THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: monsters

World Dream Bank home - add a dream - newest - art gallery - sampler - dreams by title, subject, author, date, place, names

MONSTERS

Dreams of meeting monsters--or, of course, being one.

RELATED TOPICS: You Are Lunch - nightmares - hunted! - aliens - animal people - robots - spirits - Frankensteins (gengineered and surgical chimeras) - were-creatures - vampires - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

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.

What this site is - How to read these entries - Ratings: profanity, sex, etc - Add your dreams! - Copyright - Downloading -

	ALICE MILLER MONSTER MESSAGES: by Wayan; 1998-9, digital improv-portrait of inner selves . Writer Alice Miller tried painting her childhood monsters. I tried it her way and got a surprise message...
	BODY MESS: by Wayan; 1980s, ink, 3x5" surreal nondream sketch. If artists do this with ink, what makes you think genetic engineers will do any better with real life?... CAUTION: DON'T DO THIS AT HOME
	CLAY BEHEADER: by Wayan; 1983/7/28, a nightmare offer. A woman's stalked by a clay monster that eats heads. But it has a proposition for both of us... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MONSTER
	CLAY MAN: by Wayan; 1980/6/1, a golem dream . I fight a clay golem of resistance, until inspiration hits, and I do what it may have had in mind all along...
	CYCLOPS, or, THE ANSWER TO MY PRAYER: by Wayan; 1993/8/24, a spiritual nightmare. In the far future, I relive Odysseus' tale. To save my life I must give up realistic hope, and focus on... CAUTION: CANNIBAL MONSTERS
	DALI SKETCH: by Wayan; 1983/12/12; a surrealist nightmare. I dreamed I saw what looked like an ink sketch by Dali of a horse--but I was dead wrong... CAUTION: YUCK
	THE EGYPTIAN GOD: by Wayan; 1991/12/21, a 7-year precognitive dream. Egyptian archeologists dig up a living god. He sees us as dolls to play with, but we've grown up... CAUTION: GOD AS A RAPIST
	FIRST IMPRESSIONS: by Wayan; 2004/5/20, a dreampoem; Dreamverse #0.. I meet a monster--half earthworm, half giraffe. Then I realize she’s kind of cute...
	THE FLASHBACK: by Wayan; 1985/11/28, a dark dream-farce. I'm a monster working in a shopping mall in Stockton, California, when I smell smoke... CAUTION: FILM NOIR SEX
	FRANCHISE!: by Wayan; 170K, 1995/10/12, a comic dream with a serious warning. I was the first woman made High Commissioner of Baseball. One day a team of mutants begs a franchise... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, BAD TEAMWORK, HORNY BEES
	A GAMER'S DREAM: by Mark Nelson; 2002/3/5; A collage of real-world events brought into dreams I face a barrage of deadly challenges out of every action film I've seen and every game I've ever played...
	GOLD EATER: by Wayan; 560K, 9-page comic of a 1993/1/15 dream. I'm an orphan shapeshifter enslaved by a gold-eating monster. But I meet a cat-girl with a hammer... CAUTION: BAD FOSTER-DAD; CAPITALIST MONSTER; VIOLENCE TO INNOCENT VENDING MACHINES
	HARPY: by Wayan; 2000/6/2, a stylized nightmare My dad's paralyzed, my car's stolen. So I dream a stylized harpy made of steel, like a living Calder statue, holds three girls hostage...
	THE HEIDEGGARIAN BARBARIAN: by Jo, 2007/02/02, a dream of hopping between two characters I was two-thirds of a love triangle, but I always lost out. Flying was some consolation... CAUTION: RAT DEATH, EVIL WHALES AND ADULTERY
	HILLARY AND TEAL: by "A 24-Year-Old Californian Woman"; around 2008/2/28, an absurd political dream Hillary Clinton hid her cancer, but the GOP found out. So a monster kidnaps Rainbow Brite, and...
	I AM THREE: by Wayan; 1957-60, my three earliest dreams. My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child...
	KING KONG CRAB: by Wayan; 2008/9/20, a dream poem; Dreamverse #29 One wizardry-classmate summons strange beings; another's learned how not to. Some things should be avoided at rush hour...
	LYR: by Wayan; 7MB, 2005, 80 pages w/200+ drawings and maps; a virtual planet A vast sea-world with 8 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species... CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION!
	MONSTER PROM: by Wayan; 107K, 1993. How parties look when auras are seen. If you sense auras, every singles event feels like a scene from Halloween Hell... CAUTION: HORNY MONSTERS
	THE MUSICAL AMOEBA, by Hermester Barrington, spring 1979, a possibly predictive dream inspired by The Incredible String Band I'm hiking through the Catskills when a gigantic amoeba comes slipping over the hills...
	THE MUSTACHE PRAYER: by Wayan; 1983/9/11, a dream on wishes' limits. I help a mutant boy find others like him, and learn why some prayers are ungrantable...
	MY PET MONSTER: by Katie Hofgard; 2005/5/17?, an erotic nightmare I'm a sexy monster, but my sister sells me to the Devil as his bride... CAUTION: SEXY CREATURE, ROTTEN SISTER
	ONCE A HERO: by Wayan; 185K total, 9 images, 1998/10/22, a raw dream-series. Sexy dreams of Chinese archeology, authorized by the fairies, make me face that my family abused me...
	THE PEAK WHERE I DIED: by Wayan; 1983/1/16. A dark dream-comic. I froze to death trying to climb an icy peak. But I try again, and this time, no holds barred. Wow, am I selfish! But alive...
	PIXY: by Wayan; 200K, 2006/3/25, six images; a diagnostic sex dream? Janet's obsessed with a creepy guy, until her friend Kay--a pixy--decides to knock some sense into her cunt... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, EMBARRASSING SITUATION, NASTY LOVE SPELL
	PLESIOSAUR: by Wayan; 1985/9/5, a medical dream. An itchy patient of mine insists he's turning into a four-headed man-eating plesiosaur. He left one thing out...
	PURSUED, I RAN INTO THE BARN: by Dorothea Tanning; 2003? A nightmare-poem A monster's out to eat my dog--and maybe me. We get cornered in the barn...
	THE SKIN'S COMPLAINT: by Wayan; 1996/11/17, a dreamtale. A huge rubbery mass of skin complains I made it sick. I get tired of its whining, and...
	SLAVES DON'T DANCE: by Wayan; 400K (17 ill.), 1999/8/1, an epic Shakespearean dream. Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm made nurse to her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is...
	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
	VENOM PUDDLE: Katie Hofgard; 2006/5/10?, recurring dream character This black wolf thing named Venom often shows up in my dreams..... CAUTION: SCARY WOLF. OR OILSLICK. ONE OF THOSE.