My hometown floods. I swim after some strange fish and find a scientific community where a scaled baby tells me who I am...
An albatross with beautiful eyes transformed into a woman. But her nose remained a beak! She asked me...
In a dark void, a bizarre six-armed fur named Shandra is tied up in phone cords. A phone rings, and Shandra coolly says...
CAUTION: TELECOMMUNICATIONS BONDAGE?
My sister Althea decides my house has demons, and hires an exorcist who botches things, so that...
A dream of mushrooms, flying, canyons, giant Rocs out of Sindbad--and a moral challenge.
At a party in Animal Heaven, I fall for a rabbit-girl doomed to be human dinner. How can I rescue her? I'm Fate's part-time intern!
CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, INCOMPETENT ANGEL OF DEATH
Golden Gate Park's arboretum, in San Francisco, is home to feral cats, skunks, raccoons, people...
When I met someone attractive, my head flamed, burning my body like a wax candle...
My figure-painting class here in San Francisco has a diverse student body, but not THIS diverse...
CAUTION: NUDITY
An owl flew at me, and I fused with it. The next thing I knew, I was a redtail hawk...
There are many astral planes--this world's just the cellar. A cat, a bird, a bear and I guard the astral stair...
Should Anna quit hiding her psychic dreams? She dreams a cat eats her bird, and burglars loot an unprotected house. Maybe not...
Such pressures there are on the sick to act well! I implore you, ignore them all...
CAUTION: EXPLODING TEACHER
A bizarre marathon, and the Princess is the prize. But she doesn't WANT to be, so she sets out...
CAUTION: BLOODY BIRD
George Bush leads a hill-tribe raid against the hill-tribe led by Osama bin Laden... and I'm stuck between...
CAUTION: ANTI-HEROES, POLITICAL PREDICTION
How a centaur tames birds in the Sierra Nevada...
I met a great blue eagle waiting to get into a library--but not to hunt books...
My friend stuffs a broken feeder with birdseed. I worry it'll attract too many wild birds. He laughs "Exactly!"...
Two beasts eternally fight, the proud bright peacock-tailed beast and the sad-eyed, ever-defeated sheepdog of...
Helping out some talking animals, helping to exhaustion, I suffer a fatal accident. What am I being warned of?
I was led into the future, where all the buffalo disappeared, to meet a frail old man by a ranch house...
No more token canaries--the all-canary workforce, that's us. Let's see if these products are toxic...
CAUTION: ANTI-CAPITALIST
A vague, warm, confusing image of a sort of half-bird half-cat who was half-pet, half-lover...
CAUTION: AVIALITY (THAT'S BESTIALITY WITH FEATHERS)
I join a circus, but soon all the best carnies sail off to the Blessed Isles. The circus animals pitch in and carry on--clumsy, lonely. Then a herald arrives from the Isles--Donald Duck! He says...
A mystical vision of the Cosmic Egg gets messy when it hatches and the Bird escapes...
Troutmet the moon-pigeon, Burtra the blackbird, a talking acacia, and my dead dad and gardener give me afterworld-advice...
I'm trapped in a nature documentary about mating displays among humans...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, PBS NARRATION, AND OTHER EMBARRASSMENTS
Dr Who kills his best friend, a huge white tern, on a whim. Furious, I demand a rewrite...
CAUTION: WANTON MURDER
A self-portrait, or it was going to be, till the songbird and fish upstaged me...
One dream-poem in haiku style each day for a month! Ghosts, snow, penguins, yoga babies, elves who leave their tree...
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"...
I was on one of those package dream-tours--an hour here, a scene there. But then in Patagonia...
CAUTION: CREEPING PAGANISM
An eagle slaughtered my twenty geese. I wept until he spoke to me: "Take heart! These are thy suitors; I am thy husband..."
Before his daughter's even born, Thorstein dreams two eagles in love with a swan kill one another in rivalry over her...
CAUTION: PATRIARCHAL BARBARIANS
After trespassing in a staff-only part of Faerie, I'm cast out. Only I'm cast like a seed, meant to grow a new elf circle...
This image is senseless, but I have an excuse: I was watching TV in my dreams. TV on another world...
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
On a volcano's rim, watching the lava fountains, I interview a huge blue alien bird who never planned to be a monk...
One pays for soaring high with solitude of the soul...
In a world where ice contracts and sinks, birds freeze in winter and thaw in spring. But one swan knows better, and freezes differently...
A staring Eye tries to break me, though his birds rebel in sympathy. But the cats and robots flay me. Yet I refuse to die...
A watershed dream for me, since my relationship with my father was, shall I say, conflicted...
CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES
Too big? Load pages one by one: p.1 , p.2 , p.3 , p.4 , p.5 , p.6 , p.7 , p.8 , p.9
Or open fuller text edition: FIVE HEARTS. I'm a nurse pulled through a glowing well to a world ruled by a five-hearted unicorn, who wants me to...
CAUTION: SEX FANTASIES, LONGING, MELANCHOLIA
Part an experiment in wild textures, part a "Where's Waldo" game to see if you'd notice my self-portrait...
I meet William Blake! He says "The will is given us that we may know the delights of surrender." While in my bedroom...
My eighth grade class is a flock of birds migrating south for the winter, but we don’t migrate the easy way...
King Charles loses a new hawk. But a winged deer lands, bows to him, and offers him a wild ride across France after his bird...
I dreamt of a couple who toss out a shabby hen that lays golden eggs. She becomes an eagle and carries me off to...
In a worldwide junkyard full of warring spooks, I finally meet the one whose message I need to hear...
James Hillman is the first psychologist on the moon! Only he sees, not HIS shadow, but MINE...
I'm a Gyrlfalcon in a theater, fighting the Wolverine and his Morlocks with my lover the Green Lion...
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 was cartooning with a headache. It took over and started drawing for me...
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...
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?
My little brother catches and rides a fairy goose down steep mountain slopes, demanding it grant his wishes...
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’m a brown sparrow scratching in the dirt, looking for bugs. Focused, tireless, I hunt and peck...
I live as a small falcon, glad I'm no longer human. But when that life ends...
The trans-arctic Ice Express, blinded by birds, gets off-track and blocked by oddly rectangular ice floes...
I'm a cartoon flamingo; with my sisters, the frog and the rabbit-squirrel, I meet our Maker--the cartoonist...
Engineers! How they do love to impose clean lines on our messy world...
I had this near-nightmare about climbing a DNA stair up to the sky, and stepping off...
CAUTION: NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES
I dreamed I was a bird-person in a post-nuclear future, touring North America the low-budget way...
CAUTION: ALL YOU LOVE IS GONE
I flew as if part of the air--an otherworldly freedom so exquisite I wonder if it's attainable at all in earthly existence...
A vast sea-world with 7 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species...
CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION!
An avian friend of mine researches a whirlpool. But it doesn't want to be studied, and it has friends too...
by Jenny Badger Sultan; Jan-Feb 2003, painting of a dream-series
My dreams were troubled by war. So I painted them in concentric rings--lotus, fire, children, animals, and nightmares...
I'm inside a magical novel by Patricia McKillip, full of tricksters, cosplayers, spooks, sex changes, levitation and (sigh) riot cops...
CAUTION: COYOTE SEX
A park in San Francisco has melted into a bizarre mutation-zone. Its guardian is a lonely elf-woman...
CAUTION: ELF NUDITY
I was an avian Mr Niceguy with sore knees, till I got some advice from my supposedly extinct big brother...
I visit a beautiful artificial mountain with loved ones--but my demons overwhelm me one by one.
CAUTION: SUICIDAL FEELINGS, BODY HATE/FATPHOBIA, IMPLIED RAPE
The smog of Portland is so bad it hides the dream-towers! Only one thing will heal it: making music...
While conducting a census of fairies in Golden Gate Park, I fall in love with an abused oriole-angel, and we try to heal each other...
CAUTION: AWKWARD SEX
An alien woman makes a mess of our economy, ecology, world--but insists she wants to be my friend...
A mysterious guardian owl makes more sense after the next day's events...
This image bewilders me; my dreams mix sex with warmth, grief, even silliness, but what is THIS telling me?
CAUTION: WEIRD ORGY
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...
At the time I didn't even notice the pun...
I meet two Peacock Kings bigger than human beings, who chant blessings until I wake with tears drenching my pillow...
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 don't understand this poem's symbolism or even its style. It came to me whole, in a dream...
Alternate Earths, possible futures, and pure experiments in planetology, biology, sociology. Most of them teem with intelligent creatures--alien Edens!
CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, COMMIES, EVOLUTION
Quail, spelunking again, finds ancient cave paintings of the Cult of the Fossil TV...
I was just sitting, minding my own business when these golden wedge-birds divebombed me...
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
Sort of a psychedelic scribbly version of Henri Rousseau's pictures of flute players in the jungle...
I'm a flightless bird hopping down a line of marble columns rising from the sea, as they topple behind me...
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...
First, suck up 90% of Earth's seas. Now wait a million years for life to adapt. Tibetan plateaus above steamy new Deeps ruled by giant parrots, ravens and otters...
While watching two rooftop actors (one a chicken) I noticed the icebergs in the sky were melting at last...
A cigar-smoking tyrannosaur's moved into the neighborhood, upsetting us bluebirds and vampire bats...
Samuel Pepys dreamt of kidneystones, pee, come, & snot--or did he? Thomas Macauley dreams his niece confesses...
The night before he met his greatest student, Plato, Socrates dreamed he nursed a baby swan who grew...
Numb, sunk in a trance, I only woke when I broke through a wall to light and magical birdsong...
I dreamt a sparrowhawk perched on my shoulder. Next morning a friend was given a stuffed sparrowhawk. He crept up and...
All the actors auditioning for Shaw’s play are weird mixtures of human, avian, and bestial. And Shaw’s in the balcony, listening...
Navaho country felt like home--the land, the art, the animals, the language. Trapped in suburbia, I drew...
I wake amnesic in a cabin in Alaska, in a dress printed with self-putdowns. I track down who cursed me...
It's hard to fly without a plane, but I try, over a lonely lagoon. Until I panic some nesting swans...
I visit my friend Xanthe's lungs, where a swordswoman in a red bikini gives me a unicorn. The next day...
I'm Sybil Sue, a hard-boiled shapeshifting shamus, on the track of the most wanted bankrobbers in LA: the Bad Girls...
CAUTION: IN BETWEEN GUNSHOTS, THE BAD GIRLS SWEAR
I'm in Japan, where Rumiko Takahashi tells me of a tragic chicken who longs to be a lounge singer...
Solve a hieroglyphic riddle and you can fly, shapeshift, work magic! But someone doesn't want me solving that riddle...
The card of revolution! The old towers of strength come down, not through war but obsolescence...
On the road with a poet and a philosopher, I insist we rescue an owl. But we get lost, and the poet turns into...
My cold-sensitive dinosaur friend makes a find at our archeological dig by thinking like the Old Ones...
Dream-inspired landscape with herons and wild horses in a vaguely Japanese style...
I'm carried off by a crane, to meet birdfish, singing sheep, fell-spirits, mad shopkeepers and devil-bulls...
Alchemy demands I kill ten swallows. I refuse! Instead, twelve birds and I fuse and fly over a magic wood...
A tribute to Hokusai's sketches. A crane and a fairy were out drinking, and now can't fly home...
Make silhouettes of your beloved vegetables; then listen to the spaces between...
CAUTION: LEWD SQUASH
A job as the only priest on an island colony sounded perfect, only I’m the wrong religion...
CAUTION: DOGMATISTS AND DEAD BIRDS TALKING
I'm a Wapato Bird: part crane, part elk, part tree-bud. Despite shyness, I must lead our people's migration...
Dodging between all your -isms, I feel like a bird on a battlefield...
George Washington faces sniper fire, kamikaze birds and voices claiming the fight for freedom is hopeless...
Maybe the web like a shining dove will lead me out of my lonely cave into the light. The glaring light. Wait!
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
I have a long chat with two talking songbirds. Next I'm a parrot, living in rainforest. And then the mail comes...
The bird that carries the world through space, whose eye is the sun...
Each spring my mom took us up to Yellow Crane Tower, and that night I dreamed I rode the crane over the city of Wuhan...