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Dreams in Ink

Ink drawings... I like color so much I tend to tint my ink work later on the computer, turning it hybrid. That's why this list is so short--I no longer even recognize a lot of dream art that started out as ink. Also, most cartoonists eventually render their pencil art in ink for presentation, but I make a lot of mistakes, so I've learned to stick with pencil for erasability, and finish it off digitally--it saves labor and looks fresher to me. Still, ink gives such vivid contrasts--as dramatic as dreams. Try it at least.

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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	THE AIRPORT AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHY BOOTH: by Julie Doucet; 1997/11/19, a comic of a warning dream At the airport, a new automatic photo booth shoots your memories! Julie can't resist... and emerges, excited, to find that...
	ART TAKES GUTS: by Wayan; ink, 11x14", 1982, a waking confession. Why this site? Because if I'm around when you see my dream art, I feel like THIS......
	BIRD CRASH: by Emily Joy; 2007/3/12, a set of didactic nightmares Such pressures there are on the sick to act well! I implore you, ignore them all... CAUTION: EXPLODING TEACHER
	BLACK MAGIC: by Wayan; 1986/11/10, a dream of love and rage; Chapter 8 of UNICORN TAG, though it can stand alone. A packet of magic soup mix transports me to the secret wizards' lab in our attic. They're trouble enough, but they've called up a demon they can't handle: the furious Black Unicorn...
	BURN: by Sierra Loucks; 1990?, a five-year-old’s nightmare I was at the beach with my friends. It was fun. But gradually they were laughing at me, not with me. Then they picked up burning sticks... CAUTION: GRUESOME
	CATFISH: by Wayan; 1990s, ink sketch of daydream. Not a dream image, as far as I can recall. Just looked like it should be...
	CENTAUR WITH STAFF OF POWER: by Wayan; 11x14", ink 1986, tinted 2001; a daydream.. Not from a dream, just felt like it...
	CRISSI THE DRIDER: by Brian Harp; 2003/1/16, a recurring dream character Crissi is a strange creature that has prowled my subconcious for a few years... CAUTION: SPIDER SEX, BONDAGE
	DANCE OF THE ENIGMAS: by Brian Harp; 2000, a dream of a sphinx-riddle She asked me "What, plus a teaspoon of knowledge and a teaspoon of wisdom, makes three teaspoons of nothing?"
	THE DOUBLE: by Julie Doucet; Nov. 1992, a lucid alter-ego sex dream. Looking in a mirror, Julie goes lucid. She changes herself into a man and pulls her mirror-image through the glass... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
	EYELASH GUY: by HareTrinity; 2003?4?5?, a fortunately nonrecurring dream A coach-driving vampire seemed kind of cute until he raped me. If that's even his real face... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE
	FIGURE DRAWING: NINA SCARES US WITH HER BICEPS: by Wayan; 1995, studio sketch, felt pen Just what it says. CAUTION: CARTOON BUTT and GRRL BICEPS
	THE FEARFUL INSECT by Nancy Price; 1948, an episodic circular nightmare unified by a leitmotif A bug with a horse-skull face reappears in scene after scene of this dream of sabotage and betrayal. I only know I feared it...
	FREEDOM THROUGH BOXES: by Wayan; an experiment in art & pain, Jan 2005 I've always loved curves, color, dreams, sex, texture... and planning, too. So one day I drew 100 black boxes in ink--no color, no curves, no erasure! And then I began to seek...
	HORSE IN A TAILWIND: by Wayan; 1982; study of a dream character It looks like a study of negative shapes, but if you happen to be a part-time horse, like me...
	INK MOUNTAIN: by Wayan; 1992/8/5, a tutelary dreamtale. A Himalayan peak boils with warring creatures, but a guru says "They're just your conflicts. Sit, watch..."
	JESSE'S DEATH: drawn by Joey Epstein from her father-in-law's dream; 1983/7/31, an apparent psychic dream At the exact minute Joey's infant daughter Jesse died, her father-in-law woke up 500 miles away and announced, "The baby..."
	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
	LOUSE: by Wayan; ink, late May 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
	MYRNA, LOOK AHEAD: by Myrna, drawn by her daughter Joey Epstein; before 1988, a dream of a revenant ghost’s advice After Myrna’s husband gave up diabetes treatments to die at home, one night she felt him behind her in bed, and he whispered...
	NO MAN IS ISLAND: by Wayan; 125K, 1990, poem refuting John Donne's, illustrated with dreamselves. No Man is Island. So Men say. I am not a Man...
	O LA LA, WHAT A STRANGE DREAM: by Julie Doucet; 1989, a comic space sex dream Mom gave me cookies for my three-year solo spaceflight. Special cookies for both ends of me... CAUTION: NUDITY, BAD SEX ADVICE
	ON THE SEASHORE: by Gabrielle Bell; between 1998-2002; a lucid dream-comic I'm on a beach in Mexico with a baby--my only souvenir of an affair I can't recall. I'm a mom? My whole life will change! Wait. Is this real, or...
	OWLYCAT: by Wayan; 1983? Daydream of night being. At the time I didn't even notice the pun...
	PRISONS AND STRIPES: by Emily Joy; 2007/10/4, a lucid dream. In a museum full of spacetime-bubbles holding lost souls, the museum-goers are as weird as the exhibits...
	QUICKSILVER DREAM WYRM: by Orion Sandstorrm; before 2003/7/27; portrait of a recurrent dream character A bizarre dragon that runs a toyshop and plans revolution. He has skin and eyes like hematite, black and metallic. His presence instills in you a kind of unsettled awe...
	THE RECURRING DREAM (CAT-BABY): by Julie Doucet; 1994/8/23-9/23-12/23, 1995/4/16: variations on a theme Julie keeps dreaming that she gives birth to a cat, or a part-cat baby... CAUTION: NUDITY, BIRTH, UNBIRTH, REBIRTH...
	RECURRING SCHOOL NIGHTMARE: by Julie Doucet; July 1995, a dream of... oh, read the title! Trapped in elementary school, Julie is forced to study the alphabet until she declares "I'm a professional cartoonist, goddammit!"...
	REINDEER FOREST: by Wayan; ca. 1985, nondream ink sketch, approx 9x14" Reindeer linked by their heads--curiously analogous to language, or culture, or the Web, isn't it...
	SHHHH!: by Wayan; 628 x 318, 1981, ink drawing. A sudden image of a woman whose other lips not only talked, they wouldn't shut up. Worse yet, they... CAUTION: NUDITY
	SIXTY-NINE IN INK: by Wayan; 1988? Ink, 14"x17"; nondream fantasy Just a lazy, sexy image that came to me, of floating in air like a pinwheel, licking and being licked... CAUTION: SEX
	SLEEPERS ALL: by Wayan; 2008/8/22, a dream poem, Dreamverse #12 I dream I'm an insomniac trapped in a flat full of snoring writers and reporters. Wait a minute...
	SLEEPING BEAUTY: by Wayan, 1999/8/22, a warning dream on quitting too soon. A girl lies dreaming in the street; no one can wake her. At last I yell "Face it, she's dead!" But is she? I never try a kiss...
	SO TIRED OF MY BONES: by Wayan; 1999/9/13. Ink painted on with cardboard wedges; acrylic wash. In my drawing class it was antlers and bones and skulls, death death death till I was tired of MY bones...
	SUDDEN DEATH: by Cory; 2008/3/1 to 2008/3/14, a series of dreams on a friend’s suicide. I’ve had premonitory dreams of friends’ deaths, but never ones clear enough to spur action...
	TAROT: HAW!: by Wayan; 30K. Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. Humor's one of the big emotions--laughter's as loud and uncontrollable as crying or orgasm...
	TAWNY OWL by Nancy Price; April 1948, a dream of muses On the road with a poet and a philosopher, I insist we rescue an owl. But we get lost, and the poet turns into...
	TED'S DEATH: drawn by Joey Epstein from her aunt's mid-1980s dream; an apparent psychic dream Ted died of CO2 poisoning in Hong Kong. His mom dreamed he came to tell her it was painless. To prove he was real, he told her...
	THERE I WAS: by Michelle Brand, 1972, stream-of-consciousness lucid dream comic Kaleidoscopic constellations? No thanks! A nudist town in Italy? Ugh. But vaudeville in a monk's robe and roller skates... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
	THE VEGETABLES OF SHADOW: by Wayan; 1999/10/4. Nondream surrealist art technique. Make silhouettes of your beloved vegetables; then listen to the spaces between... CAUTION: LEWD SQUASH
	WAYAN’S STUDIO: by Wayan; art Sept.1999, text 2007; sketches of my workspace These sketches bare my work process: I multitask without planning, in a flow state. I really do “follow my bliss”!
	WHAT! MORE?: by Wayan; 300 x 500, ink 1985, digital color 2001. The world needs Zen cards, to balance out the Tarot. Here's my Zen pack--all one of them. One too many.
	WHAT STARTED THE PILLOWFIGHT: by Wayan; 1983/2/16, a strangely innocent dream. My sister and I get into an argument about different kinds of incest, in embarrassing circumstances... CAUTION: POST-ORGY HYPOCRISY
	WHILE THE MEN WERE HUNTING by Wayan, 1981/11/3; a crayon-ink-Xerox art-prayer. In cave times, while the men were out hunting, it was the women who learned to paint the cave walls to summon...
	WINGED BOOBY SNAKE: by Brian Harp; 2005, a dream character A winged serpentine beast from my dreamscape... CAUTION: SNAKE BREASTS