2010/9/7 Upload
I meet a flutist I like, but she's busy playing. So I conjure a second her with free time to listen to herself with me...
I find a shy sphinx hiding in the corner of a painting in a dull art class. But maybe she's right to hide...
After an article suggests we roam the multiverse in sleep, I dream of three strange names. Awake, I google them...
A spacetime traveler inadvertently strands his pacifist vegetarian date in a gun-crazy mob-run town...
CAUTION: DEFAMES BYELORUSSIANS
My loud, spiky, tailed angel of change and potential, and
my calm, skeptical devil of gradualism--a star-nosed mole...
The older sorceress I'm in bed with plans to marry me off to a younger woman, but I distract her with my tongue...
CAUTION: BEDROOM HUMOR
Winged things lurk in the shadows. When I focus on them, they attack! Castaneda's teacher watches amused...
By a lake I've seen in many dreams, four dragons attack. I become one too, and duel them in mid-air...
A month of dreams full of science fiction: galactic navigation, spacedragons, oppressed fairies, alien love...
Haiku by Roswila of a dream of meeting a winged horse, illustrated by her late friend Janet...
I'm flying around a half-built house when I'm cornered by three
scary archangels in trenchcoats. But they want my help...
Struggling to recall a magical dream, I suddenly get a single, simple image. ...
I had to sell my horse Shadow, but I missed him so much I painted him. As I finished, a strange impulse led me...
I've been drawing a personification of the World Dream Bank.
Nerdy, but most of your readers are nerds...
I dreamed I was riding a lion. A few days later, when my husband suddenly left me, I recalled the dream and...
For the New Year, I draw a group portrait of the old year's main dream-figures. Four needs came up constantly...
2010/4/26 Upload
A giant insect chases me around our gym. A girl tells me it's harmless but I'm sure it's a...
I'm a werewolf-girl in love with a gender-dysphoric weredragon in love with
a man who's very, very patient with all our crazy shiftiness...
CAUTION: NUDITY (SKIN, FUR and SCALE), SHIFTY PEOPLE (BI, WERE and QUEER)
I'm in the kitchen making a mess--kneading pasta dough on the bookcase. If my mom comes in and sees...
I meet two Peacock Kings bigger than human beings, who chant blessings until I wake with tears drenching my pillow...
The sparrow died in the ashes, but the dove in my hands became a blue cloud.
I drank it, thinking "This will benefit us all"...
A doll sent from China breaks into tears over her exile here in Japan. I reassure her and she becomes real...
A strange transforming thing appeared in the sky--a light, a sheep, a man. It told me to stop burning my head...
I was trapped inside a boulder, but as I chanted it melted around me until it resembled a discarded skin...
I'm half-naked at an arty dinner party, talking to a man I really think I ought to recognize... who is he?
CAUTION: TOPLESS JUNGIAN
Awkward newlyweds. Not a love match! Can they co-operate to save a woman from the Nazis?...
Two medieval women poison one another. One dies in my arms; the other may just survive. Why did they...?
CAUTION: MURDERERS
I wish I could be as body-free as my neighbor Jenna, hiking nude under the full moon...
A voice told me, "Human beings have a spark of the divine"...
My friend's ignorant of our local Congressional race. I loathe Pombo
and like his rival McNerney, but can't pronounce his name right...
I'm to be beheaded. Guards chant "It's important to enjoy what you're doing."
I know my spilled blood will create a work of art...
Bob is at the window asking to be let into my house. He is dressed as Santa Claus; but I think he's really...
CAUTION: MURDER ATTEMPT
I must see a community as a whole, and intuit my way out of a sealed room, and spot details, and join a trio in bed...
CAUTION: NUDITY IN LAST DREAM
It's election time in Europe, but voters have gone crazy. Nazis invade England. In my library, Sarah Palin rots...
CAUTION: POLITICS GONE WACKY
Anxious about a big party, I dream of being crowded. But
a cat-centaur in the crowd attains sudden enlightenment...
A black beetle insists I'm not needed or at home in the human world; my lifework is elsewhere...
I'm in an America where witches are burned & abused women grow on trees. Yet three of us heal...
CAUTION: CREEPY PARALLEL WORLD
I'm living in an England rendered in chalk. We wander the woods with butterfly nets,
ritually hunting the White Deer--if that's what they really are...
As a boy I dreamt my uncle (a calm man) glared at me in red rage; I was terrified. A decade later, in a bar...
I dreamt I saw, over a balcony rail, bright-colored, spectacular scenery. Years after in Arizona, I took a detour...
Mother & daughter both dream Mum runs over a little girl. Next morning she
spots the girl in the road--warned, she swerves. But bystanders see no child...
I dream of a garden in Italy. Arches, roses. Then a bat flies in! Next day I open a book of Pirandello's plays, to find...
All my life I've had sudden visions showing violent deaths accompanied by headlines naming the victims...
I dreamt I hit & killed a small boy in the road. Weeks later in Manchester I swerved & just missed that boy...
Two photographic developing tanks disappear. I assumed theft
until I dreamt they were in a room I'd never seen, in locker FJA 39...
I was at school, walking through the gate to the playing fields, when a boy crashed into me...
John Lee, sentenced to hang, dreamt he walked to the scaffold but the trapdoor stubbornly stuck.
He woke, told his jailors the dream, walked to the scaffold, and...
My wife dreamt where to find her lost umbrella; the next day she did.
But the finder said word for word what she had in the dream...
I dreamed the bus lurched, cracking my skull. Next day, on the bus steps as in my dream, I braced myself, and...
I dreamed of a beggar in our house who had been stealing. It was a very small man with a hump. Weeks later...
I dreamt a sparrowhawk perched on my shoulder. Next day a friend was given a stuffed sparrowhawk. He...
An orange tiger with wolf ears jumped on me. I was surprised but not scared, as if it were just a big dog.
The next day, shopping, my daughter thrust an orange wolf-eared hand-puppet in my face, jaws open...
I dreamt a farmer gave me 33 eggs in a bucket. On the stair, he handed me 3 more. I woke, told my family...
Eleven years after I dreamt of that green dress and green riverbank and dreamy day, I was convalescing in...
As a boy I dreamt of a war; officers marked the landing-spot of an unexploded black sphere. Years later...
I was officer of the watch in the Southampton. I knew that as we passed an islet a mile ahead, a man would fall overboard...
I dreamed of an explosion--a stabbing pain in my left thigh, right fore-arm, and left eye.
Two years later, in World War Two, a grenade...
The jug of chocolate sauce smashed on the floor, forming a dark pattern. Then the scene melted and, like a film
loop, restarted. Horrified, I screamed "Don't touch it!" But the pitcher fell, the sauce made its predestined shape...
Examples of inexplicable moods that appear (after the fact) to be reactions to future events...
I'm walking up a churchyard path. My hair clings to me, damp. Horses wander. I'm drawn to one graveside...
Ann Marten kept dreaming that her stepdaughter had not eloped but was buried under a nearby red barn...
CAUTION: MURDER
I saw the Titanic go down and people struggling frantically in the water. After my second nightmare I told my wife...
A sequence of short dreams full of creatures. They warn I'll face leukemia...
On the anniversary of 9/11, I dreamed a friend was welding nude. In his careful hands, the fire was harmless...
A hulking, intimidating young man is at my door, with two scary dogs. Wait, is that Carl Jung?...
In a domed tower, we all look up bewildered by a statue like an ancient herm, floating in mid-air...
I know we will cross the water surrounding the heart of Jerusalem, but not yet...
At first no one seems interested in my mural-design for the inside of the City Hall dome, but...
I am given a gift of "Nibbling Fruits" which only I may eat--because I've been feeding everyone but me...
A friend who's fought lymphoma invites me to sleep in a cave, but I fear a rattlesnake will bite me...
2010/3/22 Upload
I'm in my papa's waiting room. I beg him to take a break from his patients now that he's dead, and walk with me...
My little brother catches and rides a fairy goose down steep mountain slopes, demanding it grant his wishes...
I dreamt ghosts visited us, and for each scream, a relative would die.
Two of us cried out. That morning the first letter came...
I looked into a narrow stream that was quite clear yet inky black. It made no sense at the time...
Suddenly, out of the clouds, a man came shooting down, head first, at a terrific pace. He landed on his head with a sickening...
CAUTION: GRISLY
I made my way through a great crowd to find my husband lying dead behind velvet curtains. Two years later...
Someone said "There's been a murder in the Victoria Hotel, and the murderer slept in your house." Three weeks later...
All day I expected a terrible scream, but had no idea why until I heard it. A woman in flames came out of her house...
CAUTION: GRUESOME DEATH
A large airship crashed onto a hilltop and burst into flame, silhouetting people who tried to escape, but...
A newsreel showed a flier for the Schneider Trophy Air Race. I felt a violent shock and said "He's going to die..."
In an idle moment I held a pencil and asked the air who'd win the Derby.
'Trigo' meant nothing to me, but was listed at 32 to 1, so...
2010/2/18 Upload
My lover's face is shadowed and we are never alone together. Things slip from film-noir to open nightmare when...
CAUTION: SEX, DEATH, GUILT
In the woods outside a modern art museum, I'm being stalked by Giacometti's huge skeletal cat...
A timewarp started to swallow my house. It looked normal outside, but everyone inside was in a trance...
I'm falling into darkness. I feel like screaming, but I remind myself I'm dreaming. "What is for me here?"
I demand. "SHOW ME!" I begin rising toward the stars. Huge metal discs with alien writing rise with me...
A crowd watches from shore as a great glowing meteor descends into the sea. I fear a tsunami, but...
I flew over a forest. I noted the trees were all the same, and told myself to remember this...
A gigantic herd of buffalo stampede toward me. I panic, then surrender in peace to what is surely my death...
I asked my dreams "What's my truest purpose?"
I dreamed my body was a tree, and a voice said "Chart the growth"...
My kidnappers were desperate: no jobs. I fled them down the berry chute, to the underground
strawberry factory where engineers in go-go boots did the berry dance--and the berries...
CAUTION: STRAWBERRY FETISH
My Cambodian village was burned, my family murdered. At 12,
I was the oldest survivor; I led a band of kids to the border...
I hear voices: "The road to success is in Kafkat, in a place called Goshen." I look back, and see seven male shadows...
Dinner with Dracula goes well, considering, except for the mayonnaise. But suddenly I'm drowning!
No one sees or hears me. Am I a ghost, am I dead or alive? And how would anyone notice?
I'm lucid but paralyzed. A weird child spies on me; is she controlling me?
Then I'm having sex--but if I come, I'll wake up! Then some thugs jump me.
I make sure they won't bother me again, but... is everyone in this dream out to distract me?
CAUTION: SEX, MUGGER-STOMPING
A killer tornado traps us in the cellar. I bite my finger. It's boneless--I'm dreaming! I summon...
I've always been scared of tornadoes, until I went lucid and became one...
CAUTION: HORNY TORNADO
Lucid, I summon a sexy literary character. But he tries to take over my personality and make it his lucid dream...
CAUTION: VAMPIRE-SLAYING
I slept on an island in a scalding hot spring, praying for a dream. I got one--and woke up on the shore...
First I try to break the sound barrier like my girlfriend. Nope!
Then I fly slowly to her apartment. Nothing flashy, but I make it.
Last, I zoom back to ancient China, where I find a candle-lit shrine dedicated to... me?
I was led into the future, where all the buffalo disappeared, to meet a frail old man by a ranch house...
I sought a dream of Helpers. But rather than give me gifts, they gave me a daunting challenge...
Thieves stole 100 of our horses. The tracks suggested white men, but that night
my dream Helpers declared them Sioux. We tracked them across Montana...
I was ordered to join Hitler's army. I dreamt a booming voice proclaimed, "This train is going to Hell!" So I...
A contest! Here's a wide, fertile world full of empty ecological niches for intelligent creatures. Design one!
I never go on cruise ships but I keep dreaming I'm on one and meet the same man, and marry him.....
My two moms sell art fabrics made by grayish batwinged sisters whose newest ad is risqué...
CAUTION: ADS WITH NUDE BATS
I dream my son the writer's living above our old family store, the one that failed in the Depression...
A second me punches me in the breast. I fight back, yelling
"Bad Nancy! Bad Nancy!" Five months later I find a malignancy...
I mail some letters that will solve everyone's problems, but a man argues we need problems...
2010/1/10 Upload
My mom and I road-duel an alien beetle, then investigate a deepspace Marie Celeste;
then I spy for the Angevin Empire to protect the Crown Jewels...
Divers made of ice win the Traffic-Leaping Olympics. But
I think they cheated! I seek my friend the Sphinx...
Last night, as I slept, I dreamt--illusion blessed!--that I had a beehive, here inside my heart...
In 1985 I was flooded with nightmares about heads and necks. They had an unparalleled intensity...
A sacred starfish piloting a Cessna plane survives a crash. But can it survive a boy's clumsy rescue efforts?
I dream my daughter's selling two unused guitars. They seemed symbolic until I told her the dream and...
I witnessed strikes in Brighton and Devon through the eyes
of others; but I felt the Cheltenham impact in my own body...
2009/12/23 Upload
My dreams are made of lovely carvable jade. Too bad my tools and skills suit our plastic age...
I was teaching a class on democracy in Africa when Idi Amin walked in. The crowd turned violent, but then...
I touch the secret soul of a cancer survivor, upsetting her. To apologize, I become a goofy hopping god...
CAUTION: FONDLING SACRED FIGURINES
I flew through a huge space habitat with ten chambers and thousands of people unaware they were caged...
A Buddhist scroll shows me Hell Cafe, where diners become entrees. But I read the scroll
backwards! You can escape Hell just by walking out, against the traffic flow...
CAUTION: CANNIBAL SOULS
Sargon, a delivery man, dreams the Goddess drowns the King in a river of blood. He wakes and tells the King...
I get stuck with a one-year mandatory gig as President of the
World, just as Saudi Arabia collapses, and fools rush in...
I happily meditated alone in a monastery. But when I woke, I saw no way to act on the dream. Then a friend...
A child prodigy stands out in a chorus line of waterdancers. Her body is a patchwork of young & old...
Nebuchadnezzar dreams a voice from heaven commands a great tree be cut;
Daniel interprets this as a prediction the king will go mad for 7 years...
I live in a colony of long-lived observers of humanity. But am I one? Or a short-lived human pet?
Gunmen held me hostage in a grand hall; at last they shot me. Next day: the Moscow Theater hostages...
My family home's invaded by ancient Egyptian architects. So
I put on my unicorn mask and eavesdrop on their plans...
2009/10/15 Upload
As a boy in Australia I briefly died on the operating table. I found myself living among the Mimi,
spirits living in rocks. I grew up, grew old, died--and woke up nine years old again...
Trapped in a blend of Joan of Arcadia and The Tempest Tales, I'm tired of being the pratfall sidekick...
My neurotic sister and I both lust for a girl named Sky; then I flee a gang of popes and lamas and mullahs...
I dreamed a sea eagle I saw as a boy led me back to my native Australia, to a Dreaming place.
Later a 'spirit man' of the Mununajali in Queensland led me to the exact place I'd seen in my dream...
I'm a girl in rural Victorian England working as the county's magical protector. I have my
hands full: a gang of thievish orphans has holed up in an invisibility tree! Showdown at the oak...
2009/11/16 Upload
The old man sang in the empty church, then looked at me and snapped his fingers. I was filled with voices...
Around royalty, protocol gets complex. I love the Dog King;
despite her title she's female. Does that make her a...
I was the first woman made High Commissioner of Baseball. One day a team of mutants begs a franchise...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, BAD TEAMWORK, HORNY BEES
Tour a rugged, scenic moon with air and water in deep canyons sheltering a dozen intelligent species
CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, SCIENCE
Distilling a dream to one key image can clarify it. But don't be ruled totally by traditional haiku form...
The hero Gilgamesh troubles his city till he dreams the gods will send him a best friend & lover, Enkidu...
CAUTION: SEX
I'm on a beach in Mexico with a baby--my only souvenir of an affair I can't recall.
I'm a mom? My whole life will change! Wait. Is this real, or...
I find myself outdoors with my legs spread for a weird creature. I protest, but I love it. Later, after I wake...
CAUTION: SEX
In the cathedral, before the nation, I solemnly crown someone with my own detached head...
The day after my mom outed me to my dad, I dream a great storm has passed and everything's just glowing...
A night-fiend strove to open the door I held shut between us--
until I realized I too was terrible, and opened it to find a great...
CAUTION: THE DREADED PROSE OF HENRY JAMES
An Oxford teaching assistant sexually blackmails one of his law students, but to his shock she goes public...
I find myself sitting on toy trains and fake snow as I'm told a fable:
how a herd of department-store Santas got tragically lost in a blizzard...
THAT DAY: art nonstop! Put myself down for obsessing. Empty man!
THAT NIGHT: I'm in rural China. Two women tell me their village declared them
dead, killed by demons. So are they ghosts, or just written off by idiots?
MORNING: wait--have I been calling me dead? Oh...
I find myself sketching the slope of progress up to the coming singularity, and notice a hidden stability...
I dream the universe runs on Bollywood rules. I can stand the constant singing
and breakdancing; what gets under my skin is that Bollywood Code...
2009/9/10 Upload
Fresh off the Beagle, Darwin meets three wolf-girls, but has distinctly Biblical inhibitions...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM, PUNS
I meet a female Bigfoot, who, to my surprise, quietly speaks my tongue.
She's mourning the death of her infant son...
by Daughn Lee and Roswila; 1999 (2000?), a collaborative dream-poem
Alternating stanzas by very different poets, based on
Roswila's dream of bellydancing in the streets...
Dream poems laid out like a calendar. Themes? Horses, camels, abused girls, vampires--all want their freedom...
Dream haiku laid out like a calendar. Roswila's favorite is the pirate, but mine is the were-salamander...
I just watch as all the dance students practice the jive step. I think I already know that one...
I defeat the knife-wielder, in spite the blade in my belly I can't pull out. I may have to let it be...
A dream haiku telling of a dog-pack saved by the intuition of a mutt with a mangled ear...
Skimming over the lake on surface tension as two sharks prowl beneath, I'm not sure who's fishing for whom...
A watershed dream for me, since my relationship with my father was, shall I say, conflicted...
CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES
My dreams support a radical break from my past--to let go of possessions and friends in a cross-country move...
A kinky seduction slips into something more uncomfortable: the Qabbalah? Or possibly leather...
CAUTION: EROTICA OR ESOTERICA?
A joyful song about ignoring your critics. The last stanza came verbatim from the dream...
The first two dragons numb my pain. I demand it back, and soon regret my haste.
But the third dragon I seduce, for I'm a dragon now...
Ted died of CO2 poisoning in Hong Kong. His mom dreamed he came to tell her
it was painless. To prove he was real, he told her...
After Myrna's husband gave up diabetes treatments to die at home, one night she felt him behind her in bed, and he whispered...
As Joey's infant daughter Jesse died, her father-in-law woke up 500 miles away and announced, "The baby..."
Is that a madwoman riding a horse, or a cougar pouncing on a deer,
or are these dream-creatures wildly making love?
The dancers, in a frenzy, stripped themselves. Not just their clothes; themselves...
"Freedom is a gift you give yourself." But it doesn't always involve seahorses or babycarriages covered in quills...
A jungle cat needs to take time out from a hard day's predation to have a quiet smoke...
"Our resurrection is not entirely in the future; it's also in us, it begins, it's already begun..."
One pays for soaring high with solitude of the soul...
The dreamer overflows from her egg, spills out to become a waterfall, a stampede of horses...
The dreamer becomes a horse, the horse becomes a unicorn.
Dreams have their own quests apart from the conscious...
"If you put an ear to the door of books and the doors of the night,
if you pay attention, you can hear the conversation of poets..."
Girondé dreams she's floating through the oceanic abyss...
Three unicorns gallop out of the waves...
Those Hollywood lovers in the tub seem perfect together, until... oh, read the title!
CAUTION: RACE- AND GENDER-BENDING
You'd think his Christmas wish would be "a new eye"; well it was, in a way...
At a party in Animal Heaven, I fall for a rabbit-girl doomed to be human dinner.
But how can I rescue her? I'm Fate's part-time intern!
CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, INCOMPETENT ANGEL OF DEATH
A mare's brought in to save a rare bloodline. She's young but as extraordinary as her mate: part filly, part feline...
That levitating bear's not tightrope-walking--she rides a goat strung like soap-on-a-rope. A goat that's me! I'm eating...
CAUTION: UGH!
Nightwalkers lured our empath away. We come to their castle to rescue her.
But she's pregnant with magic. Will she come or stay?
My horse and I dove into a lagoon and sought buried treasure on the sea-floor. What are we really after?
Things start materializing in my house: first three tiny naked scientists, then a huge impossible fruit...
CAUTION: NUDE SCIENTISTS
Tarot cards fuse and meanings layer, to warn me I've similarly (con)fused>
real and trance-induced memories during therapy...
CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES
My friend stuffs a broken feeder with birdseed. I worry it'll attract too many wild birds. He laughs "Exactly!"...
I meet the new improved giraffe people with hydraulic chrome skeletons--
such light, powerful jaws and stretchable necks. Wow, Lamarckianism is back!
CAUTION: ANTICREATIONISM--THAT IS, ACTUAL SCIENCE
I have no roots but those I steal--until my father leads me to a sacred tree, saying "Look to your mother"...
In her kitchen she offers me shortcake. She's short herself, for she gives away all
to everyone--only her bodiless head is left...
My father's trapped in a crashed car. But I'm distracted by a young man whose palm cups a living flame...
One dream-poem in haiku style each day for a month!
Ghosts, snow, penguins, yoga babies, elves who leave their tree...
Daily dream-poems in haiku style, nonstop for a month. A flood of animals, revenant ghosts, sex changes...
In a Scythian church, a painting says:
"Little St Bridget was bound so hard that when they released her she flew"...
2009/8/7 Upload
I've always loved curves, color, dreams, sex, texture... and planning, too.
So one day I drew 100 black boxes in ink--no color, no curves, no erasure! And then I began to seek...
Crazy Jane watches a dancing couple's passionate games, and envies even their hate; to her, it's part of love...
I careen from a shamanic laboratory
to a shattered ring round an alien world
to (gasp) an honest politican!...
Two of us meditation students dreamed one night that we were ice skating in Holland, helping each other...
I tour a middle school paralyzed by delinquents, and learn this is normal now...
I'm pulling a cart in the woods. At a bridge over a canyon, owls urge me to climb down into the misty abyss, but...
I'm a revolutionary hiding in the woods. I wake to find an erect penis crudely stitched onto my crotch...
Shipwrecked and claimed as salvage on Crete, Ed the writer became
a dishwashing slave! In contrast, Marie the musician...
When the school district goes bankrupt, students flee creditors into a hell-cave.
But Joe Cool can skateboard even on lava in the Pit...
I learn weird sex positions from an abused elf, have calligraphic orgasms, and then I, uh, turn on my stereo...
CAUTION: SEX, ESP, ANORGASMIA, PAST LIVES, ABUSE ISSUES
I dream of three colonies in the deep future. We outlived the universe itself, but can we survive each other?
CAUTION: WAR, GENOCIDE, POLITICAL ALLEGORY
I'm slow to catch on that this skunk's slidetalk isn't a business pitch; it's about seduction...
CAUTION: ABSURD LOVE TRIANGLE, KINKY SKUNK
Jacob dreams of angels climbing to heaven. He meets God, who promises
the Holy Land to him and his tribe. Jacob uncritically accepts...
I'm in a movie version of prehistoric Baja California, mining nuggets that howl,
when pterodactyl-worshiping pirates glide in trying to snatch our ore...
Robot wolves with videocamera eyes prowl our block, freezing me
in their headlight glare. Why do I think one's my ex-girlfriend?
2009/2/23 Upload
I meet a woman on an oxcart who's sure we all want to poison her--
but in a way her affliction's made her forgiving, even noble...
CAUTION: MADNESS
The Mayan cave was a door between worlds. But also a model of the character you need to walk through that door...
Just singing about the antigravitree lightens me. I bound around town. But then I find a diseased antigravitree is
holding me down. It's become a gravitree! Gotta clear out that deadwood, no matter how messy, if I want to fly...
A tiger-couple on an ice floe must choose: swim for land, or
ride the current full circle back home, risking starvation?
A great director alternates hits and bombs, because in half his films he sets out to trouble his viewers. Here's one...
A musical prodigy has a gorgeous, unplayable keyboard.
But serious creativity takes a dull, regular, ergonomic instrument...
Emotionless pod-people surround the last free humans. I fight for humanity, but I'm not human or pod--I'm...
A horde of demented dwarves invades Market Street, jumping up & down, shaking the skyscrapers...
I meet a ghost girl and ask her about death. I figure she knows first-hand. And she tells me...
In Palo Alto I meet strange musicians in the rain, and realize kitsune aren't born but made...
I swim the flooded tunnels and pass the crocodiles to enter the house of mystics... but now what?
Jesus's disciples kvetch that Paul, who never knew Jesus, twisted his clean simplicity into a religion...
CAUTION: JARGON, HERESY (on one side or other)
This big red rabbit in a straitjacket was chasing me through a big gothic mental asylum. Scared me silly...
I face two gunmen fleeing an invasion of dragons I support--since inside I'm a dragon. But I won't hurt them. Why?
I felt like my heart was in my stomach. My friend Lyx opened me up & said "It is." She scolded me for eating it...
CAUTION: URP
I recognized the saboteur. If I had neglected that dream warning we all would likely have drowned...
I meet an interdimensional traveler. Her navigational technique is unbelievably rough!
Yet it works. Am I so sure that math and science always need to be precise?
I'm living in an England rendered in chalk. We wander the woods with butterfly nets,
ritually hunting the White Deer--if that's what they really are...
A Marin girl finds a dirty secret in the school library--they discard the unpopular.
She kinda identifies with the discarded books. And discarded people...
Kaleidoscopic constellations? No thanks! A nudist town in Italy? Ugh.
Ah, but singing vaudeville in a monk's robe & roller skates...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
Lucifer throws firebolts from a Montreal tower; monsters stalk us; next comes the flood...
Were the rowdy face-boats really ghosts haunting this old house, harbingers of my future online... or both?
The crystalline figure on the cover of the book in my dream seemed to hold as many answers as its title...
by SAO (Shawn Allen O'Neal); March 2001, a painting of a dream-scene.
In the golden light of a primal Eden, my friends and I flock naked
through emerald glades like wild deer, until the tower approaches...
The Crocodile King & the Geisha Queen, the couple who guard
the bridge over the River Styx, seem to quarrel a lot...
High up a scaffold, I was beating the chaff off a huge seed, unable to stop. I was beating my own heart...
After a trip to a failing mall, an old Grateful Dead song haunts my dreams. Mall, song; opposite political poles...
CAUTION: HIPPIE/JEFFERSONIAN DEISM
I went to bed with a stuffed wolf, and found myself in a hot tub with a
cute wolf guy, only now I seemed to be the plush one...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY
Crissi is a strange creature that has prowled my subconscious for a few years...
CAUTION: SPIDER SEX, BONDAGE
She asked "What, plus a teaspoon of knowledge and
a teaspoon of wisdom, makes three teaspoons of nothing?"
A winged serpentine beast from my dreamscape...
CAUTION: SNAKE BREASTS
After teaching a class on color, I had a series of vivid dreams
about color, and tried fusing them into one painting...
An abused girl survives grotesque situations to become a job/health counselor with a talking sofa...
CAUTION: BUTT-SNIFFING GIANT
At the airport, a new automatic photo booth shoots your memories!
Julie can't resist... and emerges, excited, to find that...
I stood in the desert preparing for a contest with a man and his snake. But he cheated! Then my cat Lulu intervened...
We stood meekly in line to be beheaded. I tried to accept my fate and commended myself to God... CAUTION: READ THE TITLE!
A huge spiral nautilus needs healing; its coils are coming undone, and if it dies, all on earth may die with it...
Numb, sunk in a trance, I only woke when I broke through a wall to light and magical birdsong...
Julie keeps dreaming that she gives birth to a cat, or a part-cat baby...
CAUTION: NUDITY, BIRTH, UNBIRTH, REBIRTH...
I'm a film actress, but the producer isn't happy with my legs, so make-up takes them away to be redone...
I meet a girl who's 16 and 61, who tells me dreams are lives, not messages.
But then I must fly over a sinister parade...
A bewildering dream of a boy's borrowed bath, absconding renters' furniture and fly-eating turns real a few weeks later...
I'm in my home town, but at two times at once! Murderous boys explain why: I died here in 1861...
A writer I haven't seen for 40 years gives me a drink, but all I want is to find my mom in The Other Room...
I don't love my husband, so I'm stranded in the hotel between life & death, from which...
I dream the actors auditioning for George Bernard Shaw’s play are blends of human, avian, and lion.
Next morning I find a card from Shaw asking if I'd fancy playing a lion in his...
A dying colleague haunts me all night. He says "crossings are often unpleasant" but death's not bad...
Troutmet the moon-pigeon, Burtra the blackbird, a talking acacia,
my dead father and my dead gardener all give me afterlife-advice...
I'm one of four mediocrities: all our efforts come to nought. Mum says "You're netted, but you can fray the ropes...
(A comic frustration dream hiding a warning)
Our tennis game's spoiled by rubber rackets, fierce grandmas,
Good and Evil (those identical twins) and a bully on stilts...
Cilda Spitzer and Hillary Clinton sentence America's bimbos to a shitty fate. But what of their cheating husbands?
Our gods demand sacrifices. I let Mother mutilate me so I'd be unfit. But the priests turn out to be blind...
CAUTION: YOU CAN FEEL PAIN IN DREAMS
Trapped in elementary school, Julie is forced to study the alphabet
until she declares "I'm a professional cartoonist, goddammit!"...
A dream telling how to acquire mystic power: raw food, no sex, meat, or booze; just meditate in rural solitude...
CAUTION: EXTREMISM
Lost in the snow, I must give my baby to a stranger or let my dad put him in a box, safe, forever...
A bug with a horse-skull face reappears all through this nightmare of betrayal. I only know I feared it...
The scenery's so lovely my mother walks off a cliff! As I wake, a neighbor falls out a high window...
Alli/Tip is lured/tricked into a pen full of women, and tries to get out by repeating this ambiguous plea...
A staring Eye tries to break me; his cats & robots flay me. Yet his birds rebel in sympathy, & I refuse to die...
Lost in an industrial maze, my memories hopelessly outdated, I resign myself to the Wheel...
Helping out talking animals until I'm exhausted, I suffer a fatal accident. What am I being warned of?
Alli/Tip could only imagine loving the strange, intense, and unavailable--and Bronte was all three..
Snakebite! I'm hooked to a health-monitor. If a red light comes on, I'm doomed. But voices start whispering...
I live as a small falcon, glad I'm no longer human. But when that life ends...
I have a long chat with two songbirds. Next I'm a parrot, living in rainforest. Then the mail comes...
Freud and I argue dream-theory while we're stuck in an elevator that projects dream-examples on the walls...
In a wood full of snipers, Martin has a hard moral choice: lead, leave or turn some possible spies...
Looking in a mirror, Julie goes lucid. She changes herself into a man
and pulls her mirror-image through the glass...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
Decades ago, I was too shy to talk to Frances. Now I'm going upstairs with a girl who looks like her but...
I sink into a book on a murderer who rationalizes away all guilt, but pull out thinking "How morbid!"...
I'm worried an alien charity is brainwashing an ex-prostitute. When I wake, she's still there--at 2/5 scale!...
Four childhood dreams predicting Gudrun's life; plus a predictive dream by her husband Thorkell Eyjolfson
Gudrun dreams of four treasures: a hood, a bracelet, a ring, a jeweled helm. Her cousin sees them as four marriages...
An dreams a scary woman pulls his guts out and fills him up with brush! He wakes, gets gutted in a feud, and then...
CAUTION: BLOODY VIKINGS!
This man comes into the chapel, makes a fascist salute, catches fire, and burns right down to his shoes...
A ghost complains Herdis's grandma bothers her. Herdis wakes, tells Grandma, and they dig up the floor to find...
The first drop struck about four miles away, with terrific force and thunder, breaking and drowning the land...
Closing my eyes I saw an old man and a red-haired girl in a shop. My workmate was writing home...
I wondered where a friend was, and felt as if I were walking at night near the Sphinx. Months later...
(1918 and 1996, twin images of our limited conception of dreaming)
What you call dreams are just the surf-zone between waking and dream!
Swim out past the foam to the dream-deeps and you'll find...
On a cloud in space I met an ape molding a model of Earth, glancing at the original far below. We were much alike...
We're spirits over a volcanic fountain of energy. And some of us prepare to ride the current up to...
CAUTION: ASSUMES MYSTICAL LITERACY
A telepathic unicorn gives me some subtle advice. I wake, and tell a friend, who easily proves my account
is distorted by my own biases. Telepathy's confusing! Wake again. Her correction was part of the dream...
The Conference on Love has two sexy speakers. One says
"my teacher's stalking me" but she clings to him. Love? Hate? Both?
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM--but what are these two exhibiting?
Pa warns me to protect my paws. Then gilt wounds my sole. Then
a lioness eats a tasty drumstick. Then a bus crashes on our corner--for real!
Humanity improves a river to death, so the river just disappears. Ominous since it’s the river of nature, time and God...
For years Martin's dreams were all set in a parallel world untouched by World War, until...
An endless parade of drowned sailors sing a dirge. The dreamer woke in tears. Then the news arrived.
Three wind-gods are so revolted by humanity they want to kill us; the fourth says we'll kill ourselves soon enough...
My hometown floods. I swim after some strange fish and find
a scientific community where a scaled baby tells me who I am...
Yesterday, Hitler marched into town. I was born before the Industrial Revolution, and am now about 200 years old...
I’m showing the Royal Society how to levitate. Confidence is the main thing. I teach a hesitant Fellow to lift off...
I'm carried off by a crane to meet birdfish, singing sheep, fell-spirits, mad shopkeepers and devil-bulls...
Colette flies, sees a birdheaded turtle, wrestles a great playful cat, debates a snake, holds hands with a shy dog...
A con artist fools me and a waiter. But if my dreamfolk are all me, who's fooling whom?
My dead father said a trusted servant was stealing our goods through an unlocked skylight. This proved true...
Greenwood dreams he finds a severed hand on a mantelpiece. The next day
it happens! But he sees no moral, so he dismisses it...
Creatures in the primal sea touch my third eye, dragons cry their eyes out, I fight the Sphinx, and arrive at last in...
Escaping the tiny red plush room inside a star, I dive back to earth. Oops. A beast eats my broken body. My soul waits...
The glow seemed to come from within her, but I knew it flowed from my own breast. Her eyes fluttered...
Two beasts eternally fight, the proud bright peacock-tailed beast and the sad-eyed, ever-defeated sheepdog of...
After 25 years I land on my native island of Wyre, to touch an ancient clay figurine, who grows young and wakes...
A man with luminous hair leads me out to a field where all the world's animals but one gaze at heaven...
I dream I live in Hayward, California. One day my family's murdered. Years later I find that dream-street is real...
I'm to be martyred. I ask if the man I love can strangle me. Yes! I say farewell to our hermaphroditic genius baby...
Anna trusts to luck, but her mentor urges her to plan--"Think it out!" And what are these cards?
We were on a train headed for a crash. No one was in the engine. Rather than jump, my friend insisted we try...
A mystic postman delivers a letter on the world's best glasses and a reply from me, telling how to find them...
I was warned about soul-devouring art in the haunted house, but I didn't expect to find an entire art salon...
CAUTION: ABSORBING ARTWORK
I'm a French revolutionary facing a firing squad. But palmistry predicts I'll be strangely saved...
Should Anna quit hiding her psychic dreams? She dreams a cat eats her bird & burglars loot an open house.
Maybe keep hiding?
Goaded by a green spirit of envy, an Ice Age sorceror kidnaps Adam's Eve, arresting human evolution...
Malaria nearly kills a talented young artist; he must retrain from scratch. Why? Well, he's not exactly himself...
Two boys dream robed figures climb in the window to cut their hair--and find, awake, someone has. While Pliny...