Lizard Husband
Dreamed 1990/8/30 by Xanthe
BEFORE
I'd been having a series of nightmares about figures I found repulsive, often discovered in cellars and such; this dream felt like the culmination of the series.
THE DREAM
I was gliding down a stream in a tunnel, floating on the water. I met boat after boat of Chained Souls floating down... to Hades? No! Robed demons pushed them up to a hole--they shoved entire boats through, somehow. I could see a slice of blue sky out the hole, but feared to climb up the cavern walls and try to stick my head through. I didn't think I'd fit, somehow--though the boats did.
Instead, I went down. Down a long spiral stair. With the Lizard King. Green, horrible, crowned.
At the bottom, I found myself in his Court. Not as a visitor, as his Queen!
I loathed it, loathed him, all of them. But I was trapped there in the pit. No way free.
He raped me, though he didn't see it that way--we're married and he wanted an heir. So he forced me to have a child with him, a horrible child! A hideous lizard prince. I felt he was evil, as evil as his dad.
And I feel he's not mine. Only the child of my body, not of my spirit.
EDITOR'S NOTE, 2001
FOLLOW-UP, 2021
I now know why I was more comfortable with this dream than Xanthe herself was. I'd met this lord and his court, found these strange water-dragons more attractive than scary, and turned into one of them--in a dream 18 months earlier! But I'd had so many other vivid dreams between mine and Xanthe's, I'd totally forgotten... until this year. Transcribing an old journal, I stumbled on a startlingly parallel dream: my Lord of the Underworld.
--Chris Wayan
World Dream Bank homepage - Art gallery - New stuff - Introductory sampler, best dreams, best art - On dreamwork - Books
Indexes: Subject - Author - Date - Names - Places - Art media/styles
Titles: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - IJ - KL - M - NO - PQ - R - Sa-Sk - Sl-Sz - T - UV - WXYZ
Email: wdreamb@yahoo.com - Catalog of art, books, CDs - Behind the Curtain: FAQs, bio, site map - Kindred sites