THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: GUARDIANS

The World Dream Bank:
GUARDIANS

Dreams of protectors and guardians--from hired thugs to guardian angels. But compiling this list, I was startled how many time the guardian turned out to be me. It's quite possible to be responsible in dreams; and shouldn't we? We can't be sure they're idle fictions. If even some dreams are real, our actions matter. We have to be each other's guardian angels.

RELATED TOPICS: warriors and codes of honor - mentors - angels - parenting - mothers - fathers - 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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	LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI: by John Keats, April 1819, a sexy nightmare poem A knight falls in love with a fey woman, until her previous victims warn him in a nightmare that she is... CAUTION: GOTH TO THE MAX
	BLESS MY PHOBIA: by Wayan; dreamed 1992/8/15; text and silk painting. I was Eve's guardian angel the second time round, and I blew it again. But this time, it came out right.... CAUTION: BREASTS AND BEASTS
	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
	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
	CRIMECON 90: by Wayan; 1990/3/27, a dream about capitalism. I tended my spirit, not my career. So now I have to guard a crimeboss at a theft convention... CAUTION: INEVITABLE CHEKHOVIAN SHOOTOUT
	THE DREAM TO LAST YEARS: by Elizabeth Church; 2004? to March 2008; recurring encounters with a protector--in and out of dreams! For about five years now I have been dreaming of this guy. Different dreams, same guy...
	DRESSER GUARDIAN: DRAGON: by Wayan; 1999. Dream-figure portrait, acrylic, 6x5" A guardian figure who recurs in my dreams, painted on my dresser to guard my sleep-journeys...
	DRESSER GUARDIAN: MER-ANGEL: by Wayan; 1999. Dream-figure portrait, acrylic, 5x5" A guardian figure who recurs in my dreams, painted on my dresser to guard my sleep-journeys...
	ELEVEN CENT ORACLE: by Wayan; 1998/11/12, an epic future dream. I'm a migratory girl who's lost my tribe. I find eleven coins, cross the world, and pay the Oracle...
	GUARD ON THE BEACH: by Wayan; 1980/9/17, a dream of moral suasion Very nearly a nightmare, till the guard on the beach relented in the face of people power...
	THE GUARDIAN ANGEL COURSE: by Wayan; 1984/9/29, a dream of responsibilities. I get bored with crime, so I take a course in finding my Guardian Angel. But my test results are strange... CAUTION: WEIRD ANGELS
	GUARDIAN ANGELS FEUD: by Wayan; 1995/10/9, an epic, heretical dream. You know angels feud over regional underfunding of Divine Grace. But you don't know how low they'll go...
	HELP, NOT CURE: by Wayan; 1996/12/26, a dream on autism. Gay angels try to help an autistic woman. Change her past? Only if they pass the Ass-Backward Guardians!
	I'M A VESTA, NOT A MAN!: by Wayan; 1980/1/6, a dream of when it's over. I'm the animal guardian of a deep crater, but when a human girl rejects me, I set out to leave... CAUTION: ORAL SEX, UNREQUITED LOVE, SPECISM
	JOIN THE WOLVES LATER!: by Wayan; 1980/9/4, a dream of false but useful fear. Shepherding a group of cityfolks through an alien wilderness, I need a werewolf's help. So why do I lie?
	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
	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
	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....
	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
	MISFITS ON MARS: by Wayan; 300K, 1986/11/20, an epic dream; the climax of UNICORN TAG, though it can stand alone. From the punk clubs of Frisco to the Safeways of Si Valley to the vermilion sands of Mars, Silky the were-nightmare fights for the Misfits against every cliche in science fiction...
	THE MUSTACHE PRAYER: by Wayan; 1983/9/11, a dream on wishes' limits. I help a mutant boy find others like him, and learn why some prayers are ungrantable...
	PASS THE VIAL ON: by Wayan; 2000/4/18, a dream of renunciation A vagabond king showed me the way into Faerie, and it made my fortune. But now it's time to pass the gift on...
	PASTLIFE MIDDEN: by Wayan; 1998/12/28, a past-life dream. I bike deep into Time Hall, barging through security gates of amnesia, to climb the midden of the past...
	POTLATCH SMOKE: by Wayan; 1988/5/10, a dream of shamanic responsibility. Refugees flood the spirit worlds! War looms. Wolf, Silky, Dr Who, even the Bug-Goddess of Love are alarmed. I'm just a blonde ditz, but I help inspect realities till we trace the source: a Tlingit potlatch? Why?
	THE PROBLEM OF PAIN: by Wayan; 1984/5/15, a devious dream. We sail to Heaven, but God exiles me to Fargo, North Dakota. But God's up to something subtle...
	THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY: by Wayan; 1989/7/8, a psychic nightmare. My sisters get bored with the game of power, so I watch TV instead. But it melts, and a huge terrifying figure rises...
	MY SISTER'S GRAVITY WELL: by Wayan; 1995/4/25, a dreamtale. We play with worlds for balls, and gravity wells for goals. How do the worlds see it? Well... I find out.
	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
	SOUL-WORK GOES ON: by Wayan; 1994/11/3, a journal extract on dreamwork. As I reread decades of my dreams, I see Jung was right: even in times of chaos, soul-work goes calmly on...
	THE SPHINX APPROVES: by Wayan; 1991/5/2, a dreamtale on growth. A great war shrinks to wrestling, then hopping from page to page! Once they were worlds to me, but now...
	A SQUID STRATEGY: by Wayan; 1997/10/7, a dream warning. Giant squid start surfacing at popular beaches and eating people. Not the form of first contact we'd hoped... CAUTION: YOU ARE LUNCH
	STARHAWK THE WITCH: by Wayan; 1983/8/19, an epic dream. I'm forced to become Time Pilgrim, warning history of the dangers of community--indeed, of unity...
	HER STINGY DAD: by Wayan; 1998/7/29, a dreamtale on ambitions. A single dad loves his daughter, but is so pathologically cheap he's teaching her an unintended lesson... CAUTION: CHILD NEGLECT
	TAROT: THE COP (Knight of Swords): by Wayan; 25K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. The card of force not always used wrongly. The Knight says, "Sometimes ya gotta bust a few heads..."
	TAROT: THE EXPLAINER (The Page of Swords?): by Wayan; 36K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. Using the mind's blade humbly, respecting ideas and people, clarity's disciple may not see her own power...
	TAROT: THE MAGE: by Wayan; 34K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. Jung said most people let one aspect of life dominate them. The Mage balances them...
	TAROT: THE SPHINX (the High Priestess): by Wayan; 328 x 546. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. The card of intuition, dreams--and asking. She knows all the secrets. And might just tell you, if...
	TAROT: DREAMTIGER! (Strength): by Wayan; 332 x 546. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. Find your strength in dreams: facing (and befriending) what you've feared, or fought...
	TAROT: THE UNICORN WELL (the Ace of Cups): by Wayan; 1991. Digital, based on Tarot card, 3x5". The Well of Emotion, guarded by the Black Unicorn, the shadow of all the feelings you deny...
	TELEPATH TREES: by Wayan; 125K, 1993/9/11, a how-the-other-half-lives dream. Edward Abbey shows me a secret grove of telepath trees. That night, they meet me in my dreams...
	THEA'S HOUSE: by Wayan; 1987/3/23, a life-changing dream. I dreamed the Earth Goddess invited me to live with her. She was lonely to be seen for who she was...
	TIME IS A CROC: by Wayan; 80K total, 1993/3/29, a dream on time. Golfing in the basement! But the ball lands in another world, where the water hazards are hazards...
	TIMEDOORS OF THE GODS: by Wayan; 1998/2/17, a puzzling dream. I'm a mortal time-tech, living in the Commune of the Gods, when I meet Little Red Riding Hood...
	TITANIA: by Wayan; 1983/1/7 and subsequent nights; an epic dream of love Clarence the sappy angel from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and Milton's Lucifer, noblest Devil of them all, land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're perfect, and the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me, and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full range of feelings. Too bad one is the feeling she's fake...
	THE TOMBSTONE TEST: by Wayan; 1986/8/18, a deceptive dream. I walk in a vast graveyard full of history's most famous people. But it's all fake, built as a test...
	TOUGH GLOVE: by Wayan; 1999/12/4, a dreamtale. I finally find a way to safely indulge in heavy petting (as well as puns) with the cat...
	TRAVEL: by "SchlofM"; 2008/2/10, a dream about protection I'm on a wild trip to who knows where, with my young-again mom and my dead dad... and who's that other guy?
	TRUMP ON THE RUN: by Wayan; 1990/3/8, an illustrated dreamtale. The manhunt is on for Donald Trump, rich sociopath. But he too is pursuing something: happiness...
	TUBA BEANS: by Wayan; 1996/3/24, a Star Trek dream. Changelings invade our space station, testing one kid's split loyalties. But it's the beans that intrigue me...
	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 UNDERCOVER TROLL: by Wayan; 1994/7/6, a dream of personal growth taken too far... Disguised as a literary troll, I spy on the Neo-Nazis, but it can't last: I ate a magic herb, and I'm growing...
	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
	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
	WATERCATS: by Wayan; 170K, 1987/9/10; a psychic dream of another life. I'm a biologist who finds an 'extinct' species in a slum. But the survivors speak: they tell me I'm one of them, just hypnotized to think I'm human... And when I wake, another kind of cultural hypnosis is exposed:
	WELL-MEANING GRASS: by Wayan; 1982/5/17, a diagnostic Trek dream. On a world of designer genes, the Prime Minister tries to kill the Bug Princess by deluding an innocent lawn...
	WELLS'S QUEST: by Wayan; 1992/7/14, a benevolent dream. I'm on a world inhabited by hobbits when H.G. Wells shows up, looking for a Ring of Power...
	WHY COWGIRLS LOVE BROCCOLI: by Wayan; 1987/8/19, a surreal dream of love. I'm a cowgirl in Nevada circa 1900. Below Haunted Mansion, I meet a green lizard-lady in distress... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE
	WHY I BECAME THE SEA: by Wayan; 1980/6/19, a dream of containment. I get so mad at a bunch of cops who harass gays, that I become the sea itself and chase them... CAUTION: UNCHARITABLE REPRESENTATION OF OUR SAINTS IN BLUE
	WYVERN: by Wayan; 1997, 22" ceramic sculpture; recurring dream figure. I dreamed of a dragon-woman on a reef. She was my guardian, but she let me drown! She had her reasons... CAUTION: SCALY NUDITY
	YOU'RE THE EAGLE: by Wayan; 2000/2/8, a dream fable. A hermit spends his life wrestling with shadows. His only disciple becomes famous. Who was happier?