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Bears

Dreams of bears, polar bears, pandas, raccoons, and their kin.

So, you ask, what do they symbolize? Depends. Bears really are as food-obsessed as you think, but they're also highly emotional--tempers, yes, but equally strong griefs, fears, rambunctious play. They have large brains, and memories as long as elephants'.

But is any of that widely known? What matters more than the truth about bears are your own stereotypes.

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	BEAR IN THE MUSEUM: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/6/7; painting in the Box of Dreams There's a large bear wandering the museum, and somehow I feel good about it...
	BEAR LADY: by Rachael Dutton, c.1981; a dream painting with four rearrangeable panels Bear lady, bare lady, in (or out of) a bear suit...
	BEAR READ DUNE: by Wayan; dreamed 1981/1/28, painted 10 years later. There are many astral planes--this world's just the cellar. A cat and a bird in love, a literate bear and I guard the astral stair...
	BEAR VERSUS CHAINSAW: by Wayan; 2022/4/22; a political nightmare hinting at a solution Night. Home alone. A huge bear breaks in! To defend myself, I have a chainsaw. Curiously, an electric not a gas-powered chainsaw...
	THE BEAR'S RIP: by Xanthe; dreamed 1990 or 1991; a lucidish dream with four sketches. A bear rips open my wall and guides me into a psychedelic space where I learn to see with new eyes...
	BLUE SKIES: by Georganna Malloff; 1980?, painting of a slightly predictive dream. I dreamed of a bear playing a cello concert. The next day at a concert I was surprised to see that the cellist...
	BONOBO AND BEAR: by Wayan, 1999/10/14, a mystic war-dream. The gods of our cave-past and star-future fight over us--using us, of course. After I see the toll it's taking on a bonobo buddy of mine, I decide to bring the war back home, and go gunning for God--BOTH of them... CAUTION: APES AND EXPLOSIVES DON'T MIX
	BUDDHA BEARS: by Wayan; 1994/12/10. Digital sketch of a dream image I forgot was a dream! Gosh, I'm speechless. How Zen! Market me at once! CAUTION: MOCKS RELIGION. OR ADVERTISING. ONE OF THOSE.
	THE DEMON TODDLER: by Wayan, 2015/5/5, a creepy dream about... bears? demons? humans? After a nature show on bears and a horror-parody film, I dream of a man and a demon toddler in a sick relationship. At least it sickens all of us... CAUTION: DEVIL AND PEDOPHILE: WHO'S CORRUPTING WHO?
	DOWN UNDER: by Kenneth John Atchity; c.1976, a comic on-the-road dream poem I ride my tricycle all round Sydney trying to get bureaucratic approval to feed bananas to my friend the grizzly bear, gooey though he gets...
	FERRYGOAT: by Wayan; 2009/8/15, a dream warning what I was becoming; Dreamverse #48 That levitating bear's not tightrope-walking--she rides a goat strung like soap-on-a-rope. A goat that's me! I'm eating... CAUTION: UGH!
	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...
	GIRAFFE CAMOUFLAGE: by Wayan; 2020/9/1, a dream of the anti-closet? A human and a talking giraffe fall in love. But some hunters still shoot animal people. So he camouflages her with paint. Bright paint. Now she's more visible than ever! Not that I can criticize his eccentricities. I'm in love with a unicorn songwriter... CAUTION: FURRYPHILIA
	MAMA BEAR'S ADVICE: by Wayan; 1985/12/8, a dream on love-tactics. A bear-girl seduced by her coyote professor gets a little advice on revenge from her anthropologist mom...
	A NIGHT ON MOUNT DIABLO: by Wayan, 1984/6/8, an allegorical four-phase dream. I'm attacked by a narcissist firebird, a rabid rattler-manticore, a masochist bear, and a sexless succubus... CAUTION: INEPT DEMONS
	OTTER MEDICINE: by The-Fringe, a Crow healer, early 1850s; a shamanic dream with physical effects I slept on an island in a scalding hot spring, praying for a dream. I got one--and woke up on the shore...
	PENGUINS TALK ONLY TO...: by Wayan; 1987/7/25, a comic dream-poem. Talking animals flood my bedroom. Well, they'll talk to me--but they're cliquish. Hippos snub cats snub bears snub deer, and no one talks to penguins, for...
	PLUSH BEAR: by Wayan; 1994/8/3, a grotesque dream poem. Two mimes terrorize our art class in a stretchable bear-suit. Well, we HOPE it's just a suit...
	POOL OF TRUTH: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1983/10/1; a dream of shamanic descent Night. A massive crash on the highway. Bodies strewn. Sickened, I descend a spiral stair to the Pool of Truth. It gives no answers. Women spout platitudes. I go on, in pain, down past the polar bears... CAUTION: THE DEAD
	PRAY: by Wayan; 1992? Digital nondream image--childhood memory?. I don't know what this scene is about--but it's not a dream. A stage, I think. Something from childhood. CAUTION: BARE BEAR
	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
	RADAR BEAR: by Wayan; 1983/6/17, a dream of MASH--and perseverance. Radar O'Reilly's teddy bear is stolen. He builds spy-planes to find it. One morning the camp wakes to find...
	SANTA CLUMP: by Wayan; 2009/9/16, an absurd dream-poem; Dreamverse #54 I find myself sitting on toy trains and fake snow as I'm told a fable: how a herd of department-store Santas got tragically lost in a blizzard...
	SIX DREAMS: by Jim Shaw; c.1994, a very busy night! 1: A flooded bathroom becomes 2: a glass water-piano; 3: my friend strips in a restaurant, so 4: they serve me gutted dog. 5: Dolls teach prostitution, as 6: a rhino rubs up to an elephant-bear...
	TEACHER-BIRD: by Wayan; dreamed 1986/9/7; a cyclic dreampoem Seeking my lost teacher-bird, I dabble with the time machine in the basement. Oops! I summon Bigfoot. But the monster rips out her fur...
	TOO MUCH TO BEAR: by Wayan; 1997/4/28, an alt-world 10p. dream comic or text w/pics I dreamed that huge nouveau-riche polar bears invaded San Francisco, evicting us locals... CAUTION: CORRUPTION, URSACIDE, MATH!
	UNDER THE FUR: by Wayan, 1997/10/7; a 5-page dream-comic (or as ill. text) A strange creature slunk into our yard, carrying a skunk lunch. But she dropped her fur coat, and I recognized a kindred spirit...