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The Places in My Dreams
The world within, the world of my dreams, is similar to the one I walk through every day. But it is different.
The streets bend strangely. The rooms open where they should not. The people and places are often indifferent to me, and sometimes, they are even antagonistic.
They are not merely people and places. They are representations of emotions I have not yet worked through from the previous day. Sixteen waking hours are not enough to fully grasp all that I have experienced, endured, feared, desired, regretted, or misunderstood.
And so, in the night, these things come alive.
They take on faces. They become houses, roads, crowds, locked doors, ruined landscapes, familiar rooms made unfamiliar. They guide me through the shadow lands—not always kindly, but truthfully. They show me what I could not see while awake.
My dreams are not escapes from the day.
They are the day returning in another form, asking to be understood.Some nights I find myself back in places I have never been, and yet they feel older than memory. A school that was never my school. A church with hallways that keep multiplying. A childhood home rearranged by grief. A city I know by instinct, though no map has ever held it.
#ContemplativeWriting #creativeNonfiction #daVinci #dali #dreamCity #dreamJournal #dreams #dreamscape #emotionalGeography #Escher #Fear #gothicReflection #grief #Healing #Imagination #impossibleArchitecture #innerLandscape #innerWorld #KeithLyndaker #labyrinth #longing #MentalHealth #nightVisions #ProsePoem #regret #sacredImagination #selfReflection #shadowLands #shame #SpiritualReflection #subconscious #surrealArt #surrealism #symbolicLandscape #visionaryArt
In these places, I am often trying to get somewhere.
I am late. I am lost. I am looking for someone. I am trying to explain myself to people who will not listen. I am searching for a room, a door, a vehicle, a path, a way home. Sometimes I am carrying something fragile. Sometimes I have forgotten what I was supposed to carry. Sometimes I am responsible for a task I do not understand, surrounded by people who seem to know the rules but refuse to tell me.
This is the cruelty of the dream world: everyone else seems initiated.
They move through the strange landscape as if it is ordinary. They know which hallway leads out, which road is safe, which bus to board, which door not to open. I am the stranger in a world that somehow belongs to me. I am the dreamer, and yet I am not in control.
Perhaps this is why the places feel antagonistic. They do not hate me. They are simply unwilling to flatter me. They will not pretend I am finished with what I have not faced. They will not comfort me with easy explanations. They turn my emotions into architecture and ask me to walk through them.
Fear becomes a narrow bridge.
Regret becomes a house with too many locked rooms.
Anger becomes a storm on the edge of town.
Shame becomes a crowd that sees me before I am ready to be seen.
Grief becomes a road that always returns to the same place.
And longing—longing becomes a light in a window I can never quite reach.
I wake from these dreams with the feeling that I have traveled farther than my body could have gone. I have crossed cities, fields, stairways, basements, sanctuaries, ruins, and train stations. I have spoken with the dead and avoided the living. I have been judged by strangers and ignored by friends. I have wandered through the unfinished weather of my own soul.
Then morning comes, and the ordinary world returns.
The walls are where I left them. The floor is solid. The dog needs to go out. The coffee waits. The phone glows with its small demands. The day begins again, pretending to be separate from the night.
But I know better.
The dream has left its residue. A feeling follows me, sometimes faint, sometimes heavy. A hallway from the dream lingers inside the hallway of the house. A face from the night appears behind the face of someone I know. A mood clings to the morning like fog.
The shadow lands do not vanish when I wake.
They retreat.
They wait beneath the visible world, beneath errands and conversations, beneath sermons and chores, beneath the version of myself that knows how to answer when someone asks, “How are you?”
I say, “I’m fine.”
But somewhere beneath that answer, an entire city is still burning, or flooding, or rebuilding itself in the dark. -
The Dance of Dissonance
Sometimes
#brainFog #circleOfLove #danceOfRelationship #dissonance #dock #emotionalBoundaries #emotionalReflection #empathy #GriefAndGrace #healingJourney #humanRelationships #hypervigilance #innerHealing #invisibleStrings #June2026 #labyrinth #marionette #Masks #MentalHealth #pastoralReflection #photorealisticIllustration #relationshipAnxiety #selfCompassion #SelfDoubt #SpiritualReflection #stage #surrealArt #surrealism #symbolicArt #unraveling #vulnerability
I find myself lost
at the end of
a confusing day
trying to decipher labyrinthian relations
and coming up short,
suddenly wondering
how a day I thought good
was not for another,
caught up in
opposing realities
where mine is suspect
and empathy is a struggle.
The brain fog
of past illness
has left its trailing
fingers over my head
like the cigarette smoke
of the man I see one morning standing with his back to me on the dock outside the store where I used to work
and I wonder why he is there.
I am suspicious, feeling responsible for what is no longer mine to care about, so I observe, yet remain at a distance and leave without really discovering if his presence is innocent.
Such is the dance of dissonance.
I am close enough to see your back but too far to see your face clearly,
afraid that if I look too closely I will not like what I see or that I will recognize some ugly part of me.
I want to hear
that which runs
counter to my experience
but I must be honest and say that my capacity to understand the complexities of human behavior is diminishing.
I long for circles that are completely safe,
where the people I pass on the walk home illicit in me feelings other than fear,
lust, guilt, or judgement,
all of which mirror
the overwhelming sense
of dislike
I feel from the
world, and from myself perhaps.
It is my inability to not receive everything personally, this overwhelming sadness, unprotected by my hypervigilance, where I still seem to miss what is most important, and no matter how much I try to hold everything together, I cannot keep things from unraveling.
How do I continue to remain caring and yet not take on burdens that are not mine to carry?
This then is the strange choreography of relationship, the stumbling herky-jerky movements of a marionette pulled by invisible strings, revealed in the bright lights of another angry stage.
Yet we dance.
Through the pain of revelation.
The occasional stepping on of toes.
In the percieved exposure of audience eyes.
Shedding these inadequate masks and costumes one by one.
Finding our own rhythm in the strange movings of this particular
circle of love.
Beg: June 5, 2026
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I've been gradually replacing my Jehovah's Witness library. I use the books for research, as I'm writing religious horror based on JW beliefs. I lent my books to a prof over twenty years ago and he never returned them.
Here are some of my favourite illustrations from "Revelation Its Grand Climax at Hand!"
#ExJW #Surrealism #angels #Revelation #SurrealArt #ReligiousArt
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Fragmentkirche. Beautiful church tower. But... for whom? (As always here, a real photo.)
https://lichtspiele.andreas-klingler.de/urban-geometry/Klingler_20251206_0055.jpg
#photography #surreal #madrid #church #art #surrealart #surrealphotography
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"The Star Jar"
Small-format watercolor surreal illustration with an anime-inspired aesthetic#watercolor #artwork #animeinspired #surrealillustration #surrealism #surrealart #popsurrealism #mangaart #mangaaesthtic #animeinspired #illustration #animeillustration #painting #watercolrilllustration #Londonillustrator #illustratorforhire #editorialillustration #coverillustration #artprint #wallart #animeprint #animewallart #animesticker
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"The Star Jar"
Small-format watercolor surreal illustration with an anime-inspired aesthetic#watercolor #artwork #animeinspired #surrealillustration #surrealism #surrealart #popsurrealism #mangaart #mangaaesthtic #animeinspired #illustration #animeillustration #painting #watercolrilllustration #Londonillustrator #illustratorforhire #editorialillustration #coverillustration #artprint #wallart #animeprint #animewallart #animesticker
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"The Star Jar"
Small-format watercolor surreal illustration with an anime-inspired aesthetic#watercolor #artwork #animeinspired #surrealillustration #surrealism #surrealart #popsurrealism #mangaart #mangaaesthtic #animeinspired #illustration #animeillustration #painting #watercolrilllustration #Londonillustrator #illustratorforhire #editorialillustration #coverillustration #artprint #wallart #animeprint #animewallart #animesticker
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"The Star Jar"
Small-format watercolor surreal illustration with an anime-inspired aesthetic#watercolor #artwork #animeinspired #surrealillustration #surrealism #surrealart #popsurrealism #mangaart #mangaaesthtic #animeinspired #illustration #animeillustration #painting #watercolrilllustration #Londonillustrator #illustratorforhire #editorialillustration #coverillustration #artprint #wallart #animeprint #animewallart #animesticker
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"...Anecdotal stories from across the world cite answered prayers, or encounters with the Inflorescent - a common term for those that have strayed close enough to the source of creation to become changed by it..."
AVAILABLE FOR PRINT SOON! Find me at Tucson Comic Con August 29-31 at table AA027 to nab one!
#MastoArt #CreativeToots
#tucsonartist #worldbuilding #surrealart #darksurrealism #darkfantasy #creaturedesign #OC #TucsonComicCon2025 -
"...Anecdotal stories from across the world cite answered prayers, or encounters with the Inflorescent - a common term for those that have strayed close enough to the source of creation to become changed by it..."
AVAILABLE FOR PRINT SOON! Find me at Tucson Comic Con August 29-31 at table AA027 to nab one!
#MastoArt #CreativeToots
#tucsonartist #worldbuilding #surrealart #darksurrealism #darkfantasy #creaturedesign #OC #TucsonComicCon2025 -
"...Anecdotal stories from across the world cite answered prayers, or encounters with the Inflorescent - a common term for those that have strayed close enough to the source of creation to become changed by it..."
AVAILABLE FOR PRINT SOON! Find me at Tucson Comic Con August 29-31 at table AA027 to nab one!
#MastoArt #CreativeToots
#tucsonartist #worldbuilding #surrealart #darksurrealism #darkfantasy #creaturedesign #OC #TucsonComicCon2025 -
"...Anecdotal stories from across the world cite answered prayers, or encounters with the Inflorescent - a common term for those that have strayed close enough to the source of creation to become changed by it..."
AVAILABLE FOR PRINT SOON! Find me at Tucson Comic Con August 29-31 at table AA027 to nab one!
#MastoArt #CreativeToots
#tucsonartist #worldbuilding #surrealart #darksurrealism #darkfantasy #creaturedesign #OC #TucsonComicCon2025 -
🐾✨ The Council of Cats has spoken—whimsy is in session. This purring pantheon of color and surreal charm is ready to rule your collection.
https://rafaelsalazar.com/featured/the-council-of-cats-rafael-salazar.html
#RafaelSalazar #CouncilOfCats #SurrealFelines #WhimsicalArt #CatCollector #LimitedEditionDrop #ColorfulCreatures #Caturday #fediverse #fediart #buyintoart #artmatters #art #artist #CatsOfMastodon #fedigiftshop #mastodon #mastoart #flipboard_user_group #flipboard #fineart #fineartamerica #surrealism #surrealart
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🌙⛵ "Moonlit Sailboats on Dreamlike Waters" ⛵🌊
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/171000949?ref=studio-promote🖌️ Crafted with: Photoshop + Fotor AI + Topaz Labs + ON1
🛍️ Available as: Posters • Phone Cases • Tapestries • Notebooks & more!
Bring this magical scene into your space today:✨ #DigitalArt #SailboatArt #MoonlightMagic #SurrealArt #OceanDreams #WallArt #ArtLovers #RedbubbleShop #AIArt #TranquilVibes #Waterscape #DreamyArt
@redbubble @redbubble.art @digitalartistshub -
Bidding starts at $50/$75 and increases in $10 increments. Auction ends tonight, (Tuesday, December 3 at 9 PM PST)
Like, share, and comment to spread the word! Open to US residents only.
#artistsoninstagram #artauction #arttok #artist #cottagecoreaesthetic #hippiebohodecor #art #surrealart #natureart #artforyou #spokaneartist #starbelina #portraitart #birdart #butterflyart #3dart #flowerart #cottagecoreart #bunnyart #groguart #starwarsart
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Having arrived, they left -
the waves remembered
them.#BoatRide #Photography #Monochrome #BlackandWhite #BW #MonochromeMonday #DigitalArt #Art #SurrealArt #Surrealism #MastoArt #FediArt #Mystery #Noir
#ShortPoem #Poetry
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Warning: the #FrostedFlakes #Vaccine will give you #Shringles!! This may metastasize into a #pataphor of #Sparkles. Avoid cloudless #NightSky & #TinFoil. #Absurdist #VaccineSideEffects #VaccineInjuries #Dadaist #Dada #Dadaism #digitalart #photography #AbstractArt #SurrealArt #Surrealism #Art #MastoART
