THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: REPTILES

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REPTILIAN DREAMS

Dreams of reptiles: snakes, lizards, crocs and gators... and quite a few scaly people. A few dinosaurs and dragons have snuck in here, though as hot-blooded creatures (in the case of dragons, alarmingly hot) they aren't reptiles--scales or not.

In my dreams at least, I think that cold blood is what reptility's all about! Torpid, but tough and enduring. Or a life of instinct, ruled by the reptile brain below all our fancy circuits for logic and social smarts.

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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	AIR OASIS: by Wayan; 1984/4/15, a dream of marginality. Why'd I have to get my big inspiration deep in a lake in the Land of the Lizard People high in the Andes?
	ARENNA, FREED: by Wayan; 130K, 1991/11/6, a pastlife/flying/freedom dream. I learn to fly from Arenna the moon-girl and Crest the dragon, in the House of Deep Memory...
	THE ARTIFACT: by Wayan; 1983/1/16. Narrative dream painting. I was a lizard archeologist, a million years from now. What I dug up threatened my marriage...
	BACKACHE DIALOGUES: by Wayan; 1993/12/10, a set of bizarre diagnostic dreamlets. I asked my dreams why my back hurt. They told me: pregnancy, marsupial pouches, snapping turtles...
	BALOLOKONG: by Wayan, 1984/11/13; a Hopi time-travel dream. The Ice Hotel, where all my selves are sealed. Can we thaw Einstein? Balolokong the Rainsnake says...
	BAND-AIDS: by Bagheera Pardus; c.1985, a lucid re-entered nightmare turned to joy. Giant snakes chased me, but I went lucid, turned and slew one. As I woke, the snakes were crying. So I re-entered the dream and... CAUTION: SNAKES, BEHEADING, REHEADING
	BASEBALL NAGA: by Wayan; 1971/7/12, my first sexy dream. Our toy train full of nude baseball players went under the park sprinklers, so naturally our shortstop shelters her friend the outfielder snake. But in there? Isn't it just as wet in there? CAUTION: SCALY SEX
	BELT-SNAKE MYOPIA: by Wayan; 1983/12/25, a dream of innocent sabotage. A shy woman's belt slowly comes alive, but like most snakes, it has weak eyes. Would glasses help?...
	BLEEDING HEART, the SELF-HEALING CORPSE, and IN THE FUTURE DESERT: by Wayan; 250K, 10 illus., 2002/5/29 to July 2004, a diagnostic, predictive dream-series. A tree-girl moves to Hollywood to make film deals, but jealousy stabs her... CAUTION: BLOODY ASSAULT, GAY DRYADS, MUTANT NUDITY
	BRICK AND SKIN: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a dream of spiritual stretching. I'm analog myself, but in Tibet, I meet a digital shaman whose body's a sort of ...
	CAT-SNAKE: by Wayan; 1993/3/6, a short dream fable. I glue cat-legs on my snaky friend, despite the warnings of Christians who don't like snakes evolving...
	CROC BOY: by Wayan; 2008/8/17, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #7. My friend’s mom is a witch-smeller, who judges apprentice shamans. But when a boy dreams he’s a crocodile, watch out!
	EMBER IN THE BRAIN: by Wayan; 1983/3/31, a dreamtale on anger. I'm the Incredible Hulk, forced to do emergency brain surgery. And the patient's burning from within... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND UNLICENSED MEDICINE
	ENJOY LIFE: by Wayan; 1988; digital painting based on 1983/8/24 dream This image is senseless, but I have an excuse: I was watching TV in my dreams. TV on another world...
	FAIRE DINOSAUR: by Wayan; 1981/5/5. A dream of forbidden love. I fall in love with a sexy T. Rex at the Renaissance Faire. Then things get weird... CAUTION: DINO ABUSE
	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...
	HARD DISK POND: by Wayan; 1989/8/27, a dream of art as a door. We build a huge hard disk that's a virtual pond--a gate to other worlds! But not for reptile brains...
	HEADEGG (Black-Eyed Bird of Pain): by Wayan; 1983/10/24; acrylic painting of a headache-trance. I was cartooning with a headache. It took over and started drawing for me...
	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
	KLIMT'S GIRL FRIENDS: by Wayan; 1998/7/4, a short art rant Klimt did a deep portrait of a lesbian couple back when most folks hardly saw gays as human...
	LIZ: by Wayan; 1989, digital painting of a daydream. I'm not sure just where she slithered out from, but she looks like more fun than most mammals... CAUTION: LIZARD BREAST
	LIZARD HUSBAND: by Xanthe, 1990/8/30; a nightmare marriage. I visit the underworld court of the Lizard King, but I can’t leave: he makes me Queen... CAUTION: MARITAL RAPE (NON-GRAPHIC)
	THE LIZARD LESSON: by Wayan; 1996/12/12, a hard-hittin' shamanic dream. I'm a shaman in Nunavut who shows a rubber lizard and his foxy niece that reparations have limits...
	MOM THE ALIEN: by Wayan; 1981; a nightmare on family Many kids have nightmares that their parents AREN'T their real parents. I dreamed my parents ATE my real parents... CAUTION: HUNGRY MONSTERS
	THE MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE THEORY: by Wayan; 1996/11/6, a dream on synergism. A girl and two snakes are clever but murderous. Yet, apart, they're not mean at all! Not sin--synergy...
	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...
	OPHIDIOPHOBIA: by Wayan; 1986/2/12, a dream on race and religion. I'm a therapist with a client diagnosed paranoid--are his doctors racist? He's not just black, but scaly...
	THE PIRATE TWINS: by Wayan; 1996/7/25, a dreamtale on intrigue. I love the Twins. They love intrigue. So when a hired crocodile sabotages our Egyptian treasure-hunt... CAUTION: BAD GIRLS
	PLESIOSAUR: by Wayan; 1985/9/5, a medical dream. An itchy patient of mine insists he's turning into a four-headed man-eating plesiosaur. He left one thing out...
	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
	RACCOON MOON: by Wayan; 1993/11/22; a short psychic dream. A precognitive dream about levitating snake girls, raccoons, and lunar eclipses. CAUTION: MY SNAKE BREASTS
	RATTLER BANQUET: by Wayan; 1993/1/29, a farcical nightmare poem. My parents invite me to dinner, but my mom chases a rattlesnake up my leg. Then I wake to find two holes in my...
	RATTLER BY THE CONTROLS: by Wayan; 1978/10/19, an anti-phallic-symbol dream. I dreamed I was on a train, a huge toy train, and a gigantic rattler was at the controls...
	SERRANA: by Wayan; 2MB, Oct-Dec 2004, a sculpture/webtour with 60 maps, photos and sketches A dry little world with many small seas, Serrana has at least six intelligent species and an anarchist culture. It's a tribute to Ursula Le Guin's anarchist utopia, "The Dispossessed", and Kropotkin's theories of biological cooperation... CAUTION: ANARCHIST POLITICS, ALIEN NUDITY
	THE SKIN SECEDES: by Wayan; 1990/1/30, an unappetizing dream. A baby's own skin secedes, forming a snake. It prepares to eat the skinned baby. Shall I intervene?
	SLOW PARK FIX: by Wayan; 1996/9/24, a diagnostic dreamtale. Infected glass-cuts scar the vegan alligators in the park. As part of a cleanup, I'm told to EAT one...
	SNAKE COIL: by Wayan; 82K total, two views of dream-sculpture, Nov 2000. I tried to be like my classmates--use tools, control what I made. But I couldn't. It came alive, and...
	SNAKEMATE: Wayan; 1984? Ink, tinted later. Nondream vision Just a couple of soulmate snakes, entwined so totally I envied them...
	SPLASH!: by Wayan; acrylic, 12" triangle, late 2002; dream painting. While I study how humans went extinct, my daughter happily splashes in the sea...
	THE STONE THROWER: by Wayan; 400 x 520 In a stadium somewhere, watching a game where a slender reptilian man pitched rocks...
	SUNLIGHT'S THE CURE: by Wayan; 1990/12/29, a dreamtale. I find the cure for an alien plague, then visit the world it came from, to find it has a curious variant... CAUTION: SEX CUSTOMS OF THE NEWT PEOPLE! MY COUSIN'S GAY WEDDING!
	TAROT: (THE CHARISMATIC) LIZARD: by Wayan; 29K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. The card of driven leaders. It's so refreshing to hear someone honest and passionate. Right? Well...
	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...
	TRIBUTE TO JOAN MIRO: by Wayan; 1984/2000. Erasable crayon, 14 x 17", nondream Nearly abstract but not quite. The snake, the quill pen, the secretary bird, and the rose.
	TURTLE HARANGUE: by Wayan; 1997/1/29, a warning dream. A man mocks the turtle he caught, calling it "inept"--what's an adept turtle, then? I distract the guy while it...
	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?...
	WHO, ME?: by Wayan; 2002. Acrylic of dream figure. Some shy folks don't even know they're dragons....
	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
	THE WORM: by Emily Dickinson, 1870s?, a nightmare-poem Emily Dickinson ties up a worm she mistrusts. Bad move! It grows into a talking snake with a score to settle...
	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