DREAMS & DREAM PORTRAITS

Dreams can give an interesting impulse to draw a self portrait with sometimes unusual results. Especially when I saw myself in a dream in a strange and remarkable way, I had the urge to draw it. Each time my self conception was touched and irritated by what I saw in the dream. These portraits showed me that dreams not only repeat the known but compose the unknown and in doing so they expand and alter experiences and consciousness. Horror can be a side effect ;-) 

 

 

Dream 1:

The Insect and the Eyes

10/29/1983


We prepared for a big journey with Mrs. T. But before I had to go to a man who lived with a big insect. As I entered the room the insect woke up and approached me. I kept quiet and closed my eyes. The insect started to do something with my face, it did not hurt. When I looked in a mirror afterwards I had 4 smaller eyes instead of two bigger ones. I looked somehow a bit like the insect now. With my 4 eyes I saw another eye in the middle of my forehead. Its colour was bluish-black shining and looked really magic. It emitted a strong energy. It was impressive and beautiful. Afterwards I had sexual intercourse with the insect which had an attractive female body.

 


Dream 2:

Animals Everywhere

3/26/1985


After I had visited Tobias I went home. As I passed the university campus I went into the ETH and sat down close to an open window where I intended to write down a dream and make some sketches because I hat painted and drawn well in the dream. I looked out through the window into the dark night of the dark city. It was really black outside.
In my mouth lived a little cat. A hummingbird came and wanted to snap a nasty fly, which sat on my face. I closed the eyes and the bird approached me trustingly. I opened again my eyes but instead of the hummingbird a bat clinged to my knees. Then I realized that also in my mouth a bat was living and not a cat. It came half way out of my mouth. I made me sick, but I observed it closer. It was some kind of a bat cat. (??)

 

 

Dream 3:

Total Operation

9/24/1986


I was in some kind of interim empire, which was shown to me. I was in a huge complex of buildings on an interim level which was usually not accessible. It was a kind of a kingdom of a healer dynasty. They did not let me go anymore and wanted to operate me. I was terrified but I could not do anything. Before the operation I saw them, they all had a strange and broad body structure and looked a bit crippled. They where, as I was told, operated successfully. The laughed at me and explained, that the emperor needed a new victim because with their own bodies one could not ruin anything anymore.
I was put on some kind of operation chair, a tube was connected to my arteries. First  the intended to operate my lungs and my hips. Preparation where made and then I was put to sleep. But I could follow the operation from out of my body and I saw that they dismembered my head and laid it on the side. They operated my whole bode to my advantage, as the told me. But my free will was not important. I protested but they just laughed at me.
As I woke up from my anaesthesia I was totally transmuted. I had a different face, eyes and forehead where the same but the mouth was broader and a bit flabby. Besides I had a big full beard. My body was stocky and broad. I could not move properly with it, but obviously I still continued to live.

 

Dream 4:

Cut Off Nose

1/26/04


I had seen somebody who had cut off his nose and I cut my nose off too. Later I was sorry about that when I dawned on me that it would not (grow back) again. I looked strange.

I examined the face of the other guy. One could see into the inside of the nose because there was a big hole between the eyes. While breathing in and out the gap opened and closed rhythmically.

 

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