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Vision and Visualization

Dreams about vision--with ordinary eyes, third eyes, whole sets of weird eyes. But also the mind's eye: visualization and visions, imagery and imagination. Not a territory I understand well! This'll sound crazy coming from a visual artist, but I have trouble consciously willing images to appear. It's one reason I enjoy art and dreaming so much--without a mind's eye, dreaming and painting are about the ONLY ways I can see something I imagine. I do have a mind's ear, in fact a mind's stereo that plays all day (and sometimes, annoyingly, won't turn off), but vision? Blurry, masked by a gauze curtain... until I paint my visions... or fall asleep again. In dreams I can visualize so clearly! I've even deduced I was dreaming and gone lucid, because of my mental clarity in REM--and watched it fade away to half-blindness, as I wake.

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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	THE AIR BURUNDI PAINTINGS: by Wayan; 210K, 7 illus., 2007/1/20, a dream of art and courage Weird paintings cover a hill town in Africa, demanding I paint them when I wake. Paintings on courage, flight... and defying tradition.
	THE ARTIST'S WAY: by Wayan; 1994/6/10, a visual-pun dream. I'm a parade route. A group of child artists walks all over me. But their soles are bare, so I don't mind...
	THE BEAR'S RIP: by Xanthe; 100K, 4 illus., dreamed 1990 or 1991; a quasi-lucid dream A bear rips open my wall and guides me into a psychedelic space where I learn to see with new eyes...
	CENTAUR QUARTET: by Wayan; 1980-84, a dream-series on shamanic families. Can our interracial family survive? Not just cultural conflict, but our instincts clash around sex--and incest... CAUTION: SEX, INCEST ISSUES, DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
	CUTENESS PAGEANT: by Wayan; 2008/8/29, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #16. I'm trapped in a cutesy cartoon universe! Worse, to judge a beauty contest, I have to see past our style to our souls...
	THE DEER'S HOLY LAKE: by Wayan; 1995/5/15, a dream of holy turf. A magic lake where deer glide on water... so I try it. And start to realize I could build such a lake...
	DREAM CLARITY, or, the Field of Psychotherapy: by Wayan; 1996/11/27, a dream on dreams While we're making crop-circles in the field of psychotherapy, my hypnotist and I start to argue...
	DREAM LOVERS: by Wayan; 1995/9/11, a dream on shame. This dream's not about a man whose dream lovers keep materializing till the bed overflows. This dream's about who those lovers are, and what the neighbors will think... CAUTION: SEX
	THE EGG PROBLEM: by Wayan; 1990/3/2, digital painting of a magical dream. I was a intellectual ballerina trying to stop zombie monsters from hatching out of the Earth...
	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
	EYEBOLT: by Wayan; 2005/10/1, a squeamish dream I'm on a train in Britain, sitting across from a respectable-looking woman with a large bolt sticking in her eye...
	FEVER HILL: by Wayan; 1991/4/13, a comic Buddhist nightmare. My fever-dreams manifest physically and mess up my whole neighborhood. Seismic inspectors arrive...
	MY FLUORESCENT WORLD: by Wayan; 1997/8/16, a psychedelic dream. I always thought I saw differently than others, but when someone builds the Goggles...
	FLY, DANCER!: by Wayan; 1993/4/2; an advisory dream. In my ballet class. The others were learning to leap, but I wanted to FLY. So I went outside alone...
	FOUR EYES!: by Wayan; 1984/5/28, a metaphoric dreamlet. I started life as twins, but slowly we fused. I still have four eyes, though. Then, one day...
	FROG ORDERS: by Wayan; 1986/7/4, a dream on piety. I'm in medieval England on a mission from God, but I meet a Priestess on a mission from...well, we argue.
	GRIEF KIVA: by Wayan; 1980/2/16, a lucid psychic dream. In a Hopi underworld, I find even lucid dreaming can't cure guilt and grief over losses yet to come...
	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...
	LUCID GIRDERS: by Wayan; 1993/8/18, an illustrated dream about dreaming. Stayed up late, painting foreshortening. Then I saw a scene in color, motion, 3D, and knew I had to be dreaming: I was visualizing too clearly, THINKING too clearly, to be awake... CAUTION: NUDITY
	THE MONK STRUCK BY VISION: by Wayan; 1979 or 1980, sketch of visionary stress. I sympathize with visionaries whose gift is so urgent and extreme, most would call it illness...
	ON MOLLY'S FOREHEAD: by Wayan, 1988/11/19, a spiritual sex dream. A child of radicals goes wild in Rio. When we bail her out, we find she's had a strange enlightenment... CAUTION: UNSAFE SEX
	PASS THE VIAL ON: by Wayan; 2000/4/18, a dream of renunciation A vagabond king showed me the way into Faerie, and it made my fortune. But now it's time to pass the gift on...
	A PILGRIM DREAMING: by Denise Levertov; 1977? a dream poem A man I loved goes into the Jungian depths, but when his anima appears in the mirror-pool, his nerve fails...
	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
	PRACTICE IS REAL: by Wayan; 1998/1/6, three small dreamtales. Three teasing sex-dreamlets chipping away at my shyness with women I like... CAUTION: SEX TALK
	RUG-SHAG: by Wayan; 1994, digital; a sexy daydream that suddenly found a voice. I just wanted to imagine getting licked by a nice friendly escapist dog on a nice shaggy rug, but... CAUTION: BESTIALITY! SEX! METAPHYSICAL DOUBTS!
	SELF-MADE GIRLS: by Wayan; 2000/2/15, a public dream. Two souls coalesce from bars of light into human beings by the power of words. Words like stupid, ugly...
	SOCK PUPPETS OF THE GODS: by Dee and Wayan; 100K, 1994/4/14. Parallel shamanic dreams!. A dance classmate asks a bizarre question that haunts me. That night I dream I'm suicidal--nearly kill myself. Then I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern, from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but each time, the challenges get more spiritual. I wake up stunned. Then I learn what a shaman I know just dreamed... and now I'm unsure whose dream this is.. CAUTION: IDEAS
	THIEU, I'M SORRY: by Wayan, 1997/11/1, a troubling dreamtale. Visiting Time City, I witness the "suicide" of a woman named Thieu but suspect it was really assassination... CAUTION: SUICIDE? MURDER?
	THREE-EYED WOLF: by Wayan; 640 x 680, 1993. Digital one-page comic/fake movie poster A 'toon liberation dream. I cartooned a new self and slowly she grew realer, until she ran Disney... CAUTION: FRANK SINATRA SWEARS
	TITANIA: by Wayan; 1983/1/7 and subsequent nights; an epic dream of love Clarence the sappy angel from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and Milton's Lucifer, noblest Devil of them all, land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're perfect, and the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me, and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full range of feelings. Too bad one is the feeling she's fake...
	A VALLEY NEAR HOPE: by Wayan; 155K, illustrated, 1984/10/17-19, an epic dream. I'm lost in a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who adore unicorns but hate cyborgs, who think ants are cute, but dread unicorns! And while the Three Tribes love and hate, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four vertices of my tetrahedral soul, but what if I get what I want? Peace, love... transformation? What if those aren't cute and New Age? CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING
	"WHAT SHARKS?": by Wayan; 1990/4/22, a dream of multiple viewpoints. A cowgirl is driving us in circles round the dusty parking lot, fleeing the air-sharks... or is she?
	THE WOODRING LAYER: by Wayan; 2008/7/7. A dream questioning art's job. I see great towers rising into a fog zone--or is it another universe, with different rules? How do you draw both worlds?
	YEATS: by Wayan; 1990/1/1, a poem wrestling with Yeats's visions. Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted?