I flee our love triangle when Abe turns mean. He's telepathic, but
I have my escape all planned: the goldfish, the snakepit, the caves...
CAUTION: THREESOME, SNAKES, MOTORCYCLE FATALITY
I dreamed the Stealth Bomber wasn't a machine, but a gigantic Owl-god. And Stealth was worshiped...
CAUTION: CREEPING PACIFISM
I'm flying backward over Utah. In the brush on a canyon rim I spot a head of red
lettuce big as a man growing as camouflage from a revolutionary warrior's head...
CAUTION: APPARENT E.S.P.
George Washington faces sniper fire, kamikaze birds
and critics claiming the fight for freedom is doomed...
While conducting a census of fairies in Golden Gate Park, I fall in love
with an abused oriole-girl, and we try to heal one another...
CAUTION: AWKWARD SEX
A witch with a messed-up mind makes me her sex slave. But what if I can bypass her brain?...
CAUTION: SEX
The clues point toward my own anima as the murderer, but Detective Dee finds the even odder truth...
There's the watermelon of passion, and then there are the little grapes of fun that foxes eat...
CAUTION: NUDE DANCING
A hall designed to give your fear-glands a workout, since
muscles aren't the only thing we need to buff...
Poem by Emily Dickinson on fighting depression, which I get when my neuroallergies are severe...
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
Wingless, I try hard to fly, arm-flapping wild. And I rise! Flight's in the mind. But I'm leaving my friend behind! Guilt ties me down--till I see...
DAY: In yoga class, a sexist teacher and angry student don't question assumptions I know are false...
DREAMS: I flee sexy but underage Easter bunnies, fox-girl marathoners, a witch and a wolf in love...
and a horde of single girls of all ages & species! I run away, because MY problematic assumption is...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, REVERSE SEXISM
People SAY they like realistic characters they can identify with, but they don't ACT like it...
I'm not sure just where she slithered out from, but she looks like more fun than most mammals...
CAUTION: LIZARD BREAST
A TV crew invades the house, setting up for a special. I didn't expect to see a president on the work crew...
The shy, doggy need for reassurance I often crave from a lover--do I crave a mistress, an owner?...
CAUTION: NUDITY, PILLOW TALK
Swimming down among the tentacles didn't bother me. I wanted that ball. But I didn't see the BIG eye...
I had a chronic illness doctors said was psychosomatic. So I saw Ani, a therapist...
I dream we're prisoners. Ani leads a successful escape, but then walks around
oblivious that her hands are still tied! I offer to untie her; she seems not to hear me.
Great in a crisis, but oblivious to chronic stuff? To me? Not the best fit...
I'm a dance teacher, I'm King Kong, I'm a shell-shocked elf, I'm a wild bird flying...
CAUTION: GAY-POSITIVE ROLE MODELS, OH NO!
I had a chronic illness doctors said was psychosomatic. So I called Alan, a therapist...
I dream I'm in his office. It's a nook in a basement. No windows, no door, no privacy.
I was so desperate I went to him for six months, while he ignored everything I said...
Trapped on an island, spied on and controlled, we decide to jump off
a cliff and die; but as we jump, a spirit sneaks us off be reborn...
I'm a lean loose cheetah who works best in short bursts
and long lazy rests. If I start acting human, I overwork...
It's OK to be a sex object as long as you're also a subject. What's no fun is being an abject...
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL FEARS/SHYNESS
I'm a trade rep for Terra, on a new world. But an old rival, a rep from another world, arrives, and...
I have to care for two gigantic eggs. But I'm at a party where people crack eggs for Slime Races...
I relate so easily to animals, it's odd how ambivalent I felt about trees...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
I oversleep. A lot. All my friends are dead, along with my century...
I change sex to infiltrate a sinister castle, unaware its Lord can spot a shapeshifter--being one himself...
CAUTION: A DISTURBING BEDSIDE MANOR. I MEAN, MANNER.
A smiling beauty queen on a float gives birth to a monkey with blinders, then re-absorbs the baby, then...
CAUTION: NUDITY AND ODDITY
I win a starship from the hostile Ghostmaster; in space I gain the confidence to confront him, and find...
A dream of innocent incest turns guilty, growing to a war of ghosts versus a cult of sexy but dishonest psychics...
CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES, NIGHTMARE
The tale of a gray heart trying to heal leads to unicorn-hostage drama in the Transamerica Pyramid...
CAUTION: SEX, MAFIA THREATS, VIOLENCE
A dream-friend blames me for nothing. I wake, and TWO friends blame me for...
Would the Revolutionaries in the Basement really blow up the Committee of Idealists upstairs?
CAUTION: MAD BOMBERS! WELL, GRUMPY ONES
I'm a tiger from Planet Cat, visiting Earth to run in San Francisco's "Bay to Breakers" race.
I knew racial tensions were high, but why is William S. Burroughs out to kill me? Oh. Because...
A volcano erupts in San Francisco! No human could survive the blast, but one researcher does--what IS he?
Two unarmed sisters on bikes easily defeated a dragon, but in a
rematch he killed them, and all other challengers. What changed?
I'm shown a mysterious two-faced carving;
I shush loud people disturbing my therapy;
I'm told of a documentary on the archetypal mother...
Climbing a Mayan pyramid in Yosemite with Deanna Troy from the
Starship Enterprise, we meet a gunman who wants to sacrifice...
To investigate a criminal couple, I have to lie. And that's hard, since all my lies turn true...
CAUTION: NEW AGE AND FILM NOIR DON'T MIX
An experimental helmet knocks me out. I'm groggy, miserable, till I learn what it did to others...
I'm on a world inhabited by hobbits when H.G. Wells shows up, looking for a Ring of Power...
The starship Enterprise. A world ahead sends the Captain and the Nurse odd psychic urges. Follow or resist?
Anti-ideological rant calling experience water and belief... ice.
I worked at Stanford too long. I got tired of observing the mating displays of the purple-prose patriarch..
CAUTION: NUDE ACADEMIC GROUPIE
I feel split into warring impulses who argue, advise, ignore, and snipe at each other...
You get 26 dice with letters on every face. Roll them all. Your haiku must use every letter. Go!
A Himalayan peak boils with warring creatures, but a guru says "They're just your conflicts. Sit, watch..."
I'm in Houston, gawking at giant starfishy towers looming through the smog. Their shapes are familiar...
After a bad writing class, I meet a shy catgirl guarding a Mongolian Hot Pot, and discover who I am...
Ever since I was battered I feel like a virgin again: longing, but wary--scared where sex may lead...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES
A sardonic little poster on dating-role reversal with helpful advice...
CAUTION: PHALLUS INVADES PHOTOSHOOT
A portrait of Snow White's eighth dwarf, the one Disney had to leave out...
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
Wayan dreams a jet crashes in dead silence. Meanwhile Vera dreams of being ON a jet that...
I was Eve's guardian angel the second time round, and I blew it again. But this time, it came out right....
CAUTION: BREASTS AND BEASTS
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..."
An open microphone in a San Francisco cafe. Others tell stories, sing songs, chant poems. But I
want to tell a shamanic dream! To an audience sure that dreams are dull, incoherent, meaningless...
How I cursed Isabella the sofa sorceress, cursed her with a blueberry. And why that stinks...
CAUTION: UNDER THE MAGIC, IDEAS
Freddy has plans for me and Telly Savalas's daughter. But to lure us in, he must know what
we want. But what does Freddy want? If we can find out, we might just lure him, too...
How do we make dream narratives readable, when so many
readers are brainwashed to think they're nonsense?
Down at the tideline, a man dressed in seaweed disproves John Donne's adage...
I'm in a tribe of post-Crash kids with psychic powers, trying to keep nukes from rising again...
CAUTION: CHILD SOLDIERS
At the end of my long, tiresome tour of Hell, it's feeding time in the cage of the Manson cult...
CAUTION: SO MEAT REALLY IS MURDER!
A dream explaining why everyone with any moral vision gets filtered out of politics now...
I'm trapped in a TV documentary on nuclear war! Better dive through a TV screen and find a safe sitcom...
How do we make dream narratives readable, when so many
readers are brainwashed to think they're nonsense?
My friend Cory's sore back is healed by a dream. So I ask for the same, and get this dream of incest...
CAUTION: KARMA, SEX/NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES
I'm at a Neolithic art show. A Stone Age critic says "Viewers struggle to interpret signs as the signified."
I think they're just baffled how those animals can be stuck on a cave wall yet still be running around...
I was a man made of clocks trying to get a date with a hedgehog-hair woman...
CAUTION: ANOTHER HORNY GUY WHO DOESN'T GET FAR
That moment when you tire of your old trauma and suddenly turn to the sun. Or fun.
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES
My take on what Georgia O'Keeffe claimed she was up to with those giant flowers...
Looking in a mirror, Julie goes lucid. She changes herself into a man
and pulls her mirror-image through the glass...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
What the world looks like when you have environmental illness, like me...
I discover I'm not exactly a man OR a woman; so why not throw out their standards and roles and be me?
CAUTION: SEXUAL SELF-EXAM
God built 3 dials to check: body, soul, and time. But the Holy Spirit's lazy, only checks one! It's up to us...
The dinosaurs I meet manage to prove BOTH leading
time-travel theories! Yet they're incompatible...
The real pursuit of happiness: she pursues me, and I run in shame and hide! But she's persistent...
The Inner Theater. I'm duelling someone who keeps changing the rules. But so can I... can we make a deal?
First, sf writer Heinlein advocates a strong army; then I see one in action--turned against the people...
A 'toon liberation dream. I cartooned a new self and slowly she grew realer, until she ran Disney...
CAUTION: FRANK SINATRA SWEARS
After seeing 150 years of family photos, I dream of being teased by time-traveling cheerleaders, and...
A robed figure crowds a wild horse to a cliff-edge. One's my body, one's my soul. But which?...
Ever since I was a little girl I've been dreaming of this luxurious bright-colored mansion...
A poster playing with superimposed messsages. How strangely the mind sorts out different layers!
Yes, dreamwork can be heavy, but remember all you can do in dreams...
Every night the same nightmare--the creatures take flight again, and I wake shaking...
Why don't I push for more art shows? I asked how I feel at shows of my own work, and this came out...
My dreams mix sex with warmth, grief, even silliness, but what's with the owls? Bewildering...
CAUTION: WEIRD ORGY
I don't know what this scene is about--but it's not a dream. A stage, I think. Something from childhood.
CAUTION: BARE BEAR
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 was on a terrace overlooking a waterfall, where a giant rabbit and a musical dragon told me...
I set out in a dream / To go away / Away is hard to go, but no one / Asked me to stay...
Just a soft sketch of two dancers...then this loud slutty stomping woman leapt into the center...
WARNING: NUDITY.
Everyone squishing away contentedly but me... watching curled up in the corner as usual...
CAUTION: EXPLICIT SEX, BESTIALITY
After my mother died, I dreamed I was a girl living after the Apocalypse. I rode my elk
past cars full of corpses, saw friends die, and never could find a single fertile mate...
I'm nine years old again. But my mom acts like a child--crawls into a hole. I follow, scared,
and find my grandfather packing to leave the Old Country before the Nazis kill us all...
CAUTION: FEAR & PERSECUTION