THE DREAM

I dreamed I was a lean, blue-eyed, winged dragon, gunmetal color, with a forked tail...

• I told the dream over the phone to my girlfriend Katie Hofgard, who's an artist. She drew this portrait from the description.

EDITOR'S NOTES

1. I'm hoping to get more details on this dream, but am posting this page-in-progress because even the bare image is so striking.
2. This sort of collaborative dream-art is surprisingly rare. People ask artists to render all sort of images they can't paint themselves--but not often dreams. Why? Maybe because there's no way to use a live model or photo reference (ooh, I wish! Snapshots of my dreams! Coming from Sony soon)--all the artist has to go by is verbal description. Or maybe it's just part of the mythos of dreams in this culture, that they're sohhhh personal no outsider could ever visualize them! But is this true? Reading thousands of people's dreams has convinced me we dreamers all have a lot in common! When friends have requested I illustrate dreams they couldn't, they've generally been happy with the result and felt it was pretty true to the dream--at least, truer than they could draw themselves. Two examples: Lucid Flight and Exuberant Balloons. A famous example: The Dream, painted by Henri Rousseau but probably dreamt by his friend Yadwigha.

   So go ahead, artists! Collaboration works.

--Chris Wayan

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