Craig Sym Webb lives in
Montreal, Canada, and is co-founder and Executive Director of the
non-profit DREAMS Foundation ( www.dreams.ca
). He is a seven-year member of The Association for the Study of
Dreams, and has participated in pioneering dream and lucid dream
research at Stanford University and Montreal's Sacré-Coeur Hospital.
He is Contributing Editor for Magical Blend magazine and has published
many dream and consciousness-related articles in various sources. For
more than a dozen years he has practiced, researched, lectured, taught
courses, and led wilderness canoe-camping workshops about dreams,
consciousness, and related waking experiences, applications and
techniques.
Artist's Statement
"The Feathered Wolf Monkey"
The Dream
Driving with some others and we go off the road a bit to the
right, and there's this hedge there. There's a spot where we could
have gone back on the road, but we just missed it. There seems to
be another spot just up ahead too. I realize I'm in the back seat
and some girl <L.> is driving. It turns out there's a drop
to get back on the road, and she makes a poor choice trying to
jump it. My perspective goes from in the car to watching it land
flipped over after the jump. It's a white sports car and I realize
my buddy Rob's in there. I go to pick it up and turn it over and
now it's toy sized (like from the movie Stuart Little), but it's
now also a white dragster. I carry it to the other side of the
road and I'm looking for Rob in there to make sure he's all right.
There seems to be some odd tooth opening in the thing's scaly
skin, and it's breathing through there. Then I'm distracted by
what at first seems to be a brown-gray dog, but when I look more
closely I think it's a monkey because of its face, but then I
realize it's not that either and I go to pet it. It turns away
though it lets me run my fingers through its "tail
feathers." "Wow, soft," I say, and in some almost
inaudible voice, it corrects me, "Fluffy." I'm very
intrigued by this mythical creature but it begins to head away.
Waking Connections
One of my dream guides is my childhood dog "Ruffy". This
creature was a combination of three spiritually connected photos near
my bedside.
