Raptors
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BARN OWL FUSION: by Patagia; 2006/3/9, linked transformation and flying dreams An owl flew at me, and I fused with it. The next thing I knew, I was a redtail hawk... |
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BIRDMAN TEACHES "NO!": by Miriel as told to Wayan; 1985/7/11, a poem on flight/assertion training In the canyon behind our home, a steel-clawed birdman taught my brother and me to fly by shouting "NO!"... |
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BLUE EAGLE: by Xanthe; 1989/10/6, a dream that said it wasn't for me I met a great blue eagle waiting to get into a library--but not to hunt books... |
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BLUE SKIES: by Georganna Malloff; 1980?, painting of a slightly predictive dream. I dreamed of a bear playing a cello concert. The next day at a concert I was surprised to see that the cellist... |
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BOSCHTON BEINGS: by Wayan; 11x14" ink drawing, 1983/6/26, surreal nondream tribute to Bosch
This picture does not actually contain any authentic boston beans, just Hieronymus Boschton b... |
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CLOTHO AND THE POOL OF DREAMS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; a 2015 painting weaving seven dreams (2014/5/4, 6/9, 7/1 & 9/4; 2015/5/23, 6/26 & 8/25) A portrait of Clotho, the Greek Fate who spins our life-threads, by a pool woven of my dreams from this time... |
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CRUISE: by "Michelle", 1990s; a recurrent predictive dream I never go on cruise ships but I keep dreaming I'm on one and meet the same man, and marry him..... |
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DREAMKU, APRIL 2007: by Roswila; various dates up to April 2007; 30 dream-poems--mostly haiku Dream haiku laid out like a calendar. Roswila's favorite is the pirate, but mine is the were-salamander... |
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EAGLE AND GEESE: by Penelope of Ithaka; c.1240 BCE, a subliminal, self-interpreting dream I dreamt an eagle slaughtered my twenty geese. I wept until he spoke to me: "Take heart! I am thy husband..." |
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EAGLE WOMAN: by Hosteen Hal, 1914, an old-friend-becomes-anima dream An eagle lands near me and turns into a woman. She says "That pet eagle you had as a child? It's me!" I'm a bit surprised. She wants a turquoise bead with a hole in it, and I look for one... |
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EAGLES IN LOVE WITH A SWAN: by Thorstein Egilson; c. 982 AD, a twenty-year predictive dream Before his daughter's even born, Thorstein dreams two eagles in love with a swan kill one another in rivalry over her... CAUTION: PATRIARCHAL BARBARIANS |
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EVASION: by Marie-Claude Girondé, summer 2008?, a dream painting. One pays for soaring high with solitude of the soul... |
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FALCON AND FÜHRER: by Miriel; 1985/7/31, an epic flying/transformation dream A mysterious "Führer" hypnotized all my companions. So I become a human-sized falcon and hunt him... |
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FALL AT THE RIGHT SIZE: by Wayan; 2018/7/14, a dream shape-poem on a lifesaving indecision. I fall off a tower, but I can change size. Tiny things fall slower, but they also tempt the local falcons! Be big & hit hard, or tiny & be eaten? There's a third choice, but I sorta fell into it... |
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FEATHERHOLDERS: by Wayan; 2020/5/18, a dream of a strange career My friend Xanthe steals a sorceror's magic feathers and creates a police force to curb the misuse of magic. But I'm no featherholder; I'm the dispatcher... |
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FLIGHT, MARGARET, MOUSE, DOG: by Paul Nash, dreamed 1895-9 + Feb. 1913; art by Dave McKean As a child, landscape artist Paul Nash dreamed of flying over the countryside of southern England. But he was threatened by the legendary Black Dog... |
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THE FLYING COW: by a cow-buyer, as told by Pu Songling; before 1679, a perverse predictive dream? A farmer dreamt his new cow grew wings and flew away. Next day, he sold that cow at a heavy loss. Walking home with the cash, he found a tame falcon, and tied its leg to his moneybag. One guess what the bird did... |
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THE FLYING HART: by King Charles VI; c.1390, a flying dream. King Charles loses a new hawk. But a winged deer lands, bows to him, and offers him a wild ride across France after his bird... |
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GOLD EGG: by James Russell Lowell: 1850s? a dream-poem I dreamt a couple toss out a shabby old hen. But it lays golden eggs! She becomes an eagle and carries me off to... |
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GRAMPA HAS SPOKEN: by Wayan; 1989/11/26, an oracular dream. In a worldwide junkyard full of warring spooks, I finally meet the one whose message I need to hear... |
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GYRLFALCON: by Wayan; 1971/11/26, a genderbent, speciesbent & predictive dream I'm a Gyrlfalcon in a theater, fighting the Wolverine and his Morlocks with my lover the Green Lion... |
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HAWK AND CAT: by Wayan, 1981/6/2, a dream of ethics and terror. My best friend is a cat. Problem is, I'm a rare hawk--a Cat-Eater. I never, ever would, but... |
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HAWK ANGEL: by Wayan; 1982/12/28; a dream on rejecting hearsay. I dreamed I met a sort of hawk angel, but there was this preachy guy between us... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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HAWK CENSORS: by Wayan; 1988/7/7, a surreal predictive dream on censorship All the photos of hawk people I can find show them with bizarre genitalia: males with hawk-heads for penises, and females with nothing. Blank! Then I go to work... CAUTION: REVERSE SEXISM |
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HAWK RIDGE: by Wayan; 1990/2/15; primitivist digital dream-painting I dreamed I was a gull in Middle Earth fighting Sauron, though he blurred my vision; but my hawk-eyed gullfriends helped me out... |
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I AM A BIRD by Nancy Price; 1948, a dream of another life... well, two. I live as a small falcon, glad I'm no longer human. But when that life ends... |
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LANDSCAPE FROM A DREAM: by Paul Nash; recurrent dreams 1895-9, painted summer 1937 As a child, Paul Nash dreamt he flew over rural southern England. As an adult surrealist painter... |
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LUCID FLIGHT: by Lisa Reich; March 2003, an ecstatic lucid dream of flight. I flew as if part of the air--an otherworldly freedom so exquisite I wonder if it's attainable at all in earthly existence... |
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OWL AND CHEESE: by Wayan; 1986/7/8, a dreamtale of a Shadow? An alien woman makes a mess of our economy, ecology, world--but insists she wants to be my friend... |
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OWL GUARDIAN: by Wayan; 1986/6/6, a psychic dreamlet A giant luminous guardian owl baffles and intimidates me but after seeing a play next evening, it makes more sense... |
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OWL SHOT: by Wayan; 2007/2/15, a predictive dream DREAM: I'm hiking in a local preserve when a jay with a handgun shoots an owl... A MONTH LATER: the first owls to resettle my urban county nest in a nearby park... A MONTH LATER: they're dead. One was shot; its mate died of grief. |
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OWLOVERS: by Wayan; 1992, digital painting of vivid daydream. My dreams mix sex with warmth, grief, even silliness, but what's with the owls? Bewildering... CAUTION: WEIRD ORGY |
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THE OWLS OF THE GATEKEEPER ON THE FOREST BRIDGE: by Brian Quinn; 2009/7/15, a shamanic invite I'm pulling a cart in the woods. At a bridge over a canyon, owls urge me to climb down into the misty abyss, but... |
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OWLYCAT: by Wayan; 1983/3/16, daydream of night being. At the time I didn't even notice the pun... |
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THE PEGASUS CHILD: by Wayan; 1982/4/4, a dream of family diversity and spiritual advice Dad's human, Mom's a weird owl-lynx, the kid's a baby Pegasus... and I, W.C. Fields, that fat cynical drunken old actor, am the babysitter... |
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POLTERGEIST: by Wayan; 1983/11/17, a comic surreal dream. A living camera edits us all: the dappled hawk-man, the slutty candidate, the blue businessmen who give such bad advice when you pull the thorns from their feet. And my sweet sad hell-hound... |
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PROPHETIC DREAM OF BUDDHA'S FATHER: by King Suddhodana, c.563 BCE? an uneasy dream Suddhodana dreams of great upheavals; no courtier can interpret the dream. An ascetic claims the upheaval will be for the good, then... turns into an owl?! CAUTION: PERHAPS NOT ENTIRELY ACCURATE |
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REBEL OWL: by Wayan; 1971/10/9, a dream so mysterious it mystified its inhabitants My city's invaded and occupied. I become a gigantic Owl and fight with impossible stamina. But in the end I'm dead, stuffed, on a museum wall. Can I let go NOW? CAUTION: WAR |
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SCALDED: by Wayan; 1993/7/3, a near-nightmare. The feud between our magical families is getting ugly. Hawk-Head's dad throws boiling water on me, so I... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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SEA EAGLE: by Robert Moss, 20th century, a psychic dream I dreamed a sea eagle I saw as a boy led me back to my native Australia, to a Dreaming place. Later a 'spirit man' of the Mununajali in Queensland led me to the exact place I'd seen in my dream... |
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SPARROWHAWK: by "Anonymous #14"; pre-1963, a tiny, precise predictive dream I dreamt a sparrowhawk perched on my shoulder. Next day a friend was given a stuffed sparrowhawk. He... |
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SPIN, SPIN, FLY AGAIN: by Wayan; 2009/8/8, Shakespeare in drag inspires a flying-dream & poem Night. I'm scared of the men in the park--till I see they're all gay. I dance, and as darkness flares to dawn, remember how to fly--regain my falcon-wings... |
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STEALTH: by Wayan; 1992/1/15 dream on the worship of sleek deadliness. I dreamed the Stealth Bomber wasn't a machine, but a gigantic Owl-god. And Stealth was worshiped... CAUTION: CREEPING PACIFISM |
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SYBIL SUE FLANNERY: by Wayan, 1986/10/29, a dream noir. I'm Sybil Sue, a hard-boiled shapeshifting shamus, on the track of the most wanted bankrobbers in LA: the Bad Girls... CAUTION: IN BETWEEN GUNSHOTS, THE BAD GIRLS SWEAR |
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TAWNY OWL by Nancy Price; April 1948, a dream of muses On the road with a poet and a philosopher, I insist we rescue an owl. But we get lost, and the poet turns into... |
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WOLF AND BURROWING OWL: by Wayan; 1999/12/5, a scientific fairytale dream. A burrowing owl invites her friend the wolf over for tea. It sounds very Beatrix Potter, but... |
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