Illustrated Dreamscape

This drawing was loosely based on a dream I had. In my dream I was walking in a vast and gray desert the landscape littered with rocks and cloaked in this haze. I came to these deep pools of mud where people would come long distances to bathe in. As I waded in I was surprised at how it felt silky and warm not grainy with large particulates of dirt. I stopped when the mud came to about my collarbone only to realize it was quicksand. So I got out and as I walked on I kept finding pics of dead stuff on my clothes like fish and dragonflies. Eventually I came to the realization that the mud had some organic compound that when it comes into contact with skin makes people hallucinate. I can remember thinking that I should beware not to follow the hallucinations into the desert. Lest I find they vanish into vapor and I'm left in the middle of the desert with no way back, where the elements than take me. I looked to the horizon to find an alpine tower with fire burning at the top. The rocks that litter the landscape are transformed into statues and stone men that seem to move. Then I woke up.