I'm a psychic circus animal who's just managed to teleport my humanoid girlfriend. It's for our act, but...
CAUTION: PETTING
An avian friend of mine researches a whirlpool. But it doesn't want to be studied, and it has friends too...
Phyllis Schlafly, killer of the Equal Rights Amendment, provokes a dream of being Captain Kirk
trapped in a magic school with no way out but the graduate exam. Can I learn the lesson of the tree?
CAUTION: POLITICAL JOURNALISM BEFORE THE DREAM. OH NO!
Humanity in the future desperately needs the magic words from the past to free them. But... "pickle?"
The Christian God vs Mahakala, Buddhist god of right anger! War in Middle Earth, as Pink Floyd sings...
I dreamed I slowly climbed out of guilty longing to an exciting climax on the Escalator of Love...
CAUTION: CARTOON SEX, NUDITY, GENDER POLITICS
A bear-girl seduced by her coyote professor gets a
little advice on revenge from her anthropologist mom...
Since I dream I'm an animal a lot (or I'm an animal that wakes to find it's human a lot) hands fascinate me...
I'm a fight promoter. But my biggest deal ever is growing out of my control.
Mammoth versus Rex, sure. But now it's a four-way bout--schoolbus, whale...
CAUTION: CRASS ACT
A fan's in love with Michael Stipe of R.E.M. I see no hope for him, since his idol's straight...
The image got lost, but the words survived, so here's the poetic saga of an ant that left th' farm...
I'm just an ordinary guy, who beats his son so he'll grow faster, and sees tits on drinking fountains...
A volcano erupts in San Francisco! No human could survive the blast, but one researcher does--what IS he?
At the end of my long, tiresome tour of Hell, it's feeding time in the cage of the Manson cult...
CAUTION: SO MEAT REALLY IS MURDER!
Manta Moths pick us off us explorers... or do they? An old scroll spoke of fear leading to transformation...
A gang of humans try to rob me of what makes me able to fly... my marbles? I musn't lose my marbles!
An un-jealous wind lifts me above the San Francisco hills, so I can hunt for my love: the Muse...
After finding marine geologists in my chocolate pudding, I'd rather be a Frenchman and insult my wife...
CAUTION: DECADENCE
On a downtown street, a classmate is singing for change. I can't resist seeing if I can distract her...
CAUTION: THEY'RE BOTH EXHIBITIONISTS
My sister Althea sets herself up as the judge of whether I can go to a wedding...
The starship Enterprise. A world ahead sends the Captain and the Nurse odd psychic urges. Follow or resist?
On Old Mars, before it died, two rival families' teasing finally goes too far, despite the whale's warning...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I'm a small boy in a ship docking in Mars Orbital Station. I meet a strange man: myself as an adult! Uh-oh...
I'm a unicorn in a life-drawing class, feeling more naked than the model...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
Sit on a bench and massage a total stranger. But soon it's not just a massage: a MESSAGE...
CAUTION: SEX
To enter the House of Dusk, I must say what haunts the Pass. Even if I guess right, do I really understand?
I'm Hitler's girlfriend. Not Eva Braun, just me--gentle, weak, thrown in among killers. What can I do?
A TV crew invades the house, setting up for a special. I didn't expect to see a president on the work crew...
An early piece about Matisse, and his models, and quilting, and disembodied heads...
An elegy to a great paper-cutter, and three (or was it four?) sado-humorists who still scare me a little...
An older woman I know nags me about food. Suddenly my mind flips our genders and weights...
Beverly Cleary's Ramona is a popular teen, but she's having a nervous breakdown. And her best friend...
CAUTION: STUDENT-TEACHER AFFAIR
First, sf writer Heinlein advocates a strong army; then I see one in action--turned against the people...
Meditation's hard for me; I expect to turn on instantly, like a lamp plugged into Enlightenment...
In a Mormon future, my baby climbs a tree and spontaneously disintegrates! I try repotting, but...
CAUTION: BAD PARENTING
A park in San Francisco has melted into a bizarre mutation-zone. Its guardian is a lonely elf-woman...
CAUTION: ELF NUDITY
They were swimming in the glowing, molten pool of the Melting Pot, and beckoned me to join them...
CAUTION: SUICIDE SOUP?
My friend Mark does something I thought impossible: removes a snippet of my memory. Disastrous!
CAUTION: VIOLENCE... SORT OF
I was a young dream-artist out of place in the Silicon Valley...
As a kid I was haunted by the parallels between Menolly of Pern and me...
Mercury didn't spin! One side fire, one side ice. We farmed in domes, between--until the sun brightened...
CAUTION: RETRO SCIENCE
A mermaid friend invites me to see an underwater experiment in the Golden Gate...
CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS
At Sea-Dragon State Park, I climbed down to the sea serpent's dressing room after the show, and found...
CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS
I was a mermaid summoning a great storm to carry my love to me--and my love was a red sea-mare...
I rescue some drowning kids by turning into a mermaid, but towing one girl has an unexpected effect...
Four versions of an underwater meeting between lovers, one terrestrial, one marine...
CAUTION: ORAL SEX
Just a witchmas card spreading love and paganism to all, and to all a good night...
A mad experiment one night in Micrography, with a midnight rant for scripture and my girlfriend for God...
CAUTION: BLASPHEMY OF SOME KIND OR OTHER
I'm in a tribe of post-Crash kids with psychic powers, trying to keep nukes from rising again...
CAUTION: CHILD SOLDIERS
I'm cold and dark and disoriented! What am I doing wrong? Nothing--I'm just halfway to Alpha Centauri...
I'm a shaggy primitive whose tribe's outgrown our caves. We migrate, and meet two new species of people...
Unfortunately, this is not a dream at all...
I'm in what seems to be a village of very conservative Muslims. But they're really alien castaways...
Deep in a secret diamond mine, I see stars. A door opening to the night sky!
But this shortcut's heavily guarded...
Our cowboy posse tracks a fugitive to a strange amethyst mine, where we're offered peculiar jobs...
A man goes in for minor surgery and wakes up changed. I feel creepy, but for all the wrong reasons...
Strange oaths are proposed for the first expedition to the Uranian moon Miranda...
God offers gifts to pilgrims, so my sister enters his door. Fierce light shoots out...
I'm a ghost dwarf in love with a Lady trapped in a magic Arabian castle. But our love is being used...
CAUTION: SEX, BETRAYAL, SACRILEGE
I'm Mattie, a pregnant girl on a Lewis and Clark expedition. I miscarry, and they tell me...
From the punk clubs of Frisco to the Safeways of Si Valley to the vermilion sands of Mars,
Silky the were-nightmare fights for the Misfits against every cliche in science fiction...
A ritual in a future society makes me laugh. I tease a futurian, insist it's really a old Miwok rite...
I was an avian Mr Niceguy with sore knees, till I got some advice from my supposedly extinct big brother...
I find a 3D program that shows your true self, the self that can love, IS love. And my wireframe is...
My dad's new wife is a collie. Naturally, she wants a prosthetic arm. But she has no site to bind it to...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, LEERING BUSINESSMAN, DOG WIFE
Slightly based on a print in our bathroom when I was growing up--Picasso or Mary Cassatt?
Many kids anxiously dream their parents aren't their real parents. I dreamed my parents ATE my real parents...
CAUTION: HUNGRY MONSTERS
My mom confesses to a killing, says tearfully she had to do it--but her reasons make no sense. When I wake..
I sympathize with visionaries whose gift is so urgent and extreme, most would call it illness...
If you sense auras, every singles event feels like a scene from Halloween Hell...
CAUTION: HORNY MONSTERS
Everyone has a personal moon. At first, mine disappointed me, till a bard dumped his trash on it, and...
Near a mysterious sculpture garden on the moon, lives the blind, bike-riding sage I seek: Moon-Cat...
I made a cold moon of burnished metal, rusted and scraped. But then this warm mare reared...
A cannibal friend of mine is shocked at our burial customs, and argues his case in court using crabs...
We hippies won, but now we're backward and isolated; it's time we joined the rest of our alternate Earth...
Robert Coles wrote a book on kids' moral sense, but his examples don't tell me what they tell him...
A dream explaining why everyone with any moral vision gets filtered out of politics now...
A creepy visit to the Leather Nuns: as fierce as Beorn in The Hobbit, but less hospitable...
The bud she sits on is the moon...
The Agile Beasts build traps to catch Moth Monsters, but Moths may build traps for Beasts...
I wake & wonder--could the theater group where I feel subtly unwelcome be the trap?
I'm a mouse with a protest banner saying "FREEDOM!", having a slight argument with a cat...
I meet my own mistrust: an angel who can't trust ME! So she turns me into a football-playing ant...
I argue to a friend that Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Capitalism are more alike than they admit...
I'm John Muir reborn on Mars, supporting Mars First against tree-cutters, who poison their enemies...
I have all the signs of multiple personality but memory gaps. Here are the ones I've met and been in dreams.
But you all forget your dreams. Don't be too sure you're so unitary...
CAUTION: BACKGROUND SEX
A girl and two cybersnakes are clever but murderous. But
when apart, they're not mean at all! Not sin--synergy...
Inside my brain's a fractured legislature--a hive-mind where da beez disagreez...
A sea-scape somewhat in the style of Edvard Munch: midnight-sun madness with a hint of suicide...
Nearly everyone in my family dreams of a mass murder as it happens nearby. But my dad's sure it's his own
evil id, and my mom clams up, and my sister forgets. And me? I doubt the whole thing for ten years, until...
CAUTION: NIGHTMARE VIOLENCE
The smog of Portland is so bad it hides the dream-towers! Only one thing will heal it: making music...
I help a mutant boy find others like him, and learn why some prayers are ungrantable...
I love a cute vampire. She's willing to go on a diet. Even so, do I have enough blood to spare?
I'm abducted by scaly alien mercenaries. But halfway to their ship, we get stuck. As we
wait and talk, I find I like them. The problem's their boss--a rich, spoiled human...
At last, I get shown in the museum! Sort of. Homeless people sell my art from carts in the lobby. Stolen!...
I dreamed I was trapped in the maze of my pacifist vegetarian feminist anarchist eco-conscience...
A woman with two teenagers breaks in and says she's my ex-wife and they're my kids.
I'm in my twenties; I CAN'T have teenage kids. And I have no ex-wife! Just my girlfriend Cassandra.
Forty years later it all makes sense. It's not about me then, but John now...
CAUTION: ADULT THEMES--TRULY STUPID ADULT THEMES. E.S.P., TOO.
I always thought I saw differently than others, but when someone builds the Goggles...
The full moon rises: I become Weregirl, do the Moondance, and gnaw open the lock on my heart...
CAUTION: MOONING
Advice from a successful writer of worstsellers to all you aspiring failures: unfame has its price...
I dream the real issue in your life isn't the one you complain about most, but the one you hide...
I'm a Romantic poet who defeats the curse of the fountain, to marry; but when our daughter's grown,
a new curse strikes me mute, paralyzed. And I mistake this for old age!
Then, in real life, my dad wakes up from a nap paralyzed...
How exactly did I acquire a mother-in-law snooping on my phone calls, when I don't have a wife?
A conversation with a telepathic unicorn-lion reveals that my true name is Wayan. And my species?...
It takes time to build yourself out of found objects and trash...
A teen awards me prizes for art and writing. I wake to see her on TV--a gymnast after a prize herself...
An animal-girl I know lives like a sine-wave, first forward in time, then backwards, dying at every zero...
I'm a wildcat in a cat/fox team led by a woman who wants us to merge with a man/wolf team...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
Okay, you got your heaven, and your earth, and between, you got...
CAUTION: MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE
I love a Naiad who's lost her God. Tragedy strikes us. I'm devastated till I meet the aliens who explain...
In a psychodrama scene, I try to stop a furious guy from hitting an exhibitionist girl. But I'm bleeding...
I'm at the beach, seeing it through English linguistic filters. Or do I? Is there a language under language?
It's not nice to outline things that don't want to have outlines...
A museum sketch of Navaho horses who got me hot--teaching
teenage me that my sexual orientation wasn't (only) human...
Mythic creatures round a woodland pool want to heal a businessman. Do too many cooks spoil the soup?
At a family picnic, my sisters and I fish for scholarships and grants. They put down my art, my website...
ESP is like having neutrino detectors for eyes: what radiates from people's cores blinds you to their surfaces...
A poem linking the dawn of digital art to early, tinny phonographs, cranky film cameras...
CAUTION: IDEAS
I'm attacked by a narcissist firebird, a rabid rattler-manticore, a masochist bear, and a sexless succubus...
CAUTION: INEPT DEMONS
I dreamed I was a feral mare: gentle, affectionate, sensual, but gone wild, wary of being tamed again...
I meet a Nightmare in heat who wants me. A human girl by me says I'll catch an equine sex-disease...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
Festival night in a strange town, where, one night a year, dancing in the street transforms you into...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
Like a lot of playful beasts, I like a friendly nip in the evening...
A dream girl with a giant ski-jump nose turns out to be less symbolic than expected...
After a class in nonverbal communication, I meet
Richard Nixon under embarrassing circumstances...
My first memory is of being a wild horse, and waking up to find I was now a human child.
Franz Marc's "Blue Rider" paintings felt like my dreams; but as I learned of his life...
My therapist has no fingers. A fingerless man intrudes on my session, and they use up my hour talking...
I dreamed a black mare was howling "Nohor!" At first I thought she meant "I'm not just a horse", but...
CAUTION: SEXUAL ISSUES
I'm in San Francisco trying to throw Sauron's Ring into the Cracks of San Andreas.
But a sexy sorcerer steals my sense of I! How can you act without a self?
No Man is Island. So Men say. I am not a Man...
I always thought learning no one's out to get me would be a
good thing. But No One turns out to be a deadly opponent...
Before I was born, I set up this life to learn loneliness, boredom and fear. Good move, soul! No vacations?
I fall in love with my sculpture of a mythical Southeast Asian creature. Then a mad yogi breaks in...
CAUTION: SEX, TANTRA, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS
Down at the tideline, a man dressed in seaweed disproves John Donne's adage...
A vast galactic fleet hovers around Earth, demanding Rain. Whaaat?
I fight an alien leader, and find out what their long drought has been...
CAUTION: UFO SEX
What if your mind doesn't think it's yours? What if it's not so sure you're even a person?
I dream I don't love my girlfriend, I just confuse non-abusive treatment with love....
I'm Tarzan, fighting off attackers. But I kill one helpless prisoner! Am I going too far?
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I was wrong. I didn't survive three assassins. It's been seven! Why'd I forget the others?
On New Year's Eve, I dream my college no longer welcomes me.
New Year's Day, I wake to find it's true...
It's hard being even mildly multiple. Here three of my least compatible personalities line up and...
DREAM: a 1950s newsreel shows J. Edgar Hoover, founder of the FBI, staged a coup.
So his enemies dropped a tactical nuke on his HQ, killing hundreds in the street...
NEXT DAY: TV news shows clips from The Day After. My nightmare newsreel...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND POSSIBLE ESP
My lover's half-mechanical cunt wakes fully--a first. But what inspired my dream wasn't sexual at all...
CAUTION: SEXUAL SYMBOLISM
I move hundreds of miles away to escape my family's psychic broadcasts. Pathetic, but... does it work?
After seeing an Einstein biography I find myself in the bathrooms of Thought-Experiment High, and...
CAUTION: DARK SIDE OF AN ICON
I'm a stratospheric bat who finds a flying swastika. Is it creeping fascism?
Or a Hindu blessing? Neither! It's an Octopian frisbee. I return it...
I rise in animal form, and fly to a world as coherent as this one, guided by a greenhaired girl...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I see two Ohlone women around 1900, starving, naked, despised, their land stolen--and still way happier than...
CAUTION: NUDITY
On the street called Old And In The Way, I meet a psychic I crushed on as a kid,
and then, in a hearth, fight the tentacled alien who's been stalking me...
The Goddess gave birth in my workplace. Her fever-dreams become real around us...
CAUTION: BIRTH SCENE, LIBRARIANS' ORGY
A Hollywood sex goddess confronts the Ingenue who's supplanting her. Just how far will she go?
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
A sexy gene-sculpted singer (an ex-cow on her 4th body) solves the riddle that's stumping Mr Spock...
A child of radicals goes wild in Rio. When we bail her out, we find she's had a strange enlightenment...
CAUTION: UNSAFE SEX
Sexy dreams of Chinese archeology, authorized by the fairies, make me face that my family abused me...
Kate Wolf sings that ads are way dirtier than porn. But my memory slowly twists her message...
The poet e.e. cummings drew a book of astral fairytales with watercolors that felt a bit like my dreams...
Why don't I push for more art shows? I asked how I feel at shows of my own work, and this came out...
I'm a therapist with a client diagnosed paranoid--but are his doctors racist? He's not just black, but scaly...
When I was battered, I briefly lived on the streets. What struck me was how fragile most of us were...
CAUTION: BRIEF BUT GRIM
I'm trying to get a moontan when my mom appears.
My astral body starts orbiting her like a moon. Uh-oh...
A wild flying dream lands me among feral children fighting to live in a glass conservatory of lost flowers...
I show an Ohio friend the latest California sport. But
we haven't quite worked out how to land just yet...
I want to join the inner circle of America's political elite.
But to do that I have to survive the Ordeal by Infrastructure...
While conducting a census of fairies in Golden Gate Park, I fall in love
with an abused oriole-girl, and we try to heal one another...
CAUTION: AWKWARD SEX
Krishna, Orpheus, Kokopelli...why are the mythic musicians all guys? Where's Orphea's head?
I meet my true love during a coup. We go through Hell together, like Orpheus and Eurydice--only we...
I'm scared to show my dream-paintings to my art class. That night I find an large otter in my bed...
CAUTION: SEX
A doomed, orphaned ottercub meets the last Tasmanian Wolf, who makes a hard choice I couldn't. Or... did I?
CAUTION: BIRTH SCENE (MARSUPIAL/NON-GORY)
My uncle mocks the racehorse he rides! Smears lipstick on this stallion, calls him a wimp... Why?
CAUTION: DREAM PUN, NUDE MARES
As new political outrages flow forth, I feel like a horse wary of a sweet-talking human, and I think...
I force the governor's chief aide to tour the new prisons for us artists, fags, and niggers.
He's appalled--but how many more noses must I rub in the governor's racism?
CAUTION: THE N-WORD
Our Lady of the Yoyo plays with our yin-yang world, trying to keep the spin going on each bounce...
I'm a girl in a Catholic school. But a magazine and my too-small bed combine to change my life...
CAUTION: MASTURBATION, QUEER-POSITIVE, CHRISTIAN-NEGATIVE
Now the Evil Empire's dead. We're all safe, safe at last. And all the bombs are gone... right?
Mom's vanished, and our writer/bohemian dad's caring for us
alone now. But he's barely coping. And he's me...
An alien woman makes a mess of our economy, ecology, world--but insists she wants to be my friend...
A giant luminous guardian owl baffles and intimidates me
but after seeing a play next evening, it makes more sense...
My dreams mix sex with warmth, grief, even silliness, but what's with the owls? Bewildering...
CAUTION: WEIRD ORGY
At the time I didn't even notice the pun...
West of Seattle, near Lake Ozette, a mudslide buried a whole Makah Indian village centuries ago...
Dream-journal pages, Tarot's four Page cards, getting paged,and
a girl named Page--all warn me I lie to myself about what I want...
Three men torture my friend (or is he ME?) and try to keep me from intervening...
CAUTION: FAST-TALKING BULLIES
Two child artists mail themselves to me in their paint kit, and
start a painting orgy that gets messy in more ways than one...
CAUTION: PEDOPHILIA, OR MAYBE PEDOPHOBIA
I pray for love and promptly meet Blue, whose mom treats her like a kid. We change that, but it's messy...
I hang my artshow, but cut my palm. So I dream of a palm tree whose only problem is the road it's by...
Plato never did say what shed the light that cast those shadows on his cave wall. I find out.
CAUTION: CUT-RATE APOCALYPSE
A hypnotist elicits a personality inside me who says he obliges my paranoia by giving me weird luck...
Painted to that country song by Leonard Cohen, where Adam, Jesus, Washington, and FDR
all get interviewed in their darkest moments, and they all sing "We're only passin' thru..."
I bike deep into Time Hall, barging through security gates of amnesia, to climb the midden of the past...
I'm biking around a railroad switch-yard. Slowly realize
they're life-paths. People start following me out...
I always liked the little creatures in picture-poet Kenneth Patchen's wild collage-pages...
My art teacher said "Draw a spiritual experience." I tried, but that night, I dreamed of sharp-toothed...
CAUTION: TOPLESS MEDITATORS
On my bad days, as I'm shackled to the wall of my illness or shyness...
A grassy hill in a previous drawing of mine suddenly looked like Big Hair, so I tried to grow a body that fit that 'do...
A naked angel came and perched on a rock, pointing at a vista that seemed both alpine and undersea...
This strong slender mare is how most of my flying dreamhorses look: a practical lot, they know...
I was a ballerina in blue who learned to fly; and I met a centauress who loved dance too. The dancers fused...
My life is a mess, so I take a class on the four flavors of chaos, and find my Strange Attractors are shifting...
Monet is over 100 now, living in an art colony. I visit him, but my parents come along. Bad idea...
I work the info desk in a futuristic library. But one question leads me into a DNA-helix, a tornado of doubt...
I put a singles ad in our paper, but I just couldn't say what I really wanted to. Now, I can...
CAUTION: SEX, DRUGS, AND DOGGEREL
I meet Peter Pan grown up: a stark, fey prince in exile. Why do only I see him and the Lost Children? Oh.
Sexual beauty scares me--how I'm affected--how vulnerable I am. An irresistable pheromone...
CAUTION: SEXUAL THEME
My sister and her friend the snake-woman tell me the facts of life: the golden hooks, the piglets...
CAUTION: UNRELIABLE GYNECOLOGY
I worked at Stanford too long. I got tired of observing the mating displays of the purple-prose patriarch..
CAUTION: NUDE ACADEMIC GROUPIE
Love that hair, girl. A very seventies bar-monster...
A wizard into spots and dots invites me into his beach house, hungry for advice on his peculiar fears...
My detective lover warned me, "Stay away!" Now I'm trapped. Dare I follow the lion over the edge?
A hog is tied so it bounces in a fountain, and at the bottom
of each bounce, a fork jabs it! How to free this yoyo pig?
CAUTION: PAIN
I'm peeking at Pike's Peak with Gregory Peck, as we seek my dream-journals in the Hawaiian jungles...
CAUTION: STUPID PSYCHIC PUNS
I suspect the pinball champion of Jupiter is cheating. I try to scare her psychic confederate out of hiding...
A misty day in San Francisco's Presidio, where migrant pegasii graze on pine-tips and shadow witches nest...
I love the Twins. They love intrigue. So when a hired crocodile sabotages our Egyptian treasure-hunt...
CAUTION: BAD GIRLS
I desperately need to pee, but my bladder's full of two kinds of emotional trauma, and each blocks the other!
CAUTION: BATHROOM PSYCHOLOGY
After weeks of headaches I dream of a fatal, mosquito-borne plague.
Humanity looks doomed till my friends devise a folk remedy...
I'm the first man on Planet Cat, falling in love with my guide. And then I'm the Cat, falling for an alien ape...
CAUTION: NUDE CAT
An itchy patient of mine insists he's turning into a four-
headed, man-eating plesiosaur. He left one thing out...
A quarrel between psychic adepts heats up to a war,
thawing Pluto. What will the ice-tribes wish for?
Emotionless pod-people surround the last free humans. I fight for humanity, but I'm not human or pod--I'm...
I summon an aeroplane to escape a trap. Lucid? Not at all! Why should Poirot bother with such abstractions?
Poison takes many forms, from attitudes to environmental by-products to actions done deliberately...
I'm authorized to play high-stakes poker with a scary-looking but rather nice demon...
Cultists must wear a burqa and confess their sins daily. So why's their beach such a pickup scene?
CAUTION: NUDITY UNDER FISHNETS
My lover's turned into a tiny living pull-toy, trapped ankle-deep in a wheeled platform. Can I free her?
I'm a Martian revolutionary, making the glaciers grow. The equator's still dry, but change is coming...
A living camera edits us all: the dappled hawk-man, the slutty candidate, the blue businessmen
who give such bad advice when you pull the thorns from their feet. And my sweet sad hell-hound...
My friend the Polygamous Pilot is up in an ice-storm, hanging powerlines on the sky, when...
The child who runs with wild horses finds the secret spy-room of dreams! But no one's watching...
My body turns protean: big Popeye muscles pop out as needed, relaxing into stick-figureness...
Among the family portraits in the hall of my ancestors was this one of a formidable old... woman, I guess.
Refugees flood the spirit worlds! War looms. Wolf, Silky, Dr Who, even the Bug-Goddess of Love are alarmed.
I'm just a blonde ditz, but I help inspect realities till we trace the source: a Tlingit potlatch! Why?
DREAM: our car's been acting funny. Turns out it's a severe electrical drain.
NEXT DAY: my housemate discovers what's been making our car act funny...
After studying assertion in dreams, I find I'm a shaman in an African village, troubled by a young rival...
Captain Kirk (Starfleet, retired) saves us all from terrorists at a powerplant, but he forgot something...
Three teasing sex-dreamlets chipping away at my shyness with women I like...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
I don't know what this scene is about--but it's not a dream. A stage, I think. Something from childhood.
CAUTION: BARE BEAR
Be a web junkie. Instead of driving around in a gas-hog, you'll save the planet by staying in, passive...
CAUTION: NUDITY; MOCKS GOD, CARS, AND WEB-PORN--IS NOTHING SACRED?
I'm riding a train through a tunnel in Marin full of symbolism. I wake, interpret it all, and open the paper...
I'm pregnant with the Antichrist. This is going to ruin my vacation! Why do I think this is all about money?
My best friend and I are shapeshifters; I seduce him, just so my daughter Krytha can be born...
CAUTION: MAMMALIAN NUDITY, PHEROMONAL SEDUCTION, RECKLESS PREGNANCY
A bunch of primitives try to trick their way into the Federation, slipping around the Prime Directive...
Led by a rebel demon into the heart of a Chinese mountain, should I wake the Sleepers in the Cave?
The Pope spears our Inuit captain and the Mystic, who turns solitary--a prisoner of Zen. Can I free him?
A scholar on Middle Earth warns our obsession with public transparency keeps our psychology crude...
We sail to the Isle of the Blest, but God exiles me to Fargo, North Dakota. But God's up to something subtle...
I suspect we child prodigies and geniuses are as unlike the gifted as normal people. So here's a checklist...
CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED
Child prodigies may develop allergies due to immunosystem damage from too much testosterone in utero...
News of a child prodigy who was given the support I wasn't, triggers a flood of envy and bitterness...
My sister hears a prowler. I go out blind in the dark, and learn she's right. But what a strange intruder!
I'm an ambassador from the Milky Way to the energy-beings
who rule the Magellanic Clouds. Or am really just their pet?
My sister's avoiding our nosy parents, but I sense they'll run into her soon. I just didn't know HOW soon...
I'm shown a crystal egg with a model of my mind in it. The mapping is unmistakable. How embarrassing!:
The size of ancient flying creatures implies that Earth may lose more atmosphere over time than we think...
I'm swept off sea-rocks, as my scaly guardian watches calmly--letting me drown in the tears I shed...
CAUTION: DROWNING
One by one, we're pulled under the water, the earth... eaten. That's the fate of all flesh. And we're flesh.
CAUTION: HORROR
A detective talks all his suspects into suicide. But they still bury me in wood pulp and beat me to death...
CAUTION: BAD POLICE PROCEDURE
I dreamed I had to go through the Animal Orgy to get to the City of the Shining Spirits on the horizon...
CAUTION: STRANGE SEX
Am I a punk dyke or a shy ballerina? Both! And they're complementary facets. Underwear never lies...
A tangle of time travel, as two shapeshifters meet and fight and love over the centuries...
I dreamed our family's black cat Persephone had to make a life-decision...
One of my earliest drawings, of a quiet crowd of melancholy ghosts...
Protestors occupy the Transamerica Pyramid and install a cow as CEO... a Cash Cow?
We drive into a zone of perpetual night to see Sweet Melinda, but veins of light burst
across the landscape, and our time-path splits! I'm living two lives at once...
Day: Why did I get sick from figure-sketching? Guilt?
Dream: I'm at a group wedding; shall I wed a dwarf, a feral boy or a horse?
Quail, spelunking again, finds ancient cave paintings of the Cult of the Fossil TV...
I asked "I'm still scared to date anyone. Why? What's my next step?" That night, I was answered...
CAUTION: SEXUAL IMPLICATIONS
I'm working alone in the lab at night, when the lab gear wakes up and tries to kill me...
I'm a telepathic rabbit defending our world from space-laser attack. We do, but do we modernize too much?
CAUTION: IDEAS
A precognitive dream about levitating snake girls, raccoons, and lunar eclipses.
CAUTION: MY SNAKE BREASTS
Suddenly I hate and fear black kids in school! The counselor says I'm clinically paranoid: I need drugs!
My dad says "How strange, how sad." And goes home to light a candle at his shrine to the Confederacy...
CAUTION: INDUCED RACISM
Radar O'Reilly's teddy bear is stolen. He builds spy-planes to find it. One morning the camp wakes to find...
The rest of us heavenly bodies have each other, but from the Sun's viewpoint, we're just rubble. Alone...
Women rain out of the sky. People shrug "Suicides." I don't believe it--and what if one falls on me?
CAUTION: SEXIST BLINDNESS TO VIOLENCE
In our steamy future, after the cities drown, I'm hiking through Rainbow Tunnel, when I meet a holy man...
Why wait for the Rapture when you can use a chinup machine and raise yourself off that cross?...
CAUTION: NUDE PSEUDO-CRUCIFIXION, SACRILEGIOUS SELF-HELP
A Borges story of a were-tigress provokes a dream of a ranch
crawling with weird were-women. Weird, but I LIKE them...
CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
I was just sitting, minding my own business, when these
golden wedge-birds and a tiny flying white mare divebombed me...
My sister hoists us up to the Goddess's country too early, or too late: the ice is thawing, treacherous...
My parents invite me out to dinner, but there's a rattlesnake under the table,
and my mom chases it up my leg. I wake to find two holes in my knee...
My girlfriend Raven dreams I keep poking her awake,
while I dream that a giant raven gives me weird advice...
In a church-tent, I find glowing pictures of mine I've never seen awake. One's half-done; I work on it.
I wake, and read how Jung, in a Ravenna church, saw luminous images he later learned burned centuries ago!
CAUTION: NUDE STAINED GLASS
20,000 years from now, a deer-harpist named Razi finds the Holy Wino's not quite the ruin he seems...
CAUTION: BAD PENGUINS, DEER NUDITY, RUDE DRUNK
A man slowly walled in by neighbors till he died, is now a mad, murderous ghost.
And he's me! Can I exorcise MYSELF?
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
How do we make dream narratives readable, when so many
readers are brainwashed to think they're nonsense?
My dream shows me how one world can be a fiction within another that's a fiction within the first!
Dreams aren't simulations but windows into worlds. So be nice to dream-figures! Turns out you ARE one...
You're looking down on a landscape at something red, scalloped and twisty. A barrier or a path to follow?
I'm not a normal wolf: I'm a were-woman. When I turn wolf again, I'm in heat; but I want to be alone! So...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
The moon's a sailing ship propelled not by wind but light: the light of night-movies. Dreams...
Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love.
Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace?
CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL
An insecure girl who looks like my anima is rehearsing a controversial love scene with an alien wolf...
Reindeer linked by their heads--curiously analogous to language, or culture, or the Web, isn't it...
I'm an abused girl turning tricks to survive. But this is San Francisco: I join a prostitutes' co-op, and meet...
CAUTION: PROSTITUTES WITH SELF-RESPECT, OH NO!
A refugee girl crawls into my bed. We become lovers. I protect her. But over time... am I holding her back?
CAUTION: ABUSE? OR NOT?
The mysterious glyphs above the model's head are dream-language, warning me to...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Biking, I find myself chanting a dinosaur name--Rhamphorhynchus. I don't even know what kind it is.
At home I open a novel, and a Rhamphorhynchus appears, politely defined for me by our obliging universe...
CAUTION: E.S.P.?
My sister and I played games based on the Rhine Institute's ESP studies. Our scores were not random...
After seeing 150 years of family photos, I dream of being teased by time-traveling cheerleaders, and...
I dreamed I met a wealthy werewolf. My parents were leftists and told me the rich are wicked--but...
CAUTION: INDECENT T-SHIRT, INDECENT WEREWOLF
A rich serial killer in a sports car flaunts his virtual immunity, till I go after him in a light plane...
I'm single and feeling shy. So I asked my dreams for an image of my true love, and got...
CAUTION: SEX
I'm not ambivalent--I'm confused! I live here by the Rift Zone and I don't. I'm single and not. Two lives!...
Widely held notions manifest easier. I could forge Sauron's Ring, and it'd really work! But do I want to?...
Earth has rainbow rings. They're braided like Saturn's, so their shadows create tinted microclimates...
One day, in the ruins of an American city whose name was lost, I met a Ringman under an oak...
CAUTION: GROSS WORK, IF YOU CAN GET IT
I'm in the park, feeling sad, till a girl on the lawn near me semaphores a message via rings and turquoise...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. A girl in my
tour group jumps ship: she dreads the white water of rocky relationships ahead...
CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS...
A dream of innocent incest turns guilty, growing to a war of ghosts versus a cult of sexy but dishonest psychics...
CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES, NIGHTMARE
The white road is my life history, told in women: friends, lovers, relatives, ancestors--and one past life...
They were both beauties and look rather feline to me--I'm drawn to feline beauties still, and wonder...
CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES
Friends, and lovers, and some who got away. And the big question mark in the future...
"Go back! Wrong way!" says the sign--not because the past is dead, because it isn't...
CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES
The Rem Road I climb every night, from flesh to spirit, earth to sky. Though tonight, all these
wounded skateboarders worry me! And my own bruises say I overdid it in contact improv today...
Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism,
blind to kindness--or is he just reporting Big Sur's true, mean spirit(s)?
CAUTION: LITERARY AND MYSTICAL
I'm a robot in high school. I have my first dream, but I'm deaf to its message cuz it's not spectacular...
Floating in my parents' house, I get trapped in free-fall! How can I get a grip? (Nothing symbolic here!)
A proud angry picture-poem during a hard time, when great gifts flowed through my hands...
A friend's tragic accident confines him to disco roller skates for life! Worse yet, he's in a Rocky Relationship...
CAUTION: "ROCKY HORROR" REFS, SEX
The mayor declares war on bikers, blames us for gridlock! I dream of Rosa Parks' influence and realize...
We're swallowed by Swamp Sofas and enslaved to The Man Who Prays on Us. Time to grow some thorns!
A psychedelic study of Henri Rousseau's painting of a flutist in the jungle,
revealing how I really see the world...
My mom and sister take me to see a bondage film. But the movie steals my pants! I should have known...
CAUTION: WORSE THAN PEEWEE HERMAN
I dreamed of a woman whose jeep stalls on the Antarctic ice. Along comes the ghost of a Volkswagen...
I just wanted to imagine getting licked by a nice friendly escapist dog on a nice shaggy rug, but...
CAUTION: BESTIALITY! SEX! METAPHYSICAL DOUBTS!
The Inner Theater. I'm duelling someone who keeps changing the rules. But so can I... can we make a deal?
I couldn't make it to Spain to see the Running of the Bulls, so I found an American equivalent...
A Japanese high school athlete has no friends, till she starts meeting animal spirits on her long solo runs...