Dreams of sphinxes, winged or not, fierce or not, riddling or not. (Despite their reputation, I've met sweet-tempered sphinxes who enjoy giving answers for free...)
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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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ANNUNCIATION TO THE SPHINX: by Wayan; 1995, digital painting of nondream vision. I think Yeats was wrong to use the Sphinx to symbolize the brutal post-Christian era he foresaw... |
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BAR BET: by Wayan; 150K, 6 images, 1982/4/2, a dream-quest. On a bar-bet, we seek God. We reach the Isles of the Blessed, but they're too complacent. We want the wild God, the real God, the Bad Taste God. Onward, pagan questers! Because we want to win our bet. CAUTION: LAZY-ASS ANGELS |
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CLAYMATES: by Wayan, 1968-70, three mythological claymation figures. In my teens, I knew I wasn’t human. So I sculpted and animated and fell in love with and worshiped furry figurines... |
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DREAMTALES: by Wayan; 200K, 1996-2006, a dream-comics book in progress. "I've always dreamed other lives. Other bodies. Other times. Other worlds. I draw my lives..." |
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GIRDERS AND DUST: by Wayan; dreamed 1983/10/23; acrylic wash on Xerox. . I dreamed I returned to a childhood park and found mostly ruin. But one magical thing survived... |
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LEBBIRD ECSTATIC: by Wayan; 160K, 2006/8/20, nondream sculpture A sensual moon-worshiping flying feline who’d inevitably evolve in certain Pegasian solar systems... CAUTION: NUDE CLAY CAT |
| LION EYES: by Patagia; 2007/11/??, a serious dream-prank. Lions trap me in an African cave with only coffee, paper and pens! Is this what it takes to get me to write? |
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LYR: by Wayan; 7MB, 2005, 80 pages w/200+ drawings and maps; a virtual planet A vast sea-world with 8 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species... CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION! |
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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... |
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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... |
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REFLECTIONS IN THE POOL: by Wayan; 184K total, 2 panoramas; a 1994/7/2 dream. Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love. Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace? CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL |
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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... |
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SPHINX IN HEAT: by Wayan; 150K, 2006/8/20, terracotta dream-statue Trying to sculpt a dream-figure acting blatantly sexual teaches me it’s as hard to show lust as supposedly subtler feelings... CAUTION: NUDE SPHINX |
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SPHINX IN REPOSE (BLACK SPHINX): by Wayan; 1983 / 2000; portrait of a dream-friend. A sphinx with equine traits; probably a precursor of the Krelkin, a sphinxlike alien who befriended me later... |
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SPHINX POINTING THE WAY: by Wayan; 1994. Digital portrait of a dream figure. Tehura was a beautiful sphinx exploring our human world; she led me to a new way of seeing us... CAUTION: SPHINX BREASTS |
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A SPHINX'S SKETCHBOOK (COVER): by Wayan; 560 x 700, 1994/7/19. Cover of a book telling my dream of a sphinx who visits humanity and leaves her sketchbook with notes... |
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SPHINX UP A TREE 1 (BROWN): by Wayan; 360 x 450, sketch 1980s? Digital 2001. A preteen sphinx pleased with herself and her treebranch world... |
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SPHINX UP A TREE 2 (BLUE): by Wayan; 416 x 558, sketch 1980s? Digital 2001. A moody teenage sphinx treed by the hounds of her own disdain... |
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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... |
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TAROT: THE SULKY: by Wayan; 300 x 480. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. At the Dream Circus, a grumpy little greenish Scotsman rode a sulky, pulled by a playful black horse who... |
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TEHURA TRIES COMICS: by Wayan; 1994/7/19. pencil, Xerox, erasable crayon. I dreamed a sphinx artist visited humanity and drew the crazy natives. I copied her sketchbook and notes... CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM, SLACKERISM, ACTUAL IDEAS |
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TRESPASSERS IN MALANCHAI: by Hyal; 100K, Feb 1996?, an epic dream with a weird intrusion. A maneless lion-boy wins his people’s respect. While training, he sees weird trespassers who seem to be from someone else's dream... and ten years later, he finds that dreamer. |
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