In the richest regions of the sea, dead stuff wells up to meet the light. Do we have similar zones?
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...
Every year, as Americans get fatter, the fashion gets thinner (and I look more normal)...
An invisible monster is eating my lettuce patch.
It casts a huge blurry shadow, leaves footprints, but...
I was a reptilian archeologist, a million years from now.
What I dug up at the beach threatened my marriage...
I froze to death trying to climb an icy peak. But I try again, and this time,
no holds barred. Wow, am I selfish! But alive...
I'm a hobbit in Silicon Valley, stalking Ring-wraiths down El Camino. But one of them's stalking me...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, HYPNOTIC GASLIGHTING
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...
DREAM: I run into a couple I know. I get gridlocked. R.D. Laing gives me a transpersonal message.
DAY: I bump into that couple, get gridlocked, and hear R.D. Laing speak on transpersonal messages...
Meditation's hard for me; I expect to turn on instantly, like a lamp plugged into Enlightenment...
After seeing Picasso's massive cubist women running on a beach, I found myself drawing
a lighter version--except she (I) waved this bitter banner. But then I was ill at the time...
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 built a Bavarian treehouse with a great view, hoping Hitler'd confiscate it.
He did! Now he's exposed to Allied spy planes--and assassination...
CAUTION: CHILD-MOLESTING THERAPIST
My sister and I get into an argument about different kinds of incest, in embarrassing circumstances...
CAUTION: POST-ORGY HYPOCRISY
I try to fly in my birdsuit before I have feathers! Can I? Starring the cast of Three's Company...
CAUTION: LAME SEXUAL INNUENDO TYPICAL OF THREE'S COMPANY
R.D. Laing gives two examples of dream-spillage suggesting it's not passive but playful...
An Arabian prince kidnaps my girlfriend and me. We eventually escape his flying palace, but she gets trapped in
Victorian underwear, while I escape feuding politicians by turning myself into a truck tire. NOT a smart move...
CAUTION: BOGUS VICTORIAN SEX-EUPHEMISMS
A preteen sphinx pleased with herself and her treebranch world...
A moody teenage sphinx treed by the hounds of her own disdain...
In a alien sports stadium, watching a game where a slender reptilian man pitched rocks...
I was a bird-person in a post-nuclear future, touring North America on the wing. But ruins all look the same...
CAUTION: ALL YOU LOVE IS GONE
I meet my anima downtown. She looks great, but admits she's still healing sexually--
"I over-romanticize." "Oh? Who or what?" "National Geographic!" An odd fixation.
Then I wake & go to work; in a staff-room magazine I find a strange cartoon...
Two moons rise. From one unpeels a sort of rind; on it I see the future
tracks of these moons' shadows and tidal sway on Earth, predicting ...
I was a robot who had a soul--till the Reagans stole it! I track them down, and
demand it back. Simply confronting them works--the hole inside me is filled...
CAUTION: CAUSTIC POLITICS
Swimming in Spokane, I meet two teenage girls and we have a... shy orgy?
Next day I go to a play... and see the two on stage! I still dismiss the dream
as a fantasy--consciously. But unconsciously I start taking action...
CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX
Like a long molecule floating in darkness, this dream creature could loop and link to itself...
CAUTION: EQUINE NUDITY, LANGUAGE
At the time I didn't even notice the pun...
The true story of the very first tree-hugger. Not Kerouac! You'll never guess. In fact, you'll say it's impossible...
The same night I learn of the Kerouac Tree, a wise old man shows me the world's fair. Not the event...
A psychedelic study of Henri Rousseau's painting of a flutist in the jungle,
revealing how I really see the world...
I was a mermaid summoning a great storm to carry my love to me--and my love was a red sea-mare...
I'm from a race of self-policing psychics, starting to wonder if we've created our own Inquisition...
I'm the Incredible Hulk, forced to do emergency brain surgery. For the patient's burning from within...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND UNLICENSED MEDICINE
In spring the young allergic longs for the lusty world but cannot join the All-Orgy...
I dream I'm visiting a friend who's moved to a high equatorial peak. I'm shocked to find no trees. Next day,
I stumble on a book about Mt Kilimanjaro. Its treeline is below ours in California! A high-altitude desert...
I was a sheltered girl till I entered my family's secret ancestral vault. I didn't expect to meet...
Why's Jade the bitter artist throw me at her happier, calmer daughter? Wait, is Jamie the new ME?
CAUTION: SEX
I catch a magical fish and let it go. A friend and I consider higher learning--and we don't mean academia.
My friend lays a lotus in a chair on the beach. A man baptises in sunset water, shining like a certain fish...
After trying "the Interpretation of Dreams," I meet Floyd Freud, who's attracted to the neo-Nazis...
CAUTION: INSULTS THE MEMORY OF A GREAT GUY
The stained-glass unicorns were stunning, sexy... but veiled by a bland, tasteful,
flowery inner stained-glass window. 18 months later I saw the dream window...
A poem comparing ESP to having neutrino detectors for eyes: you can't see surfaces, just fusion-cores...
Freud explains to me why writing's so hard. His explanation is as senseless as his other theories...
The pecking order (goring order?) of cows explains why our leaders stink...
Why'd a spirit-woman come to our reservation to mourn a drowned guy? Her mirrors & candles tell us...
My boyfriend's a student in an exotic monastery. But under his robe, he's gotten a bit exotic himself...
CAUTION: SEXUAL DREAM
Surely the dinosaurs were as vocal as their little cousins, the birds.
But bass to the birds' soprano! So when dinos sang to the moon...
Time-travel the Navaho way! But our bread-pipe gets hijacked, so we call the Bird. Who shows up, all right...
CAUTION: NON-STANDARD SAVIOR, EVIL DREAM PUNS
An elephant sinks in the North Sea, and the Oracle Mink says a wizard did it. Can old Lady Gandalf help?
Giving up a circle of friends is like the collapse of a sun--do you dry up like a raisin... or explode?
An art critic asks me what I think of a sexually explicit nude, and I
find myself blurting nearly the opposite of my conscious opinion...
CAUTION: NUDE SKETCH
A love poem to the black mare I keep meeting in my dreams, who finally married me...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
Radar O'Reilly's teddy bear is stolen. He builds spy-planes to find it. One morning the camp wakes to find...
A model lying on fur in gold light. But she was pouting in that seventies way,
so I found myself drawing the kind face of a childhood friend instead...
CAUTION: NUDITY
After the revolution, I rule. But I get out of touch. So I throw a party and invite me, myself and I...
My sisters want to see Trading Places in the nearest theater. I ask to go to a more distant theater
but can't explain why. We arrive to find the showtime had a typo. Gotta wait an hour. At last we file in,
the lights go down...and out. Totally out. Power failure! They can't fix it. I never did see that movie...
The helicopter over our family home dipped too low. CRASH! Burning rotors in the living room.
I call 9-1-1, but the pilot scolds me! "Calling over a little explosion like this!"...
I like bad taste. Taste always tasted like another Anglo conspiracy to keep me from having fun...
I'm an intelligent rabbit in an alphamale's harem, organizing a feminist movement...
This picture does not actually contain any authentic boston beans, just Hieronymus Boschton b...
Jaundiced dreams of an art show spell out just how deeply I reject the rules behind modern art...
My sister and I are runaways, developing psychic powers.
A cult of fish-selling witches wants to use us...
CAUTION: SIBLING INCEST, SPELL ABUSE
Climbing a mountain on Mars, I reach a hall where I'm transformed into a cryophilic being.
Then I feast on methane soup with the heroic Martian dead...
He turns on the radio, and a moment later a loud horn section rings out.
I wake shocked--for that horn fanfare isn't just in my dream ears...
I met an elfin girl who's tattooed realistic vaginas all over her body, as... decoys? For she has...
CAUTION: NUDITY, TATTOOS, TABOOS...
I fall in love, defying kidnappers, dwarf-tossers and
Toulouse-Lautrec, until I become a time-traveling bunny...
CAUTION: SEX, SHAMANISM, DWARF-TOSSING (LAUTREC!)
A woman's stalked by a clay monster that eats heads. But it has a proposition for both of us...
CAUTION: CANNIBAL MONSTER
As Joey's infant daughter Jesse died, her father-in-law woke up 500 miles away and announced, "The baby..."
The Prime Minister of England breaks my nose, so I become a flock
of squirrels to seek revenge. But maybe I should I let it go...
Just a couple of soulmate snakes, entwined so totally I envied them...
The flood sickens my fuchsia bush. My mom says my fuchsia is hopeless,
but I make up a treatment. When it works, well... read the title.
CAUTION: PUNS, EXPLODING MOM
On my quest I find magic portals, snarky flower-fairies, undersea redcoats,
reassembling bodyparts, living chess, and Nosferatu the Cheating Vampyre...
A bizarre little dream proving just how physical the impact of a dream is on the body...
I write, draw, admire & carefully interpret my dreams, but do I ACT on their advice? Not so much...
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...
I dream Public Broadcasting System actors rebel on camera and have an oral-sex orgy!
Next day, NPR has a call-in show, and suddenly they're arguing in favor of oral sex...
CAUTION: SEXUAL POLITICS
This image is senseless, but I have an excuse: I was watching TV in my dreams. TV on another world...
A woman says she's being stalked, but it's her own poltergeist! Her therapist makes her reach for it...
What I write in my books and think I have made up has a creepy way of coming true. I noticed it first...
CAUTION: DISTURBING INVOLUNTARY MANIFESTATIONS
I help a mutant boy find others like him, and learn why some prayers are ungrantable...
A picture-poem experiment: one dream per stanza!
Five short dreams exploring the weight of culture on our animal selves...
Jaundiced dreams of an art show spell out just how deeply I reject the rules behind modern art...
Exploring a planet in the Sirius system, we raft down a river. A local guy warns
there's a waterfall ahead, but my raftmates won't believe him! Over we go. Ow...
Next day, glad my druggy housemate's leaving, I learn of a big letdown...
A sea-scape somewhat in the style of Edvard Munch: midnight-sun madness with a hint of suicide...
A sphinx with equine traits; probably a precursor of the Krelkin, a sphinxlike alien who befriended me later...
Dream-inspired landscape with herons and wild horses in a vaguely Japanese style...
My loud, spiky, tailed angel of change and potential, and
my calm, skeptical devil of gradualism--a star-nosed mole...
When I first took yãkoana, my visions were disappointing--where were the spirits? They studied
me for days, until they knew I was serious. Then a few came, then a horde! Overwhelming...
I die young, to get it over with, like chickenpox. As I slowly revive, I face bias against the dead. So..
Night. A massive crash on the highway. Bodies strewn. Sickened, I descend a spiral stair to the Pool
of Truth. It gives no answers. Women spout platitudes. I go on, in pain, down past the polar bears...
CAUTION: THE DEAD
Granny's magic nipple helps me foil the yuppies dumping toxic
waste. But does it count if I did it just to save my own...
CAUTION: CRUDE TALK; STETHESCOPIC NIPPLE
A car crashes & burns--but the driver bailed! No one to save...
A miner stabs a baby "because everyone not underground is evil"...
Radar O'Reilly from MASH, President Calvin Coolidge and I confuse who's who...
I dreamed I returned to a childhood park and found mostly ruin. But one magical thing survived...
I was cartooning with a headache. It took over and started drawing for me...
The artcops search-and-destroy our flying band, and my wings are shorn. But ten years later,
songless, apathetic, I climb through my TV--and the women of Vietnam show me a new way to fly...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, ATTITUDE, ALTITUDE
My dream characters aged and tamed until they sit in a genteel Victorian flat. Then a wolf rappels in...
My day life as an artist and explorer of the San Francisco underground scene
gets regularly commented on by my dreamlife...
CAUTION: SEX, BONDAGE
Monet is over 100 now, living in an art colony. I visit him, but my parents come along. Bad idea...
Twin dreams of ghoulish games backstage at a theater.
And they anticipated real long-term ghoulishness...
CAUTION: SLOW DEATH
Forced into a duel, I let my spirit fight for me using Boomerang Blades. But my
enemy becomes giant floating sticky lips! My spirit finds incarnation confusing...
After seeing 'Rear Window', Grace Kelly and I are wolf children in a pack that's quickly evolving into...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, CHILD SEXUALITY, WOLF-SLANDER
I was timid. Red scared me. But this huge confident dream-beast hinted at a new energy...
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...
I meet William F. Buckley and his beloved pet pig. Only
the hog's a live H-Bomb, and the leash is a trigger...
CAUTION: REVOLTING GUY, PET, AND ISSUE
I dream of my best friend, but she's in an unfamiliar house. I notice its address.
On impulse, when I wake, I go to that address and ask the woman living there...
CAUTION: APPARENT E.S.P.
I'm kissed by the Holy Aardvark, but my bond with my dad is strained by ESP he can't accept...
I tried to date a nice young butterfly but was stopped by a monster who was... my own wings?
CAUTION: UNDERAGE BUG
I was a 30ish woman discovering that my chronic pelvic inflammation was from childhood molestation...
CAUTION: MOLESTATION IN DREAM-PAST
I'm a girl in the 1960s, but not a native--a time-traveler. I'm smoking with friends (not necessarily
tobacco)--but I have this strange sense smoking may lead to serious danger. I wake, get invited
to the film Terms of Endearment, and watch Shirley Maclaine and Debra Winger enact my dream...
I'm badly disoriented because I'm seeing through walls! My sixth sense is from a high-tech helmet
shaped like a horseshoe magnet. Four days later I see Brainstorm, a movie about a high-tech helmet
shaped like a horseshoe magnet, recording and playing back mental experience. Talk about disorienting...
"I am a man upon the land; I am a Selkie in the sea..." Silky or selkie means a were-seal...
I'm Coyote, keeping the Business Prophet from taking over Dante's Peak. But it turns too personal...
CAUTION: IDIOTIC VIOLENCE
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
My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet...
Ours is a mixed-race family, and my sister takes after the horse side. No hands, but can she sing!...
A friend buys a frozen used Pope, to navigate her starship with Papal infallibility. Call me a Luddite, but..
CAUTION: SACRILEGIOUS PUN
A shy woman's belt slowly comes alive, but like most snakes, it has weak eyes. Would glasses help?...
DREAM: to stop an idiotic bout of war-fever, I have to take on the power of the Goddess herself...
NEXT DAY: I stumble on a fantasy book, Ariel, full of details straight out of the dream...
THAT NIGHT: I sign the Unicorn Commitment, but personalize the magical contract...
CAUTION: DISSES REAGAN & SOUTHERN MASCULINITY
Africa. The elephant seemed attracted to a strange wave of white heat. It faded to nothingness. Suddenly we too were enveloped.
I became flame. I was consumed. I was a thought center, alone in a white void. To create a new life I had only to speak the word...
CAUTION: DEATH
My anima sends me on peculiar journeys--smoke rings, islands, conversations with a stone--
but at last it's just us. She has something more she wants to teach me. On that bed...
CAUTION: ASTRAL COME-ON
I, sleeping me, watch dream-me find a third me who saw too much
in the kitchen. Unconscious or dead? I just don't know...
I was just sketching figures in the extreme (iconic?) stances they get in when they dance...
I fly through treetops, a lion chasing me. For him it's a game;
he smiles at my tiring. And death is his name...
Jeff's stepson Lewis can't memorize the times tables. Jeff sleeps on it, but wakes only with a silly rhyme.
But he chants it, and Lewis adds more rhymes--one per equation. He goes from class dunce to the best...
Nuclear holocaust. Outside, an ashen waste. I decide to cut my wrists in the tub. But a corpse already fills it.
A man drives up. A voice commands "Make a child!" I protest--the world's gone--but the voice says...