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DREAMS OF MUSIC

Dreams about music and musicians. I'm a composer, I'm in a band (the Krelkins), so my own dreams are full of music. It's definitely as powerful, in dreams, as any verbal spells or incantations.

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RELATED TOPICS: dream songs - musical instruments - The Learnable Instrument Project, showcasing a spiral piano and half a dozen other radical designs - artists and the arts - art as a business - capitalism - creativity and the flow state - poetry - spells and curses - 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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	ALLEY SONG: by Wayan; 1994/4/21, a sharp little piece of dream advice. In a suburban alley, I learn how much of an artistic coward I've been...
	ANARCHIST FAIR: by Wayan; 2005/4/5, a drastic dream-song, with chords At an anarchist fair in San Francisco, a 13-year-old punkette genius sings some shocking advice to me...
	ARSON MUSIC: by Wayan; 2000/10/4, a parallel-world dreamlet Driving through California farm hills with subtly different natural laws, I find social consequences. Can physics create evil?
	BATTERED, WITH SYRUP: by Wayan; 1998/11/21, a healing dream. I'm a battered girl who sings in a mall. The Mall Dictator (of all people) helps me start to heal, and learn to fly... CAUTION: BATTERING AND ITS CONSEQUENT DAMAGE
	BELL CURVE IN THE DARK: by Wayan; 1982/8/17, a dream fable. A human pinball game played in the dark, with bells for stoppers, sorting people into a Gaussian bell-curve...
	BERYL'S DOG DAYS: by Wayan; 1988/1/25, a psychic dream farce. My friend Beryl wants me to help rob a bank, so she can cut off her breasts and be a great opera singer...
	BLACK WINTER: by Jeff Knabel; 1997, a dream-song from a possibly predictive nightmare I dreamed a large meteor had struck the Earth. I found my Dad just as the shockwave hit... CAUTION: APOCALYPSE
	BLUE SKIES: by Georganna Malloff; 1980?, painting of a slightly predictive dream. I dreamed of a bear playing a cello concert. The next day at a local concert I was surprised to see that the cellist...
	BONK VERONICA: by Wayan; 400K total, 1997/4/1, 9 illus.; two comic nightmares on body image. The world's first all-bulemic band, Veronica and the Vomits, provokes a riot at our local punk club. So I go to Anorexic Bootcamp and join an army of models learning self-defense under fire, as calories and fat jokes whiz by... CAUTION: SKINNY GIRLS WHO MAKE YOU WANT TO BARF--no wait, that's a bad idea!
	CAMPION'S WARNING: by Wayan; 1994/6/12, a warning dream. On the beach, seated at The Piano, director Jane Campion warns "Avoid Hollywood, they'll snip away at your vision..."
	CATRISE: by Wayan; 2000/2/21, a sexy flying dream; acrylic painting. I'm an alien exchange student in Palo Alto High School. I get stared at--they wear clothes, they don't fly... CAUTION: FELINE NUDITY
	THE COIL: by Wayan; 1999-2000. Model for a mad instrument that might just work. A spiral dream-instrument I'm building, that's easier to play than a piano or guitar, and a lot snakier...
	COOLIDGE'S DUCK: by Wayan; 1981/4/29, a political dream. Calvin Coolidge takes over the White House and invites his rich fossil friends over for a bath...
	COYOTE SENT ME CASH!: by Wayan, 3.1MB (MP3 + lyrics), a 2007 jazz-rap telling a 1982/10/11 psychic dream. A true tale proving the Trickster God really will provide. We're lilies of the field!
	A CROOKED BAND: by Wayan; 1996/8/21, a dream of chutzpah. A spinoff band sues the original group for playing their own songs and using their own name...
	THE CROWS OF OZ: by Wayan; 1984/8/23, a moral dream on darkness. I learn from the crows of Oz why loneliness and even tragedy are vital for a living universe...
	CRYSTAL WAVES: by Wayan; 1990. Digital sketch of music-trance. How Bach sounded to me after seeing Fantasia...
	DALMATIAN MARE: by Wayan; 1987/8/22; a dream on hiding and showing off. I dreamed of South American musical intrigue in a grand hotel. Enter a polka-dot shapeshifter...
	DAWN'S DREAM: by Dawn Z and Wayan; 2.3MB (MP3 + lyrics), 1999/4/1, a rock song telling a dream My friend Dawn dreamed she crawled into a dumpster to live, and at last felt at home, secure...
	DOLLY'S TAROT: by Wayan; 1995/9/5, a dream on roles. Tarot with Dolly Parton. But I piss her off. "Men! You think I'm dumb, cuz of my tits!" She fixes THAT... CAUTION: STUPID BREAST HUMOR BUT AT LEAST IT'S NOT GRUESOME
	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
	ENGINE GENIUS: by Wayan; 2005/2/4, a health-warning dream. At my mechanic's garage, a child prodigy rebuilds a car engine. Gawking, I nearly plow into the crowd...
	THE EVEREST MARATHON: by Wayan; 1986/4/12, a wild dream epic, part 3 of Unicorn Tag. During the great race up Everest, I become an e-snake, cross three eco-bubbles, beg a wary deer-taur to splice my spine for me, help Ariane (a childhood crush on the run from sentient tanks), and solve at last the Dream Equations... I learn climbing Everest doesn't take strength, but... trust?
	FACE-BEETLE: by Wayan; 1982/2/13, a nightmare with career advice. A monstrous Kafka beetle grows gradually out of my face. And it's a MESSAGE...
	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...)
	FRACTURE SPEEDS MARRIAGE: by Wayan; 2001/1/1, a dream of advice on health and romance. A baseball star breaks her leg (with a little help from the other team). It delays her career but but speeds her marriage. Did she NEED a....break?
	FULL REASON: by Wayan; 1980/5/28, a dream on patience. At a benefit for Rock Psychiatrists, the Spirit of the Convention explains why I can't go on stage yet...
	FUNKY BUTT UGLY: by Wayan; 1993/7/26, a dream of a Shadow. We're interviewing new housemate candidates. Only I fail to recognize that one is my own shadow...
	GAIA'S SONG: by Wayan, 2.1MB (MP3 + lyrics), 2002, an old folk ballad on robotics Gaia appears in a warning vision. However, she's not addressing humanity, but our silver successors...
	GREENBIRD SAVIOR: by Wayan; 1983/6/2, a divine comedy. Time-travel the Navaho way! But our bread-pipe gets hijacked, so we call the Bird. Who shows up, all right... CAUTION: NON-STANDARD SAVIOR, EVIL DREAM PUNS
	HALF SHAMAN, HALF STATESMAN: by Wayan; 100K, 1986/4/21, a parallel-world dream: Chapter 6 of UNICORN TAG I get a scholarship to Shaman U. Some of my classmates are Terran, but I still don't fit in, because... CAUTION: LANGUAGE
	THE HAND THAT WAKES: by Wayan; 1997; acrylic study of what makes us forget dreams. I was painting to a sad scary song by Laurie Anderson that goes "This is the hand... the hand that takes..."
	HAPPINESS UNBLOCKS ART: by Wayan; 1997/7/7, nondream book review An insight about a fictional character who unblocks her creativity changes my own life strategy...
	HIS MINE: by Wayan; 1985/12/2, a wild dream epic. I'm a hobbit seeking Henry Fonda's haunted gold mine, who ends up in a showdown in a shaman's bar...
	HISTORY CHANGES: by Wayan; 1994/11/22, a dream of an alternate life. I'm the token Chinese guy in a jazz band in backwoods Brazil, in the old colonial days, when...
	THE HOLY HARP: by Wayan; 1994/3/22, a dream of musical guilt. The Goddess's harp, that calls in the seasons, just passed on. But the new harper has a shocking admission...
	HOT, BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED: by Wayan; 1981/5/8, a dreamtale. In a club, a new genderbending band. One singer gets me hot, but completely confused--for good reason... CAUTION: SEXUAL SITUATIONS, GENDERBENDING
	HOT TO TROT, or, BRAIN TRAUMA, or, HUMPIN' THE HOG, or, SAD-EYED SWAN OF LOVE: by Wayan; 120K, 1993/8/4, a wild dreamtale. I'm a mare, hot to trot in the Big City (and get laid), but my gay Star Trek friend's brain trauma has made her a clueless alien with a bo(a)ring sexlife--until a certain swan enfolds her in love... CAUTION: ALIEN POSSESSION, CARTOON PIG SEX, SMOKING SWANS
	I AM NOT A MAN: by Wayan; 1996/11/28, a dream of Middle Earth. I can help slay a monster and save my friends--if I deny I'm human. My denial has consequences, but it's true...
	I DREAM OF DERIVERRANS: by Wayan; 1982/11/16, a Joycean dream of surrender. I must rescue Ann Soforth from righteous rapists, then Paul McCartney from a musical curse... CAUTION: ABUSED CHILD, JOYCEAN LANGUAGE
	I TOSSED MUSIC: by Wayan; 1997/9/19, an advisory dream. I asked my dreams "should I return to school?" They replied with this bizarre tale of sabotage... CAUTION: VIOLENCE TO DUMB INSTRUMENTS
	THE ILL-FORMED TALE: by Wayan; 160K, 1981/4/7, a wild dream anti-epic . To reach the Peak of Happiness on the Isle of Dreams, I must pass four Perils--but they're all backwards... CAUTION: RELIGIOUS NUTS, KNIVES, NUDE ALIENS, BACKWARD PLOT...
	IN MY DARKEST HOUR: by Arlo Guthrie; 1967, a song heard in a dream. A man in a castle plots against his enemies, while his rebel-daughter meets her lover outside...
	ISIS HELPS TERRI GARR: by Wayan; 1988/3/27, a distractable dream . How Terri Garr the cat-woman finally escapes Anorexic Prison, and what happened to the baseball glove...
	JOKE PILOT: by Wayan; 1995/7/15, a dream of defiance. Among aliens, humans are jokes. Fragile and blind, we can't fly starships. Unless we build our own...
	KIM SINGS, CAPOTE DIES: by Wayan; 1984/8/27, a murky psychic dream. A psychic dream of my co-worker's secret desire gets tangled with the death of Truman Capote...
	KINDERTOTENLIEDER: by Oliver Sacks; 1974, a musical dream I dream of German dirges I don't know. I hum them for a friend, who shocks me by asking "Have you abandoned any children, or burned a manuscript?" Right on both counts...
	KIOSK: by Wayan; 250K total, 1994/5/1, a major dreamtale, 7 illustrations. I'm a sexy singing beast, the Krelkin, trying to lure the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
	LANTERN DANCE: by Wayan; 1983; nondream collage of dance-observations I was just sketching figures in the extreme (iconic?) stances they get in when they dance...
	THE LEARNABLE INSTRUMENT PROJECT: by Wayan; 1999-2000. A set of models for more-playable instruments. I'm starting a project that'll build chromatic instruments easier to learn and play than conventional ones. The Project describes nine interface designs, from staggered keyboards and button-grids to my favorite, the helical Coil. Wanna be in on it?
	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...
	THE LORD CHANCELOR'S NIGHTMARE: by Gilbert & Sullivan; 1882, a comic song-lyric on insomnia The Lord Chancelor can't sleep, and when at last he does, he drifts through nightmares full of baby lawyers and potted tradesmen sprouting fruit, and cutthroat corporate scheming. But that's Victorian dreaming!
	LOVE IS REAL, REAL IS LOVE, BUT...: by Wayan; 1993/5/30, a musical mystery dream. Singing a Lennon love song on a planet of giant women provokes first wonder, then disbelief. Why?
	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!
	MAHAKALA, MOZART, AND THE CRIPPLED BIRD: by Wayan; 135K, 1985/4/17, a dream on facing one's shadow. The Christian God vs Mahakala, Buddhist god of right anger! War in Middle Earth, as Pink Floyd sings...
	THE MAN IN LOVE WITH REM: by Wayan; 1995/8/23, a dream on gaydar. A fan's in love with Michael Stipe of R.E.M. I see no hope for him, since his idol's straight...
	A MARKET STREET CONCERT: by Wayan, 1998/4/2, a sexy dreamfable. On a downtown street, a classmate is singing for change. I can't resist seeing if I can distract her... CAUTION: THEY'RE BOTH EXHIBITIONISTS
	THE MATING GAME: by Wayan; 1992/3/18, a dream of spillover. A TV crew invades the house, setting up for a special. I didn't expect to see a president on the work crew...
	THE MER BUILDING: by Wayan; 145K, 5 illus., 2001/2/23, a dream of a double life. I�m a puma with a night job as a cellist. But my day job with The Architectives is the bizarre one...
	MIGRATION THROUGH FIRE: by Wayan; 1999/9/3, a dream of what matters. I'm a shaggy primitive whose tribe's outgrown our caves. We migrate, and meet two new species of people...
	MOON BLOOMS: by Wayan; 1997/7/22, a dream on traces of love. Everyone has a personal moon. At first, mine disappointed me, till a bard dumped his trash on it, and...
	MS. TRUST: by Wayan; 1993/11/4, a dream of a guarded angel. I meet my own mistrust: an angel who can't trust ME! So she turns me into a football-playing ant...
	MUSIC HEALS SMOG: by Wayan; 1994/4/28, a career-advice dream The smog of Portland is so bad it hides the dream-towers! Only one thing will heal it: making music...
	THE MUSICAL AMOEBA, by Hermester Barrington, spring 1979, a possibly predictive dream inspired by The Incredible String Band I'm hiking through the Catskills when a gigantic amoeba comes slipping over the hills...
	OCARINA, or, MILLION-YEAR SENTENCE: by Wayan; 1972/5/27, a lucid / predictive dream. I go lucid and drive my bed to the Nevada desert where I see my next million years. And so far, it's been true...
	ON HER FOURTH BODY: by Wayan; 1993/11/25, a psychic dream-comedy. A cute cow-singer on her fourth body-transplant solves the gravity-riddle that's stumping Mr Spock...
	ONLY A PIECE OF PAPER: by Wayan; 1980/12/15, a dreamsong. Kate Wolf sings that ads are way dirtier than porn. But my memory slowly twists her message...
	ORPHEA: by Wayan; 47, 1995. Digital painting of a hole in our myths.. Krishna, Orpheus, Kokopelli...why are the mythic musicians all guys? Where's Orphea, where's her head...?
	OUR BEST SONG: by Wayan; 1983/10/25, a decade-long dream of song and flight. The artcops search-and-destroy our flying band, and my wings are shorn. But ten years later, songless, apathetic, I climb through my TV--and the women of Vietnam show me a new way to fly... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, ATTITUDE, ALTITUDE
	PIANIST: by Wayan; 1985, a nondream ink caprice. Love that hair, girl. A very seventies bar-monster...
	RAZI AND THE HOLY WINO OF SHASTA: by Wayan; 270K, 16 illus., 1994/9/1, a redemptive dream 20,000 years from now, a deer-harpist named Razi finds the Holy Wino's not quite the ruin he seems... CAUTION: BAD PENGUINS, DEER NUDITY, RUDE DRUNK
	ROBOT DREAMS: by Wayan; 1985/2/5, a dream on dreamwork. I'm a robot in high school. I have my first dream, but I'm deaf to its message cuz it's not spectacular...
	ROUSSEAU: by Wayan; nondream, felt pen, 1980s. Sort of a psychedelic scribbly version of Henri Rousseau's pictures of flute players in the jungle...
	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
	SCALES: by Wayan; 640 x 400, 1992. Digital sketch of a dream scene. I was on a terrace overlooking a waterfall, where a giant rabbit and a musical dragon told me...
	SHAMISEN: by Wayan; 450 x 500, 1985? Watercolor on wrinkled paper. Me playing the blues on a Japanese shamisen...
	SHIELDS FROM THE GODDESS: by Wayan; 38K total, 1996/8/3, a dream that's a slap in the face. A Goddess-worshiping general gets a visit from her twin daughters who bring a puzzling message...
	SHY FOX: by Wayan; 2 images, 1997. Digitally tinted pencil, spinoffs from a 1997/8/20 dream. I love to play, but I'm a shy fox. And pushing myself to be socially brave has unforeseen drawbacks...
	SILKY AT THE MIKE: by Wayan; 1998? Sketch of recurring dream Ours is a mixed-race family, and my sister takes after the horse side. No hands, but can she sing!...
	SILKY SINGS WITH WEREWOLF BOY: by Wayan; 1998; dream figures on bedspread, 5'x7' My anima the singing horse was encouraging a shy werewolf boy to give it a try... CAUTION: UNCLAD HORSE CHANTEUSE
	SING A HAPPY SONG: by Wayan, nondream vision, crayon, 2003/7/27. A sketch of a whistling punk girl somehow mutated into a fairy holding a songbird of sorts...
	SUCK MY CONE!: by Wayan, 1995/1/11, a bluesy dream. Nerds built the blues. Rick Moranis, famous blues-nerd, makes a groupie suck his ice cream cone... CAUTION: MOCKS MUSIC, RACE, VANILLA ICE (CREAM)...
	THE TALE OF A MISFIT COCK: by Wayan; 1999/1/25, a media-fable dream. I'm in Japan, where Rumiko Takahashi tells me of a tragic chicken who longs to be a lounge singer...
	TAROT: THE PIANIST (Knight of Wands?): by Wayan; 27K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. The knight of creative fire, who takes over when you've mastered technique but kept your passion...
	TAROT: THE QUEEN OF FLUTES: by Wayan; 1981/6/19, a brief dream image. I dream I'm giving a friend a Tarot reading, and the card she picks for herself is one I've never seen:
	THEREMIN'S NOT UP AND RUNNING: by Wayan; 1998/8/28, a dreamtale. I'm in Theremin's lab, around 1930, trying to play one of his experimental instruments. Why won't it work?
	TITAN, or, SATURN'S WEDDING BAND: by Wayan; 1981/3/22, a billion-mile roadtrip dream. Our band's touring Titan. Road trip blues: diners, feuds, romances. Have I been chasing the wrong girl?
	A TOUR OF YOUR BRAIN: by Wayan, 3.4MB (MP3 + lyrics), May 2004, a rock-jig. A bouncy, lobe-by-lobe musical tour of your brain with Buddha as your tourguide...
	THE TUBA MAN: by Wayan; 1982/7/8, a career-advice dream. Tuba Man plays from the top of a tower, even when Loveless Man opens fire; for music is life to him...
	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...
	A VASE OF FUR: by Wayan; 1998/11/18, a dream of a surreal future. A woman goes on a quest with an alien friend, and returns with only a furry musical vase. Her FRIEND?
	WERE-COMPOSER: by Wayan; 1995/2/15, a trashy dream. I help a brilliant, starving composer turn his family curse into a profitable business...
	THE WHO IN HELL AM I: by Wayan; 1984/1/28, a stubborn dream. I'm Pete Townshend of the Who, climbing stubbornly out of Hell by noticing what I don't want...
	WINDOW IN THE SKY: by Emily Joy; 2006/10/15, an epic, flying, disorienting, apocalyptic dream When my friends and I learn to fly, all of Middle Earth turns against us! Fleeing from Saruman's army, I bonk my head, exposing the backstage truth about our world... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, DOOM, PHYSICS! YODA IN THE TUB!
	WOLVES EVOLVE: by Wayan, 1983/11/11, a Darwinian dream. After seeing 'Rear Window', Grace Kelly and I are wolf children in a pack that's quickly evolving into... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, CHILD SEXUALITY, WOLF-SLANDER
	YAKETY YAK: by Wayan; 1984/5/1, a dysfunctional dreamtale. I'm at a family dinner. Killer Grampa, kid-hating Ma, larcenous Dad. Then a bum offers some advice...
	YELLOW SERENADE: by Wayan; 1979/2/22, an absurd dreamtale. Restrain yourself! Or you too may end up on a giraffe rollerskating down the freeway singing perverted popsongs...
	YESTERDAY: by Paul McCartney; 1965, a dream-song. "I liked the melody a lot, but because I'd dreamed it, I couldn't believe I'd written it..."
	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?