I'm being stalked in the woods outside a modern art museum. My stalker's a huge skeletal cat--Giacometti's cat...
	DEAF TO MY SIGNS: by Wayan; 1997/6/17, a wise frustration dreamtale. Watching a slideshow, in a room of deaf women, I find no one can hear me in either English or Sign...
	DEER-MAN DANCING: by "Cmmndrblu"; early 2006, a shamanic dream triggers a dream-within-a-dream at least six layers deep! First I met a deer-man in the woods. Next week I go lucid, then wake up... only to find I'm still dreaming. And wake again. And wake, and wake...
	DESERT EYES: by Wayan; 1984/3/4, a dream of doors. We desert-hobbits break through to a world of jungle giants. But will they believe us about the UFOs?
	DO YOU LOVE ME, JOHN?: by Wayan; 1991/7/6, a dream on the courage of the shy. I dream of a future where blondes are a too-cute endangered species. How can they survive? Like this... CAUTION: NUDITY
	THE DREAM: by Henri Rousseau; 1910, a (collaborative?) dream painting Rousseau's famous painting of a woman who falls asleep on a sofa and finds herself in a glorious jungle may just be a real dream... CAUTION: NUDITY, SLACKING
	THE EUCALYPTUS WARNING: by Wayan; 1993/8/6, a dream on evading repression. Bad puns link an ecological dream of a forest being murdered by inches, and a dental exam...
	FAMILIAR WOOD: by Wayan; 1994/11/10, a dream of the borderzone. Downtown San Francisco hides a magic wood, full of talking tigers. I must enter it to live a while...
	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
	FLAMING LEAVES: by Dr. Adele A. Gleason and John R. Joslyn; 1892/1/26, a shared or telepathic dream. Alone in a dark wood, Adele panicked. But her friend John came and shook a tree. It burst into flame! That night John dreamt...
	FLYING IN THE FALL: by Wayan; 1995/1/21, a dream scene. In Surinam, a whole river falls 600 meters into the sea. I put on a birdsuit and fly into rainbows...
	GIRAFFETAUR GROVE: by Wayan; 2009/7/27, a science-joke dream hiding serious diagnostic advice I meet an weird new species of giraffe people with hydraulic chrome skeletons giving them light, powerful jaws and stretchable necks. Wow, Lamarck is back!... CAUTION: ANTICREATIONISM--THAT IS, ACTUAL SCIENCE
	I'M ALL EARS, DR. ESTES: by Wayan; 1995/6/7, not a dream, a portrait of a radio-trance. Clarisa Pinkola Estes (who runs with the wolves) was on the radio, and this popped out of my mouse...
	LILIES, DREAMER, FOX: by Wayan; 1998, acrylic on 46" plywood disk, life study. She didn't want to be there. She closed her eyes and went elsewhere. So I painted where she went... CAUTION: NUDITY
	MELTDOWN VALLEY: by Wayan; 1993/2/13, a dream of scrupulous balance. A park in San Francisco has melted into a bizarre mutation-zone. Its guardian is a lonely elf-woman... CAUTION: ELF NUDITY
	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
	NATURE DEFIES CONTOUR: by Wayan; 1999/9/20. waking vision in ink & acrylic applied with a stick It's not nice to outline things that don't want to have outlines...
	NEWT WEDDING: by Emily Joy; spring 1995, 100k, a six-year-old's epic dream Through wild jungles and over the Mattress Mountains, I lead a giant purple newt to love...
	THE OWLS OF THE GATEKEEPER ON THE FOREST BRIDGE: by Brian Quinn; 2009/7/15, a shamanic opportunity lost I'm pulling a cart in the woods. At a bridge over a canyon, owls urge me to climb down into the misty abyss, but...
	ROUSSEAU: by Wayan; nondream, felt pen, 1980s. Sort of a psychedelic scribbly version of Henri Rousseau's pictures of flute players in the jungle...
	RUM JUNGLE: by Wayan; 1997? digital; map of the dreamworld. Think of your dreams as a rainforest, clearcut every morning--unless you make the effort to remember... CAUTION: TINY NAKED ANGELS
	SPOCK'S SPIRITS: by Wayan; 2000/3/12, a skewed Trek dream. Lost in a dark maze of machine-shops, I follow Mr. Spock, who's drunk, and talks to tree-spirits... CAUTION: ALCOHOL AS INSPIRATION?
	SPORECOUNT: by Wayan; 105K, 1990/1/5, a dreamtale on change-phases. I'm a hot archeology student till I open the wrong tomb. A plague turns us into green moldy monsters... CAUTION: DISEASE, DEATH, GRIEF, SHAME
	SPORE FOREST: by Wayan; 1998. Watercolor, digital tweaking. Daydream image.. No dream, no plot. I saw myself as a horse grazing in a forest of giant mosses, lifting spore-packets...
	TAROT: DREAMTIGER! (Strength): by Wayan; 42K. Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1979. Find your strength in dreams: facing (and befriending) what you've feared, or fought...
	WATERFALL: by Wayan; 1986, ink blown up via Xerox, with acrylic wash; nondream; nondream. A stylized waterfall, sort of a distillation of all those childhood summers camping in Yosemite...
	THE WHITE DEER, RE-ENACTED: by Wayan; 2009/3/2, a parabolic art dream. I'm living in an England rendered in chalk. We wander the woods with butterfly nets, ritually hunting the White Deer--if that's what they really are...
	THE WILD HUNT: by Carl Jung; Sept. 1922, a clairvoyant dream. In a dark wood, a gigantic wolfhound tore past me. My blood froze. The Wild Hunt was about to carry away a human soul...
	WINGS by Nancy Price; 1948, two bird-people dreams, one psychic I have a long chat with two talking songbirds. Next I'm a parrot, living in rainforest. And then the mail comes...