THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: MAGES

The World Dream Bank:
MAGES

Spell-workers, of any species or sex: magicians, wizards, sorcerers.

Yet not everyone magic is here--there's a deep gulf between rule-based wonderworkers like scentists, alchemists, magicians and priests, versus pragmatic, intuitive tricksters, shamans, psychics, witches, and mystics--spiritual anarchists.

The dream BLACK MAGIC isn't about black magic--it explores that gulf. The implications go far beyond magic. Closed systems, open systems--closed minds, open minds...

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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	AMPLIFIER: by Alder; 1999/11/13, a dream on self-underestimation I was always the weakest magic-worker I knew. But when demons threatened my grandchild...
	THE BASEBALL KISS: by Wayan; 1983/8/4, a dreamtale on choice. The Prime Minister of England breaks my nose, so I become a flock of squirrels to seek revenge. Should I let go?
	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...
	BLUE CRYSTALS: by Wayan; 1979/5/20 dream offering guidance. Throw a dream-crystal, or dangle it by a thread, and it'll point the way to go... CAUTION: NUDITY
	THE BROADS: by Wayan; 1978/11/19, a dream on lowlife potential. Everyone wears a big cowboy beltbuckle. Twist it and your bodymass re-distributes! But mine... CAUTION: CRASS AND CRUDE
	BUMBREE SYNDROME: by Wayan; 2 images, 1984/3/14, a comic dream about dreams. Princess Chinchilla and I use an umbrella to escape the Wizard. Now to escape the Dream Researchers!...
	CENTAUR WITH STAFF OF POWER: by Wayan; 11x14", ink 1986, tinted 2001; a daydream.. Not from a dream, just felt like it...
	CHAPLIN: by Wayan; 1974/5/22, a dream on loneliness. I'm Charlie Chaplin doing magic tricks with the Ring of Power. And I don't even WANT power, just love...
	THE CIRCUS HUMANS' DESERTION: by Wayan; 180K, 14 images, 1988/2/19, a holy dream. I join a circus, but soon all the best carnies sail off to the Blessed Isles. The circus animals pitch in and carry on--clumsily, lonely. Then a herald returns from the West! Donald Duck...
	CLAIRE'S NAMES: by Wayan, 1998/1/11, a dream of love and stretching. My skateboard-riding mermaid girlfriend and I bind ourselves together by the magical power of names...
	CLIMB DOWN THE PINNACLES: by Jenny Badger Sultan, l995/12/24, a surreal dream and painting Decision by decision, we made our way down immense rock crags. Below, I had to put out a deadly fire, a fire as solid as wood or stone, with a white staff. What am I really trying to calm?
	COYOTE PAJAMAS: by Wayan; 1983/12/17, a Dantesque dream-epic. I'm Coyote, keeping the Business Prophet from taking over Dante's Peak. But it turns too personal... CAUTION: IDIOTIC VIOLENCE
	CRYSTAL AND GUNSEL: by Wayan; 1997/7/2, a nightmare--psychic or not? Gunsel kills my friend Crystal in a flaming aircar crash. But that's not enough--he comes back, and... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	CURSING ISABELLA: by Wayan; 1992/8/19, a thoughtful dream of sorcery. How I cursed Isabella the sofa sorceress, cursed her with a blueberry. And why that stinks... CAUTION: UNDER THE MAGIC, IDEAS
	DANCE RESISTANCE: by Wayan; 1994/4/11, a dream of sabotage--or is it?. I encounter a powerful psychic force stopping me from dancing... or is that what it's after?
	DEER SORCERESS: by Wayan; 1981/5/18, a dream on the virtues of chaos. A witch-girl turned to a deer flees hell-hounds who just CAN'T get organized...
	THE DOOR GIRL: by Wayan; 1997/9/6, a road-not-taken dream. A doorway not taken (for the most sensible of reasons) provoked a magical dream of what I missed...
	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...
	THEIR DREAM HOUSE: by Wayan; 1986/1/1, 1 illus., a New Year's nightmare. A house with a fire-ghost infestation. Worse than termites! And the ghosts tell me it's my fault....
	DREAMRIDER: by Wayan; 1986/4/15, a short, startled rant, chapter 5 of UNICORN TAG. A novel on a modern woman called to become a shaman echoes my real life too closely...
	THE EFFECTS OF PSYCHIC INVASION: by Wayan; 1999/4/17, a dreamtale on ESP. What are the psychological effects of growing up psychic, as others' thoughts and feelings invade you? When other's BODIES invade yours, it's molestation...
	EGG OF POWER: by Wayan; 1980/7/4, a large-scale chase dream. I wonder how far I'll go to hide my Egg of Power.... and, I'm afraid, I find out.
	ELBERETH PAUSES: by Wayan; 1989/6/26, a dream on postwar ethics. After the Lord of the Rings falls, Elbereth herself is sent to heal the land. But she has a troubling neighbor...
	EMADRO: by Wayan; 1983/6/4, a wild dream on clinging--and letting go. An elephant sinks in the North Sea, and the Oracle Mink says a wizard did it. Can old Lady Gandalf help?
	EMISSARY: by Wayan; 2000/3/22, an astral dreamtale. I signed a prenatal agreement for weird, uneven luck to turn my life toward art and spirit. I want to broaden it, but I've lost the contract! So my spirit wife Silky sets out to find it...
	EMOTIONAL PALETTE: by Wayan; 2000/3/22, an indescribable dream. My spirit-wife and I spend our last evening together painting. Not with colors--with emotions...
	THE ETHICS OF LUCIDITY: by Wayan; 1994/2/19, a thoughtful dream on time and cause. I'm at a symposium on how our beliefs alter not just the future, but the PAST... CAUTION: CONTAINS IDEAS
	EXPLORATION: by Wayan; 1998/2/27, a dreamtale. Hide and seek on an alien world ends in a sexy encounter--and a startling insight on BELIEF... CAUTION: SEX
	FAERIE: by Wayan; 1995/7/1885K, 1995/7/18 and 8/6: two linked dreams of postmodern Faerie, with sketches I'm the daughter of a mortal doctor working in Faerie as it faces social upheaval (and I look for a decent date...)
	FAIRY WIFE: by Wayan; 1985/1/17, an epic dream of love and choice. A fairy woman and a mortal man? Can't work! They're flighty, we're crude. Doomed, right? Well, some people are so sure of it they decide to help things along a bit. Or a lot...
	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...
	FIRE IN THE CRUCIBLE: by Wayan; 1996/11/5, a confessional essay on genius. A book's example of a mathematical savant made me stop and try to do what he did. I can! Can anyone?
	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
	FOX-BOY: by Wayan; 1997/2/28, a dream fable. A boy offends his uncle the King, who transforms him into a fox. Grounded! But Fox-Boy runs away...
	FREDDY KRUGER'S POLITICS: by Wayan; 1992/8/20, a dream of... ambition?. Freddy has plans for me and Telly Savalas's daughter... but what can he lure us with? What do we want?
	FREEZE!: by Wayan; 1984/5/29, an asymptotic dream. Demons of fire invade the house, and the Voice of Truth says they can't be killed. What would you do?
	GARGOYLE GO-BETWEEN: by Wayan; 1996/11/22, a Hogwartish dream. I'm odd kid out in my wizard school till gargoyles raid us, and I puzzle out their tongue, to become...
	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
	GHOST GATOR: by Wayan; 1984/10/9, a lip-reading dream. A child from another universe materializes--part way. Too bad we called in that expert from Stanford...
	THE GHOSTMASTER: by Wayan; 1992/6/16, a dreamtale of the Shadow. I win a starship from the hostile Ghostmaster; in space I gain the confidence to confront him, and find...
	MY GLASS BODY: by Wayan; 1993/9/16, a dream on sensitivity. After I visit the Glass People, a young glass wizard stalks me home to the Meat World, and says...
	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 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
	HARRY AND THE HORCRUX: by J.K. Rowling; mid-December 2006, a dream of creative ferment People have asked me if I ever dream that I am 'in' Harry's world. The answer was 'no' until a few nights ago, when...
	HEALING THE RING: by Wayan; 1984/8/22, a nightmare on... anger? I bear a Ring of Power meant to corrupt me. I cleansed it, at a cost, but can't wield it till I've read its spell...
	THE HEIDEGGARIAN BARBARIAN: by Jo, 2007/02/02, a dream of hopping between two characters I was two-thirds of a love triangle, but I always lost out. Flying was some consolation... CAUTION: RAT DEATH, EVIL WHALES AND ADULTERY
	HER ONLY FRIEND: by Wayan; 1996/7/1, a dream of worms turning. A sorceress trains a kid as a prostitute who'll spy on her powerful clients. But her training has side effects... CAUTION: EXPLOITED KIDS
	HONESTY THE WITCH: by Wayan; 1972/6/1, a flying dream. A witch advocates honesty, but kids mock her; one boy tries to rape her. We fight mid-air, riding her broom... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	HORTA'S EGGS: by Wayan; 1984/1/17, a dream of re-evaluation. I fight to save 50,000 eggs that'll hatch psychics. But my friends want to exterminate them! Am I wrong?
	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
	ILLUSIONISTS DON'T RULE: by Wayan; 1996/8/26, a dream on the strength of logic. I read 'The Closing of the American Mind," and dream I'm a pilot who suspects an illusionist in my plane...
	IS THE DREAMWORLD ROUND?: by Wayan; 2006/7/5; a dream about dreamwork Dreamworlders, exploring our world, tell me of home. Their known dreamworld is just a little patch on a huge globe...
	THE ISLAND FURIES: by Wayan; summer 1975, a dream of self-control. When warring Greek isles kill a peacemaker, her three best friends start a vendetta! But she wanted peace... CAUTION: HATE NURSED TOO LONG
	JAMIE THE SORCERESS: by Wayan; 1984/11/14, a characterological dream. I get back from vacation to find the landlady's installed her daughter in our shared house...
	KING OF THE KILN: by Wayan; 1996/11/25, a psychic dream. I dream of a scary king who offers to bake my dreams to strengthen them. Then my friend Mark calls...
	KRELKIN AND KIOSK: by Wayan; dreamed 1994/5/1, ceramic sculpture telling dream 1999. A sculpture of me as the sexy singing beast who lures the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk...
	LACED WITH TERROR: by Wayan; 1999/5/3, an anti-nightmare. Researchers show me weird little objects like shoelaces that drive people mad with fear...
	THE LADY BATHES IN GRIEF: by Wayan; 1983/5/31, a long-haul psychic dream. Why'd a spirit-woman come to our reservation to mourn a drowned guy? Her mirrors & candles tell us...
	A LAKE DEMON: by Wayan; 1979/11/3, an anti-lucid dream. I walk through worlds, fight a deadly lake demon, and work magic--but I mustn't go lucid...
	LEARNING SCALES: by Wayan; 1985/6/26, an epic dream of Chinese dragons. I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost. We need a Dragon...
	MAELEN AND ME: by Wayan; 1972/5/1, a transmigrational dream. I'm a psychic circus animal who's just managed to teleport my humanoid girlfriend. It's for our act, but... CAUTION: PETTING
	MAGIC SCHOOL: by Wayan, 1982/1/26: a waking event and replying dream. Phyllis Schlafly, who killed the Equal Rights Amendment, provokes a dream of being Captain Kirk trapped in a magic school with no way out but the graduate exam... Can I learn the lesson of the tree? CAUTION: POLITICAL JOURNALISM BEFORE THE DREAM. OH NO!
	THE MAGIC WORDS: by Wayan; 1974/5/29, an early dream on word-magic. Humanity in the future desperately needs the magic words from the past to free them. But... "pickle?"
	MASTER OF THE HOUSE OF DUSK: by Wayan; 1994/10/10, an initiatory dream. To enter the House of Dusk, I must say what haunts the Pass. Even if I guess right, do I really understand?
	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
	MEMORY SNIP!: by Wayan; 1999/5/15, a dream on the cost of kindness. My friend Mark does something I thought impossible: removes a snippet of my memory. Disastrous! CAUTION: VIOLENCE... SORT OF
	METEOR OR STAR?: by Wayan; 2007/9/17, a dream of uncertainty I'm an anima. We rarely walk the day-world for long. When will I fade? Ignorance isn't bliss, it's paralysis...
	THE NESS MAN, or, HOW TO HEAL: by Wayan; 50K total, 1994/4/13, a mythic dream. Mythic creatures round a woodland pool want to heal a businessman. Do too many cooks spoil the soup?
	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?
	NORASINGH: by Wayan; 1987/1/15, a Tantric Frankenstein dream. I fall in love with my sculpture of a mythical Southeast Asian creature. Then a mad yogi breaks in... CAUTION: SEX, TANTRA, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS
	THE OLD WITCH: by Wayan; 1991/8/1, a dreamtale on abandon. A Hollywood sex goddess confronts the Ingenue who's supplanting her. Just how far will she go? CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
	PIED MAGE: by Wayan; 1995/2/6, an architectural dreamfable. A wizard into spots and dots invites me into his beach house, hungry for advice on his peculiar fears...
	PITS OF POWER: by Wayan; 2005/11/16, a dream of rival miracles One tribe builds earth-magic pits that can teleport you or grant wishes. But the other tribe's flow-state magic is harder to define... CAUTION: SEX FANTASY GRANTED
	PREGNANT WITH KRYTHA: by Wayan; 1998/2/3, a monomaniacal dream My best friend and I are shapeshifters; I seduce him, just so my daughter Krytha can be born... CAUTION: MAMMALIAN NUDITY, PHEROMONAL SEDUCTION, RECKLESS PREGNANCY
	PYRAMID POWER: by Wayan; 1981/2/2, a dream of love and time. We drive into a zone of perpetual night to see Sweet Melinda, but our time-path splits! Two lives at once?
	QUEEN COBRA: by Wayan; 640 x 480. Digital painting of a 1987/1/15 dream. I asked "I'm still scared to date anyone. Why? What's my next step?" That night, I was answered... CAUTION: SEXUAL IMPLICATIONS
	THE RING'S ELBOW ROOM: by Wayan; 1997/8/17, a dreamtale. Widely held notions manifest easier. I could forge Sauron's Ring, and it'd really work! But do I want to?...
	THE SELL-FISH WITCHES: by Wayan; 1983/6/29, a dreamtale. My sister and I are runaways, developing psychic powers. A cult of fish-selling witches wants to use us... CAUTION: SIBLING INCEST, SPELL ABUSE
	SEVEN SQUARED: by Wayan; 1994/2/18, a dream about the IQ closet. In our wizard-war, I've hidden my nature. At last I come out; but I can't tell the whole truth...
	THE SHAMAN INSPECTOR: by Wayan; 1996/7/31, a dream on core values. My work as a federal shaman inspector involves judging a rainbow of traditions by a few basic principles:
	SHASTA OCCUPATION: by Wayan; 1996/11/1, a very California dream. I'm teaching in a wizard's college near Mt Shasta when one astral world decides to occupy another...
	THE SILVER CORD: by Wayan, 1993; digital poster of dreamwork advice.. An astral travel advisory. You'll fly better, if (before you leave your body) you...
	SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: by Wayan; 1978/10/26, a dreamtale. A demigoddess and a wizard meddle with humans. But do even THEY know what they're assembling?
	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...
	SPIN-WITCH, or, THE MAGIC LIGHTER: by Wayan; 1985/8/10, a dream on defensiveness. Leona's a fighter--she rejects compromisers like her husband, her friends, that girl she's been sitting on...
	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...
	SWAN: by Wayan; 225K (5 images), 1995/4/8, a stubborn dreamtale. I wake amnesic in a cabin in Alaska, in a dress printed with self-putdowns. I track down who cursed me...
	TAHOE DRAGON: by Wayan; 1980/8/16. A dream of flight and fire. A dragon killed a friend, and threatened worse. I had to fight. We dueled mid-air, over Lake Tahoe...
	TAROT: DOGGY (The Hierophant or High Priest): by Wayan; 29K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. Some folks are dogs, bullying those below them, fawning on those above. But if the Wizard is a Humbug...
	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...
	TEN TRIALS: by Wayan; 101K, 1976/10/2, a dream of love distracted. While living with violent Kay, I dream I meet a nice moth-girl. But we must undergo ten trials. Mustn't we? CAUTION: RELATIONSHIP TROUBLES, BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT
	TWO BISHOP CANDIDATES: by Wayan; 1984/11/21, a dreamtale. My mind and my soul both apply for a job in Stanford Cathedral. Their rivalry grows to a shamanic duel...
	UNDER THE HEIRESS'S SPELL: by Wayan; 1997/7/30, a wish-fulfilment fable. A glamorous heiress casts a spell that spills over, so I can have anyone I see! But who DO I see?...
	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?...
	AN UNEXPECTED MOVE: by Wayan; 1998/12/17, a peripatetic dreamtale. In the Los Angeles ruins, a wizard-gang jumps us. Trapped, I try a desperate move never seen in LA: I use my feet...
	WAITING FOR PIGFALL: by Wayan; 1979/10/31, a puzzling Halloween dream. The messiah of a suicide cult prepares to ritually sacrifice me. Then a miracle occurs! But... whose?
	WALDROP'S SUMMONED: by Wayan; 1994/2/2, a dream on spiritual callings. I'm in Middle Earth, interviewing hobbits who've experienced a phenomenon called Summoning...
	WHO WERE THEY?: by Wayan; 1999. Digital sketch of daydream. Who were they? I don't know. But they were doing something powerful on top of that mountain.
	WIZARD GIZZARD: by Wayan; 1996/8/5, a diagnostic dream. I have a tummy ache. Our local wizard says "no wonder, with fascists occupying your colon"... CAUTION: TREATMENT NOT A.M.A.-APPROVED
	WORM WIZARD, or, TITMAN'S CHAIR: by Wayan; 1997/4/23, a dream of bamboozlement. In the castle of a wizard who's a were-worm, I let myself become my best friend's chair! Generous, huh?