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Nature Spirits

Dreams of nature spirits or local gods; in Greek terminology, nymphs. They include the spirits of trees (dryads), rocks and mountains (oreads), pools and streams (naiads), fields, pastures, and fertility (fauns). Every culture has analogies. Also here are less rooted critters like shaman's helpers and tutelary spirits.

RELATED TOPICS: other kinds of spirits with their own headings: gods and goddessess - souls (free spirits of living, individual creatures) - ghosts (trapped spirits of the dead, or psychic residues) - see also Paganism, Wicca, and Goddess worship - shamanic dreams - trees - fauns and satyrs - mer-folk - two dreams of vesta - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

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	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
	BOND: by Wayan; 1981/10/31, a nightmare where I'm the nightmare. I'm James Bond, fighting a plot by the fiendish Eight. But I'm captured and questioned. Of course I lie to the enemy: the senators of the Committee on Intelligence Activities. Till I see myself through their eyes... CAUTION: SPY SEX, SPY MENTALITY
	BOYS WHO RUN WITH THE SCISSORS: by Wayan; 1986/1/26, a shamanic dream-joke. Women who run with the wolves? Ha! In Mongolia, the only ones who can beat lightning-demons are...
	BRANDY'S CURSE: by Wayan; 1996/10/23, a bizarre dream. After I saw the film "Surviving Picasso", I dream a friend asks me to remove a strange curse...
	BREAK FREE: by Emily Joy; 2006/5/11, an encouraging dream on the price of safety. I search for family skeletons, but then a talking plant on TV inspires me to seek the sun and fly free. But certain velociraptors and barbarian swordswomen object... CAUTION: DUELS, FISH ABUSE, THE F-WORD
	BURN HIS TREE: by Emily Joy; 30 K, 2007/2/7; two linked nightmares on art Malevolent artwork terrorizes my baby and me! What's to be done?...
	CALIBAN IN ENGLAND: by Theodore Weiss; 1966 or 67; a dream-play never written As I wrote a poem on Caliban, I dream I’m him: taken to Shakespeare’s England, shown as a freak, I must escape to save Miranda and Prospero from assassins...
	CHART THE GROWTH: by Brenda Ferrimani; 2004, painting of an incubated, oracular dream I asked my dreams "What's my truest purpose?" I dreamed my body was a tree, and a voice said "Chart the growth"...
	COUNT COUP!: by Plenty Coups, 1857; a child's defining dream I sought a dream of Helpers. But rather than give me gifts, they gave me a daunting challenge...
	CRAYON NAIAD: by Wayan; 2 images, 1994; nondream, art technique.. My friend Zooop taught me to crayon onto heated paper--it's vivid, dreamlike...
	DEANNA ON THE MAYAN STEPS: by Wayan; 1992/7/8, a nightmare poem. Deanna Troy and I meet an alarming man atop a Mayan pyramid. Who will be the sacrifice?...
	DREAM OF A DREAM OF NIGHT: by Robert Watson; 1960s, a dream-poem The goddess of Night is in love with me, but I'm married, and tired, and just full of excuses...
	A DREAM SESTINA: by Donald Justice, late 1950s? A nightmare-poem. "But what is wrong with my friends' faces? Why have they changed that way to wood?"
	THE DREAM TREE: by Roswila; May 1997, a dream-poem on roots I have no roots but those I steal--until my father leads me to a sacred tree, saying "Look to your mother"...
	DRYAD IN WINTER: by Wayan; 132K total, digital and crayon, 1992; dream-figure portraits I relate so easily to animals, it's odd how ambivalent I felt about trees... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	FIGHTING A VIRUS: by Wayan, 1998/11/21, a diagnostic nightmare. Coming down with a virus, I dream of a guy who INSISTS we must fight, it's just so FUN...
	FILLING THE ANCESTORS' SHOES: by Wayan; 1995/9/24, a shamanic dream. A dream of a shaman named Fred who tried to use a bear as a lightbulb. Fred, Fred, Fred...
	FOUR-EYED BABY: by Xanthe; 1989?, a Jungian dream I met some little hunchbacks in the woods who showed me a newborn baby growing from the moss...
	THE FOUR WINDS: by E.M. Martin; 1915, a harsh antiwar dream poem. Three wind-gods are so revolted by humanity they want to kill us; the fourth says we'll kill ourselves soon enough...
	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...
	THE GIANTESS OF THVERA: by Viga-Glum Eijolfsson of Iceland; early 940s?, a very public clairvoyant dream. Viga-Glum dreamt a giant spirit asked to enter his home. "She must be the spirit-guide of my grandfather in Norway. He is dead...
	GOSHEN: by Percy Konqobe; 1940s-1960s?, a lifelong recurring psychic dream I hear voices: "The road to success is in Kafkat, in a place called Goshen." I look back, and see seven male shadows...
	GRAMPA HAS SPOKEN: by Wayan; 1989/11/26, an oracular dream. In a worldwide junkyard full of warring spooks, I finally meet the one whose message I need to hear...
	HORSE THIEVES: by Plenty Coups, early 1870s?; a practical psychic dream Thieves stole 100 of our horses. The tracks suggested white men, but that night my dream Helpers declared them Sioux...
	“JUST A FEW MORE YEARS!”: by Wayan; 2008/1/2, a nightmare on the coming crash I found myself defending humanity before an astral jury, begging them to delay the great die-back...
	THE LOST RING: by Helen Fraser; 1924; an astral lost-and-found dream A friend in Heaven promises Helen a lost ring would return to her. Three days later it did; but its path had been strange...
	MCKILLIP'S NEW BOOK: by Wayan; 2010/7/23, an epic literary dream I'm inside a magical novel by Patricia McKillip, full of tricksters, cosplayers, spooks, sex changes, levitation and (sigh) riot cops... CAUTION: COYOTE SEX
	THE MIMI: by Robert Moss, 1955, a dream of another life As a boy in Australia I briefly died on the operating table. I found myself living among the Mimi, spirits living in rocks. I grew up, grew old, died--and woke up nine years old again...
	MIRYAM'S THEFT: by Wayan; 1996/9/24, a psychic dream on being used I'm a ghost dwarf in love with a Lady trapped in a magic Arabian castle. But our love is being used... CAUTION: SEX, BETRAYAL, SACRILEGE
	NAIAD AND GOD-DOG: by Wayan; 1980/11/7, a manipulative dream-tragedy. I love a Naiad who's lost her God. Tragedy strikes us. I'm devastated till I meet the aliens who explain...
	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?
	ODE TO PSYCHE: by John Keats; 1819, a poem based on a dream-encounter Keats met two winged lovers nesting in the woods: Eros and Psyche, the last Olympians, worshipless...
	PASSION: by Katie Hofgard; 100K, 2006, an undream portrait of a complex woman. Talk about mixed messages! Or... is it really? CAUTION: NUDITY, SLIGHT FIRE HAZARD
	PRIMAVERA: by Walter de la Mare; 1920s, a dream persisting into day I dreamt the Goddess of Spring paraded by my house. I woke and leapt to my bedroom window, and there she was...
	ROBINSON JEFFERS AS A SHAMAN: by Wayan; 1996/7/28, a little shamanic shoptalk Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism, blind to how kindness matters... CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED
	ROSE AND THE THORN: by Wayan; 1986/7/1, a dreamtale on prayer. We're swallowed by Swamp Sofas and enslaved to The Man Who Prays on Us. Time to grow some thorns!
	RUBBERNECKER: by Wayan; dreamed 2000/4/24; a ghost comedy. I dreamed of a woman whose jeep stalls on the Antarctic ice. Along comes the ghost of a Volkswagen...
	RUNNER WITH A PORPOISE: by Wayan; 1999/10/30, a dream of spirits. A Japanese high school athlete has no friends, till she starts meeting animal spirits on her long solo runs...
	SATYR: by Wayan; 1999/4/1, a frustrating wish-fulfillment dream (yes, both). I'm a faun, the oracle for a Greek village. But my predecessor set up rituals I want to change... CAUTION: SEX, PAGANISM, SELF-SATYRE
	SAVANNAD: by Wayan; 1998; digital portrait of recurring dream figure. A sexy meadow-spirit of my California drygrass hills... CAUTION: NUDITY
	SEA EAGLE: by Robert Moss, 20th century, a psychic dream I dreamed a sea eagle I saw as a boy led me back to my native Australia, to a Dreaming place. Later a 'spirit man' of the Mununajali in Queensland led me to the exact place I'd seen in my dream...
	SHAMANIC CHEW-TOY: by Wayan; 2011/3/16; nested dreams of strange women Compulsively honest spirit-women with waterjugs invade my friend's house. I wake to find my girlfriend's obsessing on hair loss. To calm her, I babble about limb loss... and wake again to find she was a dream too.
	SPHINX'S WOOD: by Wayan; 1981/11/19, a dream of puns, riddles and advice After my dad lets me down I dream black may be white, and white, black--if you're a Sphinx...
	SPIRITUAL TESTS: by Wayan; 2000/8/28, a predictive dream As my dad lies dying, I dream my sister and I face spiritual tests given by slacker angels who'd rather be on TV. Learn to let go!
	SPOCK'S SPIRITS: by Wayan; 2000/3/12, a financial-advice dream. Lost in a dark maze of machine-shops, I follow Mr. Spock, who's drunk, and talks to tree-spirits... CAUTION: ALCOHOL AS INSPIRATION?
	STRANGE SERVICE: by Gordon B., early 2006, a transcendental dream The old man sang in the empty church, then looked at me and snapped his fingers. I was filled with voices...
	TELEPATH TREES: by Wayan; 125K, 1993/9/11, a how-the-other-half-lives dream. Edward Abbey shows me a secret grove of telepath trees. That night, they meet me in my dreams...
	TIBETAN DISASSEMBLY: by Wayan; 2007/7/5, a dream of a desperate ploy A woman in Tibet disassembles herself! A local god hires her spirit, but she uses the office equipment... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
	TRAIL OF POGS: by Wayan; 2002/9/6, my dreams' response to the first Burning Man dream-workshop A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us...
	TRUSTING FOXES: by Wayan; 175K, 2 big pp, 1997/8/20, a comic of a psychic dream. A lawyer sends me a letter full of fox-girls! In Asia foxes mean trouble, but instantly I know they mean...
	AN UNEXPECTED SPIRIT: by Wayan; 1990. Digital sketch of an astral scene I keep getting in When things fall apart and the center cannot hold and mere anarchy is loosed... I tend to giggle.
	WARM FUZZIES: by Wayan; 1990/2/20, an origin-myth dream. I take a shortcut with the Warm Fuzzies through the center of the earth, and now I understand volcanoes...
	THE WELL: by Denise Levertov; 1960?; a dream-poem I meet my own muse--the muse of all of us, perhaps--scooping water from a sacred well...
	WORKIN' FOR PEANUTS: by Wayan; 1990/12/11, a crude but perceptive dream. I'm an elephant working in a diner. In the bathroom, I inadvertently summon the Genie of the Urinal... CAUTION: PISSED PACHYDERM
	YOU REALLY AREN'T LUNCH; 2012/6/11 by Maia Spencer; a cledonic dream of facing fears Hiding in the woods I meet a Cyclops. But I'm not me, I'm the editor of the World Dream Bank...