I'm autistic; a TV host encourages me and another autistic kid to have sex on the air...
CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX ON NATIONAL TV; SERIOUS FINGER-POINTING
DAY: on the radio Carl Sagan calls those who've experienced ESP or UFOs "proto-fascists"...
DREAM: a flying pewter teapot orbits a round blue vase--like a starship round the Earth...
NEXT WEEK: My mom calls. She's selling that pewter pot after a century in the family...
CAUTION: DISSES SAGAN
The unemployed angel with her resume is the Goddess of Freedom...
Our starship signs up a strange new woman whose quirks turn out to be fallout from slavery...
CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES
I didn't know myself what this was about, till I had to write this note--and suddenly I got it...
A feral mare will only let me ride her if I quit being
a Japanese diplomat and become... a Samurai!
In San Diego, I fly around disrupting the UFO games in the junkyard,
till I reconnect with a centaur friend
At the beach, I meet some gregarious desert-world aliens who think loners are insane...
I wake up with my head swollen, full of vivid bewildering experiences, without a clue...
A hard-hitting rap on Satan's dumbest disguise. Yet he's gotten away with it! The shocking truth...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE! SACRILEGE! MUCILAGE! (FOR THE BIG WHITE BEARD)
I'm a faun, the oracle for a Greek village. But my predecessor set up rituals I want to change...
CAUTION: SEX, PAGANISM, SELF-SATYRE
In dreams, I kept meeting a dinosaurian person who was proud, strange, beautiful.
S/he introduced me to two sisters I just had to paint...
I visit a world of dinosaurs who fly small planes and live in glowing tree-cities...
A sexy meadow-spirit of my California drygrass hills...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Alone in my blue room, I heard sax music. Two sunbathers were jamming outside my window...
CAUTION: SEX AND SAX
The feud between our magical families is getting ugly. Hawk-Head's dad throws boiling water on me, so I...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Camping in strange mountains (Australia?), I can't sleep. So I nightwalk, and find I'm changing...
Flame-like sculptures meant to hang on the wall and cup living plants...
Aliens, hypnotherapy, dancing molars, riots, witches, flying pianos, lettuce... yet there is a point.
I can fly and breathe water. So I fly into art-rich mansions, though
not to steal--I earn plenty from undersea massage...
Sharp seams between realities cross Silicon Valley; I end up in the Dark Castle of the Oracle. When I wake...
I dreamed I was drowning in the Sea of Time, where dragons asked me questions.
Painful questions...
For years the Sea-Wolf enslaved me. He said I had to fight him and win to be free. I'm ready at last...
A crazy security guard with a squirt gun full of acid kills
freely over and over, for the court system keeps paroling...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I'm more a dream artist than a realist, but one day I set up a mirror and looked in it...
by Wayan; 1999/9/1; pencil mirror-drawing.
Einstein's tongue got its own poster, why shouldn't mine?
After all, even the Ein Tongue can't do this...
My sister and I are runaways, developing psychic powers.
A cult of fish-selling witches wants to use us...
CAUTION: SIBLING INCEST, SPELL ABUSE
The army breeds super-smart animals. Scientists fear they'll
upset ecosystems, if freed. No one speaks for the creatures...
CAUTION: DIRECT ACTION
Animal poets at an open mic. My turn! And I find... I'm one. A creature without grammar...
A writer invents an absurd setting for his Utopia, a lens of ice floating atop
Saturn's atmosphere--but then such sessile lenses turn out to be real.
The dream's details suggest buying a certain stock. I do, and...
In our wizard-war, I've hidden my nature. At last I come out; but I can't tell the whole truth...
At a party, a sad girl attracts me. But to reach her, I must have an affair with a sexy, frustrated writer...
Robe or petals? Head or lilybud? Face or tongue or clit or slit? An eerie hybrid of person and flower...
CAUTION: SOMETHIN' HAPPENIN' HERE, BUT WHAT IT IS AIN'T EXACTLY CLEAR
A creature that's half kitten and half baby wants me to masturbate it... I'm reluctant, but when I do...
CAUTION: SEX
A life drawing I added a guy to, turning a piece about loneliness sex and socks into a wish fulfillment...
CAUTION: SEX, SOX (BUT UNLIKE BILL CLINTON, NO SAX)
Both of us were abused as kids. Sex is hard. So we go to a therapist who has us act out sex on the floor...
CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES
The teacher of our sex workshop picks me for a demonstration in front of everyone. Gulp...
CAUTION: WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK?
I find a lost book of Freud's admitting Jung's 'Shadow' is real. But Freud's found a Shadow-type Jung never...
My sisters get bored with the game of power, so I watch TV--
until it melts, and a terrifying giant rises to chases me...
A puzzle-game of eyes and mirrors and shadows starts revealing the players' deepest secrets...
A dream-lecturer says Shadows aren't just what we hate or fear, but what we admire yet see as "not us"...
CAUTION: IDEAS
I love what dancers look like, seen over time, in
stroboscopic photos. Like weird undersea growths...
WARNING: NUDE CAT PEOPLE
A great teacher abruptly blanks out. Memory loss is scary, but the empty moment bared a deeper fear:
My work as a federal shaman inspector involves judging a rainbow of traditions by a few basic principles:
Me playing the blues on a Japanese shamisen...
A summer love affair with a shapeshifting alien turns awkward when she gets a high fever, and...
CAUTION: UGH!
I'm a circus tiger, then a performing shark. One day, I block my human partner's high dive... Why?
I'm teaching in a wizard's college near Mt Shasta when one astral world decides to occupy another...
In a future where we gengineer ourselves instead of others, we no longer have to choose lesser evils...
Floundering through the snows of 1917, I fall in love with actress
Linda Evans, who is a sheep teaching ballet. When I wake...
Our family of Japanese pearldivers is cast away on an atoll. One day, lonely, scared, I cast away fear...
Shevek invents time-travel and discreetly alters the past. But the future alters
Shevek's present, to undo his changes! Who's sabotaging him? Or... WHAT?
A sudden image of a woman whose other lips not only talked, they wouldn't shut up. Worse yet, they...
CAUTION: NUDITY
A Goddess-worshiping general gets a visit from her twin daughters who bring a puzzling message...
Dinosaur people demand to take our Ship's Boy with them. But he knows them! They RAISED him?
A fictional niece acting sexy in a shirt, plus... water balloons? I woke, and a friend told me HER dream...
CAUTION: DREAM INCEST, KIDS WITH GUNS, GENERAL WEIRDNESS
My childhood home explodes into a vast pyroclastic cloud that comes boiling toward me, miles away...
CAUTION: DOOM
I distract a mad gunman in a crowd. I suspect I'm dreaming, but it still seems a bit too noble...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS ON CRAZED KILLERS AT HOME
Day: Robert Bly's book Iron John, claiming men need male mentors, annoys me.
Dream: the giants co-opted Captain Picard of Star Trek, but we don't need him to rebel...
CAUTION: MOCKS ROBERT BLY
I love to play, but I'm a shy fox. And pushing myself to be socially brave has unforeseen drawbacks...
Wayan dreams a jet crashes in dead silence. Meanwhile Vera dreams of being ON a jet that...
I'm a trade rep for Terra, on a new world. But an old rival, a rep from another world, arrives, and...
I'm a kid in a classroom someone's trashed. Our teacher goes ballistic. But was the gypsy girl framed?
My anima Silky plans to kill a man who hurt her. Instead, we make them re-enact it, with variations...
My anima the singing horse was encouraging a shy werewolf boy to give it a try...
CAUTION: UNCLAD HORSE CHANTEUSE
I'm in an alternate-history American Revolution with Silky the
talking black mare. We sail for Europe as diplomats...
A love poem to the black mare I keep meeting in my dreams, who finally married me...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
Silky, my often-animal anima, leads me into a strange pagan church where we get married at last...
An astral travel advisory. You'll fly better, if (before you leave your body) you...
My sisters roll a single die. Miriel can influence it telekinetically, but can't
shoot very well, since she hasn't grown opposable thumbs yet, as kittens do...
Black holes can be scary enough outside you, but what if you have dormant ones inside you?
My friend sleeps with an alien. He's ugly, but I don't care. What bothers me is, he eats bits of himself...
CAUTION: SEX, RECREATIONAL CANNIBALISM, PROSTITUTION, THE KITCHEN SINK
We play with worlds for balls, and gravity wells for goals. How do the worlds see it? Well... I find out.
My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet...
Just a lazy, sexy image that came to me, of floating in air like a pinwheel, licking and being licked...
CAUTION: SEX
Big Blonde and her officemates don't believe in flight; but the dragonfly-girl I meet hatched in mid-air...
A baby's own skin secedes, forming a snake. It prepares to eat the skinned baby. Shall I intervene?
A huge rubbery mass of skin complains I made it sick. I get tired of its whining, and...
When I see two scary men on the trail, naturally, I swallow my skunk! I really don't recommend...
Business solved the problem of cheap foreign labor: slavery's legal again. So our firm buys cheap losers...
As Mars demands independence from Earth, Jovians enslave us all! Now freedom-fighting is personal...
Wayan: A sleazy brother calls the cops, blaming us for a fire he set...
Cecy: A sleazy brother calls in a fire while not even trying to put it out...
A girl lies dreaming in the street; no one can wake her. At last I yell
"Face it, she's dead!" But is she? I never try a fairytale kiss...
I'm at a physics conference. A new force has been discovered that may just
allow travel faster than light. Strange, how'd the Vikings know?...
Infected glass-cuts scar the vegan alligators in the park. As part of a cleanup, I'm told to EAT one...
A man who wants to love and respect all life has unwanted kitchen guests: a wave of slugs...
A cigar-smoking tyrannosaur moves into our neighborhood,
upsetting us bluebirds and vampire bats. So we...
Just a couple of soulmate snakes, entwined so totally I envied them...
I'm a peace terrorist trapped in Squaw Valley, herded like a mare by a huge stallion made of snow...
And then the dream shifts. I blurt out the truth behind our idiotic waking world! And wake believing it...
CAUTION: MERMAID AND HORSE NUDITY
My sexual orientation shifts arbitrarily, turned on one second, off the next. Who's at the controls?
CAUTION: SEXUAL CONFUSION
I had a horrible realization that computers are useless, and I tried to make it beautiful...
In my drawing class it was antlers and bones and skulls, death death death till I was tired of MY bones...
I dream I'm suicidal; but I'm saved when I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern,
from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but the challenges slowly get more spiritual.
NEXT DAY: I learn what my shaman-friend Dee just dreamed. And now I'm unsure whose dream this is...
CAUTION: IDEAS
The pier jutting into the sea of dreams has an 8th chakra at the end, where a lonely woman fishes for, um, sole...
A demigoddess and a wizard meddle with humans. But do even THEY know what they're assembling?
The future. Humanity's trapped--no energy. Because aliens looted our world before we evolved! Now...
I'm being hunted in Reincarnation Swamp, as I worry--the human population boom
means experienced souls are scarce. Are most folks you meet really dogs, cats... rats?
CAUTION: MYSTIC ELITISM
As I reread decades of dreams, I see Jung was right: even in crisis-times, soul-work goes calmly on...
Drawn on a trip to the Southwest as a kid. Felt like I'd lived there in a past life. Or I would in a future life...
I'm a Latina crossing the border at a nightmare bridge,
while an Anglo rants at me about the Space Race...
I'm a kid again, gawking at the Space Needle. But a woman stands before it, who no one else can see:
CAUTION: NUDITY, A SEXUAL PERSPECTIVE
I wake to find I have two penises, one connected, one free-floating! How do its sensations reach my brain?
CAUTION: WANDERING WEENIES!
A dead fern in my backyard starts sending me messages in some strange language...
My family moves into a damp, leaking basement. My dad just sneers at us for fussing
about the cold, the damp, the mildew, the leaks. "I'll show you REAL leaking..."
A great war shrinks to wrestling, then hopping from page to page! Once they were worlds to me, but now...
A sphinx with equine traits; probably a precursor of the Krelkin, a sphinxlike alien who befriended me later...
Tehura was a beautiful sphinx exploring our human world; she led me to a new way of seeing us...
CAUTION: SPHINX BREASTS
After my dad lets me down I dream black may be white, and white, black--if you're a Sphinx...
A preteen sphinx pleased with herself and her treebranch world...
A moody teenage sphinx treed by the hounds of her own disdain...
I'm a Lapp boy in northern Finland, studying shamanism. So why do I pour coffee down a driveway?
Leona's a fighter--she rejects compromisers like her husband,
her friends, that miniature catgirl she's been sitting on...
A rant on over-disciplined Americans (NOT under; we just think we are) taking up spiritual disciplines...
My job is to set up portals to other realities, and
create secret routes through our world between them...
Our physics project is top secret, but a stranger strolls into a meeting and opens a can of green light...
I love Splinter, but her mom insists I got BOTH of them pregnant. Then I notice I'm pregnant too...
CAUTION: SEX, NAGGING
I feel split into warring impulses who argue, advise, ignore, and snipe at each other...
Lost in a dark maze of machine-shops, I follow Mr. Spock, who's drunk, and talks to tree-spirits...
CAUTION: ALCOHOL AS INSPIRATION?
No dream, no plot. I saw myself as a horse grazing in a forest of giant mosses, lifting spore-packets...
A street poet preaches a gospel of smallness, until he pokes at capitalism in a slightly too personal way...
I'm in a department store trying on clothes when I notice there's a large zucchini growing from my crotch...
CAUTION: SQUASHY PENIS, ICKY RECIPE
I couldn't find the motivation to do enough figure studies unless they were sexy, so...
CAUTION: SEX
Giant squid start surfacing at popular beaches and eating people. Not the form of first contact we'd hoped...
CAUTION: YOU ARE LUNCH
Just an abstract birdlike acrylic squiggle I liked. Sorry, no story...
By a midnight lake, I comfort an abused girl in the mud. But two figures with long knives loom...
I froze in dance class when I followed anyone else's script. Was it fear? A dragon inside said no...
An underage girl comes on to me, and begs me to... throw her down a stairwell?!
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!
As a kid, my Ecotopian fantasy city was hollowed out of living rock, with hanging gardens and terraces...
My friend Stanley is a social icebreaker: blundering in where I'm too shy, and
too thick-skinned to worry much. He is what he is. So why am I mad at him?
DAY: I read Starhawk's Dreaming the Dark, on building unity, undoing capitalism;
DREAM: I'm forced to become Time Pilgrim, warning of the dangers of community--indeed, of unity...
On a poster of a model who's around my weight, someone's scrawled STARVATION IMAGERY...
CAUTION: DEFENSE OF SKINNY PEOPLE
I'm playing poker with a dragon. But we barely dare move: we're both crackling with thousands of volts...
Two big spoiled realities pester me to take care of them. At last I go on shamanic strike...
My unconscious sabotages a lunch date with my friend Stephanie. The tricks get weirder, till...
The tollman on the new bridge to the Land of the Dead revives a beheaded woman by RANDOM action...
A woman masturbates constantly at work, then greets businessmen with her hot sticky handshake...
CAUTION: SEX
When I start feeling worthless, I paint myself. But which me?
CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM
I envy and resent a rich family's mansion so much I break in and sabotage their giant meat freezer...
CAUTION: HOSTILITY, ENVY, WASTE OF BAD FOOD
Just a soft sketch of two dancers...then this loud slutty stomping woman leapt into the center...
WARNING: NUDITY.
I love curves, not the chunky forms of this machine-ruled world...
Not a dream--one night I just found myself painting Potatohenge. For two weeks I fussed..
In a alien sports stadium, watching a game where a slender reptilian man pitched rocks...
I kill with an angry wish, just pointing my finger! No one sees, but I secretly pray
others will stop me before I snipe again. Yet when I meet a telepath who can
see my guilt, I start to wonder just what my crime was--beside guilt itself...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, GUILT
DREAM: I was a cheetah seeking a book of cheetah rolemodels, but this specist librarian harassed me...
PAINTING: months later, dream forgotten, I painted myself as an intellectual cheetah stretching...
A picture-poem experiment: one dream per stanza!
Five short dreams exploring the weight of culture on our animal selves...
Half our religion-founders were just one guy, repeating till he got it right. Practice makes perfect!
Earth scientists ignore the natives' tales of abyssal monsters, but the locals easily track a Terran sub...
Nerds built the blues. Rick Moranis, famous blues-nerd, makes a groupie suck his ice cream cone...
CAUTION: MOCKS MUSIC, RACE, VANILLA ICE (CREAM)...
I was anorexic for years before I found I was allergic to many foods--I had good reason not to eat!...
I spontaneously change sex! At first I'm happy, but I find unexpected disadvantages...
My sister and I are on a ship abandoned by its crew, heading full-steam for the rocks, when...
I turn shy with women I like. So I wish for a dating coach, who appears! Then I feel dumb: how come I...
I find the cure for an alien plague, then visit its homeworld, to find it has a curious variant...
CAUTION: SEX CUSTOMS OF THE NEWT PEOPLE! MY COUSIN'S GAY WEDDING!
I hijack a Lacewing Chopper to install a new rubber-band engine, but the motor becomes a talkative penis, and...
CAUTION: ONE WEIRD WEENIE
I'm Doctor Who, being chased by an air-surfer who demands we give up a reserved, proud man named...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
To avoid being stabbed, I flee the Psychodrama Circus. Wisely--the place explodes!
But it's the filling of the sushi roll that really upsets me...
CAUTION: CANNIBAL MAKI
The tale of the most truly sincerely religious revelation I've ever witnessed...
CAUTION: REAL WITCHES
The ruins of the Sutro Baths in San Francisco were the setting for an otherworldly dream...
I dreamed I drew our dog and me mating, then found the drawing on a gallery wall for all to see...
CAUTION: CARTOON BESTIALITY
An ancient pictograph inspires me to try a meditative technique: shrinking and letting myself be eaten...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
Navaho country felt like home--the land, the art, the animals, the language. Trapped in suburbia, I drew...
Not easy to fly without a plane, but I practice over a lonely lagoon.
Even if I panic some nesting swans. They'll get used to me...
Swimming down among the tentacles didn't bother me. I wanted that ball. But I didn't see the BIG eye...
I have recurring dreams of figures broken up by hair the color of the background...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
I met an elfin girl who's tattooed realistic vaginas all over her body, as... decoys? For she has...
CAUTION: NUDITY, TATTOOS, TABOOS...
I visit my friend Xanthe's lungs, where I meet a swordswoman in a red bikini. I get a unicorn pendant,
go lucid, and become a heron too, but next day, it's the red-bikini-swordswoman I actually meet...
I'm Sybil Sue, a hard-boiled shapeshifting shamus, on the track
of the most wanted bankrobbers in LA: the Bad Girls...
CAUTION: IN BETWEEN GUNSHOTS, THE BAD GIRLS SWEAR
Sylvia, the fabulous Dog Singer, leads me through a spy film, a French romantic farce, Fellini's Rome...
I like bad taste. Taste always tasted like another Anglo conspiracy to keep me from having fun...
My sister and I are playing cards in the air high over Lake Tahoe.
The stakes? The world. But we both cheat...
A friend stockpiling for Armageddon shows me what I thought
was lust is really a need to learn... pelvic anatomy? Why?
CAUTION: NUDITY; LANGUAGE; WE FIND OUT WHY
I'm in Japan, where Rumiko Takahashi tells me of a tragic chicken
who longs to be a lounge singer...
I've been meeting, talking with, and turning into unicorns in my dreams these last few years...
CAUTION: ANTI-FUNDAMENTALIST
No, not a guy with a tan. Yves Tanguy was a sailor who became a Surrealist.
When I was nine or ten, his work inspired me to try my first landscape drawings...
Chased by purple squid from Jupiter, I seek refuge with a guru the Goddess recommends for me...
My wound's taped up, but hurts bad. I peel off the bandage. Nothing! Gone. So I check my other body...
Solve a pictographic riddle and you can fly, shapeshift, work magic!
But someone doesn't want us solving dream-riddles...
The traditional figure is blindfolded, holding two crossed swords. I used crossed TV antennae...
Three friends in a garden pledge loyalty forever with a toast of the wine of the heart...
Floating in tears, have you noticed the other cups behind you, unspilled?
Giving up a wall of material treasure for the moonlit path...
The card confirming those silly fears are true. The nightmare is real. You're in trouble...
The card of excessive self-denial, whether compulsive or artistic or spiritual...
The card of building your dream no matter what. I dreamed I met the Primal Builder...
The card of fertility--and the pangs and effort of starting a new thing...
Mind and body integrated. S/he can hold up even the world-serpent that the gods couldn't lift...
CAUTION: ANDROGYNOUS CENTAUR BREASTS
The card of big messes, confused beginnings--and fertilization...
When the Birth card's reversed, the child clings to the womb like a burrow in a green meadow.
The card of force sparingly needed. The Knight says, "Sometimes ya gotta bust a few heads..."
The card of caring, caregiving, and compassion...
When the card CARING comes up reversed, you get this crucified guy floating over your bed...
The sea-captain, baby bottle in hand... The card of the warm man, the nurturer...
So you die, and to your secular surprise, your soul metamorphoses into...
It's time to tackle that unpleasant task. But so what? You know how. And you have gloves...
Some folks are dogs, bullying underlings, fawning on superiors. But when the Wizard's a Humbug...
Earth is never shown from its axis. Polarly, it's a vast wheel, the real Wheel of Fortune...
Using the mind's blade humbly, minding ideas and people, clarity's disciple may not see her full power...
Humor's one of the big emotions--laughter's as loud and uncontrollable as crying or orgasm...
Hokule'a, the "Star of Gladness", guided Polynesians across thousands of miles of ocean...
Jupiter's massive presence tugs its moons to geologic life. Just being exerts a power and a pull...
The card of driven leaders. It's so refreshing to hear someone honest and passionate. Right? Well...
The card of love. I'm not sure what genders the lovers are, but no matter...
Jung said most people let one aspect of life dominate them. The Mage balances them...
When you scheme too hard you can end up "amazed": lost in the maze of alternatives...
True teachers and leaders do exist, with vision enough to make seeds (and people) sprout...
Deep in the strata inside you, gems lie waiting in the dark for this child to dig them free...
Time, tide, cycles. In the full phase, life brims over. Time for passion & action...
Time, tide, cycles... At ebb, the hourglass drains, the tide recedes, life hides in the cracks...
That moment when you recognize a kindred spirit, and realize he or she feels that way too...
Groundless fears slow you to a crawl, testing every step of a clear, safe path...
The knight of creative fire who takes over when you've mastered technique and can let go...
I dream I'm giving a friend a Tarot reading, and the card she picks for herself is one I've never seen:
You get to fill one tray. Guns sex jewels pot hamburgers TV God power thrills love? Choose!
The card of revolution! The old towers of strength come down, not via war but obsolescence...
The card of intuition, dreams--and asking. She knows all the secrets. And might just tell you, if...
How rare it is to meet the Outstanding whose thinking, sensing, feeling and intuition all work...
This grumpy little greenish Scotsman rode a 'sulky', a one-man buggy, pulled by
a playful black mare. I worried her clowning was a safety valve leaving her unfree...
A wild, happy, homicidal dragon who forced me to fight it midair over Lake Tahoe...
Find your strength in dreams: facing (and befriending) what you've feared, or fought...
The card of fatigue and rest. Tarot's so primal--never a dull moment. Well, take a break...
Having (or living with) a sharp mind is like living with a unicorn. That horn can kill or heal...
I dreamed I was the Spirit of Mexico: a winged coyote flying around Sonora howling at the moon...
The Well of Emotion, guarded by the Black Unicorn, the shadow of all the feelings you deny...
Well, Tarzan and Jane are living in suburbia now, but though Tarzan's given up so much, Jane complains...
I was warned Wolf-Cats turn on people, but I still befriended one. Now I'm looking down its throat...
A weird identity-confusion at a dance hints I'm simultaneously psychic, autistic, and... really stupid.
My cold-sensitive dinosaur friend makes a find at our archeological dig by thinking like the Old Ones...
I'm at a Robert Bly camp for men only. But I'm no man--not even human--some faun or satyr-like species...
CAUTION: THIS 'TEMENOS' IS A SACRED PHALLIC IMAGE
A toxic site in Silicon Valley isn't a chemical spill, but angry ghosts, killed in a camp and forgotten...
CAUTION: THE CAMP TURNS OUT TO BE REAL
While living with violent Kay, I dream I meet a cute, gentle moth-girl.
But we must undergo ten trials. Mustn't we? Mustn't we?
CAUTION: RELATIONSHIP TROUBLES, BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT
Teresa mistrusts men. Her best friend Sabina comes on to me in front of Teresa, who blames me...
CAUTION: NUDITY, BETRAYAL, GENDER PARANOIA
I dreamed I had to take a bewildering test on who is allowed in the military. I flunked. So will you...
CAUTION: MOCKS HOMOPHOBES
The moon as an early gilled fetus. I feel like a half-developed creature walking around in your dry air...
An artist I know dismisses her (gorgeous) art as just therapy... while the museums are full of trash. Why?
I dreamed the Earth Goddess invited me to live with her. She was lonely to be seen for who she was...
I misname my feelings: depressed for sad, paranoid for wary, phobic for scared. It has consequences...
I'm in Theremin's lab, around 1930, trying to play one of his experimental instruments. Why won't it work?
My sisters and their best friends all use me for sex. Sick, but I discover it's better than I USED to be...
CAUTION: JUST PLAIN EMBARRASSING
Visiting Time City, I witness the "suicide" of a woman named Thieu but suspect it was really assassination...
CAUTION: SUICIDE? MURDER?
I dream normal women don't turn me on--I like the 30,000 little aliens who just landed!
I wake to see an ad about them on a passing bus... and it turns out I'm NOT still dreaming...
An article claimed smell is rare to absent in dreams. My dreams felt insulted and sent me a stinky one!
But why THAT stink? Well... next morning on my way to work...
I live in a beehive. We must mate with dogs. I'm assigned a bitch. But I'm allergic to gods! Oops, I mean...
CAUTION: SEXUAL THEME, DOGGESS WORSHIP
Two gunmen break in, call me by a strange name, and demand I repay a loan I never borrowed...
Dream-inspired landscape with herons and wild horses in a vaguely Japanese style...
Worldwide, hands have gone soft and pliable. I meet
some animals evolving into people and advise them....
That day: I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah.
That night: I dream she leads a revolution on a starship against her elders...
An alien tiger and his human girlfriend herd me to their house
and show me a cube of raw flesh... but why?
I was raised in the redwoods in the nest of a black tiger.
Only a foster child, but emotionally, I'm tigerish...
I'm walking down a tiger's throat, but it's not what you think. Diagnosis!
My friend suddenly couldn't roar. She's here too, exploring her own trachea....
Golfing in the basement with Giselle! But her ball goes through a Stargate
to land on a world where the water hazards are hazards...
I'm mortal, yet I'm offered a residency in the Commune of the Gods,
along with Xena the Amazon Warrior and... Little Red Riding Hood?
I provoke a shooting! Wandering through time, I forget how much some cultures fear witches...
Our band's touring Titan. Road trip blues: diners, feuds, romances. Have I been chasing the wrong girl?
Clarence the sappy angel from It's A Wonderful Life and Milton's Lucifer land on Earth, offering treaties.
Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're fine as is, but the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures
like me and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full palette of feelings. Like the feeling she's fake...
I'm in Houston, gawking at giant starfishy towers looming through the smog. Their shapes are familiar...
How the world was really created. God said "Let it be well done" and it was well done.
CAUTION: TECHNOLOGICAL BLASPHEMY
I walk in a vast graveyard full of history's most famous
people and treasures. But it's all fake, built to test your...
A hero has solved all Earth's problems. Now what? A trucker friend invites him on a road trip to Mars...
The government quietly ends all taxes and services in a small town just to see what'll happen...
They call it the information highway because we're all supposed to march in formation...
Why's Mexico City built where it is? And why is corn called "ears"? It turns out these questions are linked...
A free-lance torturer chooses me for his victim. He has the right. I bluster, but when I fall asleep at last...
CAUTION: NO PAIN, BUT GORE
I finally find a way to safely indulge in heavy petting
as well as puns) with a playful but scratchy cat...
I kept seeing the image of a creature like someone in a Tove Jansson book...
Long ago he cut a deal with the cops. But town's grown, and one victim fights back. Our thief is outraged...
Silicon Valley goes enthusiastically fascist. I hide in a berry patch. They build a shining world, and then...
In an oneirophobic society, it's easy to forget that when you do dreamwork, you're doing basic science.
No funding, no team, no lab coat? Can't be science! Unless they mistaught us what science is...
Nearly abstract but not quite. The snake, the quill pen, the secretary bird, and the rose.
Everyone squishing away contentedly but me... watching curled up in the corner as usual...
CAUTION: EXPLICIT SEX, BESTIALITY
Improv singing with my friend Mark, this bizarre songlet popped out:
"It's my understanding you shouldn't make love to a tuuubaaaa."
Silly, but when I woke, I realized I sorta had been...
The manhunt is on for Donald Trump, rich sociopath. But he too is pursuing something: happiness...
Changelings invade our orbital station, selling drugs, kidnapping teachers--but Constable
Odo can handle that. What's weird are the beans pouring out of that kid's tuba...
Tuba Man plays from the top of a tower, even when Loveless Man opens fire; for music is life to him...
A man mocks a turtle he caught, calling it "inept"--he knows adept turtles, then?
I distract this fisherman-ranter while the turtle quietly tiptoes...
I'm half Anglo, half Kwakiutl. My uncle the shaman died,
but he still wants to teach me his medicine...
I read Barbara Tuchman's history of the American Revolution and had to paint this portrait of George...
CAUTION: TRANSVESTITE PRESIDENTIAL ICONOGRAPHY
A "friend" gives me her TV. No wonder! Turns out it's haunted
by a small-minded devil who cheats on all his deals...
I'm climbing a tower, as my dad, Apollo, drunk, throws bottles at me from the top, breaking bones...
CAUTION: DENIAL ABOUT ALCOHOLISM
My mind and my soul both apply for a job in Stanford Cathedral. Their rivalry grows to a shamanic duel...
A tribute to Hokusai's sketches. A crane and a fairy were out drinking, and now can't fly home...
Two Inuit talk of sun and moon and birds and little ghosts who sneak up on you...
An assassination plot using two planes triggers an invasion of our kingdom. Flee? Fight?
I'm a peaceful hobbit who'd rather be playing Frisbee with the dryads...
In our plot to kill the Tyrant, we used his wife. Or... did she use us? She goes mad, but--she's HAPPY...
Okay, say evolution is driven by things (I don't care what) besides natural selection. How could you tell?
I try to make beauty, try to be beauty, but all the while, this voice keeps snickering...
The All-American Family visits the fabulous Un-American Fantasy Store, where Mom is in for a shock...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY, LANGUAGE
My uncle is Jupiter. Not the god, the planet. All my relatives are planets. So am I. And I'm invaded...
An Arabic traveler to China is shocked by toilet paper, which explains the origins of dualism. Really.
Exploring a sunken sub, my buddies salvage a something ticking. Toss it back, but it won't stay sunk...
A glamorous heiress casts a spell that spills over, so I can have anyone I see! But who DO I see?...
Masked champions of Good and Evil fight, peeling off layers till they're
elven-thin--what's left to hide? They can't keep stripping forever...
Disguised as a literary troll, I spy on the Neo-Nazis, but my disguise
can't last much longer: I ate a magical herb, and I'm growing...
In a future society, I'm deliberately, permanently paralyzed. Yet my home-grown cure slowly works...
In the Los Angeles ruins, a wizard-gang jumps us. Desperate, I try a crazy un-Angeleno move: I use my feet...
When things fall apart and the center cannot hold and mere anarchy is loosed... I tend to giggle.
I dream we're on a miserable camping trip. So why, when I wake,
do I think it's a diagnostic dream? It's that triple pun...
Me as a unicorn boy. Though I got a haircut since then, and most people can't see the horn...
CAUTION: NUDITY
A unicorn in a dance performance--a solo vignette with a spectacular leap. And the dancer knows it...
One of my first tries with paint--part Tibetan, part medieval, part hippie, part Navaho...
A bizarre image I had of unicorns whose horns really were horny, with some maidens and princes...
CAUTION: LEERING SEX! LURID COLOR! LAME LINES!
The 80s were rough on unicorns, but now that they're passé again, they can get back to work...
After over-editing a weird poem to Silky, my night mare, I dream that
well-meaning surgeons think a unicorn's a defective horse, and try to dehorn her...
"I believe, O lord/ Help thou mine unbelief"--as a kid I thought this meant "God, keep me skeptical"...
In my dreams, a co-worker tells me HER dreams. Their
focus is so unlike mine! Dream goals really differ...
Unshade trees are ugly. But my friends list their uses: casting shadows lighter than
sunlight, keeping land clear of other trees, and the fruit. Fruit? WHAT fruit? Am I blind?
A friend buys a frozen used Pope, to navigate her starship with Papal infallibility. Call me a Luddite, but..
CAUTION: SACRILEGIOUS PUN
In my nightmare, TV ads push new, supposedly eco-friendly uses for pigs, until this alarming ad...
All I know about humans, I learned in psychodrama. I gawked as caterpillars grew wings. Except me...
A lipstick poem for that stickiest of holidays...
I wander a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who love unicorns but
fear cyborgs, who love ants but fear unicorns! And while the Three Tribes squabble, cave-monsters
sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four aspects of my tetrahedral soul...
CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING
Our landlady was a friend, but she broke our rental agreement. Talk, compromise, or rent strike?
I'm the referee, or 'Vartena', of a violent high-school
game of waterpolo. A friend nearly drowns! Next day...
A woman goes on a quest with an alien friend, and returns with only a furry musical vase:
her friend! And from how the vase purrs, I'm not so sure if she wants to be changed back.
In our cult, we lie in vats of goo till we grow wings. But we're feared more than we knew...
CAUTION: SPECIST LYNCH MOB, NUDE IN SCHOOL, LESBIAN FEELINGS, OBSCENE CARROT
After a visit from our landlady's angry, crazy son
I dream hungry velociraptors invade our house...
I dream my friend Vera's ordered to just study & sleep--no play, no dates. Then I dream
Vera works with gangs as an armed peacekeeper. I tell her; Vera's shocked, since...
We're air pirates running a music shop, till our biplanes are hijacked by cat angels! Furious, we set out...
Vesta are animal guardians of the land. This isn't a portrait of a vesta, but how I see when I AM one...
Blondie Wiggle builds a Video Igloo. But I'm allergic--TV kills me! A BAD omen for our video project...
CAUTION: TV KILLS (BUT YOU KNEW THAT)
I ask to see my past lives, and dream of a viewpoint where I can--but this Mormon ranger...
Ever since I was battered I feel like a virgin again: longing, but wary--scared where sex may lead...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES
Half-mad with fear, I massacre a cult, till my gun manifests stigmata: a gory miracle.
Then I'm a cultist, resisting the Voice of God pushing all us mortals to murder in His name.
I woke up haunted, and wondered for weeks what this was about... until the Waco Massacre.
CAUTION: CREEPY VIOLENCE, CREEPY GOD, CREEPY PREDICTION
Am I King Kong? No, it's a city of midgets! I leave and find I'm gay. Gay bugs come out of the closet too,
storming the fundamentalist flies of Heaven. And then Vor, the purple alien, does something peculiar...
CAUTION: LOOKS DOWN ON HOMOPHOBIC MIDGETS
I'm in suburbia for the End of the World. A Vortex eats the block, licks at me. So I click some icons:
CAUTION: CRUDE LANGUAGE. OH, AND THE APOCALYPSE, TOO. I FORGOT.
I make a weird vow--while I absent-mindedly slice up other people's cars! The next day...
CAUTION: DREAM VANDALISM
The messiah of a suicide cult prepares to ritually sacrifice me. Then a miracle occurs! But... whose?
I'm in Middle Earth, interviewing dwarves and hobbits
who've experienced a phenomenon called Summoning...
I'm a Wapato Bird: part crane, part elk, part tree-bud. Despite my
shyness, I must lead our people's migration to the Grand Teton lakes...
I take a shortcut with the Warm Fuzzies, boating on lava through the earth's core,
and now when a volcano erupts, I know who it is that's quarreling beneath..
Dodging between all your -isms, I feel like a bird on a battlefield...
George Washington faces sniper fire, kamikaze birds
and critics claiming the fight for freedom is doomed...
A road trip through New Mexico mutates into a tour of my relationship disasters...
A stylized waterfall--a distillation of all those childhood summers camping in Yosemite...
I'm an intelligent rabbit in an alphamale's harem, organizing a feminist movement...
After a peace march in San Francisco, I saw us as deer, and Americans as dogs. Yet WE frighten THEM...
My personality is borderline multiple: they veto and sabotage each other if not consulted first via dreams...
Maybe the web like a shining dove will lead me from my lonely cave
into the light. The glaring light... Wait! That can't be right!
CAUTION: SEPIA HALFTONE NUDITY
On a gene-engineered world, the Prime Minister tries to assassinate
the Bug Princess by tricking a well-meaning smartlawn...
I find the Well of Women's Wisdom. Lucky I'm female tonight! A girl sneers "Narrow!" Is it, or her?
I'm on a world inhabited by hobbits when H.G. Wells shows up, looking for a Ring of Power...
Ari neglects Wendy till she doubts she's sexy. I show her she is. But am I using her too?
CAUTION: SEX TALK
For flirting in the astral cafeteria, we all get sentenced to group therapy--
till I catch the lie in my life. What lie? Read the title...
Werecat Syndrome runs in my family. Academics assume I'm a savage predator.
Why? All I want to do is rub up against girls and find one who purrs back...
I help a brilliant, starving composer turn his family curse into a profitable business...
I'm a one-legged hopping hermit in the ruins of LA, and my only hope
for love is to conjure up a girl out of a trout and a puppy...
God's my boss, but like a bratty little brother, he's Not Speaking To Me. It's slowing down our office...
CAUTION: CHRISTIANS WON'T WANT TO KNOW
The real pursuit of happiness: she pursues me, and I run in shame and hide! But she's persistent...
The world needs Zen cards, to balance out the Tarot.
So here's my Zen pack--all one of them. One too many.
A cowgirl is driving us in circles round the dusty parking lot, fleeing the air-sharks... or is she?
My sister and I get into an argument about different kinds of incest, in embarrassing circumstances...
CAUTION: POST-ORGY HYPOCRISY
An empire of creatures asexual most of the year has affected its human neighbors--or bred a new type.
Why am I an outsider? Can I change? Even my dreams don't know. I wake to find my
meditation was a dream, and as much of an answer as dreamwork can give...
I was on a path winding over grassy hills, while humans zoomed by on a freeway below...
In cave times, while the men were all out hunting, it was
the women who learned to paint the cave walls to summon...
I'm a conscientious saurian who feels obliged to duel with a hot-tempered friend.
Preparing, wanting to fight fair, I don't just file my spurs blunt, I...
I visit a dude ranch where you learn to turn into other species--see
how others live. A white mare I barely recognize says Hello...
My girlfriend and I ride out the Great Flood in the White Submarine,
but there are romantic complications. Some things never change...
An invisible monster is eating my lettuce patch.
It casts a huge blurry shadow, leaves footprints, but...
I'm assisting a hard birth as photos are shot for an article. Why's birth so rarely seen, what do we fear?
I'm Pete Townshend of the Who, climbing stubbornly out of Hell by noticing what I don't want...
Seeking a mate? Mutual attraction and having much in common aren't enough--
it's equally vital to learn what you don't have in common...
I'm a hardboiled detective wincing as I grill a meek little psychic
(probably me) about squish-softboiled topics like unicorns and love...
CAUTION: SMUTTY UNICORN MAKES EVEN COPS BLUSH
Dry noodles shatter when bent. Wait, not noodles--they have auras! Feel like me--parts of me? Oh!
These aren't noodles or strands of my being. I'm not this brittle. They're relatives!
Who were they? I don't know. But they were doing something powerful on top of that mountain.
I'm a cowgirl in Nevada circa 1900. In the canyon below Haunted Mansion,
I meet a broccoli-green lizard girl. Naturally I help a lady in distress...
CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE
I get so mad at some gaybashing cops and gangsters
that I become the sea itself and chase them...
CAUTION: UNCHARITABLE REPRESENTATION OF OUR SAINTS IN BLUE
Time-hopping through centuries, I learn how slow
deep social change is. How we cling to the old horrors!
A portrait of Snow White's eighth dwarf, the one Disney had to leave out...
We're exploring the English farm we inherited, when The Wild Hunt storms over the hill...
My dad steals my furry girlfriend! The maid and I spy on them;
we get hot and do it, but it's just not the same...
CAUTION: SEX WITH THE WRONG PERSON
At age 90, the first female high-rise steelworker tells me
why she did it--and why she regrets it now...
Hot air rises, right? So there's a monsoon from Hell,
lifting souls. Lucky for us that gravity balances it...
Here's an incantation to induce flying dreams. "Bring me wings NOW, or forever hold your peace..."
A writer I meet either starts flirting with me obscenely,
or advising me about eyecare, or... are those the same?
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
I wake up praying for love--and then realize my wish is contradictory, and revise it to...
Trapped in segregation-era Florida, I force a racist waitress to go bother someone else.
Disastrously, she does. Someone more vulnerable. Self-assertion's not always wise...
CAUTION: KLAN THREAT
A witch in the future invents a new way to terraform small dense moons--and it'd work!...
A castle of witches in Europe. Persecuted for centuries, they're wary.
Still, such a treasure-trove of kindred spirits! Can I find a witch to love?
CAUTION: PAGANS CRIPPLED BY SIEGE MENTALITY...
Six generations in the future, I find a poodle who can defuse the bomb my snotty friends can't...
CAUTION: MAD SCIENTIST, EXHIBITIONIST GIRLFRIEND, POODLE MOCKERY
I have a tummy ache. Our local wizard says "no wonder, with fascists occupying your colon"...
CAUTION: TREATMENT NOT A.M.A.-APPROVED
A burrowing owl invites her friend the wolf over for tea. It sounds very Beatrix Potter, but...
Is there really that much difference between the rootless yuppies flooding the West, and war refugees?
Drew all night in a trance and only learned at dawn what this flirting otter and wolf were trying to tell me...
CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL THEME
A figure study teaches me a lesson about the sexiness of brains. And about the unsexiness of no brains...
CAUTION: NUDITY; LIBELS ILLINOIS
Nancy Friday describes a kind of weak guy disturbingly like me--I think chronic illness has...
I visit Earth during an all-female era. I'm a woman, can pass for local--so why do I lie to fit in?
CAUTION: SEXIST SLUR
Cartoony self-portrait as I paint with Persephone's pomegranate paintbrush. A mock woodblock print...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
After watching the sex film Emmanuelle with my sister (we both like girls) I dream
she & I & Emmanuelle are in bed together--and I learn a little something about denial...
CAUTION: DREAM INCEST; AWKWARD NONSEXUAL INSIGHTS
I'm an elephant working in a diner. In the bathroom, I inadvertently summon the Genie of the Urinal...
CAUTION: PISSED PACHYDERM
The bird that carries the world through space, whose eye is the sun...
A world-mind I never really liked dies generously, helping others; so I make my peace with it...
The same night I learn of the Kerouac Tree, a wise old man shows me the world's fair. Not the event...
In the castle of a wizard who's a were-worm, I let myself become
my businessman-friend's chair! Generous, huh?
I'm being stalked by Ricardo Montalban, playing Khan,
Captain Kirk's enemy on Star Trek. Why? Oh, I know why!
A writer's found in his office mating with an ash-covered creature! But could she be his muse?
CAUTION: NUDITY OR NOT? SEX OR NOT? NO ONE QUITE KNOWS...
Most writers search for their unique style. Not me--I struggle to convey unique EXPERIENCES...
I dreamed of a dragon-woman on a reef. She was my guardian, but she let me drown! She had her reasons...
CAUTION: SCALY NUDITY
I'm a dyke playing baseball in Golden Gate Park. Some guys harass us and run into a tunnel. I follow, but...
I'm at a family dinner. Killer Grampa, kid-hating Ma, larcenous Dad. Then a bum offers some advice...
Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted?
Restrain yourself! Or you too may end up on a giraffe
rollerskating down the freeway singing perverted popsongs...
Chips are faster than brains these days, so everyone's upgrading--everyone but me...
DAY: a toxic potluck. Not the first! But this time I say no...
DREAM: I'm a scent-oriented alien, tossing stinkbombs back...
A yuppie idealist discovers her boyfriend's a cheerful opportunist, and they disentangle their lives...
CAUTION: SEX IN REVERSE
My cat dissolves in the shower. I follow her to a telepathic world. I want to stay, but can I?...
I'm lecturing to a crowd: "Love's a win-win game, and abuse, lose-lose. But blame is zero-sum..."
I'm in an apartment co-op in Silicon Valley where people share their skills--till rush hour begins...
I wander a sunken maze, meet a playful woman, find a hidden treasure. Meanwhile, my friend Zooop...
I find the truth about my childhood. My parents lied! I hide for days, then dub myself Zucchini Girl
and go onstage, humping squash, calling it performance art! So do my friends see a problem? Hmm...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
It's true: after death, angels advise you where to go next.
But what if you get an over-eager travel agent?