THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: REPTILES

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Reptilian dreams

Dreams of reptiles: snakes, lizards, crocs and gators... and quite a few scaly people. A few dinosaurs and dragons have snuck in here, though as hot-blooded creatures (in the case of dragons, alarmingly hot) they aren't reptiles--scales or not.

In my dreams at least, I think that cold blood is what reptility's all about! Torpid, but tough and enduring. Or a life of instinct, ruled by the reptile brain below all our fancy circuits for logic and social smarts.

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	AFTER THE FLOOD AND THE PIG-EARED BABY ALLIGATOR: by Skiznot; 1994-96, an oracular dream My hometown floods. I swim after some strange fish and find a scientific community where a scaled baby tells me who I am...
	AIR OASIS: by Wayan; 1984/4/15, a dream of marginality. Why'd I have to get my big inspiration deep in a lake in the Land of the Lizard People high in the Andes?
	ARENNA, FREED: by Wayan; 130K, 1991/11/6, a pastlife/flying/freedom dream. I learn to fly from Arenna the moon-girl and Crest the dragon, in the House of Deep Memory...
	THE ARTIFACT: by Wayan; 1983/1/16. Narrative dream painting. I was a lizard archeologist, a million years from now. What I dug up threatened my marriage...
	BACKACHE DIALOGUES: by Wayan; 1993/12/10, four bizarre diagnostic dreamlets. I asked my dreams why my back hurt. They told me: pregnancy, marsupial pouches, snapping turtles...
	BALOLOKONG: by Wayan, 1984/11/13; a Hopi time-travel dream. The Ice Hotel, where all my selves are sealed. Can we thaw Einstein? Balolokong the Rainsnake says...
	BAND-AIDS: by Bagheera Pardus; c.1985, a lucid re-entered nightmare turned to joy. Giant snakes chased me, but I went lucid, turned and slew one. As I woke, the snakes were crying. So I re-entered the dream and... CAUTION: SNAKES, BEHEADING, REHEADING
	BASEBALL NAGA: by Wayan; 1971/7/12, my first sexy dream. Our toy train full of nude baseball players went under the park sprinklers, so naturally our shortstop shelters her friend the outfielder snake. But in there? Isn't it just as wet in there? CAUTION: SCALY SEX
	BELT-SNAKE MYOPIA: by Wayan; 1983/12/25, a dream of innocent sabotage. A shy woman's belt slowly comes alive, but like most snakes, it has weak eyes. Would glasses help?...
	BIRTH, INITIATION, INDIVIDUATION: by Anonymous #6; summer 2007?, a dream of ascent to a new level I swim the flooded tunnels and pass the crocodiles to enter the house of mystics... but now what?
	BLEEDING HEART, the SELF-HEALING CORPSE, and IN THE FUTURE DESERT: by Wayan; 250K, 10 illus., 2002/5/29 to July 2004, a diagnostic, predictive dream-series. A tree-girl moves to Hollywood to make film deals, but jealousy stabs her... CAUTION: BLOODY ASSAULT, GAY DRYADS, MUTANT NUDITY
	BRICK AND SKIN: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a dream of spiritual stretching. I'm analog myself, but in Tibet, I meet a digital shaman whose body's a sort of ...
	CAT-SNAKE: by Wayan; 1993/3/6, a short dream fable. I glue cat-legs on my snaky friend, despite the warnings of Christians who don't like snakes evolving...
	CROC BOY: by Wayan; 2008/8/17, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #7. I visit a witch-smeller, who judges apprentice shamans. But when a boy dreams he's a crocodile, watch out!
	CROCODILE KING: by Christina Rossetti; 1855, a mysterious dream-poem. On the Euphrates, one crocodile eats all his kin, bloating monstrously. But when a winged ship appears, he feigns remorse...
	DREAMKU, JUNE 2006: by Roswila; various dates up to June 2006; thirty dream-haiku Daily dream-poems in haiku style, nonstop for a month. A flood of animals, revenant ghosts, sex changes...
	EMBER IN THE BRAIN: by Wayan; 1983/3/31, a dreamtale on anger. I'm the Incredible Hulk, forced to do emergency brain surgery. And the patient's burning from within... CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND UNLICENSED MEDICINE
	ENJOY LIFE: by Wayan; 1988; digital painting based on 1983/8/24 dream This image is senseless, but I have an excuse: I was watching TV in my dreams. TV on another world...
	FAIRE DINOSAUR: by Wayan; 1981/5/5. A dream of forbidden love. I fall in love with a sexy T. Rex at the Renaissance Faire. Then things get weird... CAUTION: DINO ABUSE
	GHOST GATOR: by Wayan; 1984/10/9, a lip-reading dream. A child from another universe materializes--part way. Too bad we called in that expert from Stanford...
	HARD DISK POND: by Wayan; 1989/8/27, a dream of art as a door. We build a huge hard disk that's a virtual pond--a gate to other worlds! But not for reptile brains...
	HEADEGG (Black-Eyed Bird of Pain): by Wayan; 1983/10/24; acrylic painting of a headache-trance. I was cartooning with a headache. It took over and started drawing for me...
	I GOT OUT: by Wayan; 1992/1/4, a psychic dream; 9-page comic, 500K. I flee our love triangle when Abe turns mean. He's telepathic, but I have a plan: the goldfish, the snakepit, the caves... CAUTION: THREESOME, SNAKES, MOTORCYCLE FATALITY
	KLIMT'S GIRL FRIENDS: by Wayan; 1998/7/4, a short art rant Klimt did a deep portrait of a lesbian couple back when most folks hardly saw gays as human...
	LET THERE BE LIGHT by Nancy Price; 1948, a nightmare of helplessness Snakebite! I'm hooked to a health-monitor. If a red light comes on, I'm doomed. But voices start whispering...
	LIZ: by Wayan; 1989, digital painting of a daydream. I'm not sure just where she slithered out from, but she looks like more fun than most mammals... CAUTION: LIZARD BREAST
	LIZARD HUSBAND: by Xanthe, 1990/8/30; a nightmare marriage. I visit the underworld court of the Lizard King, but I can’t leave: he makes me Queen... CAUTION: MARITAL RAPE (NON-GRAPHIC)
	THE LIZARD LESSON: by Wayan; 1996/12/12, a hard-hittin' shamanic dream. I'm a shaman in Nunavut who shows a rubber lizard and his foxy niece that reparations have limits...
	LONG ROAD TO HEAVEN: by Edwin Muir; 1920, an epic hypnogogic shamanic initiation Creatures in the primal sea touch my third eye, dragons cry their eyes out, I fight the Sphinx, and arrive at last in...
	THE MAN WITH THE SNAKE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2002/9/3, dream of an aborted shamanic duel I stood in the desert preparing for a contest with a man and his snake. But he cheated! Then my cat Lulu intervened...
	MOM THE ALIEN: by Wayan; 1981; a nightmare on family Many kids have nightmares that their parents AREN'T their real parents. I dreamed my parents ATE my real parents... CAUTION: HUNGRY MONSTERS
	THE MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE THEORY: by Wayan; 1996/11/6, a dream on synergism. A girl and two snakes are clever but murderous. Yet, apart, they're not mean at all! Not sin--synergy...
	NEWT WEDDING: by Emily Joy; spring 1995, 100k, a six-year-old's epic dream Through wild jungles and over the Mattress Mountains, I lead a giant purple newt to love...
	OPHIDIOPHOBIA: by Wayan; 1986/2/12, a dream on race and religion. I'm a therapist with a client diagnosed paranoid--are his doctors racist? He's not just black, but scaly...
	THE PIRATE TWINS: by Wayan; 1996/7/25, a dreamtale on intrigue. I love the Twins. They love intrigue. So when a hired crocodile sabotages our Egyptian treasure-hunt... CAUTION: BAD GIRLS
	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...
	QUEEN COBRA: by Wayan; 640 x 480. Digital painting of a 1987/1/15 dream. I asked "I'm still scared to date anyone. Why? What's my next step?" That night, I was answered... CAUTION: SEXUAL IMPLICATIONS
	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
	RATTLER BANQUET: by Wayan; 1993/1/29, a farcical nightmare poem. My parents invite me to dinner, but my mom chases a rattlesnake up my leg. Then I wake to find two holes in my...
	RATTLER BY THE CONTROLS: by Wayan; 1978/10/19, an anti-phallic-symbol dream. I dreamed I was riding a huge toy train, and a gigantic rattlesnake was at the controls...
	SEPTIC: by Steve (age 6), before 1961, a recurring predictive nightmare For three weeks he wakened nearly every night, screaming in fright; he said he "fell in a hole." Then, one snowy day...
	SERRANA: by Wayan; 2MB, Oct-Dec 2004, a sculpture/webtour with 60 maps, photos and sketches A dry little world with many small seas, Serrana has at least six intelligent species and an anarchist culture. It's a tribute to Ursula Le Guin's anarchist utopia, "The Dispossessed", and Kropotkin's theories of biological cooperation... CAUTION: ANARCHIST POLITICS, ALIEN NUDITY
	THE SKIN SECEDES: by Wayan; 1990/1/30, an unappetizing dream. A baby's own skin secedes, forming a snake. It prepares to eat the skinned baby. Shall I intervene?
	SLOW PARK FIX: by Wayan; 1996/9/24, a diagnostic dreamtale. Infected glass-cuts scar the vegan alligators in the park. As part of a cleanup, I'm told to EAT one...
	SNAKE COIL: by Wayan; 82K total, two views of dream-sculpture, Nov 2000. I tried to be like my classmates--use tools, control what I made. But I couldn't. It came alive, and...
	SNAKEMATE: Wayan; 1984? Ink, tinted later. Nondream vision Just a couple of soulmate snakes, entwined so totally I envied them...
	SNAKE PACKAGE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2007/5/27 I am given a dehydrated package of dried snake to insert in my vagina. Inside it will unfold and come to life... CAUTION: KIDS, DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!
	SNAKES AND CENTIPEDES: by Russ Thornton; 2008/11/1, a shared/telepathic dream. Two snakes fight as centipedes emerge from under rocks. I tell my best friend. Next day her co-worker tells her the same dream...
	SPLASH!: by Wayan; acrylic, 12" triangle, late 2002; dream painting. While I study how humans went extinct, my daughter happily splashes in the sea...
	THE STONE THROWER: by Wayan; 400 x 520 In a stadium somewhere, watching a game where a slender reptilian man pitched rocks...
	STUCK SNAKE: by Wayan; 2011/9/8; a set of dreams that out-Freud Freud Girls flash and strip and crawl into bed with me, but I'm blind to their agenda--till I become a snakeboy and discover the real limitations of phallic symbolism... CAUTION: NUDITY, STUPIDITY
	THE STYGIAN SENTINELS: by SAO (Shawn Allen O'Neal); 1970s, a recurring astral dream. The couple guarding the bridge over the River Styx, the Crocodile King and the Geisha Queen, rarely seemed to agree...
	SUNLIGHT'S THE CURE: by Wayan; 1990/12/29, a dreamtale. I find the cure for an alien plague, then visit the world it came from, to find it has a curious variant... CAUTION: SEX CUSTOMS OF THE NEWT PEOPLE! MY COUSIN'S GAY WEDDING!
	TAROT: (THE CHARISMATIC) LIZARD: by Wayan; 29K. Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. The card of driven leaders. It's so refreshing to hear someone honest and passionate. Right? Well...
	TIME IS A CROC: by Wayan; 80K total, 1993/3/29, a dream on time. Golfing in the basement! But the ball lands in another world, where the water hazards are hazards...
	TO THE SNAKE: by Denise Levertov; 1959?; a short dream-poem I loved the feel of the green snake, and reassured my friends it wasn't poisonous, but really...
	TRIBUTE TO JOAN MIRO: by Wayan; 1984/2000. Erasable crayon, 14 x 17", nondream Nearly abstract but not quite. The snake, the quill pen, the secretary bird, and the rose.
	TURTLE HARANGUE: by Wayan; 1997/1/29, a warning dream. A man mocks the turtle he caught, calling it "inept"--what's an adept turtle, then? I distract the guy while it...
	UNDER THEIR MASKS: by Wayan; 2000/3/17, an ecdysiastic dream Masked champions of Good and Evil fight, peeling off layers till they're elven-thin--what's left to hide?...
	WHO, ME?: by Wayan; 2002. Acrylic of dream figure. Some shy folks don't even know they're dragons....
	WHY COWGIRLS LOVE BROCCOLI: by Wayan; 1987/8/19, a surreal dream of love. I'm a cowgirl in Nevada circa 1900. Below Haunted Mansion, I meet a green lizard-lady in distress... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE
	WILL I BE BITTEN?: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/3/15; a predictive dreampainting from the Box of Dreams A friend who's struggled with lymphoma invites me to sleep in a cave, but I worry I'll be bitten by a rattlesnake...
	WINGED BOOBY SNAKE: by Brian Harp; 2005, a dream character A winged serpentine beast from my dreamscape... CAUTION: SNAKE BREASTS
	THE WORM: by Emily Dickinson, mid-1870s?, a nightmare-poem Emily Dickinson ties up a worm she mistrusts. Bad move! It grows into a talking snake with a score to settle...
	WYVERN: by Wayan; 1997, 22" ceramic sculpture; recurring dream figure. I dreamed of a dragon-woman on a reef. She was my guardian, but she let me drown! She had her reasons... CAUTION: SCALY NUDITY
	ZEMMYO: by Myoe Shonin; c.1221/4/20, a spiritual Pygmalion dream. A doll sent from China breaks into tears over her exile here in Japan. I reassure her and she becomes real...