Dream Monsters - Tumblr Posts

I don’t often have nightmares (in the sense of dreams that have a real feeling of terror rather than just horror imagery) but I do often see monsters in my dreams. Lately I’ve been doing watercolour sketches of some of the ones I remember. In related news, I think I’ve finally got the hang of wet-on-wet watercolour painting. (The pictures have captions if you like flavour text.)

Two more dream sketches which I thought were scary enough to go in the monster set. These two were from the same dream. The ‘baby’ was found wrapped in newspaper, and you had to stay out of the searchlights. (previous 6 monsters)

A few months ago I posted some monsters from various dreams, and people on twitter seemed to really like them so I promised more whenever I next dreamed any. I rarely remember my dreams so it took a while, but here are two which finally turned up. The woman appeared in between waking and sleeping, she shook her head, 'no'. There was something wrong with the man in the old shack.

If you breathed in the gas you turned into one. They were all people once.

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More dream monsters! This collection is starting to reach a decent size, I think these are numbers 11 and 12. I dreamed these quite a while ago, but only recently had time to paint them.

I sent one to my friend Sammy and she didn’t appreciate it.

Sammy: :S why are you drawing body horror during a pandemic?

Sarah: because I had the day off work I guess

People she touches crumble into dust. If you stay perfectly still, she won’t consider you a threat and may pass you by.

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Another dream monster! I’m starting to think that if I collect these into a book I’ll add some more illustrations showing how they behaved. There was a point in this dream when she was only millimetres away from somebody’s face, and they just had to stand completely still and wait to see if she killed them or not.