I become a werewolf and climb into a strange attic. I find a grave marker for
an old friend--but her death date is two years in the future...
I'm a rebel leader released from prison only to find my people beaten down
and malnourished. I swear to eject our oppressors despite the price of war. ...
Arboreal marsupials with megaphones narrate a Polynesian documentary, while
the rare translucent lobster sings its death song, sacrificing itself for lunch
CAUTION: WILL CAUSE VEGETARIANISM
I dream the real issue in your life isn't the one you complain about most, but the one you hide...
In a psychodrama scene, I try to stop a furious guy from hitting an exhibitionist girl. But I'm bleeding...
Suddenly I hate and fear black kids in school! The counselor says I'm clinically paranoid: I need drugs!
My dad says "How strange, how sad." And goes home to light a candle at his shrine to the Confederacy...
CAUTION: INDUCED RACISM
A young dragon, raised as human, is finally setting out to see the world on dragon-terms...
When I was a kid I was already a mystic and knew what Captain Ahab was REALLY after, but...
Bradbury's Mars was based on his life in Venice, California. What worlds grow out of my San Francisco?
Beagle's fantasies, from The Last Unicorn to The Innkeeper's Song, closely resemble
my dreams. The ways we differ say more about our spiritual orientation than about our art...
The two commonest sexual orientations have no names, or even concepts! Yet they're obvious, once...
CAUTION: THE TRUTH THAT DARE NOT BE TOLD
At the beach, a barrel of huge snails somehow heal my legs.
In the next dream, back on the beach, I give birth to our son...
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...
Reactionaries smash a paper. To rebuild, the editor must sell
the sacred tiki carvings! But gods don't LIKE being sold...
CAUTION: MORAL QUANDARY
A Borges story of a were-tigress provokes a dream of a ranch
crawling with weird were-women. Weird, but I LIKE them...
CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
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 rich serial killer in a sports car flaunts his virtual immunity, till I go after him in a light plane...
I see two Ohlone women around 1900, starving, naked, despised, their land stolen--and still way happier than...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I'm in Middle Earth, interviewing dwarves and hobbits
who've experienced a phenomenon called Summoning...
I suspect we child prodigies and geniuses are as unlike the gifted as normal people. So here's a checklist...
CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED
A refugee girl crawls into my bed. We become lovers. I protect her. But over time... am I holding her back?
CAUTION: ABUSE? OR NOT?
I read Stephen Hawking, and dream I'm in the Quantum Desert, full of bridges, holes & loops--
like the microstructure of spacetime. But it's not counter-intuitive at all--it's HOME!
I'm cold and dark and disoriented! What am I doing wrong? Nothing--I'm just halfway to Alpha Centauri...
After a visit from our landlady's angry, crazy son
I dream hungry velociraptors invade our house...
Festival night in a strange town, where, one night a year, dancing in the street transforms you into...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
I rescue some drowning kids by turning into a mermaid, but towing one girl has an unexpected effect...
In our wizard-war, I've hidden my nature. At last I come out; but I can't tell the whole truth...
I'm an organic almond grower who's solved the Luminous Snail problem. But my neighbor has an agenda...
I'm at a symposium on how our beliefs alter not just the future, but the PAST...
CAUTION: CONTAINS IDEAS
I live in the Infinite Hotel, but the other guests in my wing are no fun. It's time to set sail...
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
I'm a lean loose cheetah who works best in short bursts
and long lazy rests. If I start acting human, I overwork...
I model with ten blonde clones. They want to be seen as individuals, so it's their last fashion show before...
A quiet, mysterious dream image that turned out to refer to the future, not the past...
I'm a lab animal who discovers voice software and creates a personal zine, testifying for our rights...
A bunch of primitives try to trick their way into the Federation, slipping around the Prime Directive...
On Old Mars, before it died, two rival families' teasing finally goes too far, despite the whale's warning...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
A dragon-woman showed me a cache of art. When I painted her face I recalled seeing it in a dream decades ago in a mirror...
CAUTION: DRAGON BREASTS
Dream researcher Stephanie Van Zandt Nelson questions me on the roots of the art of dreaming...
The Goddess's harp, that calls in the seasons, just passed on. But the new harper has a shocking admission...
Sit on a bench and massage a total stranger. But soon it's not just a massage: a MESSAGE...
CAUTION: SEX
As my grandmother is dying, I have a dream about what really went on in her house...
CAUTION: CHILD SLAVERY
The police confiscate my therapist's copies of my dreams, and try me for obscenity! So why do I help?...
I read Barbara Tuchman's history of the American Revolution and had to paint this portrait of George...
CAUTION: TRANSVESTITE PRESIDENTIAL ICONOGRAPHY
I encounter a powerful psychic force stopping me from dancing... or is that what it's after?
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....
Mythic creatures round a woodland pool want to heal a businessman. Do too many cooks spoil the soup?
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
I spontaneously change sex! At first I'm happy, but I find unexpected disadvantages...
I go on a date who seems bored till she takes me to the Alertness Gym...
In a suburban alley, I learn how much of an artistic coward I've been...
A bold rat comes right up to me. I don't want to provoke it, so I stay quiet. And let the rats...
CAUTION: UGH!
Just a dance/yoga dream, warning "don't push your body till it hurts..." that came true the next day.
The smog of Portland is so bad it hides the dream-towers! Only one thing will heal it: making music...
I'm a sexy singing beast, the Krelkin, trying to lure the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk...
CAUTION: NUDITY, INTERSPECIES FLIRTATION
A sculpture of me as the sexy singing beast who lures the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk...
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 a small boy in a ship docking in Mars Orbital Station. I meet a strange man: myself as an adult! Uh-oh...
After reading 170 capsule biographies of famous people I conclude life-plans are
a joke. But I do deduce ten negative rules--ten universal don'ts--that may be of use...
CAUTION: CYNICAL, BUT 170 OBITUARIES WILL DO THAT
One of the Time Vaults has opened. That means a historical crisis is at hand. Guess who gets to go in...
My sister and I are groping toward sex when our mom bursts in. Her scolding's not what I expect...
CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES, PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY
I'm Bill Cosby's wife, finding it hard to cook for him without a stove or fridge...
CAUTION: SLANDER, I HOPED. I HOPED WRONG.
My family runs a bar. I walk through, after hours. Who are all these silent figures?
CAUTION: UNHEALTHY READING FOR SINGLES
I'm John Muir reborn on Mars, supporting Mars First against tree-cutters, who poison their enemies...
Ballerina Joan Brady quit, but ten years later, returned. Her body rejuvenated! So what can MINE do?
Hypnotherapy provokes nightmares of body-part shops, secret libelers, and madmen in space...
My intuition led me to a panel discussion of women artists, just to hear one single sentence...
I misname my feelings: depressed for sad, paranoid for wary, phobic for scared. It has consequences...
I'm the composer Schumann, till a nightmare jumps me and I wake. And wake. And wake...
CAUTION: MALE NUDITY
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?
Why's Mexico City built where it is? And why is corn called "ears"? It turns out these questions are linked...
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
I'm pregnant with the Antichrist. This is going to ruin my vacation! Why do I think this is all about money?
After a day of enduring reverse sexism, a silly dream of giant banana slugs turns out to be psychic...
CAUTION: ANTIMALE SEXISM
I'm a parade route. A group of child artists walks all over me. But their soles are bare, so I don't mind...
On the beach, seated at The Piano, director Jane Campion warns
"Avoid Hollywood, they'll snip away at your vision..."
I'm a librarian in an English village hit by fads--new philosophies and lifestyles. I learn what works:
A mage turns his daughter into an ugly dragon. She pines for a sailor, but
though they make beautiful music with magic crystals, he rejects her...
Poison takes many forms, from attitudes to environmental by-products to actions done deliberately...
Unfortunately, this is not a dream at all...
I'm dancing on stage, in behavioral space. But right in the middle of the stage, erupt these... teeth?
That day I read Hilde Bruch's "Conversations with Anorexics" and face the fact I am one.
That night, in the land where anorexic horses heal, I enter the Kiva of Shamanic Pamphlets, and...
Recycling used paint to lighten pavements could lower continental temperatures a fraction of a degree...
Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love.
Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace?
CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL
A nun-like figure shows me three arcs; two are forms of direct power,
but the third, innermost arc can lead to secrecy and manipulation...
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...
I'm a wildcat in a cat/fox team led by a woman who wants us to merge with a man/wolf team...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
I argue to a friend that Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Capitalism are more alike than they admit...
I find the sketch-journal of a beautiful winged sphinx who left her mythic isle
to explore a great city of crazy bipeds, called San Francisco...
CAUTION: SPHINX SEX, SPHINX ATTITUDE
I dreamed a sphinx artist visited humanity and drew the crazy natives. I copied her sketchbook...
CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM, SLACKERISM, ACTUAL IDEAS
Tehura was a beautiful sphinx exploring our human world; she led me to a new way of seeing us...
CAUTION: SPHINX BREASTS
Child prodigies may develop allergies due to immunosystem damage from too much testosterone in utero...
News of a child prodigy who was given the support I wasn't, triggers a flood of envy and bitterness...
A woman in prison loves her counselor, but she's a barely literate hooker--she knows he won't love her back...
In the midsummer dream, I'm at a wedding in the Russian forest;
in winter, I dream I hold an emaciated girl as she breathes her last...
DAY: I bike across San Francisco writing down what I actually see.
DREAM: I'm an abused English heiress with a dangerous alien artifact...
CAUTION: HAUNTED BY CHILD ABUSE
I live in a cupola atop a Victorian house in the Haight-Ashbury, but that's not the City out my windows...
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 have amnesia. Plus, I'm dead. But I have this great NASA job! Only there's a saboteur...
CAUTION: SNOTTY ABOUT CHRISTIANS AGAIN
A bee-doctor in the city of Propolopolis diagnoses me as having a rare syndrome, Ambition Denied...
A bee-doctor in the city of Propolopolis diagnoses me as having a rare syndrome, Ambition Denied...
Two mimes terrorize our art class in a stretchable bear-suit. Well, we HOPE it's just a suit...
I'm a kid in a classroom someone's trashed. Our teacher goes ballistic. But was the gypsy girl framed?
Some men get squeamish about menstrual blood, but this girl's plight was extreme...
CAUTION: EWWWW!
I'm a blonde gameshow bimbo. Each week, I'm beaten up. Ha ha ha! But my bruises are real. At last, I...
CAUTION: GAMESHOW FROM HELL
I stumble into the middle of a dream conversation--on ghosts, tiaras and pigs--
and struggle to figure out what what on earth we were already talking about...
I'm trying to prevent a race war, but can I kill someone I admire? And if so, can I live with it?
CAUTION: RACISM, VIOLENCE, INTENSE GUILT
I join the Seattle Tribal Council, which of course means marrying them all. The husband I'm to sleep with
on our Council Honeymoon seemed to like me, till he pulls that practical joke...
CAUTION: GROSS!
Julie keeps dreaming that she gives birth to a cat, or a part-cat baby...
CAUTION: NUDITY, BIRTH, UNBIRTH, REBIRTH...
I find a 3D program that shows your true self, the self that can love, IS love. And my wireframe is...
I'm shown a crystal egg with a model of my mind in it. The mapping is unmistakable. How embarrassing!:
I show a friend my book of dream-art, but it's half-baked and embarrassing.
I'm no good at smuggling guns, porn or cash through customs, either...
CAUTION: LOW-RES SMUT IN THAT BOOK
One of Aline Kominsky's comix has her in a bar and a guy asks "Que pasa, muņeca?" and...
CAUTION: CONVERSATIONAL FETUSES
20,000 years from now, a deer-harpist named Razi finds the Holy Wino's not quite the ruin he seems...
CAUTION: BAD PENGUINS, DEER NUDITY, RUDE DRUNK
James Hillman is the first psychologist on the moon! He sees a shadow and
panics like a groundhog--mistakes it for Death. Not his own shadow, but MINE...
A Holy Cardinal enters my bedroom and demands I kiss his ring. I suggest something he can kiss, and...
CAUTION: CHRISTIAN MEGALOMANIA, PAGAN RUDENESS
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 the future, books morph as they crawl round the web, till just the popular bits are left...
CAUTION: YOU TOO COULD BE CENSORED
A group of coolly shameless fauns started teaching me outrageousness in my dreams...
CAUTION: FAUNS LACK INCEST TABOOS
My dad's new wife is a collie. Naturally, she wants a prosthetic arm. But she has no site to bind it to...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, LEERING BUSINESSMAN, DOG WIFE
An un-jealous wind lifts me above the San Francisco hills, so I can hunt for my love: the Muse...
Julie keeps dreaming that she gives birth to a cat, or a part-cat baby...
CAUTION: NUDITY, BIRTH, UNBIRTH, REBIRTH...
I go invisible in my dance class and hear what the girls I like have to say about me. Uh-oh...
CAUTION: PAINFUL RELATIONSHIP TRUTHS
A hypnotist elicits a personality inside me who says he obliges my paranoia by giving me weird luck...
To enter the House of Dusk, I must say what haunts the Pass. Even if I guess right, do I really understand?
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...
A "friend" gives me her TV. No wonder! Turns out it's haunted
by a small-minded devil who cheats on all his deals...
In a world with a dozen intelligent species, dominated by dinosaurs,
I get in trouble for publishing a kinky tale of forbidden mammal love...
I stumble into a bar where the TV stars from my childhood are
drunkenly arguing metaphysics--Howdy Doody, Beany & Cecil, Flipper...
As I reread decades of dreams, I see Jung was right: even in crisis-times, soul-work goes calmly on...
I'm talking to a friend while waiting in line, when a huge fish appears. It turns into an equally huge snake...
Downtown San Francisco hides a magic wood full of crested
talking tigers. And I must enter it to live a while...
In one long night I hike out of Obligation Hell
all the way to Inner-Freedom Heaven...
A Star Trek future. Our experimental ship is hijacked by illusionists, with us aboard...
A mermaid friend invites me to see an underwater experiment in the Golden Gate...
CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS
I summon an aeroplane to escape a trap. Lucid? Not at all! Why should Poirot bother with such abstractions?
I'm a slave dancer. I run for it, and make it over the border. But my owner comes looking for me...
CAUTION: NUDITY, SLAVE SOCIETY
I'm the token Chinese guy in a jazz band in backwoods Brazil, in the old colonial days, when...
Half elvish, rejected, I wander the worlds, and find a limbo built by Zeus--but do the inmates deserve it?
I'm a hippie girl in San Francisco, in hard times. To escape the Four Horsemen, I lie down with Death...
CAUTION: GANGS, CREEPY SEX
A gang of humans try to rob me of what makes me able to fly... my marbles? I musn't lose my marbles!
A mad gunman breaks in and shoots at me, but I start him talking, and learn what's eating him...
I meet a sex-kitten in the Underground Cartoonists' Bar, but her body language makes no sense to me...
CAUTION: UNDERAGE FLIRTATION... OR IS IT?
My life is a mess, so I take a class on the four flavors of chaos, and find my Strange Attractors are shifting...
I hang my artshow, but cut my palm. So I dream of a palm tree whose only problem is the road it's by...
Two rivals stand for reason & intuition. Why can't they
cooperate, see each others' virtues? Trained insecurity...
Gosh, I'm speechless. How Zen! Market me at once!
CAUTION: MOCKS RELIGION. OR ADVERTISING. ONE OF THOSE.
In the midsummer dream, I'm at a wedding in the Russian forest;
in winter, I dream I hold an emaciated girl as she breathes her last...
My unconscious sabotages a lunch date with my friend Stephanie. The tricks get weirder, till...
Jung's dreams and interpretations show he's a thing-guy not a people-guy. All that architecture!...
Julie keeps dreaming that she gives birth to a cat, or a part-cat baby...
CAUTION: NUDITY, BIRTH, UNBIRTH, REBIRTH...
I get painful menstrual cramps, and with them come nightmares of birth. Not always child birth;
once it was five kittens. Most recently the baby was human but encased in a Butterball turkey...
In a church-tent, I find glowing pictures of mine I've never seen awake. One's half-done; I work on it.
I wake, and read how Jung, in a Ravenna church, saw luminous images he later learned burned centuries ago!
CAUTION: NUDE STAINED GLASS
A crazy security guard with a squirt gun full of acid kills
freely over and over, for the court system keeps paroling...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Dancers in 18th Century gowns emerged from a curtain with paintings of ballerinas in the same gowns...
Rajiv keeps trying to convince me it's the best hotel in India: the orgy of biters, the
bowls of twitching fingers. But it's only the oracular spirits that really impress me...
CAUTION: CREEPY FINGERS
A portrait of Kettle Belly Baldwin, in Heinlein's story GULF... an archetype of unapologetic genius.
I don't even notice the car until it's hit me and I'm dead. Now I have to lie here
forever, even though I know it's a dream. But if you die in a dream, you die...
I kept dreaming demon cats tortured me. At last a vicious dog joined them. He wanted to kill me, but
the chief cat wanted to keep playing with her prey. I realized they were my mum and dad, and said...
I'm a centaur. I never left Eden. I'm still in the Garden. You are too, every night, in dreams...
CAUTION: BREASTS
My friend Zooop taught me to crayon onto heated paper--it's vivid, dreamlike...
In the paper factory where my dad worked all his life, I find him on
his deathbed. Even as he fades, he's still trying to please his bosses...
I'm in Lawrence, Kansas, watching a TV ad for hemorrhoid cream that won't solve your nuclear war problems...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE; ADVERTISING; HUMAN EXTINCTION
SITUATION: I was attracted to my prospective therapist. I asked my dreams what to do...
DREAM: His wife vanishes. We get in bed. I feel such love I ignore how tiny his penis is...
AFTER: In the morning, I decide I'd be wise to work with a different therapist...
CAUTION: SEX
Tony works as a courier in Sarajevo till he inadvertently delivers a bomb. Held by
a warlord for months, he dreams within the dream, and draws those dreams...
CAUTION: GRIM
I'm in a small pond. A monster goldfish stalks me. I seem trapped in place, and
wake in panic, sheets drenched--to find my pet goldfish gasping on the floor...
I panic as statues come alive at the museum, but they're all about energizing a mystical pyramid...
In between drawing devil-bunnies, I advocate letting doomed fringe candidates donate their votes
to more viable colleagues, letting voters express their real choices, not vote for the lesser evil...
CAUTION: POLITICS!
I tell the angel teaching me to fly that I'm not ready to go solo yet--
I'm wobbly, the terrain's unknown. He lets go, and I...
In a repressive, thought-controlled future I find some old banned books;
I tell my student "Reading these makes life more interesting--and angry..."
At a beach, a man attacks the genitals, buttocks and thighs of a giant who sits half in the surf, ignoring him...
CAUTION: NUDITY, MUTILATION ATTEMPTS
Comics character Doctor Blasphemy, on stilts, bares his secret identity:
poet Allen Ginsberg! But who chopped off his missing fingers?
CAUTION: BLOODY FINGERS
I dreamed God was naked, selling cigarettes in a nightclub...
CAUTION: MONOTHEISTIC FALL
I'm gloomy about the state of the world, but my alter ego cheerfully explains we're dead and in
Hell--as a demon train rolls up with Elvis Costello on the roof singing "This is Hell I suppose"...
I'm a hockey player. A woman strips to a bikini, wondering if she's attractive. My erection says she is...
CAUTION: BRRR!
In a museum I see huge Jesus heads with inset saints and figures in pain;
then, in our old back yard, huge coffee cups half-sunk in the grass...
Sharon Stone kisses David Letterman, and his head starts distorting
as she rants about the film industry's baby-actor monopoly...
I don't want to kill my friend, though his clothes say I must. But
a sculptor lets us sit on her metal trees and drink tea instead...
I DREAMED my friend's father died, and a music shop had Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music;
NEXT DAY I learned my friend's father died. I went to a shop, and there was Metal Machine Music.
I don't even have a turntable, but I bought it anyway.
I'm back in the suburbs, but decades have passed. My mom's really old & blind.
Yet I insist she should drive the car, not me. She pulls out in front of a huge truck...
At first it's Michael J. Fox flirting with me, and I'm not excited, he's kind of a loser. Then it all changes,
and he's a monster mosquito humping me, and I hear someone saying "Do me, do me." Him? Or me?
CAUTION: SUBTITLED "THE UNSEXIEST SEX DREAM EVER"
At the airport, I'm told I can't take my flight; I must finish my education first. Decades have passed,
and I still dream of borders and officials who won't let me go until they decide I've finished my...
Aliens take me to meet my soul. It's on a pedestal in a quasi-Roman villa. I'm ashamed to
see my soul's just a tribble. But it sings soulfully, and when happy, it purrs...
DREAMS: I'm arguing with a worker on our oil rig when a huge piece of steel falls, crushing me instantly.
MONTHS LATER: that very worker gets in an argument with me. I recall my dreams, step back, and...
A coy, giggling giant orange bounces onto a man's bed, trying to seduce him, and...
Under the surface of my comics panels, a tiny horde is having an orgy. I can't
publish this, it's too embarrassing! Wait a minute. That one is me...
CAUTION: MICRO-ORGY
Beverly dreamt her party guests all wore masks. What were they hiding? Next she dreamt they passed around a
breadbasket. In it was her husband's penis! She woke, asked around, and found he'd had affairs with half their guests...
CAUTION: GENITAL SYMBOLISM
I'm a Confederate officer. The only way to save my men is to end the war by
pulling the plug at the bottom of the lake! I dive in, fighting a Yankee, who...
Marianna escaped her bossy dad, only to end up with a bossy countercultural boyfriend.
In these two dreams she makes the connection, and faces that she's picking Napoleons...
CAUTION: BLOODY BATTLE, BAD SEX
I asked my dreams why I had no more sexual desire for my rage-prone boyfriend. I dream
a nature show says "Rabid dogs can't be cured" and shows the horrible wounds they inflict...
CAUTION: THERAPIST TRIVIALIZES URGENT DREAM-WARNING
The wildcat Rare Bit Fiends slinks out of the hills to stalk and maul
dreamers--until one day she rears up to teach a dream workshop...
The posse lost their enemy; reluctantly they asked a tracking detective--me.
They found him where I knew he'd be--from eating my Rolodex cards...
I just wanted to imagine getting licked by a nice friendly escapist dog on a nice shaggy rug, but...
CAUTION: BESTIALITY! SEX! METAPHYSICAL DOUBTS!
1: A flooded bathroom becomes 2: a glass water-piano; 3: my friend strips in a restaurant, so
4: they serve me gutted dog. 5: Dolls teach prostitution, as 6: a rhino rubs up to an elephant-bear...
One night I meet a giant talking skunk and its pup, who asks how to walk to Thailand...
In a dark classroom, my shrink was demonstrating atom-splitting
with a glowing ping pong ball. I was glad I wasn't in that class...
I take my friend Neil Gaiman to a park where we sculpt a giant horned head. Months later
we collaborate on a graphic novel. The course of the project's full of echoes from the dream...
After moving in with Gemina, Matt suddenly had erectile dysfunction. He asked
his dreams why. He dreamt he was a kid being bullied by his big sister Cindy...
Repeated attempts to move a gigantic, sacred, saucerlike stone all failed; but now,
with the world's biggest cranes, we get it on a truck. It crawls past adoring crowds...
The sixties. I'm at a party with Eydie Gormé and Sammy Davis Jr.
I get a laugh with a pun about para-keets/para-chutes/para-shoes...
Hand-puppets, a devil and a witch, have sex, and implant a lunar ghost embryo
into Lois Lane; now Lois & Clarkes, ten clones each, pretend to be puppets...
CAUTION: PUPPET SEX; EVERYONE A FAKE
I dreamed I had to take a bewildering test on who is allowed in the military. I flunked. So will you...
CAUTION: MOCKS HOMOPHOBES
We escape tornadoes by fading out and rematerializing in a future dream...
But one of the tornadoes manages to follow us from the old dream to new...
You're in a subway station. You put coins in a coffee machine.
Down drops the Holy Grail. And begins to fill with blood...
God speaks in surreal images from the sky, and I hurry to write down
what God says. But I find I wrote mere squiggles on the page...
Here's an incantation to induce flying dreams. "Bring me wings NOW, or forever hold your peace..."