Who's the demon? Mom, the Dragon, the Smiler, the Rubber Ax Murderer, the Doll Princess or the Tiger?...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Landing in Hawaii, I dream of a magical twilit cove I must swim across. The eve of leaving, there it is...
A dying colleague haunts me all night. He says "crossings are often unpleasant" but death's not bad...
A biracial girl doubts her own heritage; a human friend has to confirm the obvious. So what am I blind to?
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
I'm in an argument--is it 4:30 PM or AM? I wake to find my watch says 4:30, but it's stopped! I wind it, and in the morning...
I get a scholarship to Shaman U. Some of my classmates are Terran, but I still don't fit in, because...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
I'm a girl with a half-twin, in a world based on genetics and seniority. Can we learn to relax and be equals?
A lecturer tries to help the homeless founder of Hamm's Beer, robbed by bankers. But the talk may harm more than help...
I dreamt of a surreal poker hand where one card changed to create a full house. Next weekend, I was losing when...
My sisters and I try to kill kidnappers by setting fires. Dumb, huh? The next day I fight a virus--with fever!
I was painting to a sad scary song by Laurie Anderson that goes "This is the hand... the hand that takes..."
I meet an interdimensional traveler. Her navigational technique is unbelievably rough! Yet it works...
Is it time to drop my belief that math and science are always necessarily precise?
At a party, I go hunting for my husband and find him on a terrace facing a Bengal tiger...
An insight about a fictional character who unblocks her creativity changes my own life strategy...
As the bland lead the blind... who knows their own mind? I'll tell you who....
We build a huge hard disk that's a virtual pond--a gate to other worlds! But not for reptile brains...
I dreamed my friend Beryl's soul was a giant rabbit, arguing in paradise with our mutual guardian angel...
My dad's paralyzed, my car's stolen. So I dream a stylized harpy made of steel, like a living Calder statue, holds three girls hostage...
People have asked me if I ever dream that I am 'in' Harry's world. The answer was 'no' until a few nights ago, when...
I was warned to beware the soul-devouring art in the haunted house, but I didn't expect to find an entire modern art salon...
CAUTION: ABSORBING ARTWORK
Some Christian oneirologists barge into the Haunted Firehouse. But I pose for nude unicorn photos, and...
CAUTION: DUMB CHRISTIANS, EXHIBITIONIST UNICORNS, ETC.
I grew extra penises which bud off me like fruit. So I fry them up like sausages, and...
CAUTION: GENITALIA FOR LUNCH
My best friend is a cat. Problem is, I'm a rare hawk--a Cat-Eater. I never, ever would, but...
I dreamed I met a sort of hawk angel, but there was this preachy guy between us...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Early wild and wobbly computer art, reveling in those lush luminous colors...
I read Stephen Hawking, and dream I'm in the Quantum Desert, full of bridges, holes, and loops--like the microstructure of spacetime. But it's not alien at all--it's HOME!
I fail to see an "angry" man's hidden agenda, then mistake a waiter's words--yet if they're me too, who's fooling whom?
The foremost wizard of Shakespeare's age dreams he's dead and they're burning his books, but that doesn't bother him...
My mother's face took on a sudden expression of astonishment--possibly agony. She said "Your father is remarrying." I laughed. 'Impossible. He'd have told me. I had a letter from him only a few days ago..."
After a day of troubling conflicts over race and art, I dream I'm handed a hot, heavy, mossy head--is it art, or is it alive?
I was cartooning with a headache. It took over and started drawing for me...
I crash my car on the way to therapy. I ask my dream why. And it tells me! Deliberate, but not suicidal...
All my life I've had sudden visions showing violent deaths accompanied by headlines naming the victims...
I can heal people with a touch. But they don't want to be merely restored, but resculpted...
CAUTION: TRANNIES AND FURRIES LEAVE THE CLOSET
A shaman designs a rite to focus the village's healing attention on her client; the rest is just showmanship...
I bear a Ring of Power meant to corrupt me. I cleansed it, at a cost, but can't wield it till I've read its spell...
Inside an evacuated region, the Lafcadio Hearn Zone, I meet the monster thousands fled...
A young woman and I swing one another into the air. I asked her to swing me more slowly and regularly...
I can't turn into a bird like all my friends. The most I can do is grow wings and try to fly, solid-boned...
An ancient rite has headgear that today picks up radio stations. What'd it pick up in ancient times?
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.
Hedgehog and White Rabbit stick together, through the snipers on Broadway, through the dogs of winter, through cannibal soup...
A rabbit shaman orders his apprentice to drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. Ow! Why? Well...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR
I was two-thirds of a love triangle, but I always lost out. Flying was some consolation...
CAUTION: RAT DEATH, EVIL WHALES AND ADULTERY
I'm a misfit--a mortal in an immortal world. Then I meet a girl with an unpredictable illness...
I was ordered to join Hitler's army. I dreamt a booming voice proclaimed, "This train is going to Hell!" So I...
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
A revival meeting goes bad--hell gapes, suicides jump, mutton turns out not to be. If you sup with the devil, carry a long fork...
I dreamt I was in the outermost circle of Dante's Hell, among condemned lovers, floating forever, in love, in bliss...
Who built the tornado in the Heartland, that sucks anyone who opens their spirit-wings down to Hell?
CAUTION: BAD THEOLOGY, WORSE PHYSICS
Gay angels try to help an autistic woman. Change her past? Only if they pass the Ass-Backward Guardians!
I'm an organic almond grower who's solved the Luminous Snail problem. But my neighbor has an agenda...
I'm a homeless elf. We're a persecuted minority group. I know I'm dreaming and try to change it but...
Kat Hepburn burns inside as passionate aliens take over our souls. How can we expel them before...
How's it feel to be an anima off the job? Is it lonely, when no one even believes you're a real person?
Greenwood dreams he finds a severed hand on a mantelpiece. The next day it happens! But he sees no moral, so he dismisses it...
A farm girl seems to be sexually exploiting her dog and horse, but their auras tell another tale...
CAUTION: SEX SYMBOLISM
A musical prodigy has a gorgeous, unplayable keyboard. But serious creativity takes a dull, regular, ergonomic instrument...
A sorceress trains a kid as a prostitute who'll spy on her powerful clients. But her training has side effects...
CAUTION: EXPLOITED KIDS
A woman says she's being stalked, but it's her own poltergeist! Her therapist makes her reach for it...
A beautiful herbivore suddenly eats one of its friends! Bloody. Who or what is this warning me about?...
CAUTION: YUCK, MEAT REALLY IS MURDER
In a domed tower, we all look up bewildered by a statue like an ancient herm, floating in mid-air...
I'm a holy man sneaking into a sewerpipe at the beach, to pop anxiety pills in shame. Do they even work?
CAUTION: CHEMICAL CRUTCHES
I'm a heron working in the Civil Service. I want to blow the whistle, but then how would I support my...
CAUTION: BIRD-SLAVERY?
Whenever I run out of ballet class to Japanese without asking my classmate Wendy out, I change sex...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
One of London's last Protestants dreamed Bloody Mary would find the congregation's member-list and burn them all...
My little brother catches and rides a fairy goose down steep mountain slopes, demanding it grant his wishes...
I'm stuck on a jet full of cartoons. We get hijacked by a kid who just wants pilot practice, and then a cactus counterhijacks us...
CAUTION: THE F-WORD
Hillary Clinton hid her cancer, but the GOP found out. So a monster kidnaps Rainbow Brite, and...
Hillary Clinton was trying to seduce me, and doing a pretty good job, too...
A poor planet with one city. Urban technocrats and hick ecologists have conflicting development models...
CAUTION: TOO REAL TO BE FUN
James Hillman and my own experience suggest we enter life with an agenda. But what if our goals are sick?
A letter to Miss Hornyhearts compares the writer's lover and husband. Some sharp advice for nice boys...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
I'm a slave, a scribe in the house of a Captain of the New Aztec Empire, when he brings home a wife...
CAUTION: SLAVE SOCIETY, SEX, SPOUSAL ABUSE/NEGLECT
I'm a hobbit seeking Henry Fonda's haunted gold mine, who ends up in a showdown in a shaman's bar...
I saw my husband come to my bedside, smile, visit our little son in his crib...then he vanished. But at dawn, my husband, dressed exactly as in my...
I'm the token Chinese guy in a jazz band in backwoods Brazil, in the old colonial days, when...
I dreamed I hit and killed a small boy in the road. Three weeks later in Manchester I swerved and just missed the same boy ..
I dreamed I blinded myself because mere appearances lead to racism and sexism. Only the blind know truth...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
A book claims Hitler's circle was a cult, not a party, out to apply mystical theories--like Manson! Then I dream...
CAUTION: RABID RANTING
I'm a hobbit woman in Los Angeles, hiding a magic weapon from Sauron. No, not THAT weapon...
I'm a sniper in a desert battle of men against hobbits. Guilty for not fighting openly, but that'd be suicidal...
CAUTION: MATH AND WAR
This started as an exercise in dramatic figure-drawing and shifted round into an exorcise in guilt...
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL CONFESSIONS
The Goddess's harp, that calls in the seasons, just passed on. But the new harper has a shocking admission...
A portrait of my dream-friend Silky, using a technique learned from artist Camille Porter.
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'm a psychopath in a prison for the insane. But I fall in love, and change. Blunt honesty fuels the change...
A witch advocates honesty, but kids mock her; one boy tries to rape her. We fight mid-air, riding her broom...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Three friends in one bed dream three dreams in one night about a talking rabbit with a persistent request...
Diplomacy's failed. To stop the impending Iranian War single-handed, I hop like a monster flea across Iran to corner the New Shah...
It looks like a study of negative shapes, but if you happen to be a part-time horse, like me...
Thieves stole 100 of our horses. The tracks suggested white men, but that night my dream Helpers declared them Sioux...
19th century horsebreeders crossbred more than they admit. One suggests I look hard in the mirror...
CAUTION: UNSEEMLY SENATORIAL DISCOURSE
Corruption in my town causes a bizarre death. But is that all? I smell smoke--will the city burn?
My anima Silky finds it hard to go back to classic hooves, now that she's tried opposable thumbs...
I fight to save 50,000 eggs that'll hatch psychics. But my friends want to exterminate them! Am I wrong?
In a club, a new genderbending band. One singer gets me hot, but completely confused--for good reason...
CAUTION: SEXUAL SITUATIONS, GENDERBENDING
I'm in a jungle, making love with various well-endowed spirits...
CAUTION: JUNGLE STEREOTYPES, TRULY OVERSIZED ERECTIONS
After a bad writing class, I meet a shy catgirl guarding a Mongolian Hot Pot, and discover who I am...
A skater so hot, she tears her clothes off and starts melting the ice! I'm shy with her: thin ice, you know...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I'm a mare, hot to trot in the Big City (and get laid), but my gay Star Trek friend's brain trauma has made her a clueless alien with a bo(a)ring sexlife--until a certain swan enfolds her in love...
CAUTION: ALIEN POSSESSION, CARTOON PIG SEX, SMOKING SWANS
I live in the Infinite Hotel, but the other guests in my wing are no fun. It's time to set sail...
I find bargain homes in a hidden tract by the river. I think "My sister's house-hunting, call her!" She calls me. Guess what she's buying...
As my grandmother is dying, I have a dream about what really went on in her house...
CAUTION: CHILD SLAVERY
A poster playing with superimposed messsages. How strangely the mind sorts out different layers!
Just a dance/yoga dream, warning "don't push your body till it hurts..." that came true the next day.
I'm a librarian in an English village hit by waves of new philosophies and lifestyles. And I learn what works:
In Japan, sick in bed, reading a book on radiation sickness, I dream of a restorative ritual for trees...
CAUTION: GRUESOME
My dead father said "We are looking for Howard any time now. We'll be glad to see him but sorry for the ones he left..."
I'm wrapping my heavy-metal eggs too slowly, so the Judges sink my car! I set out to get revenge...
A mysterious stranger offers free wishes to the kids of Hannibal, Missouri. Tom Sawyer wants to fly, but...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
My teacher insists, "You'll be scared too, when you see it." But when he shows us humanity's greatest fear...
CAUTION: UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS
I meet a circle of students with up to five eyes. The lone three-eyed girl is embarrassed, ashamed she's merely attained enlightenment...
I dreamed of a beggar in our house who had been stealing. It was a very small man with a hump. Weeks later...
A disowned heiress and I sneak onto the family estate, but they'll go pretty far to hide their skeletons...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I'm a brown sparrow scratching in the dirt, looking for bugs. Focused, tireless, I hunt and peck...
I marry, just to get into a clannish world where I'm seeking symbiotic unicorns. But I end up hunted too...
I'm an orphan shot at by hunters. They shoot my sister! But no one believes me...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I'm an initiate in a Sung Dynasty monastery. But I have no idea how far the hazing can go...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
From age six on, Simon nightly climbs mountains and faces roaring floods in a sort of naptime bootcamp...