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Dreams of the liquid world. Exploring under lakes and seas, living in water, breathing water...

It's my experience that such dreams are often precursors to flying dreams--and sometimes to lucidity. Maybe it's just that for a lot of dreamers, water and especially the sea is a symbol for dreaming itself--so breathing underwater can show you're comfortable exploring the dreamworld and that your unconscious welcomes you.

But Jungians can go too far. If you skin dive a lot...

RELATED TOPICS: walking or skating on water - swimming - beach dreams - flying dreams - lucid dreams - mer-folk - underground dreams - falling water: rain, waterfalls, geysers - If you're feeling smutty, there's always wet dreams - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

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	ABYSSIA: by Wayan; 500K, 2006/6/6, a small virtual world A nondream vision of an alternate Earth where continents are abysses, abysses continents...
	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...
	AIDA'S TOILET BOAT: by Wayan; 1993/4/7, a psychic dreamtale. A sexy comedian and her troubles down the drain. A dream that turned out to be true...
	ANOCHE / LAST NIGHT: by Antonio Machado; c. 1900; a joyful dream poem Last night, as I slept, I dreamt--illusion blessed!--that I had a beehive, here in my heart...
	BEYOND THE BUOYS: by Wayan; 1981/2/12, a short dreamfable. I'm a fairy queen at the beach, chasing a girl who's a strong swimmer. Yep, she swims beyond the buoys... CAUTION: BAD LESBIAN PUNS
	BLUE MERANGEL: by Wayan; three views 40K total. 2000, ceramic sculpture, 11.5" long. Seems strange to have no hands. How do dolphins get things done? By not needing to get things done? CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	BYE-BYE, OLD FILM!: by Wayan; 1981/1/24, a psychic dream. My friends destroy all my old films and give me a 'new' one--but it's from 1900! Then I wake to find...
	THE CONCHES: by Wayan; 1996/5/23, a dream about projections. A visit to the Conches, a strange race who are only people intermittently, seasonally...
	CRIMECON 90: by Wayan; 1990/3/27, a dream about capitalism. I did what I love. The money didn't follow. So now I have to guard a crimeboss at a theft convention... CAUTION: INEVITABLE CHEKHOVIAN SHOOTOUT
	DEATH CHANTY: by E.M. Martin's friend; 1914/9/21, a psychic dream An endless parade of drowned sailors sing a dirge, the dreamer wakes in tears... and then the news arrives.
	THE DESTRUCTION OF HAWAI'I; 2004/9/2 by Anonymous #37; a short apocalyptic nightmare I was a small boy living on Oahu. Out my front door I saw a 20-mile-tall wall of flames stretching across the horizon...
	DRACULA'S SANDWICH: by Brenda Ferrimani; 1997/8/22, a death/rebirth nightmare-painting Dinner with Dracula goes well, considering, except for the mayonnaise. But suddenly I'm drowning! People don't see or hear me. Am I a ghost, am I dead or alive? And how would anyone notice?
	DREAM OF ABYSSES: by Marie-Claude Girondé, spring 2007, a dream-drawing. Girondé dreams she's floating through the oceanic abyss...
	EVERLASTING AND PERPETUAL NIGHTMARE: by Shawn King; c. 2009/2/10; two installments of a lifelong nightmare Lucifer throws firebolts from a Montreal tower as monsters stalk people on the streets; then a great flood washes us away...
	FANTASTIC RIDE: by Marie-Claude Girondé, spring 2007?, a dream painting. The dreamer overflows from her egg, spills out to become a waterfall, a stampede of horses...
	FOOD CAME BETWEEN US: by Wayan, 1993/4/25, a tasty dream epic. The terror of Navy breakfast, the joy of filterfeeding, how to marry pudding, and a sniper lunch with kisses...
	FORGET THE FLEURS DU MAL: by Wayan; 1983/1/1?, a poem on nightmares. In the richest regions of the sea, dead stuff wells up to meet the light. Do we have similar zones?
	FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH: by Roswila, August 2002; a dream-poem illustrating dream reentry My horse and I dove into a lagoon and sought buried treasure on the sea-floor. What are we really after?
	GREEN ANGELS: by Wayan; 1985/9/2, a dream-idyll seething with politics. I stalk a platoon of levitating surf-bunnies who may be out to bomb a Greenpeace submarine...
	HAENA TWILIT COVE: by Wayan; 1984/10/31, a predictive dream. Landing in Hawaii, I dream of a magical twilit cove I must swim across. The eve of leaving, there it is...
	HELL HALL: by Anonymous #3; c.1920?, a dream of initiatory cannibalism A revival meeting goes bad--hell gapes, suicides jump, mutton turns out not to be. If you sup with the devil, carry a long fork...
	IN IO: by Wayan, 1981/8/7, a wild otherworldly dream with 3 illustrations. I live on Io. It's nicer than its photos. At least inside, where the oceans are--where I grow a second head...
	JUMP OVERBOARD: by Graham Greene; 1925/12/11, a possibly psychic nightmare. Wednesday night I dreamed I had to jump overboard... that night there was a wreck off the Yorkshire coast in a storm and the captain ordered his men to jump into the sea...
	KICK AUTHORITY: by Wayan; 1988-92. Early digital painting of a dream figure. Question authority? Nah. They always have such excuses! Kick authority entirely! Just say no.
	THE LADY BATHES IN GRIEF: by Wayan; 1983/5/31, a long-haul psychic dream. Why'd a spirit-woman come to our reservation to mourn a drowned guy? Her mirrors & candles tell us...
	A LAKE DEMON: by Wayan; 1979/11/3, an anti-lucid dream. I walk through worlds, fight a deadly lake demon, and work magic--but I mustn't go lucid...
	LIBERTÉ: by Marie-Claude Girondé, c. 2005?, a dream painting. "Freedom is a gift you give yourself." But it doesn't always involve seahorses or babycarriages covered in quills...
	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...
	MARS REBORN: by Wayan; 1MB, 27 photos, 15 pp, 2003/9/22, a sculpture, a tour guide, a virtual world Mars as it will be 1000 years from now, terraformed. A guided tour with photos...
	A NEW MERMAID DISH: by Wayan; 1994/11/13, a parabolic dream A mermaid friend invites me to see an underwater experiment in the Golden Gate... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS
	IN THE MERMAID'S DRESSING ROOM: by Wayan; 100K, 1993/12/18; an evolutionary dream. At Sea-Dragon State Park, I climbed down to the sea serpent's dressing room after the show, and found... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS
	MERMAID, MARE, AND SEA-STAR: by Wayan; 1983; daydream of sea-love I was a mermaid summoning a great storm to carry my love to me--and my love was a red sea-mare...
	THE MERMAID TOW: by Wayan; 1994/2/17, a rescue-fantasy dream. I rescue some drowning kids by turning into a mermaid, but towing one girl has an unexpected effect...
	THE MERMAN'S LOVER: by Wayan; 422K total, four digital paintings, each about 640 x 480, 1991. Four versions of an undersea meeting between lovers, one terrestrial, one marine... CAUTION: ORAL SEX
	OISIN: by Wayan; 200K, 2005, 4 maps and images; a nondream virtual world A model of a Europa-like moon with life under thinly ice-covered seas...
	ORPHEA: by Wayan; 1995/12/27. Digital painting of a hole in our myths. Krishna, Orpheus, Kokopelli...why are the mythic musicians all guys? Where's Orphea, where's her head...?
	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...
	A PILGRIM DREAMING: by Denise Levertov; 1977? a dream poem A man I loved goes into the Jungian depths, but when his anima appears in the mirror-pool, his nerve fails...
	PEAK ANGEL: by Wayan; 1995, dreamlike but nondream digital collage. A naked angel came and perched on a rock, pointing at a vista that seemed both alpine and undersea...
	PUFF TIDE: by Wayan; 150K, 1993/5/1, a nightmare on indulging rage and tears; 8 illus. I'm swept off sea-rocks, as my scaly guardian watches calmly--letting me drown in the tears I shed... CAUTION: DROWNING
	THE ROWAN: by Graham Greene; 1921, a possibly psychic nightmare. The ship I was on going down in the Irish Sea. It was not till yesterday, looking at an old paper, I saw about the sinking of the Rowan in the Irish sea...
	SEA MASSAGE: by Wayan; 100K, 1995/10/3, a puzzling dreamtale. I can fly and breathe water. So I fly into art-rich mansions, though not to steal--I earn plenty from undersea massage...
	SEA OF TIME: by Wayan; 100K, 1989/7/26. Digital sketch of astral dream. I dreamed I was drowning in the Sea of Time, where dragons asked me questions. PAINFUL questions...
	SHAMANIC CHEW-TOY: by Wayan; 2011/3/16; nested dreams of strange women Compulsively honest spirit-women with waterjugs invade my friend's house. I wake to find my girlfriend's obsessing on hair loss. To calm her, I babble about limb loss... and wake again to find she was a dream too.
	A SHELLFISH EPIPHANY: by Wayan; 1996/6/14, a spiritual dream. I'm a Japanese pearldiver; our family's cast away on a coral islet. One day, lonely, scared, I cast away fear...
	SIPHONIA: by Wayan; 1MB, 25 p, 2006, a nondream virtual world, in progress; maps, tours First, suck up 90% of Earth's seas. Now wait a million years for life to adapt. Tibetan plateaus above steamy new Deeps ruled by giant parrots, ravens and otters...
	THE SOLE FISHER OF THE EIGHTH NODE: by Wayan; 1986/9/25, a prescriptive dream. The pier jutting into the sea of dreams has an 8th chakra at the end, where a lonely woman fishes for, um, sole...
	A SQUID STRATEGY: by Wayan; 1997/10/7, a dream warning. Giant squid start surfacing at popular beaches and eating people. Not the form of first contact we'd hoped... CAUTION: YOU ARE LUNCH
	THE STONE THE BUILDER REJECTED: by Wayan; 1999; plaster sculpture ca. 9" across. I love curves, not the chunky forms of this machine-ruled world...
	STORM OF HUGE RAINDROPS: by Albrecht Dürer; 1525/5/30, watercolor of a meteorological nightmare The first drop struck about four miles away, with terrific force and thunder, breaking and drowning the land beneath...
	SURF THE SAN ANDREAS: by Wayan; 2008/8/21, three short dreampoems, Dreamverse #11 Through twin gates of dream--not ivory and horn any more, but fear and trust... Three castles on the sea, lovely or lame: a Mock Kremlin, a Ship of Toiletpaper, and a Ship of Brick and Beer... A mad old surfer of the San Andreas Fault, impossibly riding earth-change...
	SUTRO RUINS: by Wayan; 1997, pencil/digital; waking landscape though it doesn't look it. The ruins of the Sutro Baths in San Francisco were the setting for an otherworldly dream...
	SWIMMER: by Wayan; 1992, a digital sketch of daydream. Swimming down among the tentacles didn't bother me. I wanted that ball. But I didn't see the BIG eye...
	SWIMMER IN BLUE: by Wayan; 1984? about 11x14", crayon of recurring dream image. I have recurring dreams of a figure broken up by hair the color of the background... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	SWIMMING CATS: by Starvibes, 2012/1/20, a mysterious dream image Following two cats at night, I watched in amazement as they dove in and swam gracefully across a swimming pool...
	THE THIEF OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 200K, an illustrated dream-play, 1996/11/29. I was a mermaid trying to find Count Coyote's stolen dreams, so I could marry my human girlfriend... CAUTION: GAY MARRIAGE, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
	TITANIC IMAGE: by Graham Greene; 1912/4/14?, a childhood nightmare of the Titanic--before the news came. One image has remained with me for more than sixty years: a man in oilskins bent double under the blow of a great wave...
	WAR IN THE RING: by Bruno Oliveira; May 2011, a happy nightmare War, monsters, plague and bombs are just thrills spicing up this city rising from a tropical sea on an alien world...
	THE WELL: by Denise Levertov; 1960?; a dream-poem I meet my own muse--the muse of all of us, perhaps--scooping water from a sacred well...
	THE WHITE SUBMARINE: by Wayan; 1974/7/6, a dream of love and flood. My girlfriend and I ride out the Great Flood in the White Submarine, but some things never change...