Hi everyone,

If you have been inspired to create artwork from your dreams (lucid or otherwise) please share it here...

Selected entries will:

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Remember to include:

(1) Your artwork - either attached as an image and/or a link to the full-size work. (2) Your real name - so I can properly credit you as the artist in the gallery. (3) Your portfolio URL - so I can give you a live hyperlink in the gallery. (4) A description of the dream (optional) - also for the gallery to add further meaning.

Please do not submit other people's art without their permission! You must be the copyright owner.

Thanks for sharing and I look forward to seeing your favorite dream-inspired art!

Hi everyone,

If you have been inspired to create artwork from your dreams (lucid or otherwise) please share it here. Selected entries will gain exposure in the dream art gallery at World of Lucid Dreaming viewable at: http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/dream-art-gallery.html (New entries will be added to the gallery periodically.)

Remember to include:

(1) Your artwork - either attached as an image and/or a link to the full-size work. (2) Your real name - so I can properly credit you as the artist in the gallery. (3) Your portfolio URL - so I can give you a live hyperlink in the website gallery. (4) A description of the dream (optional) - also for the gallery to add further meaning.

Please do not submit other people's art without their permission! You must be the copyright owner.

Thanks for sharing and I look forward to seeing your favorite dream-inspired art!

Dream Art

I dream a lot but I dont draw them---- I get names, faces, places but I cannot relate to them--?

This is all inspired by lucid dreaming: My name is Arlindo Batista.

Lucid Dream: Image

Lucidly Entering Dreamland: Image

Alien Abduction Lucid Dream: Image

Harlequins: Image

Lucid Me Reflection: Image

Veiled Women: Image

Hooded Figure: Image

Hooded Sketch: Image

Shadow Hands: Image

Quasimodos: Image

Swirling Body and the Mirror World: Image

Summerland: Image

Alienscape: Image

I tried and tried to paint a certain image from a lucid dream - but I failed again and again :P In my frustration I took to scouring deviant art. There I stumbled upon this photograph which embodies my dream almost perfectly.

I guess I am technically breaking your rules, but I figured "It's better to ask forgiveness than permission." Anyway here's the link for it. http://klapouch.deviantart.com/art/Valderice-317257689?q=boost%3Apopular%20meta%3Aall%20max_age%3A24h&qo=19

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Moon In Crescendo Andrés Valero (mysticnova7) http://mysticnova7.deviantart.com/

GREAT stuff, I love it. Please keep it coming!

(Remember to post the title of your artwork, your name, and your gallery URL if you want to receive proper credit when I promote these in our Dream Art Gallery on the main website.)

"Underwater Ghost Cat" by Nicole Reyes Alves

I wasn't lucid but I had a dream that I was painting this Exactly a month before my oldest cat passed away this year. Funny.. I just realized my cat was pretty fond of water.

lucidsleeper.tumblr.com (Larger size on my webpage)

Since I was a kid I've had dreams of flying. This wonderful dream of floating up and hovering before I began to fly was thrilling. In these dreams I always had friends or family with me and I was trying to teach them how to float up and fly with me. Recently, my dreams have become more vivid and this has inspired me to recreate my dreams as a photograph. I call this "Flying". www.vincentdileo.com

Shapeshifter and the Water Tunnel: Image

"PORTAL"

" SUMMER DREAMS"

"MOONDIAL"

"DREAM GUIDE"

"DREAM SIGNS"

"LUCID FOREST"

Kemeny62, I love "Dream Signs". It's very pre-lucid dreamy... it seems worldly and utilitarian at first glance, but, once you take a closer look - as you do or can do in the waking and lucid states - you start to become aware of those anomalies and the surreal nature behind what you experience. So far, that is my favourite piece. I can see it displayed on the main page.

Summerlander. Thank you for your comments. "Dream Signs" was created for exactly the purpose you indicated. The main figure in the painting is on the verge of realizing that he must be dreaming. He is surrounded by "clues" that there is something amiss with his "reality". Some of the imagery in the painting is from my own experience with lucid dreaming. Thanks again for your interest!

Octopus of Dreams

I was sleeping with my ear plugs in and I went through some dream sequences involving day to day stuff that has happened around here recently and everything got kind of mixed up and whirling around people blended into others and walls and other scenes erupted and then blended.

As it all whirled and churned together I rose above it and all the images churning and whirling around became like a very animated, corrugated ball of scenes and people and memories. The ball had many arms that would extended out and a glimpse of a scene would become obvious then it would withdraw back into the ball and other arms would extend out and this continued repetitively some time many arms would extend sometimes only one some times the image of a scene would become visible on the surface of the ball amongst the corrugations and then get churned back into ball.

It was terrifying and fascinating at the same time. I use 'ball' for want of a better term. For the most part it was roundish but the images kind of spiralled out from the centre or the core. In a fashion it resembled a flower like a rose with the petals being very animated and spinning around the centre of the bud extending out and then with drawing within. It had a life of its own. I got the feeling it was both feeding on the images and generating them at the same time.

When I awoke the first thought that popped into my mind was that it was animal like and living inside of me. A psychedelic animal or engine and in a strange sense self perpetuating.

Gravy Boat on Ocean

Black Mountain Woman Dreaming

Madonna of Aireys

The Emperor.

I was meditating on archetypes and fell asleep, this art is from the lucid dream I had. I am observing an alien anthropologist studying and reporting on exceptional subjects of human behaviour. In this case the alien describes The Emperor as a pivotal archetype of human behaviour and influence. He achieves his status by shrouding himself in an invented cult of mystery which is injected into the culture to integrate his position in popular mythology. The Emperor sometimes uses savage methods to prosecute resistance and generously rewards cooperation. After coercing key individuals he becomes an unchallengeable authority and is seen to have absolute power. He is not without his critics, but to some he is god-like and is worshiped, feared, and also loved. The Emperor is perceived as a caring and generous ruler who is also capable of delivering horrific episodes of punishment and cruelty. This assessment is part of an exceptional reporting series by the alien anthropologist on the human condition and includes other subject types.

The Back of Moggs Creek

It was with a whisper and a shiver the day I woke up The wind marked the moment in my mind without the wheel or the sword I approached the dream on foot Thinking of magic, kind

On a hill with an empty stare I pondered the blue sea from Moggs to Lorne A distant passion in my eye The earth woman she speaks to me and I know the reason why

The first clue is to feel out of place Or that you have arrived Just wake up and accept it’s an illusion And your soul will survive

But service and works Or just waiting around I considered these a while Be true to yourself first Is your only obligation in any lifetime

Wake up, a simple start, a surprise But don’t deny physical pleasures On earth grounded Gods can die We are all empty handed, alone on our hills So accept your dawning, and let the clouds drift by and by

Jason, January 2005

Kemeny62 wrote: Summerlander. Thank you for your comments. "Dream Signs" was created for exactly the purpose you indicated. The main figure in the painting is on the verge of realizing that he must be dreaming. He is surrounded by "clues" that there is something amiss with his "reality". Some of the imagery in the painting is from my own experience with lucid dreaming. Thanks again for your interest!

You're welcome. I find your art inspiring and keep going. Please don't stop as we need people with your creativity and magic. 8-)

how d'you guys make these images? d'you draw them and scan them or use photoshop or what

Altered States, I can only speak for my art. The some of my art are done with pastels on paper and then scanned in, and then I manipulate the colour, hue, saturation etc using Photoshop or other similar image manipulation programs like Paint Shop Pro. Sometimes I just use the simple photo editing suite that comes with the computer like Windows Live Photo Gallery, after scanning them in I just play around with the brightness, contrast, and colour until I get the effect I like, or I just click the auto adjust and/or noise reduction it does the trick. 'Madonna of Aireys' is a collage of photos that has been manipulated and retouched using PaintShop Pro. 'Subject 4: The Emperor' is also a collage of photos manipulated, enhanced and embellished using mainly PhotoShop. What I found with these programs is that each do some things better than others and each have tools that the other ones do not have. So to answer your question directly I have 'Photshoped' (a new verb) my art but I have probably used three or four photo/image manipulation programs. I have done other photo art using a very simple 'Paint' style program that I found on an old Windows 98 computer where I was staying at the time, and it was very effective producing a Warhol emulation portrait of my then girlfriend. Sometimes the simplest is just as good or better than the more expensive and 'complex' programs. Having said that there are some amazing pieces of art here in this forum that are simply done by hand no retouching, no manipulation and they are awesome! Jason (Cosmos)

hi everybody these are my dream-based art. so far i've made 3. i'm extremely new at watercoloring so please pardon my lack of skill >_< and after i've just finished these 2, i read this thread. what a coincidence! :D

Dream Journal 28/12/2011. made with watercolor this is from when i was trying to project healing energy for lucidly healing my eyes. it emits a glowing & transparent green energy. i've posted the thread here: http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=851 (i failed that time though)

Dream Journal 12/02/2012 made with watercolor one of my favourite dream, because originally i was in some place like wonderland. i went to the right here. there were oysters, billy the lizard, caterpillar, etc. but this place was so pretty that it's the one i remembered the most

This was far before i learned about LD. about when i was elementary/middle school. made with photoshop I remember this dream well because before i went to the roof and saw this super amazing scenery, i met my favourite anime character :P the sky was like this all around me :D

i'm going to do more :)

Name: Firda Istania Url: fistania.deviantart.com / idkcanyouguess.tumblr.com

ohh ok. Hopefully some kind of inspiration will come to me too and i can bust out the old tube paints i used in secondary school in GCSE ART ..and wet the paint brushes again and the mixing tray..but i obviously need a comfortable environment to work (like nature if its not raining.)

one more :)

One thing i notice about my dreams in my childhood is: they're colorful. the hue, saturation, exposure; the color was different. no matter if the dream supposed to be scary-themed (this one is), most of them were still much more colorful than the dreams i had after elementary school.

This was a recurring dream (3 days), that's why i still remember it clearly: Me and my family were in a cemetery (still, colorful with butterflies!), and i heard that 2 local ghosts are causing panic. i panicked too. the cemetery was on a cliff, and i jumped/fell to the lake under. I opened my eyes under water and it was clear, everything glows down there (just like if you open your eyes in a pool), there were some rocks and four orange fishes. still underwater, i saw this girl (only lower half of her body is visible) with her red swimming suit, walking while holding her beach ball. Out the water, i looked up and my mom and sister were calling me. i looked around and the girl's not there. there was no way out so i just dunked again and she's still there, walking around. i did this a couple of times eventhough i kinda got scared, because i could only see her lower half underwater. i forgot how the dream ends.

Murky waters.

Vincent wrote: Since I was a kid I've had dreams of flying. This wonderful dream of floating up and hovering before I began to fly was thrilling. In these dreams I always had friends or family with me and I was trying to teach them how to float up and fly with me. Recently, my dreams have become more vivid and this has inspired me to recreate my dreams as a photograph. I call this "Flying". www.vincentdileo.com

this could be me. i also do a lot of flying just like that, including landscape,and have also started to teach people, but only once lucid, otherwise very clear dreams. it is great fun. :D

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This is from one of my experiment trials with cards. The lucid dream world was was intensified using certain sensory amplification techniques. Its quality was hyperrealistic. 8-)

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Definitely inspired by lucid dreaming! :mrgreen:

'The stage' I got a Lucid-art blogg, if anyone would like to stop by for some more paintings and drawings :) It's mostly in Norwegian, but some of the titles on the art works are in English too.

http://nattkinomaskinisten.blogspot.no/

somehow my 2012 artwork folder got deleted and i hadn't back them up… :( so now i don't have the HD one of my previous dream arts…

well now i want to share 1 more :) this was the most difficult to make from all my digital dream arts (well duh i've only made 3 so far :roll:), because rather than make it from zero, this time i have a base picture (my school) that i have to use and edit the background (original picture: http://images.plurk.com/2ZmzSbi7G0q4gjSsuVfp9R.jpg)

i had this dream when i was in high school. i chose to make this one because in my dream it was reaaally beautiful.

this picture is the hall in front of my elementary school (left), and on the right side should be a track field, which in this picture turned into a vast, dark scenery with a big lake, mountains, and stars behind (kinda felt empty & silent). (see the original picture)

story from my dream journal: started at afternoon, this place was still ordinary. it felt like there was some kind of event there. me and my fam went to some other place by a 'hearse'. when we went back from that other place to school, it's already evening and we were behind that white gate (behind those girls, which in reality is the way to my high school) and my sis asked me "which way do you want to go through? in front of hospital (actually my high school) or somewhere else (the hall in this picture)?" i took her hand. "so, which one?" "somewhere else!!" "ahahah so you're afraid to go through the hospital at this hour?" "no! because i've dreamt about hospitals…(and none of them are good)". so i went back to the first place, but, it was night and the place turned pretty (this picture). it was very bright, a lot of people were there, the track field became a lake with big rocks besides it, all trees turned into cherry blossom trees, and there are yellow flowers that emit lights on the pillars… the place beyond the white gate to 'hospital' is still really dark, though. me and my friends tried taking pictures, enjoying the pretty place. if you stand from this picture's point of view, behind you is the way to middle school, and there was a white gate too. i strolled in front of my middle school even though the only bright place is my elementary school, and one of my friend told me "hey we should be back to our dorm room, it's this late, the gates will be closed soon" (there's no dorm, actually) ah yes and at that moment, the white gates are being closed. i woke up.

[note: even though those 4 girls are supposed to be me and my 3 classmates, please don't mind what the people in this picture are doing, since i just put pictures of random people to make it looks like it was merry in that place.]

ah sorry if i'm too chatty somehow… maybe at that time i thought to be elementary school students must be fun, but it's not like i don't have many bitter memories from elementary school…? and i do had a happy time in middle school and high school! perhaps this dream talks about responsibility as i grow up……

My name is Fahad Hannan, I made this when I had a dream of a waterfall at night, probably because I went to a waterfall site near Toronto, Anyway I really liked the scenery so i Made it as best as I could. At the time I was not that good at art only just beginning.

Description: During the dream I was In a forest wondering around, Lost, As you can see the trees in the Back. Eventually when I found a water source I followed it But it was quite dark and All i had for light was the Moon. Once I reached the water source I realized it was a Waterfall which resembled the one I visited that day with family. And So I Drew this in a frontal position to the best of my abilities of how it looked :mrgreen:

Summerlander wrote: This is all inspired by lucid dreaming: My name is Arlindo Batista.

Lucid Me Reflection: Image

This is really incredible. So intense, so expressive, and also eerie. It's a little freaky, like an early evening HI session, but at the same time you find yourself attracted to it somehow and keep wanting to go back for another look. Very very excellent! I still have a lot more that I can get out of this. Thanks for sharing it!

thirsty oneironaut

i'm in space surrounded by seemingly endless void and millions of distant stars but still safely protected by my suit. at first i feel lost but then i notice a rope, connecting me to a tree which is also floating around silently. it reminds me of my home, earth, and somehow makes me confident that i'm not lost. i can't be lost, the whole universe is my home! i can't be lost because.. this is a dream! the realisation fills me with joy and peace, but also awe. amazing, how real everything feels! i try to rub my hands together but the suit makes it very hard to achieve stabilization. so i just look at my hands, trying to make out all those little details of the suit. it works, i feel the dream becoming clearer.

for some time i just keep gazing the beauty of my dreamscape, repeatedly reminding myself that i'm in a dream. after a while i decide to leave this place but all of a sudden i have no idea how to do that! i try spinning around quickly but the nothingness of space makes it impossible. as i'm thinking about a better method, a straw passes right in front of my face. a straw!? what is it doing out here? oh yeah, right. this is a dream. i forgot for a second. i grab the straw and without much thinking i stick it right into the glass of my helmet. it penetrates it like it's some sort of rubber-bubble. as i'm trying to suck up the whole universe water is dripping out, into my mouth. what the!? i don't get it. if there really IS nothing but vacuum out there, it should act differently! and realizing that, i feel myself being pulled out into space through the straw. it all happens within a second; i feel how my nose is being stretched (without any pain) and how the rest of my body follows it into space. the moment my awareness expands to infinity, i wake up.

so… here's some lineart i did but i'm not sure if i'm gonna color it. i still hope you like it that way. oh and feel free to download and color it! if you want to use it in any way, please give credit and inform me about it!

neat dreams, peace out!

ps, instead of "lostandfun.com" i now changed to "lost-and-fun.tumblr.com" *

That's some epic art out there! I should draw some too even though I rarely draw psychedelic I should make a combination of all my experiences I'm just not that good with colour

Just put this one together recently. The characters are from hypnagogic imagery I've experienced before. The assembly is for artistic purposes.

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Nice work as usual. Is that the "old hag" on the left :)

It could be if you like. Although the characters were seen during hypnagogia and lasted briefly. You know those images that can potentially turn into full-fledged lucid dreams or mind worlds you can enter on the cusp of mind awake body asleep? They're the ones. The characters are probably as bizzare to me as they are to you. I'm glad you like the pic btw. :-)

You must all know it :lol:

Hello so heres my drawing I'm unsure about it not sure if it's totally what I wanted I started out well but then I don't know if the rest is good so give your opinion also this is the first psychedelic artwork I've done ever and I'm not good with colours so maybe a next time. I don't know if you notice it but theres a spirit coming out of the guy's (me) head. It's a mix of lucid dreams when I was little where I levitated above a path in the woods from a short distance to the ground and my big lucid dream which I mentioned in the forum with the reailway "that one weird lucid dream" Image

crazyguitarking wrote: Hello so heres my drawing I'm unsure about it not sure if it's totally what I wanted I started out well but then I don't know if the rest is good so give your opinion also this is the first psychedelic artwork I've done ever and I'm not good with colours so maybe a next time. I don't know if you notice it but theres a spirit coming out of the guy's (me) head. It's a mix of lucid dreams when I was little where I levitated above a path in the woods from a short distance to the ground and my big lucid dream which I mentioned in the forum with the reailway "that one weird lucid dream" Image WOOOW nice, you are great in drawing i see

Je-Je wrote:

crazyguitarking wrote: Hello so heres my drawing I'm unsure about it not sure if it's totally what I wanted I started out well but then I don't know if the rest is good so give your opinion also this is the first psychedelic artwork I've done ever and I'm not good with colours so maybe a next time. I don't know if you notice it but theres a spirit coming out of the guy's (me) head. It's a mix of lucid dreams when I was little where I levitated above a path in the woods from a short distance to the ground and my big lucid dream which I mentioned in the forum with the reailway "that one weird lucid dream" Image WOOOW nice, you are great in drawing i see thank you very much :)

Wow! All of this artwork is incredible!!!

(edit: hi Rebecca, can you please edit the link of my artist portfolio in World of Lucid Dreaming dream art gallery "Childhood Dream" and "On The Roof" to 'http://fistaniaa.livejournal.com' ? thank you so much :))

i made another one! if anybody wants to see the detail in a much much bigger size, go to my amateur art blog (fistaniaa.livejournal.com), click "Dream Arts", and click "[Moving On]".

i didn't record this dream in dream journal!! :(

i joined coursera.org , somekind of online classes and i enrolled on the traditional art class. this week assignment was to make a fantasy art, so i made it from my dream. here's (part of) my Artist Statement: ** Story and symbols explaination:** i believe there's nothing more symbolic and fantastical than one's dream, that's why i use one of my dream for this assignment. The red buildings was a big mall and i was inside them doing my activities. i went to the veranda, and the gravity suddenly rotated 90 degrees like in the picture, and i saw two office buildings beneath me. i didn't want to let go from that place but the gravity forced me to and somehow i felt that i need to go there. i let go and float downward while looking at the mall and noticed the japanese ornaments and the huge clock, landed on the small-scale offices. eventhough there were only buildings and a sky, the boat somehow was there, floating like it was on the water.

i had this dream when i was in the 1st-2nd year of college, feeling like i never had the time to do my hobbies (always related to japanese culture) as free as when i was in highschool, and this dream was about that. i went to the same kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, and highschool. but highschool was the best years of my life, and a lot of things happened.

the red color represents my energy at those times. the comedy-tragedy mask represents all the emotions i've felt. the fox mask is because i really like it, and it may represents that sometimes i need to hide my real emotions. i felt protection there, presented by the red japanese temple above the fan. doing my hobbies keeps me cool and happy, and made my life more beautiful (the japanese fans). but the time has come for me to move on (the giant clock), and i must move forward to college life (the gravity being rotated, i had to let go from the red building). i actually wanted it, but as time passes i find it boring (i floated down willingly, but there was nothing on the grey buildings). and when i look behind, i feel that a lot has happened in those highschool years (i look up, and that's when i noticed the japanese ornaments.)