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Butterflies and Moths

When I built a page for dreams of bugs, I was surprised to find that nearly half were of moths and butterflies. And half those are of other species with moth- or butterfly-wings--grafted, stolen, naturally grown. I don't know how such dreams differ from dreams of flight by other means like birdwings and wingless levitation. But they are common.

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	BANANA MOON: by Wayan; 1998/3/4-12/26, dream-figure painting, acrylic on wood, 3x4' My figure-painting class here in San Francisco has a diverse student body, but not THIS diverse... CAUTION: NUDITY
	LE BON DIEU (Around #2): by Wayan; 1998/7/21; digital portrait of dream-selves. Soul-Poodle is torn between Le Bone Dieu and Dancing Pussy. Who will our horny dogma chase? CAUTION: MUTT SMUT
	BUTTERFLY: by Zhuang-zi; 340-330 BCE?, a dream questioning identity. I dreamed I was a butterfly, fluttering about, content with my lot. Suddenly I awoke and was Chuang-tzu again...
	BUTTERFLY HABITAT: by Wayan; 2000/3/3, a dream on the price of memory. 'You always hurt the one you love', but this girl seems unaware she's proving it's true for ecology too...
	BUTTERFLY WOLF: by Wayan; 1982/8/15, poem and paintings of a dream job--and dream lover? I help run the Dream Hotel, a giant mushroom with grand forest views. It's the off season; our only guest is this lovely butterfly-wolf girl... CAUTION: NUDE WOLF
	CAIRO GIRL: by Wayan; 2008/2/18, a feverdream shifting from nightmare to joy I'm lost in the angry streets of Cairo. But I meet a goth-girl with moth-antennae: a jinni who's working for longterm change. She takes me home... CAUTION: MOTH NUDITY
	CHRYSALIS: by Wayan; 1999 acrylic painting of two dreams, 1997/10/6 and 1997/11/8. Ballooning over Middle Earth with a metamorphosing butterfly-girl, we drift into forbidden territory:
	THE CRANE SPOKE: by Thomas Takashi Tanemori; 1945/8/5, a child's dream foreseeing Hiroshima A crane came and spoke to me, reassuring me "I'll be back" even as a great fire burned it. It returned as a white butterfly. Next morning, as we played hide and go seek, I shut my eyes and counted to... CAUTION: CIVILIANS MASSACRED
	DATE GHOST: by Wayan; 1983/11/26, nondream surreal painting of a shyness fit I tried to date a nice young butterfly but was stopped by a monster who was... my own wings? CAUTION: UNDERAGE BUG
	FLYING MACHINE: by George B. Burgin, c.1860 on, a recurrent flying dream When I'm stressed, I build a set of luna-moth wings and fly invisibly. Though once a blind man caught me by ear...
	GO YOUR OWN WAY: by Peter Birkhäuser; 1942-45?, three advisory dreams plus a realist painting, '44. Peter draws painstaking realism til his tense hand turns into a horn! An anima urges him to walk into a blue light. He & Sybelle struggle against a crowd walking the wrong way...
	GREEN RAY, BLUE WINGS: by Wayan, 1974/7/14, a joyful apocalyptic dream High in the Sierra during a thunderstorm, I dream aliens steal the gold, and the sun's going nova. But Life wants us to conquer space, so we all grow wings...
	GRIMOIRE AND PACT: by Wayan, 2013/8/4, twin dreams of infestations of... health? illness? sex? magic? Two sisters want to lick me all over, but they lick everything; weird gut-fauna make them immune to toxins... Fairy eggs infest my home--become worms, then tiny horses, then mothwinged hobbits, then adult fairies.... CAUTION: NUDE EQUINES & FAE; PARASITES (OR SYMBIOTES?)
	THE HUMAN BUTTERFLY: by Peter Wortsman; 1986, a bizarre dream I wanted to be human, but Mom said "You'll always be just a lousy caterpillar." So I slipped inside a human girl. After some arguments with her boyfriend, I got born as a human-faced butterfly... CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX AND MOM
	IN THE STAR; 1988/9/12 by Wayan; an epic, out-of-body, intrastellar quest-dream I tour the heart of a red supergiant, where dreaming souls explore their fears and heart's desires, unconstrained by solid matter... CAUTION: SWEDENBORGIAN VISION, UNICORN NUDITY
	LITTLE NEMO: by Wayan; 2005/2/6; a little rant on the first dream-comic. Windsor McCay's dream-comic Little Nemo is gorgeous but plotless & passive. Or is it? Dreamwork is gradual...
	LUNAMOTH (Around #11): by Wayan; soon after 1998/8/7; 2 portraits of a dream-self, one digital, one acrylic Day Me curls up and Night Me unfolds: a girl with dark moth-wings, not angel-white but camouflaged...
	LYR: by Wayan; 7MB, 2005, 80 pages w/200+ drawings and maps; a virtual planet A vast sea-world with 7 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species... CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION!
	MANTA MOTHS: by Wayan; 1990/10/3, a transcendental nightmare echoing a dream 8 years before, (1982/1/22) Manta Moths pick us off us explorers... or do they? An old scroll spoke of fear leading to transformation...
	MOTH GIRL SIPS EARTHFLOWER: by Wayan; 1982, sketch of a daydream. The bud she sits on is the moon...
	MOTH TRAPS: by Wayan; 1980/1/11, a dream on getting stuck The Agile Beasts build traps to catch Moth Monsters, but Moths may build traps for Beasts... I wake & wonder--could the theater group where I feel subtly unwelcome be the trap?
	MY SYMBIOTES: by Wayan; 2015/2/8, a dream characterizing our sixth sense, & proposing a seventh I have symbiotes--a dragonlynx and some flannan, like micro-angels with birdfeet & moth antennae. Lynx & flannan embody my sixth and seventh senses...
	THE POWER OF THE BUTTERFLY: by Lisa Gale Garrigues ("Cory"); winter 1997, a dream of flying, shapeshifting and spiritual advice. When a flood traps me in my cabin, I dream I meet an old man who warns me "Let your butterflies go"...
	SURPRISE THAT PENIS: by Wayan; 1986/2/18, a subtly psychic dream. I hijack a Lacewing Chopper to install a new rubber-band engine, but the motor becomes a talkative penis, and... CAUTION: ONE WEIRD WEENIE
	TEN TRIALS: by Wayan; 1976/10/2, a dream of love distracted. While living with violent Kay, I dream I meet a cute, gentle moth-girl. But we must undergo ten trials. Mustn't we? Mustn't we? CAUTION: RELATIONSHIP TROUBLES, BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT
	THARN: by Wayan; 2006, 45 p, 200+ ill., a nondream virtual world: maps, photos, portraits, tours Tour a rugged, scenic moon with air and water in deep canyons sheltering a dozen intelligent species CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, SCIENCE
	TRISKELION: by Kristopher Saknussemm, c.1986, a surreal false-waking dream Only up close do I see that the map of these mysterious continents is made of moths. I wake in Polynesia. By the bed, in a jar, floats one of my hands. For no reason, I begin to cry...