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Puff

The nickname for a dream-dragon who's appeared as a (sometimes caustic, Gandalfian) guide for decades in my dreams. Wise and well aware of it, she's impatient with trivia and self-delusion. She usually seems associated with water, not fire. That suggests she's more Asian dragon than European; but really her folkloric source is neither. She's Hawaiian! The children's song "Puff, the Magic Dragon" is based on the folklore of Kauai, where a spouting blowhole on the northeast shore is supposed to be the dragon breathing. "The land called Hanna-Lee" is in fact the country around Hanalei.

My point? Just that these dreams, too, have unexpected roots; don't mistake them for idle fantasy. I learned the hard way that Puff's messages weren't dream-nonsense that evaporates in sunlight, but solid warnings to be heeded. And if your messengers and guardians come dressed in gorgeous (or hideous) otherworldly shapes, don't assume they're childish mind-toys. You may find out as I did that you are childish. You are their toy.

--Chris Wayan--

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	AMERICAN TANKA: by Wayan; dreamed 1989/7/26, painting-poem-story on 30" disk, 1995. I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night...
	DIANE DUANE'S DRAGON: by Wayan; 1994/2/27, a predictive dream image. A quiet, mysterious dream image that turned out to refer to the future, not the past...
	DRAGON BANNERS: by Wayan; 1987/3/19, a dream on the value of inner emptiness. A dragon's daughter seeking her inheritance defies a sneaky dragon-realtor out to own the world...
	DRESSER GUARDIAN: DRAGON: by Wayan; 1999/11/26. Dream-figure portrait, acrylic, 6x5" A guardian figure who recurs in my dreams, painted on my dresser to guard my sleep-journeys...
	FEVER DREAMS: by Wayan; 1993/9/8, a set of wild feverdreams. While my body expels a kidney stone, weird scenes happen on the astral plane. At least I get to dip the pope. CAUTION: PAIN, PEE, POPE
	FOUR ELEMENTALS: by Wayan, four recurrent 2009 dream-figures, 2010/1/1 to 1/14 For the New Year, I draw a group portrait of the old year's main dream-figures. Four needs came up constantly...
	A HISTORY OF ENERGY: by Wayan; 2021/2/19, a dream warning we're all shortsighted I dream of a parade or train of energy sources--human muscle, horsepower, coal, oil, gas, solar... But the train's ultimate engine is in our future, and is impossible--a dragon riding a broomstick...
	HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT: by Wayan; 1994/4/3, a dark dream. As my grandmother is dying, I have a dream about what really went on in her house... CAUTION: CHILD SLAVERY
	LEARNING SCALES: by Wayan; 1985/6/26, an epic dream of Chinese dragons. I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost. We need an Imperial Dragon...
	THE MERMAID'S DRESSING ROOM: by Wayan; 1993/12/18; a dream on how to evolve. At Sea-Dragon State Park, I climbed down to the sea serpent's dressing room after the show, and found... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS
	PUFF TIDE: by Wayan; 1993/5/1, a nightmare on indulging rage and tears. I'm swept off sea-rocks, as my scaly guardian watches calmly--letting me drown in the tears I shed... CAUTION: DROWNING
	RING OF WHITE WATER: by Wayan; 1983/1/30, an epic astral dream. I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. A girl in my tour group jumps ship: she dreads the white water of rocky relationships ahead... CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS...
	SCALES: by Wayan; 640 x 400, 1992. Digital sketch of a dream scene. I was on a terrace overlooking a waterfall, where a giant rabbit and a musical dragon told me...
	SEA OF TIME: by Wayan; 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...
	SNAPDRAGON by Wayan; 2009/12/17, an illustrated dreampoem. I'm a werewolf-girl in love with a gender-dysphoric weredragon in love with a man who's very, very patient with all our crazy shiftiness... CAUTION: NUDITY (SKIN, FUR and SCALE), SHIFTY PEOPLE (BI, WERE and QUEER)
	SOUL-WORK GOES ON: by Wayan; 1994/11/3, a journal extract on dreamwork. As I reread decades of dreams, I see Jung was right: even in crisis-times, soul-work goes calmly on...
	A STAGE FRIGHT: by Wayan; 1993/11/17, a revealing automatic writing-trance I froze in dance class when I followed anyone else's script. Was it fear? A dragon inside said no...
	THE TORTURER: by Wayan; 1997/7/13, a predictive nightmare A free-lance torturer chooses me for his victim. He has the right. I bluster, but when I fall asleep at last... CAUTION: NO PAIN, BUT GORE
	WYVERN: by Wayan; 1997/9/3 to 9/18, 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