Dream artist Peter Birkhäuser (1911-1976) was a friend of Jung's; they argued for years about how to depict dreams (see The World's Wound). He gradually grew from strict realism through surreal juxtaposition to full-on dream art, struggling with how to depict images only from memory without models. Much of his art is off-topic here: early realism, atmospheric but nondream surrealism, and general Jungian archetypal symbols and ideas looking dreamlike but not. Below are works known to be dream-based; I've listed them chronologically by date of painting (not by date of the source-dreams) to show his artistic development.

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	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...
	THE WORLD'S WOUND: by Peter Birkhäuser; 1949-53, a recurrent dream painted '53. This picture of a split man was in no sense a product of my conscious will. I simply bowed to compulsion after four years of being haunted by that face in my dreams...
	THE CAT: by Peter Birkhäuser; 1949 on, recurrent dreams, painted '55? A mysterious old woman with cat-face and claws threatened me; she seemed to be guarding a treasure. Sometimes she appeared as a praying mantis...
	LIGHTING THE TORCH: by Peter Birkhäuser; dreamed June 1974, painted Sept. '74. In the dark, a dragonlike god of fire stretched out one claw to courteously light my own small torch...
	IN THE NIGHT OF 13 OCTOBER, 1942: by Peter Birkhäuser; 1942/10/13, a shamanic dream painted Sept. 1975. Sybelle & I climbed the cathedral spire. Bravely she kissed the monstrous guardian, exhaling blue light. My own challenge was to leap across an abyss, under the luminous eye of God...
	LYNX: by Peter Birkhäuser; Sept? 1976, his last dream-painting, facing his death The Lynx, my dream-god, comes for me at last...

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